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The Cats actually practiced only once on Monday, unlike the first two days when the squad endured two 90-minute sessions in the morning and one in the late afternoon.
"We did a lot of good work today," UA coach Dick Tomey said. "We spent a lot of time on special teams. I always feel good when we work hard on special teams, especially early in camp. We put in some (schemes) that should pay off down the road."
Arizona's special teams blocked eight kicks in 1998, plus had a kickoff return for a touchdown, led the Pac-10 in punt returns and was among league leaders in kick coverage.
Arizona still has eight days left in its camp at Cochise College near here and will spend three more days of the stint with multiple walk-throughs, using considerable time to develop some of its younger players, Tomey said.
During the afternoon's hitting session in helmets and shoulder pads, the Cats' defense appeared to have a strong showing against Arizona's offense, a school record-setting unit in 1998 with 445 yards per game.
Tomey cited junior starting defensive end Joe Tafoya as one of the team's hidden keys. "He plays a position which doesn't pile up the statistics like tackles and sacks, but which is so vital to our defense. As far as what we do -- he's the guy. He's one of our best players and his determination is incredible."
Tomey described the Cats' camp -- a lot of work on basics -- as a normal approach. "We're trying to get ready for the whole season. In ten days or so we'll focus on Penn State (the team's opener Aug 28), but now we want to work on a fundamental base, temperament and attitude. Our approach is the same as it's been almost every year," he said.
Notes: Senior wide receiver Brad Brennan, fresh off rehabilitation for ankle surgery in the off season, suffered a setback in one drill when he pull up with a hamstring injury. He's expected to miss practice for an unknown period of time... The Wildcats' early rankings attracted some national coverage on Monday. A crew from ESPN's College Game Day show spent eight hours in camp to shoot interviews for its Aug. 28 coverage from State College, Pa., plus reporters from California and Washington newspapers showed up to gather material for feature stories... Some newer faces have appeared to move up the depth charts, including junior college transfers Austin Uku and Kevin Barry, a defensive end and offensive guard, respectively, and freshman tailback Leo Mills.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State signee Holly Ward was named the Alabama Gatorade Softball Player of the Year according to an announcement from the organization on Thursday. Ward, who played for the Haleyville High School varsity squad since seventh grade, signed with the Bulldogs in November and will begin her MSU career in August of 2014.
"I am thrilled for Holly," Mississippi State head coach Vann Stuedeman said. "This a big-time achievement and she is an elite player. We are extremely excited to have her wearing the Bulldog jersey the next four years."
Ward, who carried the Lions to back-to-back Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 4A state championships as a sophomore and junior, guided the team to a third-place finish this spring. During her final campaign, she posted a 25-9 record to go along with a 0.80 earned-run average and 335 strikeouts in 219.1 innings. She surrendered only 66 hits.
Not limiting her skills to just the pitching circle, Ward hit .432 with eight home runs and 64 runs batted in during her senior year.
"Ward is a terrific presence on the field and on the mound," Hamilton coach Patrick Sutton said. "She has a lot of velocity and multiple pitches. She hits her spots and she never gets rattled."
The 2012 and 2013 state tournament most valuable player, Ward earned a spot on the 2013 Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) Super All-State Team and was the only non-senior of the 10-member squad after going 27-9 with a 0.89 ERA in 250.2 innings.
A First-Team ASWA All-State selection as a sophomore and junior after earning an honorable mention nod as a freshman, Ward also received 2013 MaxPreps First Team Medium Schools All-America honors. She proved to be a dual threat as a junior, batting .419 with 67 hits, 50 runs batted in, 27 doubles and five home runs while also fanning 310 batters from the pitching circle.
Away from softball, Ward has maintained a 3.82 grade-point average. She has assisted as the co-editor of her school's yearbook, volunteered locally on behalf of the Red Cross, the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program and served as a youth softball instructor.
The Gatorade Player of the Year recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field.
Ward is now a finalist for the Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year award announced in June.

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There are things that scare us- snakes, love handles, our DVR not recording The Bachelor. And then there are things that SCARE us- enter wrinkles, age spots or any sign of getting older. When you're in your 20s and 30s starting an anti aging regimen isn't exactly on the list of things to do. Luckily, the Obagi 360 system is here to prevent the visible signs of aging and leave your skin clean, fresh, and glowing
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The Whiteside County Animal Control in Illinois is investigating the heartbreaking death of a young dog apparently left in a kennel cage in the backyard of a home the owner moved out of over a week ago reported whotv.com.
According to neighbors, the one-year-old, gray pit bull's body was found curled up in his cage on a small blanket; his food bowl was empty. Snow had settled on his body.
During the previous week, the dog's owner estranged wife had called Animal Control and told authorities the dog was being neglected in the basement of the home. When Animal Control went over to investigate, no one was home; they left a note stating:
"NOTE: We also spoke with a neighbor who stated the person was moving out but he had not seen the dog since before winter."
A caretaker sent over to clean up the property made the tragic discovery.
Neighbors were extremely upset and said they would have gladly taken the dog and found him a new home.
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Junior Dougie Palacious won the triple jump with a GVSU Big Meet record of 15.13m (49-07.75).
Feb. 8, 2013
By Tyler Wooten
ALLENDALE, Mich. -- Saluki track and field broke two meet records en route to two event wins on Day One of the GVSU Big Meet at Grand Valley State on Friday.
Senior Zach Dahleen won his third mile run in three attempts by nearly five seconds with a time of 4:00.46, breaking the GVSU Big Meet record by over two seconds. Dahleen's time is thirty tenths of a second off his personal best (4:00.16, Mar. 2, 2012, SIU's indoor mile record), and currently brings him up from 46th to 21st nationally in the mile run for the 2013 season.
Dougie Palacious won his fourth triple jump title of 2013 with a final leap of 15.13m (49-07.75), breaking the Big Meet record by four inches. The Bahamian native broke into the top-50 nationally in the triple jump, currently sitting at 48th.
Southern placed five throwers in the top-five in the men's and women's weight throw and shot put against stiff competition.
On the women's side, the Salukis were led again by senior Kim Fortney -- who finished third in both the shot put and weight throw. Fortney -- who is ranked 20th nationally in both events -- competed against Illinois State's Brittany Smith, who is ranked in the top-five in both events. Also placing in the top five in the weight throw was DeAnna Price (fourth place).
SIU placed fourth in both the men's shot put and weight throw. Freshman Josh Freeman -- nationally ranked 20th in the shot put -- threw 17.43m (57-02.25) for fourth place in the shot put. Sophomore Bradley Sauer -- nationally ranked fourth in the weight throw -- also placed fourth in the weight, falling behind Michigan State's Antonio James and Lonnie Pugh, who are both ranked seventh and eighth behind Sauer, respectively.
Also placing in the long jump was senior Eric Reeves, who leaped 6.96m (22-10.00) for fourth place, his fifth top-five finish this season.
Southern's sprinters had an impressive day, placing four runners in the top-five. Matt Benes (60 meter hurdles, 8.17, fourth place), Ryan Sidwell (400m dash, 48.42, fifth place), Tess Shubert (200m dash, 25.02, 13th place, PR; 400m, 55.62, fourth place) and Amiris Warren (60m, 7.58, fifth place; 200m, 24.95, 11th place) all turned in impressive performances, as did the Saluki 4x400m relay squads -- who both posted season bests.
Saluki distance runners also had a good first day at the Big Meet. Sadie Darnell (3000m, 9:52.42 PR, sixth place), Evan Ehrenheim (5000m, 14:49.75 PR, 21st place), Kelley Gallagher (Mile, 4:58.58 PR, 13th place) and Lacey Gibson (5000m, 17:11.75 PR, 15th place) all posted personal bests, and sophomore Mobola Rotibi (800m, 2:12.89, fifth place) posted the highest finish for the distance runners on Day One.
Day Two of the GVSU Big Meet begins at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.


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Adobe Shockwave tSAC Chunk Invalid Seek Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityTPTI-10-10: August 24th, 2010
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
Vulnerability DetailsThis vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Shockwave Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within DIRAPIX.dll which is responsible for parsing the Director movies, a RIFF-based file format. The code directly uses a value from the file while seeking into a heap buffer. The process then attempts to write a NULL byte to the seeked address. By specifying a large enough value for this field, an attacker can force the process to seek beyond the allocated bounds of the buffer. This can be leveraged by an attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the web browser.
Vendor ResponseAdobe has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
Disclosure Timeline
2010-08-11 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-08-24 - Coordinated public release of advisory


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Tunic, Type M1944, Liaison Pilot, 82nd Airborne Division, United States Army
The Type M1944 tunic also known as the "Ike" Jacket was an American adaptation of the British issued battle dress blouse. By the end of the war the M1944 replaced the longer Type M1939, M1940, and M1942 style coats.
This tunic was worn during World War II by an unidentified Liaison pilot of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Donated by Capt. David O. Hill
Physical Description:
United States Army 82nd Airborne Division Liaison Pilot's Type M1944 "Ike" Coat: green/chocolate olive drab wool waist length jacket; two breast flap pockets with box pleat; open lapels; five hidden buttons down front; button cuffs; front snap tab at waist; attached take-up buckles on each hip; epaulets with silver Captain's rank insignia on each shoulder; ribbon bar with World War II Victory Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and American Campaign Medal ribbons over left pocket; Presidential Unit Citation ribbon over right pocket; French Croix-de-Guerre lanyard over right shoulder; brass Field Artillery crossed cannon insignia on each lapel; brass "U.S." insignia on each collar; red, white, and blue embroidered 82nd Airborne Division insignia on left shoulder; two yellow embroidered overseas service stripes on left cuff.
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- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Uniforms: Military
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- Overall: Wool, cotton, brass, silk, plastic
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Saturday, July 26, will be a special day at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, with the dedication of the main stairway of the soon-to-be opened Vallarta Conservatory of Mexican Orchids. The dedication will be in memory of Mexican orchid researcher Roberto González Tamayo (1940-2014), who dedicated much of his life as a professor with the Guadalajara University Institute of Botany.
The event, which starts at noon, will bring together family, friends and colleagues of Mr. González, along with the general public, who will take in the magnificent new research facility, scheduled for completion later this month. A hand painted memorial tile will be installed and words will be shared in celebration of the botanist's life, the significance of Mexican orchids, and the importance of their conservation and public display. Gonzalez' fieldwork resulted in the discovery of several new species, especially in the orchid family, along with subsequent appearances in several scholarly publications.
Complimentary punch and cookies will be served following the event, which is free to those who bring a printed entry ticket, which can be obtained at botanical.interticket.com/search.php, with the following coupon code: 26jul14gonz. Considered one of Puerto Vallarta's most important attractions, the Vallarta Botanical Gardens is popular with locals and visitors, for its immediacy to the city and for providing access to the region's varied tropical flora and fauna. For more information, please contact Linda Asencio by email at email@example.com or call (322) 223-6182.


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Of all its specialized features, the muscular trunk is the most remarkable it serves as a nose, a hand, an extra foot, a signaling device and a tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, digging and a variety of other functions. Not only does the long trunk permit the elephant to reach as high as 23 feet, but it can also perform movements as delicate as picking berries or caressing a companion. It is capable, too, of powerful twisting and coiling movements used for tearing down trees or fighting. The trunk of the African elephant has two finger-like structures at its tip, as opposed to just one on the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
The tusks, another remarkable feature, are greatly elongated incisors (elephants have no canine teeth); about one-third of their total length lies hidden inside the skull. The largest tusk ever recorded weighed 214 pounds and was 138 inches long. Tusks of this size are not found on elephants in Africa today, as over the years hunters and poachers have taken animals with the largest tusks. Because tusk size is an inherited characteristic, it is rare to find one now that would weigh more than 100 pounds.
Both male and female African elephants have tusks, although only males in the Asiatic species have them. Tusks grow for most of an elephant's lifetime and are an indicator of age. Elephants are "right- or left-tusked," using the favored tusk more often as a tool, thus, shortening it from constant wear. Tusks will differ in size, shape and direction; researchers use them (and the elephant's ears) to identify individuals.
Although the elephant's remaining teeth do not attract the ivory poacher, they are nonetheless interesting and ultimately determine the natural life span of the elephant. The cheek teeth erupt in sequence from front to rear (12 on each side, six upper and six lower), but with only a single tooth or one and a part of another, being functional in each half of each jaw at one time. As a tooth becomes badly worn, it is pushed out and replaced by the next tooth growing behind. These large, oblong teeth have a series of cross ridges across the surface. The last molar, which erupts at about 25 years, has the greatest number of ridges but must also serve the elephant for the rest of its life. When it has worn down, the elephant can no longer chew food properly; malnutrition sets in, hastening the elephant's death, usually between 60 and 70 years of age.
The African elephant's ears are over twice as large as the Asian elephant's and have a different shape, often described as similar to a map of Africa. The nicks, tears and scars as well as different vein patterns on the ears help distinguish between individuals. Elephants use their ears to display, signal or warn when alarmed or angry, they spread the ears, bringing them forward and fully extending them. The ears also control body temperature. By flapping the ears on hot days, the blood circulates in the ear's numerous veins; the blood returns to the head and body about 9 F cooler.
The sole of the elephant's foot is covered with a thick, cushionlike padding that helps sustain weight, prevents slipping and deadens sound. When they need to, elephants can walk almost silently. An elephant usually has five hoofed toes on each forefoot and four on each hind foot. When it walks, the legs on one side of the body move forward in unison.
Sometimes it is difficult for the layman to distinguish between male and female elephants as the male has no scrotum (the testes are internal), and both the male and the female have loose folds of skin between the hind legs. Unlike other herbivores, the female has her two teats on her chest between her front legs. As a rule, males are larger than females and have larger tusks, but females can usually be identified by their pronounced foreheads.
Females mature at about 11 years and stay in the group, while the males, which mature between 12 and 15, are usually expelled from the maternal herd. Even though these young males are sexually mature, they do not breed until they are in their mid- or late 20s (or even older) and have moved up in the social hierarchy. Mature male elephants in peak condition experience an annual period of heightened sexual and aggressive activity called musth. During this period, which may last a week or even up to three to four months, the male produces secretions from swollen temporal glands, continuously dribbles a trail of strong-smelling urine and makes frequent mating calls. Females are attracted to these males and prefer to mate with them rather than with males not in musth.
Smell is the most highly developed sense, but sound deep growling or rumbling noises is the principle means of communication. Some researchers think that each individual has its signature growl by which it can be distinguished. Sometimes elephants communicate with an ear-splitting blast when in danger or alarmed, causing others to form a protective circle around the younger members of the family group. Elephants make low-frequency calls, many of which, though loud, are too low for humans to hear. These sounds allow elephants to communicate with one another at distances of five or six miles.


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Exclusive: Lil Mama Talks Her Mentors Will And Jada Pinkett-Smith, Would Collaborate With Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim [Video]
While in L.A., rapper Lil Mama chopped it up with HipHopWired on a number of topics including her absence in music fueled by the unexpected death of her mother, her role as a judge on America's Best Dance Crew and her relationship with Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Unbeknownst to many, the femcee is very close to the Smith clan and credits them for being her mentors.
"Jada Pinkett-Smith is a true mentor in my life. She gives me encouragement, she pushes me[...]Her and Will, I can honestly say that they've been very encouraging and they've been like family to me."
She also added that if she could remake Angie Martinez, Left Eye, Missy and Kim's hit "Ladies Night", she'd be sure to include all the iconic female emcees of our generation.
"[MC] Lyte, Kim, Nicki Minaj, Foxy Brown, Lauryn Hill--she'd probably have to kick it off."
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VRG Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, was interviewed about vegetarianism for the San Jose Mercury News and for The University Daily Kansan, the University of Kansas student newspaper. Also, she was interviewed for an article about vegan infants in the New York Daily News and for an article about the protein needs of vegetarians in Vegetarian Times. In September, her article, Vegetarian Diets: Good For You! was published in AV Magazine, the magazine of the American Anti-Vivisection Society. Both Reed and VRG Nutrition Advisor Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, RD, were interviewed by Natural Health magazine for a story about low-carb diets for vegetarians in October. VRGs Food Service Advisor Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD, CCE, did an interview about healthy cooking for Thanksgiving on WOLB-AM 1010, an African-American radio station in Baltimore. She also did several radio interviews about healthy, vegetarian holiday cooking in the Los Angeles area.
VRG Nutrition Advisor Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, RD, was a featured speaker at the annual School Food Service Directors Conference sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education in Athens, Georgia, October 19-21, 2004. Sues session explored issues concerning the addition of vegetarian options to school meals. She presented results of an in-depth, national survey of school food service directors that focused on practical advice for food service managers who want to include more vegetarian foods on school menus. Survey data was collected and compiled over the summer by Christina Niklas, a VRG summer intern and masters degree student in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago. We will share these findings with VJ readers later this year.
In addition to Sues presentation, VRG provided nutrition education materials and samples of Vegetarian Journal and VJs Foodservice Update to the 225 food service directors in attendance. VRG also provided copies of Vegan in Volume, Meatless Meals for Working People, and Simply Vegan as raffle prizes at the conference.
VRGs Food Service Advisor Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD, CCE, wrote her quarterly Chef on Call column about entertaining with healthy, gourmet vegetarian foods. She also continued her syndicated column on healthy produce and a column on gourmet produce that appears three times each month for the Orange County Register (California). In addition, in late January she did a seminar for the National Association of College and University Food Service (NACUFS) in San Diego on purchasing and utilizing vegetarian ingredients for college and university students. In February, she did two presentations, one on kosher and vegetarian cuisine for KosherWorld, a conference, in Los Angeles and one on food service sanitation and vegetarian menu concerns for the L.A. County Food Bank.
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To the untrained eye, your Aunt Judy's homemade candle business must be thriving. Her ads are on every website you visit! But you know that Aunt Judy doesn't have a huge ad budget, so how can she be getting ad space on so many websites?
Simple, Aunt Judy is using the online marketing technique called retargeting (also known as remarketing).
Retargeted ads are banner ads from one company, which shows up on another website's ad space, after you've visited the first company's website. For example, if you visit your Aunt Judy's candle website and then go to the New York Times homepage, you might see an ad for Aunt Judy's candles on the homepage. Seems crazy right? Nope, that's the beauty of retargeting.
How Does Retargeting Work?
To get started, you first drop a small bit of code into your website (this is generated from the ad service provider you use, more on this later). If you don't know how to do this, find someone who knows a little about HTML. It's a really easy cut and paste task, just like adding Google Analytics code. Like Google Analytics, your visitors won't know the code in on the site.
Now every time someone new comes to your site, your site will now drop an anonymous browser cookie. The next time you go off to another website, the ad service will know and it will know to display Aunt Judy's ad to you.
Retargeting only works on websites that use a particular company's ad network. So you can't expect to see your ad on the New York Times, if the New York Times doesn't use the same ad network as you do. But the major ad networks will have relationships with many different websites, giving you lots of value.
Why Does Retargeting Work?
Retargeting is effective because it offers two major benefits. First, retargeting can increase brand awareness and recognition with repeated views of an ad. The mere-exposure effect, or the familiarity principle, is the psychological phenomenon when we develop preferences toward things based on things we're familiar with. Thus giving retargeted ads value, even if someone doesn't click on the ad.
Secondly, retargeting will also drive repeat traffic back to your site. The increased touch points through these repeated visits can convert more sales. More sales will improve your ROI and make everyone happy.
The Most Popular Types of Retargeting
Within the retargeting tactic, there are several options a marketer/advertiser can use. The two most popular types of retargeting are site and social media retargeting.
Site retargeting is probably one of the more popular forms of retargeting, simply because it's broad and easy. It's the example I used above. Site retargeting displays an ad after an individual leaves your website.
Social media retargeting is becoming a very useful tool as well. While site retargeting uses an ad network to find websites, social media retargeting only focuses on your social networks. Therefore, don't be surprised if you see ads on your Facebook page that are from companies whose sites you just visited.
Retargeting Allows You To Segment Your Ads
An additional benefit of your retargeting campaign is that you can segment your audience in four different categories. This provides great context for your ads, to your audience.
General Visitors - Anyone who visits your website.
Specific Product Visitors - Product visitors have browsed your site and decided to visit a specific product. You know what they were looking for.
Abandoned Shopping Cart Visitors – An abandoned shopping cart is a strong sign that visitor wants to make the purchase. You just need to get them over the edge with a little more exposure.
Previous Customers – Getting someone to buy from you is easier after they've already purchased from you. By targeting previous customers, you can remind them about new products.
How To Get Started With Retargeting
Creating your retargeting campaign isn't rocket science. There are companies out there; focused on helping you build your retargeting campaign.
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After Google, there are smaller options like AdRoll and Perfect Audience. These companies partner with different online ad platforms (i.e. Facebook Exchange, Google) and deliver your ads to millions of internet users.
These companies' tools are compatible with content management systems like Wordpress, Magento, and Shopify (plus more). The best part about these companies is that they work with varying budget sizes. No need for a $50,000 minimum ad buy.
When you're planning out your marketing strategy or reassessing your goals and tactics, I strongly advise you consider retargeting as an option. The increase in awareness, sales, and brand preference make it a valuable tool. Don't wait any longer; start taking advantage of retargeting today.


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Johnny Boychuk signs a 7-year, $42 million deal with the Islanders
Cam Lewis
March 12 2015 02:41PM
Well, the 2015 Unrestricted Free Agent market for defencemen just got a lot weaker. The Islanders and defenceman Johnny Boychuk agreed to a seven year, $42 million contract extension, so a cap hit of $6 million. Sorry Oilers fans, the dream is dead.
The NHL awards according to our polls — part 1
Cam Lewis
March 09 2015 08:00AM
Public opinion is fun, so I decided to poll our users to see who they thought would be most likely to take home the league's individual awards at the end of the season. Let's take a look at what our fellow users thought about the Selke, Vezina, Hart, Calder, and Norris Trophies.
First Star, Worst Star: March 8, 2015
March 08 2015 07:41PM
Trade deadline has come and gone, teams are making one last surge for a playoff spot, and impact players are dropping like flies. First Star, Worst Star is as healthy as ever though!
The Roundup
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March 06 2015 06:15AM
All your post trade deadline news, Maple Leafs drama, Giordano's Norris chances squashed, the Oilers GM, new players on new teams and more in this week's Roundup.
NHL Trade Deadline Notebook: Western Conference
Anthony Petrielli
March 05 2015 09:38AM
Trade deadline day gets of all the attention, but it's the moves an NHL general manager accumulates over the course of an entire season, the sum of it all, that matters most.
Below is a team-by-team breakdown of all the trades each Western Conference club has made throughout the course of the year.


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Description: uncertain, a circular ditch, possibly a pond on the common; there were trial excavations by the Newbury and District Field Club 1930-1934
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UMass Athletics Announces National Girls And Women In Sports Clinic
Jan. 31, 2013
National Girls and Women In Sport Clinic Registration Form
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts Athletic Department announced a Sunday, Feb. 3 sports clinic geared toward girls ages 12 and under, held in conjunction with the National Girls and Women In Sports Day. UMass Minutewomen programs, including soccer, field hockey and rowing, will provide a free activities clinic for young women at Boyden Gymnasium beginning at Noon.
Interested parties can sign up at 11:30 a.m. in Boyden or fax in the linked registration sheet to UMass Athletics at 413-545-3077. A group discount for the women's basketball game against Temple on Feb. 3 will be offered to those who sign up for the clinic, with tickets for the contest costing only $2 per person. More information is also available through the UMass marketing staff at 413-577-7252.
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For Students
Service-Learning is an exciting way for students to apply course material in a real-world setting and/or to address real-world challenges through academic coursework. Here's some more information about what students can expect from their service-learning experience: What, Where, When, Why
What: There are two primary parts for students, service and reflection. Students serve with community partners in pre-established roles and projects directly aligned with the course learning objectives. In addition to serving, students complete academic assignments that engage them in critical reflection. This occurs in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to): class discussions and debates, written assignments (blogs, discussion board posts with peer responses, synthesis papers, etc.), and individual or group presentations. Here are just a few examples of past service roles and projects:
- teaching English to speakers of other languages (Advanced Spanish 2 students serving with Roxse Homes)
- coordinating an advocacy campaign and an associated press kit (Advocacy Workshop students serving with The Home for Little Wanderers)
- facilitating a modified exercise program for seniors (Psychosocial Aspects of Healthcare Seminar students serving with the Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center)
Where: Boston-area community partners are either in walking distance or accessible by public transportation from NU's main campus. Additionally, global community partners exist in Costa Rica, Benin, India, and Spain for select courses that are part of the Dialogue of Civilizations program, as well as other countries as more courses are developed.
When: Students can engage in service-learning experiences as early as their first semester at NU and all the way through their graduate studies (varies by department, program and discipline). Service-Learning is a semester-long process and experience. Typically, students serve from 2-10 hours each week, which is balanced with the rest of the workload for the course by the faculty member.
Why: Students benefit from service-learning in a variety of ways, ranging from personal growth to academic advancement and professional experience. Some benefits include, but are not limited to:
- Apply course material to real-world issues; bring the curriculum to life
- Increase awareness of the local community
- Build resume and skill sets; gain hands on skills related to academic/professional area(s) of interest


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City and T.M.Lewin strike tailor-made deal
- 13 August 2014 12:00
- Posted by @MCFC
The Barclays Premier League Champions are delighted to announce T.M. Lewin as the Club's new Official Formal Wear Partner.
The two-year partnership will see the leading British shirt maker and tailor provide the official team suits, shirts and ties for Manuel Pellegrini's men.
Players including Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko will wear the bespoke suits while traveling to UEFA Champions League games across Europe and at any cup finals through the season.
As part of the deal, T.M. Lewin shot a 1950's inspired campaign featuring Sergio Aguero, Fernando, Jesus Navas and Gael Clichy donning their new Perry Suits.
City supporters are also being encouraged to show off their sartorial style and football skills in a new T.M. Lewin social media campaign.
Titled Suited and Booted, lucky Blues' fans are being asked to upload an image or video of themselves looking sharp, in order to not only win a weekend away for them and three friends up to the value of £2,000, but also head-to-toe outfits from the T.M.Lewin Autumn Winter Range too.
Commenting on the partnership, Chief Business Officer for Manchester City, Tom Glick, said: "Like Manchester City, T.M.Lewin is a brand steeped in history and innovation.
"Renowned for their outstanding craftsmanship and quality, they are not only a much loved British tailor, but an international label also with stores in Europe, Singapore and Australia.
"We look forward to working together at home and abroad during the coming seasons."
...Tom Glick - Chief Business Officer, Manchester City FC...
T.M.Lewin CEO, Geoff Quinn, added: "We are delighted to be adding Manchester City to our portfolio of sporting partnerships. To be working with the Premier League Champions is a particular honour and we look forward to helping the squad maintain their world class image off the pitch, during what we are confident will be an exciting and successful season for them."
A dedicated partner of great British sport, T.M.Lewin also dress the England men and women's cricket teams, Irish FA and Welsh Rugby Union.


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The Wind Music Of Brett Abigana
By Tim Reynish
One of the most entertaining works at the 2009 WASBE Conference was Petite Overture by Brett Abigana, played by Logan High School Wind Symphony conducted by Ramiro Barrera. I wrote:
There are two works from this opening concert on Sunday which I would like particularly to hear again. The first was Petit Overture by a member of the theory staff at New England Conservatory, Juilliard and Boston trained Brett Abigana, an energetic and engaging all-too-brief three minutes. If you enjoy Ticheli's Blue Shades you will probably enjoy this, and I am intrigued to know what his other works are like, Soliloquy for Band written for the Pioneer HS Wind Ensemble, Miserere for large symphonic band, chorus and narrator written for California State University and Suite Fantastique. Its time to commission some more music from Brett Abigana
After Conference, Brett got in touch, let me know about his other works for wind, and recently sent a couple of CDs of wind orchestra and wind chamber ensemble works. His is a very personal voice with a natural feel for the wind ensemble and choir, and his work so far should be far better known and more widely performed.
Petite Overture is a bright, breezy, short opening number of tremendous energy, immediately captivating. It is based on the fourth movement of his String Quartet Une Grande Messe; the words for this movement are Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth, and in its all too-short three minutes, it captures the joyous abandon of a dance of religious extasy.
The first of three superb works written for the United States Naval Academy Band and its conductor Brian Walden, Chorale and Blaspheme is a pair of contrasting movements, the first an almost impressionistic development of an opening three note phrase, the second Abigana describes as an exploration of a violent and explosive motive that attempts to expand the conventionally accepted ranges and capabilities associated with the wind ensemble.
In his oeuvre there are two works entitled Sketches on Paintings. The first is for Wind Quintet, and the impressionistic writing at the start of the second is so spare in its textures that I wondered at first whether I was listening to a wind quintet again. But no, Abigana unlike so many American colleagues, uses the full range of wind ensemble coloring, from a couple of solo instruments to the glorious full orchestra. This work is superb, a worthy complement for that other great wind ensemble work inspired by painting, Karel Husa's Les Couleurs Fauves.
Abigana's programme notes deftly catch the mood of each movement.
The first movement, Claude Monet - Water Lilies, is an exploration of sonorites throiugh the ensemble reminiscent of the famous triptych first viewed by the composer at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. Edgar Degas - L'Étoile is a whimsical, dream-like waltz to which ghostly ballerinas in the painting may be dancing. Jackson Pollock - Lavender Mist is a quasi-minimalist piece written specifically to follow the erratic yet graceful movement of the painter as he ceated his works, as seen in numerous videos of his process. Joseph Turner - Norham Castle: Sunrise is a seemingly un-moving contrapuntal fantasy on a simple tapestry of chords meant to evoke the suspension of time and misty lack of clear definition in the painting.
Misere is an ambitious and superbly successful twenty-eight minute choral work of great power, combining three opposing forces to communicate its message: the chorus which is dedicated to the words asnd some direct quotes from Allegri's setting of Miserere, the narrator which takes us through Whitmam's disturbing and bloody environment, (from his poem The Wound Dresser... a depiction of his time spent as a volunteer in the Military hospitals in Baltimore and Brooklyn during the height of the American Civil War) and the wind ensemeble which offers commentary and clarification to each while tying all components together.
It is a powerful indictment of war, but at the end of his programme note, Abigana writes: It must be said that while this piece is somewhat direct in its message, this is in no way a statement of mistrust or lack of support for our troops stationed aboad. Perhaps Lt. Gen Harold Moore said it best "Hate war, but love the American warrior".
I found the piece quite compulsive, the end one of the most moving passages in the repertoire. Anyone wanting to essay a shorter work by this composer with voices would be well advised to look at Omnes Gentes, written on commission from the United States Naval Academy, a nine minute work with chorus, organ and antiphonal trumpets, on a text from Psalm 47, also set by Giovanni Gabrieli. Asked to fill the space of the newly restored Naval Academy Chapel, the inspiration of Gabrieli is clear, the result thrilling. It is good to know that the US Naval Academy has invited the composer to expand this into a 40 minute symphony.
His most recent work, The Masque of the Red Death, was commissioned by the Woodland High School Wind Ensemble and premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2010. It is an 8 minute tone poem, based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, of a masquerade ball repeatedly interrupted by ominous bells which lead to the appearance of an apparition dressed as the Red Death, a fatal epidemic which has ravaged the countryside. The piece presents as a slightly misguided waltz which can never really reach its zenith and is constantly interrupted by strange and disturbing sounds.
The electronics in this piece are sampled from various sounds and words recorded by the ensemble for whom the work was written, and subsequently manipulated, affected and distorted by the composer. The works is written for a stereo mix but can be adapted for 5.1 surround sound as well.
To listen to a recording by the Summer Music at Stanislaus Concert Band depress control and left click on the following link:
Suite Fantasque
(Symphonic Band)
(Large Symphonic Band, Chorus and Narrator) - Commissioned by California State University Stanislaus Wind Ensemble and Choirs, Stuart Sims and Daniel Afonso, cond. Premiered May 15th, 2008.
Soliloquy for Band
Commissioned by the Pioneer High School Wind Ensemble, Bobby Rogers, cond. Premiered in Spring, 2007.
Chorale and Blaspheme
Commissioned by the United States Naval Academy Band, LCDR Brian O. Walden, cond. Premiered February 26th, 2009 at Mischer Hall, Annapolis, MD.
Sketches on Paintings no. 2
Commissioned by the United States Naval Academy Band, LCDR Brian O. Walden, cond. Premiered February 26th, 2009 at Mischer Hall, Annapolis, MD.
Petite Overture
Commissioned by the Logan High School Wind Symphony . Ramiro Barrera cond.. Premiered at WASBE Conference, Cincinnati, July 2009.
Omnes Gentes (Symphonic Band, Antiphonal Trumpets, Chorus and Organ)
Commissioned by the United States Naval Academy Band, LCDR Brian O. Walden, cond. to commemorate the restoration and reopening of the Naval Academy Chapel. Premiered October 21st, 2009 at the US Naval Academy Chapel, Annapolis, MD.
The Masque of the Red Death
(with electronics) Commissioned by Woodland High School Wind Ensemble and premiered at Carnegie Hall, 2010.


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On Wednesday May 8, MLS reported that Sacha Kljestan may be on his way back to the league. Kljestan is currently a midfielder for Anderlecht, a club in Belgium's first division, and it is this season's current champion. Of course, this rumor should be taken lightly, because any good USMNT player in a European league, is always rumored to have his grand return. However, with Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley returning recently, then maybe a return for Kljestan may not be too far off.
The report states Kljestan wants to return to Los Angeles Galaxy specifically. This may be an issue if he is looking for Designated Player (DP) money, because LA Galaxy currently has three DPs and would have to release one. Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane and Omar Gaonzalez are LA Galaxy's DPs, and all three players are crucial to the club's performance. Also, another bump in the plan would be that per MLS rules Kljestan will be subject to allocation order and Toronto FC will have first dibs. Of course, LA Galaxy could work something out if it truly wants him.
Seeing how Kljestan is a Huntington Beach native, a city not too far out from Los Angeles, it makes sense for him to want to return to Los Angeles. This makes LA Galaxy the prime choice, because it is currently the better LA club. Although, it would be great for him to return to his former club Chivas USA, but it may be more work seeing how it is going to transfer ownership at the end of the season, and it too has three DPs already.
Regardless of which club he ends up on, if Kljestan returns to MLS, he will be a great addition to the league. The more quality American players the league has, the better it will be.


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YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like "traditional" net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user's aural and clickable enjoyment.
Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
edited by Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer – GoApe, ISBN 390238901X
The complexity of the contemporary life has increased also because of the continuos necessity of becoming accustomed with new norms and then adapt consequently. This process is very similar to a new game rules' assimilation and to the elaboration of the related strategies. For this reason theludology, or the studies that analyze the games basing on their rules, is of great importance for the simple investigation of the atavic ludic mechanisms. It involves different cultural sectors and perspectives of the analysis of the real. This magazine is a precious independent voice, striking a discordant note compared to the suddenly established academic 'videogame studies'. From the pataphysics to the role and potential of the graffiti and tag in the videogame, till the 'real game', or the game played in the public urban spaces, there's a vast and free editorial perspective. It is pointed in different directions but with a common horizon, and it is framed in a 90s zine layout, comic size, using striking black and white contrast. Here the 'game rules' rise to the level of a vital paradigm, implicitly defining 'ludology' as an ironic social life science. Actually the game representation is used as a picklock to open the doors of contemporaneity to analysis and critics.


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|Braces, also referred to as orthoses, help children with cerebral palsy by stretching muscles that are usually over-flexed, and can be invaluable in aiding a childs mobility and ability. They are available for ankles, legs, backs, aiding a crouched gait, elbow contractures, flat foot deformity, feet, hands, with a Harrington rod, for hemiplegic legs, hips, knees, wrist contractures and scoliosis.
A brace may be made of metal, leather, plastic or a combination of these. Braces made of different materials require different care. Your childs orthotist and physician will give you instructions for keeping the brace in good working order. In addition to maintaining the integrity of the brace, proper care of the skin exposed to the braces is essential. Checking your childs skin for rashes, redness, blisters and open skin is needed, as it may be an indication of the braces function. If a braces does not fit right, if the child outgrows it or the materials in the orthosis have broken down over time, the device may not only be useless in helping your child, it may be hurting him. If you see any skin irritation you should bring your child to his or her physician and have him investigate the problem. Sometimes, however, it is a matter of hygiene and not a matter of the braces dysfunction. You can help your child and any possible skin irritation by always keeping the brace clean and in good working order.
Ankle-foot orthoses, or AFOs, are very common in children with cerebral palsy. It is worn for the purpose of stretching the Achilles tendon. An AFO can be quite helpful to children with hemiplegic involvement who are walking on tiptoe. The brace is applied if the foot can be brought to a neutral position. Children who wear AFOs should wear them during the day as they would their shoes. While walking barefoot after a bath or in the evening can do no harm, you might consider having the child wear them at night, even while sleeping, for stretching particularly tight muscles. There is always an adjustment period, usually several months after they receive their brace, that a child feels very uncomfortable wearing the brace, even though their posture and walking may have improved. During this period, encourage your child to wear it as much as possible to try to let him or her become acquainted with it. After this period, the brace will stop feeling unnatural and will begin to feel quite comfortable. If the child continues to complain about it, however, the AFO should be carefully checked, and adjustments may have to be made.
Braces for elbow contractures are widely used due to the general urgency some parents feel in addressing the contracture. In some cases, the elbow becomes so flexed that it can no longer be extended enough to cleanse the elbow crease, and a foul odor can arise from the moist area. Braces can be very effective in treating this, and usually will allow the muscle to relax enough that the elbow crease can be cleaned.
Back braces are used to help straighten up a child who is having trouble sitting up and, in some cases, to straighten the spine, which may be developing a deformity or already have one.
A tone-reducing brace, also known as an inhibiting cast, is usually applied to the leg or sometimes the arm to inhibit a specific motion. The cast is used to keep the foot in a position where the sole and heel touch the ground. By keeping the ankle from flexing, other movements are improved, and the elbows flex better, fingers move more easily, and spasticity decreases in the hips or knees. The inhibitive ankle-foot brace is also helpful in stabilizing the ankle for standing. The benefits of inhibitive casting are lost, however, when the brace is removed.
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Will Death Come Swiftly for Facebook?
The Fiscal Times
A study out of Princeton, which compares social media sites to actual viruses, poses a troubling conclusion for the social network.
A new study by researchers at Princeton University's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering gives a deeper meaning to the idea of "going viral" when it comes to social media. Using epidemiological models -- those used to study the spread of infectious diseases -- and
(NASDAQ:GOOG) search data, researchers John Cannarella and Joshua D. Spechler looked at the rise of social networks like
(NASDAQ:FB), where, they write, "adoption is analogous to infection and abandonment is analogous to recovery."
Their conclusion (see the PDF
) paints a dire prognosis for Facebook: The social network, which turns 10 next month, has passed the peak of its popularity and is already in decline. That idea may not be new given all the reports about how younger users are abandoning the service, but the speed at which the study expects Facebook to collapse is surprising and dramatic: "Extrapolating the best fit model into the future suggests that Facebook will undergo a rapid decline in the coming years, losing 80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017."
An illustration from the report.
So is Facebook, with nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users as of September 2013, really set to go the way of smallpox, and before the end of the decade at that? As Chris Gayomali at
Fast Company
and others point out, there are at least a couple of reasons to be skeptical.
First, the researchers tested their model by looking at another social network that actually did have a meteoric rise and fall: MySpace. "Obviously, Facebook has the luxury of MySpace's past missteps to guide its future growth," Gayomali writes. Where MySpace struggled to adapt under
News Corp.
(NASDAQ:NWSA) ownership in order to keep and expand its user base, Facebook has so far been better at updating and evolving its offerings.
While plenty of competitors are looking to wipe out Facebook's business and some -- like WhatsApp, Snapchat or
(NYSE:TWTR) -- have "
" Facebook among teens, no single replacement has yet emerged to kill off Facebook the way Facebook itself did to MySpace. The kids may be moving on, but mom and dad and grandma and grandpa have settled in.
Second, the use of Google Trends search data may have had more relevance when MySpace was hot, but it might not be the best way to judge the life expectancy of Facebook or any other social network these days when more and more people are logging in using apps on mobile devices. Facebook's global user base continued to climb even after its Google search interest started to slide.
The study in the journal
also hasn't been peer reviewed yet, so other experts may still find methodological or conceptual flaws. Investors, clearly, aren't too worried. Facebook's stock has soared nearly 90% over the past 12 months and remains near its 52-week peak. The company is set to report earnings for the fourth quarter and full year 2013 on January 29.
Editor's Note: This article by Yuval Rosenberg originally appeared on
The Fiscal Times.
For more from The Fiscal Times:
Robots May Breathe New Life into Art World
CES 2014: High-Tech Tracking Devices You Could Soon Be Wearing
Wearable Tech: You'll Soon Know Way Too Much About Your Friends' Bodies
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Feb. 22, 2004
PALM SPRINGS, CA - UCLA's final game of the Palm Springs Classic, against No. 6 Georgia, has been cancelled due to weather conditions. The game will not be made up.
Overnight ran in the Palm Springs area forced a minimum of a one-hour delay to the tournament schedule, and the Bulldogs could not wait the extra hour due to airline flights back to Athens, GA.
The Bruins will return to action next Saturday at Easton Stadium for the Stacy Winsberg Memorial Tournament. UCLA will face UC Santa Barbara in a doubleheader at 1 pm on Saturday, Feb. 28, and will play Long Beach State in a single game at 1 pm on Sunday.


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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
At the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital, the safest, most advanced surgical options for the treatment of congenital and acquired heart disease are available to children of any age, even the tiniest of newborns. Our pediatric heart surgeons have special expertise in complex and high-risk cases -- cases that in the recent past were considered inoperable. We treat problems early in an effort to reduce unnecessary complications that can arise as the child grows.
Advanced Treatment Options
Comer Children's cardiac surgeons perform the full range of surgeries to treat pediatric heart problems and congenital heart defects, including the arterial switch procedure, heart transplantation, and "redo" reconstructive procedures in teens and adults who have had prior surgeries for congenital heart disease.
Selecting the Best Treatment Method
Before surgery is considered, our specialists review all of the available options to determine the best treatment for your child's heart problem. In some cases, children referred for surgery can be treated with catheter-based interventions--procedures that do not require cutting and sewing like surgery does.


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What is the derivative of $\ln(4^x)$ (which I believe is also equal to $x\ln4$)?
Is it $\dfrac{1}{x\ln4}$?
What is the derivative of $\ln(4^x)$ (which I believe is also equal to $x\ln4$)?
Is it $\dfrac{1}{x\ln4}$?
Recall that for $a>0$, we have $$\log(a^b) = b \log(a)$$ Also, note that $$\dfrac{d}{dx}\left( cx\right) = c$$ I trust you can finish it from here.
if your question is $ln(4^x)$ then its answer will be $\ ln4$ and if your question is $(\ln4)^x$ then use this formula $$\dfrac {d}{dx}a^x=a^x\cdot\ln{a}$$ so $$\dfrac {d}{dx}{(\ln4)}^x=(\ln4)^x\cdot\ln{(\ln4)}$$
Hint : $\ln 4^x=y \implies x \ln 4=y$
Since $\ln4$ is a constant. The derivative is simply the constant, i.e $\ln 4$
The thing you are supposed to understand here is that constants don't do anything to derivatives -- they just factor out of the expression. More precisely, we have for any function $f$ and a constant $c$ not depending on $x$ that $$ \frac{d}{d x} c f(x) = c \frac{d}{d x} f(x) $$ For example, since $\frac{d}{d x} (x^4) = 4x^3$, I can multiply by any constant and the derivative is just as straightforward: $$ \frac{d}{d x} \left[ 2.33\pi^2 \cos (4) \right] x^4 = \left[ 2.33\pi^2 \cos (4) \right] 4x^3 $$
This works since the $ 2.33\pi^2 \cos (4) $ is constant - it doesn't depend on $x$.
If you get this, you should be able to calculate derivatives like this easily.


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As most of us living in Acadiana already know, variety is the spice of life. And when it comes to the flavors in your beer, that's especially true. Beer is basically made up of four ingredients: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. Imagine if you can what your favorite beer would taste like with just malted barley, water and yeast. It would be insipidly sweet and very boring.
Even in the beginning of beer's long history, man added herbs to make his beer more interesting. But the beer didn't last long and had to be drunk quickly or it would spoil. The Benedictine Monks in the Abbey of Weihenstephan in Bavaria, outside Munich, were the first to use hops in their beer. Not only did the hops add a bittering effect and much flavor and aroma, it also had anti-microbial properties that helped the beer last much longer. That's why hops, and I mean a lot of hops, were added to beers that were sent from England to their troops and administrators in India. The extra hops allowed the beer to make the long sea journey without spoiling. I'm sure the highly bitter and aromatic beer took some getting used to. This same beer style was revived from extinction by American Craft Brewers and homebrewers and is now enjoyed across the globe. It is the beer we now call India Pale Ale. (IPA)
Most of the beer we drink here in the U.S. is based on beer brewed in England. But the end product has been "Americanized" with American ingredients. We use American malt, water, and hops with various brewing yeasts to make most of the beers we now drink. The same variety of hop vine grown in Germany or England will take on an entirely different flavor and aroma when grown in the Northwest region of the U.S. What the French call terroir is what makes these American version different. Different soils, nutrients, water, microclimate, etc. all work together to make these identical hop plants uniquely American. American hops are known for their floral and citrusy or piney character.
Cascade is arguably the most popular hop in America today. Cascade is a breed of hops developed in the U.S.D.A. breeding program in Oregon and released as an U.S. aroma variety in 1972. It originated from a cross between a female Fuggles hop and a male Fuggles hop with Russian Serebrianker hop parentage. The Cascade hops was named after the Cascade mountain range that runs through Washington State and Oregon. The aroma of Cascade is of medium strength and very distinct. It has a pleasant, flowery and spicy, citrus-like flavor and aroma. Cascade is used primarily for flavor and aroma, but can also be used for bittering effectively. One of the biggest uses for Cascade is for dry hopping American ales and lagers.
Many of the beers you enjoy, especially those in the West Coast style, are hopped extensively with Cascade. Probably the most widely available beer, and the one most people think of when they think of Cascade hops, is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. But there are many, many others available as well, quite a few available here in Lafayette. A small sampling of the beers that use Cascade hops are: Alaskan Amber and Alaskan ESB from the Alaskan Brewing Company , Anchor Liberty Ale and Old Foghorn Barleywine from the Anchor Brewing Company, Ellie's Brown Ale from Avery Brewing, Full Moon Pale Rye Ale from Real Ale Brewing Company, Full Sail Amber from the Full Sail Brewing Company, Harpoon IPA from Harpoon Brewery, Lost Gold IPA from the Real Ale Brewing Company, Mirror Pond Pale Ale from Deschutes Brewery, New Belgium Skinny Dip from New Belgium Brewing Company, Old Brown Dog Ale from Smuttynose Brewing Company, Otter Creek Pale Ale from Otter Creek Brewing, Red Hook Ale and Redhook Winterhook made by Redhook Ale Brewery, Rogue American Amber, Rogue Brutal Bitter, Rogue Chamomellow, Rogue Chipotle Ale, Rogue Chocolate Stout, Rogue Imperial India Pale Ale, and Rogue Imperial Stout made by Rogue Ales, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barley Wine,Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Sierra Nevada Stout all made by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, St. Arnold's Amber and Elissa IPA made by Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston, TX, Widmer Brother Widberry, Widmer Brothers Broken Halo IPA, and Widmer Brothers Hefeweizen brewed at Widmer Brothers Brewing. (Beers in Bold should be available in Lafayette at finer beer stores)
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The legend of Korra: Kaori OC by NekoshibaWatch
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Kaori and Mizu reference sheet
I decided to make this finally, I didn't want to in the beginning since I wanted to make a comic- but then I realized that would never happen.
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Kaori and Mizu reference sheet
Based on the sketches I made earlier, now with color!! So this took longer than I expected, but I went with the big Polar leopard! She just looked so sweet and precious. But I gave her a short tail instead of a long one.
I tried my best to make Kaori original, and make her look different from Katara and Korra. But all waterbenders look the same! They're so hard to be creative with. I did so much research and I studied main and background characters. So this was the best I could do.. It's normal for people from water tribe to have K and AW sounds in their names, so now you know why all water benders sound so alike! yays.
Mizu is just based on my love for big cuddly animals whom also can be used as transport! I wanted something adorable and believable canon-ish, and Sokka once mentioned having a pair of Polar leopard boots- so ta-da!
I decided to make this finally, I didn't want to in the beginning since I wanted to make a comic- but then I realized that would never happen.
Name: Kaori
Nickname: Kao
Age: 17
Nationality: Southern Water Tribe
Bending: water
Psychical traits: slim with regular musculature(no Korra man strength ! haha), agile, light on her toes, tiny.
Personality: sweet and friendly, she talks way too much way too often and she lacks basic feminine traits and etiquette. She can get very sarcastic and likes to poke fun at people.
Flaws and skills:
She is a rather skilled waterbender and can't imagine life without her bending, living in a small tribe at the south pole it's necessarily for survival. She never bothered to learn healing properly because she found it too hard and boring.
She is very agile and light on her feet, which combines in a interesting way with her bending. In combat she looks more like dancing air bender than a sturdy water bender.
She is totally helpless if she can't move her arms and if she is incapable of bending. which is why she wears a waterskin .
She comes from a tiny tribe far away from any other civilization on the south pole. Her father was the tribe chief who was left by her nonbending mother from the earth kingdom who wanted to go back to Ba Sing Se. It had little influence on Kaori who never really got to know her and had a stronger relationship with her father.
Her father always wanted a son to take over the role as chief when he passed, but he only got a daughter. At first he was angered by the girl he was given, but as she grew his love did too. And instead of keep complaining to the moon spirits about the lack of a son he decided to raise his daughter as one. It never bothered Kaori, her father also called her only by Kao- because it was more manly.
Kaori liked living a boys life and being taught fighting, hunting and bending with the 'other' boys in the tribe. People in the tribe also saw her as a boy, and she looked like one. It wasn't before Kaori reached her teens and went on her first trip to the earth kingdom she realized she was not like the other boys. She slightly turned more feminine in her style but kept her tomboyish personality and interests.
One of the reasons she decided to embrace her feminine part was because she broke a girls heart. As everyone else her childhood best friend thought she was a boy. In their early teens Kaori always felt weird because she didn't feel the same way about girls as the boys did, in fact she felt that way about the boys. Her best friend, a year younger non bending girl, developed a crush on her and confronted Kaori with her feelings. Unfortunately Kaori didn't feel the same way, and some time later her best friend had to move away to republic city with her family.
fuck I can go on forever
She met Mizu as a child when fishing outside alone. She was far away from the tribe on a kind of test her father had for her. It was about surviving for a x amount of time on her own without water bending. It's not really important why, the point is that she was fishing without any luck. She was hungry and tired, then she finally got something. A big juicy fish popped out of the hole in the ice and Kaori jumped in happiness. Before she could enjoy the moment any further a tiny Polar leopard cub jumped up and stole her dinner. It was thin and tiny and looked as hungry as her. Kaori was just a child in the end, and started to cry as the hunger growled. The Polar leopard felt bad and gave her the rest of the fish. Since Polar leopard cubs are never alone, she figured it was orphaned somehow and slowly but surely they became the greatest of friends by the time her quest was over.
She brought it home to the tribe, her fathered was furious about it and wanted to kill it. But Kaori didn't give in and in the end she got to keep it if she could guarantee everyone's safety and provide herself for food for the beast. ( It was still small, her fathered was worried about it growing up to a man eater. ) She is not the first to tame a polar leopard though, only in her tribe. They're very friendly and naive as cubs.
fucking hell I'll stop now before someone gets a heart attack from all this text.
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i love your leaped creature
Wow, this is a really detailed reference, plus she looks really cool!
man why couldn't korra's design be this? It so fun.
I really love this.
Reminds me a little of my Korra Oc, Illsie.
Reminds me a little of my Korra Oc, Illsie.
That is a bit too close to korra, try and making it look more like you!
such detail, i like it
Love the hair. And the Polar leopard.
Ahhhh this is so good *u* do you use a tablet? if so what one coz i really wanna do stuff like this and using ma mouse is waay too frustrating D':
Thank you *V* Yes I do <: I got a wacom intous 4, but any tablet will do- practise makes perfect! <:
how much would a comish like this be ? haha
I really like the design.
Although she reminds me too much of Korra...
Although she reminds me too much of Korra...
...mizu,eh..XDDD IMMA FLUFFEEH ANIMAL NOW!~;D
This is a GREAT design! love it!!
holy noodles this chara is perfect abvdajsvdjah
oooo i want a chara like this ^^
I love Mizu ^0^ I also love how you did her hair ^^
Her nickname means "face" in Japanese I think. xD
wow, awesome. she looks like a description of a oc of my fanfiction o; wish i could draw like you.
cool! There's nothing stopping you, just keep practicing ;v;
So cool
omg do you rp xD i really really want to rp with you x3
Of course I do ;v; I'm just bad at having time for them- haha.
cool, i think she is more prety than korra
omg mizu is sooooooo cute!!!
Your Character is so cool! Just had to make one for myself !!!!!
okay, thats reallllyy creepy. i made a bio for the charcter i made, and that was weeks ago. and her mother is water tribe, and her father is earth kingdom.. O.o


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Every Saturday I listen to your show, and I love it. The program on April 28 from Columbus, GA was especially enjoyable, since I'm a Southern girl. However, I couldn't believe what I was hearing when you started in on the episode about losing bowel control, and I could't believe how long it lasted. Why should a genius at telling a tale, an English major, on a public radio broadcast, resort to bathroom humor? I sincerely hope it doesn't happen again, and I hope other people let you know they didn't like it either.
I'm sorry my first and only "post" to you should be so negative, Garrison. Please don't do toilet material again! You're too good for that.
Helen C.
Tallahassee, FL
I'm not too good for toilet humor, dear. I don't ever want to be that good. If I were really really good, I suppose I'd be doing whispery interviews with theologians, but I'm in another line of work. I'm sure you're right, that the droopy-pants story went on too long, but I think there was beauty and grace to it. It was suggested by a commercial I heard on the radio on Thursday, advertising a pharmaceutical and then mentioning that side-effects could include "diarrhea, gassiness, and confusion". So in the story a guy took a drug for his spring allergies and wound up loading his pants every time he sneezed, meanwhile he stepped on a skate which stuck to his foot and he went racing down a hill, collided with a baby carriage, wound up with the baby in his arms, was nearly hit by a truck, and narrowly avoided being run over by a fast train. A Buster Keaton movie, with the addition of diarrhea. Not for everyone, surely. But there were ten-year-old boys in the audience who died laughing.
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I was in the audience in Columbus. The diarrhea bit was great (as was the whole show). A few blue-hairs might not have liked it, but if Garrison wrote to please them, we never would have heard of him.
I wholeheartedly DISagree with Helen, whose complaint reminds of the statement: If you don't like what you're hearing/watching, turn the radio/TV off.
I laughed so hard I nearly...well, I won't go any further.
The one highlight of my week is Saturday nights with PHC.
I'm with Helen, more or less. I'm not a big fan of the poop joke genre, and the bit went WAY too long. Maybe other people found it funny, I dunno. I just know I found it more disappointing than amusing. Sorry.
I was actually at the show and I nearly wet my pants.
The bathroom humor was crude, but we loved it! Of course my eight-year old in the backseat of the car really thought it was a hoot!
By the way, we are giving our eight-year-old tickets to your KC Show (June 22) for his birthday present. He is as big a fan of PHC as me and my husband are! You have fans of all ages!
Helen has a point. Take a look at Ruthann Cowell's "A Letter to Mr. Keillor" in First Person (Dec. 2006). She will move you to tears. The gentle sonorous voice that broke through her father's dementia, recalling him to himself in a happier time, wasn't telling diarrhea jokes.
I basically cannot eloquently enough describe, compared with your writing, how much I enjoy and appreciate your radio broadcasts. However, I will try. You most succinctly, eloquently, and with a phenomenal sense of humor describe situations everyone can relate to and appreciate. That is what I love about your shows and your writings, regardless what the topic is. I also am a Helen from the South, South Dakota that is, who appreciates humor that is actually "funny".
I was on the road with my 13-year-old son when we heard this bit. He's all of a sudden a huge fan and is demanding we listen to Lake Wobegon stories on our road trip this weekend.
Two votes for more poop.
I've been a listener/fan of PHC for as long as it's been on - how many years is that, by the way? In any case, the droopy pants was hilarious. OK, I'll admit I was surprised since that was a new one for you, but it was really funny, and it happens to all of us at one time or another!
I am a fifty-three year old female. Like many women of my generation and those before, I was taught to be inhibited about certain bodily functions and to turn my nose up (no pun intended) at scatological humor. Ironically, that's why this piece was so hilarious to me. GK, like most of your material, this piece allows us to look at our fears, inhibitions, idiosyncracies, etc.through humor; a lens that relieves us of having to take ourselves, oh so seriously. We are all, in the end, stuck with our human condition and will fill our pants in one way or another despite our best efforts at being perfect. Thanks for giving me one more reason to relax.
I went to GK's benefit show he did for the Springer last year. I remember a bit about a sermon and farting. Lots of farting. I reckon there must be something gassy about Columbus to Garrison. Perhaps he got a big whiff of the paper mill when he got here?
I have known that smell to stop the uninitiated in thier tracks...
I don't have blue hair, I'm still in the first half of my life, and I'm as strong as any Norwegian bachelor farmer, but I agree with Helen. As much as I love the show and the amazing talents of GK, I really cant stand it when the humor turns to the toilet stuff. Garrison, I hope you understand you are the antidote to a world full of that stuff. A radio full of cacklesome no-notings on the other stations are what drive me to a PHC. Thanks Helen for having the tact and class to bring it to GK's attention.
P.S. Getting out of eigth grade was liberating, please don't send me back on Saturday evenings.
Garrison has been doing toilet humor since Day 1 and I doubt he will stop now. It's part of the whole spectrum of what people laugh about, and he knows it.
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