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Cameron Simcik
Cameron Simcik is a graduate of Bucknell University. She has written for Her Campus and is currently the Philadelphia Travel City Editor for The Daily Meal and a contributing writer for TheFW and GuySpeed.
We love our parents; we really do. It's just that during those early years, they can seem like the most embarrassing people on the planet. It's tough enough growing up (kudos to you if you can read the word "puberty" without wincing) without lame-o parents humiliating you, but when it comes to two parents in Wisconsin, we have to admit they've surpassed "embarrassing" and jumped straight to "awesome."
When it comes to getting out of cop trouble, women have it way easier than us guys. It's not like we have the luxury of flashing our racks to get out of tickets, although that'd be really awesome. Wait, do women even do that? They should.
Is it just us, or are babies working to ruin their innocent and adorable reputations? Sticking forks in VCRs or dumping spaghetti sauce all over the dog used to be cute, but now it's just... who are we kidding -- it's still cute! No matter what they do , wee ones can't help making us kid-loving softies, even if said kid rocks a mighty stink-face.
Few things are most satisfying than pulling off a really, really good prank. We're talking about the scare-your-pants-off kind that leaves our unsuspecting little siblings and friends falling victim to tons of spazzing out and the occasional tear or two. Basically, it's the best kind of mean joke around, but it's all in good fun!
A few weeks back, a tiny baby burrito kicked off our craving for kids dressed in food costumes. (Not for actual baby. We're not zombies or anything.) It's such a simple concept, yet it yields such hilarious results. Talk about Halloween genius at its finest. Luckily, we can continue laughing and aww-ing over miniature tasty attire, thanks to the 'Babies in Food Costumes' Tumblr.
There are two things we know for sure about puppies: they're unpredictably hilarious and sometimes have adorably strange antics. Remember our favorite dogs going to town on peanut butter? That's the kind of silly stuff we love.
Well canine fans of all ages, we've discovered dogs have yet another highly underrated quirk, and it comes in the form of shoes.
As much as we love babies, there are times when they can be pure sources of terror. Unbearably adorable, charming, way-too-cute-to-get-mad at sources of terror, but terror-inducing nonetheless. In all honestly, we're a little jealous these miniature munchkins can get away with virtually anything. If we stuck jelly beans up our nose or took it upon ourselves to redecorate the kitchen walls with Crayola, we'd be deemed citizens of Crazy Town, population: One.
As true gentleman, there are a few things we'll never do. These include turning down an opportunity to receive a yoga boner and picking a fight with a grandma. Chivalry is dead these days, so it's our duty to bring that crap back. While feasting our eyes upon yoga butt will never go out of style, Granny's the one switching things up recently; Khandace Cossit has got some major beef, and she's looking for a fight.
Honestly, how scary can a 56-year-old from Sandston, Virginia be? Answer: very.
Just like our fellow testosterone-sweating, meat-loving friend Ron Swanson, we're big fans of bacon. To put our love for the greasy snack into perspective, learning about the horrific pending bacon shortage sent us into a minor panic attack, but it's difficult to fully encompass our feelings for the meat strips. Luckily, a bacon-loving middle-schooler has done that for us.
Discovering a Pikachu pug or a Rabbi cat will never, ever get old. We have absolutely no explanation regarding this adorably aww-worthy obsession, but we're pretty sure most of you will agree with us. But why does it seem like we limit our dressing-up-pets possibilities to dogs, cats and the occasional baby pig? It's about time sheep took a whack at this whole costume funny business, and we couldn't have hoped for a better debut.
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Meet the Microenvironments
Islands, rivers and man-made structures define several diverse
microenvironments around the lake. The lake's microenvironments
differ in many ways, including salinity (salt concentration),
temperature and pollution levels. All of these factors determine
which organisms survive and thrive in each location. The lake is
also surrounded by wetlands and evaporation ponds, which have
their own special characteristics and inhabitants.
One of the lake's most dominant features is the railroad causeway that runs from east to west across its middle. Built in 1959, the causeway blocks most water flow between the north and south arms of the lake. The three main rivers that supply fresh water to Great Salt Lake flow into the south arm, leaving the north arm much more saline. Only the most resilient microbes can live in the extreme salt conditions of north arm. These "extremophiles" give the water a distinct purplish to pinkish color. The south arm, with its lower salinity, supports a greener population of microbes.
Click around on the image to the right to explore seven of the lake's unique microenvironments: Gilbert Bay, Gunnison Bay, Farmington Bay, Bear River Bay, Ogden Bay, evaporation ponds, and wetlands.
Gwynn, J. W. (Ed.) (2002). Great Salt Lake, an Overview of Change: A Special Publication of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Salt Lake City: Department of Natural Resources.

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An excerpt from Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st Century Jewishness by Kevin Haworth, published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. Read a review of Famous Drownings from Chicago Tribune here. You can find out more about Famous Drownings here.
My wife, a young and quite beautiful rabbi, knows a lot about the plagues. She knows, for example, that the ninth plague, hoshech, was not just darkness for the Egyptians, but complete isolation and imprisonment. The darkness was so pregnant and heavy, she tells us on the way home, that it had force, even weight. Once it descended upon the Egyptian houses no one could move. It blocked every sound. Everywhere was thick and absolutely black and so heavy that it held the Egyptians down in their chairs like chains or pressed them against the walls. Each of them alone, terrified in the dark, with only their own thoughts for company.
And the frogs! she says. They were everywhere. In the food. In the cabinets. In your underwear drawer. And all of them croaking, all at once. Fat bullfrogs and tiny tree frogs and squat ugly bellowing toads. Blasting every street and courtyard and bedroom with their terrible sounds.
Have you heard a frog? She asks our son in the backseat. He has. He agrees that they are very loud.
So you can imagine how painful this noise was, she says. My son loves this midrash, the Jewish tradition of re-
telling and adding to stories. He loves their texture and their details, their inherent creativity. He wants to know more about how the Egyptians suffered. The burns from the hail, the itching from lice bites. The terrible rank smell of their dead cattle. How they could have endured all this, nine times, and not let us go.
He is not the only one to want to know more. In March 1936, a young Jewish poet named Muriel Rukeyser traveled from New York to West Virginia to document the effects of a plague.
Six years before her journey, in a place called Gauley Mountain in the West Virginia countryside, work had begun on a tunnel to re-route the fast-running New River, sending it downhill hundreds of feet so that the force of its descent could be captured by turbines and converted into electricity. Such projects were not uncommon in Appalachia at the time. Once the drills started, the rock inside the tunnel was found to be rich in a valuable substance called silica and the project was expanded. The tunnel was widened beyond what was strictly necessary to divert the river; the silica was collected by dry drilling, a quick and cheap method that threw clouds of dust in the faces of the men performing the work. The laborers consisted of uneducated local white workers and unemployed black men brought in from as far away as Kentucky and Ohio. They breathed this dust and they began to cough. Then, over the next months and years, they died by the hundreds.
Rukeyser wrote twenty poems about Gauley Mountain: landscape poems and historical poems and monologues in the voices of wives and caretakers and documentary poems of a kind rarely seen before — angry transcripts of testimony in front of Congressional committees, quotations and accusations of witnesses, cut and stacked together like geologic strata. She titled the sequence The Book of the Dead, remembering the Egyptians, the complicated series of spells and incantations they slipped into coffins to help their dead wander through the afterlife.
Last year there were nine plagues. My son was three years old then, and in his interest in dump trucks and washable paints and birds outside the kitchen window there was no room for the finality of suffering. But this year death has entered his vocabulary anyway.
It is a few weeks before Passover once again in Appalachian Ohio, located just a few miles from the West Virginia border. My wife and I are standing in the kitchen, preparing for the holiday. It is a lengthy job to make a kitchen Passover-ready, involving a complete exchange of every dish and utensil, taping shut the drawers for the dairy dishes and silverware, pushing back the meat dishes to where they can't be reached, even by accident, then going down to the garage and unearthing from dusty cardboard boxes the separate sets of Passover dairy plates and Passover meat plates, then back to the kitchen again, where we run the dishwasher through, completely empty, to clean it of any bread residue, then wash, in separate loads, the dusty dishes — all of this preparation for eight days of repeated meals of matzo and butter, matzo and cream cheese, and those terrible hard bits of unleavened cereal that the children will eat once and then push away every morning for an entire week.
Children make it difficult to observe Passover. They love the holiday festivities but hate the diet. We are standing in our unprepared kitchen, asking ourselves, Can they possibly eat matzo for a week? Then the phone rings. It carries the news that one of my wife's congregants, a professor's wife, has died from the sudden and fierce onset of kidney cancer.
She was fine — we saw her just a few weeks ago. Then she began to experience a crushing pain. Now she's dead.
We live in a young community — a town filled with college students, mostly — so funerals are rare. But already on the phone I hear my wife's professional voice kick in. She is brilliant at funerals. Death does not scare her. During her rabbinic schooling she served as a chaplain at an inner-city hospital in Philadelphia. She was assigned to the neonatal intensive care unit, the saddest place in the hospital, where young mothers waited for their tiny premature babies' lungs to inflate, their hearts to grow enough muscle to push blood out and back through their small bodies. Often they did not.
She would leave in the morning in her prim cardigan and long skirt, uniform of the modest clergy, and come back late at night, tired and worn from long hours of attending the slow death of the youngest people in the world. She would sit at the sides of African immigrant women and Haitian women and Puerto Rican women while they prayed, in their respective ways, for their shriveled premature children, incubated down the hall. I don't believe in Jesus, she said once, as we sat at the table in our small apartment, after one of these long nights. But I see why somebody would want to.
Now, on the phone, she efficiently navigates the conversation from condolences to logistics. Per tradition, the funeral must be as soon as possible. There is the funeral home to inform (her job) and relatives to summon (theirs), academic departments to notify. A phone tree will bring the rest of the community out on Tuesday, at one o'clock in the afternoon, shiva to follow at the home of the deceased.
For the Egyptians, death marked not the end of struggle but the beginning. Their afterlife was filled with hazards. One could be devoured again by a crocodile or mauled by a hippopotamus. One could be called before the terrible figures of Atum or Ra and asked to testify to the value of one's existence. One had to know how to leap onto the celestial barge that rode the 'four steering- oars of the sky' into the Otherworld or risk being left behind forever. Journeying through this Otherworld required knowledge; to help, one's coffin was filled with slips of instructions written on parchment and provided by relatives. Scholars refer to those phrases as The Book of the Dead.
The black victims of the Gauley Mountain industrial disaster, excluded from the white cemeteries, were driven out to a cornfield. Doctors paid by the company sent home to the men's wives false lung diagnoses of pneumonia, tuberculosis, pleurisy; anything but silicosis. In the middle of the night, the funeral director drove the bodies into the open field in his hearse. Rukeyser writes: blind corpses rode/with him in front, knees broken into angles/head clamped ahead…/He buried them in rows of five.
In the Jewish tradition, there is no Egypt, only Mitzrayim, from the Hebrew word for narrow. On Passover we tell of our journey out of Mitzrayim, that narrow place of rules and force. The plagues cracked open that narrow world and we walked to freedom across a wide desert, stopping along the way at Sinai to receive the knowledge of the world.
The rabbis tell a midrash about this moment, the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai. After so many years in slavery, we could no longer understand Hebrew, only the language of our oppressors. Thus the first words that God spoke to Moses were in Egyptian, switching to Hebrew to signify the change from slavery to liberation.
The words that God spoke, in Egyptian, were I am.
The funeral is well-attended, despite a late spring heat wave that has joined us from over the West Virginia mountains. There are many graveside mourners, but the deceased woman's brother catches my eye. He sits quietly under a shade erected for the closest family members, right next to the open grave, while the rest of us loosen our ties in the hot sun. His face is tiny, wrinkled — like a little Jewish gnome who has crawled out of the forest to bury his sister. He looks at the casket with sad eyes. By contrast the widowed husband is stoic, impassive. All of this is just washing over him. He is so calm that he is making people nervous. Everyone wants more.
There are many different ways to mourn.
As my wife leads the funeral, the brother loses his composure. Beneath the mask of his heavy brown beard he looks much like his dead sister. He sobs quietly as her friends cite her generosity, her giving to the arts and social services, her steadfast friendship as they themselves lost husbands or wives to divorce or death. He cries, his beard bobbing, as he stands and stumbles through the kaddish. He cries as he turns over the shovel and throws dirt into her grave and cries when he hands the shovel to his brother-in-law, as a single coffin is lowered into a single hole.
After the funeral, we pick up the children from school to attend shiva. This too is part of their education.
Who died? My son asks from the back seat. Someone's friend.
His good friend?
His very good friend.
Oh, my son says. He looks out the car window at the blue spring sky.
I had three sons who worked with their father in the tunnel, a mother tells us in Rukeyser's poem "Absalom." Shirley was my youngest son; the boy. Shirley's father dies from silicosis, then his two brothers as well, an entire family choked to death in a few months' time. After eighteen months working in the tunnel, the boy, 17, can no longer breathe well enough to stand up. I would carry him from the bed to the table, his mother says, from his bed to the porch, in my arms.
Rukeyser writes: I open out a way, they have covered my sky with crystal….I force a way through, and I know the gate/I shall
Two days before Passover. In the basement of the synagogue, my wife stumbles upon a little box of Jewish kitsch. She was downstairs, looking for a water leak — this is the rabbi's job in a small town — when she found a cardboard box of items from the Lost Age of Hebrew School. Inside the box, unopened for many years, lie felt menorahs and make-your-own driedel kits and holiday flash cards, and there, at the very bottom, a bag of children's masks, ten total, one for each plague. She brings them home and we take them out of their cellophane wrapping.
There is a green mask with rolling froggish eyes, a red mask in the shape of drops of blood. The mask for darkness is a black cloud over a burning orange sun; hail is a line of fire, like a science fiction invasion, charging across the forehead. The masks, despite their undeniable strangeness, are cute. The mask solemnly labeled 'First Born' indicates death as Xs over the eyeholes, like a 1930s comic strip.
My wife calls the children and they grab the masks, eager to play. They run around the house wearing the plagues as their faces. They are the hail that burned the Egyptians. The darkness that smothered them. And they have been liberated by these disasters, freed from Egypt thousands of years ago.
The company that sent the men into the Gauley Mountain tunnel was the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, based in Chicago, and whose operations at that time were limited to the United States and Europe. Later they would open a plant in India.
This is the region of the breastbone, Rukeyser writes. This is the heart (a wide white shadow filled with blood).
According to Rukeyser's FBI file, 121 pages long and initiated because of her association with writers' groups of 'Communistic' tendencies, The Book of the Dead "deals with the industrial disintegration of the peoples in a West Virginia village riddled with silicosis…she is against everything in any organization which represents the brutal life of enforced regimentation and national slavery."
You can find out more about Famous Drownings in Literary History by Kevin Haworth here.


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Portland Police have suspended their search in Northeast Portland for an inmate who escaped from the Columbia River Correctional Institute Wednesday afternoon.
Police responded to the minimum security prison at 9111 NE Sunderland Ave. at 12:37 p.m. on a report that an inmate, Matthew Joseph Medlin, 30, had escaped by climbing a fence.
Officers from North Precinct, the K-9 Unit, and the Air Support Unit, as well as the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and Oregon State Police, assisted in the search of the area surrounding the prison. Officers also searched from the water along the Columbia Slough, but did not see him.
Medlin was jailed on accusations of burglary, sex abuse and assault. He was due for release next Tuesday.


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March 9, 2014
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
The Alabama women's golf team shot 15-over par 299 in the final round of the 2014 Darius Rucker Intercollegiate Sunday to finish ninth on the par-71, 6,142-yard Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, S.C.
The Crimson Tide finished at 46-over par 898 on the weekend, 36 shots behind tournament champion Duke. The Blue Devils never gave up the lead, shooting 10-over par 862. Vanderbilt finished in second place at 20-over 872 while Oklahoma and LSU tied for third at 33-over 885.
Senior Stephanie Meadow led the way for Alabama, carding a 2-over 73. Her three day total of 2-under par 212 tied Vanderbilt's Simin Feng and Arizona State's Noemi Jimenez for third place.
After making bogey on the first hole, Meadow responded with a birdie on the second and pars on the following six holes. She continued her solid play on the back nine at one over par until the 18th hole where she made bogey and fell out if the lead. Duke's Yu Liu and LSU's Caroline Nistrup shared medalist honors at 2-under 211.
Freshman Emma Talley shot her best round of the weekend, also firing a 2-over 73 to finish tied for 54th with fellow teammate Hannah Collier. Collier got off to a hot start on the front nine, making birdie on three of the first five holes before dropping six shots on the back with four bogeys and a triple on the 11th.
Alabama junior Daniela Lendl struggled to capitalize on the momentum from her first two rounds, posting a 7-over par 78. Lendl came in to Sunday play tied for 30th at 8-over 150 and finished 48th at 15-over 228. Rounding out the Tide scorers was Mia Landegren whose 8-over par 79 did not count toward the Tide's round three score. The freshman from Bridgewater, Conn. finished tied for 77th overall.
Alabama is off until April 4, when they travel to Athens, Ga., to compete in Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic at the University of Georgia Golf Club.
Get all the latest information on the team by following @AlabamaWGolf, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at UA_Athletics on Twitter and Instagram and AlabamaAthletics on Facebook.


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Someone asked me the other day if guides just sit in the ether all day long, planning, plotting, nudging and maneuvering you, or if they ever get out and socialize with other beings. I can't offer you a complete accounting of how they spend their time, but I can tell you a little. Spirit guides… Read On
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According to Otis Brawley, M.D., the Chief Medical Officer at the American Cancer Society, two-thirds of cancer cases in the U.S. develop from preventable causes. Other than those who have a genetic predisposition, and those who have environmental exposures, most people should not feel helpless in this fight.
The problem with Americans today is that they are lazy. Yes, I said it – LAZY.
There are really just three simple, sustainable habits that will help most people avoid the most feared medical condition – CANCER.
It is simple, really: don't smoke cigarettes, eat a nutritious diet, exercise and maintain a healthy weight.
Smoking is the most significant preventable cause of Cancer. Cigarette boxes warn of the likelihood of cigarette use causing Cancer and people STILL choose to smoke. You have better odds with a game of Russian roulette. Men who smoke are a third more likely to be hospitalized than non-smoking men. Smoking had been found to be a risk factor in most cancers, not just lung cancer as most people believe. http://www.smokefree.gov/
Maintaining a healthy weight is also key – this involves exercise and diet. As far as exercise, the amount required is truly minimal. I am referring to approximately 30 mins per day of any cardiovascular exercise – running, treadmill, cross-trainer, power walking, swimming etc. Any exercise that will get your heart rate up to its target heart rate (220-age) will suffice.
Diet is a little more complicated. To make it simple, fruits and vegetables should comprise the majority of your diet. Fish and red meat are ok for most people when taken in moderation. We should all try to reduce our intake of sodas, excess salt, fried foods, sweet desserts and foods with preservatives – just to name a few.
Cancer prevention is in your hands so start taking responsibility!


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Watney selected for seminar on Greek drama
Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Mark Watney spent much of his summer reading and studying classical Greek plays as he prepared to attend a Harvard-sponsored seminar on Song Culture of Athenian Drama.
Only 20 professors were chosen from the 65 that were nominated throughout the Council for Independent Colleges. Sterling College was one of the three schools that represented the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities – the other two in attendance were John Brown University and Westmont College.
The annual seminar, cosponsored by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. and the CIC, is led by Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, and Kenneth Scott Morrell, associate professor and chair of Greek and Roman studies at Rhodes College. During this weeklong seminar, Watney and fellow professors of theatre, music, English and history prepared presentations on 16 different plays by Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles –four of the greatest dramatists of the classical world. The discussions focused on the performative aspects of the plays and their connections with contemporary movies, music and news.
"It was tremendous to learn from the other professors who were there," said Watney. "Hearing about ways in which these ancient plays could be reenacted in today's classrooms and theatres, and discussing the theological, musical and literary impact these plays have had on Western culture is fascinating."
Watney added that many of the topics dealt with in ancient Greece are very similar to today's culture, such as families dealing with infidelity, suicide, war, abuse and anger towards the gods.
"Yet each dramatist presents these problems in uniquely different ways, from Aeschylus' complete faith in gods to Euripides' cynicism and doubt in their existence," said Watney.
Watney is looking forward to introducing these plays to his students in his upcoming classes on Western culture and literature and World Literature 1.
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Downloading VNC
Download VNC for Mac OS X to the computer you want to control. A single program installs both VNC Server and VNC Viewer.
Note: VNC Viewer is freely available to download to as many other computers that you wish to exercise control from as you like.
Installing VNC
Using desktop tools
Double-click the package to start the Installation Wizard, and follow the instructions. Note the credentials of a user with administrative privileges on the computer are required.
At the command line
Installing at the command line or via SSH may be quicker and more convenient providing defaults are acceptable. To do this, run the following command as a user with administrative privileges:
installer -pkg <VNC>.pkg -target /Alternatively, you can install just VNC Server or VNC Viewer as follows:
- Separate the products into a temporary directory containing separate packages:
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Hamilton County, located in the southern tip of Ohio, is the third most populated county in the state. At the time of the 2010 census, the county boasted a total population of 802,374. Hamilton County was founded in 1790 and was named for Alexander Hamilton. With an extensive piece of American history within the boundaries of this county, a Hamilton County public records search may reveal a wealth of interesting facts about the people who were born, married or died in this location. There are a number of potential locations for Hamilton public records today, so it pays to learn how the county system is structured to make the records search as quick and accurate as possible.
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Flames Grind Out Fourth-Straight Win, 58-46 at NIU
Nov. 27, 2012
Hayden Humes poured in a game-high 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting and the Flames stifled host Northern Illinois to just 32.7 percent shooting, leading to a 58-46 win over the Huskies at the Convocation Center Tuesday night. The victory extended the Flames' winning streak to four games.
With the win, UIC improved to 5-1 overall, its best start to a campaign since 2003-04, when UIC jumped out of the gate with a 6-1 mark. Northern Illinois dropped to 1-4.
"Northern Illinois did a good job of not allowing us to get into a rhythm tonight," said head coach Howard Moore. "But I thought our guys really gutted it out. We weren't as sharp as we need to be to consistently win on the road, but we made plays when we needed to. I thought Danny Barnes really led us tonight. He hit some big shots, and really attacked the glass.
"If we can continue to have balance in our scoring, it's really going to help us. It helps us put pressure on the opponent, because we expect our defense to be there every game."
Joining Humes in double figures were the Flames' three senior starters -guard Daniel Barnes (11), point guard Gary Talton (10) and center Josh Crittle (10). Talton also dished out five assists against just one turnover, while Barnes pulled down a game and career-high tying eight rebounds. NIU was led by Sam Mader's 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting.
UIC has now held three opponents under 50 points this season, and four to less than 35 percent shooting from the field.
UIC took control of the game just over five minutes in, going on a 13-6 run to claim a 20-11 lead with 5:29 remaining in the first half. Humes, Barnes and Crittle combined to convert four field goals during the stretch. NIU pulled within five (22-17) after a layup by Keith Gray with 2:48 left, but the Flames scored on consecutive possessions to push their lead back to double digits, 27-17, at the 1:31 mark. The Huskies' Darrell Bowie converted a runner as time expired at the end of the half, trimming UIC's lead to 27-19 heading into the locker room at intermission.
UIC scored the first four points of the second half, claiming a game-high 14-point (33-19) lead with 17:18 remaining. The Flames' lead fluctuated between three and four possessions for the ensuing six minutes, before NIU cut its deficit to 38-33 (11:12) after a converted layup by Kevin Gray. Humes answered with a three two possessions later, pushing the Flames' lead back to eight points, 41-33.
Talton converted two free throws with 7:30 left to give UIC a double-digit advantage (46-35) that it maintained for the next three minutes. The Huskies made one last charge to pull within 51-44 with 3:27 remaining, but Crittle went 5-for-6 from the free throw line down the stretch to preserve the Flames' first road win of the season.
UIC will wrap up its two-game road swing Saturday, when the Flames make the short trip to Evanston to take on Northwestern beginning at 1:00 p.m. The Wildcats (6-1) lost their first game of the season Tuesday night, falling short against Maryland in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, 77-57.


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May 7, 2010
TUCSON -- Senior shortstop K'Lee Arredondo was named to the 2010 CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 first team Thursday, the second consecutive year that she has been honored by the organization.
Arredondo, a native of Tempe, Ariz., graduates this semester with a 3.55 GPA in her major of psychology and a minor in criminal justice. To be nominated for the award, a student-athlete must have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher and be at least a sophomore academically.
On the field, Arredondo is currently hitting a career-high .369 and is second on the team in runs scored. She has started 214 games as a Wildcat, her first year as a left fielder and the last three at shortstop.
In 2009, Arredondo became the first Arizona player recognized for the academic honor since Autumn Champion was honored in 2006.
Arizona takes on Oregon in a three-game series in Eugene beginning tonight at 6 p.m.
Arredondo and fellow seniors Sarah Akamine and Ashley Ralston-Alvarez will be recognized at UA' Senior Day ceremony following the regular-season finale between UCLA and Arizona next Saturday at Hillenbrand Stadium.


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Blackhawks runners Steaven Zachman (left) and Kameron Galm (right) stay together during the boys' varsity race at the Runners Soul Erik Anderson Saturday.
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Why did Tommy Tuberville leave Texas Tech? There must have been a variety of reasons. One of them was probably had to do with social media. Despite the best efforts of the local Lubbock media outlets, a large number of average citizens would not be silenced.
Back in 2009, Texas Tech fired Mike Leach and made it clear that they did not care what the rank and file Red Raider fans had to say. The university went out and hired "Pine box" Tommy Tuberville based on what the big money donors wanted. They wanted a yes man and they got one. Just like the firing of Leach, they hired Tuberville without any concern over what the average fan thought or wanted.
Three years later, Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt is faced with trying to reach out to a fractured fan base, and talking about the importance of a unity. He wants the entire fan base to get behind the football program. The Red Raider fan base was united until that fateful day in December of 2009. That was the day Texas Tech fired Mike Leach and blew apart the Red Raider fan base in the process.
So, it is not up to the disenfranchised Texas Tech fans to suddenly get behind the program. It is up to the Texas Tech administration to give those fans a reason to support the university. The university created the division in the fan base. Now it is time for the Texas Tech administration to attempt to undo some of the damage they have done. The best way to do that, at this point, is to hire a coach that everyone can accept. That could be seen as an olive branch to many of the Texas Tech fans. Another coach like Tommy Tuberville would be the equivalent of a stick in the eye.
How exactly did Texas Tech find themselves in a position where they have to consider the wishes of people they dismissed in 2009? Texas Tech obviously felt that eventually the fans that were outraged by their conduct would go away at some point. Those fans did not go away. They did not go away and they made sure everyone knew how they felt about it.
Even when the Texas Tech administration and their lackeys in the media called those fans names on radio and television, those fans kept on posting to Facebook, Twitter, and variety of other social media sites. There was a time when a university like Texas Tech could control what was said about it. They can still control what local television and radio stations say about them. It is obvious that they can't control fans who know how to use social media.
The departure of Tommy Tuberville to Cincinnati is somewhat of a victory to social media. It shows that a group of normal citizens can make their voices heard and influence change. It does not happen overnight. On Saturday, Lubbock sports radio was even commenting on how Tuberville apparently gave up trying to win over a sizable portion of Texas Tech fans. In the end, Facebook may have been as big of a factor as anything else. It is very possible that Tommy Tuberville was run out of Lubbock by Facebook.
Now the question is whether Texas Tech administration has learned their lesson or if they will continue to ignore what the rank and file fans want. The choice is obvious. Texas Tech can either bring in a candidate like Art Briles or Kliff Kingsbury, or they can get ready for a continuation of how the fan base has been for the past three years. The choice is the administration's to make.


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"Ever heard of the saying: 'Abs is made in the kitchen?' Nothing could speak the truth more." - Askmen.com
Men want six-pack abs to impress women. A fully-toned and lean midsection is considered the sexiest part of a man's body. Yet, there's more to good abs than just the hot looks. Six-pack abs has been linked to improved body circulation, stability, and balance. This is why athletes exert extra effort to build their stomach. Six-pack abs also help increase metabolism. Muscles burn fat and increase basal metabolic rate as well. Your abs will even help minimize fat storage. With lowered body fat, your risks for diseases associated with obesity are also reduced.
Most of us think that the only way to have washboard abs is through intense power exercise. With the abdominal area being the most stubborn part to tone, we can imagine how intense the workout should be. It is not true that the way to have power abs is to stop enjoying food and start performing killer workouts. Without proper diet, you are unlikely to reap the benefits of your hard sessions in the gym. The big surprise is you can eat your way to good abs and obtain all its health benefits.
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A Decade Of Twins Memories
I know I'm a little late on this, as the New Years parties are all but forgotten already, but I wanted to take a few moments to recount some of my favorite Minnesota Twins memories of the decade past:
2000: When a team features such players as Jay Canizaro, Butch Huskey, Jason Maxwell, Sean Bergman, and Mike Lincoln, it was a bit difficult to really get excited about the teams' chances. However, having just been introduced to the sport and completely enthralled by it, I can remember going to the basically-empty Metrodome (been to a T-Wolves game lately?) with my Dad, buying an outfield seat, and then moving right up close to home plate because not even the ushers cared what you did back then!
2001: The team finally comes together and starts winning thanks to players like Doug Mientkiewicz, Corey Koskie, Jacque Jones, Torii Hunter, Brad Radke, and Eric Milton. The Twins didn't win the division, but after nearly a decade of losing baseball, they finally brought some excitement back to the Dome.
2002: The year I learned to hate Bud Selig. In an effort to make MLB more profitable, Selig hatches a scheme to contract two franchise to bolster the others. The obvious choice were the Montreal Expos (later to become the Washington Nationals), but the Twins? Obviously some back-room buyout deals between Buddy-Boy and Twins owner Carl Pohlad were occuring. Luckily, MLB realized that contraction was ill-advised and allowed the Twins to easily capture their first division title since 1991.
2003: After a dominating 2002 campaign, the Twins were nearly out of the division race at midseason of '03. However, after acquiring outfielder Shannon Stewart from the Blue Jays to bat lead-off, the Twins took off and won the division nearly going-away.
2004: Of the back-to-back-to-back division title winning teams, this squad was the best. In the ALDS, the Twins took the first game at Yankee Stadium and were on the brink of going up 2-0 heading home. However, Joe Nathan (who had taken over for the departed Eddie Guardado and been completely dominant the entire season) led an extra-inning lead slip away and give the Yankees momentum to win that game and then sweep both at the Dome. Of course, maybe it was just fate, as those Yanks proceeded to go up 3-0 on the Red Sox and well, Dave Roberts can tell you the rest…
2005: Not a fun year for Twins Territory. We didn't outright suck, but we never really competed for the crown, either. Even the usually stoic Brad Radke was overheard griping about the lack of run support from a horrendous offensive unit. Also, this was the year that tensions erupted between Torii Hunter and Justin Morneau and a few blows were thrown, one that somehow connected with little Lew Ford!
2006: The Twins spent one day in first place, but since it was the final day they made it count! They played well pretty much the entire season, but so did the Tigers. A late-season hot streak pushed the Twins over the top on the season's final day.
2007: How quickly a team can go from "contending" to "rebuilding". In the first losing season under Ron Gardenhire, a lack of fundamentals and downright sloppy baseball made the final month of the season almost unwatchable.
2008: After underachieving all season, the Twins basically needed to win out the final week of the season, starting with a sweep of the White Sox, whom they were chasing for the division title. I was at all three of those games at the Dome, and they are (easily) the most exciting games I have ever been to. The Twins would later lose to the Tighty Whities in a one-game playoff, but not before some of the most exciting baseball I have ever witnessed.
2009: (Read: 2008). This time the Twins make the one-game playoff count in the most exciting single baseball game I have ever watched!
It was a great decade of Twins baseball memories…why not try for another one?!
Boof To Boston
Just heard today that Boof Bonser was traded to the Boston Red Sox for a player to be named later.
My first reaction is regret, as Boof (when healthy) has a live arm and nasty stuff that can really tie-up opposing batters.
However, he did have two pretty big strikes against him:
1. After his brilliant rookie campaign in '06, he has never returned to that form again. Perhaps hitters figured him out and he hasn't been able to adapt?
2. His injury status. This decade, the Twins have seen two pitchers (in Joe Mays and Francisco Liriano) struggle mightily after major arm surgery. Mays was forced to retire because he was no longer effective, while Frankie is a shell of his '06 self.
If that big arm ever comes back, the Boofster could be a very nice addition to the BoSox.
In other news:
The most exciting player in the division…
…that being Curtis Granderson, was recently traded from the Tigers to (guess who!) the New York Yankees. Though I don't mind the fact that he won't be around to terrorize Twins pitching anymore, it makes me want to puke that the Yanks are at it again.
The Sad State Of Baseball Economics
After watching my beloved Minnesota Twins got stomped by the New York Yankees in the first round of the playoffs this past season, and then seeing Cleveland-bred C.C. Sabathia and Cliff Lee pitch the Yanks and Phillies into the World Series, I believe that now is the time for me to comment on the sad economic state of baseball these days. This has always been a very hot-button topic for me (as I root for the small-market Twins), so I would like to take a few moments to explain why the current system is broken and what can be done to fix it:
Basically, the problem started way back in the 1900s, when both the American and National Leagues were first established.
Instead of free agency, there was something called the reserve clause, which was essentially a legal precedent that baseball used to keep players on one team until their owner decided differently. The players were treated not too much different from a cattle-range steer, to be bought and sold as commodities. It wasn't, by any means, the greatest system in the world (as the only option a player had to fight against an unfair salary, which were very common in those days when most owners made Carl Pohlad look like the Monopoly Guy, was to quit playing altogether), but it did help the competitive balance of the game, allowing all teams (if managed/owned sensibly) to have a shot at competing for a championship.
That all changed in the 1970s when Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals challenged the reserve clause all the way to the Supreme Court.
Though Flood didn't actually win his case, he shed so much light on the matter that a free agency sytem was quickly established by MLB. During the 1980s, the system actually worked like it was supposed to…players had better rights, AND the game was still competitive. But, starting in the mid-1990s, salaries began exploding (along with the economy) and suddenly the system was skewered. Teams in huge economic markets like New York, Los Angeles, and Boston were able to throw huge wads of cash in the pockets of all the top free agents, all but assuring there services. Sometimes, in the case of Ted Turner's Atlanta Braves, all it took was an incredibly rich owner to give a team a distinct advantage.
Those big markets had (and continue to have) such an advantage for a few different reasons: First and foremost is the fact that, just by sheer geography, a team like the Yankees can much more easily fill their ballpark every night than, say, the Twins can out here in Minny. Also, teams on both coasts have established their own TV networks (YES Network for the Yankees and NESN for the Red Sox), which bring in enormous profits compared to what the Twins get from Fox Sports North.
After about ten years of this broken system, when the same teams started making the playoffs year in and year out, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig established the "luxury tax" system into the game. Essentially, this is known as the Robin Hood system, as it robs from the rich to give to the poor.
This has helped a little bit (e.g. the Twins signed Justin Morneau to a long-term deal and have at least a shot at doing the same with Joe Mauer), but it din't get to the root of the problem, as teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, and Mets can continue to reach into their deep pockets to get the best players. Essentially, they are saying "luxury tax be damned" and just paying the fine for going over the payroll limit. This is evidenced very toughly for Twins fans by these two photos:
The Twins gave very decent offers to both Torii Hunter and Johan Santana, but couldn't come close to matching the amount of years the Halos offered Hunter or the sheer dollar amount the Mets dangled in front of Santana. Another obvious example was the beginning of this season, when the Yankees went out and got C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, while the biggest moves the Twins made was signing Nick Punto, bringing in R.A. Dickey (what a joke) and getting a Joe Crede whose back was so bad that he essentially a non-factor. Those "moves" were all we could afford. Imagine how different the 2009 ALDS might have been if Hunter had been patrolling the outfield instead of Delmon Young, or if Santana had made the Game One start instead of Brian Duensing.
Now, to be fair, there are some criticisms of instituting a salary cap into MLB, but I would like to give my rebuttal to two of them:
1. Why should the Yankees be penalized for running an efficent system? It seems as if Yankee fans could just criticize Carl Pohlad for being a tightwad all those years and not spending money to improve his team, but that really isn't a fair criticism. First of all, George Steinbrenner isn't really spending much (if any) of his OWN MONEY on the Yankees, instead relying on seemingly endless revenue streams based on his sheer geography. Without those streams, other owners (like the Pohlad family) would be dipping into their own personal reserves, which would be like you paying for your office supplies/furnishings or me paying for Wal-Mart shelf labels.
Secondly, then, is that if teams know they can't spend with the Yankees, then why even try? The Twins know that, under the current economic system, they are already beaten in trying to sign free agents, so instead we save our money to try and lock up as many of our good players as possible (which, in this age of inflated salaries, is fewer and fewer each season).
2. The second criticism of the the salary cap is that it really isn't needed, due to the fact that the 1998-2000 championship run of the Yankees was accomplished primarily with home-grown players like Derek Jeter, Jorge Posade, Andy Pettitte, and Mariano Rivera.
That may be true, but funny how those great players STILL WEAR YANKEE PINSTRIPES! Instead of losing those great players to a higher bidder, the Yanks can just keep them. Plus, whether the free agents work out (Jimmy Key, Paul O'Neill, Johnny Damon, Sabathia, etc.) or flop (Kevin Brown, Chuck Knoblauch, Carl Pavano), the Yanks can just "pay through" and be done with it. If the Twins make a mistake in signing the wrong player to an expensive contract, it would hamper the organization for a decade.
Thus, until MLB institutes a salary cap like the NFL and NBA (to a certain extent) have in place, the economics of the game will remain skewered towards the large markets, and that severely troubles me. I consider baseball to be my favorite sport, the one that captivated me as a child and still does to this day, but right now the NFL is gaining ground and fast due to the fact that in the NFL setup, all teams have a chance to be competitive. It is only through bad ownership (Al Davis, Matt Millen, etc.) that teams completely fail.
I know that this situation isn't likely to change anytime soon, but that doesn't mean that it is right or correct. Until Bud Selig can take charge of the National Pastime like he should and not just cater to the owners, the Yankees will continue to unfairly dominate the Twins for years and years to come.
Why We Lost, Theory #2: We Were Overmatched From The Start
In the previous post, I made the point that the Twins have nobody to blame but themselves for the ALDS sweep at the hands of the Yankees. But is this really true?
This is kind of a touchy issue, at least for me, as it implies that the Twins (or any small-market "David" vs. a big-market "Goliath") really never have much of a chance to compete against the "big boys" of the league.
Any competant baseball fan knows that the economic system of the game is messed up due to the fact that no salary cap is in place. Teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, and Angels (in the American League) have such a huge advantage over the Twins and Royals of the world that its a wonder any other team ever represents the league in the World Series (I guess that is the crapshoot of a playoff structure that features a 3-of-5 first round). Sure, Bud Selig's supposedly brilliant luxury tax system (where, much like Robin Hood, the league robs from the rich to give to the poor) helps a little bit, but in reality all it ends up doing is narrowing the free agent pool each year (as the middle-market teams are able to lock up a few key players to long-term deals). It most definetly, however, does not prevent teams like the Yankees from nabbing the best free agents year after year (case in point: C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett brought in before the start of this season). The Twins could never have dreamed of signing guys like that.
Of course, baseball will likely never changed (at least not with Selig at the helm), as the success of the Yanks, Sawx, and Halos fuels the revenue machine, especially in the World Series. Though it might provide some sanctity back into the game, nobody wants to see the Twins and Athletics, to use two examples, duking it out in the ALCS. If the MLB execs had it their way, it would be New York and Boston every single year.
The whole situation kind of reminds me of the infamous "You can't handle the truth" speech from the movie A Few Good Men:
"My existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives…You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall."
While more parity would be great for baseball, it will never happen because admittedly it would weaken the short-term (until new rivalries are formed, at least) revenue stream of the league.
Thus, can the Twins even be expected to compete with the Yankees in any series? They have Sabathia and Burnett, we have Baker and Blackburn. They have the best middle of an order (Teixera, A-Rod, Matsui) since Ruth, Gehrig, and Lazzeri batted consecutively, while we have one stud (Mauer) and two others (Kubel, Cuddyer) that are by and large overmatched by quality pitching. They have guys like Melky Cabrera and Robinson Cano at the BOTTOM of the order, while we have Carlos Gomez, Nick Punto, and Jose Morales because they are all we can afford. They can throw arms like Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes at us, while he have Matt Guerrier and Jose Mijares. No comparison.
So, those are the two theories as to why our beloved Twins were brutalized by the hated Yanks. Which one is more valid? I think it is a mixture of both. The Twins would need to play a perfect series to even give themselves a chance to beat the Yankees, and instead we choked in every big opportunity.
Good Deal
Well, for the first time since Shannon Stewart was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays back in 2003, the Minnesota Twins finally pulled the trigger on a mid-season addition, this time in the form of A's shortstop Orlando Cabrera:
Personally, I think this is a GREAT move for the Twins to have made, as Cabrera plays great defense and hits, at .280, rougly 70-80 points better than Nick Punto on any given day. Plus, he is on a terror with the bat (.377 this month) right now, so maybe we're getting him just when he is starting to peak this year.
Back in '03, when Stewart came on board, the Twins miraculously went from a team almost out of contention, to one that won the division almost going away. It's amazing what a little excitement (from a big trade) can do for the players on a team. Shannon brought the leadoff presence that year, while now Cabrera brings offense out of the #2 hole in the lineup (exactly what we need).
What will be interesting is how Harris, Casilla, and Punto will be used now that Orlando is in town. Harris was terrible at the second sack last year, but can (and will) play third when (not if, unfortunately) Crede needs to be out of the lineup. That leaves Punto and Casilla at second, and assuming Gardy doesn't stroke out in the near future, we all know what that means (although batting ninth, one is probably just as good as the other).
By the way, I attended the first two Twins/Sox games at the Dome earlier this week, and really, is there any better feeling than sweeping the Sox?! Hey, maybe we can give the Angels a little payback this time around now that Cabrera is on our side!
Other deadline deals:
-Victor Martinez is on the verge of going to the Red Sox.
-Halladay is still a Jay (two minutes to go!)
-Tigers acquired starter Jarrod Washburn
Preview (52-50, 2nd, 2.0 GB DET): Ervin Santana (3-6, 7.29) vs. Nick Blackburn (8-5, 3.75). No Cabrera yet tonight, but Blackie might not need him.
Tommy-Boy and Big Papi
Two interesting events in the world of baseball that I would quickly like to touch on:
First, is David "Big Papi" Ortiz…
As you very well know, Ortiz is currently mired in a slump so long that many people are starting to call it "reality". As the stats currently sit, he is hitting a paltry .188 with just one long ball and 21 RBIs in a full 191 at-bats. I haven't seen him a whole lot during this horrid stretch, but I guess the word is that he is not catching up to the fastball and, when he does make contact, just pops it up all over the field.
Personally, I hope that Big Papi finds his stroke at some point this season. When hitting well, he is one of the most exciting players in all of baseball. I think the thing that Papi has going for him is that, like me, everyone is rooting for him. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a full season of at-bats even if he continues to stink. There are just too many memories like these… http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl_3_1.jsp?w=/library/open/moments/bbm_04alcs_gm4_nyybos_350.wmv&vid=7808&pid=gen_video&cid=mlb&v=2 … and many others that allow Ortiz time to turn things around. I'm rooting for him!
On the other hand, there is Tom Glavine…
He was recently released by the Atlanta Braves (the team for which he played for most of his career) after finally seeming to get healthy following his injury from last season. There is much buzz going around that Glavine was given a rough deal, but unlike Ortiz, who is universally liked by his home and national fans, Glavine also has THIS on his record…
For five seasons, Tommy-Boy "jumped shipped" and pitched for the Braves' biggest rivals, the New York Mets. I really don't remember the details of those negotiations, but I do know that Glavine pitched long enough in the Big Apple to identify with fans their as well. He re-joined the Braves last season but wasn't able to stay healthy enough to do any real quality pitching.
Personally, I could care less about what Glavine thinks the Braves "owe" him. As sports fans have learned from the Brett Favre fiasco year after year, until an athlete retires "for good", sports, at their core, are still a business. The Braves didn't want to waste $1 million on Glavine when he could easily just go out and get injured again, and I don't question their decision on that one bit. The same thing happened with the Twins and Harmon Killebrew. Towards the end of his career, Harmon was clearly fading skills-wise and Twins owner Cal Griffeth practically begged him to retire. Harmon refused, and thus the Twins traded him to Kansas City were he limped to the quick end of his career.
One Profane Man
Yesterday afternoon, the Twins and Red Sox hooked up for a pretty intense duel, with the Sox coming out on top 3-1. Things really got interesting in the seventh inning, for both clubs:
Top: With the Sox batting, a close play at the plate from Kubel (a great throw) to Redmond was called "safe" for the Sox when replays seemed to show that he was actually out. Redmond popped up and did his best "Yogi Berra after Jackie Robinson steals home" impersonation. He was immediately run from the game (which hurt the Twins by losing the DH and thus not pinch hitting for Matt Tolbert in the game's key moment an inning later) and closely followed by manager Ron Gardenhire.
Bottom: Up until the seventh inning, Josh Beckett had been absolutely mowing down the Twins' batters (besides the one Joe Crede bomb). Yet, throughout the game I noticed that he was incredibly angry and often (even after a 1-2-3 inning) would stomp off the mound uttering terrible profanities. I never really got the feeling that he was being squeezed at the plate, but obviously he thought differently. Thus, in the seventh, a very close pitch was called a ball and Beckett immediately told the umpire that he could "go have carnal relations with himself" (to put it nicely). Boy, was Beckett ever hot, almost throwing a temper tantrum right on the mound! Within minutes, both Jason Varitek and Terry Francona were joining Gardy and Red Dog in the bowels of the Dome. Why Beckett didn't get the old heave-ho as well is completely beyond me. Personally, I lost some respect for him for that little tirade. I have rarely seen a pitcher get so angry out on the mound (especially when dominating the opposing team) and it makes Beckett seem like just a hot-headed jerk who happens to have some nasty stuff.
All in all, though, a sweep with the Sox isn't the end of the world by any means. The real test now will be going into Tampa Bay and trying to play just as tough. Much like last year, the Twins won't become a legit contender unless they can even just play below-average (not God-awful) ball on the road.
-Joe Crede is coming around. His defense alone is darn near enough to keep him in the lineup every game, especially considering the struggles of Brian Buscher, while his bat is showing good pop.
-Glen Perkins may not have a job when he gets healthy. Anthony Swarzak has been VERY impressive in both his starts in the majors so far.
Preview (24-25, 2nd, 3.5 GB DET): Scott Baker (2-5, 6.32) vs. James Shields (3-4, 3.63).
"Getaway" Gardy
Truth be told, I think that Ron Gardenhire is a good manager for the Minnesota Twins. For a team that is always developing young players because we don't have enough money to spend on the big boys, Gardy also seems to have the right touch to bring the young guys along in the best possible manner. He may play favorites (Nick Punto, Jesse Crain) and once you get in his doghouse (Delmon Young) it's tough to get back in the main living quarters, but all in all he seems like a good guy who works hard and demands the same of his team.
That being said, there are some days that I just want to hate on him…and today is one of those days. As is his custom, Gardy put out his "Getaway" lineup featuring a stretch of batters that included Brian Buscher, Young, Mike Redmond, Punto, Carlos Gomez, and Matt Tolbert. Joe Crede (hit by pitch the day before), Joe Mauer (general day off), and Denard Span (flu-like symptoms) were all out of the lineup. While I agree with the Span "benching", why were BOTH Crede and Jo-Mo on the bench at the same time against arguably the best team in the American League right now?! The Red Sox trot out the likes of Ellsbury, Pedroia, Bay, Youkilis, and Lowell, while the Twins counter with that above quintet of guys who will make more outs than hits and inspire little confidence.
I guess it just really hit home to me after Mauer hit the home run in the bottom of the ninth off Papelbon, thinking "what would have happened if Mauer (and Crede) had been in the lineup all game long?". Mauer would have probably gotten a couple of hits (he is so locked in right now), while Crede wouldn't have let three balls by him in one inning (yes, they were tough plays, but Crede may have made them).
When playing the BoSox, one has to expect that many runs will need to be scored to win the contest, and Gardy just didn't put out a viable lineup today to do that. Of course, he can probably justify every move, and perhaps be correct in the long run, but I still just want to pout for awhile anyway at a loss that could have been a whole lot different.
Preview (22-24, 3rd, 4.5 GB DET): Jon Lester (3-4, 5.91) vs. Nick Blackburn (3-2, 3.83). Blackie has been carrying the pitching staff as of late, and I look for that streak to continue.
The Champ Is Here
Tonight, the Minnesota Twins open a 3-game series with the defending AL Champion Tampa Bay Rays (still not quite used to saying that, even this long after they won!). Both teams have been a bit off-and-on for these first few weeks of the season, with the Rays actually in the cellar of the AL East due to the hot start of the Toronto Blue Jays and the current red-hot success of the Boston Red Sox.
Preview (9-10, 4th, 1.5 GB DET): Jeff Niemann (1-2, 5.40) vs. Scott Baker (0-2, 12.46). Baker needs to keep the ball down…period.
2010: A Season Preview
See the picture above? That may happen more times than not at Target Field come 2010. A depressing, pessimistic thought, I know, but it could be a harsh reality of building a non-retractable roof stadium in a state like MN.
But hey, on the positive side, it looks like baseball may actually be played tonight!! Scott Baker got beat up earlier today and the Twins lost 10-1 in just seven innings (shortened by, guess what, rain!).
Preview: (7-8, 4th, 1.0 GB KCR, DET, & CWS): Francisco Liriano (0-3, 5.09) vs. Brad Penny (1-0, 11.00).


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This board is a great resource and I am back with questions. I am hoping someone can help me with the details to set up a 38MM round slide Mikuni carburetor for my KHK. Suggestions for the right needles, jets and slides would be appreciated. My "Victory Library Mikuni Tuning for Harley Davidsons" is a great resource. It covers 45s and 74s. Sporty's and 900cc KHs are omitted. It suggests the following for 45 strokers:
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New York City, the unique metropolis that Le Corbusier has called "a beautiful catastrophe," is a natural home to Bruce Gilden. Since 1981, Gilden has been roaming the streets of the city, capturing its characters and eccentricities with his confrontational, highly energetic style and exuberant vision. In A Beautiful Catastrophe, Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden celebrates a trademark style with abandon, firmly ensconcing him in the pantheon of New York City street poets.
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This is a follow up on the Republcian Party's rebranding. This article talks about how younger Republicans are trying to get the Party to embrace new technology and adapt a new tone.
Back in August 2011, Jacobson wrote an op-ed in Forbes alerting Republicans to Obama's lead on the digital front. His warnings were disregarded. Then last summer, he and Spencer approached the conservative super PAC American Crossroads with their digital-tool-building strategies and, they say, were politely ignored. It's understandable, then, that a touch of schadenfreude is evident when Jacobson and Spencer receive the policy-group gurus and trade-association lobbyists who file into Red Edges's office to receive a comeuppance.
"Business is booming for us," Jacobson said. "We'll double or triple our bottom line this year, easily. But this isn't about getting new business. We need the entire right side of the aisle to get smart fast. And the only way they can do that is to appreciate how big the chasm was."
Exhibit A is the performance of the Romney brain trust, which has suffered an unusually vigorous postelection thrashing for badly losing a winnable race. Criticism begins with the candidate — a self-described data-driven chief executive who put his trust in alarmingly off-the-mark internal polls and apparently did not think to ask his subordinates why, for example, they were operating on the assumption that fewer black voters would turn out for Obama than in 2008. Romney's senior strategist, Stuart Stevens, may well be remembered by historians, as one House Republican senior staff member put it to me, "as the last guy to run a presidential campaign who never tweeted." ("It was raised many times with him," a senior Romney official told me, "and he was very categorical about not wanting to and not thinking it was worth it.")
But the problem for the G.O.P. extends well beyond its flawed candidate and his flawed operation. The unnerving truth, which the Red Edge team and other younger conservatives worry that their leaders have yet to appreciate, is that the Republican Party's technological deficiencies barely begin to explain why the G.O.P. has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. The party brand — which is to say, its message and its messengers — has become practically abhorrent to emerging demographic groups like Latinos and African-Americans, not to mention an entire generation of young voters. As one of the party's most highly respected strategists told me: "It ought to concern people that the most Republican part of the electorate under Ronald Reagan were 18-to-29-year-olds. And today, people I know who are under 40 are embarrassed to say they're Republicans. They're embarrassed! They get harassed for it, the same way we used to give liberals a hard time."
The all-female focus group began with a sobering assessment of the Obama economy. All of the women spoke gloomily about the prospect of paying off student loans, about what they believed to be Social Security's likely insolvency and about their children's schooling. A few of them bitterly opined that the Democrats care little about the working class but lavish the poor with federal aid. "You get more off welfare than you would at a minimum-wage job," observed one of them. Another added, "And if you have a kid, you're set up for life!"
About an hour into the session, Anderson walked up to a whiteboard and took out a magic marker. "I'm going to write down a word, and you guys free-associate with whatever comes to mind," she said. The first word she wrote was "Democrat."
"Young people," one woman called out.
"Liberal," another said. Followed by: "Diverse." "Bill Clinton.""Change.""Open-minded.""Spending.""Handouts.""Green.""More science-based."
When Anderson then wrote "Republican," the outburst was immediate and vehement: "Corporate greed.""Old.""Middle-aged white men." "Rich." "Religious." "Conservative." "Hypocritical." "Military retirees." "Narrow-minded." "Rigid." "Not progressive." "Polarizing." "Stuck in their ways." "Farmers."
he session with the young men was equally jarring. None of them expressed great enthusiasm for Obama. But their depiction of Republicans was even more lacerating than the women's had been. "Racist," "out of touch" and "hateful" made the list — "and put '1950s' on there too!" one called out.
Jacobson did not back down. "Even the Republican Party rejected Santorum," he said. "He got some attention, and he certainly received votes. But he didn't win."
In a sense, however, Santorum and his fellow archconservatives did win, by tugging Mitt Romney and his pliable views rightward. Then Romney lost, and so did the Republicans.
I hope Republcian leaders listen to these younger voices.
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How to Actively Read a Piece of Literature
Have you ever needed to get a substantial amount of information from a selected piece of literature? Sometimes, just reading from line to line makes understanding the core concept of the reading difficult.
1Review it. If the piece of literature you are reading is a book, or has a cover with an illustrated title, take a minute to review it. What does the title mean to you? Before continuing, make an inference on what the book will be about. If the book's title is "Geometry 101," you're in the clear, but what would you say if the title of the book was "Introspective Litigation"? It is important to always have a dictionary that is easily accessible.
2When beginning your actual text reading, make sure to focus on the chapter title/name. Ask the question, "Why would the author call this chapter ..." Asking different levels of questions will help you understand core concepts throughout the text: Level 1- Exhibit memory of previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers (e.g. how, what, why) Level 2- Demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas (eg. classification, descriptions, reports) Level 3- Solve problems to new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way (e.g. apply, choose, demonstrate)
3Annotate the text, make sure to highlight important selections, use asterisks to mark curious or interesting selections. Use arrows to connect ideas and create a legend to remember what each specific tool represents. Circling words you don't know or underlining creative language by the author can be beneficial to your linguistic and grammatical skills. Write in the margins of the text, connect to what is going on in the selection.
4At the end of each chapter, write a few sentences based on what you understood from the reading.
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I would like to create a script that would execute a series of scp commands. This would pull a specific set of files from another computer on the network to a specific directory on the local machine.
What are the authentication considerations of note? I.E. this will end up being a cron job, so what would be the best way to handle the password challenges?


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2012 Season (Junior): Punctuated Stanford's performance at the NCAA Super Six with a career-best 9.950 on the vault on the Cardinal's final routine of the meet ... the 49.550 was Stanford's highest team in score in any event all season and the second-best vault score in school history ... was Stanford's vault anchor in seven of the final eight meets of the season ... was a regular in the vault and floor exercise lineups, missing only one meet on vault because of injury ... scored at least 9.750 on every vault ... had two first-place finishes: at the NorCal Quad Meet (Jan. 15) and at Cal (Feb. 12).
2011 Season (Sophomore): Captured the team's Most Improved Award ... set career highs in all three events she competed in ... vaulted for Stanford in all 11 competitions ... earned her first ever individual victory, scoring 9.850 in the vault at Arizona (Feb. 18), tying the career high she set five days before against Michigan and Nebraska ... competed in the bars four times, setting a career-high 9.800 in her season debut in the event against San Jose State (Feb. 5) ... made her collegiate debut in the floor against UCLA ... would go on to compete in the event seven times ... never scored below 9.700 in any event.
2010 Season (Freshman): Finished second overall and first on her team during her collegiate vault debut (Feb. 14) in dual-meet victory at eventual NCAA champ UCLA ... her score was a 9.825, her collegiate career high in any event ... finished tied for 13th in the Pac-10 on vault (9.80) ... competed four times on vault and once on bars. Club/High School: A 2009 graduate of East Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School ... a powerful and dynamic gymnast, who is especially strong on floor and vault ... a five-time Junior Olympic national qualifier, a three-time national vault champion and a four-time Region 5 All-Star team member ... won Region 5 all-around title three times and was the Michigan state all-around champion from 2004-2009 ... captured the Region 5 vault title in 2009 at Level 10, as well as state titles in beam, vault and all-around ... represented Geddert's Twistars USA of Diamondale, Mich., where she was coached by John and Kathryn Geddart.
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Barack Obama and The Roots 'Slow Jam The News' on Jimmy Fallon
Last night, President of the United States Barack Obama made a surprise guest appearance on Jimmy Fallon's show last night to perform alongside The Roots for their "Slow Jam The News" segment.
As Fallon's house band, Questo and the crew provided a presidential soundscape for Obama to discuss a political issue regarding government-backed Stafford loans for college students.
Throughout Obama's performance, Fallon offered quips and comments, and Black Thought punctuated each portion with comedic crooning.
The issue at hand was an upcoming change to the interest rates charged on Stafford loans. If left along, this interest rate would double, which, according to Obama, would cost students approximately $1,000 more to pay for their education. Obama called on members of Congress to act to stop this upcoming change, keeping interest rates at their currently low rates.
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Halloween Howdown set for 10/27 in Hastings
The BEST Halloween costume party/concert in Westchester is back!
Local favorites and soon-to-be-Folkabilly-legends, SOUTH COUNTY, return to the Purple Crayon on Oct 27 for their third annual Halloween Hoedown.
The show will feature all of South County's classic tracks like Carcass, Elijah and NOLA (www.southcountytheband.com/music) as well as 12 murderously spooky Halloween Classics from the Talking Heads, the Misfits, Rob Zombie, the Louvin Brothers, the Decemberists and more!!! Monster Mash, anyone?
Costume contest with prizes, multimedia show, drinks, dancing, debauchery...tell all your friends and start planning your alibi...
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Senior Zach Dahleen earned All-MVC in 2012.
Aug 29, 2013
By Tyler Wooten
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Saluki cross country will begin its 2013 season at home on Friday with the unscored Saluki Early Bird, set to begin at 5:30 p.m.
Rend Lake will be the only other school in attendance at the meet, which will compose of one co-ed 4K race beginning at 5:30 p.m. Many of Southern's key pieces for 2013 will not compete, including seniors Zach Dahleen and Brian Dixon on the men's side and junior Sadie Darnell for the women. Most of SIU's roster will compete next Friday, Sep. 6, at the EIU Walt Crawford Open in Charleston, Ill.
The Saluki men were picked to repeat as Missouri Valley Conference champions in a preseason poll released by the conference on Aug. 19. They return all five All-MVC performers from that championship squad, including NCAA qualifier Brian Dixon.
The SIU women were picked to finish third and received one first-place vote after they scored their highest finish at the conference meet since 2006 last season (third). Southern returns five student-athletes who finished in the top-30 in 2012 who will be key components in SIU's attempt to dethrone reigning champion Illinois State.


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NFS - Undercover & Pure
Now theres two titles I rly was looking foreward too. (PC)
But both gave me some weird bugs which resulted in me not wanting to continue any futher.
With this tread I was hoping to maybe catch the ears of someone who knows their way around these bugs or prehaps know a better forum... something
Iv been playing racing games sens before the NFS series and consider myself a pro with great patience in those paticular games.
NFS - Undercover
If I dont tap the turn bottons REALLY gentle I end up in the side walls right away.
This is oviously a bug.
Wheres the drivers???
you see 15 ATV's with no drivers
Hey nice trick there! oh wait, your invisible.....
hehe strange idd, ghost race.
Anyone know if theres any updates? or redirrect me to a better forum to ask about this.
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A pro key-tapping racer?
If you like racing games that much, seriously, invest in a good force-feedback steering wheel or at the very least an Xbox 360 controller for your PC. It'll make a world of difference.
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