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Scripture Reading: Matthew 21:1-11
Holy Week is the last week of Lent when we follow Jesus from Palm Sunday to his death on Good Friday in preparation for His rising from the dead on Easter Sunday. This week is also called Passion Week because of the suffering of Jesus.
The last week of Jesus' earthly life when He faced a criminal's execution on a cruel Roman cross was an extraordinary week. Jesus knew that He was going to die in a few days.
Palm Sunday
The last Sunday of Lent is known as Palm Sunday. This is when Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem where He was greeted warmly by the crowd. Accompanied by his disciples, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt, while crowds of people covered the streets ahead of Him with their cloaks and with palm branches and sang:
"Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" (Matthew 21:9)
The branches of the palm trees symbolize Christ's victory over the devil and death. The word Hosanna means "Save, I pray," or "Save, now." The colt and Jesus' sitting on it and the fact that this animal was untamed and considered unclean according to the Law, signified the former uncleanness and wildness of the nations, and their subjection to the holy Law of the Gospel.
On Palm Sunday — six days before Jesus' death—people lined the streets, waving palms as Jesus entered Jerusalem. It was the first-century equivalent of our ticker-tape parades for heroes down the streets of New York City except Jesus rode in on a colt to fulfill the scriptures as recorded in Zechariah 9:9.
Jesus' popularity "at that particular time" was at an all-time high. His teaching had astonishing power. By far, Jesus was one of the most popular people in the entire Middle East, that is at that particular time.
But everyone who lined the streets had a different reason for waving those palms. Some were political activists; they had heard that Jesus had supernatural power, and they wanted Him to use it to free Israel from Roman rule. Others had loved ones who were sick or dying. They waved branches, hoping for physical healing. Some were onlookers merely looking for something to do, while others were genuine followers who wished Jesus would establish Himself as an earthly king. Jesus was the only one in the parade who knew the real reason "why" He was going to Jerusalem. Jesus was going to Jerusalem to die. Jesus had a mission while everyone else had an agenda.
As you go through this day of the Lenten season, reflect on the reason you might have been in the crowd on Palm Sunday.
Make sure you read what happened on the Monday following Palm Sunday. You will find that information in the Lenten lesson for Day 41.

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How to move bar to light side in SP
I'm playing level 6 now and feel there is something I'm missing. My force bar hasn't budged at all since the start of the game level 1. Nothing I do seems to move my bar toward the light side. How do you go light side? I heard it's by saving citizens but that doesn't seem to do anything.
I've saved all the citizens in the city from attacks, but it never moves the bar, but if I kill a citizen the bar does move to the dark side. Is there something you're supposed to do to save a citizen? How do you get light side points? I just kill whoever is attacking the citizens but that does nothing. Am I supposed to say something to them?
The way to get light side points you not only have to avoid killing civilians and choosing Dark Powers (which push you towards the Dark Side), but also have to save civilians that are being threatened by enemies. That is when you hear those villagers yelling help and Grans running up to punch or shoot them, you have to kill those enemies, and then you're supposed to get credit. If that isn't working, I don't know what will, sorry.
You could try "activating" (use key) the civilian after you save them I suppose. By the end of the game if you stay true to the Light Side your bar will be all the way into the Light and you'll get the bonus power, regardless.
Well, what determines if you're going light or dark is where you assign your stars. If you assign them to dark powers, you'll eventually end up corrupted by the dark side. If you assign your stars to light powers, you'll end up being true to the light side.
You get starts by finishing the levels, and by finding all the secret areas on each level you're awarded with extra stars.
By the way, you should play the game both ways. It's pretty different if you go light or dark, the story and the levels are different and you get to see different cut scenes.
Good luck!
I remember back in the day looking at the scripting code and it said that you got light points for rescuing civilians. That's all I remember.
But when you finish the game "true to the lightside" even if you didn't save all the civies, it shows your bar all the way to the light.
I agree that it's different... more so than Jedi Academy's "choice"! The cutscenes are great.
Well, whatever you do, don't kill WeeGee at the beginning of level 4
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Senior center and tri-captain Kitwana Rhymer returns for his fifth season in the program, and third as UMass? starting center...a third-team All-Atlantic 10 selection and the league?s Defensive Player of the Year as a junior, Rhymer will challenge for first team all-league honors in his final season...UMass? top returning scorer (9.9 ppg) and rebounder (7.3 rpg) will be a cornerstone of Steve Lappas? first Massachusetts team...enters his final season 374 points shy of becoming the school?s 35th career 1,000-point scorer and needs just 242 rebounds to crack the UMass top 10 in that category...one of only seven players in school history to record 100 career blocks, Rhymer?s 137 snuffs rank fifth on the all-time UMass list, and while first-place Marcus Camby?s total of 336 rejections is well out of reach, he needs just 89 blocks to move into second place...had off-season ankle surgery, but was fully recovered for UMass? trip to Greece...on UMass? four-game exhibition tour, Rhymer averaged 6.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, and recorded one double-figure scoring game...successfully met NCAA requirements to earn back his fourth season of eligibility...?Kit works very hard,? Lappas said. ?He?s a tough kid, a great defender, and he?s going to be one of our main guys.?
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Race promoter, team owner, and attorney Cary Agajanian spoke to an audience of about 40 people on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Watkins Glen, N.Y. as part of the International Motor Racing Research Center's (IMRRC) ongoing "Conversation" series. The July 19 talk featured stories and pictures from the Agajanian family archive, covering over 50 years in motor sports racing and promotion.
In welcoming the audience, IMRRC Governing Council member, Michael Argetsinger stated that in the second half of the twentieth century in the U.S., the Agajanian family was the "most important racing family I can think of." That is saying something from Argetsinger, whose own father Cameron, is called "the father of road racing in America," having brought the sport to the small upstate New York village in 1948.
Cary Agajanian explained how his grandfather came to this country from Armenia with $5 in his pocket and how his family eventually settled in Southern California and set up a refuse business and hog ranch there. The company collected refuse and fed it to about 5,000 hogs as was done in those days.
This business paid for the family's eventual interest in motor racing. When Cary's father, J.C. Agajanian, wanted to race cars, his immigrant father said, "So, you are going to be a race driver; that's fine. Just a few things I want you to do first. Go kiss your mother goodbye; pack your bags since you won't be living here anymore; and while you're at it, change your name."
Cary said that this statement was repeated by his father to him years later, and Cary has repeated it to his own children.
Motor racing was dangerous in those days, even more so than it is now, so the grandfather Agajanian made an agreement with Cary's father that he could be involved in racing if he owned the car and got someone else to drive it. That's how the family came to be involved in race promotion, which continues to this day.
Part of the family's interests involved setting up Ascot Park, a dirt oval track that was built on an old landfill and operated in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1990.
"We all grew up at the racetrack," Cary said. He said that his father became known for his cowboy hat. He used to call his cars "used food specials" because of where the funding came from for them. The cars sponsored by the Agajanians bore a decal of a pig wearing a Stetson; the decal has appeared on every car since 1958. One of the early racers J. C. sponsored liked the number 98, so that was put on his car, and the 98 stuck with Agajanian cars after that.
As a promoter, J. C. Agajanian ran cars in the Indianapolis 500, winning in 1952 with driver Troy Ruttman and in 1963 with Parnelli Jones. The tradition continued to as recently as 2011 when Cary himself, with a partner, owned the winning car driven by Dan Wheldon.
During his talk, Agajanian showed several pictures of his grandfather, father, and himself and his brother, Ben. For his part, Ben Agajanian became a professional football player with the New York Giants working with players such as Frank Gifford and Tom Landry. An anecdote Cary shared about his brother was that he had lost his toes in an accident in college and eventually became the first "specialist" kicker in the game.
Highlighting that the family business was located in Southern California were samples from the family archives of photos containing touches of Hollywood glamor. J.C. Agajanian's motor sports promotions often included Hollywood entertainers -- a picture of a well-known figure in the newspaper, Cary said, was always desirable in those days to help bring people out to the race track. Cary showed pictures of stars like Clark Gable, Bob Hope, James Garner, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman taking part in his family's promotions of race events.
Photos of Richard Nixon and Soichiro Honda (before Honda made their famous cars) were also among the family archives. Cary explained that the family holds many boxes of photographs and materials that they are only just beginning to explore.
Cary also explained that his father, J.C., had been involved in promoting and sponsoring Pike's Peak, boat races, and motorcycle racing as well as traditional car racing and racers. It was through the motorcycle side of the business that he struck up a relationship with Robert "Evil" Knievel. Knievel, said Cary, was a "back marker" in motorcycle racing, but he eventually approached his father about jumping instead. He asked J.C. to give him $1 per person for the number of people over the normal spectator count expected if J.C. would promote his jumping stunt at the next event.
When the event took place, 2,000 additional people showed up. However, Cary described the dare devil as a "difficult" guy to get along with. "He didn't always listen to what he was supposed to do," Cary said, though he was "an amazing guy, really." Their relationship went sour over business dealings, and later on Knievel also got in trouble with the law.
The Agajanian days of promoting well-known racers and events did not end with J.C.. Cary (who is J.C., Jr.) has continued the tradition and currently represents NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and team owner Tony Stewart, among several other drivers and racing entities. Some he has worked with for contract deals on specific projects.
Cary described working with a young Jeff Gordon, for example, meeting him when he was just a young racing star coming up. Gordon, who was racing in Northern California as a teen, hung around the track at Ascot in Los Angeles and expressed interest in racing in Southern California.
Cary explained that it would be illegal for him to do so since he was still too young at ages 14 and 15. When Northern California racing connections found out about this, they banned Gordon from racing up there as well. Gordon moved his efforts out of state until he came of age. Later on, Agajanian represented Gordon in some contract dealings.
"We have a great relationship now," Agajanian commented, "but it started off kinda rocky." Now, he said, Gordon quips that Agajanian was one of the people who forced him out of California when he was younger.
The last picture Cary showed the audience was of him accepting the award for his late father's induction into the International Motor Sport Hall of Fame. Fittingly, the award was presented by Parnelli Jones.
After taking questions from the audience, Agajanian joined them for refreshments and more conversation at the Racing Center.
IMRRC fundraising raffle tickets for a Fiat 500 Abarth Hatchback Turbo and trip to Italy were also on sale. The annual car raffle is the Racing Research Center's major fund-raiser. Support through the Center's Sponsorship Team campaign is the other key source of funding. The Center is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization.
The next talk in the IMRRC Conversation series will be in October when Steve Zautke will speak about the Milwakee Mile and Road America. In November, Mike Martin will talk about the USRRC series of the 1960s.
The drawing of the winning ticket for the car and Italy trip will be on Dec. 13 at 1 p.m. at the Center. Tickets are $40 for one or $100 for three. Only 3,500 tickets will be sold.


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Jorge Lorenzo was born on the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain on 4th May 1987. He began riding motorbikes at home at the tender age of three and within months of taking to two wheels was competing in his first minicross races. In 1995, aged eight, he won the Balearic title and followed that up the following year by taking the Island's minicross, trial, minimoto and junior motocross titles.
Lorenzo graduated to road racing and national competition in 1997 and it didn't take him long to adjust, winning the Aprilia 50cc Cup in 1998. Despite officially being too young, a special dispensation in 2000 allowed him to compete in the Spanish 125cc series at the age of 13 and he made history the following year when competing in Europe and becoming the youngest ever winner of a European 125cc race.
The precocious teenager, once again showing that age was no limit to a quick rise up the ranks of motorbike racing, made his first foray onto the world stage with Derbi at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez in 2002, the third round of the season. He did not reach the legal age of 15 until Saturday and therefore missed the first day of practice but was unfazed this and impressed the paddock by qualifying for the race, cementing his position in the World Championship over the course of the season as he got to grips with the circuits.
The young Mallorcan hit the big time the following season, winning his first 125cc Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro and then going on to win three more races the following season, finishing fourth in 2004 and taking his podium tally to nine before making the step up the quarter-litre class and switching to Honda machinery. Six podium finishes and four pole positions in his rookie 250cc season sealed fifth in the championship and, with a move to the Aprilia factory team, 2006 was widely expected to be his defining year.
Lorenzo indeed surpassed all expectations in 2006, dominating the class with eight wins and a record-equalling ten poles, clinching his first world title convincingly. 2007 saw more of the same and an incredible nine pole positions saw him win from every single one of them, claiming his second world title at the penultimate round in Sepang. He also became the most successful 250cc Spanish rider of all time in the process.
He joined Yamaha in 2008 and exploded onto the MotoGP scene with an outstanding pole position at the opening round in Qatar, before finishing second in the race. A second pole position and another podium in round two proved it was no fluke, before he went on to take an incredible third pole and a deserved maiden win at the third race in Estoril. He returned to earth with a bump in China, when a crash in practice saw him fracture both ankles, although he battled on to finish fourth in the race before coming back with another podium next time around in France. The middle part of the season was difficult for the young Spaniard as several more crashes left him with further injuries and battered confidence, but he never gave up and made it back to claim two more podiums. He finished the season in fourth position as rookie of the year, the most successful debutante since the start of the four-stroke era.
Following his outstanding debut year, Lorenzo came of age in 2009, winning four races and pushing his team-mate Valentino Rossi to the limit throughout a superb season. The Spaniard took the team's first victory of the year at Yamaha's home race in Japan and he went on to take further wins at Le Mans, Indianapolis and, for the second year in a row, Portugal .
Lorenzo and his team-mate Rossi produced some of the greatest racing in years as they fought wheel to wheel at race after race, with the last-lap battle in Barcelona standing out, amongst others. Although Lorenzo lost out there by a few thousandths of a second, the performance he put up against his older and more experienced team-mate was enough to convince even the most sceptical of onlookers that he is a champion of the future.
As well as his four wins, Lorenzo stood on the podium an additional nine times and only missed out once in all 17 rounds on a front-row qualification, a remarkable show of consistency. He was Rossi's only championship challenger in the latter half of the season and once that chance was gone he focused on securing the number two spot, which he duly did in Valencia.
Having run Rossi close in 2009, Lorenzo came into the 2010 season looking to beat his adversary under equal terms, though a pre-season injury certainly cast doubt on whether he could mount a challenge from the start. As it happens, the Spaniard signalled his intentions with two wins during the opening three races, earning him the early edge over Rossi.
In the end, Rossi's leg injury during the fourth round scuppered any chance of a season-long rivalry, but with Lorenzo proceeding to win nine races on the way to a dominant title victory, many feel he would have been difficult to beat regardless.
Indeed, with a record-breaking points' total to his name and 16 podiums in 18 races, Lorenzo shrugged off the inconsistency reputation that dogged him initially and naturally assumed Rossi's mantle as team leader when the Italian defected to Ducati.
With 'No.1' adorned on his Yamaha, Lorenzo set about defending his title, though pre-season testing had revealed the M1 to be down on the pace of the four factory-specification Honda RC212Vs of Stoner, Pedrosa, Dovizioso and Simoncelli.
Indeed, once racing was underway, the Honda proved the bike to beat from the off, but Lorenzo's race craft was enough to make his Yamaha a race-win contender, while his consistency served to keep Stoner honest for much of the year.
Wins at Jerez, Mugello and Misano kept him in the hunt, though an injury sustained at Phillip Island would force him out of action for the final three rounds. Even so, Lorenzo was still able to seal the runners-up spot for the second time in three years.
With the much discussed return to 1000cc machinery expected to pose a new challenge for both Lorenzo and Yamaha, the Spaniard went into the off-season keen to prove that Stoner's 2011 success was not indicative of an era of dominance.
And so it proved, Yamaha coming up with a bike that would prove marginally quicker than Honda's machine – particularly on race tyres -, allowing Lorenzo to notch up four wins in the opening six races. Opening up a small gap over Stoner and Pedrosa, though a controversial crash at Assen – blamed on an errant Alvaro Bautista – pegged him back, Lorenzo remained a model of consistency throughout the year.
When Stoner eliminated himself from the running through injury, Lorenzo would spend the second-half of the year contending with a charging Pedrosa instead. However, with an even healthier margin over the Spaniard in hand, a canny Lorenzo would simply spend the latter half focusing on second place behind his countryman knowing it would be enough to keep him ahead overall.
Going on to seal a second career title with one round to spare, what Lorenzo's year lacked in headlines – at least compared with Pedrosa, Stoner and even Rossi -, he made up for with consistency and a blistering turn of pace when he needed it.
Often overshadowed in the 2013 pre-season media spotlight by rookie Marc Marquez and returning team-mate Rossi, Lorenzo let his riding do the talking as he sought to claim back-to-back titles for Yamaha.
Three wins from the opening six races elevated Lorenzo to the status of title favourite, but consecutive collarbone injuries at Assen and Sachsenring left him facing an uphill battle.
For bravery and determination alone, Lorenzo's performance at Assen - finishing fifth just two days after surgery - was incredible.
A cut above his fellow Yamaha riders, Lorenzo's valiant attempt to close down Marquez saw him provide the only real opposition to the Repsol Honda riders in the second half of the season.
Renowned for his speed and smoothness, Lorenzo - frustrated that Race Direction had not taken a tougher line with Marquez - responded by unleashing his street-fighting side during some physical end-of-season battles.
Lorenzo was ultimately left just four points shy of Marquez, but 93 points ahead of his team-mate Rossi, despite missing the German GP. Lorenzo also scored the most race wins of the year (eight), even though his M1 could only provide two fastest race laps.
Lorenzo remains alongside Rossi at the Movistar backed Yamaha team in 2014.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
The No. 4 ranked Alabama gymnastics team travels to Fayetteville, Ark., to take on No. 19 Arkansas Friday at 7 p.m. CT. The Crimson Tide comes into the meet after posting a season-beat 197.650 to beat Auburn last Friday. The Tide's mark was also the highest in the nation last week.
"I think we have been so close to having that kind of performance for a couple of weeks," UA head coach Sarah Patterson said. "I really thought we were going to have that kind of performance the week before and they were disappointed when we didn't. They came in and worked really hard last week and it paid off. We're not perfect yet, but I'm really proud of how they stepped up against Auburn."
After posting a trio of 9.9s against Auburn, senior Ashley Sledge was named the Southeastern Conference Gymnast of the Week on Tuesday. She posted season-high scores of 9.9 on the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise against the Tigers. Fellow senior Marissa Gutierrez, sophomores Kayla Williams and Kaitlyn Clark and freshman Lauren Beers all equaled or bettered career-high scores against the Tigers.
"We've kept it going," Patterson said. "They came in this week and have worked exceptionally hard. They aren't settling for where they were the other night. I think it was Becca (Alexin) that said, `We're going to use this meet [against Auburn] as a springboard to the rest of the season.'"
Friday's meet in Fayetteville will be Alabama's seventh meet of the season and seventh against Southeastern Conference competition. It is also the Tide's fourth road meet of the season. Arkansas, coming off back-to-back losses on the road to No. 8 LSU and No. 1 Florida, is 1-2 in home meets this season and 1-5 overall.
The Tide last competed against Arkansas in the 2012 NCAA Championships Super Six Team Final. Alabama won its sixth national title with a season-best score of 197.850, while the Razorbacks took home sixth, posting a 196.300. However, Patterson said posting a high score on the road is not the focal point of the team this week.
"A big road score would be helpful, but you can't ever focus just on the scores because you could get in there and the judges could be really tight, even if you have a great performance," Patterson said. "We have to focus on our landings, what we're doing and how we are hitting our routines."
Saturday's meet will be televised on ESPNU and ESPN2 on a tape delayed basis. It will be broadcast live on WVUA-Radio 90.7 FM in the Tuscaloosa area as well as on the internet via wvuafm.ua.edu. Fans can follow along via Twitter @BamaGymnastics and on Facebook at BamaGymnastics. Live scoring and a link to the radio broadcast will also be available on RollTide.com.


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Plant Pathogens
Plants are resistant to most plant pathogens. Every
plant cell can defend itself from attacking pathogenic
microorganisms and invertebrates. Some defenses, such
as antimicrobial secondary metabolites, are constitutive,
being located in specific cellular compartments and
ready to be released on cell damage. Other defense responses,
such as those induced by pathogen invasion, require
detection of the pathogen by the plant. Defense activation
is correlated with rapid activation of defense-related
genes and often culminates in the HR, localized cell
death, to impair pathogen spread. Plant resistance to
pathogens can be mediated by dominant resistance (R)
genes in plants that are complementary to avirulence
(Avr) genes in pathogens. Avr proteins exhibit extensive
sequence diversity, and their function in the pathogen
is poorly understood. In contrast, plant R proteins
are strikingly similar in structure, sharing such motifs
as LRRs, a central NBS, and a serine/ threonine protein
kinase domain, among others. R proteins both detect
pathogens and initiate signal transduction to activate
defense mechanisms. In addition, R loci/genes can evolve
new R gene specificities to keep pace with the evolution
of virulence in pathogen populations. Plant defense
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signal molecules, including ROS, NO, SA, JA, and ethylene,
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attacked plant. Specialist defenses against plant viruses
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Many aspects of induced plant defense appear to be conserved
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of an ancient defense strategy against microbial attack.
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Seattle Times on Pomegranates
Astrid Pujari, M.D. of The Seattle Times drops a little pomegranate knowledge on us. Take a look:
In 2004, researchers took 10 people with plaque buildup in their carotid arteries. The nice thing about the carotid arteries (other than that they help your brain to get blood so you can think) is that they are located in the neck. This makes it easy to measure how much plaque they have using a simple sound-wave probe.Here're some more points on pomegranates:
These 10 people drank pomegranate juice for one year, and the thickness of the plaque dropped by up to 30 percent, and one of their blood pressure numbers (the systolic blood pressure) dropped by 21 percent. By comparison, the people in the study who did not drink the juice had an increase in plaque thickness of 9 percent.
Again, the downside here is that this is a small study. However, it seems to correlate with the results found above, and I think it is worth pursuing further — especially since pomegranate juice costs about $5 at the store. Who knows, it may even save our financially strained health-care system a few dollars if it turns out to work as well as it seems to in these studies.
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In a column for (yes, you guessed it) WorldNetDaily, Walter Williams cites the IRS and Affordable Care Act as evidence that Obama is growing the size of government in order to bring about mass killings.
We might ask why the 20th century was so barbaric. Surely, there were barbarians during earlier ages. Part of the answer is that during earlier times, there wasn't the kind of concentration of power that emerged during the 20th century. Had Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Hitler been around in earlier times, they could not have engineered the slaughter of tens of millions of people. They wouldn't have had the authority. There was considerable dispersion of jealously guarded political power in the forms of heads of provincial governments and principalities and nobility and church leaders whose political power within their spheres was often just as strong as the monarch's.
Professor Rummel explained in the very first sentence of "Death by Government" that "Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely. … The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects." That's the long, tragic, ugly story of government: the elite's use of government to dupe and forcibly impose its will on the masses. The masses are always duped by well-intentioned phrases. After all, what German could have been against "A Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"? It's not just Germans who have fallen prey to well-intentioned phrases. After all, who can be against the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"?
We Americans ought to keep the fact in mind that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would have had more success in their reign of terror if they had the kind of control and information about their citizens that agencies such as the NSA, the IRS and the ATF have about us. You might ask, "What are you saying, Williams?" Just put it this way: No German who died before 1930 would have believed the Holocaust possible.
This is a depressingly common rhetoric for WorldNetDaily. Phil Elmore also recently claimed that liberals (and gays) were going to murder conservatives (then mysteriously decided he didn't want to talk about it anymore). Joseph Farah also frequently accuses liberals of planning the next Holocaust, while Erik Rush has insisted, not only that Obama wants to mass-murder the American people, but that anyone who doesn't believe him should be mass-murdered first.
But how matter how many times WorldNetDaily spews forth this conspiracy theory crap, it will not ever magically stop being conspiracy theory crap.


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He's one of the most accomplished, polished and mature freshmen the Huskies have ever welcomed – and I'm not even talking about basketball or him being one of the nation's top incoming point guards.
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SEATTLE – Nigel Williams-Goss is special.
I'm not even talking about basketball.
Oh, sure, you probably know he's a McDonald's and Parade magazine high school All-American who played point guard on one of the nation's top schoolboy teams, Findlay Prep outside Las Vegas. He has lost fewer games in the last five years as he has fingers.
One of the nation's top-ranked players in this year's recruiting class, Williams-Goss played with 17-year olds when he was 13. He was one of only three high-school seniors who joined a group of elite collegians this June at the Under-19 World Championships in the Czech Republic. Williams-Goss had 15 points in a game-high 29 minutes as the United States, led by Florida coach Billy Donovan, easily win the gold-medal game.
Four weeks into preseason practice, Williams-Goss is already the most vocal Husky on the floor. He claps and encourages teammates four years older than he through drills. Then he goes out and does that drill harder than anyone. During last Friday's first full-team scrimmage Williams-Goss stood at the top of the key and directed his guys where to go with his hands and a pointed finger, demanding better floor spacing and balance. He showed a un-teen-like poise while in the rush of fast breaks, always seeming to find the open man.
"He's just uncanny, his ability to run a team and to do things right," Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar said before practice Tuesday.
Asked if he's ever coached a freshman this mature, this much in command weeks before his first college game, the former UW and NBA guard shook his head.
"As a head coach or an assistant, I've never coached one (like him)," Romar said.
And he's led NBA point guards Nate Robinson and Isaiah Thomas in 12 years as the Huskies' head coach, plus Tyus Edney, when Romar was an assistant who won the 1995 NCAA title at UCLA.
"He has a special gift," Romar said of Williams-Goss. "Young people so often want to fight the system. They want to do it their way so much you have to fight that battle all the time. He has one agenda: to be the best, and to help his team be the best. When he's out there playing it's refreshing to see that.
"He's developed a belief among his teammates."
Including with C.J. Wilcox.
"Nigel is just a solid, solid point guard," the fifth-year senior and Huskies' leading scorer said. "He sees the open man. He doesn't try to do too much. Good defender; I think you guys are going to be surprised at that, he's a really good defender.
"He's going to open up a lot more shots for me."
That's all fine and swell, especially to the Huskies' hopes of ending their uncharacteristic, two-year drought of being left out of the NCAA tournament.
But what makes the Huskies' new, 19-year-old point guard truly special is all he's already done off the court.
"As much as I love watching him play basketball, I'm most proud that he works so hard at being the best he can be in all aspects of his life, in his academics and in being a good person."
"Precocious" only begins to describe Nigel Williams-Goss.
He's never gotten anything but an "A" in any class, in any grade. Ever. That includes four college-level classes he's already completed, still two weeks before his first college game. He got an "A" in a 101-level psychology class he took online during his senior year at Findlay Prep. This summer at UW he aced geology, plus social welfare and foreign policy.
And the fourth course?
"I had a Pilates class," a chuckling Williams-Goss said, almost under his breath. "So we'll say three college courses."
Williams-Goss turned 19 last month. A few days ago he called his mother, Valerie Williams-Goss, with exciting news. It wasn't that he's been running with the starting unit during Huskies preseason practices. It wasn't that he will be a starter from the first game of his college career, UW's opener Nov. 10 against Seattle University, either.
It was how well he had done on an economics test.
"Obviously, I'm so proud of him," Mrs. Williams-Goss said Tuesday by phone from Las Vegas, where she has a private practice as a therapist while finishing up her Ph D. in human services.
"But as much as I love watching him play basketball, I'm most proud that he works so hard at being the best he can be in all aspects of his life, in his academics and in being a good person."
Since he was in sixth grade Nigel has delivered food to the homes of the elderly and the sick participating in the "Meals on Wheels" programs in the Portland and Las Vegas areas, part of regular outings he enjoys with his maternal grandmother. He's so close to her he has her initials tattooed atop a cross on his torso. The names of Nigel's mother and his father, Virgil Williams-Goss, a former Air Force staff sergeant who was his AAU coach from third through eighth grade and is now in the insurance industry, are inked into his shoulders.
"Because they've always been there for me," he said of his parents.
Including to his high school far from home. Nigel's mother, father, grandmother and two cousins whom they've helped raise moved with Nigel from Happy Valley, Ore., to Henderson, Nev., before he began ninth grade so he could accept the scholarship Findlay Prep offered him. Its coaches had seen him dominate an AAU tournament in Las Vegas.
Nigel, his ideals, his work ethic and his headiness have helped mold his seven-year-old nephew Kayden. Kayden has lived with Williams-Goss' family for years.
"Nigel is Kayden's idol, his role model," Valerie Williams-Goss said.
No wonder.
Nigel has volunteered at homeless shelters. Since he was in third grade he's served hot meals at food banks during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
What else does he do, speak Chinese or something?
Well …
"When Nigel was in third grade we decided to put him in language training. We gave him Chinese lessons," his mother said.
Two days a week a native Chinese speaker came to the family home in suburban Portland, and one day a week Nigel went out for his lesson.
"By fifth grade he was speaking Mandarin," his mom said.
Williams-Goss laughs and says his Mandarin is quite rusty, almost lost, because he hasn't used it since the start of high school.
"Yeah," he said Tuesday, "I didn't want to take Spanish, which is like the fall-back language everyone takes. So I took Chinese."
We can all thank Lon Kruger that this almost-too-good-to-be-true teen is a Husky.
HOW MANY McDONALD'S ALL-AMERICANS HAVE THIS?
When Williams-Goss was a sophomore already starring at Findlay Prep he committed to Kruger and his UNLV staff a few miles down the road. But in 2011 Kruger left for a bigger job leading Oklahoma. Williams-Goss re-opened his recruitment, and in the summer of 2012 he committed to the Huskies.
"Then when Harvard got into the picture, that made my decision a little more tough," he said.
Yes, Harvard.
Coach Tommy Amaker has turned one of the esteemed academic institutions in the country and the world into not only an NCAA tournament team but one that wins games once there. Amaker saw this straight-A student with maturity and basketball talent beyond his years as a perfect fit in Cambridge, Mass., both to continue the Crimson's basketball run and to eventually become a Harvard graduate.
"Obviously with Harvard and the academics there, you have to take a close look at that," Williams-Goss said. "That threw a wrench into things."
I mean, c'mon, how many McDonald's All-Americans almost sign with Harvard?
"No, I don't think anyone has listed Harvard," he said, smiling and thinking of other elite high-school players in the last decade. "Not that I know of.
"It was really tough. I mean, I loved every second of my official visit out there (in April of his junior year of high school, before he visited UW). I had a great relationship with Coach Amaker and with coach Yanni Hufnagel (Harvard's recruiting coordinator), who is now at Vanderbilt. That was really tough. Washington and Harvard were my final two schools. That was really tough on me.
"But at the end of the day, I couldn't tell Coach Romar no twice."
Hello, Washington.
He is five weeks into his first full academic term of college, yet Williams-Goss already knows what he wants to major in.
Make that, what two fields he wants to major in.
"I want to double major, in psychology and communications. My mom she is currently getting her Ph D. in human services and has her master's in psychology," he said.
His mom has worked for more than two decades in private practice as a therapist and counselor, often for at-risk and troubled youth. Nigel said he may also work with children for a career.
Four weeks into preseason practice, Williams-Goss is already the most vocal Husky on the floor. He claps and encourages teammates four years older than he through drills. Then he goes out and does that drill harder than anyone.
His father was in the Air Force for 10 years as a recreation specialist. In that time met Valerie, a former high-school track and basketball player and bodybuilder. Virgil was stationed at an Air Force base in England. The former junior-college basketball player for a short time at Contra Costa College in Richmond, Calif., described Wednesday how he was released from active duty for a few months each year to play professional, club-level basketball in England. He then went into the mortgage business in Portland, and since 2004 has been a licensed insurance agent in Oregon and now in Nevada.
Nigel's older brother by seven years, Andre, played high-school basketball and is now a staff sergeant in the Air Force.
Nigel credits his upbringing for already knowing what he wants to major in, just weeks into college.
"Just being fortunate to grow up in a two-parent household, with both parents being really successful," he said. "Both of my parents are educated, so learning as much as I could from my parents has really helped me."
Williams-Goss has a goal to carry that 4.0 GPA all the way through to a UW degree.
Even if the NBA drafts him early a couple years down the road, he says he will follow what Thomas did this past year and return to finish his degree.
"You are starting to see the trend among NBA players, even guys who leave early, coming back to get their degrees," he said. "My main goal is to get to the NBA, obviously; that is all of ours. If I am ever blessed enough and get the opportunity to do that, no matter when that is, I will definitely get my degree."
"Like I said, I'm just fortunate. Basketball is going to end at some point, and so that education is really going to help me longer than where basketball takes me."
Wait, hold on … he's how old?
"I really want him to be different than a lot of athletes," his mother said. "I've always taken a different approach with Nigel. He once scored 60 points in a game as an eighth grader. In sixth grade he was scoring 30 points playing against eighth graders. None of that mattered to me. What mattered to me was him making his education a priority."
Williams-Goss' parents still wonder a bit about Harvard.
"I really, as his dad, wanted him to go to Harvard, the reason being it's a special pride for me being a minority that Nigel's academic achievements are above his athletic ones," Virgil Williams-Goss said.
"If he's fortunate, he'll play basketball until he's 30. From 30 to 80, he's got to live. For me, basketball has always been a means for him to get an education. … It's extremely important to him and to us that he gets his college degree."
Virgil's wife agrees that "Harvard was a really hard thing for me to not have him do."
"But," Valerie adds, "the bottom line was Coach Romar watched him grow up."
When the family lived in the Portland area she was friends with Darnell Valentine, a Trail Blazers guard in the 1980s. When Nigel was in middle school Valentine was the Blazers' director of player programs. Valentine hired Valerie Williams-Goss for a short time to be a counselor with the Blazers.
That's how Nigel's mom had access to a suite at the Rose Garden for a Blazers game six years ago. She brought her younger son, who by then was a middle-school and AAU hoops phenom.
Romar was also in the Rose Garden that night, to watch former Husky Brandon Roy play. And it just so happened Romar was in the same suite as Williams-Goss and his mother.
"The news camera was in there, and they were filming Coach Romar," Nigel said. "I just went up to him and introduced myself. I told him I was a local basketball player and that I would like to come up to one of his camps if I could."
Romar's first impression of the chance meeting wasn't grand. After all, can you imagine how many parents come up introducing a teenage son of theirs, especially one who plays basketball to Romar?
"I didn't think much of it," the coach says now.
But over the next year Romar kept hearing about this eighth grader who was lighting up Portland's high-school players. While a 13-year-old at Sunrise Middle School in the Clackamas school district, Williams-Goss was starring with an under-17 AAU team from Oregon.
Soon, he was scoring 40 points per game, shredding teams around Portland, routinely practicing at 5:30 in the morning.
Romar invited Williams-Goss to his Huskies elite summer camp for high schoolers.
"He was the only one going into ninth grade in the camp. And he held his own," Romar said. "But what struck me most was how mature he was, and how comfortable he was interacting with adults.
"He was just so ambitious."
About that same time Findlay Prep, which had just won a mythical national high-school championship led by Avery Bradley from Tacoma's Bellarmine Prep, offered Williams-Goss a scholarship.
He broached the idea to his parents of moving to Nevada to play ball. They agreed only when they got assurances from Findlay Prep that Nigel would be enrolled in honors courses at Henderson International School, a partner private school.
That decision worked out well, eh?
When I talked to Huskies coaches the last year or so about Williams-Goss, as he won nationally televised games, went undefeated until a loss in the national semifinals for a mythical national championship and played in the prestigious Jordan Brand Classic, the one word I kept hearing was: "Winner."
All this isn't to say he's definitely going to be the best freshman player UW has ever had. He admits he needs to work more on left-hand drives into the lane, that he needs a better mid-range jump shot. He's about to learn in game situations the intensity Romar demands on the defensive end.
All this is to say Williams-Goss is as uniquely accomplished and mature a freshman as the Huskies have had.
"I'm a fierce, fierce competitor," he said. "That's all you can do, compete and leave it all on the floor. If you do that, you can live with the outcome or the result."
Oh, he has one more set of tattoos, to the left of the Portland skyline that covers his chest, near the words "Pain is temporary, quitting is forever." He has renderings of five keys. Each has an inscription: "Sacrifice. Love. Dedication. Family. Loyalty."
"Those," Williams-Goss said, "are the words I want to live my life by."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director or Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
Gregg Bell Unleashed can be found on GoHuskies.com each Wednesday.
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The JW Marriot Resort and spa in Scottsdale on Saturday April 12 rolled out the red carpet for Muhammad Ali's charity event "Celebrity Fight Night". This event brings Hollywood glitz and glamour to the desert.
This year Celebrity Fight Night reached a milestone celebrating 20 years of celebrities coming together to help raise money to aid in the research to finding a cure to end Parkinson's disease. Over the past 19 years Celebrity Fight Night has raised $87 million and this past weekend $8 million more has been raised for Muhammad Ali and the Barrow Neurological Institute.
Performances included The Band Perry, Michael Buble and Kenny Rogers who was one of the first musical performers to entertain at this event in 1994. Special award recognition was given to actor Robert DeNiro and philanthropist John Paul DeJoria.
Reba McEntire returned for her ninth year as emcee and songwriter and music producer David Foster returned for his 15th consecutive year as the evening's Musical Director.
Celebrity Fight Night is recognized as one of the world's most elite charity events. The black tie event features, a silent auction, a gourmet dinner, a live auction and one-of-a-kind luxury items like dinner for four in New York city with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal.
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In 1997 the authors' son, Jason, urged his parents to visit him in Sydney.This photographic record and commentary is the story of those five weeks spent exploring three contrasting Australian States - from the Big City to the tropical rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef to Ayers Rock/Uluru and along the desert highway to Darwin. Advised by an experienced tourist against taking the bus when they could drive a camper van to Darwin they chose the latter and never regretted it. One point of interest is that every one of the 226 pictures has been scanned either from thirteen-year-old slides or colour negative film - a long and laborious process but the result is something of a historic family document. Most of the slides and film was pristine and unopened and very little photo-editing was required.
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WEST POINT -- First day of spring practice. Forecast for Tuesday calls for late-day snow showers and temperature in the upper 30s. No bumps and bruises, at least not yet. And Jeff Monken will be looking to do the impossible.
Over 13 practice days, Army will be spread across three different fields, one indoor practice facility and twice at the academy prep school, and the Black Knights' new head football coach is determined not to miss a moment anywhere. Those new-fangled drones would sure come in handy.
"God gave me two legs and I'm going to use them," he said.
And while he's met every player and watched them during workouts, there's no definitive answers to the many questions every new coach has when he takes over.
"We'll be starting 11 guys on offense and 11 guys on defense tomorrow and the next day it might be a different 11 on each side," Monken said. "We don't have to set the starting 11s until September 6."
That's the day the Black Knights open their season, against Buffalo. Since taking the job Dec. 24 Monken has awaited tomorrow.
"We've eagerly anticipated this day for a couple of months," he said. "Our guys have been working really hard in the offseason. I'm really pleased with their efforts and the strides they've made physically to this point. We're excited and feel like we're prepared to begin practice. We've had a chance to see all these guys on film and see them run around in conditioning workouts, but nothing really to give us an indication of who our players are going to be at each position. We can certainly speculate based on who has played and what we've been able to see on film, but I'm really anxious to see these guys in person and watch them in our schemes, see them compete and get a chance to coach them, and get prepared for our season next fall."
Part of that preparation has included arrival for workouts at 5:30 in the morning. There's not a lot of downtime for a cadet, so you do what you have to do when you can do it.
"I want to see the guys work hard," Monken said. "I'd like to see our team display toughness and play together and try as hard as they can in everything they do. We'll get better if we do those things. We'll have a chance to compete if we do those things. Beyond that, we want to implement our schemes, learn the terminology and build a foundation for the fall. We're going to have a chance to practice a lot more in preseason camp and that should give us enough time to be prepared for our first football game. Fundamentally, blocking, tackling, taking care of the ball, playing well in the kicking game, all of those things are things we need to improve on this spring in order for those schemes to come together. "
Monken played both high school and college football and has coached for 25 years – the last four as head coach at Georgia Southern -- but he said there isn't any first-day-of-practice memory that stands out.
"I think there's an excitement for the first day of practice every year. Everyone looks forward to it," he said. "I think these guys are excited to come, and I'm excited to coach them. Every year it's the hope of what's to come. We're certainly excited and hopeful. I've got a lot of great memories. I don't know if I remember the first day of every season, but I remember the first time walking out on the field for the first time at every place I've been and this is going to be a special memory for me, as well."
One thing that's astounded Monken since taking the job is the global feedback he's received, and he's just as likely to hear from someone by way of Kuwait as Kansas.
"There's a great passion for Army sports and for Army football from here, around the nation and around the globe," he said. "I get letters from all around the world lending support, and I appreciate every bit of it. Every one of those emails, letters and calls means that people care. I know there's a great passion for Army football and I'm excited to coach for West Point. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and getting a chance to see what kind of football team we have."
As Army prepares in the spring and awaits its freshmen recruits in the summer, a most particularly important player's status remains unknown. Ray Maples was just the third running back in Army history to rush for more than 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons. But in last season's third game, against Stanford, Maples suffered a rare tendon avulsion in his right leg, causing him to miss the rest of the season. An avulsion fracture is an injury to the bone in a location where a tendon or ligament attaches to the bone. When an avulsion fracture occurs, the tendon or ligament pulls off a piece of the bone.
He has taken this semester off, and is expected to re-enroll in the fall. But whether or not he will be physically able to play football remains unknown.


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Born: October 8, 1978 in Bridgewater, MA
High School: Bridgewater-Raynham
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Happening Now!
Winter and Spring 2016
There is certainly a lot to do here in Happy Valley in the winter and spring months. There are concerts at the Bryce Jordan Center and Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State sporting events (wrestling, hockey, basketball), wine tasting trail, and even skiing.
Fun Summer Stuff
One of the country's best fireworks displays is here in Happy Valley. Check out 4thfest.org for all of the events. We are giving away patriotic goodie bags to all of our guests.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts brings over 100,000 people to downtown State College and the University Park campus of Penn State each July to celebrate the arts! Come shop at our nationally recognized Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition, and take in performers of international, national, and regional stature on outdoor and indoor stages. You won't want to miss our giant sand sculpture, the Downtown State College Italian Street Painting Festival, or BookFestPA. We have a full day of children's activities, a gallery exhibition, and more!
Bellefonte's annual classic car show is Father's Day Weekend - June 19 - 21, 2015. www.bellefontecruise.org
The Price is Right Live is coming to Central PA in April
The ever-popular game show, The Price is Right is coming to the Bryce Jordan Center on Thursday, April, 16, 2015. You can purchase tickets and also register to become a contestant!
Take your honey to dinner in one of the restaurants voted "Top 10 Dinner Date Spots". One of our personal favorites amongst this group is Kelly's Steak and Seafood in Boalsburg, PA.
Spring Things to Do
Opening day of the fly fishing season is April 12, 2014. Check out Spring Creek, Penns Creek, Bald Eagle Creek, and many more. Central PA is a Fisherman's Paradise!
Blue-White Weekend is April 11 and 12, 2014. Nittany Lion Football under the direction of new our new Coach Franklin is going to be electrifying!
Central PA is home to great shows, music, and dance. Swan Lake, Memphis, comedian Frank Caliendo, Count Basie Orchestra just to name a few. Visit the Center for the Performing Arts website for more information on dates and tickets.
Culinary Classes set for Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2014. What could be more comforting than a bowl of homemade soup? Whether it's a clear broth, creamy purée, chunky gumbo, or rib-sticking chowder, there's a soup to suit every season and nearly every occasion. Plus, soup preparation provides essential culinary lessons, from flavor development to seasoning. In this class, brought to us by Culinary Institute of America graduate Chef Jeremiah, you'll learn the fundamental techniques and characteristics of various soup categories. By the end of the day, you'll realize just how versatile soups can be! We will have our soup, accompanied by homemade bread and a petite salad, for dinner following class.
Cost per person is $30 and we'll throw in the wine! Call 814-353-8407 to reserve your room and your spot in the dining room for the class. Maximum 16 people per class. Regular weekend rates apply. Class begins at 6:00pm.
Bellefonte Historic Railroad is having Fall Foliage train rides this year. Tickets and additional information can be found at Bellefontetrain.org.
The Center for the Performing Arts just announced its schedule. There are many interesting performances planned. Check out http://www.cpa.psu.edu/events.
Exciting concerts at the Bryce Jordan Center this season include OneRepublic, B.B. King, Rod Stewart, Jay-Z, Keith Urban, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Wine Festival - September 29th! This event includes a Taste of Italy Wine and Food Pairing as well as seminars and lots of good wine. Hurry and buy your tickets now at a discounted price...wpsu.org.
Jazz PA - Celebrate great jazz 7/26 and 7/27
Every July, Bellefonte, PA, becomes the home to world-class jazz musicians. There are concerts in the street, workshops, masterclasses, and formal evening events. We are pleased to be a lodging partner with JAZZPA. This year, we are hosting Russ Kassoff, the NY city pianist for the weekend.
Come and stay at the Reynolds Mansion while relaxing to a weekend of wonderful music. Check out the JAZZPA website for a specific calendar of events.
Jazz pianist Russ Kassoff, vocalist Sheila Jordan with Tricia and Mike - July 26, 2013. We had the pleasure of hearing the rehearsal for tonight's concert in our living room. Sheila Jordan, 84 years young, received the nation's highest honor in jazz...Jazz Master's Award!


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Heat is a sportswear clothing company in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV. Advertisements for the company are seen all over San Andreas, Liberty City III and Liberty City IV. It is featured in the in-game website www.peepthatshit.com. Several pedestrians around Liberty City can be seen wearing clothes made by the company. Heat has a theme available to download on www.vipluxuryringtones.com. One of the Heat logos (third logo down) is somewhat similar to the Adidas "three stripe" logo which may be be where the inspiration of the brand came from. In GTA San Andreas, Heat's slogan is "Feel the Burn".
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How to Find Mail Account and Message Sizes
Check Message Size
Individual messages larger than 25 MB, including attachments, will not migrate. Here's how to check the sizes of your messages in Thunderbird:
- Right-click on your @firstname.lastname@example.com folder at the very top of your mailbox list and select "Search Messages."
- Be sure the "Search subfolders" box is checked and that "Run search on server" is not.
- Click the first drop-down (which currently says "Subject") and select "Size (KB)"
- In the second drop-down, select "is greater than"
- In the third field type: 20000
- Click the "Search" button
- When a list of results comes up, you can see the sizes by clicking the little drop down icon at the end of the row of list headings and selecting "Size"
- A column of sizes will appear. You may have to adjust the column widths to see it. Double-click on a message to open it.
- If you would like to create new folders for these attachments, do that before continuing.
- You can select more than one attachment to the same message by holding down your shift key while you select them. Right-click on the selected attachment(s) and select "Detach."
- After the file(s) have been copied, you will receive a warning message that they will be permanently deleted. Select "OK." It may not look like the attachments have been deleted, but after you close out your search and restart Thunderbird, they will be gone.
Check the Combined Size of Your Mail Accounts
The combined mail in your CalMail EECS and CalMail berkeley.edu accounts must not exceed 25 GB. You can check the size of your mail in each account by going to the CalMail web interface.
- Click "Manage Your Account" in the left-side jade green column
- Select your @berkeley.edu email address on the right-side pane
- Note the number next to "Used" in the right-side pane.
- Click the back arrow of your browser to go back to the previous page
- Select your @eecs email address from the right-side pane
- Once again, note the number next to "Used"
- Add the two numbers together for your total. If that number is near or over 25 GiB, contact your tech support person.
Transferring Personal Contact Groups, Signatures and Filters
Personal Contact Groups
Personal Contact Groups can be exported and imported from Thunderbird to bMail.
In Thunderbird:
- Open your "Tools" menu and select "Address Book"
- Select a Personal Address Book on the left then pull down the "Tools" menu and select "Export"
- Change the "Save as type:" to "Comma Separated (*csv)," give it an intuitive name and save it somewhere easy to find
In bMail:
- Select "Contacts" in the black bar at the top
- Click "New Group" towards the bottom of the left-side column and name it
- Select "Import Contacts..." on the bottom of the list on the left
- Click the "Choose File" button and navigate to your file. Select it and click "Open"
- Click "Import"
- You should see a new contact list on the left called "Imported[date#contacts]." Select it
- Check the boxes next to the names and click the icon that looks like 3 people (Groups)
- Click your new group name
- Click the "Groups" icon again, be sure that the new group has been checked, and uncheck "Imported[...]"
You will need to make a copy of your existing Thunderbird signature and recreate it in bMail.
Find your signature in Thunderbird:
- Pull down your "Tools" menu and select "Account Settings"
- With the account name selected in the left-side pane, you can find information about your signature in the right-side pane. If it lives in a file, you can find the path to the file there.
- Create a signature in bMail
You will need to print out your filters and recreate them in bMail by hand.
Print out filters
- If they are on Thunderbird take a screenshot.
If they are on CalMail
- Go to the CalMail website, choose "Manage Your Account" on the left, select the account in the right-side pane.
- Select "Filters" on the left, and print out that page.
- Create filters in bMail
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In keeping with the spirit of PaaS, Tenants should not be concerning themselves with high availability of the platform itself. Contrast this to traditional application development where time may be devoted to the understanding of the container's HA facilities and how they may be incorporated into an application's final design. While this is less of a concern for web applications, HA concerns typically come to play when considering how to manage user session and state data in a cluster.
Running an application in a PaaS solution should mean that the developers are freed from such concerns and can devote their energy on building the business functions of the application. The PaaS instance should handle HA simply as another "service" of the platform. Applications should have a convenient location to store session information (e.g. traditional HTTP session API) and not be concerned with the reliability or efficiency of the implementation.
In some respects, the implementation of a highly available PaaS platform is no different than a custom crafted application environment. Many of the same tried and true techniques for redundancy, replication and fault tolerance are of course the same. The difference between PaaS high availability and traditional solutions comes down to contract management.
Establishing good SLA definitions between Tenant and the PaaS provider is crucial. For instance one Tenant may require that their application may only endure seconds of downtime per year whereas another Tenant may be comfortable with monthly downtime for maintenance. Failure recovery is another key aspect of negotiation between the Tenant and PaaS provider- how long will a Tenant need to wait before their application is available were disaster to strike in the data center? This answer may be impacted by organizational as well as regulatory needs.
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Born: November 4, 1933 in Catarina, TX
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College: Texas (school history)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2nd round (22nd overall) of the 1955 NFL Draft.
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The Sarasota city council approved $850,000. in funding for the city's police department to replace its antiquated computer software system in the police communications center. With the purchase of a modern computer system, long-overdue enhancements will be realized.
The city council allocated the purchase amount from its "equipment fund".
The current archaic computer system has been in operation since its purchase in the 1980s and is clearly outmoded and insufficient to meet the needs of the Sarasota Police Department's mission and the citizenry it serves.
With the purchase of a New World system, police supervisors will have more acute and readily-available access to geo-data. This GPS-based feature facilitates knowledge for supervisors to better coordinate resource allocations and officer deployments.
Public safety 9-1-1 operators --police dispatchers-- will be accorded computer equipment with faster speeds to input calls, dispatch appropriate resources, and respond more effectively to citizens and city staff alike. Additionally, the newer system will allow 9-1-1 operators to interface with neighboring agencies in the event a mutual-aid request materializes. Agencies can better rely on each other via seamless inter-communications.
Further, the street addresses within the Sarasota police jurisdiction will be built-in to indicate special circumstances at certain residences and businesses, such as if a person suffering mental illness resides or works at a particular dwelling. Foreknowledge by Sarasota police officers as they respond to calls for service enables preparation beyond the ordinary means.
Similar to the aforementioned, the new computer system will also have addresses with articulations pertinent to "universal precautions", such as a citizen suffering a debilitating illness which may have implications of contagion. Both police and fire personnel can be alerted in advance of response so as to prepare accordingly, respectfully.
A significant improvement the new computer system will offer is the capability to interact with other law enforcement agencies in the form of data-sharing. Old and outmoded standards were based in sensitive and/or valuable information closely guarded within the drawers (databases) of a particular agency. The lack of sharing such data only served as a hindrance to other agencies to function within the realm of a "team effort".
Via data-sharing methodologies and capabilities, one agency availing its base of information (criminal and/or logistical intelligence) to other like-oriented agencies serves the entire community's far better than unshared, crucial information.
With the advent of myriad applications provided by a modern-age computer software system in Sarasota's police communications center, the citizens benefit demonstrably by their police force being equipped to facilitate needs and accomplish objectives with a more technologically-sound computer system.
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Invitation to Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum and Hands-on Bootcamps 2014
By User12875760-Oracle on Jan 14, 2014
18-19th February and 20th-21st February in Hilton Malta
Dear SOA Community Members,
The Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum and Hands-on Bootcamps 2014 will be held in the Hilton Malta on February 18th and 19th 2014 with hands-on training on February 20th & 21st 2014.
Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum:
Don't miss this opportunity and register now for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum. Like last year we expect that the conference will be fully booked out – so register now!
The event is a great opportunity to learn about:
- SOA Suite 12c & Cloud integration
- BPM Suite 12c & Adaptive Case Management 12c
- Internet of Things & mobile strategy & fast data
- WebLogic 12c the foundation of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Hands-on Bootcamps:
In addition to the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on February 20th and 21st (for those attending the workshops, it is also required to attend the Community Forum on the 18th & 19th February). You can only participate in one workshop which runs for two days.


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Franz to Step Down as APS Executive Officer; Search Committee Seeks Her Successor
According to the APS constitution, the Executive Officer serves as the principal administrator of the Society, and has primary responsibility for the Society's meetings. During Franz's tenure, among many other accomplishments, APS membership and meeting attendance have grown, programs in education and informing the public have been established, and the APS presence in Washington has been greatly enhanced.
Under Franz's leadership APS celebrated its centennial in 1999, and the World Year of Physics in 2005. In addition, as one of the 3 operating officers, she has worked with the Treasurer, who oversees the Society's finances and acts as publisher, and with the Editor-in-Chief, who runs the Society's journals, to manage the day-to-day operation of the Society.
APS President Arthur Bienenstock has appointed a search committee to evaluate nominations and applications for Franz's replacement. Kate Kirby of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will serve as Chair. Joining her on the committee will be Curt Callan of Princeton, Jerry Friedman of MIT, Allen Goldman of the University of Minnesota, Anthony Johnson of the University of Maryland (Baltimore County), George Trilling of Berkeley, and Stefan Zollner of Freescale Semiconductor. Friedman and Trilling are past APS Presidents; Callan is the current APS vice-President.
The search committee begins its work in August, with the goal of forwarding a list of candidates to the APS Executive Board in early 2009. According to Kirby, the committee encourages suggestions from both the membership as well as the staff of APS as to highly qualified individuals whom they should consider for this position.
Email Suggestions to Kate Kirby
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Staff Writer: Ernie Tretkoff
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OperaWorks presents "ARIAS IN MOTION"
OperaWorks presents "ARIAS IN MOTION"
Each year OperaWorks creates "Arias in Motion", a Dance/Opera. This original performance piece allows both performers and audience to connect to these classical works through bodies in motion, dramatic text, and the human voice. If you are an old hand at opera then you will appreciate the way old favorites are transformed by a new context. If you are new to the scene, this is a great introduction to a genre that's often hard to understand for the uninitiated.
Maurice Godin - stage director
Eric Sedgwick - music director
Dr. Paula Thomson - choreographer
Ann Baltz - artistic director
Ashley Alden • Tara Austin • Joannah Ball • Kelsey Bergey • Bethany Brautigam • Ellen Broen • Elana Cowen • Carolyne DalMonte • Sean Dennehy • AmberRose Dische • Ariel Downs • Tasha Fain • Darron Flagg • Amalia Francalangia • Sarah Geocaris • Samantha Geraci-Yee • Shannon Grace • Victoria Graves • Beth Hoselton • Amber Johnson • Shafica Kaleel • Alexandra Kassouf • Amy Laviolette • Kanae Matsumoto • Allison McAuley • Lauren Nieuwland • Elise Roth • Renee Smith • Clinton Stoffberg • Terence Stone • Megan Supina • Allison Tyler • James Walters
Two performances only: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Event Price$20 general/$15 senior, student, military
VenueCalifornia State University, Northridge
Sierra Hall, Fourth Floor, Whitsett Room
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This is brand is alright. It made a little difference in my mood, but not significant enough to buy again. I felt very sleepy 2 hours after I took it, and I felt I was watching my life pass by through a foggy window. I'll keep trying other brands of HTP to find the one that works best for me.
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I really wanted to give 5 HTP a try however, I couldn't get past the terrible nausea and dizziness it caused. I tried changing the dosage and experimented with taking a capsule at night and or taking with or without food but the nausea never passed. I did some investigation and apparently many people report queasiness when they first start taking 5 HTP. I can usually get past an adjustment period with most medications but the side effects were interfering with my day-to-day life.
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I do not sleep well, and I need good quality, restorative sleep for my health. I sleep really well now just taking one capsule when I go to bed. A couple of nights I have not slept well and realized the next morning that I forgot to take my 5-HTTP. They have not caused any problems with any medication I am taking which I had some concerns about when I started. Great product, great price, great sleep :-)


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InfoEd Training: Building Proposal Budget using InfoEd Proposal Development
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Kelly Slater, eleven-time world champion, proved that he is still the surfer to beat as he took the Volcom Pipe Pro in triple-overhead conditions. This was Slater's 66th Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) tour win, and his eighth ASP victory at Banzai Pipeline. Slater celebrates his 42nd birthday next Tuesday. The $130,000 prize purse is an agreeable gift to inspire success in his 24th year on the ASP World Tour.
Slater's hands-free, late drops and torqueing bottom turns into the barrel show that even as surfers approach their forties, they can continue to gain momentum and excel within the sport. He is constantly pushing the envelope, taking his peers to school. Pipe was crucial to his development as a surfer. Slater offers a nostalgic anecdote on his relationship with Pipeline:
I remember coming here when I was 12 years old. I met Joey Buran on the trail the morning after he won the Pipe Masters in 1984. I think back on that time... I came down here to watch and the first wave I saw just barreled and spat, and I felt like this big door... this whole other world just opened up to me on that day. I fell in love with Pipeline that moment, and it's been my favorite wave ever since. And the challenge never ends. There were definitely waves out there today that I wish I had gotten and I couldn't figure out how to do it."
Meanwhile, young guns are forging their own unique relationship with Pipe, much like Slater did when meeting Joey Buran and Pipeline. The veteran Floridian faced off young guns in the finals. Wiggolly Dantas (24) and Adriano De Souza (26) of Brazil had exceptional performances. Mason Ho (25) answered back to Slater's beautiful Backdoor ride with one of his own, solidifying the notion that locals have Pipeline coursing through their veins. This was a memorable moment as one generation mirrored "the call" within another.
Maui's Olamana Eleogram was posting high heat scores in the Round of 32 grouping. Suddenly, an unfortunate incident occurred in which the wave snapped, and his surfboard came crashing down, resulting in a broken leg. This served as a looming reminder of the unrelenting swell. Pipe is not for the faint of heart, let alone when it is triple-overhead. Brent Dorrington substantiated that Aussies are still some of the gnarliest guys in the water. Playing poker with some of the other wipe out victims, he was all-in on every wave. Sometimes that meant a ghastly wipe out, like a bug fixed to a windshield. Other falls looked more like cliff jumper plunging feet first, suspended in midair (Conner Coffin's preferred bailing method). Other times, that meant an incredible ride to witness. In each circumstance, Dorrington was most entertaining.
Fellow Australian, Mitchel Coleborn remarked, "As much experience as you can gain out here is key for sure. […] I had Kelly Slater [in the semis] and kind of fell into his spell a little bit I think. Just a couple of little mistakes and a couple waves I didn't quite come out of the barrel, and that's it." Slater may not be willing to pass on the torch anytime soon, but he is giving the younger generation something of a slight nod. He is simply asking them to keep up as he sets the pace.