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EUGENE, Ore. -- The University of Oregon men's basketball team wrapped up the 2011-12 season with a 24-10 overall record and a 13-5 mark in Pac-12 Conference games. The Ducks finished the regular season tied for second place in the league standings.
The 2011-12 squad opened the year by adding nine newcomers to a group of six returning players. The Ducks were predicted to finish fifth in the conference's preseason poll (behind UCLA, Cal, Arizona and Washington).
Following a loss to Colorado in the opening round of the conference tournament, UO participated in the National Invitation Tournament where the Ducks went 2-1 before losing in the quarterfinal round.
It was the second straight season that UO advanced to play in a postseason tournament. Oregon's 24 wins last year were the most since the 2006-07 season. The Ducks had four different four-game winning streaks throughout the 34-game calendar. Not once all season did UO lose consecutive games, and only twice did they have a stretch where they lost two out of their last three games.
The Ducks went 17-3 overall in games played at Matthew Knight Arena, going 10-1 in non-conference games and 7-2 in Pac-12 contests. Also a very good road team in 2011-12, Oregon posted a 7-5 record in true road games and a 6-3 record in road Pac-12 games.
Oregon made its 10th overall appearance in the postseason National Invitation Tournament, falling to top-seed Washington in the quarterfinal round. It was the first time since 2004 UO played in the NIT.
The Ducks are 13-11 overall in NIT games. Oregon has advanced to the NIT semifinals on three occasions (1975, 1999, 2004).
In 1975, Oregon posted a pair of wins (St. Peter's, Oral Roberts) before a semifinal loss to Princeton. UO won the consolation game 80-76 over St. John's.
In 1999, the Ducks won three consecutive games (Georgia Tech, Wyoming, TCU) before falling to California in the semis. They eventually lost to Xavier in the consolation game.
In 2004, Oregon won three straight (Colorado, George Mason, Notre Dame) but lost again in the semifinals, this time to Michigan.
Dana Altman has a 9-9 record in eight trips to the NIT (two at K-State, five at Creighton, one at UO).
Oregon (13-5) finished the regular season tied for second place (with California) in the Pac-12 standings. It was UO's best conference record since the 2001-02 season when the Ducks won the regular-season crown with a 14-4 league mark.
Almost half of UO's league wins last season came on the road (6-3) proving the Ducks to be one of the top road teams in the Pac-12. The other 11 league schools were a combined 33-of-79 (.295) in road games on the year. UO's 6-3 road mark was its best since the 1999-00 season when the Ducks also went 6-3 in conference play.
Dana Altman and the Ducks finished the regular season with 22 wins, the second straight year for UO to tally 20+ wins. It marked just the third time in school history UO produced consecutive seasons of 20+ wins. It was just the 13th time in school history that UO has won 20 games.
Howard Hobson led Oregon to four straight 20-win seasons from the 1935-36 season through the 1938-39 campaign, the year UO won the NCAA title. The Ducks posted back-to-back 20-win seasons in the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons under the direction of Ernie Kent.
Altman now has 14 seasons of 20+ wins to his credit (11 at Creighton, two at Oregon, one at Kansas State). Altman became just the third UO head coach to tally 20+ wins in his first season.
E.J. Singler was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 20 Second Team. The teams were selected and voted on by the NABC member coaches. The last Oregon player recognized as part of the NABC All-District 20 teams was Joevan Catron, who earned second team recognition in 2010-11.
Three Ducks were recognized as part of the 2012 Pac-12 All-Conference teams. Devoe Joseph was named first team all-conference, while E.J. Singler received second team honors. Garrett Sim was an honorable mention selection. In addition, Tony Woods received honorable mention consideration for the Pac-12's All-Defensive Team. Joseph, from Toronto, Ontario, became the first Oregon player to receive first team recognition since Aaron Brooks earned the accolade for the 2006-07 season. It was the first all-league recognition for both Singler and Sim.
E.J. Singler (bio on page 16) ranked second on the team with 461 total points (13.6 ppg) and grabbed a team-high 189 total rebounds (5.6 rpg) in 2011-12. Singler has scored 1,114 points in 105 career games (10.6 ppg) which ranks 25th in school history. He is just the 13th player at UO to amass over 1,000 career points and 500 career rebounds (1,114 points and 546 rebounds).
Last season, Singler ranked second nationally and led the Pac-12 Conference in free throw percentage (.909, 110-of-121). His career percentage currently ranks first in school history (.875, 265-of-303). Singler enters the 2012-13 season as the conference's active career leader in points (1,114), while ranking third in both rebounds (546) and 3-pointers made (131).
Singler reached double-figures in scoring in 28-of-34 games last season. He has scored 10 or more points in 62 of his 105 career games. He also led the Ducks in rebounding on 12 occasions last year (34 times in his career). Singler was one of two Ducks to start every game in 2011-12 (joined by Garrett Sim). Singler has started the last 79 games dating back to his freshman season. He started all 39 games as a sophomore and 22-of-32 games as a freshman.
Season highlights: He scored 25 points on 9-of-10 field goal shooting in NIT second round game against Iowa. Singler had his second double-double of the year (12 points and 10 rebounds) March 3 against Utah. He scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half at Oregon State. Singler scored 20 points, including 10 straight in the second half, in a road win over Stanford. He was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for Feb. 6-12 after leading UO to a home sweep of the Washington schools. Singler scored 23 points in a home win over WSU. He posted a 13-point and 13-rebound effort at Colorado. He scored a career-high 26 points in a home win over UCLA. He recorded 20 of UO's 60 total points at Washington.
After becoming eligible to compete on Dec. 10, Devoe Joseph (bio on page 19) averaged a team-high 16.7 points per outing. He led the team in field goals made (166), field goals attempted (351) and minutes played (35.3 mpg) in those 28 games. The Ducks went 20-8 with him in the lineup.
Joseph scored in double-figures in 20 consecutive games to close the season (and 27-of-28 on the year). He also registered a pair of 30-point efforts (30 vs. Stanford, 33 at California). Joseph led the team in scoring 13 times last season (the most of any Duck).
Joseph also ranked in the top 10 among Pac-12 players (all games) in numerous statistical categories. He ranked second in minutes per game (35.3) and 3-pointers made per game (2.4), third in scoring (16.7 ppg), sixth in free throw percentage (.795), seventh in 3-point percentage (.418) and ninth in steals (1.4 spg).
The 6-4 guard from Toronto, Ontario, bettered his scoring average to 17.7 points per game in Pac-12 regular-season games only, shooting 46.3 percent (44-of-95) on 3-pointers in those league games. He also shot 82.5 percent on free throws (52-of-63) against Pac-12 teams.
Season highlights: In his UO debut against Fresno State, Joseph came off the bench to score a team-high 18 points. Joseph nearly registered a double-double with 10 points and a career-best eight rebounds against Stephen F. Austin. He had 17 points and seven assists at Washington State. Joseph scored 30 points at home against Stanford. Joseph set a new career-high with his 33-point effort in a close road loss to California. He led UO with 24 points in a home win over Colorado. Joseph had 21 points, six rebounds and five assists in 25 minutes at home against Utah. He scored a team-high 25 points in the NIT first round win over LSU. He scored 15 points and a career-high eight assists versus Iowa.
Seven different Ducks led the team in scoring last season: Devoe Joseph (13 times), E.J. Singler (nine times), Garrett Sim (seven times), Olu Ashaolu (three times), Carlos Emory and Tony Woods (two times each) and Johnathan Loyd (one time).
Ten of UO's 11 scholarship players reached double-figures in scoring. The leaders in that category were Singler (28 times), Joseph (27) and Sim (21).
Five different Ducks dropped 20+ points in a game last season (Joseph seven times, Singler six times, Sim four times, Ashaolu three times and Loyd once). Joseph scored 30+ points on two occasions.
Oregon received solid bench scoring contributions from both Ashaolu and Emory late in the 2011-12 season. Ashaolu reached double-figures 13 times last year, including six times in UO's last nine games. Emory reached double-figures 11 times last year, including 10 out of the last 14 games. Emory averaged 11.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in that 14-game stretch.
Garrett Sim (bio on page 10) averaged career-highs in points (12.2 ppg), field goal percentage (.486, 140-of-288), 3-point percentage (.465, 73-of-157) and free throw percentage (.871, 61-of-70). He finished the year second in the Pac-12 for 3-point percentage, while ranking seventh for 3-pointers made per game (2.2). His free throw shooting percentage would have ranked second in the Pac-12 (behind Singler), but he did not have enough attempts to qualify.
Sim did not have enough made field goals to qualify for the national rankings (minimum 5 FGs made/game; 2.5 3-PT FGs made/game). However, Sim's 3-point field goal percentage would have ranked fifth and his free throw percentage would have ranked tied for 24th nationally.
In 136 career games, Sim finished with 1,078 points and 256 assists which both ranked in the top 10 of the Pac-12's active career leaders. In addition, Sim's 185 career 3-pointers ranked second and his 103 career steals ranked seventh among the league's active leaders last season.
In 2011-12, Sim established a new modern school record for career games played (136). The previous mark of 133 was set by Joevan Catron in 2010-11. Sim became the 32nd player in school history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark (29th on that list). He finished his career eighth in school history for 3-pointers made (185) and tied for 10th all-time for career steals (103).
Oregon was 14-5 in games decided by fewer than 10 points (6-4 in games decided by less than five points). UO's five losses included: an NIT quarterfinal loss at top-seed Washington (90-86), the Pac-12 tourney game with Colorado (62-61), road games against California (86-83) and Colorado (72-71), and a home contest with Oregon State (76-71). The Pac-12 team with the next best mark in games decided by less than 10 points was Colorado (11-6).
In those tight games, the Ducks had the advantage in all three shooting percentages (UO / Opponent): overall field goal (.460 / .452), 3-point (.362 / .332) and free throw (.728 / .694).
UO closed-out several games on the free throw line. The Ducks shot 86.5 percent (96-of-11) from the charity stripe in the final five minutes of games decided by less than 10 points. A big difference from the 70.9 percent (515-of-726) they made on the season.
UO's primary ball handlers were terrific at the line in crunch time of close games. E.J. Singler (.962, 25-of-26), Garrett Sim (.905, 19-of-21), Devoe Joseph (.833, 20-of-24) and Johnathan Loyd (.833, 10-of-12) are a combined 72-of-81 (.889) in those pressure situations. In addition, forwards Carlos Emory (9-of-10, .900) and Tyrone Nared (10-of-11, .909) also came up clutch in those moments.
Unselfish play was a key in UO's 24 victories last season, as the Ducks recorded more assists than the opponent in 17 of those wins. Oregon was 17-2 last season when dishing out more assists than the opposition. The Ducks recorded a season-high 26 assists (to just 10 turnovers) in their NIT win over Iowa.
In the games where UO had more assists, the Ducks margin of victory was almost six points better than their season average for all games: +11.6 as compared to +5.8 in all games. Oregon's four largest victories in 2011-12 came in games when the Ducks had more assists than their opponent: a 46-point home win over Utah, a pair of 25-point home wins over Southeast Missouri State and Washington, and a 20-point home win over LSU in the NIT first round.
UO's shooting percentages were also up when the Ducks record more assists than the opposition: 50.6 percent versus 46.9 percent in all games. UO was also better from behind the 3-point arc: 41.3 percent versus 37.8 percent in all games.
The Ducks' primary ball-handlers were largely responsible for UO's assist totals in those games. Johnathan Loyd (69), Devoe Joseph (61), Garrett Sim (51) and E.J. Singler (50) accounted for 231 of the 313 assists and collectively maintained a 1.8 assist to turnover ratio (231 a, 129 to) in those games.
Tony Woods (bio on page 22) ranked third in the Pac-12 with 51 blocks (1.6 bpg). Woods rejected 28 shots (1.6 bpg) in the Ducks' 18 regular-season conference games last year (he only played in 17 of those). As a team, UO ranked tied for fifth among Pac-12 teams for blocks (3.6 bpg).
Woods set a new single-season school record for blocks, moving past Blair Rasmussen who had 42 blocks in the 1983-84 season.
Woods had a career-high five blocks in the win over Portland State, the most blocks for a UO player since Dec. 31, 2009 (Dunigan at Washington State). That five-block game ranks tied for second in school history for most blocks in a single game. Woods swatted four shots in UO's Pac-12 tourney game with Colorado on March 8. He set career highs for points (14), field goals made (6) and attempted (10) in that loss to the Buffaloes.
As a team, the Ducks posted a 12-3 record in games where they tallied four or more blocks. UO's only losses came in the Pac-12 tournament loss to Colorado, the home loss to Oregon State and the season-opener at No. 7 Vanderbilt. In 33 of the 34 outings this season, Oregon has recorded at least one block. The Ducks are 11-2 this season when they record more blocks than their opponent (L, vs. Colorado; L, Oregon State).
Four Oregon players -- Olu Ashaolu, E.J. Singler, Garrett Sim and Devoe Joseph -- eclipsed the 1,000 career point mark.
Ashaolu entered the year with 1,006 career points in 100 games (all at Louisiana Tech). In one year at UO, he totaled 314 points in 34 games (9.2 ppg). His combined total is 1,320 points in 134 games (9.9 ppg).
Singler reached the 1,000-point mark during his 20-point effort in UO's road win over Stanford. He now has 1,114 points in 105 career games (10.6 ppg) which ranks 25th in school history.
Sim eclipsed the 1,000-point mark during his season-high 25-point effort at Oregon State. Sim ended his career with 1,078 points in 136 career games (7.9 ppg) which ranks 29th all-time in school history.
Joseph joined the 1,000-point club in UO's NIT win over LSU, scoring a game-high 25 points in the process. He ended his career with 1,051 points in 104 career games (10.1 ppg) in split time at Minnesota (76 games, 583 points) and Oregon (28 games, 468 points).
Dana Altman announced the signing of three prep standouts to National Letters of Intent. Joining the Ducks beginning in 2012-13 are Dominic Artis (Richmond, Calif. / Findlay Prep), Ben Carter (Las Vegas, Nev. / Bishop Gorman HS) and Damyean Dotson (Houston, Texas / Jack Yates High School). UO brought in a consensus top 25 recruiting class last season according to Scout.com (No. 20), Rivals.com (No. 21) and ESPN.com (No. 23).
Dominic Artis (5-11, 175, G): Is playing his senior season at Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev. … Played freshman through junior seasons at Salesian High School in Richmond, Calif. … Averaged 14 points and 4.1 assists per game as a junior at SHS … As a freshman in 2009, helped lead SHS to California's Division IV state title … Played AAU basketball for the Oakland Soldiers … Also considered UCLA, California, St. Johns, Florida State, Memphis and Georgia Tech.
Ben Carter (6-8, 215, F): Is playing his senior season at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nev. … Helped lead BGHS to a 25-6 overall record as a junior … A member of the BGHS squads that won a state title in his sophomore season (playing alongside current UO player Johnathan Loyd) … Played AAU basketball for the Las Vegas Lakers … Also considered USC, UNLV, San Diego State, Utah and New Mexico.
Damyean Dotson (6-6, 190, G): Is playing his senior season at Jack Yates High School in Houston, Texas … Member of JYHS team that was a consensus No. 1 ranked prep team in the nation in 2010 … Helped lead JYHS to back-to-back state titles as a freshman and sophomore … Played AAU basketball for Houston Hoops … Also considered Arkansas, Georgetown, Colorado, Texas Tech and Baylor.
The Pac-12 Conference honored 11 former student-athletes and one former coach with their induction into the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Hall of Honor presented by Bank of the West during the 2012 Pacific Life Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament. Inductees: Richard Jefferson (Arizona), Kurt Nimphius (Arizona State), Lamond Murray (California), Burdette Haldorson (Colorado), Jim Barnett (Oregon), A.C.Green (Oregon State), George Selleck (Stanford), EdO'Bannon (UCLA), Sam Barry (USC), Arnie Ferrin (Utah), George Irvine (Washington), Steve Puidokas (Washington State).
Barnett had a sterling three-year stretch for the Oregon Ducks from the 1963-64 season through the 1965-66 campaign. The 6-4 guard from Riverside, Calif., was one of just three Oregon players to be named an all-american during the decade of the 1960s.
Barnett was twice named to the all-conference team, selected as a first team All-Pacific 8 honoree as a senior and a second team member as a junior. He was recognized as the team's Most Valuable Player during both of those seasons.
With a career scoring average of 17.7 points per outing (1,325 total points in 75 games played), Barnett finished as the school's all-time leading scorer (currently ranks 15th all-time). He started his career off in style, averaging 13.0 points per game during his sophomore year. His 338 points during the 1963-64 season was (at the time) a UO school record for points by a sophomore.
Barnett was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the eighth pick overall in the 1966 NBA Draft. He later played for the Golden State Warriors for three seasons (1971–74) and five other teams during his 11-year career, including the San Diego Rockets, the Portland Trail Blazers, the New Orleans Jazz, New York Knicks, and the Philadelphia 76ers.
2011-12 Season Review Notes Packet
Courtesy: GoDucks.com
Release Date: 05/11/2012
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It was supposed to be a running back by committee. When Toby Gerhart left for the NFL it was going to be replacement by a group for Stanford football. It did not turn out that way.
While Stanford clearly has had some talented runners, and the depth may be even deeper this year, Stepfan Taylor has emerged as THE MAN.
"In my opinion we have the best running back in the country," offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton said this spring.
For a back that was supposed to share the load, Taylor is coming off of back-to-back 1,000 yard campaigns. His last game was filled with career highs as he rushed 35 times for 177 yards in the Fiesta Bowl loss to Oklahoma State.
The national media is paying attention to Taylor as well as he has been added to the Doak Walker Award watch list for the best running back and Maxwell Award watch list for best offensive player.
With Stanford breaking in a new quarterback this year, talk on campus is similar to Gerhart's last season. Can Taylor have a 2,000 yard season?
"Absolutely," Hamilton exclaimed. "We average 36 run attempts per game last year. He averaged exactly 18 carries per game. We were fortunate in some of our games to have a lead late in the game that allowed us to take the pounding off of him and get some of our other backs involved, but just like our bowl game, he had 35 carries, the good backs they want to get in a rhythm. We are going to feature Stepfan without a doubt."
Every year the focus seems to be on some of the other backs. Where does Tyler Gaffney fit in? Will highly recruited Anthony Wilkerson take carries away? This year Gaffney is gone but so much attention is centered on incoming freshman Barry Sanders Jr.
There is talent and depth in the Stanford running game. Through all the competition, all Taylor does is quietly do his job and he excels at it.
The 5-11, 215-pound runner from Mansfield, Texas is very quiet and unassuming in public. On the field he just takes care of business. In three years career, the last two as a starter, he has rushed 521 times for 2,770 yards and 27 touchdowns.
With a smaller frame, there is some concern about him wearing thin with all the carries. That is not a concern for Hamilton.
"We are going to be smart about it. We don't want to wear him out. We want to wear the defense down but we don't want to wear Stepfan out at the same time. Coach Sanford will really have a good sense of where Stepfan is physically and give him as many opportunities as he can handle."
With Stanford breaking in a new quarterback this year, you can be sure there will be plenty of workload for Taylor and his backups this season.

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Lock N' Load Shotguns - YouTube
I can't help but cringe when he doesn't follow the 4 rules!
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And for all we know that may not even be a real gun; it may be a prop like so often used in movie and pics.
When watching the intro, the camera isn't 100% steady, so I thought it was a fair assumption (still just an assumption) that it wasn't a mounted camera with no one behind it...
But really I was just kidding. I love watching the Gunny.
I love all those episodes. !!
he is fun to watch
Looks like he's got a Super Bowl sized ring on.
I have shot in matches with him and trust me he knows the safety rules. He was on the line next to us a couple years ago at Camp Perry CMP Games. Yes he can still shoot! I believe he out shot me on that day!
Another good one - good history lessons
Tales of the Gun - The Shotgun - YouTube
Love watching his videos


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The Fault in Our Stars review: Tears flow, but not for the right reasonsMovies
Trailer: The Fault In Our Stars
Hazel and Gus share a love that can overcome all obstacles, except perhaps the fact they met at a cancer support group.PT2M29S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-35ynb 620 349 April 2, 2014
- Name
- The Fault In Our Stars
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Running time
- 126 min
- Director
- Josh Boone
- Screen writer
- Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, John Green (novel)
- Actors
- Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Willem Dafoe, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern
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- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
The film of John Green's bestseller is guaranteed to end in tears. After all, it's about two teenagers stricken with cancer. But what kind of tears? Will we come to admire and empathise with its two leads or will we leave the cinema queasily convinced we've been manipulated into feeling for them because they're sick?
It's the kind of question that British filmmakers tend to handle more easily than their American counterparts. Steeped in the traditions of social realism, they're experienced straight talkers, adept at the art of undercutting candour with understatement and bitterness with gallows humour.
Foundering flow: Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars.
It's an art that Green, too, has studied and the film's director, Josh Boone, is working from a script that cleaves closely to his book. Nonetheless, understatement is an early casualty. The action is hardly underway when candour starts sliding into earnestness. While the film's star, Shailene Woodley (Divergent), is doing her laconic best to keep the tone on track, it's clear that nobody has briefed Laura Dern on this strategy. Cast as Woodley's over-protective mother Frannie, she puts so much hand and elbow work into her performance that she seems at risk of taking off and fluttering from the set.
Woodley's Hazel suffers a form of cancer that has so damaged her lungs she must drag an oxygen tank around with her. She faces this predicament with stoic aplomb, towing the tank on a trolley as if it were a piece of baggage, which it is. But, understandably, she doesn't feel like socialising until Frannie persuades her to sign up to a local support group. Here she meets Gus Waters (Ansel Elgort, also from Divergent), an urbane 18 year-old who has lost a leg to the disease. Now his cancer is in remission and he's joined the group to keep a friend company.
From these multiple tragedies, Green's book constructs a surprisingly upbeat scenario that has Hazel and Gus fall for one another while bonding over music, movies and all the other things that interest them. In particular, she introduces him to a novel about a girl who feels exactly as she does about cancer and what it's done to her life. And the plot's next stage takes them to Amsterdam to meet the book's reclusive Dutch author (Willem Dafoe in neurotic over-drive).
By this point, the strain is really showing and Woodley and Elgort, who played brother and sister in Divergent, are having a lot of trouble keeping up the flow of bright banter that is supposed to be animating their burgeoning romance. He's miscast. His baby-faced handsomeness and over-worked smile can't rise to the precocious air of worldliness that Gus is meant to exude and Woodley's air of composure is rapidly dissolving to the point where she's punctuating every sentence with "Oh my God!"
Do the tears flow? It's hard to stop them but it's a reflex action, triggered by the tragic conjunction of cancer and the young, rather than any sense of kinship with the particular pair you've been watching on screen.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
The annual list of the 100 Most Influential Georgians published each January by Georgia Trend magazine once again included Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna, president of the University of West Georgia.
Sethna, who has been named to the list multiple times, joins other prominent Georgians such as Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines; Arthur Blank, owner and CEO of the Atlanta Falcons; Erroll Davis, Chancellor of the University System of Georgia; John Lewis, U.S. Congressman; and Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia. UWG alum Bill Bolling, executive director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, has also been included on this list.
"I am truly honored to be included in the 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential Georgians," Sethna said. "It is my pleasure to be among this set of distinguished Georgians. Such an honor is possible only because of the excellent faculty and staff colleagues at the University of West Georgia, its wonderful students, and its great friends and supporters."
According to Georgia Trend editors, "Georgia's Power List" spotlights prominent figures in business, politics, government, science and education and are selected by the editorial staff as "the people who keep Georgia moving in one direction or another: influence can follow diverse paths."
Sethna is in his 16th year as president of UWG, a leading residential, doctoral comprehensive university that offers a broad undergraduate and graduate curriculum based on a liberal arts foundation. UWG enrolls more than 11,000 students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Richards College of Business, College of Education, the School of Nursing and Graduate School.


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The Denver Broncos are favored to win, and team most fans will root for at the upcoming Super Bowl XLVIII against NFC Champions, Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium, according to ESPN's Sportsnation and the New York Post.
The New York Post has the Broncos favored to win by only one point over the Seahawks, as well as many other sports books, though other sites show Broncos at 3-1/2 points over Seahawks too.
Many sports fans have predicted both Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks would meet in the next Super Bowl taking place at East Rutherford, New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, Sunday February 2nd, with a win all the way for Seattle; but after Seahawks' corner back, Robert Sherman's post game tirade that scared off FOX' reporter, Erin Andrews, many sports fans were completely turned off, and now hoping Peyton Manning could get that second Super Bowl ring.
Robert Sherman's post-game epic 'diss' and rant started when Andrews simply asked Sherman to explain and take her to how he helped win the game for the Seahawks, and Sherman ranted, "Well, I'm the best corner of the game…when you first try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're gonna get!"
Sherman angrily continued with his brash behavior and disrespected 49ers receiver, Michael Crabtree by adding, "Don't you ever talk about me!" Andrews softly asked Sherman, "Who was talking about you?" Sherman yelled, "Crabtree! …Don't you open your mouth about the best, or I'm going to shut it for you real quick!"
This incident lit up the Twitter-verse, as well as sparked up comments left and right on Facebook and social media.
Sherman's rude outburst turned many sports fans off, and fans will use this to root for the Broncos now. ESPN's Sportnation even ran a poll asking, "How do you feel about Richard Sherman's televised post game comments about Michael Crabtree?"
There were fans who thought what Sherman did was "cool," and said this sports trash talk comes with the property, while 61% thought it was not cool, compared to the 39% that were not thin-skinned and surprised by Sherman's comments.
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Three Percent was named after the oft-cited statistic (first established by Bowker) that only 3% of books published in the U.S. are translations. We suspected that 3% number was a little high, but we had no way of confirming our suspicions--there were no real records of the number of translations published from year to year.
So, we decided to keep track ourselves. By collecting as many catalogs as we can and asking publishers directly, we've managed to come up with a fairly accurate record of the books published in translation since January 1st, 2008. For the sake of our sanity, we've limited our data gathering to original translations of fiction and poetry published or distributed here in the United States. By "original," we're referring to titles that have never before appeared in English (at least not in the States). So new translations of classic titles aren't included in our database, and neither are reprints of previously published books. Our focus is on identifying how many new books and new voices, are being made available to English-speaking readers.
If you'd like to see the list for yourself, you can download one of the spreadsheets below. In addition to a straight list of translated titles, these spreadsheets break this information down into publisher, language, country of origin, and publisher.
If you're a translator, author, librarian, publishers, or reader, and know of a title that's missing from the list, please e-mail Chad W. Post (chad.post at rochester dot edu) with the necessary information.
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It took reading 44 pages of Intervenir/Intervene before I began to get a sense of what Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez were up to. Recurring throughout these 44 pages—throughout the entire book—are shovels, shovel smacks to the face, lobelias—aha!. . .
As presaged by its title, contradiction is the theme of Peter Stamm's novel, All Days Are Night. Gillian, a well-known television personality, remains unknowable to herself. And Hubert, a frustrated artist and Gillian's lover, creates art through the process of. . .
It's a rare and wonderful book that begins and ends with violence and humor. At the start of Etgar Keret's The Seven Good Years, Keret is in a hospital waiting for the birth of his first child while nurses, in. . .
Last year, Han Kang's The Vegetarian was an unexpected critical hit. Now, it's just been published in the U.S. and has already received a great deal of positive critical attention. The Vegetarian was a bold book to attempt as an. . .
It's been almost a year since the publication of Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, but despite being included on the 2015 PEN Translation award longlist, and some pretty vocal support from key indie presses, the book has. . .
Jorge Eduardo Benavides' novel La paz de los vencidos (The Peace of the Defeated) takes the form of a diary written by a nameless Peruvian thirty-something intellectual slumming it in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands. Recently relocated. . .
Anyone with any interest at all in contemporary Moroccan writing must start with Souffles. A cultural and political journal, Souffles (the French word for "breaths") was founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and Mostafa Nissabouri. Run by a group of. . .


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If your dog's Rabies vaccine expires you may run afoul of the law. The first vaccine your dog receives as a puppy is estimated to be effective at least a year. Subsequent vaccines, depending on the manufacturer and state of issue may last longer. Drs. Dodds and Schultz, veterinarians who study immunology believe vaccines offer protection for 7-10 years and in some cases for the lifetime of your dog but since the state requires vaccination to protect humans from exposure to Rabies, you must vaccinate often to be in compliance with the law. Some examples of problems you can encounter with an expired vaccine.
- if your dog is involved in an injury to a person or other pet you'll need proof of Rabies vaccination.
- if your dog crosses state lines, attends a dog competition, or travels by air he will need a health certificate which includes proof of Rabies vaccination.
- if your dog tangles with a wild animal who runs off you'll need proof of vaccination unless the wild animal is caught and killed so he can be tested for the virus.
When you do not have proof of Rabies in these instances you may be subject to a fine and may have an additional fine for not having a dog license (which also requires proof of Rabies vaccination). In the instance of contact with wild animals the penalty can be quite serious as unvaccinated dogs who are exposed to Rabies vector species (fox, bat, skunk, raccoon, sometimes ground hog) are required to be isolated in a cage for six months to ensure they show no signs of the disease.
Dogs who have had reactions to vaccines in the past are at greater risk for future problems with the vaccine so some state veterinary boards allow a blood test called a titer to replace the requirement for future vaccines. However, many states do not accept this substitute. Vaccine reaction reports are rare in part because many reactions are nothing more than a low grade fever the day of treatment but also because reactions reported that may be due to other causes, such as a low grade fever, may not meet the level of proof needed to tabulate them.
It's more convenient to have a veterinarian give your dog many vaccines on the same day but this increases the risk of reaction. If you have a dog who has had problems in the past with vaccines, be sure to discuss in advance with your veterinarian the best way to keep him safe from Rabies and you safe form the law.
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Dr. Eric Washington joined Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists in December 2002 He generally works out of their Pascagoula office and Singing River Hospital. Dr. Washington moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast from St. Louis, Missouri. He had practiced orthopaedic surgery in St. Louis since 1989. Dr. Washington grew up in St. Louis and attended Christian Brothers College JROTC High School. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and attended medical school at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He studied at the University of Illinois in Chicago for his general surgical internship and orthopaedic residency. After completing his residency, Dr. Washington returned to St. Louis where he developed a private orthopaedic practice and worked as a part-time assistant professor with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at St. Louis University. He currently practices general orthopaedics with a special interest in hip and knee replacement, arthroscopic surgery, and sports medicine. Dr. Washington is married and his wife, Joyce, is from Columbia, South Carolina. They have four children. During his practice, Dr. Washington has continuously served on various hospital advisory and functional committees. The list of committee memberships includes peer review committees, medical executive committees, orthopaedic division chief, chairman of the surgical subspecialty committee, and trauma committee member. He currently serves as a board member for the Jackson County Chapter of the American Red Cross. In addition, Dr. Washington coaches youth in the Singing River Soccer Club in Pascagoula.
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Ashleigh Barry '99 (journalism) has covered her share of powerful stories, but her most recent news special for 10TV in Columbus titled "Saving Sarah" has won an Emmy Award and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.
Mark Daly '15 (journalism), recipient of an SBS Internship Award that allowed him to work at the Lowell Spinners baseball team, says this and so many other UMass experiences have paved the way for a career in media relations.
The Wellspring Collaborative, an innovative economic development organization in Springfield co-directed by Fred Rose, lecturer at the Center for Public Policy and Administration, has received two new grants totaling $70,000.
"Right after college is the best time to do something like this," Dan Robinson '14 (communication/information technology) says. "It's a time where you're trying to figure out what's next in your life. Going far outside your comfort zone and surrounding yourself with a completely new culture and language is a great way to reflect on the past 4 years of college."
Maija Hall '17 (sociology) addressing students at the Rally for Tolerance.
Maija Hall '17 (sociology) addressing students at the Rally for Tolerance.
In response to several threatening racist messages that were scrawled on dorm-room doors, about 1,000 students of all colors flooded the Student Union to lend their voices to a suddenly powerful outcry against racism on campus.
Samalid Hogan '03 (economics/Spanish) is launching CoWorkSpringfield!, an initiative dedicated to creating a diverse peer support network of entrepreneurs while offering a professional coworking space in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts.
In the New York Times Opinion Pages' "Room for Debate" (October 15), Prof. Joya Misra (sociology and public policy), editor of the journal Gender & Society, speaks out about "Freezing Plans for Motherhood and Staying on the Job."
Nia Decaille '15 (journalism, legal studies) sat in the lobby of the fourth floor of the Integrative Learning Center on Thursday, October 9, 2014 with fellow journalism majors awaiting the arrival of the UMass system president Robert Caret.
Brian Schaffner's funding will allow him to create one of the largest multi-year election panel surveys ever produced.
Jasmine Abreu '14 (communication) has involved herself in a myriad of campus activities, including participation in the first UMass Women into Leadership Conference.
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Vettel pays tribute to Bianchi after Hungary win
Sebastian Vettel dedicated his victory to the late Jules Bianchi after winning a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix.
Sebastian Vettel dedicated his victory to the late Jules Bianchi after winning a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton will start from pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix after his sizzling form showed no sign of relenting in the searing Budapest heat.
Sergio Perez walked away unscathed from a high-speed crash in Friday's opening practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Listen to modern pentathlete Natalya Coyle who won the bronze medal at last weekend's Hungarian Indoor Open, achieving her and Ireland's first ever individual medal in an international pentathlon event.
Overdose's owner Zoltan Mikoczy has a Group One victory in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot as the priority of the Hungarian sprinter's trip to Britain.
The National Aquatic Centre, which will host next week's National Swimming Championships, has announced that the British and Hungarian men's water polo teams will arrive in Dublin for London Olympic training and international fixtures at the beginning of June.
Michael Schumacher issued a rare apology to former team-mate Rubens Barrichello for almost putting him in the wall in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Mark Webber cruised to his fourth win of the season to reclaim the lead in the championship following a chaotic Hungarian Grand Prix.
Red Bull Racing destroyed their rivals in qualifying ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix by sweeping to their sixth all-front row of the year spearheaded by pole king Sebastian Vettel.
Manchester City have lined up Hungarian international Marton Fulop on loan from Premier League rivals Sunderland to resolve a goalkeeping crisis threatening their bid for a Champions League qualifying place.
Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing victory in the Hungarian capital.
Brazilian Felipe Massa will be back behind the wheel of a Formula One car next week for tests in the 2007 Ferrari, less than three months after suffering a serious injury at the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Italian team said on Wednesday.
Dirk Kuyt scored the only goal as Liverpool laboured to see off a determined Debrecen in the Champions League at Anfield.
Lewis Hamilton is confident his first victory of the season at last month's Hungarian Grand Prix was no flash in the pan and is bullish over his prospects of a repeat this weekend in Valencia.
Felipe Massa has acknowledged he is lucky to be alive after last week's crash in the Hungarian Grand Prix - and is vowing to race again.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa will leave intensive care on Wednesday after taking his first steps since he fractured his skull in a crash at last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, the Formula One team said
Injured F1 driver Felipe Massa can now communicate 'actively' and is able to move his hands and legs, a Hungarian Defence Ministry spokesman said.
Lewis Hamilton was back on top of the podium today after claiming his first victory since October's Chinese Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa will not race in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix after being knocked unconscious during a major accident in qualifying.
Renault's Fernando Alonso took his first pole position in nearly two years on Saturday after a Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session overshadowed by Ferrari's Felipe Massa suffering a heavy crash.


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Tech giant Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 6 is coming out later this year, but you wouldn't know that from the way it's being talked about today.
To be sure, the bar is set about as high as it ever has been for Apple -- and for good reason. As investors everywhere await Apple's promised new products to usher in an entirely new era of growth for the tech giant, the iPhone 6 is undoubtedly the most concrete possible growth driver for Apple in the months ahead.
And if a recent report surrounding the iEverything maker turns out to be true, it could mean great things for Apple's iPhone 6.
Lower power, more screen
One of the main trends in the global smartphone market has been surging screen sizes among many of today's best-selling devices. And, in that same vein, Apple's recently rumored buyout talks with power-efficient chipmaker Renesas could mean Apple is planning to up the ante when it comes to the iPhone 6's screen size, as well.This would be a classic Apple move, as the tech giant is famous for its use of targeted acquisitions or investments to gain control of difficult-to-replicate technologies.
As tech and telecom analyst Andrew Tonner discusses in the video below, this storyline could also tip Apple's hand for its plans for the upcoming iPhone 6, as well.
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When is the correct time to file a mandamus petition. I filed a habeas corpus while in prison, than i was released and my habeas was denied, because I was not under custody no longer. now that i'm released can i file a mandamus or is their another form or petition that I can file. This is for a drug case in 2009. This is for California I want to plea to a lesser charge under PADILLA V. KENTUCKY. I was never told that if I pled guilty to Cal. Penal Code 11375.5 that I faced deportation. Under PADILLA V KENTUCKY my public defender has a right to let me know of the consequences of my plea. I never talk to a public defender to explain to me the process that was going on during the court hearing. If I knowed that pleading to this charge would get me deported I would of opted to plea to a lesser charge like Cal. Penal Code 11377 which has no immigration consequences. Now that I been deported I would like to fight this case, but I'm stuck as to the next level I should take.
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Procedural timing is a matter of state law and you didn't identify a state. As to filing a writ of mandamus, the purpose of that writ petition is to seek to have the court order a public agency or governmental body to do something it has neglected or refused to do. It generally isn't something you can file post-conviction particularly when a habeas has been denied because you are no longer in custody.
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Why would you like to file such a petition?
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Ruta Meilutyte's drive into uncharted waters on breaststroke continued apace at the Moscow round of the FINA World Cup today with a 1:02.36 world record victory. Out in 29.56, the 16-year-old Brit-based Lithuanian stunned double world champion Yuliya Efimova (RUS) with a 0.59 reaction off the blocks, a blistering first half and a roaring 32.80 return.
The first day of the third round of the Cup also witnessed a second world mark or sorts. Russians Sergey Makov, Andrey Grechin, Daria Tcvetkova and Ekaterina Borovikova established what FINA will record as the second world record ever in the 4x50m mixed medley relay. Their 1:41.70 was well inside the 1:49.87 effort of club tam from Indiana James Wells, Cody Miller, Gia Dalesandro and Olivia Barker last month. Here's the background to that, while the best ever in the event remains the French effort of 1:38.74 that delivered the European s/c crown in Chartres last November for Jeremy Stravius (23.13); Florent Manaudou (25.90); Melanie Henique (25.61); Anna Santamans (24.10).
The day also saw three wins for Sarah Sjoestrom (SWE) and six podium places for Katinka Hosszu (HUN) but the 100m breaststroke final stole the show.
Efimova, who pipped Meilutyte for the 50m world crown in Barcelona this summer past, was out in 30.28 and back in 1:03.53 for silver, Alia Atkinson (JAM) taking third in 1:04.64. The Lithuanian smarted after the 50m clash in Barcelona. Today, she threw down another gauntlet for the Russian and other rivals.
The world record had stood to Rebecca Soni, the American beaten by Meilutyte for Olympic gold in London last year, in 1:02.70. Soni was absent from the world championships this far when the Lithuanian backed up with a world l/c record of 1:04.35 in semis and the world crown a touch slower in the final. A heavy cold fought off just before travelling, the world champion's form in Moscow had been in doubt. No longer.
"I didn't expect I could swim so fast," said Meilutyte. "It wasn't the aim to beat a record or to beat Yulia Efimova, but it was nice to win. I got back to training just a few weeks ago. I had some injuries, I was ill. My plan for this season is to improve myself as much as I can."
Meilutyte and Efimova may well press each other to challenging Jessica hardy's world 50 s/c record of 28.80 tomorrow. Meilutyte, coached by Jon Rudd at Plymouth Leander and College in England, now has three breaststroke world record to her name, all established this season:
- 29.48 50m 3 Aug 2013 World Championships Barcelona, Spain
- 1:04.35 100m July 29, 2013 Barcelona, Spain
- 1:02.36 100m 12 Oct 2013 World Cup Moscow, Russia
The best 10 performances ever:
- 1:02.36 Meilutyte, Ruta, LTU, SCM2013
- 1:02.70 Soni, Rebecca, USA SCM2010
- 1:03.00 Jones, Leisel, AUS SCM2010
- 1:03.30 Hardy, Jessica, USA SCM2010
- 1:03.33 Hardy, Jessica, USA SCM2012
- 1:03.41 Atkinson, Alia, JAM SCM2013
- 1:03.52 Meilutyte, Ruta, LTU SCM2013
- 1:03.63 Jones, Leisel, AUS SCM2011
- 1:03.72 Jones, Leisel, AUS SCM2008
- 1:03.73 Katsoulis, Sarah, AUS SCM2010
Another Olympic champion showing great form was Chad Le Clos (RSA, photo, La Presse/arena), on 1:49.83 as the only man inside 1:51.5 in the 200m butterfly. The time left the world champion shy of the 1:49.04 world mark he set in Eindhoven at the first round of the cup back in August off the back of Barcelona world l/c titles peak form. Le Clos led from go to gold, turning in 25.16, 53.78 and 1:22.29 on his way to a decisive history over Tom Shields (USA), on 1:51.98, and Poland's world-titles medallist Pawel Korzeniowski, on 1:52.06.
Roland Schoeman having won the 50m breaststroke earlier, Myles Brown, Le Clos' training partner under the guidance of coach Graham Hill, added to the South African joy with a 3:41.79 victory in the 400m freestyle. Robert Hurley, the Australian winner of the 100m back earlier in the session, clocked 3:43.89 for second, Brazilian teammates Lucas Da Cruz Kanieski and Marcos Oliveira next home on 3:44.75 and 3:45.99 respectively.
In the dash events, Schoeman took the breaststroke field by storm with a 25.83 triumph as the only man not only to get under 26 but 27: Sasa Gerbec (CRO), on 27.09, and Kirill Strelnikov (RUS), 27.20, followed him home. Schoeman returned to the fray in the last solo men's final of the day for a 22.26 win over Le Clos, on 22.55, in the 'fly dash, third place to Steffan Deibler (GER), on 22.86.
The first session of the third round of the Cup witnessed a trio of triumphs for Sarah Sjoestrom (SWE).
After Olympic silver medallist Mireia Belmonte (ESP) took the 800m free in 8:19.55 ahead of Katinka Hosszu (HUN), on 8:22.17, an Sarah Kohler (GER), on 8:25.53, the Hungarian claimed a second silver just 20 minutes later with a 1:54.15 (a touch slower than her heats time), world 100m free silver medallist and world 100m 'fly champion Sjoestrom (SWE, pictured) following Belmonte's example in keeping the world cup queen at bay, in 1:53.76. Sjoestrom did not quite lead from go to gold, world-titles l/c silver medallist over 400m this summer past summer, Melanie Costa (ESP) ahead with 50m to go before succumbing to pressure from the Swedish and Hungarians aces and settling for bronze in 1:54.28, Veronika Popova (RUS) on 1:54.85.
Sjoestrom [photo: LaPresse/arena] returned a little later to claim the 100m butterfly in 57.04 for a second gold on the day off a leading half-way split of 27.04, 0.01sec ahead of Tao Li (SIN) at the turn. The world champion was 0.6sec faster on the way home, Tao good for second in 57.65, just holding off Hosszu, third in hr third race on 57.67, after a 29.96 return 50. Hosszu had more on her plate yet: Daryna Zevina (UKR) clocked 27.12 for the 50m backstroke win ahead of the Hungarian, on 27.46, with Alexandra Papusha (RUS), on 27.63. Zevina backed up with a second gold in the 200m with a class-apart 2:02.95 towards the end of the session. The minor spoils went to japan's Sayaka Akase, 2:05.69, and Hosszu, on 2:07.21 for her sixth podium place of the day.
Sjoestrom took a third gold of the day in 24.20 in the 50m freestyle, Dorothea Brandt (GER) second in 24.38, 0.04sec up on Russian 16-year-old Rosaliya Nasretdinova.
Before her last visit to the podium, Hosszu finally took gold, a 2:06.86 effort in the 200m medley a strong sting too far for the rest, Sophie Allen (GBR) second on 2:08.29, Theresa Michalak (GER) third in 2:09.74.
David Verraszto (HUN) dominated the 400m medley as the sole sub-4:10 swimmer, on 4:06.92, the race in his control from the 150m mark onwards. Russian teammates Dimitry Gorbunov and Alexander Tikhonov took the minor spoils in 4:10.28 an 4:10.49.
Robert Hurley (AUS) took the 100m backstroke in 50.32 ahead of teammate Ashley Delaney, on 51.13, Poland's world-titles 200m silver medallist Radoslaw Kawecki third in 51.28.
Viatcheslav Sinkevich gave the hosts something to cheer about with a 2:05.61 win in the 200m breaststroke ahead of Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson (GBR), on 2:06.90, and the winners' teammate Oleg Kostin, on 2:07.32.
The hosts cheered for their first home win when US-based world s/c champion Vladimir Morozov scorched a 45.68 victory just 0.04sec shy of the world cup record held by Matt Abood (AUS) since the last season of shiny suits in 2009. Morozov put in a decisive 21.84 half-way split on his way to setting the standard at the helm of the 2013-2014 world rankings (that season split will be made in our rankings offer in the coming week). The 2012 world cup champion Kenneth To (AUS) was closest, on 46.87, Konrad Czerniak (POL) third in 47.34.
Morozov was back later for a second win over To, 51.61 to 51.83 in the 100m medley, third place going to 50m free podium placer at l/c world this summer past, George Bovell (TRI) in 52.88.


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|Los Angeles Football Stadium would actually be in the City of Industry, 22 miles from downtown. (US Presswire)
The NFL is coming back to Los Angeles. It's known and accepted leaguewide, and a staple of conversations during owners meetings. It's going to happen. The only questions remain when, and precisely where within the region.
But the issue is only going to gain pertinence at the upper echelons of the game. At the macro level, so much has already been accomplished. There is a 10-year CBA in place. The television contracts have been extended into the next decade. Attention is now focused on taking over the last top American metropolitan market without a team, and then, ultimately, developing strategies for expanding the brand globally, which very well could include a franchise in London at some point.
Of course by that time, L.A. will already have two teams. To many high-ranking team officials I spoke to, it's a foregone conclusion that once whatever new L.A. football facility is built, it will surely end up housing more than one team. But first things first. Who moves there initially, and how quickly?
Well, as commissioner Roger Goodell spelled out in his recent letter to owners, nothing will happen until after the 2012 season, and we'll know by Feb. 15 if a team is planning on moving to L.A. for the 2013 season. And make no mistake, according to sources, Goodell has made it abundantly clear to owners at meetings that no side deals will be cut, no secret handshakes will be made, outside the league office. The NFL will be directly involved in any franchise relocation.
"The road to L.A. goes right through 345 Park (Ave., the league's Manhattan headquarters)," as one ownership source put it. "There is no way around it. It's been made clear. It's in the minutes from the [ownership] meetings." The source also added that even though Goodell's memo last week spelled out several directives regarding football in L.A., that having a team there in 2013 "while not impossible, seems ambitious."
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Conversations with various sources, including some connected to the two current proposed L.A. stadiums (real estate mogul Edward P. Roski Jr.'s location in City of Industry, and AEG's downtown spot), continually pointed to three teams as the most likely to be first to L.A.: the Rams, the Raiders and the Chargers. Several sources, if they had to handicap the field -- and it remains murky due to pending results of an arbitration issue on the Rams' lease and a possible San Diego vote on a stadium referendum in 2013 -- leaned to the Rams as being the team they would pick if they had to.
The Rams' lease indicates the Edward Jones Dome must be in the top quarter of the league in several categories or the team could exit following the 2013 season, and the team and local government are at odds over the amount of money required to upgrade the facility in order to do so. Precisely, they're probably a good $500 million apart, and the sides have entered binding arbitration that could extend through the year. Owner Stan Kroenke has ties to L.A., the team still has an office in the area, and Kroenke has been noncommittal at best about any long-term future in Missouri.
"If the arbitrator comes back and says 500, 600 or 700 million, then, yes, they're the prime candidate if they aren't already," one league source said. "But if he comes back and says 250 million, then St. Louis stays. They could go from being the frontrunner to being out of the running."
Still, several high-ranking league sources believe Kroenke would love to be in the Southern California market, and, should the arbitrator rule the Edward Jones Dome requires a half-billion or more in upgrades, they wonder if the sides work out a deal for the Rams to split after this season rather than play through what would be an ignoble lame-duck final season in St. Louis. They also mention, however, that Kroenke can be very difficult to strike a deal with when it comes to negotiating with either of the two parties currently trying to build an L.A. stadium.
Chargers owner Dean Spanos, according to some who know him well, would ideally love to stay in San Diego. Getting a stadium built there in this climate is obviously a huge challenge, but unlike, say, Kroenke, perhaps, Spanos isn't seen as having the same kind of wanderlust. The Chargers know that given the climate, wealth and location of their current market, that, if current ownership ever left, it would be coveted by others.
The team extended its lease through this season and, though getting sufficient public funding won't be easy, the Spanos family might also believe that being the only team in San Diego in a better facility might be better than ultimately sharing L.A. "If there is a way to make it work where he is, that's what Dean wants," the ownership source said.
The Raiders have a history of jumping to and from Los Angeles already, and that's only one of many reasons the league would prefer they remain in the Bay Area, sources said. The NFL knows this is the last chance for a generation or more to get it right -- finally -- in L.A., and repeating past mistakes won't be tolerated.
"The league is going to want someone [an owner] in that market who has strong local connections," one team official said. "This is someone who has to understand the marketing, the branding, and have the financial wherewithal and experience to pull it off."
And, Mark Davis, so soon after taking over control of the team from his late father, does not fit that bill. And, as far as selling off a chunk of the team right away and trying to be first to L.A. in that regard ... well, sources caution it won't be so easy.
Again, the league will have to approve whoever enters the market and, given the past litigation over team relocations with Al Davis, the league maintains the ability to prevent the franchise from ending up there if need be, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
It's widely known the NFL strongly believes the best economic solution for the Raiders is for them to share the facility the 49ers are building in Santa Clara. While that might end up being the only real option for the Davis family, sources said they did not expect the league to try to force them to do so. However, if Davis cut a deal to sell and relocate the franchise without league approval, it could result in him losing control of the franchise. "The league holds the hammer here," as one ownership source put it.
The only option that makes financial sense here could be Santa Clara, and that's the odds-on favorite. Getting a stadium built in Oakland seems impossible in this climate, and no doubt the league would prefer others to be in Los Angeles. Raiders fans would relish the trip ... but Santa Clara is certainly closer than Southern California.
Some will mention the Jaguars as being possible candidates, but people I talk to in the league don't see it, at least not in the next few years. Shahid Khan wants to try to make it work in Jacksonville and only a sometimes-overbearing local government is seen as a potential problem. Should they get a little too pushy, perhaps things get interesting, but no one I talk to sees the Jaguars as the first team to L.A., if they end up there at all.
And the Bills are a regional franchise, drawing from a wide geographical swath, much like the Vikings. They aren't going anywhere, except, say, maybe at worst a few hours away. There will be sufficient local ownership options when Ralph Wilson passes, and the NFL believes among Western and Central New York, Southern Ontario and Toronto, there is sufficient support to make it work with a new facility. Rogers Communications in Toronto would surely be interested, and building a world class facility in Canada would make things interesting. Regardless, the Bills aren't going to California.
As for the existing prospective stadiums in L.A., a source close to Roski maintains one current team would sell a minority interest to that group in time for the 2013 season, and there is a strong confidence they will ultimately prevail. They continue to doubt the downtown stadium will be built, with issues of parking and tailgating part of the concern, and believe their facility will ultimately house two teams (sources believe potential issues with the Rose Bowl's environmental study, as well as local opposition, make the L.A. Coliseum the more likely temporary home of any team there while a new facility is built).
Sources close to AEG point to their knowledge of a very tricky L.A. real estate market and success building top-notch facilities. And sources said the league greatly prefers the AEG location. However, few current majority owners would be comfortable playing in a facility they don't control and striking a deal with AEG, which would likely want a discounted price given the value of the land it's on.
Roski is seen by the league as being more ready to go -- shovels could hit the ground the moment he gets a team -- but the location is so far from, say, downtown or Orange County, and even with improved public transportation, is there enough around for, say, a Super Bowl? And there is also an abundance of land to try to develop around the stadium.
And that's the rub. A combination of the two proposals, and someone would already be headed to L.A. As it stands, we know that it's going to happen, and certainly it's getting closer. And, ultimately, it could be another proposal from another owner that carries the day.
The wait already goes back to 1994, so at this point the NFL won't rush, but football in L.A. will be a reality.
"Is there a deal out there right now? No," said Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp, a sports consulting firm, who is very plugged into the situation. "There is no acceptable deal in the L.A. market right now. Neither of the deals proposed (Roski or AEG) is acceptable right now and there are issues with both from a league level, and with potential ownership partners.
"You can't look at this as being limited to these two groups. A third party could emerge as another option as well. Maybe someone purchases 100 percent of an existing team and has the ability to move to L.A. in an alternate location. As it stands right now, there are still too many uncertainties to say who will move there, and when, but if the right deal was out there right now, that satisfied all lease requirements, it would have happened."
I'm thinking it will be the Rams in time for the 2014 season, but for a market that's already seen the Chargers and Raiders and Rams go, you can't help but wonder what unforeseen twists and turns are to come before someone kicks off back in L.A.


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Teach Children How to Code at Young Age
LIGHTNING RELEASES — VANCOUVER, Canada (August 26, 2014) – Code is a 21st century stimuli all children should interact with. Children are naturally inquisitive, and exposing them to code early on allows for their mind to experiment and create with a new tool.
As mentioned in the New York Times1,The Walt Disney Company thinks so too. Codarica was selected as one of 11 finalists for Disney's Accelerator program, powered by Techstars.
It's fairly common for most digital natives to have learned their ABCs on a tablet or similar device. From early on they are highly in-tune with technology. As the grasp of technology envelopes children younger and younger, it stands to reason that the methodology to teach development of these platforms should also be taught at a young age. Teaching coding is in line with the core aims of the Mathematics and Science Curriculum, which is implemented across 44 states in the U.S.2
The Codarica program gets children learning about code in the early phase of their cognitive development.
Through the Disney Accelerator program, Atimi's Executive Vice-President & Partner, Scott Michaels, was hand selected as the lead mentor for the Codarica team from over 150 mentors. When asked why they selected Mr. Michaels, Rosalyn Knapp, Technological Strategist & Founder said, "What is so great about working with Scott is how resourceful, helpful, intuitive, and approachable he is. It was great to be given a springboard into the world of how to create a world-class app."
When asked why Mr. Michaels wanted to work with Codarica he said, "Having spent many years in an established company, it's rewarding to be able to give back. Helping a young entrepreneurial team with a product I believe in and I'm really excited to see come to life makes it all the more worthwhile."
Most importantly, Code.org says there will be 1.4 million jobs in the computing field in 2020, but just 400,000 college computer science majors to fill them3. In order to keep up with this demanding new economy, software such as Codarica ensures that children learn the basics as early as possible and in a fun and entertaining way.
About Atimi Software Inc.
Atimi Software Inc. is a leader in mobile and cross-platform development with core strengths in developing for the new generation of smartphones. Atimi develops some of the most successful mobile and desktop applications on the market for leading brands including The New York Stock Exchange, Warner Bros., HBO, P90X, and professional sports teams. Atimi is a trusted partner of Apple and handles high-value intellectual property for some of the largest technology companies in the world. For more information on Atimi, visit www.atimi.com.
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- http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/pdfdocs/nysp12cclsmath.pdf
- http://www.informationweek.com/it-strategy/codeorg-urges-students-to-embrace-programming/d/d-id/1108831?


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Blake T wrote:These are real problems that real people face.
Brad R. Torgersen says:
Go read what I said about not arguing with third graders.
Aurich wrote:There's the tragic irony: Jedi must forgo attachments and commitment to anything but The Code and whatnot, but Dark Jedi are totally swingers. What's a romantic force lady to do?
aeroplane wrote:Perhaps if I keep reading Penny Arcade long enough, I'll want an Alienware™ laptop, too!
Seriously. Alienware™ is the most product-placed product that's placed on Penny Arcade™. It's getting a little ridiculous. Or is this solely my confirmation bias?
I remember feeling the same way during the first series of 24. Man, CTU members sure like to use Apple® laptops! Why is their OS so radically different from Apple's OS, though? Have they jailborkened their laptops? I'm sure that's against the law.
Then I went and bought an apple.
I play a lot of video games but I wouldn't call myself a "gamer" because "gamer" has become a pretty fucking disgusting label
like "skinhead" or "republican"
Fatty McBeardo wrote:A Jedi is forbidden to love.
I fear taken their first step down the dark path, they have.


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Michigan State jumps to No. 11 in latest AP Poll
Big Ten tourney champ Michigan State jumped to No. 11 in the latest AP Poll, released Monday. The Spartans, who were No. 22 before its tourney run, was the biggest mover in this week's poll. Big Ten regular-season champ Michigan paces the Big Ten at No. 7, one spot higher than last week. See the full poll in this post.


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FRANKLIN, Ky (WBKO) -- Police say a man in Franklin is accused of beating up a toddler, and the child's mother is also in jail for failing to report it.
Back in June, a family member of the 4-year-old victim noticed the child had black eyes and a swollen nose, plus the boy said he had a headache.
Police say Brian Fuller, 38, held the victim upside by his ankles and shook him, plus hit the child in the face during a game he called "slap boxing."
The child's mother, Jennifer Douglas, 20, was in a relationship with Fuller, and police say she was covered in bruises from abuse as well.
Douglas told police she did not stop or report the abuse to her or her child.
Fuller was arrested on assault and wanton endangerment charges, while Douglas is in jail for charges related to not reporting the abuse.


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If an invasion fleet without carriers attacked a base without any defending aircraft (either carrier or land based) the invasion would silently fail. Fixed.
Saving and reloading on turn 1 no longer provides the Japanese extra SNLF groups.
Task Force mission text now updates if transport groups are added or removed (changes from Raid to Invasion and vice-versa).
Occasionally "ghost" patrol icons would remain even after all patrols were cancelled. Gamers no longer have to be spooked by these, as this has been fixed.
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This is a "how-to" course for processing access to information requests under both:
It provides guidance on processing an access to information request from receiving the request In the Door to getting the finalized response Out the Door - and everything in between.
The course reviews what is required by law and provides best practice advice.
The course is divided into the following modules:
Throughout the course, there are links to additional tools and resources to help process access to information requests.
The course does not need to be completed all at once. It can be stopped and started as often as necessary to fit busy work schedules.
Once completed, the course can also serve as a reference guide for processing access to information requests.
Disclaimer: The information on this website does not constitute legal advice. Please consult with your own legal counsel for legal advice related to either The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act or The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
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The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) may affect 2/3rds of the servers on the Internet. It allows 64K of user information to be collected by unknown unauthorized individuals, and it means that some percentage of your usernames and passwords have been compromisable for about two years.
This vulnerability has several major classes of player on the field:
1.) The operating system vendors - It is surprising that the operating system vendors didn't notice this vulnerability. They vet applications for security before they are approved for use in the operating system.
2.) The server administrators - It is not ok that they collectively didn't find this problem for 2 years, because there has been an open gate to private materials and data for all of that time on millions of servers they are working with every day. They have been working on upgrading their OpenSSL applications and replacing their security keys, since this issue surfaced. There may be a few servers that don't get upgraded to the safe version of OpenSSL, but that should be a relatively small number.
3.) The domain owners/managers - all domains that have https secure html sites have got to replace their SSL keys. This is not because the keys were damaged, but because they might have been leaked to the Internet at large. Keys are often updated annually, so this is not as huge an unexpected expense you might at first assume. Some of the server administrators only have a single domain on their servers, so these 2 roles would be the same.
Here's where you come in..
4.) You are the one with logins at Facebook.com, Google.com, Yahoo.com and many other places. The first thing you might want to consider is you have been trusting anonymous strangers to guard your safety since before you were born. Entry into the Internet world didn't change that. In a funny way, you must be pretty important for all those anonymous strangers to be looking after you for all these years. You are being given a chance to review your own security hygiene. You don't want smelly security, do you?
Security Hygiene:
Physical Security Hygiene
As a person who lives in a building, you practice physical security hygiene most of the time. You have locks for the doors and windows, chains for the doors, alarm systems, fences, and gates. You may lock your car doors and take the keys with you when you drive someplace. You would consider somebody who didn't follow all these patterns to be naive or stupid. You probably maintain very good physical security hygiene, and if you discover a place where that hygiene is not up to par, you probably fix it as quickly as you are able.
Digital Security Hygiene
Your digital security hygiene may be just as immaculate. You may have different passwords for each of the places you log in to. You may change those passwords at least annually, and you may protect your passwords from others (no sharing). Lots of us are not so careful about our digital hygiene.
The reason to have good digital security hygiene is that your information, when spread to anonymous strangers can cause trouble. The personal data could be used to steal your identity. Your credit cards could be used to buy things in your name that you do not want. Your computer could be infected and owned by somebody who will use it as a base for attacking others. Even if you have nothing in the bank account, and your credit cards are maxed already and you have nothing but pictures from your summer vacation on your computer, sloppy digital security hygiene can have a negative effect upon you and others.
How do you remember all those passwords with at least 8 characters, a number, a secret sign, a capital letter, and all the other complex stuff that we are told the password must contain? How about using your browser to remember the passwords? This is itself a bit of a physical security risk, but if your computer is physically secure and you have a good password to log in to the computer, it is far less dangerous than writing them all on a notebook. A better solution might be using a program like KeePass, which keeps all your passwords encrypted and protected by a master password. You can keep very long complex passwords there, and not usually have to worry about decrypting your password hash if it is stolen from a web site.
For sites that you may have to visit occasionally from other computers, you might need a password you can remember easily. One method is to think of song lyrics you always remember, for instance, "There's a lady who knows all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven." Take the first letters and the punctuation and make that a password. "Talwkatgig,as'bastH." would be easy to remember, is not a dictionary word (except, possibly, in Klingon), and is 19 characters long. Don't use the same password on all of your special sites, of course.
Finally - Don't Panic!
This vulnerability has been available for 2 years, and there is not yet much evidence that your passwords have been used against you. You don't need to wait until somebody does finally decrypt your password, since you really should be changing your passwords on an annual basis anyway. Realize you have been lucky. Change your passwords, and get on with your life.


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Do you have pink hair, a bodacious bod, a sassy attitude and an eternal hatred of Lil Kim? If so, you might be a Barbie. This relatively new breed of superfan worships at the altar of Nicki Minaj. Before her there was a long drought of superstar female emcees, so the public was more than ready to embrace Minaj once she hit the scene.
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DeKALB - The Northern Illinois women's basketball team opens a three game road trip when it ventures to Normal, Ill. to face Illinois State, Friday at 7 p.m. in Redbird Arena. ON THE AIR Every NIU basketball game of the 2009-10 season can be head on the Northern Illinois ISP Sports Radio Network. Women's games can be heard on 1360-AM WLBK and Huskie All-Access at www.niuhuskies.com.
THE SERIESIn the series that began during the 1957-58 season, Illinois State leads 23-7 over NIU. Recent history shows the series nearly even, with the Huskies winning three of the last seven match-ups.LAST TIME AGAINST ISUKyle York scored a season-high 16 points on four three-pointers, but the Northern Illinois women's basketball team was defeated by defending Missouri Valley Conference champions Illinois State, 89-67, at the Convocation Center.The Redbirds were led by two-time MVC Player of the Year Kristi Cirone, who poured in a game-high 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting. She was joined in double-figures by Maggie Krick (18) and Shala Jackson (15). NIU's Jessie Wilcox chipped in 10 points.ISU held statistical advantages in field goals (33-27), free throws (17-12) and assists (11-7), while out-shooting the Huskies from the field, 55.9 percent to 31.2 percent.The Redbirds jumped out of the gate early, grabbing a convincing 20-3 lead just over seven minutes into the game. Five Redbirds had field goals in the spurt to jumpstart the run. The Redbird lead eclipsed 20 points, 33-12, after a three by Cirone with 7:11 remaining. NIU finished the frame on a 14-9 run, and pulled with 50-26 heading into the locker room at halftime.NIU charged back in the opening five minutes of the second-half, pulling back with 15 points (57-42), with 14:39 remaining. Aileen Rossouw had back-to-back field goals in the spurt. But the Redbirds answered with a 12-2 flurry, and extended their lead back to 69-44, at the 12:05 mark.ON THE REDBIRDSIllinois State enters Friday night's game with a 2-2 record. They opened the season with a six-point win over UCLA in the Hawkeye Challenge before losing to Iowa in the tournament's championship game. Illinois State then won its home-opener over South Dakota State before falling to Illinois at Redbird Arena, 62-51.The Redbirds are led by Maggie Krick, who ranks third in the Missouri Valley Conference with 18.8 points per game. She will be helped by Nicolle Lewis, who is averaging 11.3 while hitting 59.3 percent of her attempts from the field, also third-best in the MVC.
UNO, DOS, TREYSKylie York, the lone senior for the Huskies, is poised to become the top three-point shooter in school history. York has totaled 216 career treys, just five short of school record holder Denise Dove, who hit 221 from 1987-91. York holds the second and third slot for threes in a season. She hit 77 at a sophomore, knocked down 76 last season, and ranks seventh in the MAC with 15 makes this year.DOMINANT DUOThe frontcourt duo of Mauvolyene Adams and Ebony Ellis is the best rebounding pair in the MAC. Ellis leads the league at 11.6 per game, and Adams sits in sixth at 8.9 per contest. Together, their 20.5 rebounds per game is over a rebound per game more than the next closest duos in the MAC. Ball State's Emily Maggert and Danielle Gratton average 19.0 and Buffalo's Kourtney Brown and Brigdette Kendricks combine for 17.4.ELLIS THE TOP MAC REBOUNDERJunior Ebony Ellis leads the MAC with 11.6 rebounds per game. She's collected 81 total boards through seven games, including 38 on the offensive glass. Ellis has collected 10 or more rebounds in five of NIU's seven games this year, and had nine in the other two contests.MORE ON THE BOARDSNorthern Illinois ranks second in the Mid-American Conference in rebounding, averaging 42.3 per game, behind only Eastern Michigan at 44.0. The Huskies are also second in the MAC with a plus-6.5 rebounding margin, and 16.0 offensive rebounds per game.CAREER ADVANCEMENTNot including the two freshmen, six Huskies have registered career-highs for points this season. Marke Freeman scored 27 points against Northern Iowa, the third time this season she set a personal scoring high. Other Huskies with career-highs include Ebony Ellis (22, vs. Bradley), Mauvolyene Adams (22, vs. SIU), Sarah Rogers (8, at Milwaukee), and Tenisha Wilson (10, at Milwaukee), and Courtney Shelton (9, at IUPUI).DOUBLE-DOUBLE DELUXEJunior forward Mauvolyene Adams tallied the first double-double of her career with an 18-point, 11-rebound effort against Bradley. She kept it up with double-doubles in each of the first four games this season. Adams ranks second on the team with 14.3 points per game and second in rebounding, averaging 8.9. Her four-straight double-dips feat surpasses the three-straight double-doubles achieved by Ebony Ellis last season. She added a fifth double-double with a 12-point, 10-board performance against Northern Iowa.AGAINST THE MVCThe Huskies have played three Missouri Valley Conference teams this season, totalling a 2-1 record. Illinois State is the fourth and final team from the MVC on the 2009-10 schedule.NIU VERSUS THE MVCNov. 13 vs. Bradley W, 86-73Nov. 22 vs. Southern Illinois W, 74-65Dec. 2 vs. Northern Iowa L, 71-65ILLINOIS ON MY MINDThe Huskies played their fourth of eight games this year against in-state teams when they hosted No. 15 DePaul. The total is the most in-state foes since 2006-07, when NIU also faced eight Prairie State rivals, beating six. Northern Illinois is currently 2-2 against Illinois teams, with wins over Bradley and Southern Illinois.NIU VERSUS THE STATE OF ILLINOISNov. 13 vs. Bradley W, 86-73Nov. 17 vs. Western Illinois L, 50-48Nov. 22 vs. Southern Illinois W, 74-65Nov. 28 vs. No. 15 DePaul L, 78-67IT'S WHERE THE HEART ISFive of the Huskies' first seven games of this year were at home. That was the most home contests to start the season since 1980-81. NIU now begins a stretch of three straight road games, starting with Friday's contest against Illinois State. The Huskies will also face Nebraska (Dec. 13) and Loyola (Dec. 17) as part of the road swing.MORE ON DOUBLE DIPSThe frontcourt combination of Ebony Ellis and Mauvolyene Adams has totaled six double-doubles in five games this season. Adams has one in each game, while Ellis registered at least 10 and 10 in two contests.


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