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Please consider adding pain medicine to your list of covered specialties ("Best Docs," March 2011). As one of the more recent ones in the medical world, it appears to be growing by leaps and bounds in terms of both University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic pain medicine department staffing. These specialists can make a world of a difference in helping people who are suffering chronic pain. You can imagine the number of people in the Cleveland area who fall into that category and need to know about it.
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I have to admit my eyes welled up when reading Dr. Rita Cydulka's beautiful, compelling story regarding a teenager who delivered a baby boy in her home's bathroom and tried to keep it a secret. Believing the baby dead, she and her mother wrapped him in newspaper and put him in an outdoor trash can.
The teen was taken to MetroHealth because of profuse bleeding. While Dr. Cydulka tended to the teen, an EMS crew rescued the baby, barely alive, who subsequently thrived in the hospital's neonatal intensive care. Congratulations to all who helped save this new little life.
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I saw "On The Go" (February 2011) and thought you should know about SOFE Cafe & Grill. It's a new cafe in downtown Bedford that has great food and great service. I just thought you might like to feature it. It's worth tasting.
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Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $d_1,d_2,\dots,d_n$ be the dimensions of the irreducible representations. It is well-known that $\sum_{i=1}^n d_i^2=|G|$. If I am not mistaken, one has the following inequality $$ \sum_{i=1}^n d_i^{3/2}\geq \sqrt{|G|}. $$ Is this known or obvious (or false)? For abelian groups the inequality is far from sharp, because we can replace the right hand side with $|G|$. But for the symmetric group it seems pretty sharp. For example, for $S_6$, the left-hand side is 27.2688 and the right-hand side is $26.8328$.
Never mind. The inequality that I wrote down is obvious, because $$ (\sum_{i=1}^n d_i^{3/2})^2\geq \sum_{i=1}^n d_i^3\geq \sum_{i=1}^n d_i^2=|G|. $$ I accidentally calculated $\sum_{i=1}^n \sqrt{d_i}$ on the left-hand side. So it might be an interesting question whether $$ \sum_{i=1}^n \sqrt{d}_i\geq \sqrt{|G|}. $$ I'm pretty sure this fails for large symmetric groups, because the left-hand side is less or equal than $p(n)|S_n|^{1/4}$ where $p(n)$ is the number of partitions. $p(n)$ grows subexponentially, whereas $|S_n|$ grows superexponentially. So we have $p(n)<|S_n|^{1/4}$ for large $n$. So the left-hand side will eventually be smaller than $\sqrt{|S_n|}$.
Let $G$ have $k$ conjugacy classes. Then Cauchy Schwarz seems to give $\sum_{i=1}^{k} \sqrt{d_i} \leq \sqrt{k}\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^{k} d_i }$ and this (using C-S) again is at most $k^{\frac{3}{4}} |G|^{\frac{1}{4}}$. So as long as $k^{3} < |G|,$ the inequality you state is violated. There are many groups $G$ for which $k^{3} < |G|.$ One example is the alternating group $A_{6}$ which has $7$ conjugacy classes and order $360 >7^{3}.$

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Giant Trees At the Cambodian Temple of Ta Prohm
Ta Prohm is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Located approximately one kilometer east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray near Tonle Bati, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found. Huge trees, reminiscent of ancient redwoods and oaks, are blended into the walls, and rocks hugging the giant roots gives the temple a surreal appearance. The photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.
Ta Prohm was built by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. After the fall of the Khmer empire in the 15th century, the temple of Ta Prohm was abandoned and neglected for centuries. When the effort to conserve and restore the temples of Angkor began in the early 20th century, it was decided that Ta Prohm would be left largely as it had been found, as a "concession to the general taste for the picturesque."
The temple of Ta Prohm was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Although the film took visual liberties with other Angkorian temples, its scenes of Ta Prohm were quite faithful to the temple's actual appearance, and made use of its eerie qualities.
Ta Prohm is a beautiful temple, bound by massive roots of huge trees. Back in the days it was very different: one could see walls decorated by precious stones, hear beautiful music, and dancing in the halls. When in late nineteenth century Ta Prohm was discovered by French, they decided not to conduct a full-scale restoration of the temple. The decision was made due to the fact that giant trees, such as ficus and silk tree, were so merged with ancient walls that eventually they became whole. So now we can see this unique Cambodia monument in the state it was discovered by the researchers.
Amazing panorama picture… Use your "mouse" and enjoy!
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I've heard of necklaces designed for princesses, but this is a necklace designed BY a princess. Or rather, a princess-to-be. In 2007, Kate Middleton worked with designer Claudia Bradby to create this sweet girls' Silver Bean Pendant (£46). To celebrate the upcoming nuptials between Kate and Prince William, Claudia has reissued the necklace in limited quantities. Already selling like hotcakes, this would make a great gift for the Royal fan on your holiday list!
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iOS Application Points Legit Users as Pirates on Twitter
Cracked applications that refuse to work when installed on devices are sooo last year, a recent incident involving iPhones, iPads and the famous Oxford Dictionary of English reveals. If, up until now, pirate users would only worry about ending up with a non-working application, they should now be concerned with being publicly pointed at as thieves.
According to author Jenn Frank, due to a flaw in the digital rights management system in the electronic version of the $27 Oxford Dictionary of English, some users have found the application posting comments like "How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will" on behalf of the device user. The application also pushes a nag window on the device's screen that says "I am a software thief".
"Um. This is weird. My cell phone is accusing me of stealing the Oxford Dictionary of English," wrote the wrongfully-accused user. "That was a really expensive piece of software."
The application's developer, Enfour, has issued an emergency fix to mitigate the issue earlier this month, but hundreds of tweets with the #softwarepirateconfession hash tag are still posted on the user's Twitter accounts. The worst part is that the application requires mandatory access to the user's Twitter account upon installation just to be able to post this message.
It appears that public humiliation for pirate customers is slowly becoming the next best thing since the invention of the serial number. In April 2011, an Android application called Walk and Text sent an SMS message to all the pirate user's contacts telling them that the respective user was cheap: "Hey, just downlaoded [sic] a pirated app off the internet, Walk and Text for Android. Im stupid and cheap, it costed [sic] only 1 buck. Don't 'borrow' like I did," read the SMS.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Baseball's winter meetings will return to Nashville in 2015.
On the closing day of this year's session, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues said Thursday the 2015 meetings will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center from Dec. 7-10. The Opryland hosted the meetings in 1983, 1989, 1998, 2002, 2007 and this year.
Next year's meetings are at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., from Dec. 9-12, and the 2014 meetings are at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront from Dec. 8-11.
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I had a chance to read through Batista's feature article in the November 2012 issue of Muscle & Fitness. The feature is packed with newsworthy bits but below are some of the quotes from Batista that I found of particular interest:
"Vince [McMahon, chairman of WWE] wanted to make it more of a PG-rated show… and nothing reads PG about me."
"They wanted to sell the all-American poster boy, and that's not me"
"They weren't offering me any more movie roles or commercials. I always believed that professional wrestling needed a certain violence – an edge- and they took that away. So, I didn't believe in what I was doing anymore."
Note from Richard: I found the movie comment interesting because remember Batista was originally cast for a starring role in a WWE Studios film but ended up being replaced by Triple H.
There were also some quick hits which I will recap in their entirety:
Life in the road as a wrestler…
"It was hard, but I got used to it. I actually freaked out one night when I was home. My wife at the time started moving in bed and I hit her because I thought I was in a hotel somewhere and somebody had jumped into bed with me. That's how programmed I got to being on the road. She started crying and I started crying. I felt really bad about it.
Telling Vince McMahon he was leaving the WWE…
"I said I might like to come back. He gave me his blessing. He wasn't happy that I was going, but he left the door open for me to return, and wished me luck."
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CES 2011, Las Vegas - NVIDIA are off to a good start for 2011, the release of the mainstream successor to the GTX460 is arriving on 25th of January in the form of the GeForce GTX560.
The card is meant to be much faster than it's predecessor and hopefully cheaper! If you're in the market for a new mainstream GPU, we'd suggest waiting a few weeks to see what this puppy can do.


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Ex-Mennonite Sabrina gave birth to a baby girl on the Return to Amish episode that originally aired June 29, 2014. She named her baby Oakley Lelia. The baby's father, Harry, was present for the birth. He and Sabrina have had an on-and-off again relationship. Sabrina was adopted and grew up in a Mennonite family.
Earlier on this Return to Amish season, ex-Amish Abe and ex-Amish Rebecca who are married also had a baby girl. They named their daughter Malika Rayne. Rebecca has a daughter from a previous relationship who has been making appearances on the reality TV show for the first time this season.
Abe and Rebecca don't want to associate with Abe's ex-Amish brother Andy anymore. Andy is on probation and Rebecca has heard rumors that he is doing things that could put him back in jail. Andy is engaged to an English woman named Chapel. The first time Andy proposed to Chapel, she declined, because she has cancer. The second time he proposed, she said, "Yes." Andy asked his former LA cast mate to make him a new suit for his upcoming wedding.
Abe and Andy's Amish mother, Mary, and their Amish father, Chester, have been shunned. This is the first season Chester has appeared on the show. They went to their Amish church to confess their sins. They were told they could be a part of their church community again if they stop seeing their ex-Amish children which upset Mary. Their Amish daughter Katie Ann went on her first date with an Amish man.
Ex-Amish Jeremiah and Mary are opening a store together. They plan to sell quilts and other Amish made items.
Ex-Amish Kate is a model in New York City. Eventually, she would like to have her own clothing line.
New episodes of Return to Amish can currently be seen Sundays at 9:00 p.m. central on TLC.


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Member Feature #5
1. Twice a month. On the Wednesdays of the first and third FULL weeks of that month.
Example : February 8th, 2012 and February 22nd 2012 are both Wednesdays of the first full week and the third week of February.
2. Blog on the two artists.
3. Post thumbs of some of their art.
4. Get them more page views.
5. I the Founder will submit these.
The two deviantart members of this group that I'm featuring this time are.
has been a deviant for 5 years.
Has an okay following. Has 22,000 page views. Definitely should get more views if you ask me.
and :thumb185581060: are examples of very well done deviations.
Nigz First of all his name is awesome. 2nd his art style is nice. It seems more original and reminds me of "The proud Family" or "Bebes kids" with a hint of anime. Too many other artists are riding the anime look a little too much. Finally I'm thinking he might become a Co-Founder but I'm not sure. He's contributed a lot and he did do a good job explaining some truths about the group to Hmmm
has been on D.A. for 4 years.
Has a pretty good following. Has just under 80,000 page views.
and are are some of my favorite deviations of hers.
One of the newer members of Definitely feeling her style of drawing. Everybody should check out her gallery and her comic series. It has funny shit like this ---> fav.me/d4tccvd I reminds me of the Maury Povich episode.
I would also like to add that I am so thankful that this group has had a noticeable influx of women(especially black women) joining as members.
Member feature details here -----> black--men.deviantart.com/jour…
Last weeks Member feature blog here -----> black--men.deviantart.com/jour…
Next member feature blog will be two weeks from now on , April 18, 2012 and , May 2, 2012.
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haha thanks for the feature I wouldn't mind being Co-founder and I always like to try to help out and help the group grow as a whole.
I had actually never heard of ether of those shows till you brought it up haha but looking at it yeah my style is a mix of Disney and anime because I was raised on both but i try to do my own thing
is a pretty awesome artist as well ^^
I had actually never heard of ether of those shows till you brought it up haha but looking at it yeah my style is a mix of Disney and anime because I was raised on both but i try to do my own thing
is a pretty awesome artist as well ^^
I must follow the other person! And thank you so very much for the feature. It made me laugh so hard. THis made me feel so much better, since you know I'm sick and everything. Great way to brighten my otherwise shitty day. Thank you!


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Spacex aborts rocket launch
Likely to be just a short delay
SPACE TRAVEL ENTREPRENEUR Elon Musk aborted the latest Spacex rocket launch yesterday, but the delay should be just a few hours.
Musk has audacious low cost space rocket plans that have been progressing well. The very last minute abort last night seems to have been down to technical issues that apparently can be worked out.
Musk announced the aborted launch on Twitter. "We called manual abort. Better to be paranoid and wrong. Bringing rocket down to borescope engines...," he said. This had followed a slightly earlier automatic hold. "Launch aborted by autosequence due to slower than expected thrust ramp. Seems ok on closer inspection. Cycling countdown," explained Musk.
On Twitter he told Captain James T Kirk, otherwise known as the actor William Shatner, that the delay of the launch would only be a short one, and said that the rocket will go back up within several days.
"Probably at least a few days. Depends on whether we need to pull the turbopumps," he said.
The aborted flight was also announced on the Spacex Twitter feed, though not in any great detail, and the traffic was limited to retweets of the founder's messages.
Earlier, it had been excited at the prospect of a launch on Thanksgiving, and explained that this flight would have been the first on that day at Cape Canaveral since 1959.
In October, the commercial space effort made its highest leap yet to an altitude of 744 metres, with a Falcon 9 Grasshopper rocket µ
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It's no secret that Stevie J from "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" is deep in money trouble with more than $1 million in back child support debt looming over his head. Why though is "Love & Hip Hop" show creator Mona Scott-Young coming to his rescue though? Rumor has it that Mona bailed Stevie J out of jail a few days back when he was arrested. Now a Monday report by B. Scott says that Mona Scott-Young is in hot water because she lied about Stevie J's finances to help him avoid paying child support.
According to the report, Mona was subpoenaed in April along with Raymond "Benzino" Scott, Joseline Hernandez and multiple music groups and studios that Stevie J has worked with. When asked about his financial situation, Mona Scott-Young allegedly claimed that she and her group Monami Entertainment had no contract with Stevie J. This means he isn't being paid (on the books anyway) for his huge role in "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta." Could that even be true? We think most definitely not. Earlier reports put Stevie J's payday at roughly $193,000 per season of the hit VH1 show.
The investigation into Stevie J's finances and child support payment history is being conducted by Project Child Support. The group is accusing Mona Scott-Young of lying on Stevie J's behalf. The group helps mothers recover unpaid child support from the fathers of their children. In this case, Project Child Support is assisting Carol Bennett to receive more than $1 million in unpaid child support for her two teenage children with Stevie J.
Stevie J was ordered to pay $6600 per month to Carol Bennett in 1999. In 2001 the amount was increased to $8600 based on estimates of his earnings. He never paid up though and no is so far behind that a full payment to Bennett would make her a millionaire. Stevie J insists that he doesn't owe that much though and that he has paid his child support and been there for his kids.
According to Project Child Support, Stevie J is so far behind that this has become a felony child support case. If Mona Scott-Young lied for Stevie J to help him avoid paying, she is also committing a felony. This doesn't look good for the VH1 reality TV show creator. Do you think Mona Scott-Young and Stevie J are going down? Let us know what you think in the comments below.


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ABSTRACT: Esophageal dysmotility is common in infants. We aimed to evaluate the influence of milk temperature on esophageal motility using multichannel intraluminal impedance-pH monitoring (MII-pH). Five healthy lambs, ages 2 to 3 days, underwent a MII-pH whereas bottle-fed randomly with 50 mL of ewe milk at 26°C, 38.5°C, and 41.5°C. Impedance motility parameters were studied on 5 swallows at each temperature. At 38.5°C we noted a higher total propagation velocity and a shorter total bolus transit time (TBTT) (P < 0.05). These unique results suggest a potential role of milk temperature alterations in improving oral feeding in infants with esophageal dysmotility.
The primary function of the esophagus is to transport swallowed material from the pharynx to the stomach. Although immature pharyngeal function has long been a great concern in neonatology, abnormal esophageal motility has recently been recognized in numerous neonatal conditions, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) (1), premature birth (2,3), and esophageal atresia (4). Treatments proposed to improve swallowing disorders include modification of ingesta volume, composition or viscosity (5,6), and manipulation of bolus temperature (7). The latter stems from the recognition that temperature-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) channels in the oropharynx, such as TRPV1 and TRPM8, can improve the swallowing reflex. Identical TRP channels have been described in the esophagus and a few studies have shown the effects of varying food temperature on esophageal motility in adult humans (8,9); however, to our knowledge, no data are available in newborns.
Previous in vivo studies have demonstrated similarities between the ovine and human esophagus with respect to thickness and histological structure (10). This led us to hypothesize that the lamb is a relevant model for swallowing studies in certain neonatal conditions.
Our aim was thus to determine esophageal motility characteristics under different milk temperature conditions in the healthy, newborn lamb at term, using multichannel intraluminal impedance-pH monitoring (MII-pH).
The 5 lambs involved in the study were born at term by spontaneous vaginal delivery. They were ages 2 to 3 days and weighed 3.6(0.7) kg on the experimental day. They were also included in another study aiming at describing a new model of neonatal gastroesophageal reflux. The nonsedated lambs underwent a 24-hour esophageal MII-pH (MMS, Enschede, the Netherlands), during which they moved freely in a plexiglas chamber and could bottle-feed with reconstituted ewe milk ad libitum. The chamber was placed in a temperature-controlled room, which was held at an ambient temperature of 26°C. The 2-mm diameter MII-pH catheter (Unisensor, Attikon, Switzerland) has a pH-measuring electrode positioned at 2 cm from the probe's distal tip and 7 impedance sensors. Following calibration, the catheter was introduced into the esophagus via the nose by pulling it through a 10-F suction catheter, to prevent coiling of the catheter in the nasopharynx. The probe was anchored to the head skin with 2 stitches. Correct positioning of the catheter (pH electrode 3 cm above the cardioesophageal junction) was confirmed by x-ray and verified at necropsy. The signals from the impedance and pH channels were sampled at 50 and 8 Hz, respectively, stored in the battery-powered data logger, and downloaded into a personal computer. MII-pH recordings were analyzed with Database Software (version 8.9a; MMS) and visually verified.
For the present study, lambs were comfortably positioned in a sling at the end of the 24-hour MII-pH monitoring. They were given a 50-mL bottle of reconstituted ewe milk at 3 different temperatures in random order: 26°C (ambient temperature), 38.5°C (within the normal range of lamb's body temperature 38–40°C), and 41.5°C (above the maximum value of lamb's body temperature). The milk was warmed in a digital water bath that provides a reliable temperature control (temperature uniformity ±0.2°C and stability ±0.25°C). When the desired temperature was reached, the milk was given immediately. The suckling duration was <15 seconds. The same custom-designed bottle and teat were used for all lambs. Two successive feeding episodes were separated by 1 hour. The study was approved by the ethics committee for animal care and experimentation of the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec.
Definitions of swallowing variables and features of a bolus swallow using MII-pH have been described previously (4). Bolus entry at a specific level was measured at the 50% point between preswallow impedance baseline and lowest impedance point during bolus presence. Bolus exit was determined as the return to this 50% point on the impedance recovery curve. Esophageal swallowing was evaluated by manual assessment of the following specific motility parameters:
1. Bolus presence time (BPT): time elapsed between bolus entry and bolus exit at each impedance-measuring site.
2. Total bolus transit time (TBTT): time elapsed between bolus entry at the most proximal recording segment and bolus exit at the most distal recording segment.
3. Segmental transit time (STT): time elapsed between bolus entry at a given level above lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and bolus exit at the next lower level.
4. Total propagation velocity: speed with which the bolus crosses all of the impedance channels.
5. Bolus head advance time (BHAT): time elapsed between bolus entry at 20 cm above LES and bolus entry at 15, 10, and 5 cm above LES.
Swallows were classified by MII as complete bolus transit if bolus entry occurred at the most proximal site and bolus exit points were recorded in all distal impedance-measuring sites or incomplete bolus transit if bolus exit was not identified at any of the distal impedance-measuring sites.
Statistical analyses were performed using Prism software version 5.04 (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). Data are presented as mean (SD). The Friedman test was used to compare data for the 3 milk temperatures, followed by a Dunn post-hoc test as appropriate.
Mean lamb body temperature was 39.1°C (0.9). All swallowing variables were successfully studied at each temperature (Table 1). Temperature had no effect on swallow number (26°C: 34 [12]; 38.5°C: 33 [15]; 41.5°C: 34 [8], P > 0.1) and mean bolus volume (26°C: 1.4 mL [1.2]; 38.5°C: 1.5 mL [1]; 41.5°C: 1.4 mL [0.8], P > 0.1). Although no temperature effects were observed for BPT at any segment (P > 0.1), the mean TBTT was significantly shorter at 38.5°C (P < 0.05) compared with 26°C and 41.5°C. Moreover, the total propagation velocity was significantly higher at 38.5°C (P < 0.05) compared with 26°C and 41.5°C, whereas the mean STT and STT for segments Z4–Z5 and Z5–Z6 tended to be increased at 39.5°C compared with 26°C and 41.5°C (P < 0.1). Finally, there were no temperature effects on BHAT at any distance above LES (P > 0.1).
The overall message from our results is that bolus propagation velocity in the esophagus is maximal when ewe milk is ingested from a bottle at body temperature in lambs.
Few data are available on esophageal thermoreceptors and their effect on esophageal motility. Three types of thermoreceptors have been described in cats, such as warm (range of discharge 39°C–50°C), cold (10°C–35°C), and mixed receptors (10°C–35°C and 39°C–50°C). Although warm receptor stimulation depresses nerve-induced contractions of the proximal esophagus, cold receptor stimulation increases them (11). In adult humans, although some studies concluded that ice-cold (0°C–4°C) water increases mean esophageal transit time and hot water (60°C) has the opposite effects, a later study did not find any effects of temperature (1°C–60°C) (9). Our results in lambs suggest that modulation of esophageal thermoreceptor activity by milk temperature can alter esophageal body motility in newborn mammals.
Transposition of the present results from lambs to human infants, wherein bolus propagation velocity is 5 to 10 times slower, suggests clinical significance in newborns. Importance of the present results relates, thus, to the immature esophageal motility of the newborn, especially preterm (2,3), as well as anomalies of this motility in disorders such as GERD (1), diaphragmatic hernia (12), gastroschisis (13), or esophageal atresia (4). We propose that studies in human newborns should be performed to test the hypothesis that the esophageal phase of swallowing can be improved by using milk temperature close to body temperature in conditions with immature or impaired esophageal motility.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the MMS Company (Enschede, The Netherlands) for the gracious loan of the MII-pH monitoring equipment.
animal model; multichannel impedance monitoring; swallowing
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College Hockey:Weekend Rewind: Early returns on conference races
This past weekend didn't really feature any marquee matchups across the country. There were no top 10 matchups and every single one of the top 10 teams in the latest USCHO.com Poll rolled to victories.
Since it was a rather predictable weekend, let's take a look at the early returns on conference races.
ECAC East: Defending national champion Norwich is off to a blistering start in conference play as the Cadets are 4-0-0 and have outscored their opponents 36-1 in legaue games so far this year. Manhattanville is the odds on favorite to be Norwich's chief competitor for the ECAC East title and the Valiants have already fallen a game behind as they dropped a game to Saint Anselm two weeks ago. Saint Anselm will take a crack at Norwich on Saturday in the Cadets' toughest ECAC East test to date on Saturday afternoon.
ECAC West: Once again the race figures to come down to Elmira, RIT, and Plattsburgh this year. Elmira took a one-year hiatus from the powerhouse trio but the Soaring Eagles look to have rebounded early this season and should be right back in the thick of things with Plattsburgh and RIT. The one shocking result so far in the ECAC West was Neumann tying Plattsburgh two weeks ago. Neumann led 5-1 but a ferocious third period comeback helped Plattsburgh salvage a point. That tie could come back to haunt Plattsburgh in the long run if Elmira and RIT both sweep the Knights. Plattsburgh is the de-facto leader currently since they've played five leagues games and are 4-0-1. RIT has swept Potsdam and Utica so far while Elmira is coming off two convincing wins against Cortland this past weekend in its only two league games to date.
MIAC: The question coming into every season when it comes to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is who can finally be the one to dethrone Gustavus Adolphus? The bad news for the conference so far is the Gusties haven't shown any signs of slowing down so far this season having outscored their opponents 26-6 in four games. Coach Carroll's squad once again looks to be the class of the league and the legendary coach currently sits just 23 wins shy of 300 wins in his career. GAC will face its old nemeis St. Thomas this weekend in a home and home series. The Tommies and Gusties split their regular season matchup last season and if one team can be a thorn in Gustavus' side this year, UST is most likely the team to do it.
NCHA: The most interesting conference top to bottom almost every year turns out to the NCHA. This year shouldn't be too much different. Wis.-River Falls has once again asserted itself early as the team to beat with a perfect 4-0-0 record and sweeps over Adrian and St. Scholastica. The Falcons are still stacked once again this season and they'll be looking to avenge last season's disappointing end after running the gauntlett in the regular season undefeated and then losing in the NCHA finals to Adrian and the NCAA Tournament First Round to Gustavus Adolphus. After UWRF, I expect things to be extremely tight all season from second to ninth place. At this point its a crap shoot to try and predict who will emerge. Wis.-Stevens Point is 3-0-1 so far but they'll get UWRF this weekend in the toughest two games they'll face all season. My sleeper in this league this year is St. Scholastica. The Saints are coming off two losses to UWRF but a 5-2 and 6-2 loss with the shot counts relatively close is nothing to hang your head about. CSS has four straight games against the the two teams at the bottom of the conference to get back to their winning ways and establish a foothold in the top four of the NCHA.
This weekend the NESCAC teams finally hit the ice for their first games of 2011-12 which will finally give us all 49 D-III teams in action.
Next week I'll be getting back to the Player, Rookie, and Goalie of the Week selections I used in this blog last season. I'll also be getting back to my weekly predictions in Friday.
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One of the hottest actresses in Detroit is planning to help unveil one of the hottest nightclubs downtown.
Actress and star of the ABC police drama 'Detroit 1-8-7' Natalie Martinez is scheduled to host a red-carpet event at Bleu nightclub in downtown Detroit Saturday, Nov. 6. Bleu is no newbie to the downtown club scene, but it's been recently renovated, and they're holding nothing back to showoff the new facelift.
In addition to Martinez, the evening will feature the music of DJ Prevu & DJ Maz, along with an appearance from a special guest DJ and a special performance at midnight. Doors will open at 10 p.m., and all Scorpios can get in free before 11. Bleu is located at 1540 Woodward. For more info, call 248-660-6890.


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When approaching a special occasion, we have two major goals. Our personal challenges are, first, to capture the individual beauty of the people & to show the subjects in the manner in which they see themselves. This requires sensitivity to the subjects' desires, and the ability to impart permanence to a moment in time, a subtlety that will speak to those who view the photographs long after the wedding day has passed. Our second challenge is to put on paper the composition of matter and light that we envision. The final photographs are the embodied balance of these two goals.
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UCLA junior men's tennis player wins his third professional singles title on Sunday.
Current and former UCLA standouts seek professional titles in local Futures tournament.
UCLA men's tennis player defeats high school teammate and former UW standout McMorrow in quarters.
Bruin men's tennis player reaches the quarterfinals at local futures tournament.
UCLA men's tennis player looking to gain ATP points during Bruins' week off from college matches.
Bruins suffer first loss at the Los Angeles Tennis Center since February of 2012.
Bruin freshman picked up a total of four victories in two UCLA wins last week.
Bruins improved to 11-1 on the season at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Sunday.
Bruin men's tennis team wins the doubles point and then gets three victories in singles play.
The No. 3 UCLA men's tennis team hosts defending NCAA Champion No. 2 Virginia at Noon.
Bruin men's tennis team avenges 4-3 loss to the Trojans at the National Team Indoors.
Bruins to host their cross-town rival in non-conference match at the Los Angeles Tennis Center.


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Career Issues Employment Articles in Tennessee
We can do it! – Especially in a digital age
by Hallie Crawford - Nov, 2011
I recently read this article, Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age, and thought it was so good that I had to share it. It talks about women in today's workforce. One statistic in this article that stuck out to me was in 2010, women became the workforce majority for the first time in the United States. I find this fascinating and encouraging. For far too long women were not given even close to equal opportu...
Market Transferable Skills in Job Interviews
by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011
Knowing how to market transferable skills in the job interview is a skill successful job seeker has to develop. As part of an interview team recently to identify a new Vice President, I watched many strong candidates miss opportunities to speak about their transferable skills. Many of the candidates selected for job interviews did not have specific industry experience, but had excellent transferable skills from other industrie...
Five Ways to Lose Your Job in the Electronic Age
by Barbara Safani - Oct, 2011
Sure, by now you know that displaying pictures of you partying on Facebook or tweeting about how much you hate your boss are electronic no nos. But there are other, less well known faux pas that people are making every day at work that can get them and their employers in hot water. Here are five of them. 1.Textual Harassment. Thinking about texting a co-worker on your company cell phone to ask if they want to go for a drink...
Soft Skills Learned in Career Training Programs
by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011
In addition to the practical knowledge that career training graduates develop, these five soft skills also make them attractive to employers. The Council of Economic Advisers is projecting faster-growing demand for workers with a two-year technical-college degree, or specific training, than for those with a full university degree. As Americans rethink the options for career training that will make them job ready for 21st c...
Using Video Games in the Workplace to Boost Productivity
by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011
Have you heard about the latest trend to use video games to enhance employee engagement in the workplace? How about virtual reality competitions and video games with leaderboards and other trappings of gaming in the workplace? A recent Wall Street Journal article, Latest Game Theory; Mixing Work and Play, shed some light on the practice of what one might call "enhanced gamification techniques" in the workplace. The concept...
5 Things You Need to Do to Get a Job
by Miriam Salpeter - Oct, 2011
Two construction workers sat down to lunch. Worker #1 took out his turkey sandwich and eagerly started eating. Worker #2 tentatively opened his first sandwich. Examining it, he exclaimed, "Yuck, peanut butter," and tossed it aside. Reaching in for his second sandwich, he opened it, and carefully peeled open the bread to examine the contents. "Yuck, peanut butter again!" he cried, with a dismayed look. Worker #1 asked, "Why don...
Leadership Resilience - Learning from Mistakes
by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011
I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a boutique hotel and restaurant company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation about how he has handled failure and learned from his mistakes. We talked about how he was able to bounce back from failure by viewing business as a learning laboratory. My executive coaching client and I further discussed how resilient leade...
Leadership Resilience - Optimism and Resilience
by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011
I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a boutique hotel and restaurant company. We had a deep and reflective coaching conversation about how his company bounced back from two recessions. We talked about how he was able to work through his personal distress and low mood. My executive coaching client and I further discussed how a leader's emotions are contagious. I a...
Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist
by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011
I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a Silicon Valley High Tech company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation, that revolved around how leading people and organizations today is much more complicated today than just a few years ago. Economic uncertainty and globalization, along with innovative technologies provides leaders constant challenges to successf...
Do You Take Advantage of Dead Time?
by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011
"Dead Time" -- What is it? • It's waiting in the hallway for an upcoming meeting or • The time spent taking a cab to a client's office • It's waiting "on hold" on a phone call, or • Standing in line a Starbucks, or • Waiting for an appointment to show up, or waiting at a doctor's office Stay conscious of your daily "dead time" -- those time gaps that occur throughout the day -- and use this time to catch up on...
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Weekly recreational math meetup every Monday 7-9 at 1026 Madison.
First meeting 3/28: Mathematical Balloon Twisting. Learn how to turn these into polyhedra like this
More examples here. Hands-on fun for the whole family. Balloons and pumps will be supplied.
Edit: After-math:
Turnout was light, but everyone learned some basic balloon twisting and we created a full set of Platonic solids.
Next week: Möbius strips!


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|My SL Prepper, bedecked in the finery of H's Mesh Cargo Pants
21st December 2012: That has to go down in history as the worst apocalypse ever. I, for one, was very disappointed. I'd made all the preparations (bought in some extra cans of beans, a clockwork torch and radio, camo jacket, etc). And then nothing. It was terribly disappointing.
And I had such an amazing post-apocalypse post planned for Every Second Man! I was going to include tips and tricks for surviving, special moves for taking down a zombie in a one-on-one situation ... tonnes of stuff. But (sighs) it all seems a bit redundant now. There's been no apocalypse, no polar shift and no rising of the undead. Life (and Second Life) goes on as normal.
However, I will still introduce you to my SL Prepper, who is all kitted out with the very latest in post-apocalyptic fashion, including the newly released Hoorenbeek Mesh Cargo Pants!
Mesh Cargos from Hoorenbeek have been on my SL wish-list for a while now. Their non-mesh cargos were the best I had come across in SL, and I was really excited to see how they would tackle them in mesh form. The results, I'm delighted to say, are very, very pleasing indeed.
They come in six colours (three camo and three plain), and they're suited to both the military prepper look and the casual look (particularly the beige, as I've illustrated in my montage below). The hem of the trousers comes in four different variations that allows you to pick one that best goes with your shoes or boots, whether they be high boots, ankle boots or just shoes. This works pretty well and with some adjusting I was able to get each pair of boots I tried to fit very pleasingly with the trousers. In all honesty I'm not likely to look for the 'trousers tucked into my boots' look very often, but when I do, the option is there, so this is definitely a good thing.
|'I see you baby ...'
As if my posterior wasn't tantalising enough
The detailing on the trousers is typically excellent. The shading, zips, pockets and seams are all first class, as is the choice of patterns in the camo. This goes for the belt, too, which comes in five different colours and a big silver Hoorenbeek buckle.
If there were any criticisms of the cargos, they would really be down to my own personal preferences; I couldn' find anything functionally wrong with them at all. For example, I like cargos with big chunky pockets, particularly at the back, but in comparison to Hoorenbeek's non-mesh equivalent the pockets are much smaller. Also, the belt is fabric and I would have loved a leather option. Finally, and perhaps my biggest moan, I would have liked to have been able to wear them without a belt. Unfortunately, the deep shading around the waist, marking where the belt should be, means that you can't do this unless your t-shirt, jumper or whatever actually covers that area of your waist.
Overall, I think these cargos are excellent and are definitely a worthy addition in any prepper's fashion kit. True, the 21st December didn't really live up to the hype (sighs), but who knows what cataclysmic catastrophe awaits us? At least with Hoorenbeek cargos, we can make sure we look bloody good when it strikes.
You can buy these cargos by visiting Marketplace (click here) or by going down to their inworld shop (click here). A pair is priced at $520L and the fatpack of six is set at $2100L.
Happy shopping : o )
|Post-apocalypse, it's the man with the burnt out car and the old mattress that will be King
|The colours: Brown, Black, Green, Grey, Olive and (to show a more casual look) Beige


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Chapter 7 : The Rules Of The Date (Even Though It's Not a Date)
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
"I would have frozen my tits off, it's almost snowing," I muttered back, smoothing my top down for the thirteenth time since I'd put it on. "I think we should have negotiated on the heels –"
"The heels are a winner, they're staying on," Lily butted in.
"Think of how many times I'll trip over! I'll break my ankle! I'm a complete klutz!"
"It's endearing," Fliss defended.
"It's annoying," I grunted. She sighed theatrically and grabbed my arm, spinning me round to stare at my reflection in a window.
I had to admit, I still had no idea who the girl staring back at me was.
Her black hair was messy, but in a good way. It looked teased and touched and really soft. Her eyes were outlined subtly in black. Her cheeks were flushed and lively even without her blushing, and her lips were a daring bright red. Her skin was flawless.
And that was just from the neck up.
I was wearing a heart-shaped necklace made of silver (Lily's). I was wearing a red dress that flared out under the bust and floated to my knees. It was also a bit too tight around the bust area and made them look a lot more prominent than they usually did (it's Fliss' top and her bust is considerably smaller than my own – I told her this but she just insisted I "show off my assets"). I've got a short black leather jacket and leggings with a strip of lace down the sides.
The shoes, of course, were Fliss' idea; black brogue-style three inch heels that were beautiful but deadly. She'd given me a lesson in how to walk in heels the night before, but I was average at best. Combined with my clumsiness? Disaster.
I was pleased with how I looked. I looked sort of pretty.
"Thank you, Fliss. Lily."
"Listen to me. You. Are. Hot." Fliss emphasised each word and I rolled my eyes. "Remus will think you are hot. He will blatantly try to snog you. Well, I say try…" she giggled at her own amusing wit.
I rolled my eyes again as Fliss, Lily and I reached the entrance hall where James and Remus were waiting, talking in hushed voices.
Why is James here?
Fliss and I shared a look as we noticed James' presence.
"Who are you going with again?" I hissed to her as we stopped for a moment.
"Diggory," Fliss answered with a small smirk, scanning the crowd in the entrance hall waiting for their dates for the day. "Speaking of whom, is waiting for me over there and leaning irresistibly on a wall. So, what are the rules?"
"I can't take off my shoes, I can't say no if he offers to buy me something, I will accept his jacket if he asks me if I want it, I can't take off my shoes," I chanted from memory. She had drummed 'The rules of the date' (even though it's not a date) into my head last night.
Yes, I can't take off my shoes is in there twice. She's rather adamant about that.
Who even has these type of shoes at Hogwarts?! Hello, stairs!
"Well done." She blew me a kiss. "Good luck. You'll be fine. Love you. See ya Lils, honey. Love you too."
She skipped over to Diggory and immediately caught him in a passionate snog.
"She doesn't waste time," Lily commented dryly as we watched them stride out of the castle with linked arms.
"Why are you and James here, Lily?" I asked bluntly, because I'd been dying to ask since I saw him waiting with Remus. I thought Lily was just tagging along to give me some support. She looked at her shoes uncomfortably and, for once in her life, she blushed.
"Well, James and I…just as friends, you see…and we have Head things to discuss, meetings to…plan…"
"Okay," I said simply, and her rambling stopped and she smiled gratefully. Her blush died down.
"So why are you dressed so nice?" I asked casually.
"Ophelia!" she almost yelled at me, and James and Remus turned round to look at us. When they realized it was us, they waved us over.
The first thing I thought as Lily held my arm and supported me over was that Remus looked amazing. He was wearing a pale blue button up shirt with long sleeves – I could see the cuffs near his hands underneath a black blazer that was over the top. He was wearing dark blue jeans and slightly scuffed up black trainers. His hair was messy and irresistible and his eyes were almost sparkling. He was dressed so casual, but so handsome.
Remus smiled nervously at me as he looked me up and down, taking in my outfit, his eyes popping out slightly as he worked his way up. Am I too overdressed for his liking? Should I have gone with jeans and a baggy shirt, as is my preference? Oh God, he's going to think I think this is a date when he doesn't.
Which I don't. Because it isn't a date.
"Hey," James said as we reached them, and Lily let go of my arm to stand next to James.
"Shall we go?" she asked him. He nodded and they both turned to Remus and me, a sly look on both of their faces.
"See you later, guys! Have a nice time!" Lily called, and they both sped towards the doors together and out of sight.
"Ophelia, you look amazing," Remus said when they were gone, and I felt a blush spread across my cheeks.
"Thank you," I mumbled to the floor, but he lifted my chin up.
"Are you wearing make up?" he asked amusedly, stroking down my cheek to feel the blusher. I felt my heart speed up.
"Well, yeah," I stuttered out.
"And can you even walk in those shoes?" he continued, dropping my face and looking down at my feet, clearly enjoying himself.
"Uh, sort of," I said, and instantly swayed on the spot. He caught my arm and held me upright, and then examined my clothes.
"I've never seen you wearing these before," he said.
"Well, Fliss sort of made me –"
"Ah, Flick. Say no more." He smiled and offered his arm, which I took gratefully.
We walked to Hogsmeade in a comfortable silence, occasionally saying something as the mood took us. He told me about the Marauder's prank on Jennifer, Stacie and Amber, which was to happen after Hogsmeade was over during the Halloween feast.
"I probably shouldn't go into much detail, but they'll be covered head-to-toe in some sort of gooey substance," he said with a smirk, and I could see he was pleased at the idea of payback.
"You really don't have to get into trouble for me," I said quietly, "I mean, it's all over and done with now, right?"
"They deserve it, Ophelia," Remus said firmly and I didn't answer, squeezing his arm a little instead. He squeezed back and we stayed quiet for a while.
"How's your Potions Tutorage going?" he asked in a breezy tone, and although he seemed okay with the idea of discussing Regulus now I knew he still wasn't.
"It's good. I think I'm improving." I smiled at him. "Can't you tell how brilliant I've been in Potions lately?"
"I was thinking maybe that was down to luck," he teased, and I hit him lightly on the arm. He grinned at me.
"You are improving," he said softly, "I'm proud of you."
"Thank you," I said just as softly back, and instead of smiling like I was supposed to I felt my foot slide when it wasn't supposed to and my feet went flying out from beneath me. Remus quickly wrapped his arm round my wait and hoisted me up on my feet once again.
"Careful of the ice," he said, a bite of humour in his voice.
"Thanks for that," I said, embarrassed at myself. He shrugged his shoulders as if to say no problem and we continued on walking, and he didn't take his arm from around my waist. Anyone looking at us would think we were a real couple.
Soon enough we were in Hogsmeade.
"Where would you like to go first?" he asked me. I looked around at the shops for a bit.
"Somewhere warm?" I asked with a smile. The temperature had dropped a few degrees and the wind had picked up during our walk, and I could do with a hot drink.
"Hmm…how about…Madam Puddifoots?" he suggested fearfully, and I looked at the building. My eyes went wide as I stared at the tackiness. I'd never actually seen the place before, just heard about it on Fliss' various accounts of dates.
"Um, anywhere else?" I asked desperately. He sighed thankfully and gave me a rough grin that made me want to melt.
"Well, there's another coffee shop near Zonko's. James, Sirius, Peter and I used to go there after they'd bought items of a destructive nature." I giggled. "It's a really nice place."
"Sure," I said, and he led us to it, helping me keep my footing occasionally as we came across an ice patch.
Well, it looked better from the outside at least. It was down a small alley next to Zonko's that seemed almost deserted. As I peered inside I could see natural, earthy tones like dark chocolate brown and warm beige decorating the place.
He opened the door for me and I walked inside, and the rush of warmth almost blew me straight back out the door again. He came up behind me and took my elbow, and led me to the counter. I looked at everything they had on sale and was still deliberating what to have when a woman that looked a few years older than us behind the counter asked, "What can I get you guys?" Remus turned his head to look at her and she brightened instantly. I felt a stir of jealousy in my stomach but I suppressed it, and settled for smiling politely.
"Remus, hey! Where's the rest of them today?"
"Oh, hello Emily. Sirius and Peter are in detention today, unfortunately, and James is elsewhere. This is Ophelia," he said politely, and I tried to smile.
"Well, it's nice to meet you finally," the girl grinned, and she extended a hand. I shook it politely but I'm not sure my face was completely friendly. "I'm Emily. The guys talk about you all the time –"
"So can I get a coffee, please?" Remus interrupted quickly, and Emily gave me a small wink. She was quite pretty – her hair was a dark brown and fell in loose curls to her shoulders. Her face was warm and her eyes were a deep green. She was wearing simple plain clothes that accentuated her tiny frame. She looked so pretty dressed so simply. What was I thinking, letting Sirius and Fliss dress me up like this?
"Sure, sure. And what can I get for you, Ophelia?"
"Um…" I took another glance at the menu board behind the counter. "Could I have a hot chocolate, please?"
"Cream and marshmallows?"
"Um, just the cream please."
"Comin' right up." I started to take my money out of my pocket but Remus beat me to it, paying for my drink before I could even say no.
I was about to object, but then I remembered what Fliss had told me. So I smiled gratefully at him and gave his arm another squeeze.
"Thank you." He smiled crookedly at me and nodded his head.
"Here you are." Emily placed our drinks on the counter and waved. "Have a nice day, you two!"
Remus smiled and led me over to a comfortable, worn-looking loveseat with a small coffee table in front of it. We both sat down in silence for a while, nursing our drinks and warming up. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Emily serving another couple.
"She seems nice," I said, and I worked hard to mask the stiffness in my voice.
"Yes," Remus said absent-mindedly, staring into his coffee cup, "She's a lovely girl."
She's a lovely girl.
Of course he likes her. She was just his type, I could tell. I sipped on my hot chocolate, trying to take my mind off of it.
He looked up at me and smiled brightly. "So!"
I smiled back and took another sip of my hot chocolate.
"So," I repeated. I looked around to find something to make conversation about. "This is a really nice place. Nice and cosy." Remus grinned and nodded.
"It's started to snow," he said suddenly, and I looked out of the foggy window that was to my right to see for myself. Snow had just started to fall lightly onto the ground, and it was sticking to the windows. I smiled.
"It's so pretty," I almost whispered, not knowing why I was so quiet.
"It is," Remus agreed, but when I looked back at him he wasn't looking at the snow – he was looking at me.
I found myself unable to look away from him.
"Ophelia, can I ask you something?" He sounded so nervous, but yet so confident and sure of himself at the same time.
I found that I was holding my breath and suddenly let it go in one big gasp.
"Sure," I almost breathed, and he was staring at me so intently I found it impossible to even think about anything other than what sort of shade of grey his eyes were. They were definitely bright. Like silver. And shining. And oh, so breathtakingly beautiful that all I wanted to do was to stare in them for the rest of my life.
He opened his mouth to tell me something, but at the same moment the door flew open and the freezing cold hit us in the face. I screwed up my face and closed my eyes tight for a moment, but when I opened them Remus wasn't looking at me but at the door and whoever had opened it. And he was glaring. It was the special sort of glare that he reserved for only one person.
"Ophelia, hello. Remus." Regulus was standing in front of the door with a glittery blonde hanging off of his arm, staring at Remus with the same glare that Remus had for him.
"Hello, Regulus," I said softly, and I gently wrapped a hand around Remus' arm to stop him from making a grab for his wand. I mean, I knew I wasn't strong but Remus normally listens to me and does what I ask with good reason, even if I can't force him into it.
"Regulus." Remus' tone was curt and sharp, so much different from how he had just been talking to me.
"This is Charlotte." Regulus gestured to the stunning blonde attached to him and she tightened her grip on his arm. She smiled sweetly but it was only just masking a look of hatred.
"We should be going," Remus said roughly, and he jerked out of my grip to stand up. I looked down at our half finished drinks and followed him up.
"See you later, Regulus," I said, and he nodded.
"Don't forget our Tutor session tomorrow," he reminded me, even though he knew that I knew because we had been talking about it yesterday. Part of me thought it was more for Remus' benefit than for mine.
"I won't." Remus took me by the arm again and, avoiding Regulus like the plague, opened the door and pulled me out behind him. The door swung swiftly shut in Regulus' face and Remus kept a firm grip on my arm as he led me out of the alley and away from the coffee shop.
"Remus, are you alright?" I asked hesitantly. He looked at me sideways and shrugged his shoulders in a vague way.
"Fine," he said, even though we both knew he wasn't. We didn't stop walking until we had come to a dark wooden fence that clung round the side of the land. It looked down over the Shrieking Shack, I realized with a horrible jolt, and Remus was looking at it in a strange way. We were silent for a few minutes and his face was getting even graver.
"What was it that you wanted to ask me earlier?" I asked, desperately trying to distract him.
"It doesn't matter," he said after a moment, "it was of no consequence." Part of me deflated a little.
"Oh. Are you sure?" I moved a little closer to him and he looked down at me with a sort of gaze that made me wonder whether he even remembered why I was with him.
"I'm sure." He sighed and linked my arm once more, turning away from the ledge. "It wasn't important." He started to walk away from the ledge and I meant to follow, but my heel got caught in a small hole and I tripped face forwards. Remus wasn't expecting it and, because he was holding onto me, fell down with me. We crashed to the floor with a loud thump and I heard a small crack. We laid there for just a second.
"Ow." I felt my face, checking my nose for the sound of the crack. It wasn't broken. Neither was anything else on my body.
"Are you alright?" I heard Remus ask from beside me. I turned on my side to look at him, and he was lying in the same way I was.
"Yeah, I think so. Are you? I heard a crack." He was quiet for a moment whilst he checked everything was in working order.
"I'm a bit bruised but other than that, I'm fine."
"Good." And then the shock of the fall hit me and suddenly I was giggling, unable to stop. Remus looked at me as though I were crazy but started to laugh as well, and soon enough we were hysterical. It took us a few minutes to calm down.
"We should get up," Remus said from next to me, his voice still happy from our laughter, "we'll get ill." With that he lifted himself up and offered his hand to me. I took it willingly and he hoisted me up.
"As much fun as that was, let's not try for a repeat performance," he said, grinning at me. My face went red and I rolled my eyes, happy that he was over his bad mood.
"I'll try, but no promises." We linked arms again and started to walk, but then I realized what had snapped – somehow I was about three inches taller on one foot than the other.
"Wait!" We stopped and, leaning on him, I picked my right foot up to examine my shoe. And sure enough, the heel had completely snapped off.
"Bugger," I moaned, "Bugger! Fliss is going to kill me!"
"You broke her heel?" Remus asked, and he snickered at me. I slapped his arm gently.
"Don't laugh at me, this is serious! She'll skin me alive!"
"Don't worry, I'll just buy you a new pair of shoes." I frowned at him, just about to say that he didn't need to, when Fliss' rules came back to haunt me.
"That would be really nice of you, Remus," I said, and he smiled down at me, pleased. I bent down in the rapidly forming snow and found Fliss' heel, and put it in my pocket.
I had to put up with walking strangely until we got back into the village, and Remus guided me towards a shoe shop that I'd never even known existed until now. We went in and I immediately took off Fliss' broken shoes. A woman working in the shop led me to the girl's section, and I hesitatingly picked out a simple pair of black pumps with a bow at the front – not the most convenient shoes for the weather but at least I could walk in them. I tried them on and they fit perfectly and didn't hurt at all; they felt like I'd had them for years.
"They look lovely on you," Remus had decided, and so I let him buy me them, stuttering my thanks as he did so.
"Now I've just got to tell Fliss about the heel…" I took it out of my pocket and gazed at it morosely. The woman in the shop cleared her throat hesitantly.
"We can repair your heel, if you want," she said, "although I'm sorry to say that the shoes you just bought are non-refundable, since you're already wearing them." I looked down at my shoes and sighed. Typical.
"Yes please," I said, and handed the broken shoe plus its heel over to her.
"I'll be back in a moment," she said with an apologetic smile, and went to the back of the shop.
"Sorry I wasted your money," I murmured to Remus.
"Any money spent on you isn't wasted," he said back, and my face flamed again. I smiled up at him and he smiled his amazing crooked smile back down at me.
Within seconds the woman came back.
"Here's your shoe." She returned the shoe to me and I examined the heel – it was as good as new.
"Thank you," Remus said for me, and led us both out of the shop. He took the bag we had put Fliss' shoes in from me and smiled. Once outside, we looked around the street.
"We could go the Three Broomsticks if you want?" he asked me, "Unless you have anything else you want to do."
"No, that sounds fine to me." Maybe Fliss would be there, and we could give her back her shoes…
"Great." We walked together to the Three Broomsticks, which was just a few minutes up the road. The snow had started to fall thicker, and it was hard to distinguish anything out. The only thing that made the Three Broomsticks visible was the smoke billowing from its chimney.
As Remus opened the door, the steaming hot air hit me as it had done in the coffee shop. We walked in together and he closed the door behind us, and we immediately started searching for somewhere to sit.
"Is that Lily and James?" I heard Remus ask me over the din. I looked to where he was pointing and sure enough, Lily and James were sitting in a booth in the corner, leant into each other over the table and talking quietly. They were both smiling.
"It doesn't look like there's anywhere else to sit," Remus sighed, looking around, "Shall we go interrupt them?"
"Sure," I answered. We got to their table after fighting our way through all the other customers. Once they noticed us they immediately leant back from each other and Lily looked at the floor guiltily, though James looked at us with a bright beam on his face.
"Hey guys," he said happily, "having a good day?"
"Yeah, we went to the coffee shop where Emily works," Remus said, taking a seat next to James as he budged up in the booth. "And we wandered around for a while until somebody broke the heel off their shoe..." James and Lily turned to look at me.
"They're fixed now," I said defensively. They just laughed.
"Oh, Ophie. You are a rare one. I fancy a refill, Moony, wanna come to the bar? Lily, do you want another drink?" James stood up.
"Sure, thanks," Lily said, going quiet again.
"Would you like a drink Ophelia?," Remus asked.
"A Butterbeer would be great thanks Remus," I nodded. The two boys walked towards the bar together. As soon as they were out of ear-shot I turned in my seat and waited for Lily to look up at me, grinning.
"No words. Just, no words." She groaned and knocked her head on the table several times.
"Well now. This is quite an interesting turn of events," I said, my grin not fading. She groaned again. "What's going on?"
"It started off as talking about our head duties. And then we just started talking about other things. About ourselves, and you lot, and we were really getting along and he wasn't being an arrogant bastard and I don't know…Oh, Ophie, why couldn't I see this before?"
"Because you never really gave him a chance," I said truthfully, and she looked up at me. "He is a great guy, but he just gets cocky and nervous around you. But you've seen what he can be like and you...you quite like it, don't you?"
"I don't know," she moaned. "I-I just…don't know…" She sighed and steeled herself, finishing the rest of her drink in one gulp. The boys were back relatively quickly.
"Here you go," James said to Lily, placing he drink down gently on the table in front of her. She tried a half smile at him and mumbled a thanks before taking a huge gulp. Remus handed me mine and I smiled my thanks at him. "Actually, I'm just gonna pop to the loo. Be right back," James added, and took off instead of sitting down. Remus slid into the booth and nodded his head in Lily's direction, silently asking what was wrong. I just rolled my eyes and nodded back to James. He looked as though he understood what I was trying to say and smiled, taking a sip of his drink. I did the same.
"Hey, is that Fliss and Diggory?" Lily said suddenly, and I looked up to where she was looking. They were standing at the bar, his arm round her waist. She was giggling at something he was saying.
"She looks happy," I commented.
James suddenly came into view and joined in the conversation. As Diggory was talking we could see James' face quickly fall into protectiveness – or jealousy? He hugged Fliss tightly and whispered something in her ear, to which she laughed and kissed his cheek lightly.
Suddenly there was a large clank as something glass hit the floor. I turned to Lily and she was physically shaking, her face was bright red and positively furious. Her glass lay on the floor, Butterbeer spilling everywhere.
"Lily?" Remus asked, putting his drink down. She didn't seem to register his voice. She stood up swiftly, not bothering to clean up the Butterbeer on the floor and stepped past us, heading for the door. Fliss noticed her coming and waved, but Lily simply nudged past her, her shoulder roughly shoving Fliss out of the way and onto the floor. The intention was clear. James helped her up and he, Fliss and Diggory stared after Lily, confused and taken-aback.
Then their gaze turned to Remus and I, and we hurriedly got up to join them, leaving our drinks.
"What the fuck is her problem?" was the first thing that came out of Fliss' mouth.
"I have no idea," I said truthfully.
"I should go see her," James muttered, but I shook my head.
"I'll go find her," I said, trying my best not to be disappointed that I couldn't have a walk with Remus back to the castle. I looked at his face and I think he felt the same.
"I'll come too," Fliss said, "I think I have a right to ask why the hell she just knocked me over." I bit my lip but nodded.
"We'll see you guys back at the school, okay?" I said, and they both nodded. James turned back to the bar but Remus stayed facing towards me and cleared his throat. Fliss raised her eyebrows but simply said, "I'll be outside."
Once she'd left, Remus gave me a hug.
"I had a great day," he said into my hair. I hugged him back and smiled into his chest.
"So did I," I said softly.
"I'll…I'll see you later, okay?" he asked, and I nodded. Then, ever so slowly, I went on my tip-toes and gently brushed my lips on his jaw line. Blushing madly, I stepped back.
"Bye!" I said, and rushed out the door.
Wow. I just sort of kissed Remus Lupin.
But on to more pressing matters, such as finding Lily and seeing what's up with her…
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A Doppler weather radar operates at a frequency of 3.40 GHz. The wave from this radar system reflects from an approaching weather system moving with a speed of 39.0 m/s. What is the difference in frequency between the outgoing and returning waves? Ans: 884 Hz
How do I compute this? I did
$$f = f_s (1 \pm u/c)$$
$$f = 3.4\times 10^9 (1 + \frac{39}{3 \times 10^8}) = 442 Hz$$
I suppose thats the incoming frequency? How do I know the outgoing frequency difference? Looks like its just times 2? Why?


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May 25, 2002
Cleveland, Ohio - Junior southpaw Scott Anderson (Beulah, ND/Beulah) scattered five hits over seven innings as the University of Illinois at Chicago baseball team defeated Butler, 5-3, in the Horizon League Tournament at Jacobs Field on Saturday night.
With the victory, UIC (39-15) advances further into the winner's bracket against UW-Milwaukee at 11:00 A.M. (CST). UIC needs to defeat the Panthers twice on Sunday in order to capture the Horizon League Championship. Butler ends its season with a record of 34-23.
Anderson, who struck out two batters, improves his record to 3-0 on the 2002 campaign, while Butler starter Troy Parton falls to 2-2. UIC reliever Charlie Hahn (Rolling Meadows, Ill./Rolling Meadows) allowed one run in the final two innings to pick up his first career save.
Junior Curtis Granderson (lynwood, Ill./T.F. South) led UIC offensively as he went 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Granderson was a home run shy of the cycle. Senior John Rosner (Ottawa, Ill./Marquette) went 2-for-4 with two RBI and tied the UIC record for career hits with 224, while sophomore Mike Lorenzo (Lockport, Ill./Providence) went 2-for-2 with two RBI.
UIC got on the board in the bottom of the first inning as Granderson lined a 2-out double to left center. Rosner followed suit and plated Granderson with another RBI double to left-center to give the Flames a 1-0 lead. Lorenzo (Lockport, Ill./Providence) drove in Rosner with a RBI single to right field to extend UIC's lead to 2-0.
UIC added another pair of runs in the bottom of the third inning as Mike Hughes (Hoffman Estates, Ill./Fremd) and Granderson opened up the frame with back-to-back singles to put runners at first and third with one out.
Lorenzo stepped to the plate and and promptly launched a sacrifice fly to center field that scored Hughes for his second Rbi of the day to push the Flames lead to 3-0.
Junior designated hitter Chuck Peters (Orland Park, Ill./Sandburg) roped a single to put runners at first and third for junior catcher Kevin Nelson (Arlington Heights, Ill./Rolling Meadows).Nelson drove in Granderson from third with a RBI single to extend UIC's lead to 4-0. .
Butler got on the board in the top of the seventh inning as Bulldogs left fielder Paul Beck took the first offering from Anderson iver the left-field wall to cut UIC's lead to 4-1.
UIC answered right back in the bottom half of the frame as Granderson connected for a one-out triple that sailed over the head of Butler center fielder Matt Crews. Rosner then brought him home with his second RBI double of the day to extend the Flames' lead to 5-1.
Butler narrowed the gap to 5-3 behind a RBI groundout from second baseman Jeff Steele and a solo home run from first baseman Ryan Nance, but Hahn shut the door on the Bulldogs to preserve the victory and the Flames' title chances.


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I'm looking for a regular group of causal gamers with a minimum of drama which comes with younger players typically.
Tell us about yourself or anything else you'd like to share.
Well my name is Jason and I'm a 31 year old government employee, I jump around from game to game and have played most big games that came out in the last 10-12 years. I'm playing Neverwinter on the Dragon shard as my cleric Sigil, you can find me as Sigil@Niloh. If Niloh looks familiar to anyone it could have been me you've ran into before, I've been using Niloh as a character name for a long time in most games I've played.
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Currently TOG consists of nearly 30 game divisions and over 58,000 registered members. There's also plenty of other cool stuff on TOG, so browse around & check it all out. We sincerely hope that you enjoy TOG for as long as you choose to. Feel free to spread the message to your friends and family who enjoy gaming and don't forget to have fun yourself!
All the best!
The Older Gamers
thank you Birko for the sig
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