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Simple Utility to Keep iCloud and Outlook in Sync
Working with a client this week I came across the challenge of being able to sync 100s of contacts and months of calendar dates that were located on Apple's iCloud with the contacts and the calendar located in Outlook. The client uses both and iPhone and iPad to create emails, store contact information, and manage his calendars, but has a need when in the office to also access that information from Outlook (2007 in his case). iCloud has an add-in for Outlook that lets you see your calendar and contacts, however because Apple and Microsoft use 2 different file types for their contacts and calendars, so you can't set iCloud to be the default for either calendar or contacts in Outlook for Windows (Outlook for Mac does let you do it). What happens is that if you want to add/edit a calendar or contact while in Outlook, you basically have to do it 2 times.
This is where iCloud Sync from CodeTwo comes in. What iCloud Sync does (in a very simple way) is allow you to autosync the files between the 2 formats automatically. The install of iCloud is simple, the configuration of the sync is designed so even someone with no tech knowledge can do it, and for a one time cost of $20 the price is very reasonable (the program does have a 30 day full trial for FREE to make sure it will work for you).
The following information comes from the iCloud website (http://www NULL.codetwo NULL.com/sync-for-icloud/)
How it works
Apple's iCloud feature lets you share your calendars, contacts and tasks across your devices and Outlook. The iCloud add-in for Outlook and Windows, called iCloud Control Panel, adds an additional tree of folders to Outlook, which requires you either to move all your folders to the iCloud tree or to manually copy new or edited items to iCloud whenever you need it.
This is where CodeTwo Sync for iCloud comes in. This easy to use Outlook add-in will let you automatically synchronize your personal or public folders in Outlook with iCloud folders.
CodeTwo Sync for iCloud installs as an Outlook add-in and can be accessed from the ribbon. Simply click on its icon to select Outlook folders you want to sync with iCloud folders.
Alternatively, you can also right-click on a desired folder in Outlook and select Sync with iCloud from the context menu. It will let you choose folders for synchronization and select one of the sync types.
Once your pairs of folders are in sync, you can finally view and edit them on any of your Apple® devices and sync them back to your Outlook wirelessly no matter where you are.
Key features
Sync Outlook folders with iCloud folders – this Microsoft Outlook add-in will let you automatically synchronize your Outlook contacts, calendars and tasks with your iCloud data file in Outlook, which will then sync those folders with iCloud and across your iPhone, iPad and other Apple® devices.
No need to save or move items to iCloud tree in Outlook anymore – once you install iCloud Control Panel for Windows, a new tree of folders is added to Outlook, but your existing Outlook folders are somewhere else. CodeTwo Sync for iCloud will let you keep these folders in sync, so you can finally forget about jumping between the folders and manually copying items to iCloud and back.
One-way and two-way sync – pick up one of the three sync methods for each of your folders. Sync from Outlook to iCloud, from iCloud to Outlook, or in both directions.
Syncing iCloud with Public Folders supported – the program will also let you sync CodeTwo Public Folders with iCloud folders, which means that you can now share Outlook with other PCs and with your iPhone and iPad as well.
Automatically sync up your folders in real-time – Outlook folders are synced automatically and immediately in the background. Note! iCloud synchronization with your handhelds depends on iCloud performance and your internet connection speed.
Easy to install and use – the add-in is seamless. Just install it on your PC and follow the wizard. You'll see how easy and quick it is.
Installation and configuration
Here's what you have to do to sync Outlook calendars, tasks, and contacts with iCloud and your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- Make sure you have iCloud Control Panel for Windows (http://support NULL.apple NULL.com/kb/DL1455) installed on your PC equipped with Outlook.
- Make sure your Apple® devices are configured to work with iCloud. Learn more… (http://www NULL.apple NULL.com/icloud/setup/)
- Download and install CodeTwo Sync for iCloud on your PC equipped with Outlook.
- Take a look at the Quick Tour that pops up right after the installation.
- Launch Outlook and start syncing your folders with iCloud!
To download iCloud Sync – click here to visit the CodeTwo website (http://www NULL.codetwo NULL.com/sync-for-icloud/)
*Disclaimer – Tech Geek and More has NO affiliation with CodeTwo or the iCloud software. We share this information as we have found the program to be useful to us.


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Canonical kills Ubuntu pocket PC for Android
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CANONICAL HAS ADMITTED that it has ceased development of its Ubuntu for Android (U4A), the Linux pocket PC.
The ambitious project meant putting the entire Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system into a bootable partition on a mobile phone flash drive, which could then be run along with the tethered Android phone by splitting the workload between the processor cores.
The idea would allow users who wanted to retain Android for their phone to become Ubuntu desktop users.
News came after a bug report was posted and hastily removed from the U4A project website, that, according to the OMG Ubuntu news website read, "[The website] describes Ubuntu for Android (U4A) as 'the must-have feature for late-2012 high-end Android phones. Ubuntu for Android is no longer in development, so this page should be retired, along with [the features section]."
However, Canonical issued a statement to Android Authority that confirmed the news, saying, "We still believe that U4A is a great product concept and that consumers would welcome the feature. The development within Ubuntu for U4A is complete. To take the development further requires a launch partner in order to make the necessary modifications on the Android side."
Ubuntu for phones, which is moving towards full convergence with the rest of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, has taken focus for the company, with Canonical having recently announced launch hardware partners.
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|Can My Social Security Check Be Garnished to Collect on a Student Loan Debt?
Last updated: March 2006
The following question was submitted to John Roska, an attorney/writer whose weekly newspaper column, "Q&A: The Law," runs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois Edition) and the Champaign News Gazette.
Can the government garnish my social security check because I owe money on a student loan?
Social Security benefits can be garnished to repay Federal debts, but never below $750 per month. A garnishment can take 15%, or the amount over $750, whichever is less.
You're right that Social Security benefits are generally protected against garnishments. Social Security, along with just about every other government benefit, is "exempt" from collection. That means nobody can get at it to pay a debt.
Nobody, that is, except Uncle Sam himself, by his G-men at the U.S. Treasury. Since 1996, the Debt Collection Improvement Act has authorized the Treasury Department to collect money owed to the Federal government by garnishing Federal benefits and pay. Within the past few months, garnishments of Social Security benefits have actually begun.
Only "non-tax" Federal debts can be collected this way. Such debts can result from (among other things) unpaid student loans, defaulted HUD, FmHA, or FHA mortgages, and overpaid Federal benefits, including Food Stamps.
You should get lots of advance notice before any garnishment occurs. The agency you owe the money to is supposed to notify you 180 days before your garnishment begins. The agency's notice should tell you how you can dispute the debt, or have it verified.
In addition, Treasury says it will tell you two more times before any money is withheld. Then you should get another notice each time your Social Security check is actually garnished, telling you what agency is being repaid, and how much left there is to repay.
The most that can be garnished from Social Security benefits is 15%, and your benefits should never be garnished below $750 per month. If, for example, your monthly benefit is $800, 15% won't be taken—just enough to reduce your check down to the $750 floor.
Also, only your net monthly benefit gets garnished, after deductions for things like Medicare.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will never be garnished. (Except to repay SSI overpayments, which can be recovered by a 10% reduction of benefits.)
If you owe the money, about the only thing you can do to stop a garnishment is to pay what you owe, or make a payment arrangement.
When Federal agencies garnish your pay, it's called an administrative garnishment. That's the only garnishment that can happen without first taking you to court. Regular creditors, unconnected to the Federal government, have to sue and get a court judgment before they can try to garnish your wages.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Patriot League Football Release - Week 10
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Colgate and No. 6/8 Lehigh will meet in a game shown on CBS Sports Network on Nov. 10. If both teams win on Saturday, that nationally-televised matchup will be for the Patriot League title.
The Raiders and Mountain Hawks stand at the top of the Patriot League standings, with Colgate holding a half-game lead after beating Bucknell 47-33 on Saturday. The No. 6/8 Mountain Hawks were idle.
Colgate hosts Lafayette on Saturday at 1 p.m. on RCN-4, RCN-8 and WBPH-60, while Lehigh visits Holy Cross at 12:30 p.m. Victories by both teams would set up a winner-take-all showdown for the Patriot League title the next week.
Lafayette has other designs, as the Leopards are still in the race even after dropping to 2-1 in the Patriot League with a 20-17 home loss against Georgetown on Saturday. The Leopards can win the Patriot League title by beating Colgate on Saturday and winning at home against Lehigh on Nov. 17.
Fordham remains ineligible for the Patriot League title, but the Rams are enjoying a turnaround season that continued with a 36-32 win at Holy Cross on Saturday. Fordham is 5-3 overall after going 1-10 last season. The Rams can record their top win total since their Patriot League title season in 2007 if they can win at Bucknell on Saturday.
Patriot League Twitter Notebook - @PatriotLeagueFB
*Colgate and Lehigh remain unbeaten in the Patriot League.
*If both the Raiders and Mountain Hawks win on Saturday, they would set up a showdown for the Patriot League title next week in Bethlehem.
*Lafayette still controls its own destiny, and would win the League crown and playoff berth with wins over Colgate on Saturday and Lehigh on Nov. 17.
*Lehigh is the last undefeated team in the country after Cal Poly lost Saturday.
*The Mountain Hawks lead the FCS with eight-game overall and 17-game regular-season win streaks.
*Lehigh's 17-game win streak against Patriot League opponents is just two shy of the League record set by Holy Cross from 1988-92.
*Fordham can record its first winning record since 2007 if it defeats Bucknell.
*Colgate has scored 47 points or more in each of its four consecutive wins.
*Five different Patriot Leaguers lead a category in the FCS statistics.
*Colgate's Gavin McCarney leads the nation in scoring, and is also in the top 10 in points responsible for and passing efficiency.
*Georgetown's Robert McCabe has an FCS-best 132 tackles, 30 more than any other player in the nation.
*McCabe is seventh in Patriot League history with 380 tackles, becoming the first player this century to crack the top 10 list.
*Colgate's Jordan McCord and Fordham's Carlton Koonce are in the top 10 in the nation in rushing and top 15 in all-purpose yardage.
*Fordham's Patrick Murray leads the nation with 18 field goals and is second with a 46.4 punt average.
Patriot League Players of the Week (Oct. 27)
Offensive Player of the Week: RYAN HIGGINS, FORDHAM
Sr., QB, Merrick, N.Y.; 38-56, 407 yards, TD/rush TD
Defensive Player of the Week: PATRICK FRIEL, COLGATE
Sr., LB, St. Charles, Ill.; 16 TT, 2 sacks
Special Teams Player of the Week: PATRICK MURRAY, FORDHAM
Sr., P/K, Mahwah, N.J. 3-3 FG, 46.7 punt avg.
Rookie of the Week: JO'EL KIMPELA, GEORGETOWN
Fr. RB, Dem. Rep. of Congo.; 80 rush yds, 5-yd rec. TD
Patriot League Notebook
COLGATE TAKES LEAD HEADING INTO BIDDLE's 100th PATRIOT LEAGUE GAME
Colgate took a slim half-game lead on idle Lehigh for the lead in the Patriot League standings with a 47-33 win at Bucknell on Saturday. The Raiders improved to 3-0 in the Patriot League for the first time since their last undefeated campaign in 2008. It was the 75th career Patriot League victory for 17th-year Head Coach Dick Biddle, who will be at the helm for his 100th Patriot League game on Saturday against Lafayette.
If Colgate beats Lafayette and Lehigh knocks off Holy Cross on Saturday, the Raiders and Mountain Hawks will square off with the Patriot League title at stake when they meet in Bethlehem on Nov. 10, a game that will be shown nationally on CBS Sports Network. Lafayette is still very much in the mix as well, even after a loss to Georgetown on Saturday. If the Leopards can win at Colgate on Saturday and at home against Lehigh on Nov. 17, they would win at least a share of the Patriot League title and the League's automatic playoff berth. Colgate, Lehigh and Lafayette have combined for 22 Patriot League titles, and at least one of the three has claimed an outright or shared title in 17 of the past 20 seasons.
Lehigh was off on Saturday, but there was still news as a loss by Cal Poly left the Mountain Hawks as the lone remaining undefeated squad in the FCS. Lehigh's eight-game overall and 17-game regular-season win streaks top the nation. The Mountain Hawks remained at No. 6 in the FCS Coaches Poll and No. 8 in The Sports Network top 25 on Monday, and held the top spot in the ECAC FCS Lambert Meadowlands Poll for the second week in a row. Lehigh's run of 27 consecutive weeks in the FCS rankings is the seventh-longest streak in the nation.
If Lehigh can complete an undefeated season, it would also end up with the longest-ever win streak against Patriot League opponents. Lehigh's 17-game win streak against Patriot League teams, which dates back to 2009, is the second-longest in League history and only two off the all-time record set by Holy Cross from 1988-92. The Mountain Hawks have beaten Fordham four times and knocked off Lafayette, Bucknell and Georgetown three times during the streak.
Colgate's Gavin McCarney, Georgetown's Robert McCabe and Fordham's Patrick Murray have been stars in the Patriot League all season, and continue to shine among peers in the entire FCS. McCarney now leads the nation in scoring with 11.5 points per game, a remarkable feat as no other quarterback ranks in the top 70 on the charts. He is also third in points responsible for, eighth in passing efficiency and 11th in total offense in the country. McCabe continues to rack up tackles at an amazing pace, as his 132 stops are an astonishing 30 more than any other player in the country. He has 380 career tackles, becoming the first player this century to crack the Patriot League top 10. Murray leads the FCS and has already tied a Fordham single-season record with 18 field goals, and is second in the country with a 46.4 punting averagae. Also, Fordham's Michael Martin is tied for the national lead with four forced fumbles and Georgetown's Jeremy Moore is tied with four fumbles recovered.
COLGATE'S McCORD, FORDHAM's KOONCE RUNNING WILD
The Patriot League continues to showcase two of the top running backs in the country, and both showed why once again on Saturday. Fordham's Carlton Koonce ran for 175 yards and two touchdowns and had 239 all-purpose yards in a 36-32 win at Holy Cross, while Colgate's Jordan McCord totaled 147 yards and two scores in a 47-33 win over Bucknell. McCord, who has at least 100 yards in all eight games this year, is fourth while Koonce is eighth in the country in rushing. Both players are in the top 15 in all-purpose yards, with Koonce 11th and McCord 14th.
Colgate and Fordham each received votes in The Sports Network top 25 on Monday, while the Raiders also came in just outside of the ECAC top 10...It was a shootout in Worcester on Saturday, with Fordham's Ryan Higgins going 38-of-56 for 407 yards with a passing and rushing touchdown in a 36-32 win and Holy Cross' Ryan Laughlin completing 18-of-23 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns and also rushing for a score in the loss...Georgetown's Jo'el Kimpela became the ninth different player to win the Patriot League Rookie of the Week award this season...On the other hand, Fordham's Patrick Murray claimed his fifth Special Teams Player of the Week honor...Georgetown has forced seven turnovers in two of its last thre games, and is second in the country with 25 turnovers gained this season.
This Week in the Patriot League
No. 6/8 Lehigh Mountain Hawks (8-0, 2-0) at Holy Cross Crusaders (1-7, 1-2)
Fitton Field; Worcester, Mass.; Saturday, 12:30 p.m.
*Lehigh looks to continue its undefeated season when it visits Holy Cross on Saturday.
*Lehigh is the last undefeated team in the FCS and has eight-game overall and 17-game regular-season win streaks.
*Lehigh has also won 17 straight against Patriot League opponents, the second-longest streak in League history.
*The Mountain Hawks have won the last two meetings, with a 14-7 victory at home in a key November game last season.
*Lehigh also posted a 34-17 win the last time the teams met in Worcester in 2010. *Holy Cross won the previous three meetings from 2007-09.
*Lehigh aims to start 3-0 in the Patriot League for the third year in a row.
*Lehigh leads the all-time series 14-12-1, with a 14-12 edge in Patriot League games.
Lafayette Leopards (5-3, 2-1) at Colgate Raiders (5-3, 3-0)
Andy Kerr Stadium; Hamilton, N.Y.; Saturday, 1 p.m. (LSN - RCN-4, RCN-8, WBPH-60)
*Two teams with Patriot League title designs meet in Hamilton when Lafayette visits Colgate on Saturday.
*Both teams control their own destiny for the League's automatic bid if they win Saturday and also defeat Lehigh.
*Lafayette posted a 37-24 overtime win at home against the Raiders last season.
*Colgate won the last matchup in Hamilton by a 24-14 final in 2010.
*The Raiders are 13-3 against the Leopards under Head Coach Dick Biddle, who is coaching his 100th Patriot League game.
*Colgate is trying to go 4-0 in the Patriot League for the first time since its last undefeated season in 2008.
*Lafayette aims for a 3-1 start that would be its best since 2009.
*Colgate is 39-12-4 all-time against the Leopards, and 16-9-1 in Patriot League games.
Fordham Rams (5-3) at Bucknell Bison (1-7, 0-4)
Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium; Lewisburg, Pa.; Saturday, 1 p.m.
*Fordham shoots for its first winning record since 2007 when it visits Bucknell on Saturday.
*The game will not count towards the Patriot League standings with the Rams ineligible for the League title.
*Bucknell posted a 21-0 win at Fordham last season to stop a two-game win streak in the series for the Rams.
*Fordham won the last meeting in Lewisburg by a 33-21 final in 2010.
*Fordham is 4-1 in games decided by seven points or less, while Bucknell is 1-3 in those contests.
*Bucknell has a 17-10 lead in the all-time series, with a 15-7 edge in Patriot League games.
Team Notebooks
Bucknell The Bison had one of their best offensive games in years, but could not stop Colgate's high-powered attack and fell 47-33 to the Raiders on Saturday...Bucknell lost its seventh straight game, falling to 1-7 overall and 0-4 in the Patriot League for the year... Despite the loss, it was a huge day for the Bucknell offense...The Bison ran for 268 yards, and outgained Colgate 531-447 in the game...It was Bucknell's highest yardage output since 2008...Jeremiah Young carried 18 times for a career-high 131 yards and a score, while Brandon Wesley completed 22-of-38 passes for 208 yards and a touchdown and ran for 87 yards and a score...He became the school's all-time leader with 425 career completions...Josh Brake caught six passes for 87 yards and a score, while Lee Marvel led the defense with 10 tackles...The Bison are back home on Saturday against Fordham, and complete their League slate at Georgetown on Nov. 10.
Colgate Colgate won its fourth consecutive game with another offensive outburst as the Raiders ran past Bucknell 47-33 on Saturday at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium...Colgate starts 3-0 in the Patriot League for the first time since winning the League title in 2008, and defeats Bucknell for the sixth consecutive year...The Raiders have scored at least 47 points in each of the four consecutive wins, and for the third straight game both quarterback Gavin McCarney and running back Jordan McCord went over 100 yards on the ground...McCarney ran 18 times for 121 yards and three first-half touchdowns and completed 10-of-18 passes for 163 yards and a score, while McCord had his eighth-straight 100-yard effort to start the season by carrying 31 times for 147 yards and two touchdowns...McCarney took over the national lead in scoring with 11.5 points per game, while no other quarterback ranks in the top 70...He is also third in the nation in points responsible for, eighth in passing efficiency and 11th in total offense...McCord is fourth in the nation with 145.63 rushing yards per game, while standing 14th in all-purpose yardage...Colgate is in the top seven in the country in rushing, total and scoring offense, as well as passing efficiency...McCarney's three scores had Colgate up 21-12 at halftime, while Daniel Cason had a rushing touchdown for a 28-12 lead early in the third quarter...After a Bucknell score, a 13-yard scoring run by McCord and McCarney's 12-yard touchdown pass to CJ Stempeck made it 41-19 with 3:39 left in the third quarter and Colgate led comfortably the rest of the way... Colgate went for 284 yards and six touchdowns on the ground against a Bucknell team that was allowing under 80 rushing yards per game...Patrick Friel led the defense with 16 tackles and a pair of sacks...The Raiders can win the Patriot League title with wins over Lafayette on Saturday and at Lehigh on Nov. 10.
Fordham Carlton Koonce scored a one-yard touchdown with 11 seconds to play to send Fordham to a 36-32 win at Holy Cross on Saturday at Fitton Field...Fordham defeated Holy Cross for the first time since 2007, snapping a four-game losing streak to the Crusaders..Koonce carried 34 times for 175 yards and two touchdowns in the game, while Ryan Higgins completed 38-of-56 passes for 407 yards and a score and also ran for a touchdown as Fordham held a 569-488 edge in total offense...It looked like the Rams would blow the game open early, as a 24-yard touchdown pass from Higgins to Brian Wetzel and Koonce's nine-yard touchdown run made it 17-3 early in the second quarter....Patrick Murray added two field goals later in the period as Fordham took a 23-10 lead into the half...Holy Cross scored in the third period and again in the fourth to take a 24-23 lead...That set up a frantic final minutes, beginning with Higgins' one-yard touchdown that gave Fordham a 29-24 lead with 4:50 left...Holy Cross came back with 3:22 to go to take a 32-29 lead, but Fordham drove 78 yards in 15 plays to set up Koonce's game-winning score in the final seconds...Higgins completed 10-of-12 passes for 61 yards on the drive...Koonce had a great all-around game that also included seven receptions for 64 yards as he racked up 239 all-purpose yards...He stands eighth in the FCS in rushing and 11th in all-purpose yardage after the performance...Wetzel had nine receptions for 130 yards and the score and totaled 221 all-purpose yards in the game, cracking the FCS top 20 in the category...Dan Light added nine receptions for 66 yards from the tight end position as five Rams caught five passes or more from Higgins...The quarterback has completed 126-of-177 passes (71.2%) for 1,347 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions in the past three games....Murray had another brilliant game, making all three of his field-goal attempts and punting six times for a 46.7 average...He leads the FCS with 18 field goals, tying a single-season school record, and is second in the nation with a 46.4 punting average...Jake Rodriques led the Fordham defense with 11 tackles and an interception, while Ian Williams added nine tackles and a pick...Fordham improved to 4-1 this season in games decided by a touchdown or less...The Rams play their final two games at home, with Lafayette coming to the Bronx on Nov. 10 and Colgate on Nov. 17.
Georgetown The Hoyas scored the game-winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter and sealed the win with their seventh forced turnover of the game to post a 20-17 victory over Lafayette on Saturday at Fisher Stadium...The Hoyas stop a four-game losing streak, and defeat the Leopards for the third year in a row...The Hoyas were up 6-0 early, but fell behind 10-6 at the half...They took the lead back late in the third quarter when Kyle Nolan's five-yard pass to Jo'el Kimpela made it 13-10, but Lafayette answered with a touchdown early in the fourth quarter...Lafayette had a chance to extend the lead, but Georgetown's Jeremy Moore forced and recovered a fumble at the Hoya 39...The Hoyas made the most of the opportunity, driving all the way for a two-yard touchdown run by Nick Campanella that made it 20-17 with 5:08 to go...Georgetown's defense came up with a pair of stops to seal the win, forcing a Lafayette punt with 3:06 left and then clinching the victory when Chris Gamble intercepted a pass at midfield with 32 seconds to go...The Hoyas recovered four fumbles and had three interceptions to keep the Lafayette offense at bay...They are second in the nation in turnovers gained (25) and fumbles recovered (14)...It was the second time in three games that the Hoyas forced seven turnovers, also doing so against Lehigh on Oct. 13...Robert McCabe had 16 tackles to increase his FCS-leading total to 132, and became the first player this century to crack the Patriot League career top 10 with 380 tackles...He has an astonishing 30 more tackles than any other player in the country...Kimpela ran for 80 yards while Campanella had 78 on the ground for the Hoyas...Nolan completed 15-of-32 passes for 193 yards and the score, while Kevin Macari had seven receptions for 114 yards...Georgetown has its bye Saturday, then plays its last two games at home beginning with Bucknell on Nov. 10.
Holy Cross The Crusaders fought back all day, but Fordham scored the game-winning touchdown with 11 seconds left to send Holy Cross to a 36-32 defeat on Saturday at Fitton Field...It was the first loss for the Crusaders against Fordham since 2007, snapping a four-game win streak...Holy Cross got a 30-yard touchdown pass from Ryan Laughlin to Gerald Mistretta in the first half, but was down 23-10 at the half...The Crusaders came back as Laughlin threw touchdown passes of 24 and nine yards to Mike Fess for a 24-23 lead...Fordham went ahead 29-24 with 4:50 to go, but Holy Cross re-gained the lead on Laughlin's 27-yard touchdown run with 3:22 left...Fordham came down the field and got the winning score to send Holy Cross to its third straight loss... Laughlin completed 18-of-28 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 36 yards and the score...He set career highs across the board...Fess had a big day with eight catches for 139 yards and two touchdowns, while Mistretta had five catches for 59 yards and the score...Holy Cross fell to 1-3 in games decided by a touchdown or less...It completes its home schedule on Saturday against No. 6/8 Lehigh.
Lafayette Seven turnovers proved costly as Lafayette suffered its first Patriot League loss of the year, 20-17 at home against Georgetown on Saturday...Despite the defeat, the Leopards still control their own destiny for the League title and automatic playoff berth if they can defeat Colgate on Saturday and Lehigh on Nov. 17...Lafayette led 10-6 at halftime with Andrew Shoop's six-yard touchdown pass to Mark Ross, and took a 17-13 lead in the fourth quarter when Shoop tossed a 36-yard touchdown to Greg Kessel with 11:50 left...A turnover in Georgetown territory led to the Hoyas taking a 20-17 lead, and Shoop was picked off at midfield on the final possession as the Leopards fell... Shoop completed 17-of-34 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a team-high 84 yards, but was hurt by three interceptions...Rick Lyster had 10 tackles and a sack and Darius Safford totaled eight tackles and a pair of sacks...The Leopards are on the road the next two weeks before the home fiinale with Lehigh.
Lehigh Lehigh had its bye on Saturday, but there was still news as a loss by Cal Poly made the Mountain Hawks the last undefeated team in the FCS...Lehigh leads the FCS in both overall (8) and regular-season (17) win streaks, and also has a 17-game win streak against Patriot League opponents that is just two off the League record...The Mountain Hawks defeated Bucknell 42-19 in their most
recent action on Oct. 20...Lehigh saw the Bison rally from a 21-6 deficit to get within two points, but scored the final three touchdowns of the game to pull away...Quarterback Michael Colvin stands in the top 15 nationally in both passing yardage and total offense per game...The Mountain Hawks stand fifth in the FCS in both sacks and sacks allowed per game...Lehigh has three Patriot League games remaining, with trips to Holy Cross on Nov. 3 and Lafayette on Nov. 17 and a home matchup with Colgate on Nov. 10 on CBS Sports Network.


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Free Live Music. Those 3 words are what every music fan wants to hear. So what if you could go to a free show with live bands at the Anaheim House of Blues? If you live in So-Cal you know that once a month Gig Boss Presents brings Free Music to the Masses. This months show included Radio Drone (formerly Beach City Cowboys), Divide the Day, Red9, AlevelA, Degrees of Freedom, and Madlife. Yes, all those bands for free. If you missed it then, you better have an awesome excuse and here is why you should have been there.
Radio Drone is "part schizoid Five Finger Death Punch on the heavy edge, part Foo Fighters rock with the commercial aspects and part hard grooves or Nu-Metal". If you are not that technical let me put it to you this way. If you stand in front of the turbine of a jet as they rev the engine, you would have the same feeling as you do at a Radio Drone show. It will, literally, blow you away. The crowd of a couple hundred people poured in to see the first set of the night. The floor was full, and fans crowed together to hear old favorites from the band as well as a few new songs. The energy both on and off the stage was off the charts. The flashing mask and the "light show" from the band combined with the music made this set an experience.
Divide the Day - "hard rock with just the right Sunset strip attitude and Swagger" - that is is the words of the band. As a fan, I see a band that drips the Rock-n-Rol spirit of shaking your ass and throwing your fist in the air. They get the crowd hooked with their rock meets sexy attitude and playing. If you are looking for a party band, they should be on your list. Sunday night was no different, the band took the stage in fine form playing hits that the crowd joined in to sing with. Making the fans part of the set is one of my favorite things a band can do and this is something Divide the Day is at the top of their game.
Red9 - This threesome does one of the best NIN covers I have ever heard, but they are not a cover band. No, they are their own brand of music. Fans and critics alike seem to be unable to label just what kind of music they are but I am going to take a stab and call it "must hear". With a blend of Filter, Alice in Chains, Muse and Foo Fighters, this band takes those elements and then add their own pazzaz to it to create the sound that is Red9. Judging by the crowd they had at HOB, they do what they do well. Fans were rocking out to Red9, but as I have said before don't take my word for it, take a listen for yourself. You can score their new album out now "Under Dark Skies". Just hit up iTunes or CD Baby.
AlevelA means to rise above, and this band has. A long past starting back in the 90's, with many different names and members, it took some time and lots of passion, heart and soul to get to where they are today. The band has a sound that mixes stadium Rock, a Def Leopard kind of feel, with their own touch mixed in. Now that you know the past here is the present. House of Blues June 8th - face melting set. I have to say, I have seen this band before and every-time I see them I like them more and more. Looking around at the crowed HOB, I know that I am not the only fan that feels that way. Again, don't just take my word for it, check the band out for yourself. You can thank me later.
Degrees of Freedom was part of this Gig Boss Presents show. If you are a fan of Industrial and Nu Metal, you need to check this band out. They took the stage and ripped the roof off HOB. It was my first time seeing this band and now I can add them to that ever growing list of kickass, must see bands. What makes this band so awesome to hear is that have a little dash of all kinds of music in their songs. That means that there is a little something something for everyone. They took the stage and owned it. They got the crowd moving and on my horns up scale I give the 6 out of 5 horns up! Yes they are that good.
Madlife was already of my favorite bands. Explosive ninjas on Stage that is how I describe this industrial Hard Rock band. In all the times that I have seen them, they have never put on a bad show. Any band that can keep a crowd on the floor on a "school night" is a killer band. No matter if they are touring the country or the local music scene, this band is an in your face, aggressive, explosive set of epic music. One of my favorite songs from them is "To Live and Die in Hollywood". It is one of those songs that every time I hear it, I need to be up front and center to the stage and to the music. If you have never seen Madlife live, please do yourself the favor and get off the couch and to a show asap. Also look for them to be heading out on tour rocking the masses.
Free Live Music....Thank you Gig Boss for feeding the hungry music fans with a buffet of epic bands at your shows. As always, support local music and see you at a show soon.
Written by Melissa Anderson - Photos by ROCKwell UnScene


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Your LA Beauty Products Examiner hit Kathy Duliakas' super swag event yesterday at Hollywood's Taglyan Complex. The booty was amazing from cosmetics and jewelryto hot Bam Un-Zip-Me Bags, dresses and cosmetics.
One of the most noticeable of the beauty products gifters was Los Angeles-based ZENSATION that gave away full-size jars of Hydrating Moisture Cream SPF 15m Leyeser Cream SPF 15 and the fabulous Skin Rejuvenating & Moisturizing Kit.
I can't wait to test the luscious creams and the kit which is a US FDA 510K Cleared edical Device to DIY in home that's supposed to improve skin smoothness, firmness and elasticity after four weeks, Yazza!
I just wanted to give you a heads up so you come back to find out how the products work. Check out the slideshow to see me 'working' the massive room (there was plenty of celebrity eye candy keeping me company).
I will also be heading out to other swag suites this week so you might want to come back to hear more about them or go to my LA Travel Diva Examiner page.
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Java - Spring Chicken or Old Hen ?
By sharps on Jan 09, 2006
James Gosling has been in the thick of the debate over how Java stacks up against some of the emerging server-side software technologies (dynamic scripting languages, LAMP, AJAX). In an interview with zdnet he's pretty frank about the role of Java, Ruby, PHP, LAMP, etc. and the importance of tools for developer productivity.
I particularly like (and agree) with what he says about Java EE (J2EE) :
You take things like J2EE (server software), it's become almost sort of the opposite of trendy, in the sense that it's totally mainstreamed, totally proven mission critical. It's very corporate, it has been really seriously battle tested, and for lots of folks it's become a completely safe bed (sic).
For people running businesses - "battle tested", "corporate", "mission critical" are the kind of adjectives you want to hear. That said Java (and Java EE) is still managing to pique the interests of the next generation of developer with innovative new features in the Java language and the Java EE platform - that's a major achievement - balancing the tension of the mainstream and the early adopter.
I'm fairly sure that Java still has a long way to go before it reaches its prime and it's encouraging to see that Java is still entering new markets and finding entirely new applications (Java sets the standard for future cable systems).


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Learn how to create beautiful and distinct greeting cards in this exciting watercolor workshop. Learning from instructor references and demonstrations, you'll learn how to create original artwork that will be distinct and memorable.
Cost $55.
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If you want to waste a few good minutes on the internet try to track down Japanese baseball stats without using the official English language website of Nippon Professional Baseball. Get the Japanese version of Rosetta Stone, check out some Japanese baseball stats and you could be speaking fluent Japanese by next weekend.
All I wanted to do was check out how ex-Bisons Mike Hessman was doing with the Orix Buffaloes in Japan. We all remember Hessman from his brief, but memorable stint in Buffalo last year. His home runs that regularly cleared the net in left field, ending up in the parking lot on the other side of the on-ramp for the 190 were nerly a nightly occurence.
Hessman was called up by the Mets in July of last season, and never came back, but his place in Buffalo Bisons' lore was sealed.
As a veteran (Hessman was 33 at the start of this season) in the twilight of his career who was sure to not be getting a Major League contract, Hessman decided to head to Japan and cash in before it was too late.
After hearing the news about Hessman heading to Japan, it was easy to envision the 6-foot-5 slugger becoming a legend in Japan. towering over his teammmates and hitting tape measure blasts. But that hasn't been the case unfortunately for Hessman.
Hessman has struggled to find playing time with Orix, appearing in only 30 of the team's 50 games. He has four homeruns and seven RBIs in 88 plate appearances, batting .207.
He's an easy guy to root for, and it would be great to see him end his career back in the states. He is a legend in Toledo, where he hit 140 home runs over five seasons with the MudHens. Hess was honored by the 'Hens last year when the Bisons went through Toledo for a four-game set, and it would be a fitting end to see him have on last hurrah in the International League.
But for now all we can do is navigate Japanese baseball websites and hope Hessman starts to get more at-bats. Picturing him over there evokes images of that "classic" Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball....let's hope his career over there ends up being a lot better than the movie.
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Jackie Robinson: 'Too bad he's the wrong color'
The film "42" is not just a baseball story. It's a compelling history lesson as well. It tells the story of not just baseball, but of a central facet of 20th century American life—the suffocating reach of racism—in the decades before the 1960s.


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What is it?
You are Munin, a raven messenger for Odin. Or at least you were before Loki stole your feathers and transformed you into a mortal girl.
Now, you must travel through 81 levels across 9 worlds of Yggdrasil to collect all of your feathers and regain your true form.
How does it work?
With a tap, you rotate parts of each level to gain access to other areas, and to manipulate the environment in many ways. One world is made up of ice and water, and you'll have to make pools to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Another world has moving platforms which you activate by dropping a power source into the right socket. There's also a world with boulders and lava, and you'll have to move quickly to avoid getting run over.
Sometimes a level seemed impossible until I rotated the areas just so and saw how they fit together perfectly. Some of it is trial and error, since Munim doesn't give you much guidance on exactly how everything works. Not that it's a bad thing, though; I liked figuring it out on my own.
It is possible to die in Munin, and you'll have to restart the level from the beginning; I would prefer if you were brought to where you were just before you died, as it's aggravating to have to redo the entire level over and over again. However, each level only takes a few minutes to complete, so it's not a huge inconvenience.
Controls are simple with a virtual control pad and a button for jumping. However the controls are right on top of areas you tap to rotate, so if your finger slips just a little bit you could end up rotating an area instead of jumping or climbing up a ladder. This wouldn't be a problem except some levels require you to have good timing to move out of danger. It's not impossible with the virtual controls, they just make it a bit more difficult.
Is it contagious?
Munin combines platformer elements with challenging puzzles to make a creative and fun game. While the gameplay doesn't change beyond rotating areas and collecting feathers, the variety of environmental objects you control—water, lava, boulders—removes a lot of the repetitiveness.
If you want a unique and fun puzzle game, Munin is well worth the price. The same goes for the OS X version.
Category: Games
Seller: Daedalic Entertainment
Cost: $2.99
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'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' and '47 Ronin' are slated for release on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, April 1.
- 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.' Will Ferrell returns as the blustery San Diego TV newsman, Ron Burgundy, in the hit comedy sequel to the 2004 original. After surviving the 1970s, Burgundy tries to conquer the '80s by returning with his gang to New York City and working at a 24-hour news channel. Rated R. Watch the official trailer here.
- '47 Ronin.' Keanu Reeves stars in the fantasy action adventure about a band of samurai who vow to avenge the death of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun. Rated PG-13. Watch the official trailer here.


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Here are several recaps from Thursday night's 5-1 loss at No. 15 Wisconsin for the UMass hockey team. The Mass Attack and Badgers will face each other again on Friday night starting at 8 PM Eastern (7 PM CST).
MassLive.com: Wisconsin blitzes Minutemen, 5-1
Daily Hampshire Gazette: Badgers Ice UMass
USCHO.com: Turnbull's Surge Helps Wisconsin Drop UMass
Madison.com: Badgers Start Second Half Right Way
December 2010 Archives
Here are several recaps from Thursday night's 5-1 loss at No. 15 Wisconsin for the UMass hockey team. The Mass Attack and Badgers will face each other again on Friday night starting at 8 PM Eastern (7 PM CST).
Check out the previews of the UMass-BU Basketball game, Friday at 2 p.m.
Normally a shooting guard, the 6-foot Mosgrove has seen time in the post because of injuries to the team's front court, and has responded by leading the Minutewomen in scoring and rebounding in four games while averaging 11.9 points and 5.2 rebounds, and chipping in with 4 blocks and 6 steals.
Read more of the notebook here.
But Kellogg said the nature of the ailment hasn't entirely been determined yet and that Correia's status for Friday's 2 p.m. game against Boston University is still uncertain.
In the fall of 2009, University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Derek Kellogg welcomed five freshmen, all of which are expected to play contributing roles now.
That list does not include his two primary low-post players, his leading scorer, his two pure point guards and a new player, Jesse Morgan, who became eligible last week. The task facing Kellogg is one of sorting out a rotation where the problem is not a shortage of players, but perhaps too many.
"I would like a little separation between guys. Right now, there's not a lot of separation between the fourth guy and the ninth,'' he said Monday.
UMass takes a 7-4 record, but a four-game losing streak, into Friday afternoon's home game against Boston University (5-7). Kellogg had hoped to have his players back on campus Sunday night, but blizzard conditions will delay some until Tuesday at the earliest.
After a 7-0 start, UMass has dropped four straight games. There could be a "here we go again" feeling in Amherst, but the Minutemen are staying optimistic.
"There's obviously disappointment that we're not coming away with victories, but at the same token, there's no sense of quit in the guys," coach Derek Kellogg said. "I think they still feel like we can make something happen this season."
One obvious cause of the slide is stiffer competition. The losses have come against BC, Maine, Seton Hall and No. 24 Central Florida.
UMass is a mostly young team, which has led to some inconsistency. But Kellogg is confident the underclassmen will continue to develop.
"All in all, I like where we are as a team and a program," Kellogg said. "My job is to get a consistent effort every single time out from all the guys."
With the Denver Nuggets, Gary Forbes played 16 minutes off the bench and scored six points in a 114-106 loss at the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Read more on UMass women's basketball's thrilling win on both MassLive.com and in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
The New Hampton School took the championship at this weekend's Mercer Invitational Tournament hosted by the Hill School, defeating the Berkshire School, the host Hill, and then the Landon School in the final. Laguerre took MVP honors, averaging just under 20 points per game on the weekend in 32-minute games played without a shot clock.
The tournament is just the latest in what has been a very strong start to the season for the UMass bound guard. Laguerre made an early commitment to UMass just prior to the beginning of this summer's live period and so his performances have tended to fly a little under the radar, but this is a guy who consistently outplays high-major prospects at virtually every stop and has the tools to be an impact addition in the Atlantic 10.
In recognition of its 35th-year anniversary, the Atlantic 10 Conference is unveiling 35 Years of A-10 History. Major accomplishments and features were collected from each year, and in the conference's No. 4 Highlight, the impact of the 1972 enactment of Title IX and the contributions of women's athletics to the Atlantic 10 is the focus.Featured in the No. 4 Highlight is the incredible success experienced by the UMass softball program over the last 31 years under the guidance of head coach Elaine Sortino.
"Under Sortino's direction, UMass has accumulated 22 Atlantic 10 Conference titles and has never suffered a losing season. Sortino has proven her ability to produce exceptional talent during her 31-years at the helm, coaching 27 All-Americans, 13 A-10 Players of the Year, 16 A-10 Pitcher of the Year picks, eight A-10 Rookie of the Year honorees and 116 all-conference selections."
2. Virginia
3. North Carolina
4. Stony Brook
5. Maryland
6. Princeton
7. Notre Dame
8. Duke
9. Hofstra
10. Cornell
11. Army
12. Johns Hopkins
13. Loyola
14. Denver
15. Georgetown
16. Villanova
17. Drexel
18. Delaware
19. UMass
20. Yale
The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team will play Central Florida on Wednesday night, a game matching two teams with a combined 17-3 record. The unbeaten visitors include Marcus Jordan, son of Michael. But a sparse crowd is expected, because at UMass home games these days, a sparse crowd is the rule.
UMass officials are more than baffled. They are worried, because basketball is still considered the school's flagship sport, in terms of image and revenue potential.
Morgan is a 6-foot-5, 180-pound guard from Philadelphia, Pa. Lured by the Big East, he initially signed a letter of intent with Seton Hall in nearby South Orange, N.J., in November of 2009, with plans to enter in the fall of 2010.
That is when his mother's reservations about the trouble of the city streets, and his own, kicked in. He never went to Seton Hall, instead spending part of last year at South Kent (a prep school in Connecticut), before enrolling at UMass for the start of the second semester.
Players frequently change their minds after making verbal commitments, but a change of heart after a signed letter of intent is rare. Because of this unorthodox path, Morgan had to sit out all of last year and the first semester of this season, as he squared up eligibility questions and solidified his academics.
Overcoming a 17-point second half deficit, the Minutewomen defeated Wagner, 72-69.
The Falcons beat C.W. Post 93-60 on Sunday, putting Stevens in exclusive company. The only other coaches to reach 800 wins are Tennessee's Pat Summitt, former Texas coach Jody Conradt, Rutgers' C. Vivian Stringer and Sylvia Hatchell of North Carolina.
Read more from the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - University of Kentucky basketball coach and former UMass head coach John Calipari has been nominated for the inaugural United Nations Nongovernment Organization Positive Peace Awards in the coach category.
The group Celebrate Positive said Wednesday that Calipari was nominated by a charity called Samaritan's Feet that provides shoes to the needy around the world. Calipari helped bring shoes to children in Haiti and Detroit.
Samaritan's Feet marketing director Todd Melloch recalled Calipari appearing in bare feet during the national anthem at a Kentucky basketball game to encourage support of the group.
The award nominees are judged by organizations including Rotary International and Sister Cities International. Winners in the sports categories will be announced this month.
"It feels great to be picked. It says the hard work over the summer paid off,'' said Holmes, who moved from middle linebacker to an outside spot this season.
Here are a few stories on Holmes:
• Springfield Republican: AP names Holmes as a first-team All-American
• Boston Globe: UMass's Holmes is FCS All-American
• Boston Herald: UMass' Tyler Holmes an All-American
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Holmes named All-American
• The Associated Press: Moses, Eachus lead AP's FCS All-America team
Check out CBS 3 Springfield's feature on the UMass Athletic Department spreading cheer at the local Shriners Hospital.
Children spending the holiday in the hospital got a fun surprise today. UMass athletes made their annual trip to Shriners Hospital for Children , passing out toys to the kids. The trolleys they pulled looked a little like Santa's sleigh.
Athletes from several different UMass teams helped give hundreds of toys away. Basketball player, Sean Carter, says it's important to brighten the kids' day.
"These kids enjoy it. There's some things in life they really don't get a chance to do so it helps them know that people care about them," he says.
UMass collected the toys at Minutemen basketball and hockey games. Doctors and trainers from UMass' athletic department donated money to give Shriners Hospital for Children a red Wiii this year.
Jesse Morgan has been looking forward to next week's game, even before he knew who he'd be playing against.
Like every nonqualifier sitting out his freshman season, the first game has been the goal for what seems like an eternity when they first arrive.
But on Saturday, Morgan will have a locker and a University of Massachusetts men's practice uniform, a new pair of sneakers and teammates for the first time in a year. NCAA rules allow Morgan to begin practice as soon as finals end. If he's earned his 2.0 grade point average and his professors turn his grades in quickly, Morgan could make his Minuteman debut Wednesday against Central Florida at the Mullins Center.
"I'm really excited," Morgan said last week. "I've been waiting for a long time."
Zoe Judd, one of UMass head coach Bob Newcomb's women's swimming NLI signees for the 2011-12 season was honored by being named Boston Globe All-Scholastic. The Acton-Boxborough High School senior is a repeat All-Scholastic honoree. Judd won both the 50 free and 100 free at the Division 1 state meet this fall and will be a freshman at UMass next season.
Hamden is where I have lived my whole life. Most of my memories at an early age revolve around the second year I skated. I played defense then and I wondered if I would still remember how to skate. I was nervous as heck going out there, but I took one step on the ice and was pleased that I still remembered how.
I played defense for only two years. I grew up with many kids my age and we played street hockey. I always wanted to play goalie during street hockey. Later I told my parents I wasn't going to play hockey unless they let me be goalie.
Sixteen games into what appears to be his big break in the NHL,
28-year-old rookie Greg Mauldin on Tuesday absorbed another reality pinch.
His locker stall at the Colorado Avalanche's practice facility used to belong to legendary center Joe Sakic.
"I'm really honored," Mauldin said when told of the significance of the corner stall. "Obviously you look up to him. If you didn't look up to him, you better find a new line of work."
1. Delaware
2. Hofstra
3. Towson
4. UMass
5. Drexel
6. Penn State
7. St. Joseph's
Former UMass star and Brooklyn native Gary Forbes had a feature story in the New York Daily News.
It wasn't a good omen for Gary Forbes, the Brooklyn product who played his first pro game at the Garden Sunday as a 25-year-old rookie.
Before the Knicks beat Forbes' Nuggets, 129-125, Spike Lee, the denizen of all things Brooklyn, admitted to the Daily News that he had never heard of Forbes, who starred at Banneker High in Fort Greene.
Maybe he should have known him since Forbes' team lost to Sebastian Telfair and Lincoln in the 2003 PSAL city championship game at the Garden. Lee famously chronicled Coney Island's Lincoln High in his film, "He Got Game."
While Telfair jumped from Lincoln to the NBA, Forbes took a meandering journey to the pros, through a pair of high schools, two colleges, Italy, Israel, the NBA Development league and finally to the Denver Nuggets this season.
Wilbur and Borkhuis each competed on the United States National team as Wilbur raced from 1997-2002 and Borkhuis from 1997-1998 and again from 2001-2002. They each were also named USRowing Academic All-Americans in 1995.
For a link to the photo gallery from last week's ceremony, click here.
So much for the importance of UMass hockey scoring the first goal
Kevin Czepiel of Holyoke shines in center of faceoff circle for UMass hockey against Maine
UMass hockey happenings: Post-game notes from Maine game
Former UMass hockey defenseman Matt Irwin is third star in Worcester win
Former UMass hockey defenseman Mike Kostka has big night for Rochester in AHL
I've been teaching at UMass since 1984 and just about every semester I get at least three or four varsity athletes in my classes.
This year, I got to teach a very good wide receiver who is also such a good student that ESPN last month named him to its Academic All-American first team. I refer to Anthony Nelson, a senior from Wellington, Fla., who transferred to UMass last year from Hofstra after Hofstra dropped its football program, and who promptly made an enormous impact with the Minutemen.
Daily Hampshire Gazette: UMass Hockey Plays At Maine
Masslive.com: UMass plans to show some Power against Black Bears
"Every day, every game, every practice," Forbes said with a smile. "First one in, last one out. That's what Coach [Travis] Ford taught me.
His 1,128 points put him 28th all-time at UMass, not bad for a guy who played only two seasons. He was the Atlantic 10 Conference player of the year for the 2007-08 season, and helped lead the Minutemen to a berth in the NIT championship game at Madison Square Garden. He still talks to Ford, now at Oklahoma State, two or three times a month.
Mauldin appeared in his 15th game with Colorado last night, and had two shots on goal to help the Avalanche to a 3-2 overtime win in Washington. Mauldin had 17 shifts for 12 minutes of ice time during even strength and shorthanded situations. Mauldin has four goals and four assists, along with a plus-7 rating this season.
Quick was between the pipes for Los Angeles last night, which suffered a 3-2 overtime loss to Minnesota. Quick face 21 shots during the game, making 18 saves. Quick is 14-5-1 this season with a 1.92 goals against average and .927 save percentage.
The Brooklyn native, Forbes plays his first game in his hometown of New York City at the Knicks on Sunday at 12 p.m.
That would be the preferred rallying cry for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team, which fell flat in Wednesday's 68-56 loss to Maine, and now faces Seton Hall at the Mullins Center.
Read the Springfield Republican's preview of the UMass-Seton Hall game on Saturday.
The University of Massachusetts basketball team started 7-0, with the help of senior guard Anthony Gurley and contributions from the sophomore class, but perhaps their record wasn't indicative of how good the team really is. The Minutemen have since dropped their last two contests, and will be facing a pivotal point in their non-conference schedule with back-to-back quality opponents coming to Amherst in the coming weeks, where they'll have the chance to prove how serious a threat they are as the conference season approaches.
Tom Fargo of the Dedham Transcript has a great story on Dedham, Mass. natives Katie Kelly and Sydney Stoll wrapping up their successful athletic careers at UMass in field hockey and soccer, respectively.
"Former Dedham High stars Katie Kelly and Sydney Stoll each left Whiting Avenue as the all-time leading scorers in their signature sports. But beyond their knack for producing goals, it was a relentless drive that made them stand apart in Marauder uniforms on the field hockey and soccer pitches."
As the University of Massachusetts campus empties out as students travel to their various destinations, the Massachusetts men's basketball team will play a slew of games over winter break.
The upcoming games will be key for the Minutemen (7-2) who have lost two consecutive games - against Boston College on Dec. 4 and against Maine on Wednesday. Aside from trying to snap its recent losing streak, UMass will also begin Atlantic 10 plays to close out the break.
Here is Herb Scribner's preview of the games in the Daily Collegian.
More remarkable is that the punt coverage team that has gone through a lot more changes with the injuries to the cornerbacks. They are ranked first in the NFL and have gotten a lift from rookie free agent safety Jeromy Miles when he came off the practice squad to be a gunner against the Jets to replace the injured Rico Murray and made two tackles and drew two penalties.
Daryl Traynham's foot, ankles for both Javorn Farrell and Terrell Vinson - they're all healthy enough to play but problematic enough to keep three key players in the University of Massachusetts' rotation well below 100 percent.
After Saturday, the Minutemen will have 10 days between games, allowing coach Derek Kellogg to rest some of his players as they focus on final exams.
Until then he's hoping his players can keep grinding through two more games at the Mullins Center, tonight against Maine (7 p.m.) and Saturday against Seton Hall.
From the home office in Wakefield, Massachusetts, here are the top 10 surprises in Hockey East this year.
10. Massachusetts freshman Michael Pereira leads the Minutemen in scoring.
Hey, we all knew there would be new names atop the UMass stat sheets after the departures of James Marcou, Casey Wellman, Justin Braun, Will Ortiz, and Matthew Irwin. Even so, you had to figure T.J. Syner would be the new top dog. Instead, Pereira has taken that title in the early going.Read more: http://www.uscho.com/hockey-east-blog/2010/12/08/the-top-10-surprises-in-hockey-east/#ixzz17WI53dYP
Point guard.
But, as UMass takes a 7-1 record into Wednesday night's game against Maine (2-5), the concerns about this key spot are being erased by three distinctly different players.
"I think the point guard spot is a microcosm of our team. The guys have done a good job, they have all been somewhat effective in their own ways. but there is still a lot of room for improvement,'' coach Derek Kellogg said.
Read the full story in the Springfield Republican.
hey were the circle-on-the-calendar days on the Philadelphia college hoop calendar. Palestra Tripleheaders - the city's six Division I teams all playing each other in back-to-back games at the city's historic old basketball cathedral.
For one Saturday afternoon, no matter what was going on with the Flyers or Sixers, Philly's sports focus was firmly on college basketball.
It could happen in Massachusetts.
For the season, Camby is averaging 6.1 points and 10.8 rebounds for the Blazers. He ranks sixth in the NBA in rebounding.
Fenton will be reading at the Parma Public Library (7 West Avenue) tonight at 6:30 p.m. to read the book, "Z is for Zamboni". Kostka will be at the East Irondequoit Public Library (2180 East Ridge Rd) tomorrow at 4:00 p.m.
The "Reading Power Play" allows fans to meet players and The Moose, while also learning about hockey and the importance of reading. The program also rewards kids for reading and selects two grand-prize winners that will win dinner, suite tickets and the opportunity to participate in the ceremonial puck drop prior to Rochester's home game on Sunday, February 13th against the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The second half of "Reading Power Play" enters kids into a grand-prize drawing. Using a hat trick as a thematic vehicle, youth participants fill out a form for every three books they read, which then qualifies them for an entry into the grand prize drawing.
Disregard the 1-7 record, which includes Sunday's much-better-than-expected showing in a 93-80 defeat against unbeaten and Top 25-bound Boston College (8-0) at the Mullins Center, as there are too many positives to allow for negativity. Click here to read more of Dick Baker's great piece on MassLive.com, covering Sunday's game against the Eagles and focusing on the emergence of sophomore Shakia Robinson.
The Daily Collegian also has a recap of the game, as well as a nice sidebar on Robinson.
Current Unbeaten Streak: W- L- T Games Yale 5- 0- 0 5 Minnesota State 4- 0- 0 4 Massachusetts 3- 0- 1 4 New Hampshire 3- 0- 1 4 North Dakota 3- 0- 1 4 Bemidji State 3- 0- 0 3 Boston College 3- 0- 0 3 Clarkson 3- 0- 0 3 Colorado College 3- 0- 0 3 Dartmouth 3- 0- 0 3 Cornell 2- 0- 1 3
His quest to reach the NBA was completed last month when he was a surprise addition to the Denver Nuggets, and the team's only rookie has seized the opportunity, averaging 6.2 points in 12.7 minutes per game.
Forbes will make his return to the Bay State Wednesday with the Nuggets, looking to show the region that UMass remains capable of producing NBA-caliber players.
The Boston Globe has a great story on Forbes.
"Derek Kellogg and I talk once or twice a week. And, we text,'' said Bruiser Flint, whose Drexel Dragons beat Northeastern 63-58 in Saturday's doubleheader opener at TD Garden.
Current Unbeaten Streak: W- L- T Games Minnesota State 4- 0- 0 4 Yale 4- 0- 0 4 Massachusetts 3- 0- 1 4 North Dakota 3- 0- 1 4 Bemidji State 3- 0- 0 3 Boston College 3- 0- 0 3 Clarkson 3- 0- 0 3 Colorado College 3- 0- 0 3 Dartmouth 3- 0- 0 3 Cornell 2- 0- 1 3 New Hampshire 2- 0- 1 3
Also in the Collegian today, David Martin ran a feature of Cerie Mosgrove and Shakia Robinson's impact both on the court and in the locker room.
"They are a huge part in the team's progress," Head Coach Sharon Dawley said. "They are the core of our offense. Shakia's been having great performances game after game, and Cerie's been doing absolutely phenomenal. When they are having great days on the offensive end, then the rest of our offense really clicks into place."
Denver's Sam Brittain, Holy Cross' Derek Kump and Matt Lindblad of Dartmouth were the other runner-ups with Pereira.
The first time Anthony Gurley laid eyes on Derek Kellogg, he was convinced good days were ahead for the UMass basketball program.
"You could tell he wasn't just here for the job," said Gurley, a senior guard for the Minutemen who made his way to Amherst via Newton North High School with a brief stop in Winston-Salem, N.C., along the way. "Coach Kellogg has done a great job of putting together a blueprint of a top-25 program and putting us on the rise. I'm very confident in the direction this program is headed."
urley has a scorer's mentality, a focus that frequently resulted in individual play in his first two seasons at UMass. Now a senior, Gurley is scoring more than ever. But he's also become an all-around player, with career-highs in rebounds, steals, field-goal percentage and 3-point shooting. Most importantly, UMass is 7-0 entering tomorrow night's Boston Tip-Off Classic game against Boston College at the Garden.
"I think I've matured a lot," said Gurley, a Roxbury native and former Newton North star. "My game has expanded. I'm trying to play a more complete game, get my teammates involved more and just play to my strengths."
The Daily Collegian, Daily Hampshire Gazette, MassLive, and the Boston Globe have coverage of the game, while Michael Counos has a sidebar in the Collegian about all the career highs set by the Minutewomen so far in this young season.
The Ravens announced that they have elected to keep running back Matt Lawrence on the team's physically-unable-to-perform (PUP) list, thus ending his season.
Lawrence played in eight games last season, but was sidelined by a knee injury that also forced him to miss training camp and the rest of the preseason.
Lawrence was then placed on the PUP list to begin the season. After the mandatory six-week period of inactivity ended, Lawrence participated in several of the team's practices.
The decision to not activate him from the PUP might suggest that the knee is still an issue. Another possibility is that activating Lawrence would have required the Ravens to release a player from their current roster, a scenario they might have preferred to avoid.
Though the Massachusetts football team put forth a notable effort and made an impression this season, it came up one win short of advancing to the postseason.
"In the end, it was a disappointing season because we didn't achieve our goal of making the playoffs," UMass head coach Kevin Morris said.
In the first half of the year, it seemed the No. 19-ranked Minutemen (6-5, 4-4 Colonial Athletic Association) were well on their way after 4-1 record heading into the bye week. The lone loss came in a closely-contested shootout against a storied Michigan program on the road, 42-37. Despite dropping the most anticipated game on its schedule, UMass played well enough to raise some eyebrows.
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Coach Sharon Dawley will lead her team to only the squad's second home game of the season, as the Minutewomen search for the season's first victory.
"We need to do a better job of making our easy shots. We are getting great opportunities; we just need to finish them" said Dawley of her team's performance early on.
The Daily Collegian's Michael Counous and David Martin discuss the adaptation to Dawley's new offensive strategy, as well as the highs and lows of 2010 thus far.
Bill Wells looks at the first and second place finishes of David and Kevin Johnson at the annual Talking Turkey Thanksgiving Day Race in Holyoke, Mass.
"It's nice, he got me two years ago when I took second" said David of just beating out his brother Kevin this past weekend. Check out the full story from The Springfield Republican
UMass hockey defenseman Michael Marcou ditches superstition with maturity
UMass hockey players will have different schedule with afternoon game
Around Hockey East: UMass gets extra rest for Lowell
What is the matter with these kids these days: Shouldn't a freshman have heard of Dale Rolfe?
"Getting on the road is inevitable. I think this is a good test, a team that's 4-1 that gave us a great game last year. I think it's going to be a heckuva game," UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. "They're probably a little older, but we have youthful exuberance. I'm interested to see how we play. I'm anticipating the place will be sold out or close. It'll be a tough road environment."
Here are previews:
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: UMass hoop team finally leaves state
• Springfield Republican: UMass basketball team hopes to avoid getting trapped at Quinnipiac
• Daily Collegian: UMass competes in first road game of the season
• Daily Collegian: Minutemen put undefeated record on the line against Quinnipiac


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Arab Thief Steals Car With 5 Year Old Jewish Girl Inside
A drama unfolded in Gush Etzion after an Arab thief stole an idling car with a five year old girl inside; girl returned, manhunt mounted.
By Gabe Kahn.
First Publish: 8/9/2011, 10:17 PM
Gush Etzion
Flash 90
A resident of Rosh Tzurim, a kibbutz in Israel's Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, stopped his car at a junction and exited the vehicle, momentarily leaving his five year old daughter inside.
While he was outside the vehicle a thief jumped into the vehicle and drove off with the girl inside.
The shocked father called security forces who rushed to the junction and issued an alert for the vehicle and girl.
According to one report, an off-duty Palestinian Authority policeman spotted the girl at the entrance to the village of Al Aroub and returned her to Israeli authorities at the junction.
The girl was reportedly in good condition. Security forces have mounted a manhunt for the thief and the car.
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Having just returned from a trip to the market, where we placed a call home through a hands-free Bluetooth device, it struck us that even though Ham radio operators and manufacturers may have come up with a similar idea – if not the exact idea – but with a key difference, it was available for free to the public.
For example, roughly 20 years ago, Trio-Kenwood (known now by its first name Kenwood) came out with a very similar hands-free phone system that relied on a sensitive microphone that could be hung from the sun visor or light and with a speaker that could be placed wherever there was metal as it was on a rather powerful magnet.
Two ways to use it
Admittedly far more primitive than today's integrated Bluetooth systems that allow you to have up to a dozen devices available, each with its own interface code, it was still an effective way to use your VHF or UHF or VHF/UHF transceiver through your local repeater. It operated in two modes, VOX where you spoke and the system picked up your voice and, using old-fashioned analog audio, sent your voice to the transceiver where the microphone was keyed and you could talk to your heart's content or the whatever length of time the repeater gave you for yakking.
At the time of its introduction, the system was state-of-the-art. It wasn't a radio-based system as it was hard-wired to the transceiver which presented its own set of problems.
One had to find a way of running the lines of the push-to-talk microphone connector, as well as placing the microphone assembly where you could be heard clearly.
"Keep the aisles clear"
Okay, so we are stretching this a bit but how many times when you were in school, on a field trip, for instance, did the bus driver or chaperone order you to "keep the aisles clear" of unnecessary items. Likewise, one could say that to the radio – if the radio talked back it would have helped but we realize it was inanimate and could have told us the best route for the the three wires:
Push-to-talk microphone switch
Microphone pickup head (usually mounted to the side of the visor or behind the rearview
Speaker wire
No we had to figure it out and then run the wiring, trying to keep it at its standard length so we had to spool the wire at some point – usually under the seat – and then attach the various components.
Interestingly, when this Kenwood option was popular – it was sensitive and in demand – Kenwood's line of VHF and UHF had full phone-style keyboard available on the front face of the transceiver (TR-7930/50, for instance) and the mike system was intelligent enough to realize when you wanted to use the repeater's autopatch capability to make a phone call (yes, Hams were making cell-like calls well before the world even knew that things like calling home via radio were even possible and then people assumed only the rich could do it – not true).
Specialized features
Unless your repeater's controller head was very advanced for the time (due to the builder's use of an advanced CPU chip) that outlined how the repeater trustee and his assistants could assign a one- or two-digit number to give you repeater access, as well as autopatch access by keying the push-to-talk line.
In a sense, autopatches were the forerunners of today's cell system. An autopatch – a standard phone line with a phone number that served an entire club, instead of one user – was accessed by a ham with a two or three-digit code. With it the ham, could call home or the police or fire or other officials if needed, as well as friends. Or, if the club gave out this information, a Ham could call the autopatch and talk with anyone on the repeater. It was a two-way system. Many clubs linked their repeaters and patches and set up a very rudimentary cell-like system – although since most autopatches and repeaters were run by clubs – there was only one payment for it, our yearly dues.
Interestingly, if the coverage areas of the repeater was large enough or the linkage area was large, the Ham population has access to a huge low-cost phone system – which could only be used for Ham Radio purposes.
Still, by 1995, autopatching was becoming very secondary as many Hams not only maintained transceivers in their vehicles, but cellphones as well.
Idea shift
So, here you had an idea that had its roots in Ham Radio (the first theoretical stories on cell systems usually mentioned that Hams were at the core of the original providers) blossomed into something of an idea shift. It was an idea shift none of us in the Ham Radio world could have foreseen and it has changed the way we all communicate forever. Essentially, we are now all "on-the-air" all the time.


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It's hang time with La Jolla art maven Karen Fox.
Most people don't jet off to Brazil for a contemporary art tour led by MCASD Director Hugh Davies, followed by a jaunt to star-studded Art Basel in Miami Beach. Then again, most people aren't sassy local art maven Karen Fox, who is diminutive in stature but outsized when it comes to personality and collecting art.
She has turned her La Jolla penthouse into a chic, all-white museum of cool modern and contemporary pieces, from lithographs by Dalí and Oldenburg to a video installation by Jennifer Steinkamp. "I buy art not for value but for what rings my bells," says Fox, who is 4 feet, 8 inches tall and dressed in a snow-and-silver ensemble that perfectly complements her surroundings.
When Fox moved from La Costa to La Jolla five years ago, one of her requirements was that her new home have 9-foot-high ceilings to accommodate her art. "And I've always wanted to have doors that opened up and looked straight over the ocean," she adds. "Now I have them."
The Hollywood Regency apartment had turquoise shag carpeting and silk wall coverings when Fox moved in. A serial remodeler, Fox gutted it and made everything white, from the marble floors to the ceiling. Covetable midcentury pieces including Barcelona chairs and an Eames lounger also match the palette.
"I wanted to do it very minimal and contemporary, so that when you walk in the door it takes your breath away when you look at the ocean," she explains. "And then you see the art. The art is the color."
A playfully abstract oil painting by San Diego-based Heather Gwen Martin, for example, gives Fox her morning jolt. "It's so vibrant that, boy, does it wake me up." And in the early evening, she is drawn to a ceramic lamb by another local artist, David Adey, whose sculpture also graced MCASD and the Orange County Museum of Art for its California Biennial. "I'm enamored of Adey to begin with, but I really love this piece, especially when the sun is setting and the sky is glowing and the little neon haloes are illuminated on the lamb."
Fox has been collecting since she was an art graduate student at UC Davis, scraping together $300 to buy her first piece even as she was living in low-income housing. After realizing an austere artist's lifestyle was not for her, she turned to interior design ("I thought of furniture as sculptures and wallpaper as paintings") and then real estate.
In San Diego, she is a fixture on the cultural scene, serving on several boards here and is a supporter Hammer in L.A., where she keeps a "very Zen" condo filled with "edgier" art. She's always wearing a bold outfit and sparkling on the arm of her beau, Harvey Rubin, who has coined the term "museum feet." "It's the person who gets dragged along to every art museum and gallery on the face of the earth," laughs Fox. "Harvey is a trooper. He's come to appreciate it all and absorb this contemporary art that I'm enthralled with."
She knows the story of practically every artwork. Even better, she knows many of the artists. "One thing that's important to me is art that's honest, that really reflects the personality, the joie de vivre, the essence of the artist themselves," she says.
"Karen's passion for life extends equally into her art collection," says L.A. gallerist Luis de Jesus. "It reflects a youthful curiosity and sense of discovery that I find truly exciting. She's an incredibly erudite collector whose sharp eye and independent, open mind allows her to make very solid and confident choices."
Fox's divining method for the perfect new piece might be a little unusual. "I have to dream about it, literally, to know it's the right one. I also have to have the right place to put it, where it has breathing space and is honored."


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Zamboni Driver Arrested on DUI Charges
A Zamboni driver was arrested Friday on suspicion of operating the machine while drunk during a high school hockey game in Fargo, North Dakota.
Steven Anderson, 27, was arrested after exhibiting "erratic behavior" between the first and second periods of the hockey game. A school official called police to the arena, where Anderson was arrested.
"Some of the parents noticed the driver appeared to be impaired," Jim Larson, Director of Finance and Humans Resources for Fargo Parks, said to ABC News. "I have been with the district for 22 years and this is the first time we've experienced this."
Anderson, from Fargo, was booked at the Cass County Jail and released on bail on Saturday morning.
According to Larson, Anderson worked for Fargo Parks seasonally for the past six years; he has been completely removed from work at the present time.
North Dakota court records show that Anderson was arrested and convicted of another DUI charge as recently as December 15. He was also charged with possession of marijuana paraphernalia during the same arrest.
Anderson pled guilty to the December charge. He was sentenced to 20 hours of community service and was barred from consuming alcohol until January 6.
"Safety is critical…we consider this to be a very serious incident. On Monday we will take a full review to see how this happened and what we can do keep it from ever occurring again," said Larson.
Larson states the Fargo Park District was unaware of the December arrest. While the park district conducts background checks on its employees once a year, Larson is unsure as to the last time Anderson was last check for DUI charges, as he is a seasonal employee.
According to ABC News, no players were injured and no damages were caused while Anderson drove the Zamboni while impaired.
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San Diego's newest ocean-related nonprofit, Ocean Sanctuaries.org is collaborating with National Geographic to roll out their most recent citizen science tool, called 'Fieldscope'--especially adapted for tracking sharks in San Diego.
Local divers can log sightings and photos of Leopard sharks, Horn sharks, Angel sharks, Tope sharks as well as pelagic species such as Blue, Mako, Great White and Thresher sharks at:
National Geographic has been on the cutting edge of citizen science for some time now.
"For over 125 years, National Geographic has explored and documented the farthest corners of the planet. FieldScope is an interactive mapping platform that extends the tools of exploration and investigation to everyday science enthusiasts. This digital tool enables citizen scientists to document and understand the world around them––both in the classroom and in outdoor settings."
For more information on Fieldscope, see here: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/programs/fieldscope/?a...
The 'Sharks of San Diego' adaptation of Fieldscope is in addition to a separate program run by Ocean Sanctuaries to track Sevengill sharks in the San Diego area.
See here for more information: http://oceansanctuaries.org/wordpress/citizen-science-projects/
The Fieldscope app for smartphones is available for both Androids on Google Play as well as for iPhones here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fieldscope-data-collector/id820381057?mt...


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