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Life Quest
Life Quest is a simulation game in which players assume the role of a high school graduate striving to be the most successful person at an upcoming reunion.
Haunted Halls: Green Hills Sanitarium
Haunted Halls: Green Hills Sanitarium is a hidden-object game in which players assume the role of a woman who must explore a mysterious psychiatric ward to find her missing boyfriend.
Vampire Saga 3: Break Out
Vampire Saga 3: Break Out is the third installment in the Vampire Saga series.
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Ghost Whisperer: Shadowlands
Players embark on the adventure of helping the recently departed move on to the afterlife and providing closure to loved ones left behind.
Gravely Silent: House of Deadlock
Gravely Silent: House of Deadlock is a hidden-object adventure game in which players assume the role of a woman who must explore a castle to save her cursed sister.
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Just observing the aircraft in flight, especially at high altitude with contrails streaming, is enough to evoke admiration for what the developers have achieved.
Battle Realms
Battle Realms has style in spades--everything about it is slick, and it's noteworthy for that reason alone, as well as for many others.
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
Lock On clearly has the potential to be an all-time classic sim, but there are some serious problems in the retail version.
World War II: Frontline Command
World War II: Frontline Command has some new ideas, but these concepts--and some of the game's more-standard real-time strategy mechanics--aren't implemented well.
Red Faction II
The game's single-player campaign is pretty short, but Red Faction II can still offer some good shooting action for fans of the genre.
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior has exchanged all of the depth and dynamism of the Games Workshop franchise for a shooter-by-numbers approach.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles
Forgotten Battles doesn't make the sort of huge impact that the original game did, but it's generally a very worthy successor.
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Bejeweled is a puzzle game that requires you to clear gems by lining them up into rows.
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Full Spectrum Warrior is very good overall, and deserves credit for being something other than just another military-themed shooter or strategy game.
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Department of Political Science
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The graduate program in Political Science is designed to expand students' knowledge and to develop their skills of analysis and professional communication in the area of political science and public administration. The program is of value to both recent college graduates and those seeking to advance their careers. Among the audience it serves are students preparing for doctoral work or law school, school teachers seeking to improve their professional competence, promising scholars wanting to teach in community colleges, present and prospective public administrators, and those preparing for careers or advancement in nonprofit organizations, international organizations, the military, and private business.
Students seeking admission to the graduate program in Political Science must meet the basic requirements of Graduate Studies specified in the ADMISSION section of this catalog and at the Graduate Studies web site.
To apply for admission to the graduate program you must:
A copy of the application is available at Graduate Studies web site.
The Political Science Department offers graduate assistantships. To apply for the assistantship, you must complete the application for admission and the Graduate Assistantship form. The application deadline for the Graduate Assistantship for the Fall Semester is April 1 and for the Spring Semester is November 1. All documents must be in the College of Arts and Sciences office by these dates.
Political Science majors may choose one of three degrees: Master of Arts, Plan I, Master of Arts, Plan II, and Master of Education, Plan II. M.A. Plans I and II may be thesis or non-thesis. Those writing a thesis will take 24 hours of course work and receive 6 hours of credit for the thesis (30 hours total). When counseling with the student indicates that the student's needs would be better served, the department may substitute 12 hours of additional course work in lieu of the thesis (total of 36 hours).
Political Science students ordinarily take two core courses and then focus on the areas of concentration appropriate to their needs. The three areas of concentration are American politics, comparative politics and international relations, and public administration and public policy. With departmental approval, students may take a minor or special concentration in an appropriate area from one or more other departments, such as history, criminal justice, business, or health. The intent is to design a program that best fits the student's needs. For each degree, a comprehensive examination will be given over the core and major and minor areas of study.
Master's Degree in Public Administration. The MPA degree will have a total of 42 semester credit hours. Find out more about the MPA degree.
Master of Arts, Plan I. The student will normally have a major of at least 18 hours within two areas of concentration in Political Science and a minor of 12 hours in a supporting field.
Master of Arts, Plan II. This degree plan is designed for prospective junior and senior college teachers, students planning to pursue a doctoral program, and those preparing for a career in government service. Under this plan, the student takes at least 30 hours in Political Science.
Master of Education, Plan II. This degree program is designed to provide additional study in Political Science for the professional secondary school teacher and is initiated in the College of Education and Applied Science. Students may take from 12 to 24 hours of course work in Political Science, 6 to 12 semester hours in a secondary teaching field, and 12 to 18 semester hours in Education, for a total of 36 semester hours. No thesis is required under this plan. Students enrolled for the Master of Education, Plan II, must also satisfy the requirements for a second teaching field (or minor) as set forth by the department in which the minor is taken. Further information is provided in this catalog under Teacher Education and Professional Certification Programs.
Courses in Political Science (POL) at the 400 level may be taken in limited numbers for graduate credit. They are listed below, but see the undergraduate catalog for the course descriptions. Those courses listed as "Other Courses" will generally fit one of the concentrations, depending on the topics covered.
|CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Credit 3
|POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR. Credit 3
|INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND TERRORISM. Credit 3
|COMPARATIVE POLITICS. Credit 3
|PROBLEMS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Credit 3
|DIRECTED STUDIES AND INTERNSHIPS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Credit 1-3
The MPA degree will have a total of 42 semester credit hours: 24 hours of core courses taken by all students, a 12 hours concentration selected by the student, and 6 hours of internship. Students will be required to pass a comprehensive examination at the end of the course of study.
Core Courses:
Twenty-four semester credit hours of required core courses:
POL 438: Grant Research and Writing
PA 581: Dynamics of Public Administration (3 hours)
PA 583: Program Evaluation (3 hours); Prerequisite: POL 577
PA 584: Organizational Theory and Behavior (3 hours)
PA 586: Leadership and Human Resource Management (3 hours)
PA 587: Local Government Budgets and Financial Management (3 hours)
PA 588: Ethics in Government (3 hours)
POL 577: Scope and Methods of Political Science (3 hours)
Students without relevant job experience will be required to take six semester credit hours of an internship of at least twelve months. Students with relevant employment experience in government, non-profit agencies, or universities may substitute six hours of coursework, including directed projects relevant to their employment.
POL 578: Problems and Internships in Political Science (6 hours)
Students will be required to pass a written and oral comprehensive examination at the end of the course of study.
Areas of Concentration:
Students will be required to select a concentration of 12 hours in one of the following areas: State and Local Government, Comparative and International Relations, Financial Management, Criminal Justice, or Human Service and Health Administration. The following courses are included for concentrations; however, substitutions will be allowed with the approval of the graduate advisor. When the topic is appropriate, POL 582, Seminar in Public Administration, may count in any of the concentrations.
Concentration in State and Local Government: Students will choose 12 semester credit hours from the following graduate courses. None of these courses require stem work.
POL 530: American Political Institutions (3 hours)
POL 531: American Political Behavior (3 hours)
POL 560: Seminar in American National Politics (3 hours)
POL 562: Seminar in Political Theory (3 hours)
POL 585: Public Policy Formulation and Implementation (3 hours)
SOC 576: Sociology of Community (3 hours)
GBA 562: Managerial Law
Concentration in Comparative and International Relations: Students will choose 12 semester credit hours from the following list. None of these courses require stem work.
Nine semester credit hours from the following courses:
POL 567: Seminar in International Relations (3 hours)
POL 571: Comparative Political Analysis (3 hours)
POL 572: Seminar in Comparative Politics (3 hours)
POL 573: Theory and Method of International Relations (3 hours)
And 3 semester credit hours from the following courses:
GEO 472: Ethnic Texas: A Multicultural Geography (3 hours)
HIST 583: United States Diplomatic History (3 hours)
HIST 593: European Diplomatic History (3 hours)
HIST 585: Latin American History (3 hours)
HIST 589: Great Britain and the British Empire (3 hours)
HIST 591: Asian History (3 hours)
SOC 574: Sociology of Religion (3 hours)
SOC 589: Seminar in Social Change and Development (3 hours)
Concentration in Financial Management: Students will choose 12 semester credit hours from the following courses. Some courses may require stem work.
ACC 468: Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
ACC 535: Financial Reporting and Business Decisions
ACC 564: Accounting for Management
ECO 570: Economic Theory
FIN 531: Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Managerial Finance
FIN 537: Problems in Administrative Finance
FIN 569: Seminar in Investments
POL 438: Grant Research and Writing (3 hours)
Concentration in Criminal Justice: Students will choose 12 semester credit hours from the following:
CJ 530: Critical Analysis of Justice Administration (3 hours)
CJ 534: Courts as Organizations (3 hours)
CJ 632: Human Resource Development in the Organizational Context (3 hours)
CJ 633: Seminar in Organization and Administration (3 hours)
CJ 635: Seminar in Leadership and Management (3 hours)
CJ 687: The Ethics of Criminal Justice (3 hours)
POL 438: Grant Research and Writing (3 hours)
Concentration in Human Service and Health Administration: Students will choose 12 semester credit hours from the following graduate courses:
CJ 668: Seminar on Drugs, Society and Policy Issues (3 hours)
HED 470: Study of AIDS (3 hours)
HED 531: Foundation of Community Health (3 hours)
HED 533: Colloquium in Human Sexuality (3 hours)
HED 534: Colloquium in the Use and Abuse of Drugs (3 hours)
HED 535: Leadership in Health Promotion Programs (3 hours)
HED 565 Aging and Health Promotion (3 hours)
PSY 530: Advanced Abnormal Psychology (3 hours)
SOC 565: Seminar in Race and Ethnic Studies (3 hours)
SOC 572: Sociology of the Family (3 hours)
SOC 587: Gender and Society (3 hours)
ECO 579: Seminar in Labor Economics
If you have questions about the SHSU Political Science Program, please contact us at:
Department of Political Science
SHSU Box 2149
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas 77341-2149
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Poorly disposed plastics are slowly poisoning the world's food chain, the United Nations Environment Programme has warned in two new reports that might boost plans by Nairobi County to ban thin plastic bags in the city.
The reports show that apart from killing fish and other marine life, some of the waste ends up on dinner tables as poisonous food.
Unep's concerns are raised in the UNEP Year Book 2014 and Valuing Plastic, the two reports launched this week during during the environment assembly in Nairobi.
The authors explain that plastic bags washed down rivers and oceans are causing losses in excess of Sh6.53 trillion (US$75 billion) globally each year.
The losses result from pollution of the marine life including deaths of fish and turtles or air pollution caused by incinerating plastic.
"Transported by ocean currents across great distances, these contaminated particles eventually become a source of chemicals in our food," said Achim Steiner, UNEP executive director, said in Gigiri.
Unep is now calling for reduced use of plastics across the world.
The report will boost a Bill by Nairobi's leader of minority part Abdi Hassan which bans manufacture and sale of plastic bags less than 30 micron within Nairobi.
This includes all the transparent plastic bags currently used to package sugar and rice in retail outlets, or vegetables in kiosks.
The Bill commits the County to provide depots or places for temporary deposit or collection of non-bio-degradable garbage in Nairobi.
It empowers city council askaris or relevant authorities to search homes, offices, factories or other premises for illegal plastics, as long as they are armed with a court order.
"During an inspection under this Act, an authorised officer may seize any plastic bag or thing by means of which or in relation to which the officer believes, on reasonable grounds, that this Act has been contravened," the proposed law says.
Those found with illegal plastic bags can be jailed for up to one year or be fined up to Sh500,000 or both.
"A person who having been convicted of an offence under this Act, is again found guilty and is convicted of an offence under this Act, shall be punishable with double the penalty provided for the offence, the law says.
A past attempt in Kenya to discourage use of plastics by imposing a 120 per cent tax on polythene bags in the 2007-2008 budget proposals was fought by manufactures of the plastic bags who argued the tax would drive them out of business.
On Monday, Unep boss Steiner said most plastic waste enters the ocean from littering, poorly managed landfills, tourist activities and fisheries.
He said the plastics are now killing turtles and fish when they ingest them, and entangling animals such as dolphins and whales, and damaging coral reefs.
"Plastics have come to play a crucial role in modern life, but the environmental impacts of the way we use them cannot be ignored," said Steiner.
"Reducing, recycling and redesigning products that use plastics can bring multiple green economy benefits."
The UNEP Year Book further says the use of microplastics directly in consumer products, such as microbeads in toothpaste, gels and facial cleansers is dangerous.
"These microplastics tend not to be filtered out during sewage treatment, but are released directly into rivers, lakes and the ocean," the book says.
The Year Book looks at ten issues flagged as emerging by previous reports over the past decade, including plastic waste in the ocean.
It gives an update on each issue and provides options for action. Other areas covered include the environmental impacts of excess nitrogen and marine aquaculture, air pollution's deadly toll, and the potential of citizen science.
Valuing Plastic, a UNEP-supported report produced by the Plastic Disclosure Project and Trucost, makes the business case for managing and disclosing plastic use in the consumer goods industry.
It finds that the overall natural capital cost of plastic use in the consumer goods sector each year is Sh6.5 trillion (US$75 billion) -- financial impacts resulting from issues such as pollution of the marine environment or air pollution caused by incinerating plastic.
"The research unveils the need for companies to consider their plastic footprint, just as they do for carbon, water and forestry," said Andrew Russell, Director of the PDP. "By measuring, managing and reporting plastic use and disposal through the PDP, companies can mitigate the risks, maximize the opportunities, and become more successful and sustainable."
UNEA meeting, which ends today, is the highest-level UN body ever convened on the environment.
It enjoys universal membership of all 193 UN member states as well as other stakeholder groups.
With this wide reach into the legislative, financial and development arenas, the new body presents a ground-breaking platform for leadership on global environmental policy.
UNEA had more than 1200 participants, 170 national delegations, 80 ministers and 40 events.
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The Journey Begins… In school I noticed I was good with numbers. This talent (which I would quickly give up for a great rock n' roll voice) led me to a career in consulting. I quickly realized that the job was not very glamorous. I was faced with long hours, unforgiving deadlines, and many demands from many clients. Then I learned that all this hard work would be done in some of the most amazing places. Rather than getting stuck in offices around the world, I devised a plan to let my job allow me to see the world. I realized that the most important part of my job was to complete the work. It doesn't matter how, when, or where. So, I began working my butt off on planes, late at night, and on weekends to buy myself some spare time on my business trips. This allows me to enjoy all the places I visit. Where does the life of a consultant take me next? This is something I usually don't know until I'm on my way. But I've decided to take you with me on this amazing journey - enjoy the world!
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Very Disappointed!!!
By KC
from Muskegon, MI
Comments about KitchenAid 24.8 Cu. Ft. French Door Refrigerator - Monochromatic Stainless Steel:
I bought this fridge less then 3 years ago. About a year and a half after purchase the ice maker went out. I just got it fixed and it cost me $150.00 to get it fixed. The serviceman also replaced the light and it went out the same day. Very disappointed with this fridge. They just don't make appliances like they used too!!!
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Periodic Leak from Freezer Compartment
By Joe
from Ocala, Fl
We purchased this unit about 3 yrs ago and for about the past 6 months, we keep finding water on the floor. We find the buttom of the freezer compartment with a sheet of ice. We disconnected the water supply about 3 weeks ago and today had water on the floor again. I expected a better product from Kitchenaid.
Plastic hinge failure
By Mike P
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We bought our refrigerator 3 years ago, and have had to have service twice, once when the icemaker failed and now the plastic hinge the operates the deli drawer hasbroken. Quite flimsey, should be metal or thicker plastic.
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Full of poor design issues
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We purchased this a year ago, when our old fridge died suddenly. It looks pretty & hold lots of food, but there are MANY little issues that are frustrating. I'd NEVER have bought this model if I'd have known all these issues. We erroneously trusted the Kitchenaid brand. *Left door won't shut all the way on it's own. It always catches & you have to push it closed the rest of the way.*Inside water button ergonomically designed wrong, button is above spigot so you have to use 2 hands to fill container, at a sideways awkward angle.*Right crisper drawer won't open unless BOTH front doors are open.*Filter mechanism is bulky & blocks part of the interior.*Shiny front surface shows EVERY fingerprint/smudge. Side panels have a pattern on them that disguises much better.*It's VERY noisy, lots of humming/buzzing/whirring/gurgling noises. Not "loud" volume wise, but makes all kinds of sounds, where we rarely heard our old model.Seriously wish we'd have picked something else.
Great Refrigerator, Bad Gaskets
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We've had the refrigerator for 2 years and are very happy with it, however the door seals are completely shot. This should not happen in such a short time. I'm guessing that the wear put on them by the french doors was not considered in the design.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Nice Design But Some Issues
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Have had this refrigerator for almost a year. We are very happy with the space layout - many options for storage and excellent access. Issues - Each ice cube it makes produces a loud clunk. - Ice is in the back of the freezer, so must pull the drawer out all the way to get a few cubes.- You can barely hear the warning sound if door is ajar.- There is a very low level high pitch sound all the time.- The freezer drawer is hard to pull out and push in when full (which it always is).- Filtered ice water spout is inside on our model and pours very slowly. You must leave the door open the whole time you are filling a glass. So, we never use it.
Efficient,quiet and appealling.
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Lots of room for everything, large and small. Would definitely buy another if needed.
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I am enjoying my new KitchenAid Refrigerator. I like the purified water and it is very roomy. I heard it has a good reputation.
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I love my new side by side fridge. The storage space is great and there is plenty of room for everything.
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We are very happy with our purchase. The ice maker is sluggish, but we are having no problem getting it replaced. Kitchenaid has been wonderful to work with.
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The drought in Northern California has brought some slithering creatures out of their habitats and into neighborhoods looking for water, rattlesnakes. These are not the snakes you want around your home and the people who catch snakes for a living are raking it in right now, according to CBS Local News in Sacramento on June 25.
The California drought is bringing out all types of animals looking for water and food. The snakes are inundating the neighborhoods and people are quick to call someone to remove the slithering creatures when spotted in and around their homes, according to CBS News.
Lee Ramirez, who owns a rattlesnake removal company, reports that this is the busiest years he's had in the past 30 years. Rattlesnakes are dangerous and the drought has kept the snakes coming. This is evident by the overwhelming amount of calls Ramirez is getting from spooked residents who want the snakes they happen upon around their homes removed.
The snakes can be especially dangerous for pets. If a dog happens to sniff out a place a rattlesnake is calling home, it could get attacked. Ramirez warns pet owners to keep an eye on your pets. He also suggests keeping garage doors closed to avoid a rattlesnake from coming in.
It seems as if the rodents are the ones making a b-line for homes without water or food. Their predators, the rattlesnakes, are following and this is what is causing the massive influx of the rattlers.
Because of the drought people are not watering their lawns as they once did and that runoff that would supply water for the snakes and rodents is no longer there. That is bringing them close to the houses and inside the homes if they find a way in, like through an open garage door.
According to the Animal Medical Center of Southern California, dogs are 20 times more likely to be bit by a rattlesnake than people. They are also 25 percent more likely to die after being bitten than a person is, according to the website.
This would stand to reason because of a dog's behavior. They are constantly sniffing along the ground and would more than likely be curious if they saw a snake. As far as dying from a rattlesnake bite, a dog is not as big as a person, so the venom, which may not be enough to kill an adult, could kill a dog.


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Deep in Four Holes Swamp in Harleyville about 45 minutes from Charleston, you will find Francis Beidler Forest much like a velvet swathed box tucked away in a dresser drawer, holding some of nature's most extravagant jewels for safekeeping. Home to the prothonotary warbler, the yellow-crowned night heron and other elusive and astonishing creatures, Beidler Forest is itself a jewel in South Carolina's crown of exquisite natural places of beauty and ecological diversity.
Listed as one of the nation's most important birding sites, Beidler Forest is talked about in hushed tones by enthusiastic birders, not to keep it a secret, but because encounters there demand reverence. A popular highlight of the Santee Birding and Nature Festival, those who had been there recommended it as a place to see "lifetime" birds, or birds you've never seen before and will never forget after.
Equipped with an interpretive booklet, visitors follow a 1.75 mile boardwalk into the heart of the swamp, guided by with interpretive signposts, rain shelters and plenty of good gazing spots.
Nature does not wait for you to catch up. Nature does not pose on demand and appear just because you are there to see it, but if you move so as not to break the spell, nature astonishes. Beidler Forest teaches this lesson of the attentive and hopeful approach, without expectations, ready to be surprised. And here, nature will surprise you around any given corner at any given moment.
One minute you may be straining your eyes, even with binoculars, to catch sight of a mysterious flutter high in the leaf canopy. And then, a warm yellow flash bursts out of the gray-green swamp just feet in front of you and there, on a cypress knee nearby, a prothonotary warbler looks straight at you from his bright eye and sings his head off in ecstatic salutation.
Or the yellow-crowned night-heron stalks through the dappled brilliance of fitful sun and wind playing in the swamp's foliage, pauses to catch a fish and eats it while you stare, astonished.
"How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away?" asks poet Mary Oliver. This is precisely the question resounding in the birdsong at Beidler forest where a 1.75 mile walk can take hours and last a lifetime.
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Arizona Head Coach Lute Olson Quotes"This was a great team win. It was definitely a game of two halves. The first half was theirs, and the second half was more clearly ours because we outscored them 55-22. It was obvious that we became much more aggressive defensively as the game went on. If you defend long enough, things will work out, and they did because the harder we worked, the better we shot, especially in the second half."
"We had an outstanding second half, and the key to that success was the play of Luke Walton, Gene Edgerson and Richard Jefferson. Walton and Edgerson came in off the bench, and they played great and had great enthusiasm. (Jason) Kapono is a heck of a player, but Richard did a great job defensively and held him to only four points."
"Jason (Gardner) had some unbelievably open shots, and he couldn't buy a bucket. But, he did a great job defensively and did a great job of taking care of the ball for most of the game."
"In the first half, we were playing reactively on defense instead of proactively. We were reacting to them running their defense. We were letting them get the shots that they wanted, and we were playing too soft on their high post guys. We came out in the second half and put a lot of pressure on them, and we forced them out of the areas that they wanted to go."
Arizona Player Quotes
Junior forward Richard Jefferson:"Luke (Walton) had a great game. Gene (Edgerson) played great defensively. But that was only half of a game. We're trying to put together a whole game."
"That's why I was frustrated when I wasn't playing well offensively. The team wasn't playing well as a whole. But we're being more patient. Early in the season, we'd go one pass, then shoot or two passes, then shoot. Now, we're being more patient."
"We all stayed positive. We've stayed together. We have too many good people, good coaches and good players, to not do well. I think our team defense has been key. Your team defense leads to offense."
"We had a little bit more confidence after going to Washington. We started beating the teams we should beat. We have to continue to get better."
On Coach Olson:
"He is definitely able to pull the best out of players. He is a basketball genius."
Senior forward Gene Edgerson:"I come in the game to give all I have. My job is to play within my capabilities. Things are great now. I was making something out of nothing."
"On offense, we've got so many guys who can score that I don't need to fill that spot."
"Now that I have the opportunity to get out there and show what I can do, I'm getting the job done. Not many kids have the opportunity to play here, I'm grateful to the University of Arizona. I go crazy when I get in the game and people are screaming 'Gene, Gene.' That's my fuel, it makes me go crazy."
Senior center Loren Woods:"Basically, we just tried to wear them down. We know they have great talent and great athletes. We just tried to wear them down. That's the level we need to maintain to stay at the top of the Pac-10."
"We got all our guys back. The chemistry is there. We just need to maintain that intensity. We're playing hard for 35 or 36 minutes a game. We want to be at 40 minutes a game. But we've only got one Pac-10 loss. We're at the top of the standings and that's right where we want to be."
UCLA Head Coach Steve Lavin"We did good in the first half, but in the second half Arizona dominated us on both ends of the floor. We wore down and their pressure had created a frenzied pace. They played good smothering defense, which forced us into 21 turnovers.
"Arizona stepped up to a different level in the second half. They were well prepared.
"We have had a good run and won 8 of 10 games. We are going to go back on Monday and get ready for our next set of games.
"Ray Young was due for a break out game. He carried us in the first half with our 8-point lead.
"We miss Earl Watson in our defense, and once he is back to good health, he'll get back going."
UCLA Player Quotes
Guard Earl WatsonOn his injured back:
"When you start every game for your entire career, nobody knows your physical limitations. I am not exaggerating or being dramatic when I say my back really hurts. It is a very scary situation and I hope the x-rays I get on Monday show nothing serious.
On difference in the game:
"I think we lost our focus and togetherness in the second half. They (Arizona) beat us to the punch on loose balls and we weren't able to match their intensity in the second half."
Guard Ray YoungOn coming back:
"My focus was to get back and help my teammates win. I am glad to get back in the flow of game situations and I hope this will give some momentum to win the next time out."
"We knew that if we could sustain and contain the offensive runs that Arizona would make we would be in good shape. Going into the second half we knew that they could overcome the eight point deficit but we were focused and ready to play another good 20 minutes of basketball."
"In the second half we gave their (Arizona) players too many good looks and they capitalized on them."
Forward Jason Kapono"It was just tough luck for me out there today. The whole day I was rushing my shots and not getting my body squared for good looks. I was just never able to get into a good rhythm. The bottom line was that I played poorly."
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I'm on a polka dot craze right now. Thankfully, I blew through my monthly budget on cab rides... which means I have no money for clothes! Double thankfully, I went shopping with Stephanie and gave her strict orders to not let me buy anything. Triple thankfully, I actually walked out of the store empty handed.
So during the event I hosted at Madewell I kept gravitating towards the polka dots. And they were honestly everywhere. We swung by another event going on at J. Crew (which apparently wasn't actually even happening....?) and found a lot more polka dots.
The one thing that I had the hardest time not buying was this pair of pants!!! Hello, they're so cute! (PS there's Steph in the background!) Also, I had a dress on so I threw on a t-shirt to try the pants on, so disregard the shirt.
I can't find the polka dot version of the pants online, but they do have other cute patterns. They're the Cafe Capri. I think they run a little on the big side, so I suggest trying to go down a size.
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Are you hopping mad? You should be. The health of your friends and neighbors (and maybe yourself) just got sold down the river by Senate President Travaglini and his people.
You probably read about the conference committee which was to resolve the House (the good) and Senate (the bad) version of the bill. I wanted to write about the death of decent health care reform earlier, and a lot of people beat me to it. But now I want to call on the blogs, and the people of Massachusetts who give a shit about their uninsured fellow citizens (of which I was one until last November), to tell Travaglini to step down.
He has shown, in the face of real health care reform that will help the people of this state, cowardice and lack of leadership. The polls even showed a majority in favor of the House bill; but still, Travaglini catered to his pro-business friends (odd to me, because 2/3 of businesses in the state stood to get a tax break under the now-dead House bill) and would not back down.
We will not get meaningful reform with Travaglini as the leader of the Senate. Therefore, he must be forced to resign.
Call Senator Travaglini today. Call, fax, and write him now and tell him you think he should step down. Then call, fax, and write your state senator and say you demand Travaglini leave his post as Senate President.
Senator Travaglini is an impediment to progress. Roadblocks are meant to be swept aside. Travaglini must step down.
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The Senate President did this to secure the federal funding..something..anything..has to be in place by approx. march 1st..in order to do so..he is not
totally forgoing the other aspects..he is just focusing on passing this scaled back bill and then..once the funding is guaranteed..they can take their time
and work out the rest of it..securing health care for everyone..and expanding medicaid..etc…
If he wasn't so insistent on not compromising at all on the shift in tax burden, we would already have a bill in place which would do all that plus the reform. But he refused to back down, the only reason I can see being that he was listening too hard to the (retail sector WalMart type) business interests, and therefore the legislature is stuck scrambling to "patch the holes" to prevent a loss of federal dollars.
This bill was sat on for months at the end of last year. They could have moved on it in a very timely manner. The fact they didn't shows me that Travaglini isn't interested in revisiting this after they fix the federal funding issue in June. Do you really think we'll get anywhere on health care reform while he's leader of the Senate? Even if Deval Patrick gets elected, he will be a thorn on the side of everything we try to get accomplished.
He should have stood up and led on this issue when he had the chance. DiMasi did. Travaglini took the cheap road, and tens of thousands of Massachusetts families will continue to suffer, and more will join them.
Travaglini was against Dimasi's proposal due to the harsh unrealistic tax that would
be imposed on businesses…He offered many a proposals to DiMasi..and it was HE who refused
to even consider any compromises..Travaglini was looking for a more realistic and reasonable
plan that would prove to be successful long term ..
Travaglini has been looking to address the health care issue for some time..DiMasi is the one
who refuses to even consider any other bill other than his own..who's the one taking action now
that a dealine is looming? DiMasi refuses to even acknowledge the July 1st deadline for the Federal Funding..
Travaglini does not believe in an unfair business tax..he was not sitting on health care legislation..he was
constantly and consistently working on a compromise..while DiMasi was the one sitting on it.
Look at it from the big picture..
Massachusetts offers free health care to everyone by raising taxes on businesses to pay for it.
Ultimately, people with critical catostrophic health issues start migrating to Massachusetts.
Businesses start moving out of the state to more tax-advantageous situations.
The few people and small businesses left working in the state (only about 40% of the state population now) are left carrying the burden.. and they continue (thats CONTINUE) to leave the state for more reasonable tax situations themselves.
Sorry, but a 7% hit on local businesses (your local hardware store, convenience store, restaurant) will kill many of them.
Great way to put it shawn!
Who let the Cato Institute in?
Anyhoo, Kristin and Shawn, here's one of those wide-eyed radical ideas.
Corporations receive state charters. Maybe it's time to exercise the idea of "You want a public charter? You gotta do one or two things in the public interest. Pay yer taxes and help us provide health care."
Of course, I've always believed that the Santa Clara cases were bad jurisprudence, and now corporations have more rights than individuals, so I am not one to weep for the "problems" of corporations.
The best solution, obviously, is to come up with something at the national level so corporations cannot continue the odious and horrific practice of playing states/municipalities against each other in this race to the bottom. The Capitalism Über Alles mindset is destroying this country.
Y'know, Stan Lee said it best. With great power comes great responsibility.
It's not about corporations but small businesses..
No, it IS about corporations, and how they'd screw small businesses again.
Any corporation that takes its ball and goes home to leave small businesses holding the bag should immediately have its charter revoked.
Of course, I tend to believe that corporations specifically have elected officials write regulations so that small businesses are priced out of existence (while the corporation either has loopholes written or passes the extra cost on somewhere else).
The sheer number of large corporations fighting the DiMasi bill tells me it's the best one of the bunch - though it's worth pointing out that Wal-Mart, et al will probably fight the Trav plan as well.
On Tuesday, Lynne, I disagreed with you and thought your anger with Trav. was misplaced. But after reading in today's Globe that the Senate passed a bill with an individual mandate tacked on, I'm not so sure. If the idea was to put forward a bare-bones bill that would secure the Federal money and ease the tension so a compromise could be reached, why attach this poison pill? That's what I don't understand.
Look, first, under the House bill I support, any business with 10 or under employees is exempt. So you can't pull out the you'll-hurt-mom-and-pop-businesses rhetoric.
What part of "businesses doing the right thing, covering their employees, are already taxed right NOW" do people not understand?
sachem: yes, that individual mandate (which made NO sense at all!) coupled with continuing to punish those good businesses and to keep letting the other ones get away with a competative advantage of not covering employees was why I believed Trav is no longer a relevant leader looking out for the interests of Massachusetts residents. That it stayed in the bill is just more evidence of that.
And for those who are "aww, those poor businesses" (of over 10 employees), I'll put it this way: WalMart and Dunkies aren't going to go anywhere. And you know what? I wouldn't cry if they did. They suck anyway. These sorts of bad-citizen companies hurt local business communities to the point that the damage can only be reversed by their departure. Good riddance!
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VISUAL SEARCH IS A UBIQUITOUS TASK OF GREAT IMPORTANCE: it allows us to quickly find the objects that we are looking for. During active search for an object (target), eye movements are made to different parts of the scene. Fixation locations are chosen based on a combination of information about the target and the visual input. At the end of a successful search, the eyes typically fixate on the target. But does this imply that target identification occurs while looking at it? The duration of a typical fixation ( approximately 170 ms) and neuronal latencies of both the oculomotor system and the visual stream indicate that there might not be enough time to do so. Previous studies have suggested the following solution to this dilemma: the target is identified extrafoveally and this event will trigger a saccade towards the target location. However this has not been experimentally verified. Here we test the hypothesis that subjects recognize the target before they look at it using a search display of oriented colored bars. Using a gaze-contingent real-time technique, we prematurely stopped search shortly after subjects fixated the target. Afterwards, we asked subjects to identify the target location. We find that subjects can identify the target location even when fixating on the target for less than 10 ms. Longer fixations on the target do not increase detection performance but increase confidence. In contrast, subjects cannot perform this task if they are not allowed to move their eyes. Thus, information about the target during conjunction search for colored oriented bars can, in some circumstances, be acquired at least one fixation ahead of reaching the target. The final fixation serves to increase confidence rather then performance, illustrating a distinct role of the final fixation for the subjective judgment of confidence rather than accuracy.
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The car is paid off.
I can probably put down and additional $1,000 to make it an even $10k down.
Would it somehow be better if I sold my car and just put cash down only?
I dont have any repos, forclosures or bankrupcies on my record.
The thing is that I've been looking through that auto loan approval thread and people with my score tend to get the 18% interest rate on new cars regarldess of what they put down. But the new car loans have been all over the place. Ive seen as little as 4% and as high has 18%
I understand that while the lender pulls all 3 scores, they'll use your best one of the the three to get you approved.
EIther way, should I scale back a bit to get a better interest rate or just bite the bullet? Do people have better luck with loans with certain manufacteres over others?
The bottom line is that my credit needs to be repaired ASAP and an auto loan will do much more for my credit than credit cards will. I really want to get my payments around $300 or so monthly which I can comfortably afford. Given my situation it seems it would make the most sense to take a 7 year loan and try to refi after a year or so of solid payments etc.


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These are mock ups of the high gain antennas from a 1:5 scale model of the support systems module of the Hubble Space Telescope. They were fabricated by the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, the contractor responsible for building the flight spacecraft. The model (Catlogue # 19830233000) depicts the exterior shell of the spacecraft as well as the exterior assemblies required for its operation. The model was donated to NASM by the Lockheed Company in August 1983 and was on display in the Stars Gallery until October 1997. It is now on display in the Explore the Universe gallery.
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When the United States went about picking its team for the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championship, there was a surprise name in the middle of the discussion. It was a big, strong, skilled 17-year-old defenseman a year away from NHL draft consideration.
A year later, that same player now will be no surprise addition to the U.S. WJC team. Seth Jones, 18, will be expected to play a major role as the United States looks to improve on its seventh-place finish in Alberta.
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Ballet Bouquet
At NYCB, Dance and Music, Pure and Simple
By Susan Yung
Copyright 2001 Susan Yung
Thursday night's program
from New York City Ballet at the State Theater showcased the essence
of romanticism in a Robbins/Chopin bouquet. It also showed ballet
as an evolving art form through tweaked, rigorous classicism. The
bill allowed the company's strengths to shine even without sets
or big production values: dance and music formed a pure and satisfying
Balanchine's "Episodes,"
(1959) to music by Anton von Webern, led off the evening. In this
paean (and challenge) to pure classicism, the dancers wore basic
black, pink, and white leotards, and performed fundamental ballet
moves mixed in with somewhat twisted ones. Phrases sometimes began
with fractured poses only to snap into a simple echappe. The composer's
spare, analytical music was at times matched by the choreography
in a punctuated manner, like the second hand of a ticking clock.
As von Webern evidently analyzed and dissected classical music,
so Balanchine did with ballet, playfully experimenting with the
form, inverting positions and adding an extra dimension.
Arch Higgins, partnering
Kathleen Tracy, projected confidence and a honed focus. Helen Alexopoulos
stepped over a kneeling James Fayette like a spider; he carted her
upside-down and bounced her plumb off the stage through splits.
Jennie Somogyi and Albert Evans (both exceptionally muscular) linked
hands with four women and moved through logistical kinetic puzzles
like a giant, multi-extremitied monster. Long-limbed Charles Askegard
partnered long-limbed Maria Kowroski in the most melodic passage
yet, their poses (still staccato) accentuated with crab-like, or
winged-out, hands. In the finale, the corps waved its arms in unison
like a soft field of wheat in the wind.
"In the Night" (1970)
surely ranks up there as one of the most romantic short ballets
ever. Jerome Robbins's choreography was performed in front of a
starlit backdrop (lighting by Jennifer Tipton) to live Chopin played
by Cameron Grant, with costumes, including long tulle skirts, by
Anthony Dowell. In its singular, magical way, Chopin's music by
itself has the power to evoke swelling emotion, its heart-rending
minor chords reluctantly resolving to major at the last second possible,
like a feather falling to the ground. Add to the mix Robbins's lyrical
partnering and a top-flight cast, and we had an idealized rendition
of the pure pathos of love, of the feeling itself. Yvonne Borree,
partnered by Sebastien Marcovici, depicted a tiny puff of percussion
with a phantasmic, mid-lift shift of direction, more a thought than
an action. Paired once more, Kowroski and Askegard performed with
a regal Slavic flair, in canon as the left-hand part, finally inscribing
wide circles around one another, she in simple, slow chaines, he
walking. And James Fayette and Jenifer Ringer depicted a feistier
version of romance. Ringer eluded, stiff-armed, and finally cosseted
Fayette in conciliation.
In Twyla Tharp's "The
Beethoven Seventh" (2000), the dancers wore sassy mesh transparent
garments over colorful underlayers, by Isaac Mizrahi. It was the
boldest display of virtuoso balletic technique of the evening, at
times as traditional as Balanchine; at others, evidence of Tharp's
physical wit and disarmament-stocked arsenal. Peter Boal commanded
the piece with his effortless perfect balance, as demonstrated in
five and six revolution turns, and a most basic releve in passe
which was as still as and clear (and memorable) as a picture. Wendy
Whelan and Albert Evans (the latter making his debut in this ballet)
made an interesting duo, both athletically-built in polar opposite
ways. While she uses her strength to cut and slice, laser-like,
into a position, Evans meters his motion to consume all the time,
and sometimes more, that one movement is given. And while Whelan's
approach for some defines the contemporary appurtenance of ballet
-- bold, confrontational, proud -- Evans's inward-looking stoicism
may define the traditional masculine yang to her modern yin.
Damian Woetzel showed
why he is a crowd favorite, as at ease with Tharp's quirks as with
traditional ballet, eager and skillful at enchaining head flops
and shimmies with old ballet stuff. Woetzel's musicality and subtlety
radiated in the smallest gesture, as when he presented an invisible
gift to the audience in his upturned palm. He was partnered by Miranda
Weese, whose clean and proper turns gave a polish to their pairing.
Throughout, Tharp balanced action and stillness, hi-lit musical
climaxes in surprising ways, and managed to work in quotes of the
jitterbug too.
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What's a poor investor to do these days?
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Unfortunately, absent a time machine it's pretty tough to predict the future, and we can't say for certain which is likely to be your best bet. But we can offer you some options to consider.
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John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the writing and directing team from "Crazy Stupid Love," will re-team for this biopic based on the recent Wired Magazine article "John McAfee's Last Stand."
Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire the project which the duo will write, direct and produce. A former NASA programmer, McAfee is the 66-year-old software guru who developed the first commercial anti-virus program.
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PM Netanyahu: Preventing a nuclear Iran was, and remains, my main goal as Prime Minister. Whoever does not understand that a nuclear Iran is most severe threat to our security cannot lead the State of Israel.
(Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)
At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday, 13 January 2013):
1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks:
"I would like to praise the Israel Police, with the support of the IDF, for its rapid and determined operation to evacuate the Palestinian gathering in the area between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim.
As soon as I was updated on the Palestinian gathering, I ordered its immediate evacuation and it was indeed carried out last night in the best possible manner. We will not allow anyone to harm the contiguity between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim.
Over the weekend, somebody criticized my government over the investments we made in security. Indeed, in contrast to governments that invested billions in the disengagement, we invested billions in building up our strength so as to ensure the security of Israel's citizens. We invested and we will continue to invest in Iron Dome, which stopped the missiles, in the security fence in the south, which stopped the infiltrators, in cybersecurity and in the offensive and defensive capabilities of the IDF, Mossad and ISA.
These capabilities have already found expression in various areas, including during Operation Pillar of Defense, which was conducted responsibly and wisely and which achieved its goals . It is no coincidence that the security situation in the country is the best it has been in years and this is in the face of the great security upheaval around us and in our region.
I would like to commend the ministers who dealt with the issue and the government for backing the important operations to ensure the security of Israel's citizens.
Preventing a nuclear Iran was, and remains, my main goal as Prime Minister. Whoever does not understand that a nuclear Iran is most severe threat to our security cannot lead the State of Israel. Not only must one understand this but one must also act both on the international plane and on that of Israel's capability for action. We have done both of these and will continue to do so if we win voters' confidence as I believe we will.
Today, we will present the issue of national heritage. The Ministerial Committee on Symbols and Ceremonies recently decided that next Independence Day will mark the Year of National Heritage. The Government's heritage plan expresses our commitment to pass to our children the heritage of Israel and Zionism. In this framework, we have invested approximately NIS 700 million in a multi-year plan regarding some 300 sites and cultural initiatives. This includes archaeological sites from the era of the Tanakh, sites from the early Zionist period, archives, information databases and more.
I would like to specially thank Cabinet Secretary Tzvi Hauser, who led this plan and has acted out of deep faith in the importance of preserving Israel's heritage and passing it on, with that same deep faith that is shared, I think, by all ministers here."
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said:
"The Samaria and Judea District [of the Israel Police] acted – along with units that it received yesterday as reinforcements – to evacuate the 95 Palestinians, including women and children, who were on the hill along with 20-30 journalists, some from overseas, and the tents that they set up over the weekend.
As soon as the political echelon led by Prime Minister Netanyahu made its decision, the forces were deployed – the inner rings of Israel Police personnel were under the command of the Acting District Commander – and carried out the evacuation without the use of force. The [Israel Police] forces went up to the site without demonstration dispersal means and ordered the Palestinians to leave the area. Some left voluntarily, others required our assistance to be evacuated. The evacuation was carried out without injuries. All were put on vehicles and evacuated to Kalandia, where they were handed over to the Palestinian Authority. This was a clean operation, which started at 02:00 and was over by 04:00. There is now a force guarding the site, including the tents. As soon as we receive an additional order from the Supreme Court, because the issue is currently under discussion, we will continue – of course – to evacuate the tents, should such an order be received."
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Aharonovitch praised the security forces for their action in removing the Palestinian outpost.
2. The Cabinet approved the following Foreign Service appointments:
3. Pursuant to Article 21 of the 1958 Council for Higher Education in Israel Law, the Cabinet decided to approve the Council for Higher Education in Israel's 1 January 2013 decision to grant the Shalem Center a permit to open an institution for higher education.
4. Pursuant to its 30 January 2011 and 7 February 2010 decisions and in light of the national strategic interest and the economic and environmental potential, the Cabinet approved a plan regarding the 2013-2025 transition of transportation in Israel to non-petroleum alternative energy sources and to allow the feasibility of reducing the weight of petroleum as an energy source for transportation in Israel by approximately 30% in 2020 and approximately 60% in 2025, vis-à-vis consumption forecasts for these years, to the extent that the transition is economically feasible.
5. Pursuant to Articles 53 and 76 of the 1965 Planning and Building Law, the Cabinet decided to approve a national infrastructure plan regarding protecting the Dead Sea.
6. Cabinet Secretary Tzvi Hauser briefed ministers on the plan to strengthen national heritage.


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I remember when I first fell in love with poetry.
I was hanging out in my school's library between classes, as college kids do, half working on assignments for my poetry class, half thinking how many ants it would take to devour an entire elephant corpse in less than an hour.
I flipped disinterestedly through the anthology reading random lines from random poems, until I found Walt Whitman's "When I heard the learn'd astronomer".
I still can't explain why, but I read and re-read that poem. It stirred something in me like no Dr. Seuss book ever could.
Over time, Whitman gave way to Emily Dickinson, who gave way to Langston Hughes and E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams, who gave way to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and the other Beat Poets.
If you have never fallen in love with poetry, then this is the best opportunity to change that.
April is National Poetry Month, and I'm throwing out a challenge. During National Poetry Month, celebrate poetry in some way every day. If you can't think of how, the Academy of American Poets has a list of ways to do it.
Get ready to be changed. Once you start diving into the sea of meter, rhyme, sonnets, odes and free verse, it's tough to swim out.


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WWE's annual "spring cleaning" began yesterday, as it included 10 wrestlers and one referee. Marc Harris was that man in stripes and he reacted to the firing on Twitter.
@WWE_Ref_MarcH: Thanks to all my fans and friends. Your truly awesome. Its impossible to hold me down. Watch what happens next 😊
Nobody took the release horribly on social media. The fact that 11 employees were released and not one person complained over Twitter or Facebook is an accomplishment alone.
Here is the complete list of cuts:
- Aksana
- Drew McIntyre
- Jinder Mahal
- Marc Harris
- Brodus Clay
- Evan Bourne
- Yoshi Tatsu
- Teddy Long
- Curt Hawkins
- Camacho
A few of the names on the list are quite shocking. Camacho was well-liked in NXT and his body-type fit the build of a prototypical superstar that Vince McMahon and Triple H like. Curt Hawkins continued to be versatile for the company. Whether he jobbed or not, Hawkins always gave it 100%.
Brodus Clay, upon his debut with Alberto Del Rio, displayed exceptional bursts of athleticism and power. After WWE gave him a dancer's gimmick, it was a slow ride to the low-card, and eventually the creative team had nothing for him.
Teddy Long and JTG were the journeyman of the group. Long, a former-referee, turned into the lovable General Manager of Smackdown that always gave the WWE Universe a good tag-team match. That, or he would punish a heel by making him go one-on-one with the Undertaker.
The rest of the names on this list wouldn't have broken the talent pool's bank if kept. Due to the WWE Network's failures and the catastrophic stock drop, money was clearly lost that needed returned. As any logical businessman does, he gets rid of the dead weight.
It sounds very critical and crass, however, it's just business. Rumor has it that more cuts could be on the way, and it may affect the administration team as well. Stay optimistic WWE Universe, because changes are coming to World Wrestling Entertainment by the day.


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We're not huge fans of sequels for movies over two decades old.
However, after watching this trailer for Dumb and Dumber To, we could see that opinion changing. This actually looks pretty funny!
Check it out!
Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey return as their characters from the 1994 smash-hit comedy and so are writer/directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Expect more gross-out humour, idiocy and dog-cars!


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Kevin Mahogany: Lush Life
Lush Life
Kevin Mahogany (vocals)
My Romance (Warner 47025-2)
Kevin Mahogany (vocals), Bob James (piano).
Composed by Billy Strayhorn.
Recorded: New York, May 11-13, 1998
Rating: 96/100 (learn more)
Billy Strayhorn's harmonically sophisticated and lyrically artsy "Lush Life" was first recorded by
Nat King Cole in 1949 (not counting the composer's own then unreleased version), and thus began debate and controversy that has endured to this day. Strayhorn took affront to Cole's mangling of the lyrics and the structural distortions caused by Pete Rugolo's arrangement. In 1963, Johnny Hartman (with John Coltrane) recorded what is still considered by most to be the definitive vocal interpretation, although that hasn't stopped singers ranging from Linda Ronstadt to Sarah Vaughan from trying to do justice to Strayhorn's challenging rubato masterpiece, not to mention numerous instrumentalists. Sinatra loved it, but finding it too difficult put off recording it, at first temporarily (in 1958) and then permanently. Clarinetist Tony Scott perhaps typifies (to an extreme) the view of some towards "Lush Life," writing on his website: "The greatest singers have sung 'Lush Life' wrong." Among those either singing or playing it incorrectly, Scott cites Cole, Ella, Vaughan, Hartman, Oscar Peterson, Coltrane, Joe Pass, and Strayhorn himself!
So now we come to Kevin Mahogany's version. One of the finest voices to emerge in jazz since the '90s, Mahogany humbly places "Lush Life" 11th and dead last in the track order on his My Romance CD. He also sings "I Apologize" two selections prior, maybe subconsciously wishing to placate in advance those who might take exception to his singing of "Lush Life," or even just attempting it. Mahogany and pianist Bob James beautifully navigate the lyric and chordal minefields of Strayhorn's tune, both artists understated but assured. The warm purity of Mahogany's voice, and his clear and graceful articulation of the words help ensure his success. From his opening foghorn-like "I …" to his daringly near-falsetto closing "too," Mahogany is in full control. Yet even he flubs a word or two, singing "wheels" instead of "wheel," "hearts" instead of "heart" (the latter at least according to Strayhorn's biographer David Hadju, although everyone pluralizes it). He also enunciates "distingué" rather awkwardly, as if wanting to make sure that no one thinks he's singing "distant" instead, as many other vocalists have carelessly done.
Reviewer: Scott Albin
Tags: 1990s jazz · billy strayhorn covers · jazz vocals · lush life
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College Hockey:Union, Wayne State Skate to Hard Fought Tie
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Earlier this week, Union coach Nate Leaman said he wanted to treat this weekend's two-game series like an ECACHL playoff series.
If this were the playoffs, Friday's game would still be going on.
But since they only play a five-minute overtime during the regular season, the Dutchmen had to settle for a 2-2 tie against the winless Warriors at Messa Rink.
Union (6-5-2) took a 2-1 lead into the third period. But Wayne State (0-7-2) tied it on Mike Forgie's power-play goal with 8:43 left in the third.
"We're very disappointed," said Union forward Jason Visser, who had a goal and an assist. "It felt more like a loss. We looked at both of these games as a must-win. To not get this `W,' especially when we had a lead, it's just a loss. We needed this win."
If the tie wasn't bad enough, the Dutchmen lost two players in the first period to injury. Defenseman Michael Beynon was slashed across the wrist and was taken to the hospital for X-rays. Forward Scott Brady injured his knee when he blocked a shot. Beynon's status for tonight's rematch at 7 p.m. is unknown, while Brady is out.
"We turned the puck over a lot in our zone," Leaman said. "Four of the five D were freshmen."
The Dutchmen, coming off last Saturday's lackluster effort against Colgate, outshot the Warriors 30-23. Union had plenty of excellent scoring chances, especially in the final seconds of OT. But Warriors goalie Matt Kelly stopped a Josh Coyle right-wing drive and followed that up by stopping Olivier Bouchard on the rebound.
"I thought we weren't able to put them away," Leaman said. "I thought their goaltender made some great saves. We didn't bear down on our chances. We had a lot of chances in the first, second and third periods, and we didn't bear down and bury them."
Bouchard snapped a scoreless tie with a power-play goal early in the second period. His initial shot from the right circle was blocked by Warrior defenseman Greg Poupard. But the puck came right back to Bouchard, who fired it over Kelly's glove. It ended a six-game goal-scoring drought for Bouchard, who had scored six goals in a four-game stretch prior to that.
"I don't really think about that," Bouchard said. "If it goes in, it goes in."
Wayne State got that goal back just over four minutes later on a nice individual effort by Jon Grabarek. He shook off the checking of two Union players behind the Dutchmen net, skated out from the left side and backhanded the puck over goalie Kris Mayotte's glove.
Visser broke the tie with 46.8 seconds left in the second when he batted in a bouncing puck past Kelly on the power play.
"Everyone came crashing in," Visser said. "The puck happened to squeak loose to the side of the net where I was planted. I was kind of lucky."
Forgie redirected a Stavros Paskaris pass from the left-wing corner past Mayotte to tie the score.
"A tie is better than a loss," Wayne State coach Bill Wilkinson said. "But we're certainly trying to win one down the line."
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Because cosmic coincidence, this January you have golden opportunity to celebrate the Year of the Horse.
And it's free.
The North Florida Hunter Jumper Association's three-week Jacksonville Winter Series opens January 15.
Starting next week and running through Feb. 2, over 500 horses and riders from the southeastern US compete for cash prizes and points in several national and international trials.
Some of the riders and mounts are Olympic hopefuls.
Right here in GreaterJax™.
So what happens at a horse show?
Most people have seen rodeo on TV, and it's true that there is a little overlap between western shows and what most people call "equestrian events."
For one, there are confirmation shows, where breeders bring their best exemplars – best American Saddle Horse, best Quarter Horse, etc.
Rodeo fans will recognize roping trials in the dressage competitions, where rider and horse must complete a series of obedience trials and work "obstacle courses" without the rider giving verbal commands to the horse.
In dressage, horse and rider must work together seamlessly, and the precision required have a clean dressage round is almost unparalleled in sport.
Training a good dressage horse can cost $20,000 and more.
Jumping fences
The flashier part of a hunter jumper show is the jump competition, where riders take their mounts through a series jumps called gates set up in a modified steeple chase.
If you've paid attention during the summer Olympics or you've caught ESPN® on the right day when you're bored, then this is kind of equestrian event you've seen.
The goal is for horse and rider to take all the jumps as quickly as possible without knocking down one of the fences.
A good round is jumped in under two minutes.
And there's considerable money attached to a really good ride, like for instance:
- $10,000 NAL Children's/Adult Jumper Classic
- $10,000 NHJL Open Jumper Classic
- $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby
- $2,500 USHJA National Hunter Derby sponsored by Jerry Parks Insurance Group
And there are other competitions and purses as well.
Stick around for the big finish
Should you be lucky enough to watch a jump-off (tie-breaker), you're in for a real treat.
All of the riders with clean rounds (finished without knocking down a fence) compete to see who can finish the course the fastest.
The first rider sets the benchmark, and then everyone else tries to beat it.
It's a showcase for horse and rider, and good teams make the rounds look like magic.
From toddlers to teenagers and adults, there's something for everyone.
Riders of all ages compete in several different classes across events, and should you take a shine to riding, there are plenty of people who can tell you how to get started the right way.
Tally ho!
About the North Florida Hunter Jumper Association, Inc.
The NFHJA is a volunteer based 501(c)(3) organization that was established in 1969. Over the past ten years, NFHJA has donated in excess of $500,000 to local charities, including the Jacksonville Zoological Gardens, the Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation, the Children's Christmas Party, The Donna Hicken Foundation, The North Florida Land Trust, H.O.R.S.E., The Ravenwood Farm Foundation and the Clay County 4-H.
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