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Glasgow girls basketball coach Emilee Morehouse gives direction during practice.
Still searching for their first win of the season, the Glasgow girls basketball team is using the winter break to improve their play on the court as the second half of the season approaches.
"We are focusing a lot on defense right now," said Scotties head coach Emilee Morehouse. "We are going to perfect our defense before we get into any of our offense."
The Scotties will also throw in a couple of new schemes on the offensive and defensive side of the ball that Morehouse hopes to incorporate early in the second half of the season.
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Jeff Meredith says that $5,000 was withdrawn from
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But convenience comes with a price. Withdrawal fees
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Both Grossmont and West Hills High School charge $1.50
with $1.25 going to the school and 25 cents toward maintenance.
The schools use their portion of the fee to pay for the machines;
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"I've never had one student complain about the
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No complaints
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By Lindsey DelaTorre, SDA Media Relations
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Nine Sun Devil student-athletes were named to the 2014 Arthur Ashe Jr., Sports Scholars Teams. Alexis Cooper (softball), Allie Salas (gymnastics), Alycia Herring (track), Andrea Kemmerrer (track), Shaylah Simpson (track), Trevor Landry (track), Joy Burke (women's basketball), Deja Mann (women's basketball, and Elisha Davis (women's basketball) were all selected for the Arthur Ashe Jr., Sports Scholar Team by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine.
Cooper owns a 3.98 GPA, and is pursuing a degree in health sciences. Joining the Sun Devil softball program in 2013, Cooper has recorded 10 career appearances in the circle. After giving up only one earned run her freshman year, Cooper has struck out six in 2014.
Salas was named an All-Pac-12 second team honoree, a 2013 NACGC Scholar All-American and leads the list of All-Academic selections for gymnastics. A walk-on for the Gym Devils, Salas has been a fixture on the ASU vault and floor line-up since she joined the team her freshman year. Salas, a sophomore and member of the Barrett Honors College, holds a 3.50 GPA in biochemistry.
Herring, senior sprinter and 2013 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection, sits in Arizona State's outdoor record book in two of the top-10 4x100m relay teams and one of the top-10 4x400m relay teams. Herring has competed at the NCAA Track and Field Championships four times in her career. Majoring in psychology, Herring owns a 3.27 GPA.
Kemmerrer, a sophomore pole vaulter, owns a 3.35 GPA and is majoring in mechanical engineering.. She sits in the Arizona State top-10 outdoor record book at No. 8 with her 2014 clearance of 3.73m, which she accomplished at the annual Double Dual meet with in-state rivals Arizona and Northern Arizona. This outdoor season, Kemmerrer has improved her pole vault mark in each of the four meets she has competed in.
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Trevor Landry, a redshirt sophomore and middle-distance runner owns a 3.69 GPA and is double majoring in both finance and accounting. Landry ran his personal best in the 800m run with a time of 1:50.51 at ASU's Sun Angel Track Classic on April 12, and his time is the No. 2 mark on the team this season.
Joy Burke, a redshirt senior, was tabbed to the Pac-12's All-Academic first team after earning honorable mention honors each of the last three seasons. Burke, who earned her undergraduate degree in Marketing from ASU's Barrett Honors College, also earned her Master's in Communication Studies. Burke played in every game in 2013-14 and scored in double figures 12 times (scored career-high 22 points vs. Oregon) and recorded double figures in rebounds three times (grabbed career-high 15 rebounds vs. Oregon). She concluded the season second on the team in field goal percentage (51.4) and third in rebounding (4.8 rpg).
Like Burke, Deja Mann also just completed work on her Master's Degree (Liberal Studies). Named All-Pac-12 by both the coaches and media in 2014, Mann started every game last season and concluded the campaign as the team's leader in scoring (11.1 ppg), 3-pointers (50) and free throw percentage (86.7), was third in assists (2.1 apg) and was the team's top rebounding guard (3.2 rpg - fourth on the team). She scored in double figures 21 times and connected on three or more 3-pointers eight times.
Elisha Davis, a sophomore guard, played in every game (two starts) and finished the season as the team's leader in assists (2.8 apt , second in free throw percentage (79.1) and third in 3-point FGs (19). Davis, who earned Pac-12 All-Academic second-team recognition, scored a career-high 11 points three times, most recently in ASU's win over NCAA Tournament win over Vanderbilt. Davis also grabbed five or more rebounds six times this season.
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Happy New Year! Here's wishing you a year of new wines, new experiences, happiness, and health for you and your family. Here in Japan it's already 2008. Along with three million of our closest friends, Ruth and I visited the Meiji Jingumae shrine in Tokyo to ring in the new year (literally) by ringing the bells at the temple. Seeing the crowd control alone is worth the experience: Wouldn't police action be so much better if it were always accompanied by such lovable characters? That's a picture up the main walkway to the shrine, and there are about 40,000 people... continue reading
I go to Japan to do three primary things. See beautiful crafts and architecture, eat amazing food, and drink sake. One of the tricky parts of the latter is that unlike anywhere else in the (Western Alphabet) world I can't read the sake list if there is one, which most of the time there isn't. Nor can I look at the label of the bottle that has been brought to me and understand what it is, who made it, or where it comes from. And because my spoken Japanese is somewhat limited, there's only so much I can pry out... continue reading
Review by Jennie Schacht. In the world of wine, the sweet ones get short shrift. But veteran cookbook author James Peterson doesn't mind. His book, Sweet Wines: A Guide to the World's Best with Recipes, covers the territory that wine writers often leave behind. Peterson's discussion of the wines, accompanied by his own evocative photographs, covers this complex subject clearly and succinctly. After a context-setting introduction, he takes us on a geographic voyage through the thirteen most important countries producing sweet wines, describing major regions and the wines for which they are best known. Sidebars point to interesting details, top... continue reading
Row of Lights "Happy Holidays from Vinography. We hope that wherever you are, you are enjoying this holiday season with people you love and good wine in hand." -- Alder Yarrow and Michael Regnier INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking (Mac users, click and hold) on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image and drag it to your desktop. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while... continue reading
Christmas Day is just about over with here in Japan, but it's just beginning in the US. In case you're wondering how it's going to turn out, I can tell you it will be a good one, so get ready to enjoy it. Christmas in Japan, like most things in this country, is done a little differently. As a holiday, it's much closer to Valentine's Day than any other holiday -- it's all about couples. In particular unmarried dating couples, who spend the holiday snuggling, going out for fancy meals, and giving each other (often expensive) gifts. Which ain't a... continue reading
There was a time (think: late Seventies, early Eighties) when a lot of people would have put money on California being the next Champagne. It seems quite improbable now given California's reputation for Cabernet and the relative paucity of sparkling wine producers in the state. Yet there are many California winery names that have become synonymous with sparking wine (Korbel, Chandon, Iron Horse, and more) and which have been producing sparkling wines for decades, and continue to do so. This is not the story of one of those brands. This is the story of the next generation. In the early... continue reading
This may or may not be of interest to most of you readers, but at the invitation of my friend Tim who runs the blog and podcast called Winecast, several top wine bloggers got together for an hour long conference call last week to talk about the state of wine blogging in the world today. We discussed the beginning of the wine blogs, what's happened since then, and what role wine blogs might play in the future of wine journalism. The conversation was wine geekery at its finest, and some interesting navel gazing from the point of view of the... continue reading
The Menu For Hope charity raffle has been extended through the weekend. The great news for us is that we've broken last year's record and raised over $80,000 for the UN World Food Programme. But there's great news for you too. There are a lot of fabulous prizes that have not been bid up heavily. In fact, there are dozens of prizes that at the moment present you with a 1 in 2 chance of winning! Our leader Pim has the lowdown on her site -- a list of all the prizes ranked by how many bids there are on... continue reading
Well folks, it's 5:21 in the morning and I'm eating ramen under the blinking neon lights of Minato-Ku, Tokyo. Vinography has hopped off to Japan in search of a little R&R and some good sake. Like most of our trips, this will be primarily an eating and drinking trip studded with occasional forays into the cultural and the commercial. We've had reservations for weeks at some of our most anticipated restaurants, but couldn't seem to get into any of the recently Michelin three-starred restaurants, either because they are closed for the holidays or because they were instantly booked when the... continue reading
Review by Jessica Yadegaran. Millennials, there's much to celebrate. Not only did wine out sell beer last year, but you are officially the fastest growing segment of the wine consumer market. Good times, indeed. So if you're young and trendy " or both " and looking for a solid introduction to wine, you've found it in Courtney Cochran's Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine. Cochran is the brains behind the uber-popular San Francisco-based Hip Tastes events, where 20-somethings relish PB & J and Tater Tot pairings for their wine against a techno beat. She's infused her first book with... continue reading
There's only about 24 hours left in the annual Menu For Hope charity raffle and we've just beaten last year's fantastic results. That's right, we've raised more than $62,000 for our friends in Lesotho! Thank you to everyone that has participated. But wait, there's more! Just to see if we can entice a few more of you to bid, or even bid again, we're taking it to the next level. Some of you might be aware that my friend Brett, who runs the blog In Praise of Sardines is a chef, and will be opening a restaurant named Contigo here... continue reading
The White Tape "Sometimes I wonder if I would enjoy taking pictures in Vineyards so much if there weren't any fog. The mystery it imparts to the vineyard landscape of stark vines and trees is fascinating to me. I was findimg my way through this vineyard in Sonoma when I saw something shining bright in the grey dampness -- some white tape wrapped around a post." -- Michael Regnier INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking (Mac users, click and hold) on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on... continue reading
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Italian white wines are some of the most exciting wines in the world to me right now. I certainly owe some of that fascination to my good friends Jack and Joanne who run the web site Fork & Bottle, with whom I've had a chance to drink more than a few stellar examples of the form. It will come as no surprise then, that their choice as hosts of this month's Wine Blogging Wednesday, is to have all participating bloggers drink white wines from Italy's Friuli region. Officially known as Friuli-Venezia-Giulia,... continue reading
As most of you know, the annual Menu For Hope charity raffle is entering its second week and is starting to pick up some steam. This event, held by food and wine bloggers for the last three years, raises tens of thousands of dollars for the UN World Food Programme. We do this by getting bloggers (and non-bloggers) to donate fabulous prizes that you can win for a mere $10 donation to our charity cause. 100% of which (after costs for infrastructure), I might add, go directly to the poor farmers of Lesotho that we have chosen to support. You... continue reading
Doesn't it seem to you like folks with the name "Junior" and "Little Joe" always end up having bad attitudes? When you're called "little" anything for most of you're life it's not surprising that you might have something to prove to the world -- a little chip on the shoulder about playing second fiddle to someone or something else. Personally, I think Petite Sirah has got the same sort of complex. Always being known as the "Little Syrah" (no matter how you spell it) has got to suck. It's no wonder that this little grape packs a big wallop of... continue reading
Review by Tim Patterson. Oregon's Sokol Blosser Winery prides itself on a number of "firsts" it has scored over the years, for everything from its wine to its architecture. Now co-founder Susan Sokol Blosser has written the first account of the rise of Oregon wine by a pioneering industry insider, and it's a good one. When Susan and her husband, Bill (the whole scheme was his idea) planted their first vines in 1971, they had none of the relevant skills and experience—no background in growing grapes, making wine, or running a business. They, and a lot of other people in... continue reading
Moving Through The Vineyard "This image was made at Hawkeye Mountain Vineyard in Sonoma. This shot was an attempt to capture a bit of my experience as the photographer that day. As I work in the vineyards I move really quickly through the landscape, trying out different vantage points along the mountain, and trying to keep up with the fast-moving fog. This image captures a bit of that rush to discover shots in every direction." -- Michael Regnier INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking (Mac users, click and hold) on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save... continue reading
I don't know who said it, but in the last few years I've heard it uttered that the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA is quite possibly the most underrated wine growing region in California. I'm not sure if I'm confident or encyclopedic enough in my knowledge of California wine to affirm that statement, but in my experience there's definitely something to that claim. The winegrowers and winemakers of the Santa Cruz mountains suffer from the same obscurity that a lot of winemakers in other AVAs do throughout the state, simply by virtue of not being in Napa or Sonoma. I also... continue reading
I don't think I've ever had so many e-mails asking me to specifically write about a certain topic here on Vinography. In the past few weeks I've gotten a raft of requests to address the issue that we may refer to in the future as Calistogate 2007. Regular readers may remember the news that the government indefinitely suspended the process by which new AVA's (American Viticultural Areas) were created. They did this because of a quagmire surrounding the imminent approval of a new AVA in the Napa Valley covering the Calistoga area. The idea being that Calistoga would become the... continue reading
How would you like to go a luxury wine vacation all the while knowing that you're enjoying Napa luxury because you helped to feed some hungry kids in Lesotho, Africa? That, my friends, is the beauty of the charity event called A Menu For Hope. This is the fourth year of A Menu For Hope, the grassroots charity event for wine and food bloggers that started in response to the horrible Tsunamis of 2004. Last year's event raised more than $60,000 for the UN's World Food Programme, which set the stage for this year's remarkable event. Because of our success... continue reading
Review by Bill Rohwer. With dozens of wine regions, hundreds of grape varieties, and several overlapping classification systems, Italian wine is not a subject for the faint of heart. The authors of Vino Italiano certainly have the credentials to write an authoritative account. Joseph Bastianich co-owns (with Mario Batali, who lived and cooked in Italy for some years) five Italian restaurants and an Italian wine shop in New York City, as well as owning two Italian wineries, one in Toscana, another in Friuli; David Lynch is the wine director at one of these restaurants and a prolific wine writer.... continue reading
Directional Rows "This image was made at Couger Mountain Vineyard in Sonoma, and for me it's all about the starkness of the vines and the trees in the fog. Winter remains my favorite time to shoot in the vineyards, if only for its ability to turn landscape into sculpture." -- Michael Regnier INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking (Mac users, click and hold) on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image and drag it... continue reading
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Happy New Year From Vinography Tamanohikari Shuzo "Yuki Hiryo Shiyo Bizen Omachi 100%" Junmai Daiginjo, Kyoto Prefecture Book Review: Sweet Wines by James Peterson Vinography Images: Row of Lights Merry Christmas from Vinography J Vineyards, Russian River Valley: Current Releases The Current State of Wine Blogging Last Chance To Win! Raffle Extended Thru Sunday In Search of Some Good Sake Book Review: Hip Tastes by Courtney Cochran
Wine Will Never Smell the Same Again: Luca Turin and the Science of Scent Forlorn Hope: The Remarkable Wines of Matthew Rorick Debating Robert Parker At His Invitation Passopisciaro Winery, Etna, Sicily: Current Releases Should We Care What Winemakers Say? The Sweet Taste of Freedom: Austria's Ruster Ausbruch Wines 2009 Burgundy Vintage According to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Charles Banks: The New Man Behind Mayacamas Wine from the Caldera: The Incredible Viticulture of Santorini Why Community Tasting Notes Sites Will Fail Chateau Rayas and the 2012 Vintage of Chateauneuf-du-Pape A Life Indomitable: The Wines of Casal Santa Maria, Portugal Bay Area Bordeaux: Tasting Santa Cruz Mountain Cabernets Forgotten Jewels: Reviving Chile's Old Vine Carignane The First-Timer's Guide to Les Trois Glorieuses of Hospices de Beaune


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Contemporary sitar master, Agni, and acclaimed tabla player, Lewis Howard use the soothing sounds of Indian music to take you on an inward journey to deeper healing.
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|There's a misleading headline in the Daily Express newspaper today declaring a "Muslim handshake ban" at Cambridge University.
The newspaper claims tutors at Cambridge University have been instructed to take note of the "culturally sensitive" nature of traditional forms of greeting, like a handshake, and to use "suitable body language" instead so as not to unnecessarily intimidate students when conducting admissions interviews.
The Daily Express headlines its article on the university directive as "Muslim handshake ban," almost instinctively suggesting that Muslims are the only category of students to whom the directive would apply, though the online version of the story is titled "Muslim and disabled handshake ban," taking into account other types of students that the directive covers.
The Daily Express also mistakenly posits the guidance issued by university authorities as a "ban" – perhaps to underscore the notion of 'appeasement' in the face of Muslim intolerance for different social practices?
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Tramon Williams the latest to be hit with flu-like symptoms
Green Bay – It looked as if the Packers had kicked the flu bug that had gone through a handful of members of the team a few weeks ago.
But on Thursday, veteran Green Bay cornerback Tramon Williams missed practice because he had flu-like symptoms.
"I really don't have feel for that one way or the other. He came in and obviously had flu symptoms. He was given medication and was sent home. We'll probably know more in the morning," said Packers coach Mike McCarthy on Williams' status for the playoff game Saturday night against Minnesota.
The Packers have gone to great lengths to try minimize exposure to viruses – at least within their own facility. There's obviously nothing they can do about exposure to stuff at stores and restaurants,
"They've done a good job of kind of disinfecting everything," said rookie right tackle Don Barclay.
"We take flu shots – I don't know if its required, I want to say it is," said Packers tight end D.J. Williams. "Being up here in this climate and the weather changing all the time, yeah the flu has been spreading around."
Mason Crosby, Josh Sitton, Greg Van Roten, T.J. Lang, Davon House and Barclay have all been sick enough to be listed on the injury report in recent weeks. Barclay was miserably sick with the flu for 48 hours before the last home game against Tennessee. He had to get an IV of fluids and take Tamiflu, but even that didn't stop the headache and other symptoms.
"I wasn't feeling too great, I'm not going to lie to you, got pretty winded there a couple of times," he said.
Still, Barclay played in all of the snaps that game. He's got a history of being tough. He got pneumonia two weeks before he was training for his Pro Day in college and "I ended up doing pretty well on my pro day."
The Packers hope that Williams will be the last player to get sick as they begin their playoff drive. If all else fails and everyone else gets sick, it seems the Packers can at least count on one guy never getting sick.
"My immunity is crazy. I just won't get sick. Watch," said Williams. "I've just have always been like that. The last time I got sick was real bad, when I was real young, maybe 10 years old. After that I can't remember the last time I have been sick. I'll go up to someone with the flu and give them a hug, I don't worry about getting sick at all."
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Academic All-America Selections (PDF)
BREA, Calif. - UCLA sophomores Kelly Easterday and Katie Estrada and freshman Hannah Sebenaler of the women's water polo team have earned ACWPC Academic All-America honors, as announced this week by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC).
Easterday has secured Academic All-America honors for the second consecutive season. Estrada and Sebenaler earned the academic accolade for the first time in their respective careers. All three Bruins were named as "excellent" Academic All-America selections.
Easterday scored 11 goals on 29 attempts, collecting 24 earned exclusions and 12 steals en route to leading UCLA to its fifth straight NCAA title in 2009. A defender from Santa Barbara, Calif., Easterday scored one goal in each of the Bruins' first two NCAA Tournament matches in May (versus Michigan and Stanford).
Estrada registered eight goals on 15 attempts as a sophomore in 2009. Estrada, who has also earned 2009 All-MPSF Academic honors, collected five earned exclusions at the two-meter position.
Sebenaler netted nine goals on 25 attempts as a freshman. A native of Coronado, Calif., Sebenaler finished her freshman campaign having collected four assists, four steals and two blocks.
The ACWPC selects three Academic All-America teams each season - outstanding (3.71 - 4.00 GPA), superior (3.41 - 3.70 GPA) and excellent (3.20 - 3.40 GPA).


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Flexible Scale-Out with Lightweight Micro Server
Microservers have emerged as an option for specific classes of workloads that tend to scale well with large numbers of relatively lightweight nodes. Intel supports this topology with a broad range of processor offerings engineered to give flexibility of choice, improve node density, and reduce node power consumption. This paper introduces the design concepts behind microservers and gives decision makers the background to make informed decisions about whether microservers can help them address their server infrastructure needs.
The paper explains the context in which microservers have evolved and the characteristics of the new design modality. It offers guidelines for identifying whether workloads are well suited to micro server deployments. The paper also provides an overview of Intel® platforms associated with the micro server option and explains how that hardware fits within the framework of industry standards and product offerings.
As the computing industry innovates, new applications and software models are emerging rapidly—particularly those in the Internet data center. For example, the web tier has grown to become a large portion of the server infrastructure in many Internet data centers, handling content for millions of users. Highly parallelized workloads such as analytics and non-relational databases are becoming more widespread. And a host of new content delivery services are driving different ways to store and distribute digital content.
While the majority of emerging Internet workloads requires high performance systems to handle dynamic, complex tasks, a subset places lower demands on server infrastructure. These lightweight applications don't take full advantage of mainstream server platforms that are richly configured with memory, disk, and networking options typically found in enterprise data centers today.
Microservers are an emerging category of system designs that have been created to address lightweight applications and simultaneously improve data center efficiency.
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Student charged with kidnap, assaultsFebruary 08,2013Student charged with kidnap, assaults
BRATTLEBORO A 21-year-old student at the Austine School for the Deaf will be arraigned Friday on charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault for attacking a woman at the school.
Brattleboro police said Timothy P. Carroll of Massachusetts, who lived at the school, locked a 43-year-old woman in an office and choked her.
Carroll was arrested and held at the state prison in Springfield, pending his arraignment in criminal court in Brattleboro.
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Two years after the popular comedy "Think Like a Man" hit movie theaters, this Friday marks the release of the film's sequel, "Think Like a Man Too." The first film was based on the popular book by Steve Harvey and featured several friends "waging war" in relationships. The sequel has the same group of friends heading to Las Vegas for the bachelor/bachelorette parties and wedding of two of the film's characters. Regina Hall and Terrence J play two of the key characters in both films and I recently sat down with both of them to discuss their newest film.
You can watch the entire interview in the above video box.
Regina Hall plays Candace, a far cry from her most recent character, Joan, in "About Last Night." In that film, she was able to match her on-screen boyfriend's energy, played by the rising star Kevin Hart, blow for blow. Her Candace character is a bit more reserved, a single mom who finally finds the love of her life in Michael, played by Terrence J.
Michael is a mama's boy through and through, but he finds his soul mate in Candace. As the sequel begins, the two characters are looking to tie the knot in Vegas with all of the usual suspects in tow.
"Think Like a Man Too" is directed by Tim Story and opens everywhere on Friday, June 20. Check back then for my full review of the film.
Suggested Links
- Stars of 'Think Like a Man Too' walk the red carpet at the Detroit-area premiere
- Interview with Kevin Hart and Regina Hall, stars of 'About Last Night'
- Movie review: 'About Last Night' your best bet for Valentine's Day date night
- Movie review: '22 Jump Street' a disappointing, repetitive dead-end
- Review: 'The Fault in Our Stars' a gem, uncovering a fault in our perspective


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The Jamaica Bobsled Team won no medals in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Their final rank for their only entry at the Olympics, the Two-Man Bobsled event, came in 27 out of 28. Meanwhile their official 'Bobsled Song' racked up over 1.5 million views on Youtube.
For having no snow in Jamaica, their times were not far behind countries which do have annual snow, but they were not fast enough to make to the finals, at least not this year. The Four-Man team finished as high as 14th place in 1996. On the last day of the Sochi Games, the gold medal was awarded to Russia, silver to Switzerland, with Team USA claiming the bronze.6.
Jamaican-born Lascelles Brown finished finished 9th in the Four-Man Bobsled event on February 23. Claims that no Jamaican has medaled in the Winter Games are untrue. After being the brakeman for Winston Watt in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Games, Brown married his Canadian girlfriend and moved to Canada. With the Canadian team, Brown won a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Games with the 2 man team, and a bronze at the 2010 Vancouver Games with the 4 man team.
"I promised to slide today faster than yesterday," Winston Watts said after the third run in which Team Jamaica was eliminated. "And we did so. Unfortunately it was not enough to go further. Hopefully, we sent a message to the smaller countries, you don't need snow to do bobsleigh. You don't need snow to do winter sports."
Winston Watts came out of retirement to help Jamaica qualify for the Winter Games. In his 40s, he is among the oldest Olympians at Sochi. Marvin Dixon competes in the Olympics for the first time in his 30s. The team faced constant troubles, yet they overcame everything with a smile. They came to conquer a different way, perhaps. Without medals, they inspire. And they know how to have fun.
They have their own music video and theme song for the 2014 Olympics called, 'The Bobsled Song.' The official video was pulled from Youtube by the IOC, but luckily it's been posted elsewhere. The Jamaica Bobsled Team actually have several other songs about them from their1988 premiere, at least 6.
Making light of their financial struggles, the team appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles before the Games. Winston and Watts dressed in Girl Scout uniforms, pretending to sell cookies on Hollywood Boulevard to raise money box by box for their trip to Sochi. Jimmy Kimmel Live posted a video on Youtube.
Hearing about their fundraising difficulties, Samsung sponsored the Jamaican team in an storyboarded advertisement about children styled after Usain Bolt and Marvin Dixon making their Olympic dreams come true. It featured a song by Skull called, 'Keep On Pushing.' Samsung further featured a short documentary styled series. Crowd-sourcing provided an additional push.
In a press conference held by Samsung in Sochi, Russia on February 22, Watts stated, "We're happy that we brought so much light, so much joy, so much love to the Sochi Olympics. It doesn't matter if we came 29th or we won an Olympic medal, we're still a winner." Dixon added, "It doesn't matter where you finish, as long as we compete. We compete and we have fun. That's it."
They wore bold watermelon helmets to guard their melons during their runs. Perhaps they were making light of their premiere in 1988 at the Calgary Games when their 4 man bobsleigh turned over. The team's fiberglass helmets melted from friction on the ice. The crowd responded by applauding their efforts to have a team in their first Olympics.
Winston Watts walked out of Sochi with the most quotable quote on everyone's lips and on Twitter. "If you really have a goal, you just have to set yourself forward to that goal. You can't afford to let anything come in your way." And that's what makes the Jamaica Bobsled Team the real winners. They keep trying.


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Corruption in local government is a hot topic in the Town of Sweden, right now, because of the strange behavior of the Sweden Town Council.
But any discussion of corrupt town government must include a comparison to Hampton, Florida, which CNN reports is the most corrupt town in America.
Unfortunately, the comparison does not paint a pretty picture of Sweden's town government.
Hampton, which has a population of only 477, is located on busy Route 301 in Bradford County in rural north-central Florida.
Sweden, which has a population of 14,175, is located on busy Route 31 in suburban Monroe County in Western New York.
Although the two communities are not similar geographically, other comparisons show startling similarities.
A state audit of Hampton, released last month, exposed rampant corruption and mismanagement. The audit found 31 violations of Hampton's city charter, along with multiple violations of state and federal laws.
The corruption in Hampton includes nepotism, sloppy bookkeeping, and a failure to maintain records.
It also found that Hampton officials failed to withhold payroll taxes and failed to insure city vehicles. The audit also found questionable payments to the city clerk, and questionable charges on an official credit card.
The Town of Sweden hasn't been audited by New York State yet. But a number of Sweden residents have already submitted the forms needed to have the New York State Attorney General's Public Integrity Bureau launch just such an investigation.
"You can't make this stuff up."
People are fed up, and these similarities between Hampton and Sweden show why.
Mayor arrested – Supervisor arrested
Hampton has had its Mayor arrested. Sweden has had its Town Supervisor arrested.
Hampton Mayor Barry Layne Moore was arrested in November when he sold illegal drugs to an undercover agent. Moore resigned in disgrace.
Sweden Town Supervisor Nat "Buddy" Lester was arrested in March 2009 for failing to file his federal income tax returns with the IRS. Lester resigned in disgrace.
Corrupt court - Traffic tickets
Hampton is an infamous speed trap. Hampton makes huge amounts of money through a corrupt court that sucks up thousands of dollars from traffic tickets.
In 2011, Hampton took in $268,624 from traffic fines. But despite the windfall profits, the city operated at a deficit.
Sweden is also infamous for making huge amounts of money through a court that sucks in thousands of dollars from traffic tickets.
Sweden doesn't have a police department, but the Village of Brockport does. Brockport doesn't have a Village Court, so the tickets issued by the Brockport Police are processed by the Sweden Town Court.
For decades, it has been an incredible cash cow for the Town of Sweden.
In 2009 for example, the Town of Sweden collected $442,330 in fines from the traffic tickets written by the Brockport Police Department.
By law, New York State received the bulk of that money (56.24%). But Sweden retained $174,751(39.51%) of the money from the fines, even though the town did not contribute a single cent toward the cost of the Brockport Police Department.
That same year, Sweden only remitted $18,800 (4.25%) of the fine money to the Village of Brockport, which bears 100% of the cost of operating the police department. All of that money was from parking ticket fines. The village got no money at all from traffic ticket fines.
Despite the windfall profits, the town claimed that the town court operated at a deficit.
Then in June 2012, Sweden Town Court Judge Carl Coapman was observed to be intoxicated while presiding over a court hearing.
In an apparent cover-up, Sweden Court Clerk Terri Gay refused to allow anyone to have access to tape of the hearing, and referred all inquiries to Town Attorney James Bell.
Bell sat on those inquiries until Judge Coapman resigned suddenly in January 2013 after serving 15 years as a town judge.
Sloppy bookkeeping – slipshod accounting
Water is the one utility controlled by the city of Hampton , but Hampton officials say that they have no water meter log books prior to April 2012 because they were "lost in a swamp" in a car accident.
Sweden officials say they have no idea what happened to hundreds of parking tickets issued by the Brockport Police Department.
All too often, the Brockport Police Department wrote the parking tickets, and then nothing happened after that.
Many of the tickets just vanished, even though the Sweden Town Court is required by law to process the tickets and track down any scofflaws.
For example, in 2009, the Brockport Police issued 1,610 parking tickets, but the Sweden Town Court only processed 928 of those tickets (57.64%).
Incredibly, when the Brockport Police Chief asked for an explanation, no one in the Sweden Town Court had any idea what had happened to the other 682 parking tickets (42.36%).
Then, on February 29, 2012, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle published the complete police report filed about a box of confidential information missing from the Sweden Town Clerk's office.
The cardboard box contained nearly 200 parking tickets, which had inexplicably been stored on the floor under the desk of the Deputy Town Clerk Kathy Roberts instead of being processed.
The story was so unusual that it was reported by the Dallas Morning News; even though Dallas is 1,422 miles from the Town of Sweden.
The Village of Brockport has since hired a collection agency to collect the past due fines, and has also started the process of establishing a Village Court to ensure proper enforcement of the law in the future.
The New York Times reports that almost everybody in the Hampton government seems to be related, and sometimes the same seems to be true in the Town of Sweden.
In Hampton, former city clerk Jane Hall is the mother of the former maintenance operator, Adam Hall, who also ran the water system. She is also the wife of Charles Hall, a longtime city councilman.
In Sweden, Deputy Town Clerk Kathy Roberts is married to new Town Councilman Don Roberts.
Walter Windus, the Building Inspector PT/Code Enforcement Officer for the Town of Sweden, is the father of Council-woman Danielle Windus-Cook, who is a real estate agent in town.
Sweden's brand new Superintendent of Highways Brian Ingraham, who was appointed to the position after his former boss was forced to resign in a sex scandal, is married to Cindy Ingraham, who works as a real estate agent for Council-woman Danielle Windus-Cook.
Councilman Robert Muesebeck, also works for as a real estate agent for Council-woman Danielle Windus-Cook.
Failure to maintain records
In Hampton, officials demanded cash payments for water bills, and then offered no receipts.
In the Town of Sweden, the situation was different, but with similar results.
Last year, the Village of Brockport finally got fed up with the way the Town of Sweden has mishandled parking ticket revenues, and hired a collection agency.
Then collection notices were sent out to the owners of the vehicles that had been ticketed. Almost immediately, the Village Clerks received dozens of phone calls from people who said that they had already paid their tickets.
Many had receipts to prove it. It turned out that the problem was caused by the Sweden Town Court's sloppy record keeping.
Instead of using a computer to track the tickets, the court clerks simply put the tickets into two cardboard boxes, one for paid tickets the other for outstanding unpaid tickets.
These are the same cardboard boxes that contained the confidential parking ticket information that disappeared in 2012.
Needless to say, the goofy system didn't work and the tickets got mixed up, with paid and unpaid tickets in both cardboard boxes.
Moreover, the Sweden Town Court failed to report the parking fines to the New York State Comptroller's Office, as required by law.
The town didn't start reporting the fines to the State until January 2012, after Village officials had discovered that the parking ticket revenues did not show up in the Comptroller's monthly reports.
To make matters worse, the Town of Sweden had always paid the Village of Brockport for parking fines in a single check issued at the end of the year. Since hiring the collection agency, the Village has received monthly checks, as it should have received from the Town of Sweden.
Who knows what else will be exposed when the State Comptroller conducts an audit of the Town of Sweden?
If you want to find out, join the growing chorus of Sweden residents who have reported the shenanigans in Sweden to the New York State Attorney General's Public Integrity Bureau.
• Click here to open the Attorney General's Public Integrity Bureau's Complaint Form.
- Fill out the form and describe the situation on the Sweden Town Council that you think smells fishy.
- If you need more space than the form provides, use a blank sheet of paper to type more information.
- Print the form and any additional sheets of paper.
- Mail the form and the additional sheets of paper to:
Office of the Attorney General
Internet Bureau
20 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10271
Then wait for the fireworks to begin.


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David McLain is a globe-trotting photojournalist who has built a career telling stories visually. He tells real stories of real people, most frequently for National Geographic, and he applies those same narrative skills to assignments for commercial clients that value the photojournalist's passion for authenticity. Whomever he may be working for, McLain manages to tell his stories and communicate the power of real, decisive moments in a way that seems almost effortless. He works hard at it, though, and he's going to explain how he does it, in depth, right here. To see more of McLain's work, visit his website at davidmclain.com.
Cristina Mittermeier is one of the premier nature photographers in the world. As the chairperson of the ILCP, she has a particular dedication to endangered people and places around the world. She offers first and foremost a vehicle for raising awareness—the first step in inspiring change—and she does it with the deliberate use of her camera. Ultimately Mittermeier goes beyond the sound bite to reveal a story that offers hope. Her images focus on the increasingly fragile relationship between human cultures and the planet, and her work encompasses important sustainability topics such as biodiversity and indigenous peoples. She is the ideal teacher for those interested in nature photography and for anyone who seeks to make a meaningful impact with photography. For examples of the photo essays she has crafted, please see her online portfolios at cristinamittermeier.com.
Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith has photographed both the famous and infamous, and he's equally comfortable in-studio and on location. It's his environmental-portrait prowess that allows him to tell much more about a person than could ever be gleaned from a simple headshot. The art of environmental portraits, in which the photographer uses the subject's surroundings to add information and interest to an image, are Smith's forte. He will share his expertise for crafting sublime contextual portraits, whether you're photographing well-known luminaries or the girl next door. See more of Smith's amazing photographs on his website, briansmith.com.One thing all photographers share—each of these Sony Artisans included—is a reliance on light to shape their creations, no matter what subject they're focused on. For Sony Artisan Andy Katz, though, light often is the subject. Working in both color and black-and-white, whether it's people, places or landscapes, Katz is able to transcend boundaries of simple subject classifications in order to craft images that are as much about light as they are about tangible subjects. From documenting foreign cultures to creating fine-art images of landscapes closer to home, he has a master's understanding of the many subtleties of light. No matter where or what you photograph, Katz will help you see the light, as it were, and to photograph it even more effectively. Learn more and see samples online at andykatzphotography.com.


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1tbsp baking powder
pinch of salt
80g softened unsalted butter
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In a jug beat the milk, egg and vanilla extract together.
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Divide into cupcake cases and bake for 20-25 minutes, until a skewer or toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Gently heat the double cream in a saucepan and when its hot (not boiling,as it may split),pour it over the chocolate pieces.
As the cream melts the chocolate give it a gentle stir then set aside to cool,it will thicken up into a lovely thick and pipe-able consistency.
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How Corporations Are Funded By Taxpayers
Posted: July 13th, 2012 by Militant Libertarian
As a lowly young man full of ideas that would have changed the world; and naively believing that I could implement them, I often wondered at how large corporations became so wealthy and attained such incredible amounts of capital for their projects, warehouses, office buildings, investments, and for their global expansion. Why were the tallest buildings in every city I visited always topped with a bank logo? Why were the names of every city's sports arenas and concert halls being replaced with oil/energy and other corporation names and logos, even though the taxpayers paid for their construction? And after many failed attempts to start up my own small business ventures that would revolutionize the world, I gave up trying to play in the big boy markets, because I couldn't get my hands on the big boy money. I realized that some unseen hand would not allow me to compete, though I could never figure out just whose hand it was. And so I gave up… justifying and rationalizing my failures on this unseen force that I knew existed but could never actually see…
And then I met a man named Walter Burien.
It is not often in our lives that we come across one man who virtually lifts the wool from over our own eyes, but this was one of those times. It was not so much what he showed me as much as what he inspired me to do. And thanks to him, I was hooked on a little thing called the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).
For months and months I poured over these financial statements for the various types of government municipal corporations, attempting to comprehend the almost foreign creative accounting language and legalese that was presented within – which was sure to drive off even the most ardent of researchers. But for some reason, as frustrating as that learning curve was, I persisted. And finally, after so many years of being blinded by that unseen hand, I can at last see my nemesis…
As it turns out, this foe was the very government structure that had passed the legislation limiting me in my business ventures. It is the same government corporate structure that assigns patents to the major corporations, while making the patenting process either too expensive or too difficult for the average person or small business to utilize. It was the same government corporation that made it so hard to incorporate in the first place, and which created so many fees, taxes, and restrictions that a small business could never really get ahead. And it is the same government that literally owns everything you can see – that has invested over many decades into all private and public corporations, real estate, foreign currencies, precious metals, and everything else worth owning under the sun and around the world.
No wonder the average Joe can't get ahead!


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The Romney Campaign Sure Had Some Bad Smartphone Apps
It never tested its final project, a failed vote counter.
The Romney campaign was so very ambitious with its smart phone apps, and so very bad at them. The latest and most epic failure was the so-called Orca app the campaign had built to count people who had voted, which crashed repeatedly throughout Election Day and even when it was working, didn't really do its job. Politico and Ace of Spades both have in-depth reports on how poorly the thing performed, but regardless of the technical failings, the baffling thing is that they didn't test it. Politico's Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns reported: "Among other issues, the system was never beta-tested or checked for functionality without going live before Election Day, two sources said. It went live that morning but was never checked for bugs or efficiencies internally." With a record of electronic gaffes as bad as the Romney campaign's that just seems insane.
The campaign really should have known better than to not test. It had already made at least two disastrous attempts at making a killer app that would get all the smart-phone types chattering. First, there was the campaign's official app, which became a literal gaffe machine when it prominently misspelled America on its welcome screen, promising users "a better Amercia." Then, of course, there was the vice-presidential choice app, which promised users they would "be the first to find out" when Romney finally tapped his running mate. The app got scooped by about seven hours. Romney can, of course, do whatever he wants now that he's not campaigning. But we'd humbly suggest he choose a field other than app development.


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Importance of Links in 2012 from Senior Google Engineer
Posted on | July 6, 2012 | Comments Off on Importance of Links in 2012 from Senior Google Engineer
Senior Google Engineer Matt Cutts discusses links versus social signals. According to Matt links are still extremely important, and are not going away anytime soon.
Discussion around the Web:
From Search Engine Roundtable
My take away was that Matt Cutts says links are still, for the foreseeable future, going to be a more powerful signal for search rankings than social signals.
From SearchEngineWatch
Are Links a Dying Signal?
No. "There's a perception that everything will go social and links will be obsolete but I wouldn't write the epitaph for links just yet," he said.
Discussion at WebMasterWorld WebMasterWorld.
Blog post at SearchEngineLand


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