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What is happening to Texas A&M's football program? Is the university on a train bound for SEC stardom and a potential national championship in the near future? Or are the inmates running the asylum? What's going on inside "the house that Sumlin built"? First the good news: ESPN reported on April 16, 2014, that Texas A&M is second nationally in the 2015 football class rankings, with nine commits, just one behind Alabama. That's a tribute to Coach Sumlin's program, where the best recruits in Texas want to be. Yet, the Wrecking Crew is a distant memory; instead, sadly, it's the wrecked crew.
It appears that several formerly highly recruited players have collectively and individually conducted themselves in a less-than-Aggie-proud manner. Surely every football team full of talented players has one or two whose youthful exuberance or profligate conduct has all who love the school muttering "such a shame, that one was a bad apple."
But, given ESPN's (other) headline on April 16, 2014, surrounding the (latest) arrests of three (more) Aggie football players, it's getting a little hot in the public eye. So far, no comments have been issued by high ranking Aggie officials, other than SID Alan Cannon, who's had to keep score with the media about which players are "on" or "off" team suspension. That's too much pressure for Cannon to have to keep fielding. He needs some help.
Here at home, it's just that many of our Aggie football players cannot seem to stay out of the headlines in local and national newspapers and sports blogs—due to being arrested. Not questioned, not detained, but arrested. Even failure to appear after a warrant has been issued. How many people do you know who would simply ignore a warrant for their arrest and be a "no show"?
Let's review. In a Google search on April 18, 2014, when you type in "Texas A&M football player arrest," you'll find 1,420,000 results. If you search for "Texas A&M football player arrested," there are 9,950,000 results. Scary? Some sample articles follow:
April 17, 2014: Dallas Morning News: Three Texas A&M football players arrested for outstanding warrants," which concerns defensive end Gavin Stansbury (active warrant in Harris county for assault), safety Howard Matthews (failure to appear, warrants for speeding and failure to exhibit a driver's license), and receiver Edwin Pope (active warrant, failure to appear). The related story "Trio of Aggies arrested after stop" appeared on ESPN.com on April 16, 2014.
April 6, 2014: Bleacher Report: "Ricky Seals-Jones Arrested: Latest Details, Mugshot, and More on Texas A&M WR" was a story regarding Seals-Jones' arrest "on a charge of disorderly conduct after shouting obscenities while being carried away from a College Station bar."
March 28, 2014: The Eagle (Bryan-College Station) - "Texas A&M sophomore football player Kenny Hill arrested on public intoxication charge outside College Station bar," which has a mug shot of a young man once touted to be the "future of Texas A&M football," post-Johnny Manziel play. The story about how he came to be found asleep in a planter box will fascinate you. Maybe the thought that you'd have to wait your turn (again) to play behind "planter box talent" might be sufficient impetus to transfer to TCU, where you'd be assured of starting. That's the versatility and freedom you have when you already graduated from Texas A&M and actually want to contribute your talent to the team. What a contrast.
February 24, 2014: Bleacher Report – story by Matt Fitzgerald is that linebacker Darian Claiborne was arrested for "a noise violation, a Class C misdemeanor, and released on $300 bond; and lineman Isaiah Golden was charged with possession of two ounces or less of marijuana and released on $2,000 bond. In this same arrest event, wide receiver Devante "Speedy" Noil was "detained but was let go by police and avoided custody."
November 7, 2013: The Eagle – "Police: Texas A&M football player arrested on possession of marijuana and prescription pills" is the story regarding Kenneth Marshall, a freshman defensive back, who later turned himself in to College Station Police Department, in response to an arrest warrant.
There's nothing more certain to generate backlash and controversy among the Aggie family in reading these names, the offenses and news of suspensions, probation, reinstatement, dismissal or—in general—anything negative about the fighting Texas Aggie family. No one wants to believe it. No one wants you to think poorly of the school whose crest and legacy rests on top of every senior ring that rests on the fingers of current and former students alike.
Aggies learn to love their school with a fierce desire to protect it against all who would dare to speak, nay even whisper, a word of negativity. If you do, you're immediately branded a hater. The message boards will surely go wild with how much you hate your school and how unappreciative you are about the school and what it means to be an Aggie. The Dallas Morning News, bearers of bad news about two decades ago, is still bearing up under that mantle. So how do you fix the problems that exist, after you figure out what the root cause is, and who can come in and fix what's broken?
All this "negative publicity" surrounding Texas A&M is not helping the Aggie morale one bit. Aggies want to be proud of their program, and frankly, Coach Sumlin needs some help. It's time to call in the big guns. It's time for John Sharp to step in and lend a hand in talking to every single player about what it means to be an Aggie. Better to call on Sharp than Gov. Rick Perry, a former Aggie yell leader and currently still the most powerful Aggie in Texas. If Gov. Perry has to step in, he may well do what Gov. Ann Richards once had to do, invoke the Texas Rangers to start looking at things on campus, in response to the "anonymous letter" that old Aggies have all but forgotten, and newer Aggies have never heard of.
Unfortunately, the Aggie governor has been such a lightning rod with every appointment he makes on campus, of a trusted colleague or leader he respects so highly, to run the show, that it would be counterproductive and a little embarrassing to expect that he could come in and override the Texas A&M Board of Regents, whose singular silence on his prior recommendation of Aggie Interim President really sort of relegated him to "lame duck" status.
Begs the question, though, where is the Texas A&M Board of Regents right now on the topic of turmoil inside the Aggie football program? As quiet as the flies on the wall. Their silence speaks volumes. Apparently no one wants to dare say a word, lest they curry disfavor with either the governor or the chancellor. Yet, Chancellor Sharp serves at the pleasure of the Aggie Board of Regents, who are appointed by the Texas Governor. Each regent is a Perry appointee because he's been in place since 2000.
Perry may not be the right Aggie to come and look into things on campus just now. Seems he has a few problems of his own. On April 4, 2014, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal online posted a morsel from the Texas Tribune, that "a special prosecutor is looking into Perry's attempts to force Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign by way of a veto for state funding for the Travis County DA's Public Integrity Unit." All that controversy will ultimately wash out one way or the other, business as usual in the land of Austin, but right now it's an unpleasant irritant for the governor.
Politics is a messy business and only those who really understand it should comment. Suffice it to say that Gov. Perry thought enough of John Sharp in Sept., 2011, to support and reinforce his leadership of Texas A&M and that's that. The two were never friends or political allies before, and they likely have a contentious relationship now, particularly since Chancellor Sharp and his distinguished professors supported Dr. Hussey (good move, smart move) over Governor Perry's candidate, Guy Diedrich, a successful Aggie but non-academic who founded Austin Technology Ventures.
Diedrich was not given a single vote by the Board of Regents, who voted unanimously for Dr. Hussey's leadership, an anomaly that still puzzles some onlookers because the regents serve at the pleasure of the governor. It sometimes gets confusing in Aggieland without a scorecard.
Clearly, John Sharp is the right person to step in and review what's going on at Texas A&M. Sharp's a former Student Body President, a former State Representative, a former member of the Texas Railroad Commission, a former State Senator, a former State Comptroller and almost the Lieutenant Governor of Texas. And now he's Texas A&M's highest ranking official, and he's needed over at Kyle Field to find out what's going on in the football program, before the New York Times does.
The time is actually overdue for Sharp's oversight, given the April 10, 2014 publication of Steven Godfrey's SB Nation story, "Meet the Bag Man: How to Buy College Football Players, in the Words of a Man Who Delivers the Money." The story focuses on SEC programs, and Texas A&M is in the SEC now. Old Aggies should be a little worried right now because those with a longer provenance remember well the days of Gov. Ann Richards having to send in the Texas Rangers to look at the files of university operations and conduct extensive interviews.
Almost 20 years ago, the Texas State Auditor conducted a comprehensive review of business at A&M and published quite an important audit document, which now sits gathering dust in a file cabinet somewhere. At the time of that audit, Cathy Smock was an audit manager for the State Auditor's office (for 18 years), and her team did an exemplary job of looking into so many areas of concern at A&M. Many positive changes occurred on campus as a result of her team's audit. Someone in A&M's leadership, in 1999, was wise enough to recruit her away from the State Auditor's office to Aggieland.
For the past almost 15 years, Smock has been the Chief Auditor of the Texas A&M University System, where things have been focused on cost-savings and outsourcing contracts for maximum savings of state and public funds. Although it's not without controversy, any problems within the football program will forever and for always outrank the concerns over lifetime Texas A&M state employees having to work for Chartwell's or Compass.
The famous legends of Texas "Friday Night Lights" are not focused on french fries and franchises. Football is, and forever will be, king in Texas. And, the state of Texas is ranked right around dead last in the high school graduation rate. So, if the Aggies are lucky enough to have high school graduates in Texas A&M, they need to have someone looking out for their best interests once they're here.
So many successful Aggies in the state of Texas love their school passionately and consistently. They attended here, many on scholarship, they graduated, and they made good in life, as well as on the gridiron, gave back to Texas A&M, funded new scholarships for new players. All those people want to know: Who can inspire, or scare the heck out of, the players in the Aggie football program to behave like decent young men?
The smart money's on Sharp to get that job done. Don't bother the athletic director with this problem, because he didn't create it and frankly, he doesn't have time for it. He's very busy right now trying to deal with two plates' full of daily issues with the Kyle Field expansion, contracts for the concessions and such, and in general, finding money for all of the sports that are "not football" to grow and flourish.
Meanwhile, all these negative football headlines have undoubtedly been giving Jason Cook nightmares. It's hard as heck to spin your way out of a nightmare publicity vortex like this one. And, Cook is giving it his best SEC- and Aggie try, but he can't keep dodging a never-ending series of bad news headlines popping up every month. On April 17, Barrett Sallee, SEC Football lead writer of Bleacher Report penned, "Texas A&M football: Off-season arrests shouldn't be an indictment of the program." Really? How can you not judge the program? Sallee's message: "Don't judge A&M on off-season arrests" is sad.
While you're at it, more importantly, don't judge Kevin Sumlin by just part of this football team either. He and his staff recruited these players. They likely didn't do a lot of due diligence on character searches because they were all busy studying film and on-field performance. And unlike the old days, once these players are not on the practice field, it's hard to keep an eye on them.
The old days are gone when all the football players lived (and ate) in Cain Hall. Remember Cain Hall? No, most people don't. It was across from Kyle Field and the MSC, the dorm where they had steaks for supper while the Corps dining hall had burgers of mystery meat. It was mostly just the football players and a few athletes from other programs in the newest, best dorm that no one ever set foot in, if you weren't on the football team. Even in the 1970s, ultimately that was considered elitist and so, decades later, the university ran out of room on campus for all of the athletes. Other arrangements were made and that's where much of the present day trouble stems.
Today, Aggie football players don't live as a team. They're scattered to the four winds, some to a local apartment complex with a major party reputation, some to rental properties or parent-purchased homes, or who knows where. Some party hard, some quietly, others not so quietly. They are, in general, highly unsupervised, left to their own devices. One place we know they are, often, thanks to the newspapers and television cameras is Northgate, in bars, whether or not they are 21. Wherever else they are is a collective group of places where no one sees them overtly, but just ask any student on campus where they are, and they know. It's a different day and time we live in.
Therefore, the time is right for Chancellor John Sharp to begin a university investigation, to see how and why it is that (some) football players believe themselves impervious to the rules and code of honor expected of all other students who faithfully call themselves Aggies. Chancellor Sharp, given his love of and devotion to his alma mater, would be the single most powerful person in the state of Texas to lend a hand in support of Coach Kevin Sumlin.
Coach Sumlin has done his part—he has recruited the talent, he has hired the staff, he applies the rules fairly and judiciously as best he can, to try and get these kids to grow up and stop acting like idiots and irresponsible spoiled brats. But Sumlin cannot do this by himself. Rather than having to develop spin-cycle boilerplate stories on "please, please don't judge A&M by recent arrests," let's develop some new public guidelines for behavior that are enforced fairly and judiciously among every single athlete.
Develop the rules by which all future recruits are aware that if they're going to play at Texas A&M, they can't fail to appear when they're arrested, they can't use alcohol and other drugs and be held unaccountable. Kick them off the team and separate them from their scholarships and see how fast they stop acting this way.
Behavior will change when players know they can't continue to drag down the reputation of Texas A&M into the jail cells and bail bonds offices and attorneys' offices and onto the front pages of papers and internet blogs. It's a waste of precious dollars when you have to spend time trying to obfuscate the trouble, currently being swept under the rug, hoping it will go away, and making excuses for actions unbecoming a person who wears a Texas A&M uniform.
When the University of Texas hired Charlie Strong to be their new football coach, it was against what some of the most powerful university donors and regents wanted. But UT President Bill Powers and his new AD, Steve Patterson, hired Strong. As Wade Goodwyn of NPR so eloquently wrote earlier this year,
"It was a message showing that at Texas, the focus is still research and academics — that the university is still running the football program and not vice-versa."
Texas is on a serious quest for a national championship. So, too, is Texas A&M. But, you don't see any announcements of support or encouragement for Coach Kevin Sumlin from the venerable "powers that be" at Texas A&M—yet. Football should not be running Texas A&M the way it once did. Texas A&M should be running football.
But no one permanent is running Texas A&M University at the President's level either. Interim President, the distinguished researcher and academic Dr. Mark Hussey, can be eloquent and erudite in plant breeding and all matters "AgriLife." But football operations are not part of his permanent responsibility, so you don't expect it to be his temporary assignment either.
Chancellor Sharp can, however, get in there to fix football's image, the way he stepped in to defend the university's Heisman trophy winner during the NCAA investigation last summer. Sharp can help Coach Sumlin attain the power he needs, and presently does not have, to carry out his own program of discipline.
Whether it's a Corps of Cadets uniform or an athletic uniform, Aggies are only as strong as their weakest link. No more excuses. All Aggies, current and former, should not have to continue to be embarrassed and hear the "boys will be boys" and "they're not 21 yet" excuses. Those have been wearing thin, for a few years now.
It took the New York Times to travel to Florida to begin to get the public eyes opened to what lengths a university will go to for the sake of their football program. The story surrounding the Florida State investigation of their football program is revealing and pathetic at the actions of desperate people who are shown to sacrifice one female victim, in the place of a more-important national title, and a piece of bronze that grows less shiny by the day it's held by, well, that's another kettle of stinky fish.
At Texas A&M, if you're going to give an expenses-paid, full-ride education to a player in exchange for their athletic talent on the field, there's an obligation due. It's a responsibility, when you're wearing that uniform, to uphold a code of behavior befitting everything good that Texas A&M stands for. And hopefully, one day soon, the official word will come down from somewhere by someone. It's a privilege to be an Aggie and if you don't like following the same rules that everyone else has to, Highway 6 runs both ways.


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This week's episode of ABC's "Bachelor in Paradise" ended on a shocking note when Chris Bukowski voluntarily left the show due to a leg injury and did the sweetest thing ever: He gave his rose to single mom Michelle Money as a parting gift, extending her stay and her weekly stipend in the Mexican paradise. But the bigger shocker was the promo clip that followed the episode.
On Monday, ABC aired a promo for next week's two night "Bachelor in Paradise" event. And it looks like things are about to get ugly.
In the upcoming "Bachelor In Paradise" episodes 4 and episode 5, it appears that AshLee Frazier gets rejected at the rose ceremony after she tries to give her rose to Graham Bunn. On this week's episode, Graham was complaining that AshLee was way ahead of him as far their romance goes. He mentioned that she's already talking about introducing him to her dad, despite the fact that they hadn't even gone out on a date or kissed yet.
The new promo clip reveals that AshLee says something to Graham that she should not have said, and Clare Crawley calls her out on it. It then shows AshLee standing alone at the rose ceremony as Graham walks off. The clip also shows someone running off into the woods and a voiceover saying, "She ran out into the jungle to places she shouldn't be."
The clip caps off with an ambulance, and Clare saying she wishes things could have been different. Ever the drama stirrer, host Chris Harrison warns of the upcoming two-parter: "Paradise turns into hell… With a shocking ending that everyone will be talking about." Harrison also asks the question: "How could something so right go so wrong?"
Spoiler king Reality Steve has already posted his spoilers for this season, but he has a bunch of question marks regarding next week's episode. But after Monday night's episode he posted an update to RealitySteve.com, reporting that the drama-filled promo is just editing.
"Before AshLee even says Graham's name at the rose ceremony, Graham walks off set because he feels sick," Carbone wrote. "He eventually comes back, she asks if he'll accept her rose, and he does … As for the producers running through the jungle looking for somebody, I don't know who or what that is, but I honestly don't think it's a big deal. I think it's editing again."
As for the ambulance scene, Reality Steve previously posted that contestant Lacy Faddoul was taken to the hospital at some point due to either food poisoning or dehydration. He also wrote: "Marcus [Grodd] also had to go to the hospital as well to get stitches on his toe after messing it up. That's what they're talking about when you hear someone say 'there's so much blood,' or something to that effect. Marcus' toe. Not some double homicide like they make it seem with the facial expressions and the eerie music."
The "Bachelor in Paradise" two-night event airs on Monday, Aug. 25 and Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Dine Out Against Hunger 2012!
Dine Out Against Hunger is a restaurant-based fundraiser to help fight hunger on Staten Island. Over 140 participating Staten Island restaurants pledge to give 20% of their food bill (excluding the bar bill) to Project Hospitality, an interfaith effort sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, and caring for people with HIV/AIDS.
This one-day event is set for:
Thursday, April 26,2012
People of the community can support this effort simply by going out to eat at a participating restaurant on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Co-workers can dine out at breakfast, lunch and/or dinner together; friends and families can dine out in the evening.
At participating restaurants throughout Staten Island.
Project Hospitality helps the homeless, who struggle daily to find enough to eat, and the working poor, struggling to meet both rent and food costs. Project Hospitality is able to offer food, shelter, and hope during these challenging times with generous contributions from caring individuals, community organizations and businesses.
The co-chairs are Claire Regan, Associate Managing Editor of the Staten Island Advance and Frank Lombardi, Executive Chef of the Hilton Garden Inn. The founding Corporate Sponsor is the Staten Island Advance and Founding Community Sponsor is The Honorable James Molinaro, Borough President of Staten Island. The lead sponsor is Catering by Framboise. The platinum sponsor is ShopRite. The sponsors are Hilton Garden Inn, Lorenzo's Restaurant, Bar & Cabaret, Bronze sponsors are Met Food, Northfield Bank, SYSCO Food Service of Metro NY and Victory State Bank. Media sponsors are Mindsaw Web Development, WhereYouEat.com. Underwriters are H & A Construction, New York State Restaurant Association and R & L Press.
For more information: If you want to know more about Dine Out Against Hunger 2012, please call Project Hospitality at (718) 448-1544, ext. 163 or use the link to the left.
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In answer to the question...No. What states should be doing is demanding a national single payer system, and get rid of the whole mess and inefficiency that insurance creates.
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Should states accept health insurance exchanges? ... Of course they should. How is it that all the tea party types who were only a few months ago saying 'the law is the law and has to be followed' now even considering trying to get their state to not allow health insurance exchanges?
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So, the Republicans, who flat out refused to consider a single-payer system
because they have figured out ideologically (but not practically) that a
market-based system will work better, are now suggesting that states sabotage
the ACA so that it won't work. They think there is political power to be
gained by being obstructionist about everything. Are they not getting the
picture that the American people are tired of their act, and the American people
are also getting tired of being the only industrialized country with a
dysfunctional health-care system.
Even though single-payer systems are not perfect, they are far superior to our hodge-podge of health-care lunacy. We are incredibly dense to not just adopt any of 20 systems that have already proved by their results that they can provide adequate, if not excellent, health care at half the price we pay.
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My company has some of the best benefits packages available..... have been rated
in the top 5 companies to work for now 10 years running. We also have one of
the highest retention rates of most any company. And we also pay under our peer
companies..... what does that have to do with this.
If no one has noticed, our states are in a fierce battle to attract companies to call our states home. The better services the states provide, the better infrastructure, the better education offered, the more companies choose to locate in those areas... because their employees want to live in those areas. Its all about competing both nationally and globally for jobs.
Now a state can choose to be the low cost local alternative to other low cost nations, but that does nothing positive for the residents of the state. It just makes the state Mexico north - or China West. If you want to have a strong vibrant economy, you need employers that want well educated, healthy, happy employees. A state can play a big role in attracting businesses to locate their good jobs locally.
It a choice of paths the states need to make.
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Stud-Free LEGO Enterprise Is Much Larger Than It Seems
It's one thing to build a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek with LEGO bricks. It's another to build it so that none of those signature LEGO studs show. It took builder extrodinaire Chris Melby eight months and around 18,000 pieces to make this five foot-long masterpiece a reality.


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I am trying to construct a graph Laplacian matrix from a set of eigenvalue. I've read several papers about inverse eigenvalue problems but to be honest I didn't understand clearly. Could somebody provide me a general idea about inverse eigenvalue algorithms? Which algorithm is the best for me to choose? Or a concrete example. Below is a detailed description of my question:
Suppose we have a connected undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. $L$ is the Laplacian matrix of $G$, then the eigenvalues of $L$ have the form $$ 0 = \lambda_0 \le \lambda_1 ... \le \lambda_n$$ Now if I slightly change $\lambda_1$ with arbitrary amount to $\lambda_1$* (still in the same form) is it possible to construct another graph Laplacian matrix by this new set of eigenvalues $\{$ $\lambda_0$, $\lambda_1$* $...$ $\lambda_n$ $\}$?
I know that only finite number of sets can be the eigenvalues of a graph laplacian matrix. Does the eigenvalues have any particular form to be the eigenvalues of a Laplacian matrix?
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NeNe Leakes' presence at a major event on Thursday, May 15, seems to indicate that she's not leaving "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" after all, despite rumors to the contrary. She was one of the housewives selected to represent the show at the NBC Universal Cable Entertainment Upfront in New York City. The upfront is where the company showcases next season's lineup on its cable networks, which includes Bravo, to advertisers.
Bravo head honcho Andy Cohen tweeted a few photos of the event. One of the photos, which NeNe retweeted, shows her sitting right behind Andy and next to housewives from other cities, New Jersey's Melissa Gorga and Dina Manzo and Beverly Hills' Shannon Beador. NeNe playfully sticks her tongue out while Andy smiles broadly.
Not all of the housewives and celebrities from other Bravo shows got an invite to attend the upfront. Several days prior, Naughty But Nice Rob published a list of the ones who were given the opportunity to walk the red carpet and attend the event. The only Atlanta housewives who received an invite were NeNe and Kandi Burruss.
Former Atlanta housewife Kim Zolciak admitted that she didn't get an invite when a fan asked her why she didn't go to the event. The fan quickly let Andy know that it was a mistake to not include Kim and that he should be ashamed for the omission. The third season of Kim's spin-off, "Don't Be Tardy," premieres later this year.
Just the day prior, NeNe had people wondering whether she had quit the show that made her famous. She tweeted that people should never continue in a job that they don't enjoy. Since being an Atlanta housewife is the only long-term gig that NeNe seems to have at the moment, many took that to mean that she's leaving the show.
Reports surfaced about a week ago that NeNe's contract to be a starring housewife on season seven of the show had not been renewed. Rather, she, along with Porsha Stewart, will possibly show up only as friends of housewives. NeNe herself seemed to deny that she had been let go, tweeting a few hours later that she was laughing at all of the rumors.
If NeNe Leakes really isn't coming back as a starring housewife in the next season "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," it's odd that she would have been invited to represent the show. If, instead of being fired, she quit the show of her own accord because she no longer enjoys it, it's unlikely that she would attend the upfront. Fans will just have to wait. The question of whether NeNe is really leaving or staying will likely not be officially confirmed until the official trailer for season seven is released.
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Friday, July 20
Criminal mischief, 1:32 p.m.: 1000 block of Chetco Avenue.
Suspicious conditions, 2:35 p.m.: 17300 block of Blueberry Drive.
Theft of services, 6:25, Harris Beach State Park.
Hit and run, 8:32 p.m.: 900 block of Chetco Avenue.
DUII, 11:35 p.m.: 300 block of Chetco Avenue.
Saturday, July 21
Loud noise, 3:07 a.m.: 97600 block of Marina Heights Loop.
Water problem, 6:29 a.m.: Alder and South Hazel streets.
Found property, 9:55 a.m.: in Roseburg.
Illegal burn, 11:20 a.m.: 96300 block of Wildwood Road.
Non-injury vehicle accident, 3:38 p.m.: 16400 block of Lower Harbor Road.
Suspicious conditions, 7:25 p.m.: Stout Park.
Illegal fireworks, 9:38 p.m.: Parkview Drive, halfway to Dodge Avenue.
Loud noise, 9:53 p.m.: 700 block of Old County Road.
Illegal fireworks, 10:05 p.m.: Pioneer Road and Easy Street.
Shots fired, 10:06 p.m.: 500 block of Fir Street.
Illegal fireworks, 10:45 p.m.: 1100 block of Ransom Avenue.
Shots fired, 10:06 p.m.: 500 block of Fir Street.
Illegal fireworks, 1100 block of Ransom Avenue.
Sunday, July 22
Loud noise, 12:44 a.m.: 500 block of Ransom Avenue.
Loud noise, 3:22 a.m.: 500 block of Railroad Street.
Fight, 3:29 a.m.: 300 block of Matot Street.
Suspicious conditions, 10:07 a.m.: 1300 block of English Court.
Suspicious conditions, 5:09 p.m.: 600 block of Old County Road.
Forgery/fraud/bad check, 5:50 p.m.: 700 block of Fourth Street.
Loud noise, :10 p.m.: 400 block of Smith Drive.
Fire, 8:15 p.m.: Gold Beach Police responded to area between Burnt Hill and Byrdies Lane.
Hazard, 9 p.m.: Beach rocks near 1200 block of Barclay Avenue.
Suspicious conditions, 9:38 p.m.: 300 block of Spruce Drive.
Monday, July 23
Unlawful entry of a vehicle, 9:52 a.m.: 1000 block of Marina Heights Loop.
Fire, 1:22 p.m.: Cape Ferrelo Fire Department responded to area south of Whaleshead.
Criminal mischief, 9:30 p.m.: 400 block of Hillside Avenue.
Suspicious conditions, 10:18 p.m.: 1200 block of Chetco Avenue.
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Supporter Urges Prayer for Hungary's Controversial Leader
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban doesn't have it easy these days, facing a multitude of economic issues weighing on the country and waves of criticism at home and abroad. A Catholic priest, Agoston Ullrich, thought the premier could use some help and asked supporters to pray for Mr. Orban.
His initiative was embraced by the mayor of Budapest's Csepel district Szilard Nemeth, a member of Mr. Orban's Fidesz party, who displayed the call on the municipality's website.
Mr Ullrich's plea (pictured) reads as follows:
"The opposition has launched another brutal attack against Viktor Orban.
Everybody fights with the tools they have. Let's accept the challenge!
Let us utter the following ancient Christian prayer of blessing for Viktor Orban as often as we can:
Prayer of blessing
May you look to the Lord so He may lead you to the right path.
May the Lord stand beside you, to embrace and shelter you.
May the Lord stand behind you to preserve you from evil machination.
May the Lord be below you to support you, to rescue you if you are trapped.
May the Lord be inside you to comfort you if you are weighed down by sorrow.
May the Lord be around you to protect you from the attacks of enemies.
May the Lord be above you so his blessing may descend upon you.
May God Almighty bless you so!"
The text is apparently inspired by a prayer attributed to Saint Patrick.
Mr. Nemeth, the Csepel mayor, was immediately criticized for promoting what some perceived as an attempt to deify Mr. Orban. He said he had acted on Mr. Ullrich's request to display the prayer and added that nobody is required to obey.


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Sun, fun, and Usenix
By Liane Praza-Oracle on Apr 14, 2005
Returned from Usenix today and I'm still exhilarated and exhausted -- wish I could have stayed longer. I'm a complete laggard compared to everyone else who has been so diligently posting after crawling back to their hotel rooms/homes after closing out the BoF and the bar at 1 or 2am. As I mentioned already, we did two BoF sessions: Solaris 10 and Beyond, and Developing for Solaris and OpenSolaris. Lots of folks (80+) and lots of great questions on Tuesday night -- many stayed until the bitter end to chat with us about Solaris and other interesting topics.
The developer BoF I ran on Wednesday was, as expected, a bit smaller. There was lots of competition from interesting sessions and the topic was less general: we had somewhere between 40 and 60 people (which was still a great crowd). Sun folks included Dan, Bart, Alan, Tim Marsland, David Bustos, John, and Matt. Spencer even stopped by despite an early NFSv4 session the next morning. Roy Fielding was kind enough to indulge my request to talk a bit about his view of OpenSolaris from the perspective of his new role on the community advisory board.
As the slideset I used for the developer BoF was completely new, I want to take another look over it before posting it here -- didn't even have the time to spellcheck before the BoF! I hope everyone went home with at least one new tidbit about developing on [Open]Solaris they didn't know before, even if I wasn't as funny as Dan the night before. Apologies that my presentation didn't have more panache. Here's a quick [pre|re]view. In addition to talking about the Solaris lifestyle and specific features that I think make it a great platform for software development, we also talked about what's coming with OpenSolaris. I'm hoping to have time to add notes about some of the detailed examples we went through during the BoF too, but that may take a while longer. It is more fun to do them live, unscripted -- mistakes and all. :) Bart has promised to post his example of inserting stable DTrace probes into an application on his blog soon too.
Thanks to all of you who were able to come. We had a bunch of fun and learned quite a bit from the comments, questions, and subsequent discussions. If you were there, do you have any comments on what we could do better next time aside from having more free beer?


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The Weekend came and went. Mostly used it to run errands then fell into a House of Cards coma. I have to admit, that series is so perfect, if Netflix keeps this up, they'll change the way viewers consume TV shows all across the board. I will say, they might have gone a bit too global this time around. I understand Underwood's the President and all, but I dunno, I figure there should be more in-fighting with the way he got his seat.
"If we told the truth, imagine what the voters would think." – Frank Underwood
That line is so beautiful.
Tonight I'm a bit more restless than most nights. Moving into the city is a bit more surreal that I realized. Living out in the suburbs the quietness is your friend, but here… Nothing is ever quiet. I guess I just have to get used to it. But I doubt that's the reason I'm awake.
Every now and then I have flashbacks of people I used to know, wonder where they're at, and whatever became of them. I don't know why, or what I would tell them, just want to know what if they're all right. I've been searching for one friend for a while now, Jamie, haven't seen or heard from her in years, over a decade. Everyone else I've spotted, and found out what became of them, but her… nada, literally nada. It's like she disappeared from the earth as soon as we lost touch. I do hope I see her one day in the future…
During these late night, I start looking at some of the scars I've accumulated throughout this venture… still wondering if it was all worth it. Then there are the ones that aren't physical, the ones that I'll have to battle mentally for the rest of my life… We'll see where this road takes me…
It's been a while since I updated this blog, but I figured I might as well let the world know what I'm up to.
One of the hardest things to do is leave something you created, but I had to leave Karma Snack to keep my balance. I realized I didn't want to do SEO, client work, or anything that involved internet marketing for others.
Over the near 2 years since I updated this blog, I've got through some interest time period. It was as if I was on a fog laden journey ahead, with no real end goal in sight. I bounced from project to project, idea to idea, till I eventually started going back to doing the thing I was most passionate about, coding. I love coding, cause there is a zen aspect to it. It's you versus yourself in a mental battle to create something and have it functioning properly.
So now I'm back doing the thing I love, programming for projects which have taken me to some interesting places around the world and back again. One thing I will miss is Miami. There are some 'interesting' characters to say the least, but overall I've left a lot of friends and friendships grew apart as the years strained the connections. I'll miss Miami, but I figure a new city, a new venture – there is something about the Gotham energy that you can't find anywhere else… Feels good to begin a new. I still have my business partner down there so I'm down there every now and then, but I had to start a new journey in a city.
Hopefully in the coming days, weeks, I'll be writing a bit more and programming, and going over some marketing concepts, which I still love – there was just something about the SEO way that didn't quite fit with what I wanted our of marketing, there needs to be more creativity, more energy, with SEO, it's like you're facing one opponent Google, and it's a tiring never ending battle – that's just not for me I guess. What I want to do is make a difference by making a process easier for end users, so I'm taking up several User Experience courses, and reading as many guides as possible to take my game to the next level. If there is anything worthwhile, I'll definitely share it, and hopefully I can expand upon ideas to help anyone reading.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- The sixth-ranked University of Oregon men's golf team pulled away in the final round of the USC Invitational at North Ranch Country Club, finishing with a tournament-record score of 21-under 831 (279-277-275) and claiming its first team championship in the event's 32 years.
Leading the way was champion Eugene Wong, who equaled the tourney's individual standard at 10-under par after a closing round 69 (-2). The Canadian, who began the day in second place, switched spots with USC's T.J. Vogel, who was even-par for his round and ended up a stroke back at 9-under.
"It was incredible," said head coach Casey Martin of his team's dominance at the 54-hole event. "This was a stacked field and the guys came out and just smoked them,"
Even more impressive than their collective score of 21-under, which smashed Stanford's previous record of 13-under, was the Ducks winning by 16 strokes. Runner-up Cal, the 24th-ranked team coming in, was a distant second at 5-under par. Of the 14 schools at the tournament, 11 were ranked, including all seven Pac-10 entries.
"This has to be one of the highlights of all-time for Oregon golf," Martin said.
Wong (203, 65-59-69) had three birdies and only one bogey on his final loop around the 6,869-yard par 71 track, becoming the third Oregon golfer to win the tournament and first since Ryan Lavoie in 2000. Past champions at the USC Invitational include PGA veterans Corey Pavin, Paul Casey and Tiger Woods, among others.
Wong wasn't the only Duck to impress in Southern California. Andrew Vijarro placed fourth at 6-under 207 (72-68-67) and Daniel Miernicki tied for fifth at 4-under par 209 (69-68-72). Vijarro and Isaiah Telles, who tied for 25th with a 1-over 214 (73-74-67), shared the low round of the day with 4-under 67s.
The Ducks' No. 5 man, Sean Maekawa, was in the top half on the final leaderboard, tying for 43rd at 5-over par 218 (74-72-72).
"We've had trouble finishing out tournaments this year, but over the past two days the guys never let up," Martin said.
QUACK TRACKS: The victory for Wong was his first as a collegian - his previous best finish was second at the Pacific Invitational last fall...The team championship was UO's first since winning the Western Intercollegiate in Santa Cruz last spring...Oregon golfer Jeff Lyons won the USC Invitational in 1992...Freshman Marshall Colby played as an individual and finished 80th after shooting 82-77-81 (+27).
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- The sixth-ranked University of Oregon men's golf team pulled away in the final round of the USC Invitational at North Ranch Country Club, finishing with a tournament-record score of 21-under 831 (279-277-275) and claiming its first team championship in the event's 32 years.
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Friday, Nov. 5
7 p.m. - #10 UCLA (17-5, 7-4 Pac-10) at #3 Stanford (18-2, 9-2 Pac-10)
Saturday, Nov. 6
7 p.m. - #10 UCLA (17-5, 7-4 Pac-10) at #2 California (20-1, 10-1 Pac-10)
Gametracker at UCLABruins.com
The 10th-ranked Bruins (17-5, 7-4 Pac-10), winners of four in a row and six of their last seven, head to the Bay Area this weekend to take on the top two teams in the conference, facing #3 Stanford (18-2, 9-2) on Friday and #2 California (20-1, 10-1) on Saturday. Both matches start at 7 p.m. and Gametracker will be available at UCLABruins.com.
Both matches this weekend will be broadcast on tape delay by Fox Sports Net, with Paul Sunderland and former Bruin Holly McPeak at the call. The first showing of the UCLA-Stanford contest will be on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 12 p.m. on FSN Prime Ticket. The UCLA-California match will be shown on Sunday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. on FSN Prime Ticket, with a re-airing on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 p.m.
The Bruins return home next weekend and will play the Arizona schools at Collins Court in the John Wooden Center, which will be UCLA's home in 2011 during the Pauley Pavilion renovation. The Bruins entertain Arizona State on Friday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. and Arizona on Saturday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
UCLA came in at 10th in this week's AVCA Top 25 Coaches poll, tying its season-best ranking from Oct. 11. The Bruins earned 89 additional points and their total of 972 is the most they have received in one ranking this year. UCLA has been ranked between 10th and 14th during each week of the regular season. The Bruins earned nine more points in this week's Volleyball Magazine Top 20 rankings and were in 10th for the second straight poll. UCLA was selected seventh in the Pac-10 preseason coaches poll, earning 38 points.
All remaining home contests will be broadcast live on UCLABruins.com. Gametracker and/or live stats will also be available for all home matches and most road contests.
Friday's victory over Washington snapped an eight-match losing streak to the Huskies and was just the second time this year the Bruins have won when getting out-hit (.329-.268). The .329 percentage marked the first time since Sept. 4, 1994 (at Hawai'i) that UCLA has won a match when its opponent hit over .300 ... the Bruins have hit .268 or better in four straight matches after going five in a row without breaking the .200 mark. The .369 percentage against Washington State on Sunday was their third-highest total this year and highest mark in Pac-10 action ... UCLA is 3-0 in five-set matches this season ... the Bruins have not lost a match when winning the fourth set (7-0) ... UCLA is 14-0 when winning the opening set ... the Bruins are a perfect 15-0 when out-hitting their opponent and 12-0 when hitting .235 or better ... UCLA is 14-0 when holding its opponent under a .200 hitting percentage ... the 105 digs at Arizona on Oct. 15 was the first time the Bruins have had triple figures in digs since Nov. 20, 2007 against Pepperdine and the most since producing 109 against Washington on Dec. 11, 2004 ... junior Lainey Gera continues to lead all Pac-10 players in digs per set at 4.72. Junior Lauren Van Orden is fifth in assists per set (11.17) and sixth in service aces per set (0.28), while junior Katie Camp is 10th in hitting percentage (.337) ... as a team, the Bruins, who have led the Pac-10 in dps in each of the last three seasons, are once again atop the standings with 15.45 dps ... nationally, the Bruins rank 28th in assists per set (13.10) and 35th in kps (13.90). Van Orden is 25th in aps ... Van Orden had a career-best 64 assists on Friday against Washington ... with 10 digs on Sunday versus Washington State, freshman Kelly Reeves tallied her eighth double-figure digs match of the year ... Gera is seventh all-time in UCLA history in digs with 1,196. Next up are Jenny Johnson (1,214) in sixth and Jenny Evans (1,234) in fifth. Gera produced her 22nd-career match with 20-plus digs on Friday ... senior Dicey McGraw had double figures in kills in a career-high 13 straight contests before seeing the streak snapped on Sunday ... Camp has at least four blocks in nine matches this season ... sophomore Rachael Kidder is averaging a team-best 4.05 kps during Pac-10 action, the sixth-highest total among league players. She has eight straight matches with double figures in kills and three contests with at least 20 kills after posting 24 on Friday ... freshman Mariana Aquino has recorded a pair of perfect hitting nights in her last four matches. She had eight kills and no errors in 12 swings for a .667 hitting percentage on Friday and notched seven kills and no miscues in 14 attempts (.500) on Oct. 22 against Oregon State. The freshman is hitting .512 in her last four contests (23 kills-2 errors-41 attempts).
Stanford won both matches at the Oregon schools last weekend in sweeps to move to 18-2 overall and 9-2 in Pac-10 play. The Cardinal's two losses were a four-set defeat to California on Oct. 22 and a five-set setback at UCLA on Oct. 9. Of Stanford's nine conference wins, six have been sweeps. The Cardinal are hitting .322 as a team this season, averaging 14.91 kills, 1.07 aces, 15.12 digs and 2.55 blocks per set. Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman leads the way with 5.64 kps, adding a .382 hitting percentage, 2.70 dps, 0.64 bps and 17 aces, which is tied for the team lead. Sophomore outside Hayley Spelman is second with 2.36 kps to go with a .326 percentage. The Cardinal run a 6-2 offense with senior Cassidy Lichtman (8.67 assists per set) and sophomore Karissa Cook (6.14). Lichtman is tied for the team lead with 17 aces and has added 2.51 dps and 0.65 bps. Senior libero Gabi Ailes is the leader in dps at 4.55, while junior Stephanie Browne (1.14) and freshman Carly Wopat (1.03) each average over a block per set. During Pac-10 play, the Cardinal are hitting .313 with 14.74 kills, 1.08 aces, 15.51 digs and 2.49 blocks per set. Klineman is first with 6.23 kps to go with a .391 percentage, 2.72 dps and 0.67 bps. Spelman is second with 2.72 kps. Lichtman is averaging 10.62 aps and 2.44 dps, while Cook has 5.23 aps. Ailes has paced the squad with 12 aces and 5.23 dps, while Browne (1.17) and Wopat (1.11) are both over a block a set in conference. John Dunning is in his 10th year at Stanford and holds a record of 280-47.
Behind a career-high 25 kills from sophomore Rachael Kidder and 25 digs by junior Lainey Gera, the 12th-ranked Bruins ended #1 Stanford's undefeated run with a five-set victory on Oct. 9 at Pauley Pavilion. Scores were 25-21, 16-25, 25-27, 25-23, 15-12. Kidder posted her first-career double-double by adding 11 digs to go along with four blocks, while junior Lauren Van Orden also had a double-double with 55 assists and 10 digs to go with four blocks and two aces. Senior Dicey McGraw (14) and junior Katie Camp (10) were in double figures in kills, with Camp producing a team-best six roofs. Sophomore Bojana Todorovic tied a career high with 16 digs, while freshman Kelly Reeves added seven kills. The Bruins hit .157 for the match.
For the first time since 2000, the Bruins have a winning streak against the Cardinal with two straight victories after their triumph on Oct. 9 at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA had snapped an 18-match losing streak to the Cardinal with a five-set win at Stanford on Oct. 31 of last year in a contest that resulted in Andy Banachowski's 1,100th-career coaching victory. UCLA won the first two sets 25-18 and 34-32, but Stanford came back to win the next two 25-19 and 25-21 before the Bruins rallied to a 15-11 victory in the fifth. Dicey McGraw (12 kills, 15 digs) and Bojana Todorovic (14 kills, 10 digs) each had double-doubles, while Lainey Gera added 28 digs. Stanford leads the overall series 41-36 and is 21-12 on The Farm against UCLA. The Bruins' last season sweep of the Cardinal was in 2000.
California has won five straight since its only loss of the year at USC in five sets on Oct. 9. The Bears, who host USC on Friday, are 15-0 in three-set matches and 4-0 in four sets. California is hitting .316 as a team with 14.58 kills, 1.11 aces, 13.70 digs and 3.10 blocks per set. Junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey is first on the team with 5.24 kps, adding a .341 hitting percentage, 13 aces, 2.27 dps and 0.59 bps. Sophomore opposite hitter Correy Johnson (2.23), sophomore middle blocker Kat Brown (2.11), freshman outside hitter Adrienne Gehan (2.10) and sophomore middle blocker Shannon Hawari (2.05) are also averaging more than 2.00 kps, with Hawari leading the squad with a .412 percentage. Senior Carli Lloyd handles the setting duties with 11.60 assists per set. Sophomore libero Robin Rostratter leads the squad with 21 aces and 3.85 dps, while Brown (1.38), Hawari (1.23) and Lloyd (1.04) are each averaging over a block per set. During Pac-10 play, the Golden Bears are hitting .286 with 14.60 kills, 0.85 aces, 14.35 digs and 3.22 blocks per set. Murrey is posting 5.65 kps in league action, followed by Johnson (2.25) and Gehan (2.05). Lloyd is averaging 11.75 aps during Pac-10 play, while Rostratter holds a team-best 4.15 dps and nine aces. Brown (1.56), Hawari (1.27) and Lloyd (1.17) are averaging over a block a set in Pac-10 play. Rich Feller is in his 12th year at California and holds a record of 232-127.
Sophomore Rachael Kidder had a career-high 17 kills and senior Dicey McGraw added 10, but the 12th-ranked Bruins lost in four to seventh-ranked California on Oct. 8 at Pauley Pavilion. Set scores were 18-25, 25-18, 15-25, 22-25. Junior Katie Camp added eight kills, while junior Lainey Gera posted nine digs. The Bruins had a season-high nine aces, including four from junior Sara Sage, who came into the match with just four aces for her career. UCLA hit .142 for the match, as California recorded 17 blocks.
The Bruins still lead the all-time series against the Golden Bears 52-5 and are 22-2 in Berkeley. UCLA claimed a four-set victory at Haas Pavilion last Oct. 30. The Bruins won the first two sets and held on for a four-set victory (25-20, 25-20, 16-25, 25-19). Sara Sage had 11 kills and five blocks, Dicey McGraw tallied 10 kills and Lainey Gera added 20 digs. Prior to the Bruins' sweeping the Bears last season, Cal had claimed three straight in the series, all in five sets.


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April 2, 2012
Editor's Note: The following first appeared in the University of Iowa's Hawk Talk Daily, an e-newsletter that offers a daily look at the Iowa Hawkeyes, delivered free each morning to thousands of fans of the Hawkeyes worldwide.
By BRADY JOHNSON
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- With seven Big Ten Conference teams ranked in the top-11 nationally, University of Iowa men's gymnastics coach JD Reive expects his team to get a strong feel for the NCAA Championships from competing at the Big Ten Championships.
The 11th-ranked Hawkeyes host the Championships on April 6-7, and the meet features 48 ranked gymnasts as the strongest conference in the nation will be competing for the league title inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The start time for both days is set for 7 p.m. (CT), and the event will be televised live by the Big Ten Network.
"With Nebraska in the conference and having seven teams, this will have the same layout and same energy as an NCAA Championship," said Reive. "This essentially is an NCAA Championship considering how strong the Big Ten is. It's really fun to be in the heart and soul of men's gymnastics."
The Hawkeyes have hosted three meets inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena this season. After construction forced Iowa to compete at the Field House last season, Reive and the Hawkeyes have enjoyed their new stomping grounds and have even had a few opportunities to practice in it this week.
The Iowa women's gymnastics team hosted the Big Ten Championships on March 24, and the equipment was left standing instead of tearing it down only to put back up two weeks later. This gave the Hawkeyes the opportunity to practice inside the venue and replicate the settings of the conference championships.
"To be at home and to be able to train in there a few times and know what to expect, that is great," said Reive, who is in his second year with the program. "We're looking forward to having a great crowd, and a great energy. Carver has been an awesome venue all season, and we do a great job hosting these meets."
Iowa will be competing against top-ranked Penn State, No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 Minnesota, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 8 Michigan and No. 9 Nebraska. The Hawkeyes have seen every team in the conference at least once this season except for the Nittany Lions.
The conference championships couldn't be coming at a better time as Iowa is coming off its best performance of the season. The Hawkeyes broke its previous season high team score by five points against the Cornhuskers, scoring a 343.350. The performance moved Iowa ahead one spot in the polls to No. 11, an important move for Iowa as the top-12 teams receive invites to compete at the NCAA Qualifier.
"That was big for us, and we had to do that because of the rankings," said Reive. "That pushed us up a spot and gives us a little cushion, and it also helps our confidence and gives us bigger expectations."
The Hawkeyes had four first place finishes against Nebraska, including an all-around title for junior Broderick Shemansky. Shemansky also placed first on high bar with a season best mark on the event. Freshman Mitchell Landau placed first on parallel bars, claiming his first event title of his career. Junior Anton Gryshayev finished first on rings and set a new program record in the progress. Gryshayev, who was named Big Ten Co-Gymnast of the Week for his efforts, scored a 15.750 on the event, besting his previous high score by five-tenths.
"It's huge to a have a number of guys stepping up like that," said Reive. "We need that leadership on every event. It gave us a lot of momentum, and it's great for those guys to be reaching their personal aspirations and, more importantly, helping the team in a big way."
After the Hawkeyes improved their team score from one competition to the next all but two times this season, Reive has high expectations for his team.
"If we just hit routines like we can and compete to the level these guys are capable of, we can make some noise," said Reive.


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As Lula's Sweet Apothecary closes to "reorganize."
After five years in business, the owners of Van Leeuwen are launching two vegan ice cream flavors: Bourbon & Tahitian Vanilla and Michel Cluizel Chocolate, made with organic coconut and pure cocoa butter. With Stogo's closing in November and Lula's Sweet Apothecary's ominous sign that it's "currently reorganizing," it's been a rough year for vegan ice cream lovers in the East Village area — a very specific demographic. Since Van Leeuwen prides itself on using fresh, local ingredients, these flavors should kill it. [Earlier, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream/Instagram]


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June 30, 2006 Same ride. I do that a lot.
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February 21, 2009 Same race, but more obvious that it's on a skating rink.
March 10, 2009 At a public consultation
May 13, 2009 Unwinding on the boat after some work on the rig.
November 4, 2010 Hunting. (No the gun in the foreground isn't pointed at me.)
January 22, 2011 Rolling around a sculpture I had built by climing around in it.
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eat Late-night festivities call for lighter fare—so how about swapping in Spanish tapas for the usual pigs-in-blanket appetizers? Pressler recommends seared chorizo, cheese boards, and patatas bravas (spicy potatoes)—all super easy and delicious. A variety of tapas (meat and veggie, sweet and savory) will ensure something for everyone. "Put some more interesting ingredients in recipes to personalize it and make it more memorable for your guests," says Pressler. In other words, have fun!
drink For the liquor bar, Duff says that pre-Prohibition spirits such as American whisky (especially rye) is on the rise. She notes that classic cocktails with base spirits such as gin, rum, and rye can be combined with modifiers such as amaro and sherry.
When it comes to wine, think big: Larger bottles will save a few bucks, but stick with domestics or Chiantis for jug wines and merlot for magnums. "You can mass produce merlot and it will still taste velvety," says Pollack. "A pinot grigio is a good choice for white magnums, because it has some flavor and isn't too dry."
be merry When decorating for an event like New Year's Eve, Roth says to think about the flow of the party. If you're worried about covering all the basics, Robertson's will send over a consultant to walk through your home and plan the décor from top to bottom. To ring in the New Year right, bring in colors that will last into the spring. For that, Robertson's also has plant vases, orchids, and miniature succulent gardens. See what else Robertson's Flowers has to offer!
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College Hockey:NCHC picks: Jan. 10
Thanks to picking the UNH sweep of Nebraska-Omaha and the Brown win over Colorado College, I now have a three-game lead over Matthew in our picks race. Last week, I went 3-0-1 (.875), moving to 58-37-13 (.597) on the year. A couple more good weekends and I'll be above .600! Matthew went 1-2-1 (.375) to move to 55-40-13 (.569).
Of course, there's a lot to go in the season, and it was only a month ago that Matthew had a three-game lead on me, so I better be extra psychic if I want to hold my lead.
Friday-Saturday, Jan. 10-11
No. 2 St. Cloud State at No. 17 Denver
Candace: St. Cloud had an outstanding first half, and this will be a key series for them to get off to a good start in the second half. Denver gets Will Butcher and Quentin Shore back from the World Juniors, and should be better than it was last week against Brown. However, Denver has struggled offensively all year. Both Denver and St. Cloud have outstanding defenses, ranking third and fourth respectively, but St. Cloud has better forwards. St. Cloud State 2-1, 3-1
Matthew: SCSU is the more complete team here, if we're honest. However, I'm sticking with my prediction that Denver's in for a big second half of the season, and I think they'll get something out of this weekend. Only getting a tie last time out against Brown wasn't so great, but I think the Pioneers will pick up a split here. St. Cloud State 3-1, Denver 2-1
Colorado College at North Dakota
Candace: CC is having one of its worst seasons ever, and the scoring continues to be nonexistent. North Dakota has been streaky at times, and freshman forward Adam Tambellini just left to play for the Calgary Hitman in the WHL. Tambellini only had four points though, so I don't think North Dakota's offense will suffer. North Dakota 3-1, 4-2
Matthew: UND ended the first half of the season very well and I think they'll carry on that form this weekend. CC's first road win of the season has to come somewhere, but I don't see it coming in Grand Forks. North Dakota 4-1, 3-1
Minnesota-Duluth at Nebraska-Omaha
Candace: The Bulldogs have been the split team of the season, splitting almost every series. Picking the right night is difficult in this one though. Usually, UMD wins on Saturday, but with UNO missing coach Dean Blais and defenseman Jaycob Megna, I'm thinking it will be the opposite. Minnesota-Duluth 3-2, Nebraska-Omaha 3-2
Matthew: This has "split" written all over it. These are two fairly even teams – and especially Friday with Mavericks coach Dean Blais and defenseman Jaycob Megna still out with suspensions – and I don't see UNO sweeping the Bulldogs like it did at CenturyLink last season. Minnesota-Duluth 3-2, Nebraska-Omaha 4-2
No. 13 Miami at Western Michigan
Candace: Western Michigan did well in winning the Great Lakes Invitational, but I don't know if the Broncos can stop the high-flying Miami offense. This will most likely be a split, but I'll go opposite Matthew and pick Miami to sweep. Miami 3-2, 4-2
Matthew: It feels a bit like going out on a limb, but I'm taking Western Michigan to sweep here. The Broncos looked good in winning the Great Lakes Invitational after Christmas, and Miami has underwhelmed all season so far. Western Michigan 5-3, 3-2
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RAYON SPORTS Association management is planning to establish a basketball club which will feature in next year's basketball league.
Theogene Ntampaka, the Chairperson of Rayon Sports Association confirmed the development on Friday last week, saying, "We found it necessary to have a basketball team named after Rayon Sports so as to keep up with our mission of promoting unity and togetherness of Rwandan people as well developing sports in the country,"
"Sport is an important tool to help us achieve the goal of togetherness. Basketball team alongside the football and volleyball clubs is the right channels through which our Rwandan values will be progressively unearthed,"
"We are about to set up a managing committee for Rayon Sports basketball club and secure its budget as to avoid future negative repercussions which are always caused by financial straits that hinder most clubs from flourishing," he added
Rayon Sports basketball club will be the twelfth club in the top flight basketball league of which Espoir BBC is the defending champion.
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'Ascension' exhibit, paintings by Linamen, opens Friday in Asheville
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 11:58 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 11:58 a.m.
"Ascension," an exhibit of paintings by UNC Asheville senior Katie Linamen will open with a reception at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 in UNC Asheville's Owen Hall, Second Floor Gallery.
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Sporting 1
Xandao 51
City 0
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- 08 March 2012 19:54
- Posted by David Clayton
City will need to overturn a one-goal deficit a week on Thursday if they are to progress to the quarter-finals of the Europa League after a 1-0 defeat to Sporting Lisbon.
The Blues went close on at least five occasions, but couldn't find the back of the net and eventually fell behind to Xandao's improvised back-heel finish on 51 minutes, sparking feverish celebrations from the home support.
City now face a tricky second leg, but at least will have Yaya Toure available again, though skipper Vincent Kompany may be missing after limping off in the early stages.
Roberto Mancini made seven changes from the team that beat Bolton 2-0 last weekend. Most notably, Aleks Kolarov was drafted in at left-back and Gael Clichy switched to right-back with both Micah Richards and Pablo Zabaleta out with injury.
Edin Dzeko was restored to the starting line-up and Kolo Toure began his first game for 10 weeks at the expense of Joleon Lescott.
Sporting may be having a rocky season in their domestic league, but they were unbeaten in nine European games going into this match, eight of which were victories, so this was always going to be a difficult encounter
...Sporting 1 City 0
Yet City began the brighter with crisp passing and fluid movement, though the loss of skipper Kompany after just eight minutes with what looked like a calf injury was a major blow – Lescott replaced him and took the skipper's armband, too.
Just five minutes later and the Blues were scratching their heads as to why they weren't in front when Kolo Toure's header looked a certain goal, but was agonisingly saved by the toes of keeper Patricio.
Then Gareth Barry whipped a Robin van Persie-type left-foot shot inches past the post from 20 yards as City tried to get a lead and vital away goal that would tip the balance heavily in their favour.
However, that was as good as it got for the visitors in the first-half as Sporting steadily grew in confidence, inspired by Chilean midfielder Manuel Fernandez, who was causing numerous problems with his trickery and vision.
The second period began where the first had left off with Lisbon threatening to break the deadlock – and six minutes in, they did exactly that
...Sporting 1 City 0
Joe Hart failed to hold a 30-yard free-kick and centre-half Xandao was on hand to brilliantly back-heel the ball into the net and send the home fans wild.
It had been coming and, as we've seen before, the Blues look a different team when Kompany and Yaya Toure are not on the pitch.
Kolarov's brilliant 25-yard curling effort very nearly drew the Blues level, but moments later van Wolfswinkel missed a golden chance to double Sporting's lead when he shot weakly at Hart with the goal at his mercy.
Mario Balotelli and Samir Nasri were brought on as Mancini tried to pep a misfiring attack and Balotelli made an instant impression, outrageously flicking the ball across to David Silva who stabbed the ball inches wide.
And Balotelli came closest to finding an equaliser when he headed against the bar from a Silva corner with just three minutes remaining as City finished strongly – Sergio Aguero also had a great chance to score in injury time but saw his effort cleared by a defender after poking it past the keeper.
All in all, it wasn't to be on the night, but trailing by just one goal, the Blues must still fancy finishing the job off at the Etihad Stadium in a week's time.


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Mizel Museum
The Museum is open:
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Thursday 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Sunday 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
We are closed on Saturday.
National and Jewish Holidays are observed.
Adults $7
College Students/Seniors $4
Youth ages 6-18 $3
Children under 5 free
The Mizel Museum is located on the southeast corner of South Kearney Street and East Dakota Avenue, four blocks west of Monaco Parkway and one block South of East Alameda Avenue.
Babi Yar Park
Babi Yar Park is open for public use from 5:00 am until 11:00 pm.
Admission to Babi Yar Park is free.
Babi Yar Park is located northwest of the intersection of East Yale Street and South Havana Street in Denver. The Park has a parking lot located off of Yale Street which allows for easy access to the memorial.
Call us to schedule a tour for your group or class at either location. Tours can be customized to explore specific themes and enhance curriculum.


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LOS ANGELES - Senior Andrea Harrison and junior B.B. Bates each had three-hit games, the Bruins drew nine walks and sophomore Jessica Hall picked up the win in the circle with five innings of four-hit relief, as #17 UCLA defeated #13 Arizona 7-2 on Saturday at Easton Stadium.
The Bruins improve to 35-15 overall and 11-9 in Pac-12 play, while the Wildcats fall to 32-16 and 9-11 in league action.
Bates and Harrison combined for six of the Bruins' eight hits. Six different hitters had a walk, including two from senior Samantha Camuso and sophomore Alyssa Tiumalu, who also each drove in a pair of runs.
Hall improved to 18-10 on the season, striking out four and giving up one run, four hits and three walks in five innings. Freshman Ally Carda started and pitched two innings, striking out one and allowing one run, two hits and one walk.
Arizona got on the board in the second. Shelby Pendley led off with a single to right and moved to second on a sacrifice by Lini Koria. Jessica Spigner was then hit by a pitch and both her and Pendley advanced a base after a ground out. Kristen Arriola followed with a single off Carda's glove that trickled to the 5-6 hole, as Pendley scored to make it 1-0.
The Bruins took the lead with a pair in the third. With one out, freshman Stephany LaRosa walked and moved to second on a ground out. A single to left for Bates and a walk to senior Dani Yudin loaded the bases for Camuso, who also drew a free pass to tie the score at one. Tiumalu then walked to force home Bates with the Bruins' second run.
UCLA tacked on one more in the fifth. Harrison led off with a double to left, Bates walked and both runners moved up on a sacrifice by Yudin. Camuso then lifted a sacrifice fly to center to bring in Harrison to make it 3-1.
Just as they did on Friday, the Bruins busted it open in the sixth, sending 10 to the plate and scoring four. Sophomore Kellie Fox walked to open the inning and moved to second on a sacrifice by sophomore Talee Snow. Senior Katie Schroeder then slapped a ball to the right side. Arizona pitcher Shelby Babcock fielded it, but Schroeder beat the throw and when Babcock's toss eluded the first baseman, Fox rounded third and scored to make it 4-1. After a walk to LaRosa, Harrison singled to right to plate Schroeder for the Bruins' fifth run, as LaRosa took third on a fielding error by right fielder Alex Lavine.
A single for Bates to left brought home LaRosa to make it 6-1. One out later, Camuso walked to load the bases and Tiumalu was then issued another bases-loaded free pass, as freshman Sam Duran, who was running for Harrison, scored to make it 7-1.
The Wildcats scratched across a run in the seventh. With two outs and a runner on second, Brigette Del Ponte scored Karissa Buchanan on a single to right to make it 7-2. But Hall, who struck out three of her four batters in the third inning, retired Koria on a ground out to end the game.
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College Hockey:Commentary: Good teams know how to respond to poor outings
There are games in a season that can be season-changers. They are games you should have won but lost, and they sent you in a downward spiral. Or they're games that you won despite overwhelming adversity — statement games that propelled you ahead.
When you see a lot of college hockey, the chance to see one or two of these games increases and last Saturday was the latest in a series of those games. They look like just another game on the schedule but they have had pretty unique potential to affect the big picture.
Start with Saturday night in East Lansing, Mich. A night after what was a dreadful game by Miami, a game in which their defense was soft and their goaltending substandard, the RedHawks coaching staff reacted. Saturday night they dressed 15 skaters, scratching defensemen Will Weber and Cam Schilling and penciling in only nine forwards.
It was outstanding, a move that even if they had lost was the absolute right call by Enrico Blasi to wake his team up. Coming off two losses at Ohio State and two home wins against 11th-place Bowling Green the RedHawks were undone on Friday by a Michigan State team that worked hard and seemed to score on every shot.
Blasi had a major crisis on his hands because with the RedHawks out of the top 11 in the PairWise Rankings (where they need to be to guarantee an at-large berth to the tourney) he needs wins and he might have to win out in the CCHA tournament. Desperation time was at hand and he placed the season in the hands of three players: Carter Camper, Andy Miele and Pat Cannone. He entrusted the game to Connor Knapp in goal and he answered the bell with a shutout.
These battle-tested senior centers, as good a 1-2-3 set of centers college hockey has seen in a decade, rose to the occasion. Cannone gave Miami shift after shift of extra effort and consistency. Camper found big shifts in a game where Michigan State kept a little closer on eye on him. And Miele scored yet another highlight-reel goal and skated and played as if the season were on the line.
Knapp gave Miami saves when it needed them and shook off a poor relief performance the night before. The bottom line was Blasi set off a bomb in his dressing room post game Friday night and the survivors of the blast rebuilt the town and kept it thriving.
That sends us to the other CCHA team that needed a wake-up call after a road loss Friday, and that was Notre Dame, the latest team to lean that Ohio State is once again playing for keeps.
The Domers were routed Friday by the Buckeyes and also needed a response. Coach Jeff Jackson discussed the game and felt Notre Dame didn't play all that badly, allowed the captains to have a players-only meeting, and made two lineup changes. Feeling that Friday was more about average goaltending and bad bounces, he let the effort from Friday morph into a better all-around game Saturday and the Irish responded.
That sets up the game of the night in college hockey this Friday as the RedHawks travel to South Bend for a matchup with the Fighting Irish (7:35 p.m. EST, CBS College Sports). The teams both are explosive offensively and rank in the top 10 in the nation in scoring. Notre Dame has three scorers with double-digit goals, and Miami has five. Both teams have defense corps that get involved in the play.
It is a game that, despite the high places they each hold in the CCHA standings, is almost a must-win for both on several levels coming off last weekend.
Moving through the CCHA, another game stands out.
This one happened in relative obscurity. While the outdoor game was going on in Ann Arbor last month, the game of the night turned out to be indoors in Kalamazoo. On a night the first Broncos Division I team was being honored the current one was saving its season.
Lake Superior State won the Friday night contest big. Western Michigan was up 2-1 at home midway through and had outshot Lake State 12-1 in the first period. The Lakers opened it up midway through the second and, despite being outshot 29-19 for the game, won it 5-2.
The next night Western stayed the course and despite a 1-0 deficit entering the third period (and a great game in goal by Kevin Kapalka of Lake State) the Broncos came back. They scored on a delayed penalty and then on the ensuing power play for a 2-1 lead and won 4-1. It was a terrific game, hotly contested, and had pretty good up-and-down action in a raucous Lawson Arena. Since then, Western Michigan has played nine games, won five in regulation and two of four others in shootouts. They currently sit in a three-way tie for fourth place in the CCHA.
Over in Hockey East, the Maine Black Bears put out some fires after a 7-1 thrashing at the hands of Merrimack. As it has done in recent weeks, Maine lost a game, got angry, regrouped and won its next game. After blowing a 3-1 third-period lead to New Hampshire at Alfond Arena, the Black Bears took it out on Massachusetts winning 4-1. After a hellacious travel excursion to Fort Myers, Fla., for the Florida College Classic they lost to Miami and the rebounded to beat Cornell in OT. Then came the Merrimack disaster.
Maine licked its wounds and hosted Providence in its next game and won it on a Friday night. Next came a Sunday night game on national TV against the defending champs from BC, and Maine got on the Eagles early and often. They chased two-time national champion goalie John Muse from the nets with a 4-0 lead and won 4-1. They overcame a 2-0 deficit at Northeastern this weekend for a 3-3 tie.
It was the second time Maine needed a big win to right the ship after a bad loss. Early in the season after a 3-2 loss at Michigan State, a game where the Spartans outplayed them in many areas, Maine needed a win. The Black Bears came home to play second-ranked North Dakota on national TV and thrashed the WCHA heavyweights 7-2 en route to a weekend sweep. They went 5-0-1 in their next six.
UNH had a similar situation, and despite it being early you'll see that the game was a big one. The Wildcats faced an October/November schedule from hell. They started out with a back-to-back Frozen Four team, Miami, in a two-game set in Oxford. They dropped the opener 6-3 in a game on national TV. The next night they Wildcats beat Miami 6-3, responding very well to a somewhat lethargic game the night before.
Following that game they went 6-0-3, winning at Cornell, at BC and against BU, which was a top-three team at the time. They tied Michigan, Northeastern and Massachusetts. Then they lost to BU on Nov. 20 and after that responded with a 6-1-1 run. Those are two examples of games won by UNH after a loss that sent them off on major runs.
Response to adversity is the name of the game in sports and in life. It will continue to be a theme as we head toward the postseason.
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Andrew Kuykendall is an LA based commercial photographer- I like his vintage washed out soft palette and use of polaroids in high fashion spreads. Oh and the pug, above. (Ziggy in a hundred years?)
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death is certain
http://themudbucket.blogspot.com Jesse Lu
I LOVE skinny girls with no tits. Wait, no. Actually I don't.
Ugh I'm so bored with the Twiggy thing. A picture of a semi naked girl close to anorexia in a cheap hotel room is not art.
but that's just my opinion, sorry Suicide Girls.
http://sashamlee.com Sasha
For being fashion editorial, I think there's definitely beautiful qualities to Andrew's work, in particular his palette, use of polaroid and film, soft lighting and kitsch surroundings. To me its a nice departure from skinny girls with no tits photoshopped in high-light studio situations with body make up, but that's just me.
http://www.vimeo.com/9815886 bw
Have a look behind the scenes of a recent shoot Andrew Kuykendall did for BMM Magazine out of Italy. The video was shot and edited by fellow collaborator Jean Pierre Caner, all on Hi8 for that gritty sexy feel.
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The worst day as your own boss beats
the best day in a cubicle, but no one would ever
say that it's easy.
Exit can drive future
How you exit corporate also may play a role in your
ultimate success as an entrepreneur.
While conventional wisdom gives the edge
to those who depart voluntarily, a pink slip actually
can work for you, according to Kathy Marshack, a psychologist
and author of "Entrepreneurial
Couples: Making It Work at Work and at Home."
"Anger energy is pretty motivating," she points out. "Sometimes when you're really angry, you're going to prove something, and you can use that energy to motivate you to work really hard and show those terrible former employers how wonderful you are."
Corporate detox
Regardless of how you leave corporate, you'll likely face a period of adjustment that may last weeks, even months. Paradise likens it to the loss of a loved one.
"Some go very quickly from one to the other with a very brief grieving. They say, this is reality, this is life, this is what needs to be done, I'm going to do it," he says. "Others need time for the grieving process, for self-assessment, to define a skill set and get up and running."
Marshack says laid-off workers tend to need extra time to pick up the pieces.
"Getting a pink slip can be pretty demoralizing," she says. "You have to get past the grieving and the anger that you've been treated unfairly."
Giving yourself time is OK, as long as you don't succumb to inertia. Marshack urges you to take baby steps.
"It's kind of like depression," she says. "With depressed people, all they need to do is get up and start walking, and then you add one piece and pretty soon they have things rolling."
Details, details, details
Once you begin walking down the post-corporate road, starting your first venture can seem maddeningly difficult.
You're just coming out of an emotionally
draining experience, you're facing the blank canvas
that is your future, and you may suddenly be confronted
with a seemingly endless number of little things that
you don't know how to do -- make copies, run a fax machine,
maybe even type or work on a computer. At the very time
you need to marshal all of your forces, it seems you're
being pecked to death by ducks.
"When you leave a prestigious position and you start your own company, probably at a much smaller level where you're doing everything you used to delegate to other people; it's strange," says Marshack. "It generates anger."
Paradise agrees.
"It can be very tiring. It's a different kind of work. Your whole self is involved in it, and often people work at it 24-7," he says.
"Unlike the corporate life, where they may leave things when they get in the elevator, the boundaries between work and personal life gets blurred," notes Paradise. "That blurred line is helpful because it brings a lot of energy, but it can take a lot of energy if people forget to live, as well."
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