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Why yes, I am! How could you tell? Was it my slightly disheveled hipster look, or my awesomely artsy aura that you picked up on?
It was that big black square bag you have slung across your body.
You don't have to tote a boring boxy bag just 'cause you want to protect your DSLR. Jo Totes makes sweet "camera bags for ladies" that are feminine, fashionable, and have all the padding and customizable dividers you need to keep your lenses, flash and camera secure. The Millie ($87) is our current favorite, but there are quite a few options worth checking out.
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'Tis the season, as they say. But what season is it, exactly? The season of holiday parties and winter beer? Or maybe the season of traveling to visit family and friends? Perhaps the season of over-eating and indulgence... you know, excessive enjoyment of the good things in life? All of these things are true, actually. But the simplest definition is probably the most accurate: 'Tis the season of giving.
Sure, I'm talking about the Christmas and Hannukah gifts we receive from loved ones. But it's not just about giving "stuff". Giving joy and cheer to those closest to us, as well as complete strangers, really encompasses all that we should aspire to do this holiday season (and the rest of the time as well, but that's another rant...), so why not embrace that spirit and do something extra for charity. And I've got just the event for you... the Holiday Happy Hour for House of Ruth at The Wine Market.
This lovely restaurant/wine store is a popular spot for South Baltimore folk looking for a great wine selection, and an excellent meal, so it's nice to see them using that influence for a good cause. From 6pm-8pm tomorrow night (Wednesday, December 14th), they will be hosting a special fund-raising happy hour to benefit the House of Ruth, a shelter for abused women and their children. This is an extremely important cause, especially around the holidays when domestic violence is at its peak. Guests are asked to bring a new unwrapped toy to donate to the children living there, and The Wine Market will be offering $5 wine & cocktails, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, and giveaways to attendees.
So if you're wondering what you can do to help this season, deliver a toy (and some holiday cheer) to the House of Ruth tomorrow night. And if you can enjoy some fine wine at the same time (bringing some joy to yourself), then why not? You should feel good about it... shouldn't you?
All the best, my friends. Don't forget to drink well... and keep on giving!
Mark Burlet
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People & Places - Dave Kai Piper
A collection of portraiture and landscape photography from 2010 - 2012, Shot by Dave Kai Piper. Locations such as London, Italy, and America combined with stunning art photography and beautiful portraiture. This book is has many of my favourite images including the "Flying Horse" and the "Ice Queen" photograph as well as many new UNSEEN images.
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Ideas and Images was set up to be a modern photography company with a range of skills to match the current job role of a Photographer. Along side shooting Fashion, Music, and Landscapes, personal work is very important to the overall vision. We are very proud to be part of the Fuji X-photographers site and Adobe Community of Professionals. Brand Ambassador for Lexar & 3 Legged thing.
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Wouldn't it be great to capture the essence of delight on your pet's face in a true Fetch Portrait? Many of you may be thinking, 'Yeah, but I can't afford that.' Well, maybe you can!
Jennifer Whaley, the Owner and Photographer of Fetch Portraits is looking to shoot 20 minute Park Photo Sessions. She just needs to know who would be interested in such a deal.
Jennifer shoots beautiful photos and simply wants people to enjoy the work that she loves to do. That is why she has put out feelers and is welcoming suggestions from the surrounding community where they would like to see her and her equipment.
She loves feedback from the residents of the varying Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana communities and wants the news of her potential arrival to reach you and yours. Like she said on her website, you spoke and she listened!
All you have to do is tell Ms. Whaley where you and your dog frequent and she would love to visit there soon. All you have to do is logon to logon to http://www.fetchportraits.com/ and click on the Park Sessions box. That will take you to another webpage where you can fill out your email address and the location where you would like to see Fetch Portraits shoot a park near you.
The greatest thing about Fetch Portraits coming to your town is that if you vote, you will get your Park Photo Session for FREE! Time is of the essence though! You need to cast your vote today because the decision will be made tomorrow!
If your town is selected, you will receive an email from Jennifer telling you when and which park in your area that was selected. Then, all you have to do is show up.
Each session is shortened to only 20 minutes, not like a full session that yields and entire book full of images. The mini-photo-session will take place at the park(s) chosen. If you are not a recipient of a free session, you can book a session for $60 which also includes a fully retouched 5x7 print as well as a low resolution digital file for sharing online. The price for the mini-session is less than HALF the price for a full session and a print!
Jennifer Whaley has chosen to run these mini sessions in addition to her very important photographs of rescued dogs. She feels that it is so important to capture the love in a dog's eyes. Not every rescue is lucky enough to have someone like Jennifer in their corner.
From the very first dog that she photographed, Molly, to now, she knows the importance of the unconditional love that dogs have to offer. It is in her soul to help as many dogs as possible and one way of doing that through this opportunity is to give pet parents the chance to get a really great photo of their beloved pet!
That is what Jennifer Whaley and Fetch Portraits is all about. Don't forget to logon and vote. It could be you that is the lucky recipient of a free photo session with your Fido!


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Did I mention how much I love the Internet? I suppose its fairly obvious as a blogger that I dig this whole medium, but honestly, it has made so many fantastic things possible in my life. Take, for example the following story.
About two months ago, I wrote a post here about Tosa Space Sake. Thanks to the magic of news feeds I was able to find out that as a crazy marketing stunt of some sort, a group of Japanese sake manufacturers had figured out how to get some yeast on a rocket into space for some time. Once it came down, they were going to make some sake from it and sell it as Sake from Space.
The idea tickled me to death, and I felt compelled to share it with my readers. About a week after posting this story, I got an e-mail from one of my readers, saying that she and her partner were on their way to Japan in a couple of weeks and that through a good friend, they were going to try their darndest to get their hands on some of this Space sake. She went on to ask, if they managed to get a hold of some, would I mind joining them for dinner to taste it.
I find this sort of thing frankly miraculous. It has become commonplace to connect with people over the Internet (heck, I met my wife on Match.Com), to the point that I think many of us take it for granted. But I find it incredible that one day I can be posting a tidbit about some wacky Sake made from post-orbital yeast, and five weeks later I can be sitting in a sushi restaurant with two perfectly lovely strangers who have carried a couple of bottles of the stuff back from Japan with the sole purpose of sharing it with me. I mean, really.
But there we were, nibbling at hirame nigiri and swirling and sniffing at bottles emblazoned with planets and rocket ships, chatting away about wine and sake and Tokyo restaurants, Kyoto gardens, and more. And now, of course I'm writing about it, not only to say thank you to Mora and Linda for their incredible thoughtfulness and generosity, but also to share with you dear reader, the flavors of space.
Without further ado, then, here are the tasting notes for Tosa Space Sake!
Toyo no Ume Tosa Space Sake, Junmai Daiginjo, Kochi Prefecture (Shikoku), Japan
Colorless and viscous in the glass this sake has a light floral quality to its nose, with faint aromas of jasmine and rainwater. In the mouth it is smooth on the tongue with flavors of wet wood and a light acidity that doesn't have the strength to make for a livelier flavor or complexity. The finish has an unusual heat for a Junmai sake.
Pleasant but not particularly remarkable. Score: 8/8.5.
Tsukasa Botan Tosa Space Sake, Ginjo, Kochi Prefecture (Shikoku), Japan
Colorless in the glass, this sake has a nose of dry balsa wood and minerals. In the mouth it is also a bit woody in flavor, with additional flavors of rainwater and light melon notes. The finish is smooth and pleasant, surprisingly more so than the Junmai. Score: 8.5/9.
Tosa is the old name for the Kochi prefecture, which is on the tiny island of Shikoku, off of the southern coast of Japan's main island. There, a group of 19 sake brewers managed to convince the Russian space program to take a bunch of their yeast into orbit aboard a Soyuz space capsule. In total, eight kinds of dry yeast and four kinds of wet yeast, each in a test tube containing 2 grams of material, spent 10 days in orbit. The effects on the yeast are unknown, but nobody seems to care. The sake brewers promptly started making sake when the stuff came back to earth, and the first of these sakes went on sale on April 1st.
I have no idea how much these sakes are, or how you might get a hold of them, but I suspect the only place to get them is Japan. Of course, you might try looking on the Internet -- you never know what you might come up with.
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Leighton Meester Suing Her Mother
Leighton Meester is suing her mom, Constance Meester, who she alleges took money the "Gossip Girl" star sent for her sick little brother Lex, and instead used for her own cosmetic procedures, Botox, and hair extensions.
In the suit, obtained by TMZ, Meester says her mom claims they had an oral agreement that the actress would pay Constance a monthly allowance of $10,000, but Meester says that's absolutely untrue.
The star also alleges that her mother threatened to sue her for $3 million, if she didn't start ponying up the cash.
Meester is asking the court to declare that there's no contract between her and Constance.
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From the President
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Welcome to Springfield Technical Community College, with the most comprehensive array of academic programs of any community college in New England.
We offer over 90 associate degree and certificate programs in health, engineering technologies, business and computer information technologies, liberal arts transfer, and engineering and science transfer.
Our students have gone on to rewarding careers throughout western Massachusetts - as sonographers, accountants, computer specialists, dental hygienists, laser systems technologists, and many more professions. Hundreds of police and fire officers throughout the region are STCC graduates.
Other students have taken advantage of STCC's low tuition and supportive environment to complete the first two years of a bachelor's degree, and have gone on to graduate from Smith College, Mount Holyoke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and other fine institutions.
Our primary commitment is to the success of our students. We welcome you to the virtual STCC community, on our website. If you would like to visit our campus in person, or learn more about our programs and activities, please contact our Admissions Office, online or at 755-3333.
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East Carolina Quotes
East Carolina Head Coach Randy Mazey:
On injuries to the pitching staff:
"It's almost fitting that the season ends with the part that gave us the most trouble which was pitching. We had so many pitching injuries throughout the year and we fought like dogs just to make it here. I'm awfully proud of our team. We lost five of our top six or seven pitchers for the year so we're pitching with a skeleton staff. To say we've overcome a lot is the understatement of the year. I'm awful proud of the way the guys have battled all year long. I don't know of another team in the nation that you could hand pick five of its best pitchers off of its staff and still have them make it to the postseason like we did. We knew it was going to be an uphill battle when we got here and we played as hard as we could. I can't say enough about every guy that wears the Pirate uniform and how proud I am of these guys."
On starting pitcher Ricky Brooks:
"We knew they were very offensive and regardless of when they score their runs, we knew they score a lot. We knew our relief pitching was an issue for us. With them being so offensive and us being so thin in the bullpen it was not a real good matchup. That's why we had to leave poor Ricky (Brooks) out there as long as we did. He wanted to finish the game in the ninth and he gave what I would consider a yeomen's effort today. I think he threw more pitches today than anybody in the history of East Carolina. He battled through it today and did a great job, we just could finish it for him."
On the injury to closer Kevin Rhodes before the game started:
"He's our closer. He's the guy that would have been on the mound in the ninth inning for sure. It's par for the course for the season. We didn't throw him yesterday against Arizona State because we were saving him for this game and we lost him right before the game. It was very indicative of the way the season went."
East Carolina Sophomore Pitcher Ricky Brooks:
On wanting to stay in the game in the ninth inning:
"It's a tough call for the coach. I felt if I would have stayed in I could have gotten some outs, but it's not up to me."
On getting out of jams:
"When I get in jams I don't really get down because I know I can make a pitch. You can never get down. Baseball is an up and down game and as long as you stay level you'll be fine."
East Carolina Junior Third Baseman Mark Minicozzi:
On the mood in the dugout after scoring the first runs in the game:
"I think everyone was really relaxed. We put a couple of runs up on the board and everyone got laid back and played our game."
On UNLV starting pitcher Derek Rodriguez:
"I tip my hat to him. He did a great job today. You can't be perfect on the mound and you've got to take advantage when he makes a mistake and he made very few."
UNLV Quotes
UNLV Head Coach Buddy Gouldsmith
On the ninth inning comeback:
"Unfortunately, it comes from too much experience because we've gotten ourselves into that situation too many times. We have guys that are buying into the philosophy that if we can just get the next guy to the plate, we'll get the opportunity to get the big hit. We certainly did not get it done in the first eight innings today."
On the lack of offense:
"Their starter threw outstanding. He left with 130 pitches and got out of a lot of jams early. As was the case yesterday, we couldn't get a timely hit. Certainly it is unfortunate, playing at any time, to not be at full strength. I can certainly empathize with Coach Mazey in not being at full-strength and not being able to run your best guys out there. We went to Kyle (Tabeek) a little earlier than we normally would have today because our backs were against the wall and we needed to keep it at two runs. We felt like the way we swung the bats yesterday, we could score some runs. I wasn't expecting five in the ninth, but we hung in there for a long time."
On the comeback:
"It's probably our biggest comeback this year. They shut us out for eight innings and its incredible to get that kind of performance from both sides. That is a good club we beat out there today and we really hung in there. The credit goes to (our) guys today. With things not going our way, line drives being caught and running ourselves out of innings, our emotions could have been down and they could have stopped. Certainly, anyone would have understood if they didn't feel like they were going to win that game, but we talked about that, if anyone here didn't feel like we could win this game today, they should go sit on the bus and wait for us until we are done.
"Obviously, a win any way you can get it is good. We've been back through the loser's bracket in the conference tournament and been behind every time. This was just another piece of adversity to deal with and it makes us better. Certainly, it will give us confidence going into tomorrow.
"It's almost been there, done that. Everyone has a great idea of what its going to take to move on tomorrow and how physically and mentally demanding it is going to be. Everyone is going to have to be ready to go and when we finished today, we had to be ready to go. We have to win the first one and we will take it one inning at a time and try and win each inning.
"We don't try and go out playing for the big inning. We try and win every inning. We may bunt a guy over, not because the game dictates, but because it is zero-zero and we are trying to win an inning at that point. The way Derek (Rodriguez) was throwing, if we could score once, we could win that inning and get back out there for the next one."
UNLV sophomore INF Chris Bonnell
On the ninth inning rally and believing in the team:
"We've had our backs against the wall all year, like I said yesterday, and we've believed in ourselves. This is not the first time we've come back and we believed the whole way. We didn't want our season to end today.
"We got lucky. We got balls falling in and their pitchers didn't make pitches that they needed to. We just played smart and the rally just happened. It was fun. When you are down to the last outs of your season, you are hoping that things go your way and when they do, it is a great feeling. It's emotionally draining."
On the game-winning hit:
"It was an outside fastball. We had scored two runs and I had a runner on second base. All I was thinking was, 'Get a hit anyway I can'. I wasn't thinking to try and lift the ball or go to the opposite side; it was just, 'Get a hit anyway possible'. It was not the first time I've been in that situation. I usually stay relaxed and I was just focused on what I had to do and didn't feel the pressure."
UNLV senior RHP Derek Rodriguez
"Today, I executed my plan of locating my fastball on both sides of the plate and working (their hitters) down in the zone. The thing I wasn't satisfied with was the command of my curveball. It wasn't there today and I think it was 10-9 balls and strikes. I ended up throwing the changeup a lot more than I usually do and it worked for me. I worked off of it for my fastball and coming into the game, I was just hoping to give my team a chance to win and I ended up doing just that."
UNLV senior RHP Kyle Tabeek
"It wasn't my first time coming in to 'steal the win.' (Derek Rodriguez) threw a great game and I just wanted to come in and do what I could. I located my fastball and felt like I had good command of my changeup. I just wanted to make my pitches and my defense played great behind me. They gave me the chance to get the win."


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When Philadelphia Comic-Con returns this Sunday, January 19, it will be bringing two comics legends to town. Headlining this month's show are Herb Trimpe ("The Incredible Hulk") and Paris Cullins ("Green Lantern," "Blue Beetle"). The Philly Comic-Con will once again be at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center (formerly the Ramada Philadelphia Airport) in Essington, PA.
Philadelphia Comic-Con is the city's longest running comic convention and has an admission fee of only $3! Admission is free to students of any age with current ID. Parking is free. Convention goers will have access to dozens of vendors selling Golden & Silver Age and new comics, action figures, trading cards and original art across 60 different tables.
Herb Trimpe is best known for his work on "The Incredible Hulk," where he had a seven year run on the title. Trimpe's run included #180-181, which featured the first appearances of Wolverine of the X-Men.
In addition to a well known run on "Blue Beetle" for DC Comics, Paris Cullins, a Philadelphia native, is the co-creator of Blue Devil for DC Comics.
Also appearing this Sunday will be cosplayer, model and Philadelphian Victoria Cosplay. Licensed pint glass manufacturer, Toon Tumblers, will be there as well.
The Philadelphia Comic-Con is from 10AM-4PM, on January 19, at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center. Door prizes will be given away every hour, beginning at 11AM. So be sure to get there early! Prizes include show cash to be spent at the convention.
For more information including up to date guest list and information on dealers' tables, call 856-217-5737.
Discuss the Philadelphia Comic-Con on Twitter using the hashtag #PhillyComicCon.
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Some states judiciaries are striking down teacher tenure. There are many people that think this is a very positive idea and many that think that it is a very negative idea.
The concept of teacher tenure was developed over 100 years ago to protect teachers from being fired on the whims of principles. Sensibly, tenure provides due process if a principle feels that a teacher should be fired.
Unfortunately, the due process procedure is very onerous and a few teachers who are not good teachers end up staying in the classroom while the process is going on, to the detriment of the children. Concern for the children has prompted a group called Students Matter studentsmatter.org/ to bring forth suits in states all over the country with the intent of striking down teacher tenure.
Students Matter has a great deal of monetary backing because it was started by Walmart founder Sam Walton and recently funded by billionaire David Welch. http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25943802/dave-welch-silicon-valle...
Teachers Unions are leading the fight against the removal of tenure. From their prospective, tenure protects good teachers from unfair or misguided principals and gives the teachers security in their jobs.
Take a step back from this national issue and imagine that this ruling reached Pennsylvania and effected your child's school. It could be a detriment or a blessing. Let's look at two possible scenarios if tenure was struck down in Pennsylvania.
In the first scenario you love your child's elementary school, you love the teachers, you know they work together to always keep improving and that their number one concern is for the children. Now imagine that a new principal gets hired who prefers younger, attractive, female teachers so suddenly a well loved teacher with 30 years experience is fired and two of the students favorite male teachers are fired. This can happen, (it happens everyday in private schools), it will happen and it will not be in the best interest of the students if these were very good, competent teachers.
Now for the second scenario; Same school, you love the school and the teachers but one teacher is not like the others. She is constantly taking off, she picks the children up late every morning and she doesn't know the latest teaching techniques so she just lectures to the children all day as they doodle or sleep at their desks. Under a tenure system the Principle would need to provide professional development for this teacher to help her improve. Without tenure he or she could simply fire her or not invite her back the next school year.
So, ask yourself, which would matter more to our students, the possibility of losing most of thei r favorite teachers based on the capriciousness of a principal or having to endure a less than perfect teacher until he or she can be trained or fired? Listen to whyy.org/cms/.../tenure-for-americas-public-school-teachers.. for more discussion.
Teacher Tenure
Some states judiciaries are striking down teacher tenure. There are many people that think this is a very positive idea and many that think that it is a very negative idea.


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2012 Fall Training Camp Schedule
at Cal State San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407
(athletic fields on east side of campus)
Saturday, August 4 - 2:45 p.m.
Sunday, August 5 - 2:45 p.m.
Monday, August 6 - 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, August 7 - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 8 - 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 9 - 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Friday, August 10 - no practice
Saturday, August 11 - 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 12 - 4:00 p.m.
Monday, August 13 - 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 14 - 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, August 15 - 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 16 - 8:00 a.m. (team returns to campus following this practice)
Note - Practice sessions last approximately two hours and are open to the public.
Directions to Cal State San Bernardino ($5 parking fee):
From I-215 North
Exit University Parkway (turn right)
Proceed along University Parkway and turn right on Northpark Blvd.
Turn left at Coyote Drive
Fans should park in Lot G. Stop at the kiosk at the Coyote Drive entrance and secure parking from an attendant, or use the blue automated parking kiosks located throughout the lot to purchase parking. After parking your vehicle, walk towards the mountains and move to the right around the Student Recreation Center. Take a left at the end of the Rec Center, and the fields are a short walk directly ahead. Please find a location on the perimeter of the fields and a safe distance from the action. There are some tall shade trees circling parts of the field, but you should plan to bring your own chair.


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The Major
Students who discover in themselves a sense of excitement about the environment, mountains, climate change, volcanoes, fossils, rivers and earthquakes, will find a good home in the Carleton Geology Department. Founded by Dr. Laurence M. Gould, former President of the College and one of the first geologists to explore Antarctica, the geology department retains a spirit of exploration and adventure.
Fieldwork in the out of doors is central to our curriculum. The interests and goals of geology students are diverse; more than three-fourths go to graduate school as preparation for careers in academia, environmental sciences, science journalism, industry, and the public sector at the local through federal levels. A degree in Geology has also proved to be a good foundation for graduate study and work in conservation, architecture, engineering, resource economics, environmental education, and resource management. Typical of Carleton, our graduates can also be found in almost any profession.
The geology curriculum is flexible, rigorous, and rooted in the traditions of a liberal arts education. Junior and senior majors in other natural sciences are welcome to enroll in geology courses numbered 200 and above without the introductory geology prerequisite with permission of the instructor.
If you are a "New Student" you will also find information on our "Guide for New Students" link.
Requirements for the Geology Major
Professional Meeting AbstractsAbstracts of presentations by members of the Carleton College Geology Department at meetings of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union
Geology student support to attend professional meetingsGuidelines for geology student support for professional meetings


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Our Pet Care Partners
Caring for all of your pet's needs takes more than we could ever provide alone. Here are some local organizations and businesses that we recommend to our patients and their families.
Pet Health and Lifestyle Information
We know a well-informed owner coupled with an expert veterinary care team is key to maintaining the happiness and
health of your pet. That's why we partnered with Vetstreet.com to bring you additional pet health and lifestyle
information you can't find on our website. Vetstreet.com contains a wealth of pet information written by leading
veterinarians, journalists, and animal health care experts. Whether you are wondering about why your dog puts his
head out of the window while driving, seeking a workout plan for you and your dog, or trying to figure out how to get
your cat to take her medicine, VCA and Vetstreet.com are here to help.
Visit: Vetstreet.com
Lancaster SPCA
In February 2013 we partnered with the Lancaster SPCA. The SPCA is a shelter serving Lancaster County Pennsylvania. With all the available means and resources to prevent and alleviate the suffering of animals. The shelter provides humane care and adoptions of stray and unwanted animals who are the result of owner surrender and cruelty investigations. They are a non profit organization who excepts domestic animals from individuals, while primarily being supported through public donations.
As a primary partner of the SPCA, VCA Smoketown Animal Hospital along with VCA Bridgeport Animal Hospital provide each adopted pet with a Healthy Start Certificate that includes a free wellness exam and a 10-day limited health care guarantee.
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Operation Scarlet RescueShar Pei Rescue
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Feathered SanctuaryBird Rescue
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VPI Pet InsuranceHealth Insurance For Your Pets
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Hills Pet FoodFull line of dietary pet foods
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American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA)Excellence in Veterinary Medicine
Animal Poison Control CenterPoison control hotline for pet owners
Association for Pet Loss and BereavementSupport for owners going through pet loss
Care CreditCredit plans available
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Royal CaninVarious dog & cat food
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VCA Charities-Pennies For PetsSupporting pets in need
PETS EmergencyEmergency Clinic
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Pet Pantry of Lancaster County
VCA SMoketown is a drop off location for food & pet supplies for The Pet Pantry.
Pet Loss Resources
Losing a pet can be devastating, but you are not alone in your grief. The following online communities and resources can help you begin recovering from your loss.


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Having Medicaid increases emergency room visits, says a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study on Oregon's citizens that sheds a light on critical care in the US. You can check out the study or its abstract. The Science paper is, "Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment," published January 2, 2014 in the journal Science.
Having Medicaid consistently increases visits to the emergency room across a range of demographic groups, types of visits, and medical conditions, including types of conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary-care situations, say the researchers.
Picture a scenario such as this one:
If you're poor and didn't get medical care unless you went to the emergency room, didn't have a personal primary care physician you regularly went to each year or two for an exam or when ill, now that you qualify for Medicaid and have been given a Medicaid card, chances are you are using the emergency room more frequently now. Perhaps you're in the ER more often because in the past when you didn't have a Medicaid card, you had to pay out of your pocket each time you sat for hours in the emergency room waiting for help.
Another alternative might be the urgent care clinic in the back of a pharmacy, when it's open, and if you can pay the fee. But for some, the ER is closer in the type of emergency where you don't know how serious the symptoms may be.
Adults who are covered by Medicaid use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those in similar circumstances who do not have health insurance, according to a unique new study, co-authored by an MIT economist, that sheds empirical light on the inner workings of health care in the U.S., according to a January 2, 2014 MIT news release by Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office, "Study: Having Medicaid increases emergency room visits."
The study takes a look at Oregon's recent use of a lottery to assign access to Medicaid, the government-backed health-care plan for low-income Americans, to certain uninsured adults
The research examines emergency room records for roughly 25,000 people over 18 months. "When you cover the uninsured, emergency room use goes up by a large magnitude," says Amy Finkelstein, according to the news release. Finkelstein is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study, along with Katherine Baicker, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.
You also may wish to check out sites such as, "How Medicaid affects adult health," which also documents that having Medicaid consistently increases visits to the emergency room across a range of demographic groups, types of visits, and medical conditions, including types of conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary-care situations. Also check out the site, "'Medicaid's impact, finally measured."
"In no case were we able to find any subpopulations, or type of conditions, for which Medicaid caused a significant decrease in emergency department use," Finkelstein adds, according to the news release. "Although one always needs to be careful generalizing to other settings, these results suggest that other Medicaid expansions are unlikely to decrease emergency room use."
What's the policy upshot?
The study is highly relevant to the current landscape in the U.S.: With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid is expanding in many states to cover a population similar to the one that gained Medicaid through Oregon's lottery. The results in this paper, however, suggest nuances to the current debates over the expansion of Medicaid, medical costs, and the role of emergency rooms in providing care.
On one level, the results accord with a traditional economics framework suggesting that insurance, by lowering out-of-pocket costs, would increase the use of medical care. Or, as Finkelstein observes, according to the news release, "If we've lowered the price of the emergency department, we would expect people to use it more."
Medicaid also lowers the out-of-pocket costs of other types of health care, such as primary-care doctors
Some policy analysts have suggested that expanding Medicaid could reduce emergency department visits by the formerly uninsured by bringing them into more regular contact with primary-care doctors and clinics for preventive care. In theory, that could also reduce overall system costs, since urgent care is expensive.
Indeed, prior work by Finkelstein, Baicker, and others on Oregon's lottery applicants showed that people who obtain Medicaid increase their use of primary and preventive care. But as Finkelstein points out, the net effect of Medicaid in the study was to also increase use of emergency services. Hypothetically, Finkelstein notes, according to the news release, that the results "could have gone either way, which makes empirical work all the more important."
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The study's rigor derives from a unique policy the state of Oregon implemented in 2008. State officials, recognizing that they had Medicaid funds for about 10,000 additional low-income adults, developed a lottery to fill those slots, for which about 90,000 Oregonians applied.
From the viewpoint of academic researchers, the lottery system presented the opportunity for a randomized controlled evaluation of Medicaid, since it created a group of state residents obtaining Medicaid coverage who were otherwise similar, on aggregate, to the applicants who continued to lack coverage.
The effects of covering the uninsured with Medicaid are studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"It's not that we're the first to look at the effects of Medicaid empirically, but we are the very first to have a randomized controlled trial of the effect of covering the uninsured with Medicaid," Finkelstein says in the news release. In Oregon, uninsured adults are eligible for the lottery-based Medicaid program when their annual income falls below the federal poverty level established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which in 2013 is roughly $11,490 for a single person or $23,550 for a family of four.
In addition to Finkelstein and Baicker, the co-authors of the Science paper, "Medicaid Increases Emergency Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment," were lead author Sarah Taubman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Heidi Allen of Columbia University's School of Social Work, and Bill Wright of the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at Providence Health and Services in Portland, Oregon.
It is the latest paper to emerge from an ongoing study, led by Finkelstein and Baicker, of the lottery applicants in Oregon's Medicaid system. In a 2011 paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, they showed that Medicaid coverage increases doctor visits, prescription drug use, and hospital admissions; reduces out-of-pocket expenses or unpaid medical debt; and increases self-reported good health. In a 2013 paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they showed that Medicaid coverage reduces the incidence of depression but does not produce measured improvements in physical health.
Finkelstein says, according to the news release, that she has been motivated by the Oregon study, and its reception, to create a new research group, J-PAL North America. Co-founded with Harvard economist Lawrence Katz, the group is meant to encourage randomized evaluations on policies and social issues in the U.S. It is the newest branch of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which was founded in 2003 to support randomized trials in development economics globally.
"It's relatively rare to have this kind of randomized controlled trial on a major [policy] issue," Finkelstein says in the news release. "And I'd like that to become less the exception, and closer to the norm." You also can check out the January 2, 2014 abstract published in Science by Raymond Fisman, "Straining Emergency Rooms by Expanding Health Insurance." In the study, a randomized trial shows that patients newly covered by Medicaid increased their emergency room visits by 40%.


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Name: Martin Bashir
Age: 49
Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Occupation: Journalist, this month celebrating the one-year anniversary of his eponymous MSNBC show, on weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
The G Force: Gary Haase — musician, composer extraordinaire, and the man who produced my first album Bass Lion. He puts the sound into New York City and he's very much alive.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
For most of the day, I try to understand what's going on in the world, how it might impact this great country, and then we spend an hour discussing the implications (hopefully) in an intelligent and insightful manner on television.
What was your first job in New York?
As a correspondent on a television network.
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
It was actually our 15-year-old daughter Eliza, who starred in her musical theater company's performance of Hair. A week before we saw Kevin Spacey deliver a relentlessly vicious performance as Richard III; before that, we saw Godspell.
Do you give money to panhandlers?
What's your drink?
There are quite a few. For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill ... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
At least five out of seven days a week.
What's your favorite medication?
Deep Heat muscle balm. The scent reminds me of my rugby playing career and, though I use it now just for running the Central Park perimeter road, it still warms the legs in preparation for the pain ahead.
What's hanging above your sofa?
An eighteenth-century map of Ireland — from whence my father-in-law came.
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
$25. I go to Jack's and everything comes in under $20 (that sometimes includes a drink, too).
When's bedtime?
I tend to adhere to a ditty that an old friend once shared with me: "Christians on their way to heaven must be in bed by eleven."
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
New Times Square ... I can remember working here in the late eighties and being genuinely frightened by the hustlers.
What do you think of Donald Trump?
When I filmed with him some years ago, I thought he was an entertaining showman; when he started making bogus and offensive remarks about the president, I found him much less entertaining.
What do you hate most about living in New York?
The cost of cat boarding. Mia, our Russian Blue, has to board when we're away. It would be cheaper to book her a room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel than some of the places where she likes to stay. But nothing is spared for the little princess.
Who is your mortal enemy?
When I was playing for the New York Lions Old Boys Rugby Club, it would be our next opponents ... but after breaking my wrist a couple of years ago, I ceased playing so I don't have any mortal enemies. Many years ago, a psychiatrist friend told me that having enemies is like being a slave ... one is chained to the anger. I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.
When's the last time you drove a car?
About a month ago ... rented one and drove to Ikea in New Jersey as we were refurbishing one of the girl's bedrooms.
How has the Wall Street crash affected you?
Deeply. I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years ... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
The Times in totality, the Daily News for local news, the Post for gossip and headlines.
Where do you go to be alone?
Central Park or the gym ... and there's a restaurant around the corner where they'll happily allow me to sit in the corner and console myself with a drink after failing to achieve running times.
What makes someone a New Yorker?
It's the realization that wherever you are in the world, you want to get back to the city. It could be Basra or Brixton in south London, but you want to get back here, and when you do, there's an abiding sense of relief that you're 'home'.


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So the Academy Awards for best visual effects is upon us and we momentarily focus on the impressive work created by the many thankless visual effects artists around the world!
Not that my opinion matters, (Although I was the first to combine an After Effects Tutorial with MS Paint) but I started to think about the idea of giving an award for best VFX. How do you choose? Luckily, I don't have to.
Visual Effects is the art of problem solving. Every shot, every movie, every challenge is different. I look at the body of work in this years academy awards and think, "every one of these movies did their job exactly right". The visual effects all expanded the story, the world and created an impressive experience. Not to mention the films that were not nominated like Pacific Rim.
Was one movie more or less innovative than another? I don't know. I do know that the end result does not always tell the story of what it takes to get there.
The film Gravity created some stunning work that has never been done before on that scale and pulled it off flawlessly. The set extensions in Lone Ranger were some of the best I've EVER seen. And did you see the Star Trek into Darkness End Titles? AMAZING! I mean… Well…
The point is this: I think every person on the post side of visual effects will probably be lost in the the controversy over wether or not Leonardo DiCaprio wins or loses. But maybe we can all take a moment to talk about the great visual effects shots you remember from this past year! Leave a comment, maybe the artist who created it is reading!
PS: Go LEO!
Anyways If no one s really pointing out flaws in shots N if it s seemless.. realistic n invisible... we are d WINNERS...
but i agree that sometimes full credit is not given to all the right people involved in making them possible, but once again gravity did it for me !!!!
Andrew is smart (well we all knew that) but he mixes his work with other incomes streams supporting videocopilot's sustainability.
I will keep buying things from VC in appreciation of all the hard work. Thanks AK
now i am vfx artist and make music video and vfx shot for commercial shot and tnx a lot .
and i hope vc makes tuts from nuke because is just for vfx
again thanks
In many movies, VFX is used to fill in the gaps of action sequences when the main actors are not being show, but in Pacific Rim the CGI was just as important in telling the story as the actors (maybe more?) and Guillermo Del Toro did not cut corners when it came to detail (both in large scale and in mini-scale).
It will always be one of my favorite movies.
I find it strange that the LA contingency has decided to make the VFX crisis all about subsidies when there are other issues that affect the entire industry and not just this small pocket of people.
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Photorealistic ambients are here to stay or is it the future going back to create fantastic drawings in Microsoft Paint? Damm... I miss that program!
Surely, Weta Digital n others who worked on Hobbit should win
at about the end where face transformation occurs
like girl changes to boy etc. and i dont know the name of the effect so.........
it would be a great help if you cteate one.
Thank you.
Beside, Smallville fight had some really innovative and amazing mesh of photographic, practical effect, plus the fact that hardly a handful of people actually spot the CG cape and Zod's and others suit proves Man of Steel CG was absolutely realistic. I would also like to add that Man of Steel employed more and bigger CG environments than any other movie i know apart from Avatar (Of course!).
Thank u vc !
This day and age CGI is becoming more and more Needed to make a shot work or not. But I just can't believe the quality it puts out there!! Do all the BIG STUDIO's in the CGI world also use Adobe After effects and E3D? What software is used to produce such a visual realness! I know some, if not most can be done in AE and E3d, that I have learned from this site, but what more is used other than:
Boujou, Autodesk 3dsMax and Maya, AdobeCC (ae,pr,ph) , DavinciResolve, E3D and lots of plugins!! What are names of the software that also being used..
I know our 'Yoda' (Kramer) is using the 'Force' of Adobe CC AE en E3D, 3dsMax (and plugins) Anybody know if Andrew uses more than just these or is the CC the High End software?
You know what I really want: if we all chip in some money and together with Andrew we all try to make a movie. We all vote on how the story will go and we vote on who made a the best CGI for a scene to put in the film. (or Andrew creates a CGI problem for us to solve) The VPC community film will rise of this!!
Any Ways: I hope that Andrew finds the time, in between the big Hollywood films, to still make Tutorials for us!
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You see, I didn't know that.. Gonna check that out!
Again, thanks!!
Only the shots you do not notice are the best shots - but this is only my opinion.
I think that only in Hollywood, New Zealand and England is enough money and manpower for good-quality VFX-shots.
I know that because I´m just work on my own Sci-Fi shortmovie and I should put quite a bit of money to the VFX-artists. But I don´t have enough money so I will make the most VFX-Shots own right.
But, cool movies. Everybody who worked on this movies should become an Oscar.
have u done any other type of movie fx besides title sequences, I know you did of course star trek end credits but how about shot sequences for other movies?
Very interested about other roles in vfx in movie industry
Thanks putting all these great VFX show and tells up for us to see. They are all really great!!! My vote is for The Hobbit, if I could vote. However, the titles for Star Trek are far better!!
With all the VFX that is revealed in these clips, it is harder and harder to tell what is real and what is not, when watch a movie. I would not have guessed that there was that much VFX in the Lone Ranger, I mean, just shoot outside and you got it. But not so, just put it on a green screen and let half a billion dollars worth of server farms and a VFX team build your world!!!
Thanks again for putting all these in one place!!
The only problem I see is smoke, which is easily discernible (ok, not THAT bad for Sitni Sati).
thanx for sharing :)
I think you should now post more tutorials about tracking and demolishing objects cause like you see it's the core of VFX world !
Just my thought on this matter.
Ps: Congrats Andrew and crew that worked on Star Trek Into Darkness!!!
I get the impression that this blog post was either typed in a hurry or not proof read ;-)
Greetings from the UK!


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Paris Hilton wanted to make a fashion statement at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The star arrived to the red carpet and the fans wanted her to immediately twirl. Showing off a gown that was sheer in all the right places the star seemed to be enjoying all the attention she was attracting.
"Killing it in all white," tweeted Paris Hilton from her official Twitter account. The star was letting her fans at home know to check the picture of her fashion as it was extravagant. The look was so classy that the fans could hardly believe it was Paris Hilton on the red carpet.
The 32-year-old reality television star had a full length white gown by House of Milani but it was the nude mesh panels in the back that made the fans go wile. Offering a look at plenty of sexy skin the star looked beautiful and highlighted her figure in all the right places.
One of the best dressed stars of the night, Paris Hilton didn't need to worry about winning any awards as she attracted plenty of attention and will be on everyone's best dressed list. Yet Paris left everyone wondering why she was walking the red carpet in the first place.


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- 1 tablespoon rye or all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons plus 1-1/2 teaspoons butter, melted
- 5 green onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese, divided
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- 1/2 cup sauerkraut, well drained
- 4 eggs
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- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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"I absolutely loved every bite I took. I followed the recipe exactly as it was written...wondering how those crackers would stick together to make a crust. It is a quiche...the cheese and egg mixture make everything hold together in the end. Nothing needs to be added...especially more butter...to the crust. I did use rye Triscuits and rye flour and it is definitely needed. You can't substitute the regualr Triscuit or you will not get that rye flavor for the traditional reuben. I would make this over and over...DELICIOUS and EASY! Just follow the directions exactly and you will see what I mean!"
"so difficult for me to rate this. I cuold not find rye triscuits, used ry-krisps instead and that was a big mistake. rating the rest of the quiche, it was ok, but really wanted more of a reuben taste. would for sure recommend the thousand island dressing on the side. it was just ok the way I made it."
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As first reported by
Elizabeth Zimmer in the Village Voice and noted in an alert to the
Dance Insider e-mail list Friday, an injury to choreographer-performer
Sarah Michelson has forced the postponement of Michelson's "Daylight,"
manager Barbara Bryan informs us. Scheduled to open January 6, the
show will instead open January 17 at P.S. 122, where it is scheduled
to run through January 22.
Zimmer's report appeared
in a provocative big-picture article published in last week's
Village Voice. As one might expect from Zimmer, the piece is no
simple curtain-raiser but, rather, looks at the general situation
of dance artists in New York today by looking at the living conditions
of one of the scene's current successes, at least as measured by
bookings. By that standard, at least, Michelson is having a good
run -- but not, to hear her tell it to Zimmer, by her standard of
I'm down with the angst
of being artistically successful but four months behind in your
rent with no health insurance and unable to fix your busted teeth.
(Why do you think I'm writing this from France? I got one tooth
replaced for for $600, other carnage removed for less than $100.
A check-up costs 20 Euros here and you can get oodles of prescriptions
filled for less than 20. Call me up next time you're on this side,
Sarah, and I'll set you up! As for rent, while the dive of the dollar
has made things tighter, I'm still paying less in dollar terms than
I was paying for my 8th Street hovel in 2001 and for an apartment
twice the size, not including the expansive balcony and the Heavenly
address.) I also remember the poignancy of interviewing Mark Dendy
in 1997 in his Houston Street hutch, as he was preparing his breakthrough
"Dream Analysis" for the Joyce, and him telling me he almost had
his electricity cut off.
BUT...when the "Despondent
Diva," as the Voice dubs her, starts complaining about not having
a second room available whenever lovers stay over, I find myself
reaching for the ever-ready smallest accordion in the world. And
when she wonders whether it is all worth it, Walker commission,
European touring (with Euro compensation) and all, I start to wonder
how other really struggling -- not just with the rent, but for a
berth for their work -- artists might view Sarah's plight.
In other words: Is Ms.
Michelson a winner or a whiner? I put the question to our e-mail
list Friday, and got the following response from Rebecca Lazier,
artistic director of the Terrain dance company:
"You know, I often look
to other choreographers and think, Oh how I would like to have what
they have: a booking at P.S. 122, at the Kitchen, at BAM, a reputation
for being ultra-cool, the darling of the downtown scene. I have
been choreographing, year after year, and have some modest success
(company budget last year: $30,000) and some huge aspirations. But,
during this time, I have also been able to: buy a house, have a
child, have health insurance, and develop a teaching career in the
thing I love most: dance, without ever working in a restaurant.
In the dark moments I want what I don't have, I crave to be the
other. When reading Zimmer's portrayal of Michelson I couldn't help
but feel extremely grateful for the first time in many months. The
choices I have made, in this horrendous economic environment for
arts, have accumulated to -- not a place of compromise that I so
fear -- but a place of sustainable living and creating. Perhaps
Sarah and I could trade places for a day, just to see what it feels
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March 1, 2013
With the win over Jackson State, Texas Tech improved to 12-6 all-time in home openers as the Red Raiders have now opened its home slate with a win in each of the last four seasons.
Texas Tech is now 4-0 under head coach Shanon Hays in home openers.
The Red Raiders improved to 4-0 all-time against Jackson State with the win. All four wins have come via run-rule as Texas Tech has outscored the Tigers by a combined score of 39-3.
Texas Tech also improved to 3-1 all-time over McNeese State as the Red Raiders have now won the last three meetings between the two schools.
Texas Tech's 16-run second inning against Jackson State marked the program's most since scoring 20 against North Carolina Central on March 12, 2010, at Rocky Johnson Field.
The Jackson State win also marked the Red Raiders' largest margin of victory since dropping Alcorn State, 18-0, as well on March 13, 2011.
Texas Tech's 18 runs against the Tigers also marked its most since scoring 19 on March 30 last year against Iowa State.
Texas Tech used a total of 21 players in the Jackson State game, the most this season.
The McNeese State game marked Texas Tech's first one-run game of the year. The Red Raiders are 21-9 under Shanon Hays in one-run games.
Texas Tech improved to 86-8 in the Shanon Hays era when holding its opponent to two or less runs. The Red Raiders are now 5-0 when doing so this year.
The two victories improved Shanon Hays to 247-72 over his career and 133-56 while at Texas Tech.
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Andrea Gorski
Looking to win first-round game for a second-straight year
Winner to be No. 9 seed in MVC Tournament
Start Closing Weekend of Regular Season
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Photos from the 2015 SIU Women's Basketball Awards Banquet from April 12, 2015
2014-15 SIU Women's Basketball Team
Andrea Gorski enters her third year as the associate head coach for Saluki women's basketball for the 2014-15 season. Gorski's duties at SIU include recruiting, scheduling, player development and game preparation.
Gorski's second year on staff happened to be one of the best and most exciting years of Saluki women's basketball in recent memory. The Salukis completed the largest turnaround in school history, going from 5-25 in 2013-14 to 17-13 and on the cusp of postseason action. Gorski helped guide both Dyana Pierre and Rishonda Napier to First-Team All-MVC honors, the first time SIU has had multiple honorees in the same season since 1995-96.
In her first season as the lead assistant under head coach Cindy Stein, Gorski helped the program to improvements in field goal percentage defense, 3-point percentage defense, scoring defense, rebound margin, blocks, assist-to-turnover ratio and conference wins. She helped the program to a win over eventual MVC regular season and tournament champion Wichita State and helped coach Dyana Pierre, the program's first first-team All-MVC honoree since 2006.
Gorski came to Carbondale with 17 years of head coaching experience at the high school, AAU and college level. She spent the last five years as the head coach at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Mich., where she transformed a sub-.500 club into a national tournament team.
Concordia went 8-22 in Gorski's first season in 2008-09 before improving to 18-13 the following season and 23-11 in year three with the program's first-ever trip to the NAIA Division II National Tournament.
The Cardinals broke onto the national stage in 2011-12 with a 29-6 record, the program's first-ever Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference regular-season title and the program's first NAIA DII Tournament win. Concordia broke the school record for wins in a season and reached as high as No. 4 in the national rankings during the 2011-12 run.
Gorski and the Cardinals followed the finest season in school history with another stellar year in 2012-13. Concordia went 28-7, won another WHAC regular-season title, made it back to the second round of the NAIA DII Tournament and ranked No. 11 in the final national poll.
Gorski coached three Concordia players to All-America honors and two players to WHAC Player of the Year awards, and slew of Cardinals earned All-WHAC honors during her tenure. Gorski was named the WHAC Coach of the Year in both 2010 and 2012.
Prior to Concordia, Gorski spent 12 years as the head coach at Ladywood High School in Livonia, Mich., where she compiled a record of 184-99 from 1996-2008. At Ladywood, Gorski was a three-time Catholic League Coach of the Year in addition to being named Basketball Coaches of Michigan Coach of the Year, the Detroit Free Press Coach of the Year and the Associated Press Coach of the Year in 2005.
In addition to her high school and college experience, Gorski has also been a volunteer coach at the Livonia YMCA, a Catholic Youth Organization coach at St. Michael Catholic School and an AAU coach for the Michigan Celtic team that finished as the 2010 and 2011 state runner-up.
Gorski got her start in coaching as a graduate assistant at Bradley during the 1992-93 season after finishing up a four-year playing career with the Braves.
As a player, Gorski scored 980 career points at Bradley and earned First-Team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors her senior season in 1991-92. Gorski ranks fourth in Bradley history for career assists and fifth in 3-pointers made. She is a 1996 inductee of the Bradley Hall of Fame.
Gorski graduated from Bradley in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in business management and administration. Gorski's daughter, Kiley, is a freshman for the Salukis. She also has a son, Luke.


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Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Are you planning your romantic night? There are a lot of great ways to spend a special evening with your sweetie in Denver. With a little bit of planning, you can set up a truly wonderful night filled with yummy food and a memorable evening. Since Valentine's Day falls on a Friday this year, there are a lot of local theatre companies that are getting in on the sweetheart game, some even offering specials and deals including food. Take a look at these great shows running in town, and make your reservations for your special night.
Date Night Idea #1
Brazilian food and a dark comedy
Price: $75 per couple
Vintage Theatre has recently announced its partnership with Copacabana Catering, and you can get a great dinner for two, live music and a show for one low price. The dinner from Copacabana Catering is Brazilian food at its best, and you'll be entertained during dinner with live Bossa Nova music. The best part? When dinner is over, you simply walk a few feet into the theatre for a fantastic performance of "The Lyons" a dark comedy about a family that is saying goodbye to their dying patriarch.
Date Night Idea #2
Comedy, champagne and chocolates
Price: $25 per person
Catch Equinox Theatre's "Kimberly Akimbo" at The Bug Theatre on Valentine's Day and you'll also get champagne and chocolates to enjoy during the show. If you aren't familiar with the show, "Kimberly Akimbo" is about a 16-year old girl that suffers from a rare aging disorder that causes her to age 5 times faster than everyone else. She faces a truly hilarious dysfunctional family and the possibility of first love. Make it an even more special night by catching an early dinner at Patsy's Italian Inn, located right across the street from the theatre. (Disclaimer, the author of this article works with Equinox and is involved in this production.)
Date Night Idea #3
Boulder, Dinner and Spam
Price: $49 - $54 per person
What could be more fun than the hilarious Monty Python's "Spamalot?" How about "Spamalot" and dinner at the Boulder's Dinner Theatre. This hilarious show is lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Plus, you get to enjoy a full dinner right at your table, and your servers are even the actors in the show.
Date Night Idea #4
An office musical and dinner
Price: $49 - $59 per person
Anyone that works in an office can appreciate the wit and humor behind "9 – 5: the Musical." Based on the hit film, this musical is the story of three female co-workers that concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. They conspire to take control of their company and learn there's nothing they can't do -- even in a man's world. Set in the late 1970s, 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era. Outrageous, thought-provoking, and even a little romantic, 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL is about teaming up and taking care of business. Of course, there is a great dinner served at your table by your performers as well.
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Girls Night Out
Price: $33 per person
Don't have a date this Valentine's Day? Don't fear, because there is a great show you can catch that is perfect for a girls night out. Back by popular demand, "Girls Only – The Secret Comedy of Women" returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre. Written by Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein, it is an original comedy that celebrates the honor, truth, humor and silliness of being female. With a two-woman cast and audiences full of raucous, laughing ladies, the show has found quick popularity in its unique examination of all things girly. Born out of the earnest and sweetly absurd writings the two authors discovered in their girlhood diaries, the Girls Only mix of sketch comedy, improvisation, audience participation, and hilarious songs and videos reminds audiences of the very funny and very charming similarities all women share.


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Safe driving is an important and essential aspect of modern western society. Since many countries are populated with almost as many cars as there are people, dangerous driving habits are hazardous to far more people than just those who practice them.
Every once in awhile, some particularly successful online driving safety campaigns will emerge and stick in the public consciousness, having a real effect on fighting the problem of dangerous driving. Here are five of the very best driving safety campaigns.
Red Thumb Reminder
The Red Thumb Reminder campaign seeks to go further than simply asking people to stop texting while driving, but to actually offer them a solution for kicking the habit. The idea is simple enough: you paint the thumbnail of your right hand red, and the next time you reach for your phone while driving, you will instead see the bright red nail and be reminded to keep your eyes on the road. People are encouraged to join in by posting photos of their own red nails online with #redthumbreminder. As a result, it has gained a lot of traction on various social media outlets, such as Twitter and Instagram.
Just Slow Down from Winnipeg, California
This movement is a small and localized effort to bring forth a better understanding of the relationship between excessive speed and traffic collisions. They use narrative based videos to accomplish this, typically young people being told to hurry up throughout their day and then speeding to abide by this often spoken law of social convention, the end result, however, is far less than desirable.
MADD Anti Drunk Driving Campaign (Multi-Continental)
MADD is an acronym which stands for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It is a nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate drunk driving, especially in youth and support those whose lives have been devastated by it. Their focus on education and provision of statistics makes it one of the best driving safety campaigns around (you can see a very good example of one of their Australian based videos here).
Choose Safety for Life
This Maryland based driving safety campaign is, much like MADD, focused primarily on education through statistics and other driving safety related facts. Their website is filled with extremely useful and often surprising information, for example, if you take your eyes off the road for one single second whilst traveling at 65 miles per hour you will have travel roughly one hundred feet. They also do not focus, unlike all of the previous campaigns, on driving a car. They also talk about safety through any mode of transportation, whether car, truck, bike or motorcycle and provide a comprehensive, downloadable driver improvement program.
SMART Initiative from Surrey Council UK
This particular effort on the part of the Surrey County Council is aimed at combating anti-social driving behavior and has been in effect since 2009. There is a very compelling micro budget short film that, through beautifully shot, evocative and horrifying imagery and a solid message, tell about the dangers of peer pressure when driving.


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Scientists are publishing a large number of articles that deal with love, sex, and sexual relationships in advance of Valentine's Day as demonstrated by the following small sampling from various journals published on Feb. 10, 2014.
Dr. Abigail Marsh, associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University, published a video on Feb. 10, 2014, at the American Chemical Society's Reactions site that explains the relationship between love and oxytocin. She notes that without oxygen there could be no love as we know it because the love chemical would not work.
George Yancey, a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, and colleagues from Rice University have determined that women prefer taller men based on the protective value of larger men that is an inheritance from evolution in a Feb. 10, 2014, article at the Rice University news website.
These are just a few of the thousands of articles published by scientists about love and sex every year. Love and sex dominate scientific literature.
The portrayal of the interest in sex of the characters in the television comedy 'The Big Bang Theory' is not too far off the mark of reality except for the lack of success of the male characters with females and the aberration of Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
One might draw on experience in college as an illustration of the point where two professors of physiology that were husband and wife were caught by the cleaning crew late at night in their lab at the University of Alabama in Birmingham having sex while connected to an electroencephalogram because they wanted "to see what the machine would do."
One might conclude that using sex as a selling tool and the reality of the voracious interest in sex that the majority of scientists exhibit might be the impetus toward success that the STEM program is lacking in attracting women, minorities, or anyone into scientific fields.


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Why change anything when you've had as much variety as Joe Superneau?
Over three decades, the executive director for the Water and Sewer Commission in Springfield, Mass., has served the public through positions in both the public and private sectors, working for local and state governments as well as a consulting firm.
Now in his 10th year with the commission, Superneau's the force behind such feats as compliance with an EPA consent order to reduce combined sewer overflows on the Mill and Chicopee rivers. Plus, he has two similar projects under construction, costing nearly $26 million. The ultimate goal for the projects, funded by a combination of low-interest state revolving fund loans and traditionalrevenue bonds, is to reduce the number of overflows from as high as 80 in some areas to no more than four in a typical year.
While he does admit to some concern over the industry's ability to meet environmental regulations, he's confident that its place in society will remain. "You'll always need to plow the snow and have safe drinking water," he says. "Public works is fundamental to how people live."
He's most proud of his ability to discover solutions to the problems faced by the commission and greater Springfield community, and to those just making their way into the profession, he suggests being courageous enough to go beyond the conventional to create and implement real-world solutions.
Tireless trouper
After 41 years, William Verkest is still going strong.
In January, the one-time U.S. Air Force civil engineer became director of transportation and public works for Fort Worth, the fifth-largest city in Texas. He's the oldest APWA member on the organization's list of top leaders this year.
With degrees in both civil engineering and public administration, Verkest spent some time in the private sector working for engineering firm HDR Inc. before transitioning permanently to the public sector.
"It's the significance of doing something for somebody every day," he says of his preference for a work environment that presents continuous challenges. He's developed "Public Works 150," Fort Worth's plan for crafting a public works department capable of meeting the demands of a city twice Fort Worth's population, to approximately 150,000. The plan is a continuum, examining the mission statement, strategic initiatives, objectives, actions plans, and performance measures.
When considering his career, Verkest believes his greatest asset is the ability to lead various public works organizations to success. "This business has been a love affair for me," he says. "I'm happy to have done it."
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BEVERLY HILLS (LALATE) – Giggy the Pom aka Giggy Vanderpump-Todd, Lisa Vanderpump's dog, has alopecia, the RHOBH star tells news tonight. As result, vacationing on the French Rivera in the stunning sun creates problems for Lisa's dog. Lisa and Ken Todd on Monday evening battle plans for Giggy's international travel through France.
Lisa and Ken Todd to their enormous bedroom this evening on Bravo to plan for a French getaway. The cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are off to Paris. And by cast, that of course includes Lisa's dog Giggy Vanderpump-Todd.
Lisa emerges from the bedroom to reveal a series of wardrobe changes for herself. Ken loves each one. So Lisa tells news "what is Giggy going to wear is far more important." Lisa adds "what he is going to do on the beach? He can't go unclothed because of his alopecia." What is alopecia and how does it strike pets? According to PetEducation.com, alopecia can involve "patches of hair loss especially on … neck, and body; no itching".
Ken reassures Lisa tonight. "Giggy will slay under the umbrella." Last year, Giggy was nominated for a TV award because of his appearances on RHOBH. Giggy was nominated for the first ever Best Dog in a Reality Television Series category nomination. Created by the Dog News Daily, the Golden Collar Awards honors the best in TV and film performances by a dog. He battled against Spartacus (Ice Loves Coco), Hercules (Pit Boss), and Millou (RHONY).


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Located in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. The Savoy Cinemas opened on 23rd March 2012. It is an all digital cinema and has 3D facilities in three of the screens. The two largest screens located in the centre of the building each have 228 seats. They are surrounded by the four smaller screens.
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According to Yahoo News, LL Cool J presented the award to Hudson, who noted, "It feels good to see positivity acknowledged. Where we come from all you hear about is who shot who and who went to jail. There is more to life than the block you live on. We want to show them that I came from the same area and if I can do it, you can do it too. It does not stop there."
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This array is formed by placing integers such that each is the smallest such that the rectangle with it and the top left hand corner as opposite corners does not contain the same integer twice in any row or column.
$\begin{array}\\ 1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9 \ \ ...\\ 2&1&4&3&6&5&8&7&10\\ 3&4&1&2&7&8&5&6&11\\ 4&3&2&1&8&7&6&5&12\\ 5&6&7&8&1&2&3&4&13\\ \vdots \end{array}$
The diagonal sums form the sequence $p_1(n)=1,4,7,16,17,28,39,64,57,68,79,112,121,156,191,256,225,228,231...$
Since the array is symmetric and each $2^n$ by $2^n$ submatrix and every $2^{nd}$ row is made by swapping pairs in the row above and every $4^{th}$ row is made by swapping pairs of pairs in the row $2$ above etc. $2^{k}|p_1(n) \ \text{iff} \ 2^{\lceil\frac{k}2\rceil}|n$.
This array is the $1^{st}$ plane of a latin cube where the $2^{nd}$ plane would be
$\begin{array}\\ 2&1&4&3&6&5&8&7&10 \ \dots\\ 1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9\\ 4&3&2&1&8&7&6&5&16\\ 3&4&1&2&7&8&5&6&11\\ \vdots \end{array}$
With diagonal sums $p_2(n)=2,2,10,12,22,22,46,56,66,58,98,108...$
$2|p_2(n) \forall n \\ 4|p_2(n) \text{ iff } 4|n \\ 8|p_2(n) \text{ iff } 8|n$
Plane $3$:
$ \begin{array}\\ 3&4&1&2&7 \ \dots\\ 4&3&2&1&8\\ \vdots \end{array}$
$p_3(n)=3,8,5,8,19,40,37,48,59,88,77,88...\\ p_4(n)=4,6,8,4,24,34,44,40,68...\\ p_5(n)=5,12,19,32,21,20,19,32,45...$
When does $2^k|p_i(n)$ in general?
The sums of the elements on diagonal planes make the sequence $s(n)=1,6,12,38,45,72... \text{ where } s(n)=\sum_{i=1}^n p_i(n-i+1)$. Is every third number in this sequence a multiple of $4$?
What happens if this is the $1^{st}$ cube in an infinite latin tessarect?