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Dillard University students who were evacuated from the Gentilly campus, were sent to Centenary College in Shreveport, where they were welcomed with open arms.
Dillard's Jerald Bowman was in awe of the reception they received. He said Centenary's students were open and receptive to their arrival, even though the Dillard students arrived at the Shreveport university sometime after 2 a.m. Tuesday.
"What was so flabbergasting was the fact that Centenary students were out waving, they had welcome signs, they helped with bags and luggage," Bowman said. "We're so receptive and so grateful for it. It's one thing to say you're going to do something or act a way, and it's another thing to show it."
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Dillard University President Dr. Walter Kimbrough talks about the campus and Hurricane Issac with Inside Higher Education.
Hurricane Isaac has brought powerful winds and many inches of rain to the storm-weary Gulf Coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana. Among the many people and places that have lost electricity: Dillard University, one of the institutions hardest-hit by Katrina.
Dillard students were sent to Centenary College, in Shreveport, safely out of the way of the storm.
Dillard professor Gary Clark, speaks to the Associated Press regarding gentrification in the city of New Orleans.
"New Orleans is becoming a boutique city like San Francisco," said Gary Clark, a politics professor at Dillard University. "You may see black middle class moving in, but with gentrification there's overwhelmingly white individuals of means who become the new urban pioneers."
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Miss Louisiana 2012 Lauren Vizza, in connection with Raising Cane's, provided students of Dillard University dinner Wednesday night. Hundreds of students evacuated New Orleans on Tuesday and are being housed on the campus.
"We're so grateful," said Jakarah Porter, Student Government Association president. "On behalf of Dillard University and behalf of the student body we really appreciate it, it was a very kind gesture."
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Dillard University makes Washington Monthly magazine's top 100 in its 2012 liberal arts college rankings, based on schools' contribution to the public good in three broad categories (social mobility, research, and service).
Each school was evaluated in three main categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students); research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs); and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).
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Tech Collects Five NCAA Regional Marks at Penn Relays
April 24, 2009
LUBBOCK, Texas - The No. 17 Lady Raiders and No. 19 Red Raiders had a better showing on the second day of the Penn Relays as five NCAA Regional marks were ran by the squads.
Omo Osaghae ran the fourth-fastest qualifying time in the 110M hurdles. He ran a NCAA Regional time of 13.65. Jamele Mason ran a 14.49 in the prelims but failed to qualify
Terra Evans ran the seventh-fastest time in the preliminaries with a NCAA Regional time of 11.68.
Mason ran his third NCAA Regional time in the 400M hurdles this morning. He ran a time of 51.88 to win his heat and finish fifth overall.
The men's 4x100M relay of Osaghae, Julius Walker, Brandon Tucker and Bill Lawhorn ran a time of 41.31. The women's 4x100M relay of Jonisha Boleware, Terra Evans, Tori Smith, Trudeann Clarke improved on its time from the day before finishing second with a NCAA Regional time of 45.22.
The shuttle hurdle relay of Osaghae, Brandon Tucker, Nathan Lowry, Mason placed fourth overall with a time of 56.03.
The distance medley relay of Cory Higgins, Lamont Adams, Zack Dawson and Gilbert Limo ran a time of 9:58.06 placing 11th overall.
The men's 4x400M relay ran a NCAA Regional time of 3:07.26 placing fifth overall. The stick started with Rodney Mims than it went to Gil Roberts who passed it to Brandon Washington and running anchor was Tim Foster.
Tech will start the final day of the Penn Relays and also have competitors at the Oklahoma Invitational. Live results of the meets can be found at www.thepennrelays.com and www.soonersports.com.


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Back to the day job! Disruption & Optimisation
By DaveLevy on May 25, 2005
Been to Betfair and one of Accenture's project teams recently, and following sensible advice from colleagues, while I can't reflect what they said, I can repeat what I said, or observed.
Betfair, fascinates me. They're an internet age business. Their trading site is here... and they have an "about us" popup.
I occasionally bet on the horses, i.e. the Grand National, and even more rarely on politics, but I've always used a bookmaker, so I've not played with the spread bet players, nor an exchange. The Guardian's write-ups mentioning Betfair have mainly been about either how gambling is leading an internet renaissance, or how much money the founders will make. What this misses is the rare nature of the social and commercial relationship between Betfair and its customers. The exchange model means that Betfair are enabling punters to bet with each other. Betfair thus enables a new market, and claim to offer better value to gamblers than the old bookmaker model. It means that they enable individual activity, have a very personal commercial offering and are also highly disruptive to the market and the traditional players. Its all very "Cluetrain". They've created a new market and implemented it in software. They seem amazingly successfull. They're not just about channel efficiency. More an ebay, less a lastminute!
The Accenture team I met asked us to explain our IT estate modelling techniques and approach. The conversation brought home to me some changes in emphasis. When we started (two years ago) it was always about cost, now people are interested in cost, power, heat, space and/or utilisation. Occasionally, they're interested in productivity, cost to manage and service quality. The scenario based modeling approach advocated by Sun, allows customers not only to own the data quality issues (again see my blog here...), but also to test different scenarios against the key drivers. Each customer will want to optimise the different dimensions of the answer to different degrees, deriving a unique answer.
In particular, trade-offs between space & power/cooling can be explored. I still need to work an example through. I've often felt that mathematical optimisation techniques might be usable to measure and/or describe the choices; as frequently the choice we have sought to offer to DC managers is to either maximise utilisation or minimise project cost, and we look to optimise on the investment profitability.
I wonder if a three dimensional graph might work, or if a radar (polar) graph could be built to help understand the optimisation decisions.
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With the Astros struggling to win games in 2012, the club wants nothing more than to extend their two-game winning streak on Sunday when they attempt to sweep the Milwaukee Brewers at Minute Maid Park.
The Astros entered the weekend with just four wins over its previous 38 games.
However, Brad Mills' squad find themselves in position to potentially record their first sweep since May.
Since it has been a rarity for the Astros to be in this situation, the players have requested to wear the throwback blue and gold star uniforms for the third consecutive game due to the last two night's walk-off victories.
Houston wore the blue and gold start uniforms from 1994-99 -- a period in which the team won three divisional titles.
Right-hander Jordan Lyles (2-8, 5.69 ERA) will get the starting nod for Houston in Sunday's finale against Brewers right-hander Yovani Gallardo (10-8, 3.79 ERA).
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Gidday All, >I'm not sure about the specific cases referenced here but it is important to >remember that some folks HAVE to travel within a tight budget. For them >it's a matter of either being very budget conscious or staying home. A few >years ago we had a phred who finally responded and asked if we were all >millionaires since he didn't understand how we could tour without lots of >money, based on what he read on this list. Fortunately, I think we were >able to reassure him that it didn't necessarily take loads of money to tour. To dive off on a bit of a tangent. Just been watching a DVD of John Denvers "The Wildlife Concert" which he performed for the Ameriacn Wildlife Society. What a tragic loss when we lost John before his time. So, inspired by "Sunshine on my Shoulders", "Poems, Prayers & Promises", "Country Roads" and so on; I would simply say; You're riding a bike. It doesn't matter how much you spend. It just makes me feel proud of us all that a planet friendly form of transport remains so popular. (And perhaps it makes me feel a little less paranoid/eccentric about still getting a buzz out of riding my bike when everyone else my age is tossing up which cable network to buy).(Continue reading)


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Why were the Iroquois an important tribe for the U.S.?
The Iroquois were not really a tribe but a confederacy of five tribes [ a sixth tribe joined later]. These five tribes lived in the Eastern Woodlands, around New York. Because these tribes were united, they could be a formidable [strong] enemy or friend. In the French and Indian War, the Iroquois Confederacy were important allies for us [the English colonists]. The Iroquois helped us defeat the French in a war that ended up giving us all the land east of the Mississippi River.
But it was really the way these tribes were able to get along and the way they set up their government that had the most impact on us. Important colonists like Ben Franklin, admired the Iroquois Confederacy. Each tribe ran its own affairs, but they met together to settle arguments between tribes and to fight against any enemy. This is what a confederacy is all about. Franklin thought that the thirteen English colonists should have a confederacy, just like the Iroquois. Franklin also admired the way the Iroquois ran their meetings - it was totally democratic - anyone was allowed to speak. Our first form of government was a confederacy too.
When we united as one country and wrote the Constitution, we borrowed ideas from the Iroquois again. The Preamble to the Constitution - "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility ..." - was written just like the pledge that had united the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy. Seen below is the flag of the Iroquois. The design is based on the Hiawatha belt that symbolically shows the 5 tribe unity. [from www.tmealf.com] [image above from glenview34.org]


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Coach Klein says: "Jake has all the tools and we get 110 percent effort every time from him. There are no holes in this guy's game. He can win anywhere in the lineup, singles and doubles. He is our leader."
Spring 2005: Tulane's team leader and a First Team All-Conference USA selection as well as a First Team All-Louisiana honoree. Tied for second on the Green Wave in singles victories with 16. Played at No. 3 and No. 4 during the season and was at No. 4 to help the Wave to its third straight C-USA Championship. Clinched Tulane's victory in the C-USA semifinals. Paired with Ted Angelinos for three doubles victories in the C-USA Tournament to earn Doubles Team of the Championship honors. Tallied a team-best 19-7 mark in doubles. Had 10 dual-match singles victories against ranked teams.
Fall 2004: Had the most successful fall of any Green Wave player, registering a 10-4 record. Won his bracket in pre-qualifying for the ITA All-American Championship. Advanced to the quarterfinals of the Baylor Invitational with three wins. Also posted a 4-3 doubles mark.
Spring 2004: Selected as the Outstanding Singles Player at the C-USA Championship. Also earned All-Conference USA Third Team honors. The top singles record among five newcomers to the Wave lineup (16-5). Had a streak of 14 straight wins in singles matches, including three at the C-USA Tournament and one in the NCAA Tournament. Lost just eight games in the entire C-USA Tournament. Recorded an 11-13 doubles mark with five different partners. Was 2-1 in the C-USA Tournament and 1-1 in the NCAAs.
Prep: Transfer student from Tecnologico De Monterrey, a highly-regarded academic university in Mexico City. Formerly ranked in the top 35 in the ITF World Junior Rankings. Boasts a doubles win over Andy Roddick in the Sugar Bowl Tennis Tournament. Has participated in Futures events in Mexico. Made appearances as a junior at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the French Open.
Personal: Born April 10, 1982 in Oaxaca, Mexico. The son of Julio and Maria Hernandez. Majoring in business.


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District Profile
West Garo Hills District in its present state has come into existence in October 1976 when Garo Hills district of Meghalaya was divided into two districts, West Garo Hills and East Garo Hills. The erstwhile West Garo Hills district was further divided into two administrative districts of West Garo Hills and South Garo Hills on June 1992. The district headquarters of West Garo Hills is Tura, which is the second largest town in the State after Shillong.
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Area: 3,677 Sq.Km. (including South West Garo Hills)
Headquarters: Tura
Population: 4,70,796
Sub-divisions:2 (including Tura Sadar)
Developmental Blocks: 6
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A'chik is the general title used for the various groups of people after the division of the race. The title is used to denote different groups such as the Ambeng, Atong, Akawe (or Awe), Matchi, Chibok, Chisak Megam or Lyngngam, Ruga, Gara-Ganching who inhabit the greater portion of the present Garo Hills District. But the name applies also to the groups of Garos scattered at the neighbouring places in Assam, Tripura, Nagaland and Mymensing in Bangladesh.
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The word from on high: Pat Riley speaks
The glass doors to the office overlooking Biscayne Bay were opened Thursday, with Heat President Pat Riley offering a few elusive insights into the direction of his franchise.
Nothing ground-breaking for sure, but rather an update on where the franchise stands and where it is headed.
Among the highlights:
Riley said there would be no blockbuster approach to this offseason unless Dwyane Wade agrees to an extension when that window opens July 12.
Riley said the luxury tax could limit the Heat to carrying a 13-player roster next season, and that it is unlikely the mid-level exception would be touched, with the team currently within $300,000 of the dollar-for-dollar luxury tax on excessive payrolls.
He said qualifying offers would be extended to forward Jamario Moon and center Joel Anthony, allowing the team to match offers for the restricted free agents.
He said the team might attempt to move back into the first round of next week's NBA Draft, but the preference would be to purchase a pick, rather than surrender one of its future first-round selections.
He acknowledged the harsh impact of the 2007 acquisition of forward Ricky Davis, with this year's first-round pick lost to Minnesota because of the trade.
He said the team was more likely to add a veteran at point guard rather than add a draft pick into the mix with Mario Chalmers.
He acknowledged center Jermaine O'Neal undergoing numerous unreported treatments last season on his knees, but that the hope is to have O'Neal back at a high level next season, with O'Neal also showing positive signs in his recent workouts.
He said while Michael Beasley will maintain enough weight to play at power forward, he views Beasley as a combo forward, offering comparisons to the Magic's Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis.
He said he does not plan to return to coaching, despite being linked to possible openings elsewhere.
(Also, your Heat questions are answered regularly at Ask Ira! and for Heat updates check out our Twitter feed.)


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At the top of last night's Daily Show viewers were greeted by a surprise: Justin Bieber, who wasn't filling in for Jon Stewart, but who had according to the script switched bodies with the talk-show host, thanks to some magic skull action. Watch the clip—which, spoiler, involves what one might call a "hashtag tramp stamp"—below.
|Intro – Justin Bieber and Jon Switch Bodies
Bieber came back (in pretaped form) for the show's closing Moment of Zen, and someone should really put that drumming bit on loop for all the complainy old people who went into "NO TEEN IDOLS" mode when confronted with the singer's adorable face:
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I'm so happy its Friday today. No, really, I'm completely unbelievably happy about this fact. I'm looking forward to some great February-ness this month and I'm seriously excited to get a bit of a headstart on it today and on through my weekend. Do you have any great plans for February? A Valentine's Day retreat perhaps?
Next week is Sew Grateful Week via My Happy Sewing Place and I for one am going to participate. I plan to do a giveaway and show off a garment too. I'm extremely sew grateful and it will be fun to share in the love! I look forward to seeing what others post too. Are you going to participate? I do believe we've got lots to celebrate in the sewing web-o-sphere. There's so much going on all the time and more and more folks are taking up the craft of sewing. Ain't it great?!!
I also picked Debi's (My Happy Sewing Place) lately finished 30's Birthday Dress Suit as this week's spotlighted garment! It's such a beauty and Debi knows just how to pull off these beautiful pieces with such panache. Is it just me or does she have one wicked smile? It's like she knows something that we don't. Gah! Debi, you torture me with these beautiful, authentic period pieces! Gorgeous and Happy Birthday!
I don't usually wear hats, but this post from Solanah is fascinating and so awesome to me. She also posted about how to decorate a hat pin! She's such a stellar hat-ier! Totally inspiring and fun. I find hats to be a rather provocative accessory. Something about how it casts a shadow on the eyes you know.
More inspiration catching my eye this week:
✂ Isn't this dress rather lovely? Based on Burda Style's Danielle no less.
✂ Don't miss out on Megan Nielsen's brand new addition to her sewing pattern line! The Banksia top is sure to be a winner in your closet!
✂ I loved these photo tips for taking great outdoor shots!
✂ I'm dying over these silk print fabrics from the 20's. Couldn't someone please reproduce some of these? Hint, Hint! HINT!
✂ Casey's two seam top is over-the-top! Not to mention she totally looks darling in it too!
✂ Duane's shirt is exquisite! I'm loving it combined with his vest and watch to boot.
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By GLENN HANNIGAN
July 18, 2012 Lake Junaluska NC
The Rev. Jonathan Holston, senior pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Atlanta, was elected a bishop of The United Methdoist Church on Wednesday, July 18, on the first ballot of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. Holston, 53, was elected with 312 votes.
A total of five bishops will be elected by the jurisdictional conference, which is meeting at Lake Junaluska, N.C. Holston was first nominated for bishop, though not elected, in 2004. He turned down the opportunity to be a nominee in 2008.
"I have learned a great deal in the past eight years and gained some valuable experience," Holston said. "It has prepared me for this new role. I am excited about the opportunity to offer leadership in challenging times and help energize people in service to Christ."
Holston, who was born in Griffin, Ga., earned a bachelor of arts degree in religion from the University of Georgia and a masters of divinity from Gammon Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. Before being appointed to St. James in 2005, he served as superintendent of the Atlanta- Decatur-Oxford district in the North Georgia Annual (regional) Conference.
Holston's previous appointments include senior pastor of Marietta Street United Methodist Church (1983-1986); senior pastor of Clifton United Methodist Church (1986-1992); and associate director of the North Georgia Conference Council on Ministries 1992-1997.
Holston has also served as a member of the General Council on Finance and Administration, chair of General Conference Finance and Administrative Legislative Committee and as a member of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, the Southeastern Jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy, Hinton Rural Life Center, Appalachian Development Committee and the Southeastern Jurisdictional Association for Native American Ministries.
He has also traveled extensively as a specialist in missions to Uganda, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, China and Hong Kong. In his work as the conference disaster relief coordinator, he served on the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the Catastrophic Disaster Response Team and as the Church World Service Disaster Consultant in Georgia. Holston and his wife, Felecia, have two children, Karlton Maurice and Brittany Jene'.
"I have always had a heart for evangelism and helping people live out their faith," Holston said. "People who are familiar with my ministry have seen how over the years I have worked to bring laity and clergy together in service. As an itinerant member of the clergy, I go where I am sent and bring with me the willingness to listen and be patient."
A United Methodist bishop in the United States is elected for life and, although eight years is the standard term for a bishop to serve in an episcopal area, it is not unusual for a bishop to be assigned to one area for 12 years.
Bishops are charged by the church's Book of Discipline to "lead and oversee the spiritual and temporal affairs" of the church and to "guard, transmit, teach and proclaim, corporately and individually, the apostolic faith as it is expressed in Scripture and tradition, and, as they are led and endowed by the Spirit, to interpret that faith evangelically and prophetically."
A jurisdictional conference has the following power and duties:
• To promote the evangelistic, educational, missionary and benevolent interests of the church and to provide for interests and institutions within their boundaries.
• To elect bishops.
• To establish and constitute jurisdictional conference boards as auxiliaries to the general boards of the church.
• To determine the boundaries of annual conferences.
• To make rules and regulations for the administration of the church's work within the jurisdiction.
• To appoint a committee on appeals.
The United Methodist Church was created in 1968 by a merger of the Evangelical United Brethren and Methodist churches. Methodists elected their bishops at one national gathering until 1940, when the jurisdictional system was instituted. Bishops in the EUB church were elected at one national gathering until 1968.
A Service of Consecration for the new bishops will be Friday, July 20, at 10 a.m. at Lake Junaluska.
Glenn Hannigan is editor of the North Georgia Advocate.


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Crave bodies that are romanesque? Beauties that are statuesque? Then watch Bust Out Burlesque.
The show at House of Blues hosted girls pretty enough to be a muse with a side of flowing booze.
It's not just about the girls, as you can watch a rope that twirls when a rope expert whirls
his lasso in hypnotic ways with feats that amaze. This rope master certainly deserves praise.
Yet, the fan favorite is a guy that can wear stalkings thigh high and make you laugh til you cry.
The gregarious host is well worth a boast with magic that makes things disappear like a ghost.
His hands are fairly quick, his comedy is a little slap stick, and he even paraded around like a chick.
He announces girls with beauty, who know how to shake their booty and tease as part of their duty.
My favorite was a girl on ice, who could prance around quite nice and seduce with her cold vice.
Why not tempt the fates and put a lovely stripper on ice skates? Her seductive skill awaits.
Ice skaters usually wear outfits that are barely there, so why not let people stop and stare?
It's a sport that has always been sexy, show so off the flexy by pulling a leg up to your head and see.
Who wouldn't cheer? There's flexible girls and beer! This show gets kicked into high gear.
There's music, that's the thing, and the sexy girls can really sing. Play music that has a little swing.
Now that there's sexy music on, slowly pull off that clinging nylon with the innocence of a fawn.
No, you don't need that shirt. Go ahead, take off that skirt. Some guys look ready to squirt.
The thing that got me though, there's more girls than guys at the show, gaggles of chicks with no beau.
You'd think it'd be the other way, but what can I say? It did not make for chaos or disarray.
It's sexy without the strip club. It's a classier atmosphere than a pub. Have them sign your ticket stub.
The stars are approachable, and afterwords certainly reachable, but don't think they're touchable.
This has a classy flavor, so do yourself a favor and take in a sexy show that you will savor.
The comedy can't be beat, as you'll be laughing in your seat, and the girls are exquisitely elite.
They're not your average stripper, as they're slower with a zipper, but they do more tricks than Flipper.
Of course, they have sex appeal, and can taunt enough to make you squeal, but this isn't a raunchy deal.
It's classic musical taunt, with sexy stripper flaunt, that will leave you in lusty awe and want.
To cool you down, there's a guy that's funnier than a clown; Bust Out Burlesque really takes the crown.
It's not just about the women, as they're backed by talented men; you'll want to see the show again.
It's more of an old time variety show, and if you don't go, I guess you'll never really know.
There's rope tricks and the appeal of sex, magic without the hex, and girls that can really flex.
Believe me, you'll want to see what leaves people in glee and makes them shout like a banshee.
To check out what Bust Out Burlesque is all about, go to their website and give a shout, www.bustoutburlesque.com. Marisa Williams is the author of more than 100 books; she earned her Master's in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. For more by Marisa, visit www.lulu.com/spotlight/thorisaz and www.twitter.com/booksnbling.


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Horsemanship is an important and age-old tradition in the Arab world. The Al Shaqab Stud Farm is owned by the Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani. The Emir's Stud Farm breeds some of the best Arabian horses to be found anywhere in the world. Tourists can visit the farm to view the prize stallions and mares. Al Shaqab has informative lectures and demonstrations, as well as desert rides and dressage and jumping lessons available. The stud farm is situated just 10 miles (16km) from Doha.
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Steffen, H; Straumann, D S; Walker, M F; Miller, N R; Guyton, D L; Repka, M X; Zee, D S (2008). Torsion in patients with superior oblique palsies: dynamic torsion during saccades and changes in Listing's plane. Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 246(5):771-778.
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BACKGROUND: The purpose was to assess intra- and post-saccadic torsion in superior oblique palsy (SOP) patients and the effect of surgery on torsion. METHODS: Eleven patients with a presumed congenital SOP and five with acquired SOP performed 10 degrees vertical saccades over a range of +/-20 degrees. Eye movements were recorded with dual search coils. Dynamic torsion was calculated by subtracting the expected change in torsion during the saccade (based upon static torsion before and after the saccade) from the maximum intrasaccadic torsion. Eight healthy subjects were controls. We also examined the effects of surgery on dynamic torsion and the orientation of Listing's plane in patients with congenital SOP who were operated on either by weakening of the inferior oblique muscle on the affected eye (n=5), by recession of the inferior rectus muscle on the normal eye (n=4) or by both procedures (n=2). Postoperative recordings were obtained at least 1 month after surgery. RESULTS: Patients with congenital and acquired SOP showed an increased dynamic extorsion, primarily during downward saccades. Following a recession of the inferior oblique muscle in congenital SOP patients, half showed significant decreases in extorsion (up to 1.0 degrees) during downward saccades by the affected eye. Following surgery all showed a temporal rotation of Listing's plane (up to 15 degrees for primary position). CONCLUSION: Patients with a SOP show a characteristic pattern of dynamic torsion during vertical saccades differing from normals. Recession of the inferior oblique muscle leads to rotation of Listing's plane in all congenital SOP patients and causes large changes in dynamic torsion in a subgroup of them, perhaps reflecting the heterogeneity of congenital SOP.
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August 10, 2000
Two Insults Too Many
Shas leader Ovadia Yosef gets blasted for portraying Shoah victimsas sinners and Arabs as snakes.
Ovadia Yosef, the Shas spiritual mentor and former Sephardichief rabbi of Israel, is a gold medalist among insulters. The mediahere monitor his Saturday night sermons, broadcast live on Shas's pirateradio station, for his latest news-making tirades.
Last week the 80-year-old rabbi broke all records by lacerating bothHolocaust survivors and the entire Arab world. His apologists lamelyaccused the press of distorting his theological message, but Israelradio and television played the excerpts over and over to make sure noone got them wrong.
The sermon drove a last nail into the coffin of Prime Minister EhudBarak's already slim chances of rebuilding a coalition with Shas and theleft-liberal Meretz, even if it did not shame him into abandoningefforts to ally the Sephardi party with his own One Israel.
The Holocaust has long posed a dilemma for believing Jews, especiallythe Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox: If God is all-knowing and all-powerful,why were the Nazis allowed to slaughter six million of God's chosenpeople in the gas chambers and killing fields of Europe?
Yosef, who has a reputation as a giant among Talmudic scholars, came upwith an ingenious, kabbalistic explanation that drew condemnation acrossthe political and religious spectrum.
"The 6 million Jews," he told his Jerusalem disciples, "all those poorpeople who were lost at the hands of those evil ones, the Nazis, maytheir names be blotted out -- was it all for nothing? No. This was allthe reincarnation of earlier souls, who sinned and caused others to sinand did all sorts of forbidden acts.
"They returned in reincarnation in order to set things right, andreceived, those poor people, all those torments and troubles and deathsunder which they were killed in the Holocaust," Yosef continued. "Theywere all reincarnated souls. This is not the first time in their livesthat their souls have appeared. They came to do atonement for theirsins."
In the same sermon, Yosef, once known as a political dove,denounced Barak for "running after" the Palestinians. "Why are youbringing them close to us?" he asked. "You bring snakes next to us. Howcan you make peace with a snake?" Dismissing the Arabs as "Ishmaelites,"he added for bad measure: "They are all accursed, wicked ones. They areall haters of Israel. It says in the Gemara that the Holy One, Blessedbe He, is sorry he created these Ishmaelites."
Israeli outrage focused initially on the suggestion that the six millionsomehow deserved what they got. Tommy Lapid, a Hungarian-born Holocaustsurvivor and leader of the militantly secularist Shinui party, said:"When I hear Rabbi Yosef's words I feel as if my father was murdered asecond time." Nahum Langental, a National Religious Party legislator,said of the rabbi's thesis: "These are primitive ideas that arouse greathatred among people who are relatives of Holocaust victims and amongreligious people who went through the ordeal at the hands of Nazioppressors."
But as temperatures cooled, opinion woke up to the racism of his blanketdesignation of the Arabs as less than human beings. "I'm doublydistressed," said Rabbi David Rosen, director of the Anti-DefamationLeague's Israel office, " that all the focus was on a weak and spurioustheological explanation of the Holocaust and not on the outrageousracist comments about the Arabs. At least the sages of the Talmud hadthe good sense and modesty to say that not everything in this world canbe explained to our satisfaction, especially why the righteous suffer."Rosen, an Orthodox rabbi, added, "The two statements together compoundthe desecration of God's name. The first because of the way it's boundto be understood. The second, for the very statement that was made. Theylead to a distortion and perversion of Judaism's teaching that God isjust and righteous and compassionate to all, that all are created in hisimage. To stereotype a whole community as snakes, evil and violent is ahorrendous defamation in complete conflict with Jewish ethicalteaching."
Yehuda Bauer, Israel's leading Holocaust historian, accusedRabbi Yosef of blaming the Jews for murdering themselves. "The Nazis,"he said, "appear as a tool in the hands of God, sent to do their workbecause of the sins of the Jews. The fact that at least one millionJewish children under the age of bar mitzvah, so not responsible fortheir acts, were murdered is of no interest. Yosef also does not relateto the fact that, in the sea of those murdered, there was a considerablepercentage of observant Jews."
The Czech-born professor, an inveterate scourge of Holocaust denierslike David Irving, charged the rabbi with offering them moral aid andsustenance. "After all," he added, "they always said that the Jews wereto blame for their suffering, and here a brave Jew finally comes alongand this person, whose words guide the state of the Jews, tells thetruth: The Jews are to blame. If a gentile, an Englishman or a German, aRussian or an American, had said the same things, we would all berunning to the courts of the enlightened world and accusing him, rightlyso, of anti-Semitism."
Ya'akov Kirschen, the Jerusalem Post's Dry Bones cartoonist, earned thelast word. "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef says that the 6 million deserved whatthey got," said one old codger to another in his Monday strip. "So whatsin did today's Jews do to deserve Rabbi Ovadia Yosef?"
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How would you find the image of ${ x+yi : -\pi < x < \pi, y > 0 }$ under $\sin(z)$? I see that $\text{Re } \sin(x+yi) = \sin x \cosh y$ and $\text{Im } \sin(x+yi) = \cos x \sinh y$, but I'm not sure what to do next since $\sinh$ and $\cosh$ are unbounded.
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What shape do you get when you fix y and consider all values of x? Then see how the shape depends on y. Of course, you could try the reverse as well (fix x and vary y first), but my way, you don't have to deal with the "y > 0" condition until the end.
In fact, draw a picture showing the images of the lines x=constant and y=constant. You get two families of curves that are orthogonal to one another (since sin(z) is holomorphic and thus generally preserves angles). I promise that this will be very enlightening.
The image is the whole complex plane minus the interval $[-1,1]$ (on the real axis) and the negative imaginary axis.
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Derrick Lee Morgan (twitter: @dmorg91)
Position: DE
Height: 6-3 Weight: 296 lbs.
Born: January 6, 1989 in Coatesville, PA
High School: Coatesville
College: Georgia Tech (school history) (Morgan college stats)
Drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the 1st round (16th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft.
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Patient must not have any food or drink for 4 hours prior to their exam.If the patient has had an IVP or a CT with IV contrast, a thyroid therapy should not be attempted for 4-6 weeks. Patient should be off thyroid medications for 4-6 weeks. Many other medications interfere with this form of therapy (PCN, antihistamines, Amiodarone, etc.). Please be sure to notify the nuclear medicine technologist of any medications you are taking.
Patient will usually have a thyroid uptake and scan study prior to therapy to determine size, shape and function of their thyroid gland. The strength of the treatment is based on these factors.
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We love to seize the opportunity to celebrate each and every day - after all, the daily grind can be, well, a grind. We're learning that there are many holidays out there that may not have reached "Hallmark" calendar status, but they still count and deserve to be recognized. Preferably with wine. With that being said, we bring to you this very special day (cue "The More You Know" theme song).
Sure Navy Day is probably more about the heroic men who served in our country's Navy (our dad and grandfather did) than the color, but we wanted to cover all our bases by finding a cool sweater that did both. Even if it wasn't Navy Day we'd be obsessed with knitting and wearing this Embroidered Sailor Sweater (€36). Yup, we said knit.
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A swarm of jellyfish came into shore on Florida's east coast over the weekend and 500 people were stung. These aren't the big red jellyfish that are easily seen, they are about the size of a silver dollar and clear, making them almost impossible to see, according to Fox News on Aug. 26.
There's no mistaken a jellyfish sting as these tiny creatures pack a painful punch and almost immediately you welt up. Alexis Scheuerman was in the water floating around her boogie board when she felt something wrap around her ankle and the pain was awful she said.
She made a scramble to get out of the water because the stinging was unbearable. She said it was also burning around the area where she was stung. Although the little creatures claimed an estimated 500 victims with their stings this weekend, no serious injuries were reported, just a lot of discomfort, according to the Washington Post.
The jellyfish are most likely on the shoreline because the winds from the ocean storms pushed them in and it doesn't look as if they'll be leaving too quickly. The weather pattern is expected to remain conducive to keeping the stinging culprits around.
Is urinating on a jellyfish sting the way to go? Hollywood has made the remedy of urinating on a jellyfish sting the popular buzz, but is this true? It was actually in an episode of "Friends" when at the beach Monica was stung by a jellyfish and to ease her horrific pain she let Joey pee on the sting, but what about in real life?
Scientific America said that peeing on a jellyfish sting as a remedy is fiction. By urinating on a jellyfish sting, you can actually make it worse. Urine can aggravate the jellyfish stingers into releasing even more venom. Next time your at the beach and see someone about to pee on a jellyfish sting either speak up or expect to hear even more moans of pain from the victim!


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Okay, so it's still not kosher to microchip your children. Until they're old enough to cart around GPS-enabled mobile phones, keep them out of the lost and found bin the old fashioned way. The Tottoos Basic Plus Package ($25) includes everything you need to temporarily stamp your kid with your contact info, so that in case they disappear, the nice man in the white van will know how to get a hold of you with a ransom demand. Great for Grandpa, too!
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The open enrollment period will be February 1 through February 24, 2012. Applications must be received no later than Friday, February 24, 2012, at 3:30 p.m. to be included in the random selection process for the 2012-2013 school year. Open enrollment applications are available at your elementary school and must be submitted to your neighborhood elementary school. Families applying to attend Napa Valley Language Academy apply directly through the NVLA office. Please contact NVLA at 253-3678 if you have any questions about applying to this school. Open Enrollment for Stone Bridge School begins January 17 and ends February 17. Please call the Stone Bridge School office at 252-5522 for information.
If approved, an open enrolled student becomes a student of the "school of choice" through the 5thgrade. Once approved, the student does not have automatic rights to return to his/her original school of residence. If the student desires to return to the original school of residence, the parent/guardian must reapply through the annual open enrollment process. Parents/guardians provide transportation to and from their assigned "school of choice".
To learn more about school choice options, please join us at our School Fair on Wednesday January 18thfrom 6-7:30 pm at the NVUSD Education Center at 2425 Jefferson Street.
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Here come the smart toilets, the shower toilets. They're popular in Japan because they keep you clean with bidet water cleansing and adjustable heat on the seat, instead of merely the choice of paper for wiping. And now they're coming to the USA. Actually, they've already here, and a a niche product cherished by numerous Hollywood celebrities and others interested in smart toilets that work with their smart phones. You may wish to check out the article, "Smart toilets arrive in United States" and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) article "Smart Toilets Arrive in U.S."
Why would you require a toilet to sync with your smart phone? Three-quarters of Japanese homes contain such toilets, most of them made by one of two companies: Toto, Japan's largest maker of so-called sanitary ware, or Lixil Corp. Toto and Kohler, a U.S. manufacturer of bathroom fittings, have been selling toilets with bidet functions in the U.S. for several years. You also may wish to check out the YouTube video, "Pee-powered cell phone points to 'smart toilet' technology."
What can a smart toilet do that you can't do for yourself and get the health benefits of some exercise?
Hot and cold water, heated or cooled seat, and self-cleaning, air-drying? Industry presents the shower toilet to America. What you do with your smart toilet is sync it with your smartphone via Bluetooth. What if someone hacked your smart phone to lockdown or otherwise interfere with the function of your smart toilet? Is your toilet vulnerable to pranks from afar?
You even can listen to your favorite music while on your toilet bowl. Truly, it's deserving of the label "the throne." These smart toilets presently are installed in three-quarters of Japanese homes. Hollywood celebrities sometimes have a penchant for buying smart toilets. But for most people, at this time, the smart toilet is a curiosity. Besides the celebrities, you have people from all walks of life willing to pay for a smart toilet.
It's a niche possession. And there are people interested in adopting technology for their toilets. But how do you train a toddler to use a smart toilet or an elderly person who needs help with hygiene to even use a smart toilet? Will it work when the electricity goes off in a storm or other event? What if the smart toilet gets stuck closed or won't flush after a mild disaster, when you need basic appliances such as a toilet? There are numerous brands of smart toilets.
American Standard's AT200 smart toilet's lid opens automatically.
The "cleansing functions" are activated when the user sits down. The seat also has adjustable heating, and when the user gets up, the lid closes and the toilet automatically flushes. There's also a "soft nightlight" around the bowl.
Toto's U.S. arm has been playing down the cleansing wizardry of its Washlets and emphasizing the environmental benefits. Some Toto toilets use less than four liters of water per flush, one-third or one-quarter the amount of some conventional toilets.
Not everyone wants to shell out more money for a bidet toilet with a hot seat to keep you warm on the throne. In fact, most people in the world don't even have a flush toilet. You may wish to check out the May 30, 2013 news release podcast, "ACS podcast: Many people still lack access to flush toilets, adequate sanitation."
Many people still lack access to flush toilets, adequate sanitation
You may wish to check out the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series that describes research concluding that the number of people without access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation is almost double the previous estimate. Based on a report by Jamie Bartram, Ph.D., and colleagues in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, the new podcast is available without charge at iTunes and from the ACS' Global Challenges website.
It may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation — measures that protect the user and the surrounding community from harmful health effects — according to a recent study. More than half of the world's people don't even have a flush toilet.
Improved sanitation
Jamie Bartram and colleagues explain that the current definition of "improved sanitation" focuses on separating humans from human excrement. However, it does not include treating that sewage or other measures to prevent it from contaminating rivers, lakes and oceans. Using that definition, 2010 United Nations estimates concluded that 4.3 billion people had access to improved sanitation and 2.6 billion did not.
The new estimates used what the authors regarded as a more realistic definition from the standpoint of global health, since untreated sewage is a major cause of disease. They refined the definition of "improved sanitation" by discounting sewage systems lacking access to sewage treatment. They concluded that about 60 percent of the world's population does not have access to improved sanitation, up from the previous estimate of 38 percent.
Smart toilets have arrived in the USA from Japan
In the meantime, as smart toilets arrive in the USA from Japan, the price, for example of a smart toilet such as the Washlet, is more expensive that the type of toilet you see in most discount shopping centers. See, "TOTO Washlet 40% off Sale - NationalBuilderSupply.com." Are you willing to pay any price for a bidet toilet from any manufacturer? Or is your old flush toilet good enough as it is? Must you have a smart toilet to perform when you set your smart phone to various aps to 'make' your toilet do things before you even get home, such as heat up, clean itself, turn on the water, or whatever else you want a toilet to do when you're not on it?
Of course, smart toilets come in a wide variety of prices and what the toilet can do. For example, the "Toto MS990CGR#01 Neorest 600 One-Piece Toilet 1.6 GPF with Metalic Stick Remote In Cotton," has the following features at a price (at this date - May 28, 2014) of $4,372.20, reduced from $6,246.00.
Product Features :
Sleek, tankless, low profile elongated one piece toilet with integrated Washlet. Low consumption (6 Lpf/1.6 Gpf) Cyclone flushing action. SanaGloss glazing. 12" rough-in.
- Sleek, tankless, one-piece toilet with integrated Washlet seat
- New Cyclone Flushing system, no waiting for refill, no refill noise
- Skirted styling with concealed trapway for easy cleaning
- Integrated Washlet features front and rear warm water washing, automatic air dryer and deodorizer
- SanaGloss : Super smooth, ion barrier glazing cleans your toilet bowl with every flush
- Automatic Operation: Lid opens, closes and toilet flushes when sensor is activated.
- Tank cover, fittings, mounting covers and Washlet included.
What you'd get for your money would be front and back rear warm water washing, automatic dryer and deodorizer, that's for the toilet, not just your backside, but the smart toilets also are known as shower toilets
The point is the glazing cleans your toilet with every flush. As for cleaning you, there's always the shower. Then again, the lid opens automatically and the toilet flushes when the sensor is activated. But what happens if the automation ever fluctuates and the lid don't open at the moment you really need it to open. There's also the not-so-smart toilet. But then again, maybe you want a smart toilet so you can program it with an application from your smart phone.
For more information, you may wish to check out the May 27, 2014 article, "The US Could Be on the Cusp of a Smart Toilet Revolution." Then again, some people prefer a so-called "Turkish toilet" or "Asian Toilet" where the toilet is more like a hole in the ground with a toilet seat that you find in public spaces where there are toilets that people pay to use, for example while touring Istanbul. Each to his and her own type of toilet.
For some with no access to fresh water nearby, the toilet is an outhouse. Then again, will most consumers in the USA realize they must need this type of toilet in their house? Think also about the price of paying an installer with tech savvy to install the toilet in your residence.


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Ignore your foundation at your peril. Without a proper base your highest hopes, years of work, and millions of dollars can be reduced to a cloud of dirt and debris so fast you won't know what happened.
What is a foundation for innovation? Let's turn to an engineering nightmare to learn exactly why a solid foundation is so important and then identify the forces a good foundation counters. I will show you similar pressures that contribute to the instabilities, load, and strain endemic to innovation and what you can do to address them and avoid your own catastrophe.
December 2009, the 31-story "dream of a lifetime" which promised "the finest quality built tower" on South Padre Island, Texas, collapsed into a mass of dust and rubble. A faulty foundation turned the investors dream into $65 million of recyclable waste.
After 87% of the investors $75 million had been spent cracks appeared in columns supporting the parking garage. Excavation showed that the towers core had sunk fourteen to sixteen inches while the attached garage had gone down less than half that distance. The Ocean Tower condos of South Padre Island went into the history books as one of the tallest reinforced concrete structures ever intentionally imploded.
The main purpose of a good foundation is to safely transfer the load of a structure through the soft, inadequate, upper layer of topsoil down into the stronger, secure subsoil below… to provide exactly the support the Ocean Towers lacked.
A building foundation creates a platform so the construction can take the pressures created by three critical forces:
1. The weight and shape of the building itself.
2. The moving mass of people and objects as they go in and out.
3. External forces like wind, snow, and earthquakes.
For innovation efforts to succeed you need a foundation that can handle a similar set of forces:
1. Day-to-day operations and fire-fighting
2. Innovations movement and pressures
3. Changing market forces: sometimes rapid, always unpredictable
Day-to-day operations and fire-fighting
The primary function of your organization is taking care of business. Operations is job 1. And a regular part of operations is handling the unexpected, putting out fires. These two must go on unimpeded.
A solid foundation ensures that the innovation work, which demands time, attention, and energy from many of the same people who are responsible for operations, will never come into conflict with operations and fire-fighting.
Innovations movement and pressures
Although necessary to sustainable growth and profit, innovation is by definition at odds with business-as-usual. When it courses through your organization it demands attention and creates counter forces that push and pull on the status quo. Count on it.
The successful innovation organization anticipates this motion and its corresponding energy draw and prepares for it. If it does not, resistance emerges from a thousand corners and quashes the value innovation is designed to generate before it even gets started.
Changing market forces: sometimes rapid, always unpredictable
There is great business in speculation and risk management, but no one owns a crystal ball. Your foundation must provide you with the flexibility to take a variety of external stresses while simultaneously providing the stability required to deliver on todays work. Workers must operate with the confidence required to keep their mind on getting their jobs done even as new challenges and opportunities transform the nature of your business.
Your foundation should be customized to accommodate the specialized risks of your field just as house foundations in earthquake-ridden locales are specially fitted with hold down brackets, wall bracing, and bolts designed to accommodate the stresses of tremors and seismic activity.
To ensure that your organization grows the way it can and should, put a foundation in place to support innovation – that's what it takes to have a happier ending than the Ocean Towers!
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March 12th was the day in history when…
2003: Kidnapped teen Elizabeth Smart was found. Smart was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint on June 5, 2002. A nine month search ensued during which the police followed up on countless leads. Several wanted fugitives were captured along the way but none of the leads resulted in the discovery of the missing girl. Mary Katherine, Elizabeth's sister, witnessed the abduction but had difficulty remembering any of the details. In October the nine year old suddenly recalled that the voice of the kidnapper was that of a handyman previously hired by the Smart family. The man was identified as Brian David Mitchell. The day after his picture was shown on "America's Most Wanted" Mitchell was spotted in Sandy, Utah, 18 miles from the Smart home. Two women were traveling with Mitchell, one of whom was identified as the missing girl. Smart was immediately reunited with her family.
1980: A jury found John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago. Gacy was a serial killer who killed 33 teen and young adult males between 1972 and 1978. Twenty six of the victims were found buried in the crawl space of Gacy's home and around his property. The defense pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. After a lengthy trial, Gacy was found guilty and sentenced to death.
1963: Bob Dylan canceled his "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance. It would have been the first time the popular singer appeared on the historic television show. Dylan had planned to perform "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", a song which made fun of the John Birch Society. The network called the selection inappropriate and demanded that Dylan choose another song. The performer refused stating that if he could not do what he wanted he would not appear on the program.
Famous Birthdays:
1963: John Andretti – race car driver
1962: Darryl Strawberry – professional baseball player
1948: James Taylor – singer
1946: Liza Minnelli – singer/actress
Notable People Lost:
2003: Lynne Thigpen – actress
2001: Morton Downey, Jr. – talk show host
2001: Robert Ludlum – author
1945: Anne Frank – author, "Diary of Anne Frank"
1925: Sun Yat-Sen – Chinese revolutionary president
Odd Holidays (There's Always Something to Celebrate!):
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National Organize your home office day
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Drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 7th round (170th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 2 (11632nd overall since 1950)
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1. A popular wisdom among the saving money blogs is switching to a cheaper or pay-as-you-go cell-phone plan. So as a iPhone user with a relatively expensive phone plan... I have questioned the value of this choice. However, I keep coming back to the fact that it's probably worth it's weight in gold to me. I don't know how many times I've looked something up at the last minute, on the go, or when I least expected it resulting in saving me money and time. Directions alone could account for major portion of this. My phone allows me to use groupons with ease, take advantage of other deals, pay bills, find free wifi hotspots and much much more. Sure... it's a chunk of change each, but for this ADD gal it's been a lifesaver.
2. Against all odds, I ran 20 miles this Saturday... ok, so maybe that's an exaggeration, but really - I can't believe I did it, and that it went as 'fast' as it did. 11:43 is now my best average for any of the 18+ mile runs I've done.... weird to think that I actually have a few of those now.
3. I've been doing what most people would call light strength training, however I think it's quite a lot. I've even hired a personal trainer, which was definitely a stretch for my budget, but so far I think it's been worth it. Well I'm not exactly looking like a body builder yet, or benching some sort of extreme weight... I've begun to notice some pretty decent improvements in my ability to lift things... backpacks, boxes, household items and so on. It use to be hard for me to lift just about anything and now I can do so in many cases with ease. It's a hard improvement to measure really, but it's nice none the less.
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Personal Trainers ARE worth their weight in gold. Or platinum. Mine is expensive, but worth it just for the motivation. He is also making progress on getting my hip into the best possible shape. We have even developed a slightly strange lefthanded boxing stance for me, so that I can start the boxing classes again!! I'm fairly excited about that.ReplyDelete
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Not much I can add to what you already said, since they're mostly opinions and people are bound to have different experiences.
I interpert "the game is dead/dying" to indicate that fewer and fewer people are interested in the game, to the point where the community itself is emptying out. I don't see that happening. I see people coming and going.
It's the people saying that the game IS dying that I'm disagreeing with, and what my comments were directed towards.
Most of the reasons I've heard people give for their notion that the game is dying fall into those categories (and I don't agree with them).
Bots are only so difficult. It's not that hard to learn their moves and paths. There's a certain inpredictability about human players.
True, but you've got to admit, that many players fall into predictable patterns themselves. How many times have we been in a game and had somebody who only knew one or two moves with the saber or only one weapon they used over and over? How often have you tricked somebody with the same booby trap or sniper position over and over to have them cuss you out and leave/try to get you vote-kicked?
Sure, bots aren't perfect, but once you get good at the game, it can often be tough to find people who are still better than you (I'm not saying they don't exist, I personally believe that there are always "better players" you just might not meet them every day). Bots can also be edited, I might add....
Good comments. I'm just a little jaded, because I remember hearing those comments when JK1 had been out a year and with the JK2 community almost as soon as the game had been released (I guess the warez kiddies beat the game the first day they downloaded it and then basically said the game was dead when it was finally released to the rest of the world??).
I see the mod community as a potentially limitless source of innovation to inspire people to keep playing the game. There is (believe it or not) still a Doom/2 community, and not just the people waiting for Doom3. Why? Because there's so many tools and sources available, people can do all kinds of impressive things. And the game is still being sold, inspite of it being totally obsolete in terms of graphics, sound, gameplay, etc. Now granted, most people don't consider "Doom 2" to be a viable commercial giant, but the property certainly is viable, and the game is so cheap and old, just about anybody can get it and run it. So saying a new game like JK2 is dead is short-sighted I think. In a sense, no good game ever need "die" as long as people are still willing to mod it, even if all of the major servers dry up and we only see a few private games here and there.
But if mods are still coming out, and servers are still up, I don't think the game can be called "dead" by any stretch of the imagination. "Dying" could only really be gauged by total sales I suppose. If the game is no longer being sold, then I guess its "dead" in that sense.
People need to realize (don't want to sound too much like a broken record here) that many things affect the community's size.
Realize that people buy new games at different times. The entire JK2 community was NOT born March 28, 2002. New people are joining and leaving all the time. People buy games when they go on sale, or when they get tired of their other games, or when they buy gifts for people (gift-buying seasons like Christmas dramatically increase sales of entertainment items in general). Stuff like promotions (stuff like that Gateway Challenge) and new patches and mods may help introduce people to the game or get them to come back to playing it or play it more often.
People in different parts of the world may discover the game at different rates. People in Country A didn't get the game until much later than Country B, so they are just discovering it. Somebody who hadn't heard of the game until after they saw Episode 2 in theatres and went to the store to look for SW games is going to be new to the game.
The release of an official expansion would inevitably bring some new people in. The point is that the community is a dynamic affair. I think the way some people talk, they act as if its a simple fixed number of players, and this number simply dwindles as time goes by. That may happen over the long run (we're talking years here) but look at it this way... Raven could in theory release a new expansion every year or so and if each one was popular, people could still be theoretically buying new copies of JK2 three or four years from now. Not saying that will happen, but for games like The Sims and Half Life, that's basically true.
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Men's Basketball Grinds Out Road Win at Toledo, 57-51
Nov. 19, 2010
TOLEDO, Ohio - Senior guard Robo Kreps poured in a game-high 20 points, and drilled five free throws in the final 2:35, to lead the UIC men's basketball team to its first road win of the season, a 57-51 decision over Toledo at Savage Arena Friday night. The Flames never trailed in the contest, capturing their second-straight win.
Kreps' 20-point output, his second in as many games, led a threesome of Flames scoring in double figures. Senior forward Paul Carter chipped in 14 points, 12 in the second half, while junior guard Zavion Neely scored 10 points and dished out four assists.
UIC tallied a stingy defensive effort, holding the Rockets to a 39.5 percent effort from the field, forcing 17 turnovers and swiping eight steals. Toledo was also held without a field goal for the opening six-plus minutes in both halves.
The Rockets were led by Anthony Wright's 15 points on four three pointers; he was joined in double figures by Hayden Humes (12) and point guard J.T. Thomas (10), who was making his first-career start.
"It was a close one tonight," said UIC head coach Howard Moore. "Todd (Kowalczyk) does a great job with that team; they run great sets, and really get after you. I was proud of our guys; they never put their heads down, and just kept coming.
"It's great to get a win on the road early in the season," Moore said. "Tonight was a grinder. I've been involved with a lot of grinders in my career, and it was good to see our guys find a way to win. I thought Robo (Kreps) played tremendous. He's a player with a lot of heart. He really kept the team together, and continues to guide these guys. He made some huge shots tonight."
The Flames' aggressive man-to-man defense forced a combined eight missed shots and turnovers for Toledo before the first media timeout; the Rockets' first points of the game didn't come until the 14:49 mark. But UIC scored just four points during the spurt, as the defensive tone of the game was set early.
After Kreps' first three of the game, the Flames extended their lead to eight (10-2) with 13:10 remaining in the first half. But Toledo strung together an ensuing 12-4 run, and tied the game at 14-14 after a lay-up by Delino Dear (5:48). Junior forward Paris Carter scored on back-to-back field goals two minutes later, giving UIC a 20-14 lead with 3:16 left in the opening frame.
Toledo answered by scoring seven-of the next nine points, and pulled within 22-21 with 1:31 remaining. After recording a defensive stop, UIC called timeout and executed the play, as Neely penetrated the lane, and hit a runner with three seconds remaining to push the Flames' lead to 27-22 heading into the locker room at halftime.
Kreps' 12 points in the first half led all scorers, while Neely and Paris Carter each chipped in with four points. Paul Carter was limited to just five minutes of action after being whistled for two early fouls. Humes, Wright and Thomas each scored six points in the opening frame to pace Toledo, which shot just 33.3 percent from the field.
The second half started out much like the first, with the Flames' defense allowing them to build a comfortable cushion. UIC scored the first three points, including a field goal by Williams, to take a 30-22 lead with 16:23 remaining. The Rockets' first points of the second frame came at the 14:18 mark, after Malcolm Griffin, a graduate of Hyde Park Academy in Chicago, tallied his first field goal.
UIC stretched its lead to nine points (35-26) with 11:30 remaining, but the advantage never reached double digits. After a quick 4-0 run, Toledo cut the lead to just five, 35-30, with 10:24 left. But the Flames answered with a 6-3 spurt, and took a 41-33 lead with 9:06 remaining.
The Flames' lead fluctuated between four and seven points for the ensuing 7:33, before Wright hit his fourth three-pointer with 1:33 left that pulled Toledo within two, 52-50. Reese Holliday split two free throws with 39 second left, trimming UIC's advantage to 52-51. Paul Carter and Kreps hit a combined three free throws down the stretch, and Carter's steal and score with just two seconds remaining sealed the six-point win.
UIC will now turn its attention to a Saturday afternoon match-up against the College of Charleston (2-2) at Savage Arena, continuing the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches versus Cancer. The Cougars dropped a 75-66 decision versus Rhode Island Friday afternoon.


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