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Stanford, Calif. - California sophomore Suzi Babos captured the 2006 NCAA Women's Tennis Singles Champion this afternoon at the Taube Tennis Center at Stanford with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Pac-10 foe Lindsey Nelson of USC to become the first-ever Cal women's tennis player to win the singles title. On the doubles end, Northwestern's Cristelle Grier and Alexis Prousis became the second Wildcat pair to win an NCAA Doubles Championship, capturing the title this afternoon with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Lucia Sainz and Katharina Winterhalter of Fresno State.
Babos took the first set over 18th-ranked Nelson, 6-4. But in the second set, Babos quickly jumped out to a 4-0, although Nelson held serve on the next game to cut the lead to three. Babos also held to go up 5-1, and broke Nelson for the 6-1 second set and match victory.
This was the first match in the NCAA singles tournament history that both players competing for the title have been unseeded.
Babos is the sixth sophomore in the 25-year history of the tournament to win the title and the 15th Pac-10 NCAA singles champion. She ends her singles season with a 32-13 overall record and a No. 27 national ranking.
Lindsey Nelson was just the second USC player to reach NCAA singles final, joining 1983 champ Beth Herr. She ends the season with a 25-9 record.
Grier and Prousis, who knocked off Stanford's top-seeded Alice Barnes and Anne Yelsey in the semifinals yesterday, posted their second straight-set win to snag today's title. The duo join Katrina Adams and Diane Donnelly, who won the NCAA title in 1987, to become the second Wildcat women to capture the doubles championship.
Grier and Prousis end their season on a 15-match winning streak for a 32-7 final record. Sainz and Winterhalter end their season with a 39-12 record, they were the first-ever Fresno State and Western Athletic Conference duo to reach the NCAA doubles final.


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Otzma Leyisrael Continues Fight Outside Knesset
Otzma Leyisrael failed to remain in the Knesset but continues to fight for its key issue – a strong Jewish Israel.
By Yoni Kempinski and A7 staff
First Publish: 3/22/2013, 11:55 AM
The Otzma Leyisrael party may have missed out on Knesset seats in the new government, but it continues to fight the battles nobody else is fighting, its members say.
The party is currently focusing on encouraging a tough stance on Arab terrorism and illegal migration, and a strong, positive Jewish national identity.

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Catalyst Remodeling | Our Story
In 2003, Eric Udelhoven, President of Catalyst Remodeling, who was president of a condo association, needed to find a remodeling company for the building that he was responsible for. Eric was also a project manager for a commercial construction company and had never needed to hire a home repair company until then. So using the experience he had as a commercial project manager, he began soliciting bids from various remodeling contractors. After two weeks of calling around and asking for referrals, he found 3 companies that were interested in doing the project.
The first contractor showed up 90 minutes late and never got back with an estimate. The second contractor priced the project unbelievably expensive. Finally, the third contractor gave a price that was in between the two, so Eric awarded the contract to the third contract. The typical process ensued; the contractor showed up took a deposit and wasn't heard from for four weeks. After repeated attempts to contact the contractor, Eric contacted the Secretary of State and other various entities to try to resolve the issue. Finally the contractor showed up and began the work with a team that did no speak English and had absolute disregard for the state they left the building in every day. In short, the experience that Eric had gone through left a very bad taste in his mouth. Click here to read more about Catalyst Remodeling; your Chicago Luxury Remodeling Company.
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10 Skills for Surviving Homeownership
From Dan Harding on January 26, 2009 in Tools and Tips
This Old House has guided and entertained us through eons of remodeling over the years. Ya gotta love 'em. Now, being the ever-so-pleasant helpers that they are, the brains behind TOH have put together a comprehensive list of skills for surviving the daily dilemmas of homeownership. Here are 10 skills that caught my eye, mostly for their simplicity and undeniable usefulness:
- Reusing paint thinner. After cleaning paint brushes in a wide-mouth jar, remove them and let the residue separate and settle to the bottom. Wait a few days, then pour the separated contents into a different jar, cap, and save for later use. Let the paint residue harden and discard.
- Fixing a hammer mark on trim. On a finished surface such as trim, poke the area repeatedly with a needle to create pores and drop several drops of water on it. Cover the area with a damp rag and iron it on the cotton setting. The absorbed water will evaporate and expand the crushed wood. In order to concentrate the iron's heat on the dented area only, place an upside down bottle cap over it. Repeat the process until the wood regains its shape.
- Repair a doorbell. A doorbell has three parts: the switch, the bell, and a transformer connecting the two. First check the wire connections in the switch. Touch the two wires together (the voltage is too low to be dangerous). If the bell rings then the problem is the switch. If nothing happens or a strange noise ensues, then check the bell. Clean it, inspect wiring, and make sure the hammer isn't bent away from the bell or jammed with dirt. If you still get nothing then the transformer is the problem. That will require an electrician.
- Securing a loose screw. Everyone has a screw loose once in a while. To fix it you need to fill in the hole. Use some kind of wood (matchstick, toothpick, golf tee, etc.) packed in tightly with the help of carpenter's glue. An improvement on that method is to use a 3/8-inch dowel: First drill a 3/8" hole. Cut off a small section of dowel, dab it with glue, and tap it into the hole until it is tight. Wait for the glue to dry then use a chisel or saw to cut the excess wood flush with the surface. Drill a new pilot hole and reattach the screw.
- Solder a copper pipe. Learning basic plumbing skills such as these can save you a lot of money. First make sure that the area to be joined is absolutely clean with no water or grit inside the pipes. Then…
- Deburr the inside of the pipe with a reamer and clean the outside with emery cloth.
- Apply flux to both pipes and fit them together. Where flux is, solder will flow.
- Hold a propane torch on one side of the joint until the flux begins to bubble. Touch the solder to the opposite side of the joint and pull the flame away. As you remove the flame the solder will naturally flow towards the heat, thus getting sucked all the way around the fitting.
- Wipe the joint with a damp rage immediately.
Clean stained grout. Believe it or not, grout can be cleaned even at its worst. Use a steam cleaner. This will bring just about any stain to the surface so that you can simply wipe it away. Apply a penetrating sealer after the fact to keep the grout stain-free.
Drill through tile without cracking it. The key to this trick is to grab a drywall screw and a hammer. Place the screw exactly where you'd like to drill and tap it lightly with the hammer. This will create a divot, penetrating the glaze. Put your masonry drill bit right into that divot and drill.
Avoid stripping a screw. Notice the clutch, or that sliding ring of numbers on your drill. It prevents the bit from turning when the drill motor feels a set amount of torque—less at lower numbers, more at higher numbers. Typically, set it low for small screws and high for large ones, although a low setting is good for drywall to prevent sinking the screw right through the paper.
Give your lightbulb a long life. A big reason why lightbulbs tend to die out suddenly with a flash and a pop is the little brass tab inside the lamp socket. If that tab is dirty or bent then it will interrupt the connection, causing the filament to flash on and off (too fast for us to see) and shortening its life. To prevent that, unplug the fixture or flip the breaker off. Then use a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean the tab. Give it a nudge with a screwdriver if the tab is bent; a cheap trick that is well worth it.
Fix a leaky faucet. The mother of all homeowner headaches is the leaky faucet. It often comes to wasted water, sleepless nights, and an expensive call to the plumber. But most of the time the problem is simply a worn washer inside the handle, an easy fix. First, turn off the water supply under the sink and stuff a rag in the drain to avoid losing any parts. Now take the handle apart by removing the screw cover, then the screw. Disassemble the stem and line up the parts on the counter in the order they came off (important!). Examine any rubber or plastic parts for wear or cracks and take the suspects into the hardware store to get an exact replacement. Reassemble and be done!
You can read all 47 skills you need to survive homeownership at thisoldhouse.com.
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Yesterday, Sunday, August 24, under beautiful Southern California skies at the Noguchi Gardens in Costa Mesa, the Pig Out 3.0 took place with a large crowd of happy guests. The event, a benefit for the Orange County organization Inspire Artistic Minds, featured 15 local chefs from top-notch restaurants and 7 top local bartenders. Bobby Navarro, founder of I AM, said after the event, "I think it turned out great. I think we had a lot of new things for us, the programming, the demos and the live auction part of it was all new to us and I think we did an OK job at it. We already have selected our Scholarship recipients for the next set of scholarships and they will be receiving their funds to complete their educational experiences".
The Inspire Artistic Minds program creates scholarship opportunities for those involved in the restaurant industry in Orange County to further their education, enhancing their career opportunities as well as benefitting the restaurants that they work for. Bobby described the type of person that they look for in the I AM program. He said, "We really try to target the individuals that are self motivated and personally driven, so we are looking for those people that are already going to those programs or have the intent of already doing those things, so us coming in and helping them with that is an unexpected bonus, as opposed to other scholarship programs that may pay for an individual to go before they may know exactly what they are trying to do, or pay for a program that they may not necessarily benefit from in the future. I feel that that's our biggest benefit".
Indeed, the crowd enjoyed demos from celebrity 'Hells Kitchen' Season 12 Chef Bev Lazo, and a knife demo. From Electric City Butchers, Chef Mike Puglisi held a demonstration on how to break down half a pig. After he finished, Chef Amar Santana and Chef Eric Samaniego joined him to auction off the various cuts of pork. The bidding at the live auction was fast and furious, with many guests bidding for the various cuts. Finally, an offer was made and then bid up, resulting in a $675 bid for dinner for four at Broadway by Amar Santana with guest Chef Eric joining along to help cook some of the meal.
Of course, the 'Guest of Honor' who the event was built around was the Templeton Rye Pork Project pig. This pig, one of only 25 available nationally, was a combined project of Templeton Rye Distillery in Iowa, an Iowan farmer of registered Duroc pigs and a Doctor of Veterinary Sciences who supervised the pig's diets. The pigs were fed as part of their diet, the rye mash left from the distilling process for the Templeton Rye Whiskey. Half of the 280 pound pig was prepared by Chef Amar Santana, of Laguna Beach's Broadway by Amar Santana, while the other half was carved and served as the pork that the lucky winners of the auction got to take home.
Guests were treated to some delicious pork based foods at Pig Out 3.0. Chef Nikki Starr Weyler of Mesa was serving pork two ways with cole slaw, the first a barbecued pork rib with a Kentucky Bourbon barbecue sauce and the second shredded rib tips with a South Carolina mustard-based sauce. Chef Amar Santana, with the featured Templeton Rye Pork Project pig, roasted and smoked it whole, serving tender roast pork along with crisp skin cracklings. Some of the pork he also used for one of the highlights of the tasting event, delicious pork and foie gras meatballs. These delicate, tasty meatballs were a delicious big bite and guests kept coming back for more.
Gaby, one of the head bartenders at Michael Voltaggo's excellent restaurant Ink in Los Angeles, had a long line of guests waiting for her popular Bloody Mary cocktail. Infused with some wasabi, the drink gave fans of spicy cocktails a great glass with some punch. Roy Hansen, of Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar in the Disneyland Hotel, made a marvelous tiki drink, doing double pours and then shaking and pouring from two shakers at a time. A pineapple leaf made a perfect garnish for this rum-based drink. Meanwhile, Broadway by Amar Santana's bartenders were showing their creativity with the Templeton Rye Whiskey. Their cocktail used a base of Templeton Rye, along with juiced roasted corn, lime and honey to create a smooth, delicious and unusual cocktail. Garnished with chili salt and ground corn nuts, it was also lovely to behold. Next door, at the Templeton Rye Whiskey booth, sample glasses were passed out to taste the pure drink. There was also a container of the actual mash that was fed to the pigs in the Templeton Rye Heritage Pork Project as an example.
Other booths from restaurants such as 320 Main, Haven Gastropub, A Restaurant and Clay Oven provided guests with other delicious tastes. Ways and Means Oyster House, Fireside Tavern and Pizzeria Mozza were among others that provided porcine delights. Chef Eric Sanamiego from the Little Sparrow Cafe made a pork ear Banh Mi sandwich, while 320 Main proved that a pork fat cupcake can be really, really delicious. Napa Rose also got in the 'spirit', making some delicious tequila craft cocktails.
Bobby Navarro explained about how the Inspire Artistic Minds program is helped by those who have earned scholarships from I AM. "That's a strong part of our event and program is that most fund-raisers call upon artistic industries so often, so we now have an opportunity to have a fund-raising event and then turn that fund-raising back into the people who support us", he said. He summed up Pig Out 3.0 by saying, "I think with the 15 chefs and the 7 bartenders and the support from the community, this is one of our strongest events, especially with the media attention that we've received, this is one of our best years yet. I'm really excited!".
Website for Inspire Artistic Minds: www.inspireartisticminds.org
Suggested Links
- Chef Amar Santana Interview: Upcoming PigOut 3.0 benefit, Templeton Rye Project
- Taste of the Nation Laguna Beach: food from celebrity chefs helps No Kid Hungry
- Broadway by Amar Santana give a cooking show experience along with great food
- Big Bite Bacon Fest at the Queen Mary was a delicious bacony time for all
- Anepalco's Cafe in Orange brings tasty Mexican and French influences together


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Sharp announces two 3D phones for Japan's Softbank network
Japan's Softbank network has announced two new 3D mobile phones from Sharp: The Galapagos 003SH and 005SH. Both phones has a 3.8" multi-touch 3D glass-free display (Sharp's own Parallax-Barrier display).
Both phones feature Android (v2.2), 1Ghz processor, Wi-Fi and GPS. The 003SH has a 9.6Mp camera (can record 720p videos) while the 005SH is a QWERTY slider with a 8mp camera.
Both phones will be released in early December 2010.
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The taste of buffalo wings and pepper poppers pair up in this appealing appetizer. It will disappear fast-so make a double batch, and have copies of the recipe handy. —Barbara Nowakowski, Mesa, Arizona
- 20 jalapeno peppers
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup diced cooked chicken
- 1/2 cup blue cheese salad dressing
- 1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce
- Cut peppers in half lengthwise, leaving stems intact; discard seeds. In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Pipe or stuff into pepper halves.
- Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 20 minutes for spicy flavor, 30 minutes for medium and 40 minutes for mild. Yield: 40 appetizers.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Originally published as Buffalo Wing Poppers in Country Woman November/December 2006, p27
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"An excellent appetizer. Huge hit every time I make them. Be ready to copy the recipe for your guests."
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"Have been asked to make them every time we have a pot luck on nights at work. Everybody loves them."
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"One of my favorite appetizers to make! Combines the taste of pepper poppers and hot wings- two delicious appetizers in one. So quick and easy to make!"
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"These were good. I cooked them for the full 40 minutes and they were still spicy butgood flavor. Very easy to make. I did cut the recipe in half as I had a small crowd. Worked fine."
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"Loved this recipe. Easy to make and they taste delicious. It reminds me of a buffalo chicken dip I make quite frequently. Never thought of piping into jalapenos. YUM!"


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Game 28 - vs Western Michigan (Kalamazoo, Mich.)Saturday, March 8 (1 p.m.)Live Stats: NIUHuskies.comVideo: NIUHuskies.comRadio: WLBK 98.9 FM; 1360 AM; NIUTube (12:45 p.m. pregame)Play-by-Play: Andy GarciaTwitter: @NIUscoresNIU TO HONOR SENIORS, CLOSE REGULAR SEASON VERSUS WMUIn its regular season finale, Northern Illinois will honor its seniors Alicia Johnson and Ashley Sneed while on the hunt for a No. 8 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament Saturday, March 8 versus Western Michigan. The Huskies and Broncos will tipoff at 1 p.m., Central, in the first game of a doubleheader at the NIU Convocation Center. The game will be aired live in DeKalb on WLBK FM 98.9 and 1360 AM.FOLLOW THE HUSKIES ALL SEASON LONGNorthern Illinois women's basketball can be followed in a myriad of ways throughout the season. Audio of all of NIU's games will be available for fans to listen to live and on-demand (subscription required). Play-by-play man Andy Garcia, now in his third year, will be on the call for the Huskies this season and is joined by former Huskie assistant coach Ethel Gregory during home games. Fans can also follow the team on Facebook and Twitter. Like "NIU Huskies" on Facebook and follow @GoHuskiesWBB and @NIUathletics on Twitter. Gameday updates and scores from all women's basketball games can be found @NIUscores.LAST TIME OUTThe Huskies hit the road for their final road game of the season at Ball State Wednesday night, looking to avenge a loss to the Cardinals on February 9 at the Convocation Center. NIU would dominate the run of the play for the opening eight minutes of the contest until BSU came back to take the lead with 10 minutes left in the period. The Huskies and the Cardinals traded blows for the rest of the frame, trading runs to close and extend the lead in the game, respectively. Ball State closed the half on a 7-0 run, capped by a layup at the buzzer by Cardinal guard Brandy Woody, to lead Northern Illinois at halftime, 35-27. Freshman Jazmine Harris scored 10 points in the first half.In the second stanza, the Huskies and the Cardinals continued to trade runs as BSU extended its lead to 11 and 15 in the period until NIU closed the gap to within two and three points. However, Ball State was red hot from behind the three-point line as it was 11-for-26 (.423) outside of the arc to defeat the Huskies, 67-57. NIU had three players reach double figures with Harris reaching the mark in the first half and finishing with 10 points. Junior Jenna Thorp led Northern Illinois with 14 points, going 4-for-4 from the field in the first half and nailing two baskets from behind the arc. Danny Pulliam rounded out the Huskie scorers with 12 points in the contest.#MACtion ON TAP FOR THE REGULAR SEASON FINALESaturday marks the final regular season games of the Mid-American Conference season with six games on the docket with tournament seeding implications on the line. Outside of the Huskies and Broncos matchup, Northern Illinois fans will want to follow the Eastern Michigan-Central Michigan contest in Ypsilanti, as well as the Toledo-Ball State game in Muncie, Ind. NIU is looking to capture a No. 8 seed and the right to host a first round contest in the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Monday, March 10. What is known is that NIU will play EMU. Where the game will be played, is still up for grabs.With a win over Western Michigan, a win by Toledo and a loss by Eastern Michigan, the Huskies would clinch the No. 8 seed and host the Eagles Monday --- Northern Illinois' only scenario to host a first round game. NIU would become the tournaments ninth seed with a Ball State victory, an Eastern Michigan victory at CMU or a Huskie loss to WMU. Updates on Northern Illinois' tournament seeding will be posted on NIUHuskies.com later Saturday afternoon.A TRADITION UNLIKE ANY OTHERSaturday's game will be the Huskies third-straight regular season finale against Western Michigan. In the previous two meetings, Northern Illinois was edged as WMU won in overtime in 2012, 66-64, and in regulation in 2013, 58-50. The Huskies had the last laugh in 2012, however, as they hosted the Broncos three days later at the Convocation Center in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament. NIU was up by as much as 25 in the contest, leading from start to finish to defeat the Broncos, 68-51. The MAC Tournament win over Western Michigan was Northern Illinois' last victory in the series.THANK YOU SENIORSThe Huskies will honor their two seniors, Alicia Johnson (Chicago, Ill./Von Steuben) and Ashley Sneed (Harvey, Ill./Thornton), prior to Saturday's game against Western Michigan. Both Johnson and Sneed have made over 100 career appearances for Northern Illinois and are the first two players in program history to play four years under fourth year Head Coach Kathi Bennett.REMATCH - HUSKIES AND THE BRONCOSSaturday's affair with the Broncos will be the Huskies second meeting with Western Michigan as NIU opened the month of February in Kalamazoo, Mich., in the first meeting. NIU was able to penetrate the defense, posting 62 shots but was unable to sink enough as the Huskies fell, 56-43.While the box score shows a start to finish WMU performance, the Huskies had their chances in the effort as a lot of Northern Illinois' shots went in and out of the rim. NIU finished the game 19-for-62 (.306) from the field in the game with Danny Pulliam making 5-of-11 shots taken for a total of 11 points. Freshman Jazmine Harris had the top field goal percentage in the affair with a 4-for-8 performance and eight points.SCOUTING THE BRONCOSWestern Michigan is 12-16 heading into the regular season finale with a clip of 8-9 in Mid-American Conference games. The Broncos showed a run of good form to close the month of February with three-straight victories over Ohio, Toledo and Eastern Michigan, however, WMU has been cold in the month of March as it has lost two-straight games to Ball State and at Central Michigan, but, is still 3-2 in its last five games. Prior to the three game winning streak, the Broncos lost three-consecutive games as well. Marquisha Harris has led the Broncos in scoring the last five games, averaging 20.8 points per game in that span. Western Michigan will host a first round game in the Mid-American Conference Tournament next Monday and can finish as high as fifth and as low as seventh in the final MAC standings.While Harris has had the hot hand as of late, Miracle Woods is the Broncos leading scorer with a mark of 17.0 points per game. Woods is also the team's leading rebounder with 7.5 boards per game, followed closely by Harris' 7.0 rebound per game mark. Despite having three players average six-or-more rebounds per game, Michelle O'Brien being the other (6.6), the Broncos are being outrebounded by opponents, 40-38. Point guard Alex Morton is averaging just over seven points per game, 7.4, and nearly four assists per game at a mark 3.9 helpers.THE POST IS STRONG IN YOUThe Northern Illinois forwards have been strong throughout the entire season but the consistency of their production has increased as of late as post presence is now manufactured off of the bench as well. The trio of Natecia Augusta, Jazmine Harris and Jenna Thorp have accounted for 48.6 percent of the teams points in the last four games (30.0 PPG) and 53.1 percent of the teams rebounds in that span (19.3 RPG). Harris leads the trio in averages in the last four games with 10.8 points and 6.5 rebounds, while Augusta is the second scorer at 10.3 points and 6.3 boards. Thorp is the median at 9.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.BOARDING AT A PREMIUMWhile its total was not its highest of the season, Northern Illinois had its best rebounding margin Wednesday night at Ball State since January 4 in the Huskies MAC opener against Ohio. Last time out against the Cardinals, NIU posted a +9 rebounding margin as it posted 34 boards to BSU's 25. Versus the Bobcats in the conference opener, NIU was +13 in rebounds, five shy of tying its season-high against Mississippi Valley State in the home opener on November 11, 2013. NIU set its season-high in rebounds against the Devilettes, grabbing 51 boards in the game.KEEPING TRACK - NIU IN RETURN GAMESThe Huskies are playing their seventh and final return game of the Mid-American Conference season Saturday versus Western Michigan, after starting their return schedule February 15 at Buffalo. After going 4-7 in its first round of games, NIU is 1-5 in return games thus far after defeating Toledo February 27 in overtime, 68-59. Most recently, the Huskies dropped a 67-57 contest at Ball State in the road season finale. As junior Natecia Augusta put it in an interview before the game Central Michigan on January 15, "one of our goals this season is to at least one game versus each of our conference opponents, or win both." THE PRIDE OF HINCKLEY, ILLINOISDespite starting off the season with an injury sustained during a preseason scrimmage that forced her to miss the first three games of the season, junior Jenna Thorp has had a career season for the Huskies in 2013-14. Her efficiency has improved as she has played an average of four fewer minutes per game than last season, yet she has set career-highs in field goals made (61), field goal percentage (.412), rebounds per game (5.5) and offensive rebounds (47).THE CENTURY CLUBLast time out at Ball State, senior Ashley Sneed made her 100th career appearance for Northern Illinois as she entered the game wih 13:29 remaining in the first half. She became the second Huskie to reach the 100-game plateau this season as her classmate, Johnson, surpassed the century mark January 29 versus Kent State at the NIU Convocation Center.WELL ROUNDED EFFORTJunior Natecia Augusta had a consistent Wednesday night at Ball State as she scored nine points and pulled down eight rebounds, falling just shy of her fifth double-double of the season. It was her 11th game this season in which she scored at least eight points and grabbed six rebounds.A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHINGJunior Amanda Corral did a little bit of everything at Eastern Michigan on March 2, despite being ill. While she only scored seven points against the Eagles, she was flawless from the free throw line, 3-for-3, with three offensive rebounds, three assists and a steal. PUTTING IN TIMEIn two of the last three games, freshman Jazmine Harris has recorded 22-or-more minutes in a game for the first time in her career. Versus Toledo, Harris played a career-high 24 minutes to surpass her previous long of 19 minutes against Northern Iowa on December 21. At Eastern Michigan, the West Allis, Wis., native appeared in 22 minutes of the game. In each of those games, Harris recorded the top-two rebounding performances of her career at nine and eight against the Rockets and Eagles, respectively.FOCUS. FINISH. EXECUTE.In the last six minutes of regulation and five minutes of overtime versus Toledo on February 27, Northern Illinois was white-hot from field shooting 11-of-14 (.786), including 3-for-3 from behind the three-point line to outscore Toledo, 28-12. Alexis Lindstrom was 2-for-2 behind the arc, including one trey in overtime while Amanda Corral nailed the other three-point basket in overtime. NIU was 5-of-7 (.714) in the final six minutes of regulation.OVERTIME - UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY FOR SOME HUSKIESThe Huskies played its first overtime game in almost two years last Thursday versus Toledo, last playing free basketball February 28, 2011 at Western Michigan, a 66-64 loss for Northern Illinois. After a dominating finish for NIU, the Huskies defeated UT, 68-59, to earn their first overtime victory since November 16, 2011 versus Western Illinois in double overtime, 91-84. Of the nine Huskies that played in the contest, three players -- freshmen Jazmine Harris and Ally Lehman, and sophomore Alexis Lindstrom -- had never played in an overtime game. Harris had four points in overtime, making two free throws and basket, while Lindstrom hit a three-pointer to kickstart an 8-0 run for NIU to start the period.JAZ FUSIONFreshman Jazmine Harris has had her ups and downs throughout the season but has been one of the Huskies most exciting players off the bench in 24 games this season. In the last five games, Harris has averaged 9.5 points per game for Northern Illinois as she has posted double-figures three times in the recent run of good form, scoring 14 points against Central Michigan on February 22, 12 versus Toledo on February 27 and 10 points in the first half at Ball State, her first double-digit scoring effort on the road this season. MORE BEBOPPIN' AND SKATTIN' WITH JAZAgainst Toledo, Jazmine Harris posted several season-highs in the game as she played a vital role in the Huskies first victory over the Rockets since 2011. Harris pulled down a season-high nine rebounds, seven off the defensive glass to set career-highs in both categories. The freshman also played 24 minutes in the 45 minute overtime contest, surpassing her previous longest outing of 19 minutes against Northern Iowa on December 21.POUNDING THE PAINTThe Huskies have had their tendencies this season and scoring down in the paint has been a strength of the team. Through 27 games this year, NIU has averaged 25 points in the paint per game. 21 times this season Northern Illinois has accumulated 20-or-more points and has scored 30-or-more five times. The Huskies had their second-best performance in the paint against Central Michigan on February 22 as they scored 40 points in the post, two points shy of their season-high versus Northern Iowa on December 21.HOT LIKE FIRE, COOL LIKE WATERSophomore Alexis Lindstrom has shot with confidence from behind the three-point line over the last eight games for the Huskies as Lindstrom has hit .410 of her shots, draining 18-of-44 shots attempted. Versus Toledo Lindstrom was 4-of-5 from behind the line, including one in overtime, to tie season-highs in three-point shots made and points with 14. Heading into this run of good form, Lindstrom only made 3-of-12 shots attempted in the previous five games.CLUTCH CARGOIn the second half of the Huskies Mid-American Conference games, Amanda Corral has been NIU's go to player as she is averaging 7.7 points in the period and shooting .454 from the field at a rate of 48-for-104. Collectively, Northern Illinois has shot .425 during the second half in their last 17 games.BENCH CONTRIBUTIONSThe Northern Illinois bench has been playing large for the Huskies over the last eight games, combining for 152 points in that span, a +47 margin and 19.0 point per game average over their opponents 105 (13.1 ppg). Sophomore Alexis Lindstrom has led the NIU bench players in four of those games and is averaging 6.4 points over that period, while freshman Jazmine Harris is pacing the squad with 8.1 points per game off the bench with four games of 10-or-more points. Ashley Sneed contributed to the team's bench output as she scored 12 against Central Michigan on February 22.NEXT UPNorthern Illinois will open the Mid-American Conference Tournament Monday, March 10 with a first round matchup versus Eastern Michigan with a site to be determined on Saturday afternoon. Visit NIUHuskies.com Saturday evening for more information on the Huskies' MAC Tournament seeding.


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Jan M. Rabaey, Michael Mark, Jesse Aaron Richmond and Nathan Pletcher
This project focuses on increasing the reliability and level of integration of Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) based ultra-low power radios for wireless sensor networks (WSN). FBARs provide very high-Q resonances and offer the possibility to achieve a high level of integration and are therefore a key enabling technology to achieve ultra-low power WSN radios. However, there are some limitations associated with FBARs, both at the circuit as well as on the integration side.
The high-Q of the FBARs enables ultra-low power high quality oscillators and excellent RF filters, however it also limits the achievable tuning range of these oscillators, which restricts the radios to operate at a more or less fixed frequency. This restriction makes the narrowband radios susceptible to channel fading and interference, which could prevent the radios from reliably communicating with each other.
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Wicked Loving Lies
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Rosemary Rogers
2002 reissue of 1976 release, Historical Romance (1800s [Napoleon] France, England, U.S., Middle East, High Seas)
MIRA, $6.99, 768 pages, Amazon ASIN 1551669277
Crazy about regency-set historicals? Months later, Marisa is in London, enjoying the Season and being wooed by cultivated Philip Sinclair. Highwaymen are sexy - so here comes Dominic, disguised as a highwayman, to reclaim his wayward bride. Lots of sex here! Cut to Philip's fog-shrouded estate, where Marisa is kept prisoner by mad servants. Ah, romantic suspense. Rigged duels, horrible deaths, and Dominic and Marisa set sail again.
Uh-oh! Tripoli pirates take the ship, and soon Marisa is enjoying the languid life of a harem slave. If you love sexy desert sheikhs, this is the section to read. But read fast - the United States Marines just stormed the Shores of Tripoli!
Steamy southern mansions? Scheming southern belles? Fresh from the harem, Marisa inherits a lush Louisiana plantation, only her stepmother Inez is not too happy about sharing. Watching Marisa get cheated, humiliated and sold as a slave brings back the best of Southern Gothic - and then Dominic pops up for some incredible outdoor sex.
Tired of decadence and luxury? Want rip-snorting passion? Wild frontier romance? Let's wrap things up with a highly-sexed version of Lewis and Clark. Dominic and Marisa cross Texas sharing a blanket. Can they begin a new life together? Though Marisa is not exactly the frontier type, (think Zsa Zsa Gabor in Green Acres) the book ends with birth and renewal under the Texas stars.
Now, what is right with this classic romance, and what is wrong? Let's look at the main characters.
Marisa is the weakest link; she is utterly passive. There is not a single sex scene she initiates freely, nor a voyage she undertakes willingly. Though she takes on every guise imaginable, from cabin boy to harem girl, her own wits and resourcefulness never determine the outcome. This applies to sex as well. Without any effort of her own, she is swept to peak after peak of moaning ecstasy. Marisa is a victim heroine, never truly assertive or independent.
Dominic is better. At first he seems like a Rhett Butler clone, laughing demonically as he carries Marisa up the stairs. But notice how kind he is to minor characters, like his henchman Donald or the slave Paulus. This brooding hero saw his mother tortured to madness by his unfeeling father. He has been tortured himself by sea captains, slave owners, and aristocrats of every description. It takes time for him to recognize Marisa as a victim like himself, (and like his mother.) But he is able to grow, and in spite of all the outer cheesiness he ultimately becomes a valid character.
But what saves this book, and makes it a true desert island keeper, is the incredible richness of the historical settings. Everything seems so real! Even if you don't care for Marisa, you can take her place. Sink into the pages and lose yourself in luxury. Then too, there is the amazing appeal of the minor characters. Look closely and you find an unforgettable supporting cast, several of whom could easily carry a book on their own. Watch for these sexy extras:
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The Sino-trolls must have been up all night refreshing the "no" vote button
NBR ONLINE readers agree with a leaked Whitehouse review: fears about Huawei are over-egged.
By a clear majority (61% to 39%), readers do not think the government should review the Chinese telecommunications giant's involvement in the $1.35 billion Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) project or the $300 million Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI).
Telecommunications Users Association head Paul Brislen is of the same mind.
Earlier he told NBR, as the US Congress Intelligence Committee report critical of Huawei came out, "I'm seeing mostly economic warfare mixed in with some good ole yellow peril and a smattering of technophobia."
Huawei NZ has strenously denied all claims of security risk, pointing to Congress' failure to produce hard evidence, and its own track record.
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No doubt. Huawei was hitting that NO button as fast as the cookies could clear and that page would reload.
Government review is a MUST. They should not ignore this just because of good commercial offer they have got from Huawei!! Everything happens for a reason these days and nothing comes cheap or FREE without paying for it some way or another. It should be treated like a virus sooner the better
Go buy Alcatel then.
Rainbow Warrior?
I do.
Tiananmen Square?
Rainbow Warrior was a terrorist act against NZ.
Likewise,the French trade blackmail to get NZ to release the terrorists.
Tells us all a lot about you.
No it was an attack against Greenpeace - a multinational corporation that expatriates most of the donations it receives in New Zealand to help stop global warming caused by China.
Don't you get tired of Sino-trolling instead of getting off your benefit and getting a job?
"over-egged" probably true.
However given a choice between product from a western commercial organisation as opposed to one that has the tentacles of military or communist party influence (i've spent half my life trading with and in China) I prefer to avoid giving money to regimes I dislike if at all possible.
2 degrees sims are very insecure.[huawei].
they have a very convenient hacker friendly wireless tag and this is readily employed by private investigators often working for police and government agencies.
whats that thing they have in some countries..?
lol, privacy laws, haha, not in aotoaroa though.
just the infinate govt backpocket deals, screw the citizens eh.
"Huawei probed for security, espionage risk" from CBS 60 Minutes
Security of information should be paramount for any information sharing system.
New Zealand is in a prime position that we have a lot of very skilled IT and Electrical Engineering professionals. We could develop our own systems or software based on any overseas hardware, where we have complete control over the communication.
The only problem is the contracts that have been let out to private corporates, that cut to the lowest price, therefore go for the lowest price hardware, ie: Chinese.
Reality is we could buy any hardware, and New Zealand IT professionals under the guise of internal affairs et el could write the operating system which controls it.
It is very easily accomplished, and cheap. It does not have to cost 100 million dollars, when you employ competent in-house professionals who are loyal to this country.
By the by, currently nothing is more secure than open source software. You take the best of current online security, and you adapt it to your methods and make it better, and release it.
The nature of open source is that it is available to the public. The security holes are available to the public, well the IT public worldwide. If you develop a useful system it will be the cutting edge system used world wide. So it will in turn receive maintenance by IT professionals world wide.
Open source is the bleeding edge of software security and always will be while one is using the bleeding edge software.
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Page, Zans and Kesy Collect MW Honors at Conference Meet
Nov. 1, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -Garrett Zans and junior Holly Page earned All-Mountain West First Team honors and Michael Kesy was tabbed the MW Freshman of the Year to pace the University of Wyoming men's and women's cross country teams to fifth and sixth, respectively, at the 2013 Mountain West Championships on Friday at the Eisenhower Golf Club. Page became the first two-time All-MW First Team Cowgirl ever by finishing sixth, while Zans notched the highest individual finish by a Cowboy since 2008 by placing fifth.
Zans covered the 8-kilometer course in 24:27 for the ninth fastest time by a Cowboy since 1990, as his fifth-place finish was the highest since Mark Korir won the meet in 2008. He helped the Cowboys finish with 106 points, just five shy of No. 20 Boise State, as the top four men's teams at the meet were all ranked in the nation's top 30. Ninth-ranked New Mexico took home the team title with 32 points.
"It's bittersweet," UW head coach Bryan Berryhill said. "We were five points away from beating one of the top 20 teams in the nation, but in life and in sports you have to be opportunistic. We had an opportunity today and I wish we would have taken advantage of it. Garrett ran a great race, though, for fifth. He was side-by-side with All-Americans, which does a lot for his confidence. If he qualifies as an individual for the national meet, he'll have to beat some All-Americans and he proved today that he can do that."
Senior Mike Banks and sophomore Aaron Derner both crossed the line in 24:44 for 18th and 19th place, while sophomore Amos Bowen finished 29th in 25:14 and freshman Michael Kesy rounded out UW's scorers in 25:26 for 35th. Kesy, a walk-on from Cheyenne East High School, is the first Cowboy to earn MW Freshman of the Year since Zans in 2010.
Page made Wyoming history with her sixth-place finish in 21:49 on the 6-kilometer course, as she became the first Cowgirl ever to earn two All-MW First Team honors. Her fourth-place finish last season was the highest ever by a Cowgirl. Sophomore Audra DeStefano crossed the line in 22:34 for 24th and was followed by junior Devon England in 32nd at 22:51. Freshman Megan Brunette placed 44th in 23:10 and senior Emily Swigart rounded out UW's scorers in 46th at 23:16. The Cowgirls tallied 143 points for sixth, as the New Mexico women, also ranked ninth in the nation, won with 31 points.
"Holly got sixth in a women's race that had a lot of All-Americans in it," Berryhill said. "To see her run that well, just like she did last year, was really encouraging. It says a lot about her as a competitor to earn first team for a second-straight year. She is steady and focused and she'll be right back here next year to get her third."
Wyoming next travels to Ogden, Utah, for NCAA Mountain Regional on Friday, Nov. 15.
2013 MW Championships
Wyoming Men Individual Results
Women's Team Results
Wyoming Women Individual Results
MW Men's Student-Athlete of the Year: Isaiah Bragg, Air Force
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Tickets are sold at the Center for the Arts Box Office, beginning one hour prior to start time.
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Purification OptionsStandard purification
Standard purified oligos are deprotected and desalted, recommended for high through-put methods like PCR, (cycle) sequencing and hybridisation without any restrictions.
OPC purification (Oligonucleotide Purification CartridgeTM)
OPC purification is a kind of fast HPLC purification for unmodified oligos up to about 40 nucleotides in length. Non-DMT bearing failure sequences, by-products, and other impurities wash through the cartridge while the DMT group of the trityl-on oligos adsorb to the affinity column. After removal of the DMT group with mild acid the highly purified detritylated primer can be eluted.
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Veligura et al. (2005) UV-induced ds(ss)-DNA damage: optical and electrical recognition. BMC Plant Biology 5:S32.
Festag et al. (2005) Optimization of Gold Nanoparticle-Based DNA Detection for Microarrays. Journal of Fluorescence 15(2):161.
Csáki et al. (2003) The optical detection of individual DNA-conjugated gold nanoparticle labels after metal enhancement. Nanotechnology 14:1262.
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Fashion buyers around the world are currently preparing to make their Resort 2015 purchases to carry in store and online.
Leslie Gallin, President of Footwear at Advanstar Communications Inc. shares five top footwear trends for Resort 2015 that retailers should be looking to carry for their female shoppers.
Function: Unisex style shoes
Elements of Design:
● A fresh take on the mixture of fabrications; rich toned leathers, durable canvas (military greens and khaki), twills and soft pastels.
● Selling this trend is solid craftsmanship and men's classic styling. Details include leather tassels, double monk strap, fringed perforated-tongue (golf shoe inspired).
● The ease of combining classic style with the tailored lines of menswear
● Preserving an androgynous look with strong styles such as oxfords, saddle shoes, brogues, weejuns, penny loafers and wing tips.
This trend is a continuation of the movement we are seeing in the year of the woman. The styles we've seen in the "boy meets girl" trend are based on how women are looking to menswear for inspiration. Nostalgic styles are descendants of suede creepers that became popular in the 50's with the Teddy Boys and drainpipe pants – except now they are fabricated with colorful patent leather. These latest incarnations of this trend can be found in the resort collections of Alice Olivia's saddle shoe, Band of Outsider's loafers, Diesel Black Gold and Antonio Marras' creepers.
Function: Mash-up of global styles transformed into one unique voice, the creation of a fashionable international Everywoman
Elements of Design:
● Variations of the classic huarache, always made from braided leather straps, which are a staple for a large segment of South and North America.
● Wide straps sandals (Hippy dress shoe)
● A jute-wrapped wedge and lifted soles
● Flat leather soled gladiator styles
Fashion Without Borders explores the global search for inspiration. Globally the concept was based on cultural experiences such as art and traditional items. There's undoubtedly a need for creating an element of authenticity in product designs that highlights the idea of global traveling. Designers are just mad for cultural appropriation with their styling and design cues. This criss-crossing of multi-cultural inspiration has unleashed a veritable free-for-all of diversity.
Function: Raising the bar on the average sneaker into a cohesive lifestyle product.
Elements of Design:
● The statement sneaker has been replaced. The aesthetic is calm, neat, clean and modern designed trainer (lacking the bells-and-whistles of heavy handed design and embellishments).
● Scuff-free is key with white being the first color of choice for this trend.
● Moderate lifted soles were added to give a platform.
● Uniform shoe transcending into a statement of intrinsic driven value by the necessity of style.
There is a changing of the playing field of traditional sneakers into a new category of "footwear of necessity." This new category is about ease and versatility, not everyone who puts on a sneaker are athletic, but they are all looking for comfort and performance in range of motion. Fashion-driven sneaker brands have long put aside the idea of strictly designing for performance having moved to align with fashion clothing brand thinking. The luxury market understands this sneaker movement as a staple for all. The sporty side of this trend comes with revisiting classic sneaker styles from days past but now repurposed for a new market segment.
Function: Refreshing approach to the enclosed shoe designs
Elements of Design:
● The peep toe movement. Wallabee's with exposed heels and toes as well as snake skin high boots with cord lace-up fronts that expose the sheen and toes.
● Wing tips with cutout sides that are completely exposed or shown with a tulle screen.
● Leather with perforated or extended leather straps that exposed the side profile of the foot.
● Designer focus on baring skin in small peeping amounts through the toe box and heels. Cages sandals adorned it with side exposure.
Exposed toes and strategically placed cutouts give a refreshing update to boots, loafers and dressier slingbacks in this trend. This type of shoe was popular in the 1940's with intermediate success in the 60's and 90's. Footwear following the elements of design, look completely new and innovative in any of the newer materials, but the idea is the element of surprise. 3.1 Phillip Lim gave us some of the best in his 2015 resort collection; Viktor & Rolf and Acne Studios are also great examples of the peep-toe movement.
Function: Reflection to shine: stand out, be outstanding, more brilliant color, a quest to see "me".
Elements of Design:
● Polished with high gloss patent leather and lacquer techniques
● Metallic (silver, copper, rose gold)
● Anything that shines or reflects light
● Highly polished menswear loafers
● Liquid looking as if wet to the touch
A big part of Resort 2015 will be a season of reflection; not only for the health of spirit, but also for the wearer's feet. No ensemble or dress will be complete without a shoe that uses reflective materials. Even the most typical menswear shoe was highly polished. For 2015, glossy liquefied patent leather wing tips and two-tone loafers take center stage, these surface treatments are inspiring, imaginative and give the impression of a fluid movement through reflection. Of note is Nike's "Vapor Flash" fabric, used for shoes and clothing, which features a reflective, laminated face of tiny glass beads that provide 400-candlepower reflectivity even in low light.
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Higher pay as an officer
How much more pay? Consider the pay of an E-4 with four years of service as opposed to the pay of a second lieutenant right out of OCS with four years of service. Per weekend: E-4: $273.04 O-1: $428.68
Be a leader. Commissioned officers acquire leadership and management skills that are in high demand in military and civilian careers. An officer is, by virtue of assignment and training, a leader.
Greater Service
Challenge yourself. Not all OCS candidates become officers. In fact, only about 50% achieve this goal. By achieving this goal, you can look forward to greater service with more challenging responsibility by assisting in the planning and preparation of your unit's training.
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Patch, Mission, STS-112
This STS-112 patch belonged to NASA astronaut David Brown, a mission specialist who flew in space for the first time as a member of the crew of STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia mission that disintegrated upon reentry on February 1, 2003. (Because of changes in the flight schedule, STS-107 flew after STS-112.) A flight surgeon and a naval aviator, Brown was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in April 1996 as a part of Group 16. Aboard STS-107, Brown logged 15 days, 22 hours, and 20 minutes in space. Although this patch was never flown in space, it was a personal memento of Brown's.
STS-112 was a space shuttle mission launched October 7, 2002 with the primary objective of installing the S1 tuss segment and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart A. Two of Brown's former astronaut classmates, Piers J. Sellers and Sandra H. Magnus, flew as crew of STS-112. Brown may have owned this patch because of his support for his colleagues.
Doug Brown, Dave Brown's brother, gave the patch to the Museum in 2006.
Gift of Douglas R. Brown
- Country of Origin
- Unknown
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Events
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- Embroidered patch
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 11.4 x 11.4cm (4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)


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The day after Halloween, Pigtail and I sat outside in the warm sun. I polished off most of the leftover candy while she pretended to be a butterfly. Pirate was asleep just inside the french doors, rocking in the swing and occasionally squeaking.
For your weekend reading pleasure:
After my post about paper (with a brief complaint about what a pain Christmas cards are) my friend Alyson sent me this post about what to do with all the past Christmas cards you receive from friends and family and hate to throw away. I keep my favorites in a big box, but this makes much more sense. Simple and fun. (Close To My Art)
I read Lil Blue Boo, but hadn't checked in on her in awhile, so I was shocked when I saw this post about what she's been going through lately. It's too late to be included in their collection of notes going to Ashley, but consider posting a comment either there or on Lil Blue Boo sending love and encouragement her way. (Snap the Conference)
A few pep talks that I enjoyed this week: using a visualization board (should I try this? Anyone done it?) and I Suck At Photoshop (I really loved this). (Design Sponge and Lifehacker)
Such an awesome project: a very, very personalized duvet cover. Incredible. (A Thousand Words)
This is from several months ago, but it's just so true. You Know You Have A New Baby When (Extraordinary Ordinary)
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Miley Cyrus
Just because it's summer doesn't mean that you _have_ to wear flip-flops each and every day. Give your feet a break with rugged ankle boots, which pair perfectly with a sweet day dress in a feminine print like polka dots.
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Jessica Alba's Pastel Look
Jessica Alba always looks good, but in this pretty ensemble, she outdoes herself. We scouted out some similar duds—from the gorgeous bag to the the cool blazer—so you can easily steal her laidback look.
Beyonce Knowles
With summer's humidity, who wants to bother with a blow-out? If your hair has natural curl or wave, now's the time to rock it just as it is.
Jennifer Lawrence
Jazz up an otherwise-neutral ensemble with a bright, eye-catching bag. Bonus points for embroidery, beading, or other embellishments.
Eva Mendes
When pairing two prints, make sure that one is big and loud and one is fine and quiet. Think florals with pinstripes, tiny dots with paisleys, or a look like Eva's—small neutral stripes with a neon native-inspired pattern.
Sofia Vergara
A splash of neon makes everything look more chic. Sofia's got the proportions right, too, by mixing a blowsy, flowy top with strick-skinny bottoms.
Rachel Zoe
In the fall, save the floppy hat-wearing for the Kardashians. In the summer, save your skin like Rachel Zoe does, by topping your look off with an oversized hat that keeps you permanently in shade.
Julianne Hough
Put down the cardigans and back away…for those times in the summer when you need an extra layer, turn to a classic white blazer. Perfect for day or night.
Minka KellyA casual tank dress feels instantly dressier when you add a thin leather belt, like Minka Kelly. For an extra formality boost, make the belt metallic.
Kendra WilkinsonA bright, punchy dress is your best friend during the summer. Mixed with sandals and a topknot it's perfect for the mall, and when you add heels ad fine jewelry it works for weddings, dates, and evening events.


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College Hockey:After back-to-back 20-win seasons, Holy Cross aims for more than just consistency
It's an amazing type of consistency that permeates through the walls of Holy Cross' Hart Center. Back-to-back 20-win seasons, three straight years over .500 and overall control of Atlantic Hockey's eastern division hang from the purple walls in Worcester, Mass.
The only things the Crusaders have been missing lately are a league championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament. But they're hoping that their consistency and ability to adapt to new conditions every season will finally help them over that hump this year.
"It's not to dismiss the good players who graduated from this program, but we always look at how we can keep moving forward," coach Paul Pearl said. "We try not to lament the losses of who's left the program, and we try to focus on the guys that are currently here. We like to think that each year is our time and that the guys who are here, it's their time to shine."
Shayne Stockton returns after posting a 28-point season last season, and Adam Schmidt leads a pack of scorers trying to seamlessly transition from Brandon Nunn, Rob Linsmayer and Kyle Fletcher. Castan Sommer had six goals in his first year last season, and Jake Youso scored nine goals in just 25 games.
No Crusaders player scored more than 16 goals, meaning they should be able to do better than just tread water against their eastern divisional mates.
"Our goal is to find our identity every year," Pearl said. "Some years you have a better offense, and some years you have a better defense. Our guys have bought into whatever they are; they're going to work hard and they're going to find themselves. Everyone knows that teams change every year, and once you find out who you are, you have to work to be the best you possibly can be."
For a team that is able to remain consistent year in and year out, the perfect example is in net, where Matt Ginn returns for a junior year after appearing in all but two games last season. Last year, he won 19 games with a 2.63 GAA and was six saves short of 1,000 on the season.
"Matt Ginn is one of the best goalies in the league," Pearl said. "We want to improve our goals against average, but that's more of a team thing."
The Crusaders have the added benefit of playing an aggressive nonleague schedule, one of their biggest in years. They'll play a "mini-Beanpot" against Hockey East teams, taking on Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern.
They'll play the defending national runner-up when they play a home-and-home series against Quinnipiac. And they'll play a weekend set where they'll play conference foe Bentley at Fenway Park before playing the defending national champion the next night at Yale.
"We set out to play the best possible schedule," Pearl said. "It grabs people's attention if it's as front-loaded. It's a huge opportunity for us to that we're in a great position. Hockey East is going to be looking for newer opponents with their new scheduling format. Boston University is now in the Patriot League, so we can start to develop a relationship through that. Northeastern is always a good team to play against being in Hockey East. And it's always great to play Boston College — our alumni base in Boston after Thanksgiving will really enjoy that game given the historical rivalry between our schools."
About the Crusaders
2012-13 overall record: 20-14-3
2012-13 conference record: 15-9-3
2013-14 predicted finish (coaches poll): Eighth
Key losses: F Brandon Nunn, F Rob Linsmayer, F Kyle Fletcher, F Erik Vos
Players to watch: F Shayne Stockton, F Adam Schmidt, F Castan Sommer, F Jake Youso, G Matt Ginn
Impact rookie: Of the freshmen forwards coming in, mighty mite Cameron Lawson (at 5-foot-9) is the most highly touted. He scored 21 goals and 21 assists last year for the Prince George Spruce Kings.
Why the Crusaders will finish higher than the coaches poll: Consistency is king. Defying more neutralized expectations this year, the Crusaders freshmen keep the machine rolling, and Holy Cross continues its reign as a top team in the league and the face of the eastern division.
Why the Crusaders will finish lower than the coaches poll: With Karl Beckman injured to start the year, the defense struggles in front of Ginn. The offense suffers after losing its top pieces from a year ago, and without an identity, they start losing games they used to win.
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Austinites will find something for everyone this week in books. From the supernatural historical fiction of Dan Simmons to the Indie whimsy of Dave Eggers to the political gossip of Game Change and much more no Austinite bibliophile need go without.
Dan Simmons, Hugo Award winning author of The Terror and The Drood, has made a name for himself in the world of historical fiction for his strange, spine tingling and supernatural re-enactments of historical events. With his latest book, The Black Hills, an ingenious biography of General Custer's afterlife through the possession of a young Sioux warrior, Simmons reminds us that we are all possessed by the ghosts of history. Simmons will be at BookPeople to discuss Custer's fate this Tuesday at 7 pm.
For another taste of the whimsical and fantastical, Dave Eggers, McSweeney's editor, indie darling and jack of all literary trades, will be at BookPeople this Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Eggers wormed his way into our collective heart with his startlingly original semi-fictional semi-autobiography A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are and has come out with a novelization of the picture book and film titled The Wild Things. The event will open with a reading by Austin author Bill Cotter from his McSweeney's published book Fever Chart with a book signing for Wild Things and Zetouin to follow. Attendees must purchase one of these books on-site in order to get anything signed.
Speaking of indie film-making and literature, Alison Macor will be at BookPeople this Sunday at 3 pm for the March Event of the Month in promotion of her new book Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids, a history of Austin cinema from the up-swelling of local films and directors that put Austin on the map in the 90's to today. Chainsaws includes fascinating interviews with such directors as Tarantino, Rodriguez and Linklater, all known for their local patronage and support.
In non-fiction, though some would argue the classification, this week John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the latest political bestseller and media eye-of-the-storm Game Change, will be making appearances at BookPeople and the LBJ Auditorium. The LBJ event, Thursday at 6 pm, will be a large affair with a moderator, Evan Smith of the "Texas Tribune", and attendees should RSVP and plan their parking in advance. Halperin and Heilemann's visit to BookPeople, Friday at noon, should be a more subdued and intimate conversation.
Native Texan Stephanie Saldana will be at BookPeople this Thursday at 7 pm for a discussion of her new book, The Bread of Angels, a memoir of passion and piety set in a Christian Monastery in the Middle East. Angels includes reflections on the various peoples of the book, a struggle to reclaim the faith, and, best of all, a budding romance with a Christian monk.
For lovers of good vampire fiction (Twilight fans need not apply) gothic, urban, steampunk, vampire novelist Skyler White will be at BookPeople this Friday at 7 pm to promote her new book and Falling Fly, an exploration of feminine desire filtered through the symbol laden worlds of vampire and steampunk fiction.
Those of you who have been hibernating through the winter might consider peeking your head out and joining in one of the outdoor literary events this week.
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Sponsored by the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition focuses on issues of patent and intellectual property law. Winners of regional rounds advance to the national competition in Washington, D. C. To participate in this program, students must have completed an introductory course in Intellectual Property Law.
The regional rounds of the competition take place in Chicago for our Loyola team. The Intellectual Property Team will be bringing their fiercest competition this year!
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College Hockey:Niagara Battles Way Into CHA Title Game
Purple Eagles Edge Wayne State
KEARNEY, Neb. — Niagara ended Wayne State's run of eight straight CHA tournament victories with a 2-1 win in a gritty, hard-fought semifinal Saturday.
The second-seeded Purple Eagles scored in the third period to halt another upset by the sixth-seeded Warriors.
"Wayne State plays a great team defense," Niagara head coach Dave Burkholder said. "It's what playoff hockey is all about. I don't think we played our best tonight, but we haven't lost a game all season when leading or tied going into the third."
The Warriors opened the scoring at the 4:35 mark when freshman Mark Cannon sent the puck over the shoulder of Niagara goaltender Jeff VanNynatten for the Warriors' score.
With just over two minutes remaining in the first period, the Purple Eagles evened up the score when Jordan Meloff won a faceoff in the Wayne State zone and Paul Muniz' shot from the top of the right circle found its way through traffic and into the back of the net.
Although the score didn't change following the second period, it wasn't for lack of trying. Both teams chipped away at the goal. Wayne State aimed 10 shots at the net, while Niagara added seven.
Solid goaltending by both teams highlighted the beginning of the third period, but at 8:59, Niagara's Nick Kormanyos was credited with the game-winning goal when his pass from behind the Warrior net hit the skate of Wayne State's Travis Rycroft and deflected past Kelly.
VanNynatten and Kelly remained solid in goal, as both teams fired away at the net. Both goalies stopped 32 shots on the night, including a combined 26 in the third period.
"You couldn't ask for these kids to play any harder or any tougher tonight," Wayne State head coach Bill Wilkinson said.
Niagara will face Bemidji State Sunday at 7 p.m. CST for the CHA championship and the automatic berth into the NCAA tournament that goes with the title.
The Beavers, who defeated Findlay 6-2 in the day's other semifinal game, will be playing in the CHA championship game for the second year in a row, having lost 3-2 to Wayne State last season.
Niagara is making its first trip to the title game since winning the inaugural CHA championship in 2000, when the Purple Eagles earned an at-large bid into the NCAA tourney.
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This is the first time that Groundhog Day has fallen the same day as Super Bowl. Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsyvania's infamous groundhog, normally predicts whether winter will continue for another six weeks if he sees his shadow or it will be an early spring if there is no shadow.
Las Vegas odds makers are saying Super Bowl it is pretty damn close with a 2 point margin between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks. They looked to Punxsutawney Phil to guide them this morning. If the furry Phil saw his shadow it will be the Denver Broncos taking the Super Bowl trophy. Alas, like its own city known for rain and overcast, the Seattle Seahawks would garnish the Super Bowl win if Punxsutawney doesn't see his shadow.
A shadow was seen, we can expect more winter, more arctic vortex and Denver Broncos will walk away with the Super Bowl win.
Since my column is normally about food than I need to finish this vignette on a culinary note. The Denver Bronco fans can sit down with a bowl of green chili or a nicely charred Angus steak along with cool bottle of Coors while the Seattle Seahawks fans cry in their coffee.
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I'd like to talk for a bit about the aesthetics of building a base. By that, I mean the factors that go into designing a base which maximises benefits and minimises drawbacks. In the original X-Com series, there were two major base design factors. 1, the need to produce choke points to guide aliens down the proxy grenade trap of DOOM. 2) The need to specialise bases into large scale research or manufacturing facilities (especially the latter).
The pilots hated the walk to debrief.
In UFO: The Two Sides, base layout was once again dictated by base invasion. While choke points had been removed, the "base" was considerably easier to defend if you placed modules on as few parallel lines as possible to produce the maximum number of zero-cover corridors as possible. The UFO AfterX series took an original slant: in Aftermath you had a fixed number of sites for buildings per territory, research was dependant on having x number of sites for new topics, and all territories had to be connected. In Aftermath, the base was so generic the only guidng factor was determining which building to construct first, and base attack missions always took place away from the guts of the base. In UFO:ET they did away with base construction for the most part, and base design wasn't influenced by anything - large scale manufacturing didn't even pay for itself let alone make a profit and aliens had spawn points liberally scattered through the base.
So what influences base design in Xenonauts? Several factors.
First of all, geoscape factors:
1) I need interceptors. Lots of them. The current alpha dictates that I will need at least one MiG (to launch avalanches at corvettes) and two F-17s (to escort the MiG and deal with fighters) per base. Hangars are small, so I can cram 7 of them in on one "line". The high number of alien craft present early on, especially the high number of fightercraft on ait superiority missions requires more than this "basic" quantity. It's easy to have six interceptors on the go all the time, especially when I'm transporting goods from base-to-base or have sent a chinook out and need to provide fighter cover.
2) Inital range of dropship is continental, rather than intercontinental. By giving the chinook a limited range, this requires the first few bases built to have a chinook of their own (to respond to shot down craft and terror missions), a large pool of soliders (to man the chinook, provide replacments to killed/injured soliders and act as second-line defence in case of base defence), and limited manufacturing facilities (teams that go out on missions require ammo and other consumables. My main manufacturing plant should not be turning out batches of ammo. It should be turning out the Next Big Thing).
3) Hand-in-hand with 1) MiGs (which I need) must be manufactured. MiGs are very vulnerable after they have shot their load. MiGs get shot down.
Secondly, battlescape factors.
1) Chris has previously written that if base modules get damaged, this affects the effectiveness of the module in the geoscape. This means mining the crap out of a choke point might be an effective tactical strategy, but it's strategic no-no.
2) Chris has also written on how every base will have a command center, and if I loose the command center, I loose the base. This would suggest "wrapping" the command center in other modules would be a smart plan. However, what do I wrap it in? Would a layer of storerooms make sense? After all, they aren't as critical if they are damaged - but then I don't get as much room to build other base modules.
3) It is unknown at this point how spawn points will be handled. I've looked back through older posts and from what Chris has written, it seemed that inital spawn points were going to be in hangars, but he seemed to have changed his ideas on this point.
Finally, logistical factors
1) Chris has stated that manufacturing will not be for-profit. It is therefore uncessary to have dedicated base-factories, as the outlay will not match the profits from sales.
2) Transferring goods between bases costs money and is vulnerable to alien fightercraft. Transport costs are less than the cost of setting up a workshop in another base, but alien piracy is (currently) a menace and can set back the development of a base considerably. This suggests a distributed manufacturing model will be less costly in terms of alien piracy - unless Chris tweaks the air superiority missions so they attack less transports, or we can dedicate interceptors to running escort for transport.
3) Workshop production rates are currently a little on the low end. Producing large batches of goods takes considerable time even with a strong workforce, then more time is involved in transporting those goods to outlying bases. This strengthens the distributed manufacuturing model, as it is more efficent to have local workshops producing local goods instead of waiting for a central base
Well, that's a lot! I'm sure I've missed things, but effective base design in Xenonauts, when you look at it, is quite the complex beast. Has anyone come up with a good design for a base yet?


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Intro: Religious Easter quotes and card sayings are beautiful sentiments to put into your homemade cards. For the devout, religious and inspirational sayings are truly happy Easter quotes. In this article, you'll find plenty of Easter quotes from the Bible plus a tutorial for Easter card/s to make.
Easter quotes and sayings: Inspirational Easter quotes for cards, ecards and gifts
Easter craft ideas: How to make an Easter tree (gift ideas)
Easter egg crafts: How to blow out eggs for your Easter egg tree
Religious Easter Quotes from the Bible for Your Easter Cards
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. John 3:16-17
"The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name." Luke 24:46-47
"We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him." Romans 6:9
"I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25-26
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Philippians 3:10-12
The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."
So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me." Matthew 28: 1 - 10
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... 1 Peter 1:3
Easter Cards to Make
The video at the top of the article provides a tutorial for simple Easter cards to make. Watch it to learn how or to get ideas. Decorate them with your religious Easter quotes to make them inspiring and personal.
Also, if you like pop-up cards, then you'll want to read these articles. You can adapt the ideas to make them fit a homemade Easter card.
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So ur ihas has been flashed with Burner max firmware and rip has been patched prior to burn using abgx1.0.6.
Understand ur numbers do drop especially if this is one of ur first burns.
Ur numbers could possibly be a result of the media u chose for the xgd3 burn.
I myself use mkm003's with excellent results.