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"Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you." —Mel Brooks
The ability to make someone laugh with you, to share a moment of unabashed mirth, is a wonderful gift. When people share a genuine laugh, barriers of language, class, gender, and religion can be erased instantaneously, if only for a moment. This laughter may stem from theabsurd or slapstick, the cutting or insightful, but it always disarms the viewer and includes them in the fun. This year, the Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies brings you six films from around the globe whose directors apply this gift of laughter to a variety of subjects and situations. Travel the world with us toexperience the humor that infects us all, to share a good laugh, and to be reminded that wherever we are, there is always something to make us smile.
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This story begins when Jose finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to Jose that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
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College Hockey:Lundbohm's Fortunes Turn Back Around
North Dakota Junior Nets Hat Trick to Lead Sioux Past Duluth
DULUTH, Minn. — North Dakota junior right wing Bryan Lundbohm has certainly had his ups and downs this season. He started the year up, scoring 19 goals in his first 15 games. Then came the down: two goals in the next 12 games.
On Friday night, things came back up again.
The Roseau, Minn., native scored three goals to lead the Fighting Sioux (19-5-5, 14-4-2 WCHA) to a 6-2 victory over Minnesota-Duluth (5-20-2, 2-16-2 WCHA).
Lundbohm said he was happy to get back on the scoresheet.
"You go through streaks like that; it's kind of nice to get a few goals," he said.
However, he was even happier to get a victory against a feisty Bulldog squad. "We knew we couldn't have let up here tonight; we knew Sandy [current UMD coach, and former North Dakota associate head coach Scott Sandelin] would have 'em ready tonight."
North Dakota has now won four consecutive games and remains in first place in the WCHA, while the 10th-place Bulldogs lost for the fourth straight time. It was also the third straight loss for Sandelin against his former team.
Sandelin said turnovers and a poor line change were the difference, although he wasn't disappointed with his team's effort.
"We had a great forecheck, we created some chances, but we can't create turnovers [against North Dakota]," said Sandelin. "It's the way they play, they're a great puck pursuit team, they hound the puck, they have great speed, and a great transition game, that's why they win."
Lundbohm started his scoring with the game-winning goal at 3:31 of the second period. With Duluth's Mark Gunderson in the penalty box for high sticking, the nation's top-scoring line connected. Senior center Jeff Panzer first worked the puck to Ryan Bayda, who was postioned to the right of UMD goaltender Rob Anderson.
Bayda then quickly moved the puck to the opposite side of the crease to Lundbohm, who was able to send it into the net before Anderson could get back into position.
That made the score 3-1, but Lundbohm wasn't done.
His second tally came at the 9:07 mark of the middle session, and was aided by a line change that left very few Bulldogs on the ice. With a lot of open ice between them, senior defenseman Trevor Hammer sent a perfect pass from his own blue line to Lundbohm, who was positioned at the Duluth blue line. Lundbohm then skated in unmolested and lifted the puck over Anderson to make it 4-1.
Lundbohm completed his scoring early in the third period on another power play. Lundbohm fired the puck in from the slot after receiving a pass from Panzer. The Sioux ended up 2-for-5 with the man advantage, while the Bulldogs converted one of six opportunities.
The hat trick gives Lundbohm an NCAA-leading 24 goals on the season, three better than Panzer. Panzer still leads the nation with 59 points.
Yet the puck wasn't the first thing Lundbohm sent into the Duluth net, Friday.
With his team ahead 2-0 in the first minute of the second period, Lundbohm broke in on the Duluth net with a full-head of steam, and slammed into Anderson, pushing the Bulldogs' goaltender back against the net and flat on his back.
Anderson eventually got back up, but not before lying on the ice with little movement for several minutes. Lundbohm ended up being charged with a two-minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
Duluth scored a power-play goal less than a minute later to cut the Sioux lead to 2-1, but that was the closest the Bulldogs would get.
Quinn Fylling, Bayda, and Pat O'Leary also scored for UND. Senior goaltender Karl Goerhing earned his ninth win of the season, stopping 33 of 35 Duluth shots. North Dakota ended up firing 40 shots on the Minnesota-Duluth net. Anderson was pulled after the Sioux scored their sixth goal; backup Adam Coole played the final 15:19 of the third period.
Judd Medak and Jon Francisco scored the UMD goals. However, Medak's goal could be his last of the season. The junior right wing left the game with a separated right shoulder suffered after receiving a check in the final minute of the third period.
UMD officials weren't sure how long Medak would be out. He was taken to a local hospital following the game.
The teams face off again at 7:05 Saturday night.
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Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980-1981, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, he was Visiting Professor at MIT. He is an author of over 800 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation and the founder and Scientific Director of the PARADES Research Center in Rome.
Board Participation: • Public Companies: He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence and of KPIT-Cummins. • Privately Held Companies: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Sonics, and of Expert Systems. • Advisory Boards: He had been a member of the ST microelectronics Advisory Board for 10 years. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board (2005-2007), a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors (2003-2013), and is a member of the Technology Advisory Council of United Technologies Corporation (2005-present). He is a member of the Advisory Board of Innogest, Xseed and a member of the Investment Committee of Atlante Ventures and Fondo Next. Since January 2013, he is the President of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund. He is member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR). Since February 2010, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology. Since July 2012, he has been named Chairperson of the Comitato Nazionale Garanti per la Ricerca.
Honors: • Teaching: In 1981, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California. He received the worldwide 1995 Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE for "inspirational teaching of graduate students". In 2002, he was the recipient of the Aristotle Award of the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
• Research: He received numerous research awards including the Guillemin-Cauer Award (1982-1983), the Darlington Award (1987-1988) of the IEEE for the best paper bridging theory and applications, and two awards for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on CAS and CAD, five best paper awards and one best presentation awards at the Design Automation Conference, the best paper award at the International Conference on CyberPhysical Systems, other best paper awards at the Real-Time Systems Symposium, and the VLSI Conference.
Major Honors • In 2001, he was given the Kaufman Award of the Electronic Design Automation Council for "pioneering contributions to EDA". • In 2008, he was awarded the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal "for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields" with the following citation: "For pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems and their industrial implementation" • In 2009, he received the first ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation to honor persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation. • In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from EDAA. • He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1982 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor bestowed upon a US engineer, since 1998.
Honorary Degrees: In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the combined EE and CS departments of the University of Aalborg in Denmark. In 2012, he was given an Honorary Doctorate from KTH in Sweden.
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Top Prospect Yakupov A Recipient Of A Head Shot
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The stage has been set for a stirring playoff series, should the Sarnia Sting and Owen Sound Attack meet in the first round of the OHL postseason…
Sting superstar Nail Yakupov cruised into the Owen Sound zone cut towards the middle of the ice, then, briefly, lost control of the puck.
As Yakupov tried to regain control, he reached out, putting him in a vulnerable position and Owen Sound captain Mike Halmo leveled him with a devastating hit….
Following the game, Sting coach Jacques Beaulieu said Halmo — who was assessed a charging penalty and a game misconduct — deserves a lengthy suspension for his actions.
"He left his feet," to deliver the hit, said Beaulieu. "We went back and watched it (on replay) several times."
Beaulieu said the side of Yakupov's face took the brunt of the hit.
He needed, "a bunch of stitches ... and he was scraped up," said Beaulieu, who added the team will wait to see how he feels on Sunday morning before deciding whether concussion testing will be necessary.
more and watch the hit below…
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Maybe it's too early and I haven't eaten chow yet, but it didn't look that dirty to me. He didn't leap into the kids head, his head was down looked more like Halmo jumped anticipating taking on more force from the hit than he did. It was sloppy but not dirty I don't think. Elbow didn't stay in, pushed up on his skates to brace for the hit early, resulting in leaving your feet (as opposed to leaping towards the hittee's head, Rinaldo). He saw a guy with his head down in the slot and burried him. Yak was leaning forward as well. Halmo not keeping his elbow down makes it look bad though, though you can see he didn't go for the elbow. He needs to keep them tucked, but Kronwall is just learning to do this consistantly, let alone this junior kid. Little bit of blame for everyone to go around.
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Integrated Circuit, Very High Speed (VHSIC)
This is an example of an integrated circuit that was produced as a result of a U.S. Air Force sponsored program, ca. mid-1980s. The program was intended to produce circuits for aerospace applications, which both switched at high speeds and also were resistant to radiation, either cosmic as might be encountered by a satellite in space, or man-made as a result of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear explosion.
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In what almost felt like the launch of a new TV series, "Odd Thomas" works as a quirky supernatural crime procedural that's somewhat of a departure for director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy).
In a small California desert town, a short-order cook named Odd (Anton Yelchin) has the unique ability to see the work of supernatural forces all around him. He uses these skills to bring murderers and criminals to justice, but things get serious when the darkness around the town grows exponentially, putting everything he cares about at risk.
Odd Thomas has some logic holes that you can drive a truck through, but it gets by on an exceedingly high amount of charm. Working from the bestselling novel by Dean Koontz, it's passable horror at best, but filled with some well placed wit and charisma. Sommers keeps the narrative moving along well enough with some solid action and decent creature effects, allowing us to buy into it all because as seriously it takes itself at times it still knows that it is supposed to be an action romp and always more fun than actually scary, in spite of some pacing, logic and character development problems.
Yelchin carries the film as the acerbic and quick witted hero, and he holds his own surprisingly well managing to carry to proceedings with a balance of wit and gravitas when the situation calls for it. Addison Timlin has a great dynamic with Yelchin as Odd's girlfriend, establishing a delightful back and forth that rope us into the overall story and she shows why she is unquestionably a star on the rise, as both these young stars have gotten the chance to run with a leading role and they both made it work very well. Sadly, Willem Dafoe is wasted in a bit role as the chief of police, and the villains never get a lot of definition to them.
Picture and sound quality on the Blu-Ray are great, but sadly there are no special features on this Blu-Ray.
It's cute and more then worth the watch but maybe if "Odd Thomas" had been fleshed out as the weekly procedural it feels like it wants to be, the genuine lack of character development in the supporting players might not have been as much of an issue.
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If you've been waiting for that 5.5-inch Samsung Galaxy Note II to grow up and learn the ability to house two SIM cards, well, it has just been made official in China.
It sports a mix of micro and full-size SIM slots, as well as its powerhouse internals - a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, 5.5-inch Super AMOLED HD screen, and the usual radios (GSM 850/900/1, 800/1,900, WCDMA 850/900/1,900/2100 MHz).
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WINDSOR, England (AP) — Ukraine won its first Olympic rowing gold medal in women's quadruple sculls Wednesday at Dorney Lake.
The Ukrainian team of Kateryna Tarasenko, Nataliya Dovgodko, Anastasia Kozhenkova and Yana Dementieva beat Germany by a length, winning in 6 minutes, 35.93 seconds. The Germans took silver ahead of the United States, which earned bronze.
It is Ukraine's second gold of the London Games, taking the country's overall medal haul to four.
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Our paper in
PRL, V.88 No.18, 187401-1 6 May 2002
disproves almost all claims about LHM starting from Veselago's paper, and including Pendry's perfect lenses.
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in Sov. Phys. Usp. V. 10, No. 4 Jan-Feb 1968 (p. 509) started it all with an
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which depicts ray focusing by flat nim slabs. This is the first such figure that has the arrows in wrong direction inside the LHM. It has been
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Our comment in
PRL, V.87, No. 11, 119701-1 10 Sept. 2001
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plasmons paper in PRL, June 1996 V.76, 25, 4773 by Pendry et. al.
conclusively disproved the contention that there are "Extremely low frequency plasmons in metallic mesostructures" arising due to "electrons becoming as heavy as nitrogen atoms" in wires that are a few micron wide. We showed that this result was based on two elementary errors that negated their arguments:
neglecting electron collisions and violating gauge invariance
No reply to our comment was published by PRL, indicating a final settlement of the question of "low frequency plasmons".
However, some reseachers continued to cite the "low frequency plasmons" paper.
Pendry's "Perfect Lens"
(PRL V.85, No.18, p. 3966 30 Oct 2000)
paper. Now we have shown that the perfect lens is is very imperfect in almost every sense. It does not focus wave energy. Even for phase ray focusing, it has severe spherical and chromatic abberations.
Prism experiment paper in Science V. 292, p. 77, Apr 6 2001
claimed to have demonstrated negative refraction. However, their measurements can be interpreted in terms of diffraction effects rather than in terms of negative refraction. The NIM prism turns the waves into inhomogeneous waves that should decay. However, no data is presented on variation of intensity with distance. Also, the relative magnitudes of the two peaks corresponding to PIM and NIM prisms is not given (both are normalized to their resoective peak values).
't Hooft comment on perfect lens
PRL V.87, 24, 249701-1 Dec. 10 2001
Williams comment on negative refraction
PRL V.87, 24, 249703-1 Dec. 10 2001
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PRL V.87, 24, 249702-1 and 249704-1 Dec. 10 2001
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President Lincoln's wartime Cabinet included many of his opponents from the Republican National Convention where each had the goal of becoming President of the United States. His appointment for Postmaster General was Montgomery Blair.
Blair was born in Franklin County, KY on May 10, 1813. His father was a prominent Democrat.
Blair was a West Point graduate (Class of 1835) and served as 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Seminole War. As an attorney, Blair was a U.S. District Attorney, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Mayor of St. Louis, and following his moved to Maryland, practiced exclusively to practice in the Supreme Court. He served as counsel for Dred Scot, representing him as a free man, in the famous Dred Scot decision before the United States Supreme Court in 1857.
When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, Blair left the Democratic Party and helped found the Republican Party.
While Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair set up a uniform postage rate and developed free delivery in the cities. He also established the sale of money orders at post offices and used mail cars for the delivery of the mails.
Very early, Blair was the lone member of the Cabinet who supported Lincoln's reinforcement of Fort Sumter. He also as very vocal against the Emancipation Proclamation and the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Upon his dismissal as Postmaster General in September 1864, Blair continued to support President Lincoln, but returned to the Democratic Party.
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A familiar news topic during the flu season is the difficulties that the authorities face in producing enough flu vaccine fast enough to control the outbreak. That's a serious enough problem, but when the influenza outbreak turns out to be the start of a global pandemic, then hundreds of millions of lives could be at risk. To combat this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new way of making vaccines that has turned out 10 million doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine in a month, in a recent test run. Read More
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God of Glory and Majesty, we praise Your Name.
You are the Maker and Giver of all good gifts.
Through the death and resurrection of Jesus,
through his glorious ascension,
and the sending of your Spirit,
You have fashioned a people for yourself
a temple of praise and thanksgiving on earth.
Look favorably upon us,
your community of St. John's,
as we take up the work of renewing
our worshiping community and our worship space.
Let your Spirit continue to transform us
into the temple of your glory
Your dwelling place on earth.
On that great day, renewed by your grace,
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We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
St. John the Evangelist,
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Junior Mary Jacobs remains as the lone Wildcat in the top-10, finishing the second round in a tie for eighth. The Godfrey,
Defending tournament individual champion sophomore Adriana Zwanck currently stands in a tie for 29th with fellow Wildcat junior Alison Walshe. Walshe rebounded from a shaky first round by shooting an even-par 72 in the second round. Both golfers have a total of 149 (+5) heading into tomorrow's final round.
Freshman Emily Mason stands in a tie for 59th with a two round total of 155 (+11).
Sophomore Amanda Wilson is currently tied for 76th after shooting an eight-over par 80 on Friday and Saturday, bringing the
Competing as an individual for the Wildcats is sophomore Marisa Smith, who is tied for 84th with a total of 163 (+19).
Top Five Teams
2. Vanderbilt 291-290=581 (+5)
T. Texas A&M 294-289=583 (+7)
5. Stanford 298-291=589 (+13)
T8. Mary Jacobs 71-70=141 (-3)
T29. Adriana Zwanck 73-76=149 (+5)
T29. Alison Walshe 77-72=149 (+5)
T59. Emily Mason 76-79=155 (+11)
T76. Amanda Wilson 80-80=160 (+16)
*T84. Marisa Smith 79-84=163 (+19)
*Competing as an individual.
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Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below and let $k(t, x, y)$ be the heat kernel of the Laplace-Beltrami operator.
It seems to be standard that for any compact set $K \subset M \times M$ contained in a small enough neighborhood of the diagonal and any $t_0, \varepsilon>0$, one has the bound $$ k(t, x, y) \leq C(t_0, \varepsilon, K) \, t^{-n/2} \exp\Bigl( -\frac{1}{(4+\varepsilon)t}d(x, y)^2 \Bigr),$$ uniformly for $(x, y) \in K$ and $0<t\leq t_0$. Here $n = \dim(M)$
In the paper [1] below, the author (Thomas H. Parker) claims to proof the same result above for $\varepsilon = 0$ (Theorem B), which would be certainly great to have. He also says that the result has been established before by methods of stochastic analysis and gives a reference to the paper [2], but I couldn't find that result there$\,^*$.
The problem with paper [1] is, plainly, that the proof is quite long and technical and therefore hard to verify; furthermore there are many things that are somewhat wrong or unaccurate already in the theorem (Thm. A and B are both not exactly true as stated), which does not increase trust in the results.
So my question is if this is a known result. Or probably even known to be wrong? It seems that if it was true, it would be in one of the many papers and surves of Grigor'yan, I would thing... Are there other references then the two given by me?
$\,^*$ The problem with paper [2] is that the author (Molchanov) only uses the sign $\sim$ to notify asymptotics, which can mean different things, and never says what he really means by that sign
[1] http://www.math.msu.edu/~parker/Geodesics&HK.pdf
[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/0036-0279/30/1/R01/pdf/0036-0279_30_1_R01.pdf
\Edit: I found this result for $\varepsilon = 0$ for compact $M$ in Hsu (Stochastic analysis on manifolds), but with the "wrong" exponent of $t$ in front, namely with $-n + 1/2$ instead of $-n/2$.


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News that Proves Solar is All That
Does solar power really have any opponents? Realistically, most things do and should. After all, the world would be a dangerous place if everyone took everything at face value. But what do the solar opponents have to say? Probably that solar power is expensive and that it requires special California sun. Possibly that manufacturing panels requires resources, and how environmentally friendly could that process be? Well the same sun shines in California, Alaska, and Maine. And as for other issues, the news is that solar power is positive on multiple levels, including the following. Solar Cells Are Safer to Manufacture than Fossil Fuels A new report, Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles, proves it. The report is the first comprehensive study on pollutants produced during solar cell manufacturing. By gathering emissions from 13 solar manufacturers located in the U.S. and Europe, Vasilis M. Fthenakis and colleagues found that solar cell air pollutants are 90 percent less than those resulting from fossil fuel technologies. The report will come out March 15 in ACS Environmental Science & Technology. Link: Easing Concerns about Pollution from Manufacture of Solar Cells Solar Panels Work in the Cold Like our post Will Solar Work Where I Live? reminds you, solar power depends on light, not heat, and we also sited numerous sources that guarantee the entire U.S. gets enough light to support solar power systems. Why else would solar panels be built to withstand hail, snow, and freezing temperatures? This week, another blog reinforces the fact that sunshine is what counts, even in a snow covered area: Solar Panel Works Even in Cold Wintry Places. Solar Thermal Helps Builders Achieve LEED Ratings Having LEED certification gives a home or building the nod of approval. It means that the buildings design and performance is recognized as green. In Canada, EnerWorks is busy providing solar thermal technology to homes that hope to meet LEED certification requirements. One more hint that solar energy takes the home a step closer to optimal, energy efficient performance. Link: EnerWorks Solar Water Heating Helps Builders Aim for Top LEED Certification Ready to reap the benefits of solar power in your home? Contact one of our certified solar installers today. Theyre guaranteed to be the best in the industry, and their estimates are free.
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Christmas card for the NRA?
Dec 15th, 2012 at 11:03 pm by susie
That may not be how the artist meant it, but it's what I thought of immediately.
I mean, sometimes you really have to hit these shameless shills where it hurts when they keep telling us more guns are the answer.


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The Manhattan Cross Country Club is now accepting registration for the 2013 fall season. The club provides age-appropriate distance running for youth in grades 8 and younger.
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In 2003, Aldridge was pictured for the cover of the Spanish Vogue. Only four years later – in 2007 – she made her debut runway appearance, modeling for the Yigal Azrouel and Jovovich Hawk fashion shows in New York.
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I have a problem where KB2494088 (a SQL Server 2008 R2 patch) continually fails to install when I reboot my system. Downloading the manual patch and trying to apply it says:
The SQL Server patch package is part of a general distribution release (GDR). This package cannot be applied since this SQL Server feature has already been patched. To continue, you must install a higher version of the SQL Server patch.
Most other posts (this, this) suggest it's either a failed (or cancelled) past installation or requires a SQL server repair.
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I searched exhaustively over the internet as well as at this How to export Symbology from ArcGIS to Microstation or QGIS? but didnt find a satisfactory answer. Hope to get the answers from the experts over here.
Suppose I have styled a polygon shape file (eg: Border width = 0.26, border color = green, red colored simple fill, label displayed, etc ). When I save the style in QGIS, it is saved in xml format which is specific only to QGIS. Same is the case with other softwares which they store it in their own format. Which means, I cannot exchange styling information between different softwares.
Though the OGC SE standard is in place, I was just confused why this is not being implemented by any software. Qgis 1.8 supports SLD but then what is the purpose of storing the style as qgis specific .qml file ? ..... Also, since SLD standard is used for web-services, is it okey to use this standard in this case(for exchanging data between different softwares) ?


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Oct 08
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MoodyMare2904 says:
I am sorry to hear about your awful situation and I hope that something can be done to help your horse.
However, if you do make that brave decision then its best to be prepared for it so that everything goes as smoothly and as stress free for all involved.
I had to make this decision for my mare last year and was the hardest thing to do but the best in the long run.
Good luck and my thoughts are with you at this difficult time.
Sep 10
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spanning says:
Bless you,
By the looks of things we are all here for you with a kind word and lots of support.
I really do hope things work out for you and your baby
All the best xxxxxxxxxxx
Dec 11
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spotsandstars says:
Poor you, hope the vet manages to work out what it is and atleast if they don't you are prepared and if the time comes you will be ready, I really hope she pulls through, i also think it sounds like a form of equine epilepsy im not a vet tho so I may be wrong
I really really hope you manage to find the cause and that She gets better :)
Best wishes
'Freinds are like stars ,you can't always see them but you know they're there' Love you Fin :)
Jun 09
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3MoodyMaresMum says:
Thanks guys, I really appreciate everyones support - this is the downside to having your horses at home in the middle of nowhere and living somewhere new - I have no network of friends any more and you miss the support and bouncing ideas off of other people.
Well she had another episode yesterday, I was just going out but could see it was coming so got out the camcorder and have 15 minutes of her going into the episode, then her collapsing, then me shouting at her, her coming round and going back "to sleep" and me banging on the stables shouting and her totally out of it, then finally her coming round dazed and a few minutes of her recovering, all in all 28 minutes of footage. I watched it back last night and you can see the eye twitches, the jaw crossing, her then arching her back deep in take of breath then the swaying starts. I will copy and give to the Vet on Thursday as they are coming out to take the bloods for the Cushing's test.
I looked at the You Tube links, thank goodness she is not having massive seizures like that poor mare, I think I would pts immediately rather than let her go through that. She is similar to the sleep deprivation horse but it is more intense and lasts longer than all the clips I have seen so far. But it was good to see the links - well good to see she isn't having those kind of seizures - although I do think it is a type of seizure!
Oh well, I will keep you posted and appreciate all the input, I am exhausted from worrying but today is a good day, she is in a fabulous loving mood more her normal self, eating well and interested in everything - downside is this probably means tomorrow she will have another episode.
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So Sorry that it has come to this.
You know what's best for her.
Be strong.
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PETA filed a complaint with USDA where an audience member made a video of a handler for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hooking and striking an elephant with leg problems.


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Kayakers gently lifted out of the water by whale (VIDEO)
Two kayakers in Argentina had a dangerous but awesome close encounter with some large whales.
The video surfaced on Tuesday after it was posted on Reddit. The clip was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday and already received almost 700,000 views.
Surprisingly the kayakers were calm as one of the whales actually lifts their kayak into the air!
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Twitter's Own Shortlink System Gets Blacklisted, Renders All Twitter Links Inaccessible
Millions of Twitter users were unable to access hyperlinks in tweets on Sunday evening as the social network's own short-link system got pulled off the DNS zone for over an hour. The incident, which basically affected all accounts, led any click on the tweet hyperlinks to an error page claiming that the resource the user tries to visit was unavailable.
Unlike other social networks, Twitter uses their own link shortening system called t.co to shorten any link pasted by the user in the tweet. This not only minimizes the link's footprint in the diminutive 140-character micro-post, but also makes detection and blocking malicious URLs much easier straight from Twitter's infrastructure.
The system was introduced in 2010 and has been working without any significant issues ever since. On Sunday though, it got inadvertently suspended by the domain registrar Melbourne IT LDT. following a phishing complaint.
"Yesterday in the process of actioning a phishing complaint, our policy team inadvertently placed the t.co domain on hold. The error was realized and rectified in approximately 40 minutes and t.co links again began working," stated Tony Smith, a spokesperson for Melbourne IT in a CNET interview.
In simple terms, someone reported Twitter's t.co domain as hosting a phishing page to the Melbourne IT registrar and an abuse engineer just pulled it off the DNS zone, making it (and all its links) not resolve in the DNS system. This procedure is known as ClientHold and allows a registrar to temporarily disable the domain's resolution to an IP address for a variety of reasons such as abusive use or delayed payments. During the time the domain is put on ClientHold, its route is not modified, but it is not public either.
Twitter did not comment on the incident and there appears to be no hard feelings between the client and the registrar, but Sunday's incident once again outlines the importance of not putting all eggs in a single basket especially when it comes to "real-time" social networking.
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Society and Class Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
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She was smaller and thinner than Lily Bart, with a restless pliability of pose, as if she could have been crumpled up and run through a ring, like the sinuous draperies she affected. Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room. (1.2.38)
Being a woman automatically gives you some control in this novel; the men, on the other hand, have to work harder for social power.
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Lily was therefore able to observe Mrs. Dorset also, and by carrying her glance a few feet farther, to set up a rapid comparison between Lawrence Selden and Mr. Gryce. It was that comparison which was her undoing. (1.5.10)
Her undoing, or her salvation? By what rubric are we to judge Lily's decision of Selden over Gryce?
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She had always hated her room at Mrs. Peniston's – its ugliness, its impersonality, the fact that nothing in it was really hers. (1.13.78)
Lines like this one reveal Lily's true desire – to be independent. But as the second half of the novel confirms, she is physically incapable of leading the life she desires.


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March 1, 2000
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State and Washington meet in a battle of state rivals Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in Seattle's Key Arena. It will be the first time since 1927 that the two state schools will play a game in Seattle outside the friendly confines of Hec Edmundson Pavilion, the Huskies' venerable home facility is currently undergoing a much-needed renovation and will reopen this fall.
BUSH AMONG PAC-10's BEST: SO G Mike Bush has been impressive in Pac-10 play...he leads the team in scoring (15.6 ppg) and ranks second in all games (13.4 ppg)...he is WSU's top rebounder (6.6 rpg) and also leads the Cougars in steals (2.1 spg) and assists (2.5 apg)...the Riverside, Calif., native posted his fourth double-double of the season with 19 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in WSU's 81-78 overtime victory against Cal last Saturday...he set a career high with 26 points at Oregon State Feb. 19...in the last eight games, Bush has reached double figures seven times and is averaging 16.9 ppg during that span...he has improved his career high in scoring five different times this season...for his well-rounded play, Bush could receive consideration for all-Pac-10 honors...in addition to his team-leading statistics, he ranks among the league leaders in scoring, rebounding and steals, in fact Bush is one of only three players to rank among the Pac-10's top 20 in scoring and rebounding and top 10 in steals...the other two are Arizona State's Eddie House and USC's Jeff Trepagnier.
CROSBY IMPRESSIVE IN HOME FINALE: SR F Chris Crosby saved his best for last...the Littleton, Colo., native scored 33 points in WSU's 81-78 overtime victory against Cal last Saturday...it was the most points Crosby had ever scored at Friel Court and the second-best effort of his career...he also entered WSU's top 10 in career scoring during the Cal game and currently has 1,278 career points, seven back of ninth-place Carlos Daniel (1,285 points/1995-98).
Radio: The Crimson & Gray Sports Network will broadcast all WSU regular season games on its 13-station network with Bud Nameck (7th season) calling the play-by-play. Broadcasts are also available via the Internet, www.wsucougars.com.
WSU at Washington Saturday, March 4, 2000 3:00 p.m. PST Key Arena (17,072)
Television: None.
Records: WSU is 6-19 overall, 1-14 in the Pac-10, following a controversial and shocking 55-52 non-conference loss to Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. The Cougs had been riding high after snapping their 15-game losing streak with an 81-78 overtime win against Cal last Saturday. Washington is 9-18 overall (4-11 Pac-10) and is looking to snap a seven-game home losing streak, which is tied for the longest in school history. The Huskies lost a pair of games to Cal (75-64) and No. 1 Stanford (77-52) last weekend.
Crosby and Walcott Won't Miss Round II: Saturday's game features two players who were non-factors when the teams met in February -- UW's Chris Walcott and WSU's Chris Crosby. Walcott was recovering from knee surgery, while Crosby suffered a sprained ankle two days before the game.
Senior Night: Saturday is the second of three "senior nights" WSU will endure this season. The first was Monday at UTPA and the last will be next Saturday at USC. Washington has three seniors on its roster -- Deon Luton, Andrew Moritz and Chris Walcott -- who will be recognized in pre-game ceremonies.
On Deck: The Cougars wrap up the season in Los Angeles for games against UCLA (Thursday) and USC (Saturday).
WSU COACH PAUL GRAHAM: Paul Graham is in his first season as a head coach...he has a 6-19 record overall and at Washington State...Graham was an assistant coach for seven seasons under Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State prior to accepting the head position at WSU...he is the 13th former Sutton assistant to land a Division I head coaching job...Graham is the 14th head coach in the 99-year history of Cougar basketball...against Grambling State, Graham became the 11th WSU head coach to win his home debut. Though Graham lost his first game (Nevada) as WSU's head coach, it's not a bad sign...the last Cougar head coach to lose his first game on the Cougar sideline was George Raveling in 1972, who would later become the only man in WSU history to lead the Cougars to two NCAA Tournament appearances (1980, 1983).
OH WHAT A FRIELING: Washington State's 74-71 victory December 2, 1998, against Portland State was the Cougars' 200th all-time win at Beasley Coliseum's Friel Court...beginning with an 80-78 WSU victory against Louisiana State on December 1, 1973, the Cougars have won nearly two-thirds of the games they have played there (.635)...the Cougars were 5-8 at Friel this season...WSU has a 209-120 all-time record in Beasley...milestone wins at Friel:
No. 1 WSU 80, LSU 78, 12/1/73
No. 3 WSU 71, USC 56, 1/5/74 (first league win)
No. 25 WSU 77, Cal 63, 1/8/77
No. 50 WSU 77, USC 57, 1/24/80
No. 100 WSU 75, Oregon 71, 2/14/86
No. 150 WSU 95, Oregon 79, 1/21/93
No. 200 WSU 74, Portland State 71, 12/2/98
HOME NON-LEAGUE STREAK ENDS AT 45: The second-longest non-conference home winning streak in the nation ended at 45 games after No. 25 Utah stopped WSU 78-66 Dec. 11 at Friel Court...it was nearly a decade since WSU's last non-conference home loss...WSU was 45-1 versus non-conference teams at Friel during the 1990s!...the Cougars had not lost at home to a non-conference foe since December 14, 1989, when Idaho escaped Friel Court with a 56-52 win. The streak began with a 112-81 win over BYU-Hawaii in the first game of the 1990-91 season...WSU's 45 wins include 40 at Friel and five at Bohler Gym (all during the 1990-91 season)...the streak also included NIT victories in 1992 (Minnesota), 1995 (Texas Tech) and 1996 (Gonzaga).
PACK YOUR BAGS: Of WSU's 19 losses, 14 have come to teams making postseason plans...near-locks for the NCAA Tournament include Stanford (24-1), Arizona (24-4), Oregon (19-7), Utah (20-7) and Gonzaga (21-8)...bubble/NIT teams include Arizona State (16-10), California (15-11), UCLA (15-11), USC (14-12) and Colorado State (17-10)...that's a combined record of 185-73 and a winning percentage of .717!
SCOUTING WASHINGTON: The Huskies are struggling this season after back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances..."Shootin'" Deon Luton is the Huskies' leading scorer (15.3 ppg) and is one of three seniors on the team...starting forward Chris Walcott (9.2 ppg) and little-used reserve Andrew Moritz are the other two...Walcott missed the first WSU-UW game this season due to a knee injury...SO G Senque Carey, the Huskies' starting point guard (4.7 apg) suffered a sprained left hip flexor last Saturday against Stanford and missed practice earlier this week...he is expected to play against WSU...junior forward Michael Johnson continues to be one of the most-improved players in the Pac-10...he's averaging 10.3 points per game this year (1.7 ppg in 1999)...the Huskies have shuffled their starting lineup since their last meeting with Cougars as only Luton and Carey remain the same.
WSU-WASHINGTON SERIES: Washington leads 159-88. Since 1990: Huskies lead 13-8. The Huskies have won six of the last seven meetings and five straight in Seattle...the Cougs' last victory in the Emerald City was a 67-46 decision in 1994...Washington earned an overtime win at Pullman 74-68 back on Feb. 5 in the first game ever played on WSU's new parquet floor...the series dates back to a 13-9 Washington win in 1910 and has been uninterrupted since the 1916-17 season...the WSU-UW series ranks sixth in NCAA history in number of games played (247).
WASHINGTON RECAP: Deon Luton scored 26 points, including a slam dunk with 49 seconds left in overtime, as Washington overcame Washington State's second-half comeback to win 74-68 Feb. 5 in Pullman. The Cougars, playing on their new parquet floor at Friel Court for the first time, jumped out to a 3-point lead early in overtime before the Huskies came back to tie the game 65-65...Thalo Green then set a screen to set up Luton's dunk, which put the Huskies ahead for good, 67-65. The Cougars' Jan-Michael Thomas had a chance to tie the game with 31 seconds left, but hit just one of two free throws...Washington State was forced to foul in the closing seconds, in which the Huskies hit seven free throws...Eddie Miller scored on a tip-in with 3 seconds left for the Cougars' final basket. Luton finished 8-for-16 from the field and 4-for-5 from 3-point range to lead Washington, which also got 12 points from Greg Clark...Green added nine points. The Cougars got a career-high 23 points and eight rebounds from Miller and 19 points and a career-high 12 rebounds from Mike Bush, who fouled out with 1:41 left in overtime...it was Bush' second career double-double...Thomas finished with 10 points. Chris Crosby, who entered the game as Washington State's leading scorer, saw just 18 minutes of playing time after spraining an ankle in practice...he was held to one point. Washington led 36-24 at halftime and held Washington State to 27 percent field-goal shooting in the opening half...the Cougars went on an 18-5 run midway through the second half and took their first lead, 54-52, with 7:41 to go.
TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN RECAP: Brian Merriweather's 17 points accounted for nearly a third of Texas-Pan American's scoring in a 55-52 victory over Washington State Monday night. On their final possession and trailing by two, 54-52, with :07 to play, the Cougars worked the ball around to a wide-open Mike Bush who drove the lane for what should have been the game-tying bucket...but Bush was whistled for an offensive foul with :02 remaining for charging into UTPA's Matt Palmquist, who was obviously late in his attempt to get in front of Bush. The baseline official saw it differently and blew his whistle, costing the Cougars the game...an animated WSU coach Paul Graham, who received a technical in the first half, was outraged at the call and was ejected after receiving his second technical. "I've been coaching for 37 years and I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen anything like that," Graham said. "It's tough because even though we didn't play particularly well, we got ourselves in a position to win the game and then to have that happen, well obviously there were some things that happened out there that I didn't agree with." Merriweather broke the school's single-season record for 3-pointers made with 111...Monday, he went 3-for-11 from 3-point range...the Broncs led 35-20 at halftime, but made just six of their 22 shots from the field in the second half. The Cougars shot just 19 percent from the field in the first half, making five of 27, but outscored the Broncs 32-20 in the second half behind 12-of-21 shooting. Bush led Washington State with 14 points...Bush and Milton Riley paced the team in rebounds with six, while Bush climbed into WSU's single season top 10 with two against the Broncs...the sophomore now has 50 steals on the season.
CALIFORNIA RECAP: Chris Crosby scored 33 points, including seven in overtime, to lead Washington State to an 81-78 upset of California last Saturday at Friel Court...the win broke a 15-game losing streak for the Cougars...Cal, which suffered a major blow to its NCAA Tournament hopes, fell to 15-11 and 6-8. WSU used an early 14-0 run to grab a 14-4 lead and went on to a 38-33 advantage at the break...the Cougars shot 52 percent from the floor and made 6-of-8 three-pointers in the opening period...in the second half, Cal turned the tables, opening with a 17-2 spurt to grab a 50-40 lead with 12:57 left...the Bears were still up by 10 at 57-47 with 9:57 to go. Crosby, who finished with eight three-pointers on the night, and Mike Bush hit back-to-back treys to put WSU back into the game...Cal still led, 68-64, and had the ball with under a minute left, but Shantay Legans turned the ball over on an ill-advised lob attempt with 37 seconds left. Crosby hit another three-pointer to put WSU within one, but Cal's Donte Smith push the Bears back ahead by three with a pair of free throws...then with the Bears up, 70-69, Sean Lampley missed two free throws with 15 seconds left to give WSU another chance...this time, Bush sank one of two free throws with six seconds to go to send it into the extra period. In overtime, Lampley put Cal ahead 72-70 with a jumper, but Crosby gave the Cougars the lead for good with a three-pointer...he then hit two more free throws with 2:55 left and WSU was on its way to its first Pac-10 win.
KNEE INJURY ENDS THOMAS' CAREER: Team doctors confirmed that WSU senior guard Jan-Michael Thomas sustained a season-ending knee injury during practice Feb. 22...Thomas, WSU's third-leading scorer at 12.6 points per game this season, suffered extensive damage to the medial collateral (MCL) and anterior cruciate (ACL) ligaments in his right knee...he will undergo reconstructive surgery next month...RS-JR G Cedric Clark, a walk-on from Birmingham, Ala., assumed Thomas' starting spot. Thomas was WSU's third-leading scorer, averaging 12.6 points per game this season, and netted 51 three-point baskets...last year, Thomas set a WSU single-season record with 89 three-point field goals...he finishes his career as WSU's all-time leading free throw shooter, having made 82.9 percent of his total attempts (121-146), just edging Byron Vadset's mark of 82.5 percent...Thomas also ranks fifth in career three-point field goals (140) and ninth in three-point field goal percentage (.385).
COUGS IN PAC-10 RANKINGS: A glance at this week's Pac-10 stats (2/28) finds several Cougars ranked in the conference in assorted categories...Chris Crosby ranks fifth in scoring (15.9 ppg), seventh in free throw shooting (81.7 pct.) and eighth in three-point field goal percentage (.408)...Mike Bush is 18th in scoring (13.3 ppg), fourth in steals (2.08 spg) and 11th in rebounding (6.7 rpg)...Jan-Michael Thomas is 20th in scoring (12.6 ppg) and eighth in free throw shooting (81.5 pct)...David Adams is sixth in three-point field goal percentage (41.7)...Tyrone Evans is eighth in blocked shots (1.24 bpg) As a team, WSU is second in three-point field goal percentage (.380), fourth in rebounding defense (rebounds allowed) at 34.2 rpg, fifth in free throw percentage (.704) and third in three-pointers made per game (6.50).
COUGS PLAY PART IN NCAA RECORD: Isn't this ironic...though much has been made of WSU's losses this season, it's a Cougar win that found its way into the NCAA record book...remember back on Nov. 22 -- WSU's second game of the year -- when the Cougars defeated Grambling State 83-55?...at the time it didn't seem significant, but after losing to Alabama A&M 76-69 Monday night in their season finale, the Tigers posted a 1-29 mark and established an NCAA record for most losses in a season...Grambling broke Prairie View A&M's season record of 28 losses, set in 1992...and wouldn't you know it, the last game Grambling scheduled last summer was none other than that Nov. 22 date at Washington State (a pay out game en route to the Tigers' appearance in the Great Alaska Shootout).
CROSBY ENTERS TOP 10: With his finest performance ever at Friel Court, senior forward Chris Crosby moved into the top 10 in WSU career scoring...his 33 points on Senior Night last Saturday versus California (second-best career and top performance at home) lifted his career total past Eddie Hill (1,242/1991-94) and Larry Beck (1,162/1955-57)...he comes into the Washington game with 1,278 career points and is only seven points behind No. 9 Carlos Daniel (1,285/1995-98)...Crosby is the 22nd member of WSU's 1,000-career point club...he ranks fifth in the Pac-10 in scoring and seventh in FT Pct.
MORE ON CROSBY: Pop quiz -- how do you transform a 6-8 shooting guard into a pretty well-rounded inside player? Answer -- Paul Graham...for the first three years of his career, Chris Crosby was a shooting guard inside a forward's body...nearly half of his career field goal attempts (365 of 739) came from beyond the arc...but this season, Crosby has attempted 282 field goals with only 48 percent (134) coming from downtown. And to those who thought he was just a gunner, check out the box from the Grambling State game, his 29 points were the third-highest of his career, but only one of his 12 FGs was a three...he also had six boards and a pair of steals...Crosby is shooting a career-best 43 percent from the field through 25 games (122-282)...and make no mistake, his three-point shooting is just as good as ever, if not better, he's 53-134 (39.6 percent) from three-point land this season and the inside-out dual threat makes his threes all the more devastating. Crosby is also grabbing 3.9 rebounds per game and setting screens in the offensive set that eventually lead to a lot of open looks at the basket...he has even cut his turnovers down to less than two per game, a number that needs to continue to decline...but if Crosby makes it to the next level, he can thank one man with a reputation for developing big men -- Paul Graham.
THREE-POINT PLAYERS: Seniors Chris Crosby and Jan-Michael Thomas both rank in WSU's top five in career three-point baskets. Crosby leads the pair with 194 threes (fourth) and looks to close in on the 200 barrier by season's end...Thomas, in just two seasons wearing the Crimson and Gray, finished his career in fifth with 140.
THOMAS SHOOTING FOR WSU CAREER FT MARK: It looks like SR G Jan-Michael Thomas will establish the WSU career record for free throw percentage...his career average through two seasons is 82.9 percent (121-146)...the previous school record was 82.5 percent (255-309) by Byron Vadset (1962-64)...Thomas, who suffered a knee injury in practice Feb. 22, is not expected to return...teammate Chris Crosby is currently in eighth (78.4 percent). In the single season chase, Crosby is hitting 81.7 percent at the charity stripe...he tied a 35-year-old school record by hitting 11-of-11 attempts Dec. 4 versus Southern...Crosby had a streak of 25 consecutive free throws made snapped with a miss late in the Portland game.
INJURY UPDATE: WSU's athletic trainers have been earning their keep this semester...Jan-Michael Thomas (see p. 4 note) is only the latest casualty...RS-FR F Milton Riley fractured the little finger on his right hand Feb. 15 during practice...Riley has been playing with the little finger padded and taped to his ring finger...another of WSU's more serious injuries is FR G Nick Graham, who suffered a severe right ankle sprain during practice on Jan. 17...Graham is likely out for the remainder of the season...WSU's back up point guard had played in all 13 games prior to his injury, averaging 1.7 points per game...JR F Tyrone Evans has suffered a lion's share of injuries this season...he has sprained his left knee twice (the first time, Dec. 30 at Colorado State, caused him to miss three games)... Evans also cut his right hand on the backboard Jan. 17 during practice, and required 10 stitches...FR F Bryan Whitehead sustained a right knee injury during practice before the Jan. 6 USC game and missed six games...he returned to play three minutes and scored two points Jan. 27 against Cal...so far, five Cougars have missed games due to injury this season: Graham (12 games), Whitehead (6 games), Evans (3 games), Thomas (3 games) and Riley (1 game).
COUGS IN PRO ARENAS: Saturday's game at Washington will be WSU's second this season in an arena that houses an NBA team...the first was the Dec. 20 game versus Portland State at the Rose Garden (home of the Portland Trailblazers)...the Cougars won that game 68-62...it will also be WSU's first-ever game at Key Arena, home of the Seattle Supersonics.
BUSH ENTERS STEALS CAREER TOP 10: The best defender on the Cougar team and one of the most underrated players in the Pac-10 players, SO G Mike Bush entered the WSU career top 10 in steals -- AS JUST A SOPHOMORE! He passed Neil Derrick (95/1991-92) during the Cal game. Bush also cracked the single-season top ten in steals, and now ranks tied for ninth Isaac Fontaine (52/1995)...Bush can jump all the way to fourth with eighth more steals this season...
BUSH, COUGARS TIE STEALS MARKS: Mike Bush reasserted himself as one of the best defenders in the Pac-10 Dec. 20 versus Portland State by tying Don Collins' 20-year-old single-game steals record of eight...led by his efforts, the Cougs also tied the team single-game steals record with 17...Bush is averaging 2.1 steals per game to rank fourth in the Pac-10. Bush continues to show much improvement during his sophomore season...he is WSU's leading rebounder (6.6 rpg)...Bush had 10 boards in WSU's win over Idaho and has been WSU's leading rebounder 13 times this season...he also had 15 points versus the Vandals which gave the 6-6 Bush his first career double-double...against Washington, Bush notched his second career double-double with 19 points and a career-high 12 rebounds...versus Arizona State Feb. 12, Bush scored 20 points to go with 10 rebounds -- his second straight double-double...most recently, Bush set a career-high in scoring with 26 Feb. 19 at Oregon State. The Riverside, Calif., native has also shown more scoring punch with 16 double-figure scoring games this year...for the season, Bush is averaging 13.4 points per game, up from his 6.6 ppg mark of his rookie campaign.
EXTRA FACTS ON OVERTIME: WSU has played four overtime games so far this season, tying the record set by the 1982-83 team and the 1985-86 team.
MILLER SEEING DOUBLE-DOUBLE: Since returning to WSU's lineup 17 games ago, junior forward Eddie Miller has been solid...he's averaging 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game and has notched career-highs in rebounds twice (14 vs. USC and Arizona) and points once (23 vs. Washington)...during that stretch, Miller had a pair of doubles (13 pts, 14 reb vs. USC, 16 pts, 14 reb vs. Arizona) and just missed another at Arizona State (11 pts, 9 reb), versus Oregon (12 pts, 9 reb) and against Cal (19 points, 8 reb.)...the Reseda, Calif., native has been the Cougs' leading rebounder in seven of the last 17 games...Miller, who was sidelined during the fall semester due to academic problems, would be among the Pac-10 leaders in rebounding if he had played in enough games -- he will not qualify for the Pac-10 stats until Feb. 28 -- following the Cal game on Feb. 26...Miller, a 1999 Pac-10 all-newcomer honorable mention, averaged 10.9 points and 5.4 rebounds per game last season.
CLARK TOPS CAREER TOTAL AT STANFORD: Redshirt junior forward Cedric Clark scored a career-high seven points Jan. 29 at Stanford...the walk-on from Birmingham, Ala., also notched a career high in steals with two...Clark came into the Stanford game with six career points...he had his second-best scoring game Feb. 24 in Pullman versus the Cardinal -- four points. Clark, the only true point guard on the WSU roster with the injury to Nick Graham and the departure of Blake Pengelly, has seen action in each of WSU's last 18 games and has started the past two games in place of the injured Jan-Michael Thomas...when Clark made one of two free throws Jan. 15 at ASU, it was his first point since netting a free throw against Puerto Rico-Mayaguez on Nov. 30, 1997 -- more than two years ago...overall, Clark has played in 343 minutes this year, nearly 15 times the total of his last two years combined -- 23 minutes.
FROSH ADAMS HITS FOR 20: When guard David Adams scored a career-high 20 points Jan. 20 versus Oregon State, he became the first WSU freshman to notch 20 points in a game since Isaac Fontaine went for 21 against Arizona State, Feb. 5, 1994...Fontaine also had a 33-point game earlier that season against Michigan State...Adams ranks sixth in the Pac-10 in three-point field goal percentage (.417)...the Tacoma, Wash., native is averaging 7.4 points per game and has six double-figure scoring games this season: Grambling State (12), Portland (12), Colorado State (17), Arizona (10), Oregon (10) and Oregon State. Adams recently had back-to-back double figure games with 10 points versus Arizona and 11 at Oregon.
ROSTER ADDITIONS: WSU has added three players to its roster since the beginning of the season...the last two additions are freshman guard Marcus Moore and junior forward Claude "CD" Doucet. Moore is a 6-5 guard who signed with WSU in the fall and passed his SAT in December to become eligible...Moore finished his brilliant career at Dominguez High School in Compton, Calif., last spring, leading the school to the 1999 state championship...he was the 1999 John Wooden Award winner for the state of California for coach Russell Otis and was ranked as the state's top point guard after averaging 13 points, eight assists and six boards a game. Doucet comes to WSU via Lamar...the Anchorage, Alaska, native signed with Lamar after playing two seasons at South Plains Junior College in Levelland, Texas, where he averaged seven points and four rebounds per game...Doucet, who transferred to WSU to be closer to home, will practice with the Cougars this semester, but will not be eligible until next year. Football player Paul Mencke was already a slash -- quarterback/tight end/receiver...now you can add two more words to that title -- guard/forward...Mencke, a two-time Greater Spokane League MVP, joined the Washington State basketball team on Dec. 13. During his junior year, the Spokane native was named MVP of the GSL and led Lewis and Clark High School to its first state tournament appearance in 32 years...the 6-5, 229-lbs., Mencke averaged 20 points and 11 rebounds per game as a senior and repeated his GSL MVP honors...playing for coach Glenn Williams, he led the GSL in scoring in back-to-back seasons. Mencke wears number 24 (he wanted to wear his football number 12, but the jersey was too small)...like he was in football, Mencke is a redshirt junior and has this season and next season of eligibility remaining...following basketball, Mecke will re-join the football team for spring drills and then stay with football through the fall...if all goes well this season, Mencke will re-join the team after the 2000 football season.
SLASH MENCKE BECOMES TRUE TWO-SPORTER: To the delight of his hometown Spokane Arena crowd, Paul Mencke became the first two-sport football-basketball player at WSU since Kitrick Taylor in the mid 1980s when he played in his first basketball game Jan. 6 versus USC...Mencke played four minutes and grabbed two rebounds against the Trojans...it was the first time in four years that Mencke played in the Lilac City...Mencke scored his first point as a basketball player on a free throw Jan. 13 at Arizona and grabbed a career-high five rebounds Jan. 22 versus Oregon...he scored four points Feb. 24 versus Stanford and set his career-high with six points Monday at UTPA. Taylor is a former NFL player who lettered in football in 1982-83 and 1985-86 and in basketball in 1985 and 1987. ANOTHER SERVICE RANKS WSU RECRUITS NO. 2 IN THE PAC-10: First Bob Gibbons did it...now Clark Francis of Hoop Scoop has ranked WSU's 2000 recruiting class as the second-best in the Pac-10...in the January edition of Basketball Times, Francis ranked WSU's four fall signees as the 37th-best in the nation and second in the Pac-10 to Oregon (26th overall)...other Pac-10 schools among the top 100 included No. 65 Arizona State, No. 85 California and No. 90 Washington.
GIBBONS RANKS WSU NO. 2 IN PAC-10: College basketball recruiting expert Bob Gibbons has ranked Washington State's 2000 recruiting class as the 28th-best in the nation in his December newsletter...the four WSU signees are also listed as the No. 2 class in the Pac-10, trailing only Oregon...the Cougars signed four guards during the early signing period in November...slated to take the hardwood for WSU next season are high schoolers Tommy Johnson from Los Angeles' Crenshaw High School and Marcus Moore from Dominguez Hills High School in Compton, Calif., and junior college transfers Jerry McNair (Fullerton College) and Kendall Minor (Southern Idaho)...Moore enrolled at WSU in January and has been practicing with the team...both McNair and Minor will come in with three years of eligibility remaining...Oregon was ranked 25th, just three spots higher than WSU...other Pac-10 schools in the top 75 include No. 57 Stanford, No. 61 Washington and No. 72 Arizona State...WSU has one more newcomer who will join the four fall signees next year -- 6-10 center J Locklier who transferred from Miami, Ohio...Locklier must redshirt this season under NCAA transfer rules and will be a junior in 2000-01.
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS: WSU opened the season with five freshmen on its roster (David Adams, Nick Graham, Mike Malloy, Milton Riley and Bryan Whitehead) for the first time in 14 years...the last time WSU had at least five rookies on its opening day roster was the 1985-86 season...that year, the Cougs actually had six -- Neil Evans, David Hairston, John Hodges, Anthony Kidd, David Sanders and Brian Wright...five of those six names should be very familiar to the Cougar faithful, Evans (who redshirted the 1985-86 season), Hodges, Kidd, Sanders and Wright all went on to become four-year letter winners for WSU...the 1985-86 Cougars went 15-16 overall and 8-10 in the conference for Coach Len Stevens.
GAMES OF THE 1900s: The Colorado State game on Dec. 30, 1999, was the 2,510th and final game of the 1900s for Washington State...WSU's first season of basketball was 1901-02...the Cougars posted a 1,326-1,184 all-time record from 1901-99.
STARTERS: Coming into the 1999-2000 season, only five of WSU's 13 players had ever started a college game...of the active players, Chris Crosby has the most starts with 62, followed by Jan-Michael Thomas (46).
STARTING LINE-UPS: Here's a breakdown of WSU's starting five in 1999-2000:
G1-2 Evans, Crosby, Pengelly, Thomas, Bush (1-1)
G3-4 Riley, Crosby, Pengelly, Thomas, Bush (1-1)
G5 Bush, Crosby, Pengelly, Thomas, Adams (1-0)
G6-9 Riley, Crosby, Thomas, Bush, Adams (2-2)
G10 Riley Crosby, Miller, Thomas, Adams (0-1)
G11-22 Crosby, Miller, Thomas, Bush, Adams (0-12)
G23-25 Crosby, Miller, Bush, Clark, Adams (1-2)
NEW OPPONENTS: WSU faced two opponents for the first time ever this season -- Southern and Texas-Pan American...Utah visited Pullman for the first time since 1939, it was also the first game between the two schools overall since 1972...the Cougars also renewed dormant rivalries with Nevada (last meeting 1972), Colorado State (1978) and Portland (1990).
OLD OPPONENTS: WSU's oldest rivalry, Oregon State, reached game No. 260 this season...Washington State and Idaho met for the 255th time this season...the second Oregon was No. 254 in the series...WSU and Washington inch toward the 250 mark with games 247 and 248 this season...it was just the second meeting with Grambling State.
PENGELLY LEAVES TEAM: Senior guard Blake Pengelly left the Washington State men's basketball team for personal reasons, announced prior to WSU's Dec. 7 game versus Portland. Pengelly, a native of Eugene, Ore., was averaging 4.0 points and 6.8 assists per game through five contests this season...he played in 93 career games with 56 starts...he ranks fifth in WSU career assists with 324 and is eighth in career three-point field goals with 119.
I WANT MY COUGTV: Washington State will be on the Fox network nine times this season...three games will be shown nationally (Fox Sports Northwest locally) -- Dec. 11 Utah, Jan. 22 Oregon and Feb. 5 Washington...Fox Sports Northwest will broadcast an additional four games -- Nov. 29 Gonzaga, Jan. 13 Arizona, Feb. 12 Arizona and Feb. 26 California -- to a regional audience...two other road games will be shown in their local market -- Jan. 29 Stanford (Fox Sports Bay Area) and March 11 USC (Fox West 2).
WOW - WHAT A SCHEDULE: For the first time since 1994-95, WSU played home games against five different ranked teams...the games came Nov. 29 versus No. 25 Gonzaga (Spokane), Dec. 11 versus No. 25 Utah, Jan. 8 vs. No. 20 UCLA, Feb. 12 vs. No. 7 Arizona and Feb. 24 against No. 1 Stanford...the Cardinal were the first top-ranked team to visit Pullman since Arizona in 1989...in 1994-95, all five teams were from the Pac-10: No. 17 California, No. 23 Stanford, No. 17 Oregon, No. 12 Arizona and No. 15 Arizona State (WSU was 4-1 versus those schools at home).
WSU VS. RANKED TEAMS: WSU has played seven games against top 25 teams in 1999-2000...the last time WSU defeated a ranked opponent was February 22, 1997, when the Cougs beat No. 25 Cal 89-87...WSU played eight games versus ranked opponents during the 1996-97 season.
HENDRICKSON RE-SIGNED BY CAVS: Former WSU standout Mark Hendrickson (1993-96) signed a second 10-day contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Jan. 18...it is the 21st straight season that WSU has had at least one player in the NBA, dating back to James Donaldson in 1979-80 and continuing with Craig Ehlo, Brian Quinnett and Hendrickson...this is Hendrickson's fourth year in the NBA, he was drafted by Philadelphia and has also played for Sacramento and New Jersey...Hendrickson is No. 4 on WSU's all-time scoring list (1,496 points) and second in rebounding (926) and field goal percentage (.567)...he also ranks sixth in free throws (400), first in fouls (335) and third in minutes played (3,570)...he was a two-time all-Pac-10 pick in 1995-96 and made the league's freshman team in 1993...Hendrickson was a three-time NABC District 14 All-America selection, team MVP in 1995 and 1996 and captained the 1996 Cougar squad.
COUGARS BID FAREWELL TO THOMAS AND CROSBY: Seniors Jan-Michael Thomas and Chris Crosby are coming to the end of their WSU careers...Thomas, a 6-0 guard from Inglewood, Calif., had his career come to an abrupt end Feb. 22 when he suffered a knee injury in practice (see page 4 for more details)...a transfer from San Joaquin Delta Junior College, Thomas finishes his WSU career as the Cougars' all-time leader in free throw percentage (.829)...as a junior, Thomas set a school record with 89 three-pointers...he played in 50 career games and ranks fifth in WSU career three-pointers with 140...Thomas is scheduled to graduate this summer with a degree in social science. Crosby, a 6-8 forward, is a four-year letter winner who will finish his career in WSU's all-time top 10 in scoring...he is currently 10th with 1,278 points...the Littleton, Colo., native's name is scattered throughout the Cougar record book...in addition to his impressive point total, Crosby ranks fourth in three-point field goals (194) and eighth in free throw percentage (.792)...Saturday will be Crosby's 113th career game...Crosby is scheduled to graduate this summer with a degree in business management. WSU will also bid farewell to senior manager Jake Hamblin...a native of Preston, Idaho, Hamblin is a two-year Cougar manager who will graduate in May with a degree in sport management.


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