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The Bruins and Waves, who are actually scheduled to meet at UCLA next week, were not supposed to face off in the first round at the Indoors. Pepperdine was a late replacement in the event after Duke was unable to make it to Houston due to severe weather in North Carolina.
UCLA claimed the doubles point on Friday when ninth-ranked Marcos Giron and Mackenzie McDonald were 6-2 winners over Francis Alcantara and Alex Sarkissian at court No. 1. Joseph Di Giulio and Clay Thompson preceded that clinching point with a 6-1 win over Tom Hill and David Sofaer at court No. 2.
It was fairly routine for the Bruins from there on out, as UCLA cruised to three straight-set victories to lock up the 4-0 victory. The clinching win came from court No. 5, where Dennis Mkrtchian downed Pedro Leme, 6-4, 6-5(2).
USTA/ITA National Team Indoors
#2 UCLA 4, #15 Pepperdine 0
Feb 14, 2014 at Houston, TX (Downtown Club at the Met)
|1. #9 Giron/McDonald (UCLA) def. Sarkissian/Alcantara (PEP) 6-2
|2. Thompson/Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Sofaer/Hill (PEP) 6-1
|3. Mkrtchian/Karue Sell (UCLA) vs. Alex Giannini/Leme (PEP) 3-4, unfinished
UCLA Wins Doubles Point
|1. #1 Clay Thompson (UCLA) vs. #36 Alex Sarkissian (PEP) 6-4, 4-5, unfinished
|2. #5 Marcos Giron (UCLA) def. #116 David Sofaer (PEP) 6-2, 6-0
|3. #51 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) vs. Francis Alcantara (PEP) 6-3, 5-5, unfinished
|4. #26 Gage Brymer (UCLA) def. Stefan Menichella (PEP) 6-0, 6-2
|5. Dennis Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. Pedro Leme (PEP) 6-4, 6-5(2)
|6. Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) vs. Tom Hill (PEP) 6-3, 3-4, unfinished
|Match Notes
|Pepperdine 4-2; National ranking #15
|UCLA 6-0; National ranking #2
|Order of finish: Doubles (2,1); Singles (2,4,5)
|ITA National Men's Team Indoor Championship - First Round


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Earlier this week, one of our readers brought to our attention a troubling story from the San Francisco Chronicle.
If you've ever driven up Highway 29 in the Napa Valley, winding past Yountville headed north, you've undoubtedly slowed down around Oakville Cross Road to allow others to pull off for a stop at Oakville Grocery. The small store, which offers valley visitors a wide selection of gourmet food, has been a Napa Valley icon for more than 120 years.
According to the Chronicle, Oakville Grocery, which over the years has expanded beyond its Napa Valley roots, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. It's hard to imagine a business that seems (from the outside anyway) to be so popular, could be in such a position.
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Potential Starting Lineup
Brad Boyer
Eighth in Pac-10 with 21 runs scored 2
Jason Donald
Missed just the 2nd game of his three-year career last week 3
Eric Berger
Five of nine hits are doubles 4
Brad Glenn
Hit his second HR of the season last weekend 5
Konrad Schmidt
Hit .364 at #15 Mississippi State last weekend 6
Jon Gaston
Third on the team in hitting 7
T.J. Steele
Team-leader with four triples this season 8
David Plante
Batted .429 last weekend at #15 Mississippi State 9
Colt Sedbrook
Has been hit by a Pac-10-high 13 pitches this year Pitching
Eric Berger
Fourth in the Pac-10 in strikeouts Sat.
Preston Guilmet
Has a 3.12 ERA as a starter Sun.
Brad Mills
Went a career-high 5 2/3 innings last weekend CP
Mark Melancon
Has given up just one earned run out of the pen this year
Last Week
The Wildcats were swept in a three-game series for the first time since April 23-25, 2004 after No. 15-ranked Mississippi State won 3-2, 9-2 and 5-4 in Starkville last weekend ... The Wildcats batted .232 in the three-game series and finished with four doubles, two triples and a home run ... On the mound, the UA pitching staff posted a 5.62 ERA in 24 innings pitched and finished with 32 strikeouts.
A Quick Look at
After getting swept by Stanford on the opening weekend of the 2006 season, the No. 7-ranked Titans have won 14 of their last 17 games and a season-high five-straight ... CSF enters the weekend series in Tucson with a .296 team batting average and has hit 40 doubles, seven triples and 10 home runs ... Individually, infielder Justin Turner leads the team with a .358 batting and seven stolen bases ... Junior Blake Davis has scored a team-high 22 runs this season while freshman David Cooper in the team-leader in RBI with 18 ... On the mound, the Titans boast a 2.78 team ERA and have 141 strikeouts in 178 innings pitched ... Friday starter Wes Romer is 4-0 this season with a 1.40 ERA in 45 innings pitched ... The sophomore right-hander has struck out 46 batters this year and has yet to issue a walk in six starts, one word - WOW ... CSF is led by 10th-year head coach George Horton, who has compiled a 416-178-1 record with the Titans.
The History
Last Season
Arizona and Cal State Fullerton met up for six games in 2005, three in the regular season and three in the NCAA regional ... The Titans won four of the six and eliminated the Wildcats from the postseason ... In the regular season, Arizona won the opening game of the three-game series 1-0, but CSF rallied to take the second two games 7-1 and 17-15 ... In the regional, the Wildcats again won the first contest, but the Titans triumphed in the next two games to end UA's season ... All six games were played at Goodwin Field in Fullerton.
Offensive Numbers
Entering the weekend against No. 7 Cal State Fullerton the Arizona offense is batting .285 as a team and is averaging 6.6 runs, 9.6 hits, 1.8 doubles and 6.1 RBI per game ... With just six home runs this season, UA's power numbers are down but the Wildcats have still managed to hit 32 doubles and a Pac-10-high 15 triples this year.
Pitching Numbers
The 2006 season has been a year of two different pitching staffs - the first nine games and the last nine games. Over the course of the first nine contests the Wildcats pitchers posted a 5.85 ERA in 80 innings, and the opposition batted .301 against them. In the last nine games, including four against ranked teams, the Wildcats have a 2.96 team ERA in 79 innings, and the opposition is batting just .249 against them ... The Wildcat pitching staff is third in the Pac-10 in strikeouts this season with 181, trailing only UCLA (184) and Arizona State (182) which have both played four more games than UA this season.
Starters Starting To Step Up
One reason for the improved pitching numbers has been the starting staff. In the first nine games of the 2006 season, the
Starters First Nine vs. Last Nine
First Nine
2-4, 6.92 ERA, 40 1/3 IP, 62 H, 42 R, 31 ER, 12 BB, 36 K Last Six
Ringing Them Up
Friday starter Eric Berger has seen his strikeout totals improve over his last three starts. In his first three games this season, the left-hander averaged four Ks a game, and had just 12 punchouts in 17 innings pitched. Against UA's last three opponents, La Salle, Minnesota and No. 15 Mississippi State, Berger has 27 strikeouts in 15 2/3 innings pitched, an average of nine Ks per start. The improved strikeout total coincides with a lower ERA, as it is two runs better (2.76) over the last three games then in the first three (4.76).
Mound Construction
Engineering major Brad Mills has done some fine work on the mound as the third starter in the
Mills First Two Seasons vs. 2006
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Melancon Mows ?'Em Down
Wildcat closer Mark Melancon has been nearly untouchable out of the bullpen this season. Having surrendered just one earned run in relief this season, the right-hander currently leads the Wildcats with an impressive 1.86 ERA (third-best in the Pac-10). Out of the pen, Melancon has struck out 30 batters and walked only six in 24 innings pitched. As the closer, opponents are hitting just .183 against him. The "as the closer" qualifier must be used, because in his one start this season the junior surrendered a career-high six runs on five hits to New Mexico, and thus his return to the bullpen.
Melancon Starting vs. Relief Numbers This Season
Starting (1 start)
0-1, 9.00 ERA, 5 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, .333 Opp BA Relief (7 app)
3-2, 2 saves, 0.38 ERA, 24 IP, 15 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 6 BB, 30 K, .183 Opp BA
Not Your Typical Closer
As noted above, Mark Melancon has posted some very nice numbers out of the bullpen in the early going for
Coulon Comes Through
Left-hander David Coulon has been impressive in his last two appearances. After giving up five earned runs on five hits over 3 1/3 innings against Loyola Marymount on opening weekend, Coulon has given up just one hit and struck out three in two appearances out of the bullpen over the last two weekends. Working two-thirds of an inning against No. 11 Nebraska and 2 2/3 innings at No. 15 Mississippi State, Coulon has cut his ERA in half for the year and is forcing his way back into the pitching mix for the Wildcats.
Guilmet Gets the Nod
Freshman right-hander Preston Guilmet moved into the weekend rotation on Feb. 26, and has made an impression in three career starts. Starting against
Guilmet Relief vs. Starting Numbers
|Relief (4 app)
|0-0, 5.79 ERA, 9 1/3 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 14 K, .243 Opp BA
|Starting (3 starts)
|1-2, 3.12 ERA, 17 1/3 IP, 17 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 5 BB, 20 K, .250 Opp BA
Freshman Preston Guilmet has been the recipient of a couple of tough losses. The right-hander is 1-2 this season, but in his two losses he has given up just a total of five runs on 11 hits in 10 1/3 innings pitched. The Wildcat offense has posted a combined three runs in those two losses, a 3-1 decision to No. 11 Nebraska and a 9-2 defeat to No. 15 Mississippi State.
Taking a Dose
Maybe an orange safety vest should be required for the
Individually, sophomore Colt Sedbrook has been plunked by a Pac-10-high 13 pitches in 18 games this season and is just six HBP away from tying teammate Jason Donald's single season record of 19 set last season.
Bulls Eye
Getting plunked in back-to-back ABs against La Salle on .Feb. 25 moved junior Jason Donald past Kenny Corley for the top spot on the all-time HBP list at
Helping Hand
When not taking the mound as the Friday starter, left-hander Eric Berger has helped his pitching staffmates as the DH. Starting nine games in the batting order, Berger has found more than a little success. In 29 at-bats this season, the sophomore has nine hits, five doubles, four runs scored and a very impressive 10 RBI. Last Friday at
Getting Old
The Nine Hole
The last spot in the batting order has been one of the most productive for
A Bad Slice
Double D on the DL
Outfielder Derek Decater will not be available this weekend after injuring his shoulder in a collision with the left field fence at the Metrodome on March 3. After entering the game as a defensive replacement against
One Pitch, One Swing, Two Accomplishments
Freshman Jon Gaston hit the first collegiate pitch thrown to him over the right field fence at Kindall Field in UA's season-opener against LMU on Feb. 3. The home run marked the first time since Nick Hundley in 2003 that a UA player homered in his first career at-bat. Hitting the home run as pinch hitter, Gaston's HR was also the first for a replacement batter at
Preseason Pac-10 Poll
The Wildcats have been picked to finish in a tie for fifth in the conference this year in the annual preseason coaches poll. Defending champ
The Non-Conference Slate
Clemens Award Watch List
Junior Mark Melancon was one of 40 collegiate players nationwide to be named to the early watch list for the 2006 Roger Clemens Award. The award is presented to the top player in the nation upon the conclusion of the year. UA's John Meloan was named to the watch list a year ago for the Wildcats.
Renovations Replay
The offseason was busy time around Jerry Kindall Field at Frank Sancet Stadium. After the July summer camps wrapped up the heavy equipment moved in, tore out the entire playing surface, a total of six rows of bleachers and the old score board. In their stead was placed a laser-leveled playing surface, grass berms for seating down both the right and left field lines and a new score board and video board. Also added was a billboard in right field with UA's 15 CWS appearances and three national titles represented. The left field area behind the grass berm, which is still under construction, is being remade into a


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I have a .22 caliber Marauder that will not hold a six inch group at twenty five yards. This morning I polished the inside barrel with bore polish (25 passes) and mag polish 10 passes. Then dry patches until very clean. (6) I then took it to the range and fired 60 rounds of 18.1 grain JBS through it just to get it back to *normal*. 6 inches again. I want to order a new barrel but when I get it ...I have to take the old one off the gun and replace with new. This morning I found the three screws to remove but I could not figure out how to get the barrel free from the front breech. Does it screw out? Pressed in? Glued in? Magic? Do I have to de-gas the gun. As you can see, I just don't understand nuttin.Tanks Murph.
How to remove barrel from .22 Mrod???
Started by Mr Del , Feb 02 2011 04:50 PM
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 05:45 PM
I don't have a Maurader, but I'd check here....http://www.maraudera...forum/index.php
Posted 02 February 2011 - 07:04 PM
I did find post that talked about removing the barrel but not how to remove it.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 10:10 AM
This may help...http://www.crosman.c...63 ...0& PL.PDFTo remove the barrel , remove the bolt tensioning screw (big slot-head, top rear of the breech), then remove the rifle's bolt (held by one allen head); then remove the allen screw you access through the hole where the tensioning screw was. Then, pull the two allen head screws going through the breech on either side of the barrel. The breech will lift off at this point. Mind you don't lose the aluminum transfer tube or the seals on either end of it. Finally, loosen the two allen grub screws going through the center top of the breech. The barrel will slide out at this point.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 01:33 PM
Hey Murph....Have you thought about sending that gun into Tim at Mac1? He's a great gunsmith with very reasonable fees and I bet would get your Maruder in fine shooting order very quickly at a reasonable cost. Sometimes it's less expensive and far less aggravating to have the pro's do the deed....which allows us shooters to just take part in the fun of shootin'
Posted 30 March 2011 - 01:37 PM
Have you contacted Crosman?
Posted 23 April 2011 - 01:12 PM
Have you tried other pellets? I hear that the JSBs do not fit well in some guns, in others they are a tack driver.I ordered some heavier pellets with bigger heads to try in mine. I just got my Mrod .22 a few days ago tho, so I cant really comment too much. Just a lot of reading online.
Posted 23 April 2011 - 01:33 PM
My Mrod has been out of order because I sent it back to West Virgina. I ordered a thumb hole custom stock for it and because I am handicapped a person volunteered to inlay it for me. I have not received it back yet. I will finish the stock with sanding and polishing, I am just fine with that type of work. Tanks, Murph.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
MerchantAnywhere.com releases Limo payment mobile app
Monday, July 14, 2014 Industry News, Technology 1 comment
Like Pocket Verifier, PV-Limo enables limousine operators to accept credit card payments and also generates paper receipts so they can detail industry-specific charges like fares, tolls, parking fees and more. The functionality of the app is also very customizable, with programmable everyday charges, one time charges, suggested gratuity and other features.
"Hardcopy receipts are not only the best protection against chargebacks, but they are also proven to increase the tip amount," Advanced Merchant Solutions CEO and co-founder Dennis Ideue said in the release. "When the cardholder is presented with a clipboard and a receipt to add tip and signature, they know the operator is going to see that. In one case study," he added, "our field testers saw a definite increase in tip sizes, and during the 12-week testing phase, they got zero chargebacks or retrieval requests. The system definitely works and pays for itself [and] it also makes the user look far more professional, having printed receipts with all of their fees and charges detailed for the cardholder."
The free PV-Limo app is currently available for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets from the Google Play and Apple App Stores.
For more information about Advanced Merchant Solutions and PV-Limo, visit www.MerchantAnywhere.com/Limo.
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What a great concept! Being able to both make drivers happier (with larger gratuity) and to further negate the likelihood of charge-backs is a complete win-win! Currently, we're not even able to provide "on site" credit card transactions and have to go with cash only on the day of. So, this would even allow us to provide a greater level of convenience to our clients. We'll have to look into providing this to our drivers. Thank you for posting this!ReplyDelete
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How to to calculate the maximim or minimum of two numbers without using "if" ( or something equivalant to that manner)?
The above question is often asked in introductory computer science courses and is answered using this method.
Now although it is not obvious, but using absolute value is also equivalant to using an if statement e.g. defining Max(a,b) = a if a>b else b;
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Yes, there really is a "Mountain Mama." A walk through a field of St. John's wort, glowing golden and blowing softly in a light summer breeze started my interest in wildflowers and medicinal herbs.
My name is Janet Edwards. I bought a farm in Maine in 1970 and left the city life behind. With a wildflower book in hand, I walked the fields and woods and began discovering the bounty the earth offers us. Responsibly gathered wildflowers and my own cultivated herbs have brought me many hours of peace and pleasure. Picking calendula barefoot or watching bees work violet comfrey flowers in my gardens in the mountains of Maine is a joy and blessing. Soothing the mind with the calming scents of flowers grounds and centers us in our busy lives.
Centuries ago, women used herbs and essential oils for bath and beauty. Today there is increased interest in all natural skin care products as we learn about the dangers of synthetic ingredients. Since your skin is your largest organ it just makes sense to treat it naturally.


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More references in regards to an undead campaign DLC have been discovered in the multiplatform video game, "GTA 5." According to a report from Aus Gamers on Aug. 4, a modder going by the alias of "Chr0m3xMoDz" on Youtube found what appears to be a placeholder select screen for an upcoming expansion. One of the options is vaguely named, "Dead." When trying to select it, the game will attempt to access a file called "SPZOMBIES."
Previously, reverences of "ZMB" were found in other code strings. It appears that Rockstar North is preparing to release an undead-based single-player campaign mode, perhaps around the Halloween holiday. The company did something similar with "Red Dead Redemption." The open-world action-adventure western title came out for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 18, 2010. Several months later (near the end of October), "Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare" was released. The unique expansion changed the entire open-world setting as it littered the expansive areas with zombies. Several new gameplay mechanics were also introduced.
Rockstar Games did announce early this year that a new "GTA 5" DLC for the single-player mode is going to be released later this year. It now appears that it is going to be based around zombies. The undead theme is growing increasingly popular in all forms of entertainment, especially with the success of "The Walking Dead" television series and with video games such as "Resident Evil" and "The Last of Us."
Rockstar North has a lot of projects going on although "GTA 5" came out last year. The studio is still keeping "GTA Online" constantly updated with fixes and new contents, including the upcoming cooperative heists, on the PS3 and Xbox 360. The development team is also porting the same game to the PS4, Xbox One and PC with enhanced features. You can find a screen from the PS3 iteration near the top of this article (via the official Playstation Facebook webpage).
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President Barack Obama has often stated that the mission behind his desire to enact the Affordable Care Act was to secure quality health care coverage for America's "uninsured." A new Gallup poll released yesterday is vindicating Obama's hard work on passing the law.
The Washington Post reports that the US "uninsured" rate now sits at 13.4 percent among adults – the lowest since Gallup starting tracking the number in January 2008 – is down from 17.1 percent near the end of 2013 and 15.6 percent at the end of this year's first quarter. The "uninsured" rate fell 2.2 percent between April and the first quarter of 2014, suggesting that people who previously lacked coverage drove Obamacare's late enrollment surge.
The nation's "uninsured" rate after Obamacare's first enrollment has dropped to the lowest point in at least six years, according to a new Gallup poll.
The Hispanic enrollment lagged this year, having the highest rate of "uninsured" of any key demographic group at 33.2 percent. However, that rate is down 5.5 percent since the end of 2013. Blacks, who signed up for ACA exchange coverage at greater rates than expected, recorded the largest decline in the "uninsured" rate of any other group, down 7.1 percentage points to 13.8 percent.
The "uninsured" rate was 2.2 points lower in April than in the first quarter of 2014, reflecting the surge in late health insurance sign-ups to meet the official March 31 deadline. This figure represents the average percentage of adults without health insurance since provisions established under the Affordable Care Act requiring Americans to have insurance went into effect on Jan. 1 of this year.
Some other Gallup findings seem to support what the Obama administration and other surveys have reported. The "uninsured" rate among the all-important young adult demographic fell, but no faster than the rate for other groups. Low-income adults, who may qualify for expanded Medicaid programs or the most generous subsidies through ACA exchanges, saw larger decreases in the "uninsured" rate than higher-earning groups.
Gallup poll - U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4%, Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013
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Park City resident and nurse practitioner Holli Martinez received a $50,000 award last Thursday for her work in providing palliative care to patients at the University of Utah Hospital.
The award, called the Sojourn Award, was granted to Martinez by the Cambia Health Foundation. Martinez is the director of the Palliative Care Program at the University of Utah Hospital.
The Cambia Health Foundation looks at leaders and innovators in the palliative care field in Idaho, Washington, Utah and Oregon in granting the $50,000 award. The grant money is meant to provide increased access to a specialty area of care.
Palliative care, which is specialized medical care that focuses on relieving symptoms of serious illnesses by improving quality of life, is a priority for Martinez at the hospital, who said it is "patient and family-centered care."
"[Palliative care] is bringing that shared medical decision-making model where we have a discussion with the patient and say, 'These are your diagnoses and this is what you can do for these things,'" Martinez said. "But let's talk about your quality of life, what brings you joy and what matters to you."
Patricia Berry, the Associate Director of Education and Practice at the University of Utah's Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing, received the award last year and nominated Martinez this year.
"Holli brings a unique perspective as director of the Palliative Care Program," Berry said. "She understands the outpatient and hospice care side, plus the palliative care side.
Berry said palliative care "helps people clarify what the goals of their care are" and is not always related to end-of-life care.
"It's a chance for patients and families to sit down and say what's important," Berry said. "Palliative care is not about limiting treatment or withdrawing treatment. It's assuring people get the care that they want based on information and support."
Martinez said she has developed multiple policies and procedures in regard to pain and symptom management that only a palliative physician would have the expertise to work with. She also teaches end-of-life and palliative classes at the University of Utah's College of Nursing, where she is an adjunct faculty member.
Martinez said the Palliative Care Program is working with the University of Utah health plan to improve patient care pathways and palliative care consultation 'trigger criteria,' which help to determine when to begin palliative care. She added that she is unsure what she will do with the grant money at this time.
"Whatever we do with the [grant money], I'm very committed to making sure it improves access to what we do that it helps educate our residents and that it's something that can be sustained through the years," Martinez said.
Berry said Martinez received the award because of her program's great reputation. Although Berry has been in the field longer, she hopes more awards go to up-and-coming care providers who are "innovators in their field."
"Holli is the best of the best. She really deserves this award," Berry said.
"To have the conversation with that patient in one of the biggest crises of their lives [is so important]," Martinez said. "It's just a wonderful honor to be recognized for something that I truly love and am passionate about."


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Breaking the shackles
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
I've bounced back and forth with using SparkPeople for a while now (clearly!), and I've put some thought into why that could be. After pondering for a while I've come to realize something about my Spark experience: it becomes a chore. Tracking food, tracking exercise, reading articles, posting blogs, even huddling in SparkTeams. It all becomes too much. I don't have a lot of free time in my days, so I tend to not want to spend it poking around SparkPeople or trying to find the perfect match for a food that I'm eating from 75 different user-made entries of the same thing.
I like to spend my evenings doing things. Playing games with my husband, watching a movie, cooking dinner, going for a walk (even if it is to go get ice cream!). Sparking can get in the way of life! So I wouldn't Spark, and I wouldn't eat healthy, and I wouldn't exercise. I would tell myself, "If I'm not tracking it, what's the point? If I'm going to do it, I've got to track it, so I might as well not do it!"
While thinking about this issue and how to resolve it, a commercial came to mind. It was a commercial to help people quit smoking. In it, a lady mixes a daiquiri in a blender in her office before going out to have her smoke break. The message? "If you don't have to drink every time you smoke, you don't have to smoke every time you drink. Break the habits."
This got me thinking about my relationship with Sparking. Just because I don't track my food or my exercise, just because I don't feel like taking the time to enter the recipe for whatever I made for dinner, just because I don't feel like writing a blog about my achievements doesn't mean that those things shouldn't happen. I can ride my bike home from work without earning the SparkPoints for it, and I will still benefit. I can eat a healthy breakfast without tracking it, and it will still be just as healthy! If I do yoga every morning, I will still become stronger and more flexible whether or not I enter the time into my fitness tracker!
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I have broken another set of shackles tying me down. I have destroyed another excuse for me not to do what I know is right for my body, and my future. I will keep moving forward!
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collective.upload 1.1b2
File upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bars, client-side image resizing and preview images.
Table of Contents
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Mostly Harmless
- Don't Panic
- Not entirely unlike
- Share and Enjoy
- Changelog
Life, the Universe, and Everything
File upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bars, client-side image resizing and preview images.
collective.upload is smoothly integrated with Plone's UI and works with any folderish content type based on Archetypes or Dexterity.
Mostly Harmless
Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know by opening a support ticket.
See the complete list of bugs on GitHub.
Don't Panic
To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:
Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.upload to the list of eggs to install:
[buildout] ... eggs = collective.upload
After updating the configuration you need to run "bin/buildout", which will take care of updating your system.
Go to the 'Site Setup' page in a Plone site and click on the 'Add-ons' link.
Check the box next to collective.upload and click the 'Activate' button.
You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.
- Support for Archetypes and Dexterity-based content types
- Multiple file upload: Allows to select multiple files at once and upload them sequentially (simultaneously is not currently enabled)
- Drag & Drop support: Allows to upload files by dragging them from your desktop or file manager and dropping them on your browser window
- Upload progress bar: Shows a progress bar indicating the upload progress for individual files and for all uploads combined
- Cancelable uploads: Individual file uploads can be canceled to stop the upload progress
- Client-side image resizing: Images can be automatically resized on client-side with browsers supporting the required JS APIs
- Preview images: A preview of image files can be displayed before uploading with browsers supporting the required JS APIs
- Graceful fallback for legacy browsers: Uploads files via XMLHttpRequests if supported and uses iframes as fallback for legacy browsers
- Cross-site file uploads: Supports uploading files to a different domain with Cross-site XMLHttpRequests
Browsers supported
- Google Chrome 7.0+
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+
- Opera 10.0+
- Apple Safari 4.0+
Drag & Drop is only supported on Google Chrome, Firefox 4.0+ and Safari 5.0+.
Client-side image resizing is only supported on Google Chrome, Firefox 4.0+.
Microsoft Internet Explorer has no support for multiple file selection or upload progress.
Future features
We want to implement these features at some point in the future:
- Refactoring of widget's UI
- Resumable uploads: Aborted uploads can be resumed with browsers supporting the Blob API
- Chunked uploads: Large files can be uploaded in smaller chunks with browsers supporting the Blob API
- Enable/disable automatic uploads
- Server side image resizing
- Server side file type constraint
- Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) support
- Widget for "allowed extensions" option
Developer's notes
In the folder "static" you are going to find the JavaScript used in this project; here a list with the file name and function:
- applications.js
- The main file; here you will find 2 important things: plugin initialization and inheritance of basic UI code with custom templates (e.g. every new file dropped in the file upload widget is going to generate a new row, here is the code for that).
- canvas-to-blob.min.js
- Converts canvas elements into Blob objects, is a polyfill for the standard HTML canvas.toBlob method.
- load-image.min.js
- Load Image is a function to load images provided as File or Blob objects or via URL.
- jquery.fileupload.js
- The most basic version of the File Upload plugin, with no UI.
- jquery.fileupload-fp.js
- Extends the basic fileupload widget with image processing functionality.
- jquery.fileupload-ui.js
- Extends the FP version, adds complete user interface interaction.
- jquery.iframe-transport.js
- Used for cross-site iframe transport uploads a way of degradation for the XHR upload.
- cors/jquery.xdr-transport.js
- jQuery XDomainRequest Transport plugin; enables cross-domain AJAX requests (GET and POST only) (not really used, its just there if you need to implement that kind of functionality).
- vendor/jquery.ui.widget.js
- jQuery UI widget factory; very lightweight, flexible base for building complex, statefull plugins with a consistent API. It is designed for general consumption by developers who want to create object-oriented components without reinventing common infrastructure.
- vendor/jquery.getimagedata.min.js
- It enables pixel level access to images from different origins. It works by sending a JSONP request with the URL of the image to the server. The server then converts the image into base64 encoded data URL and sends the image back as a JSON object. (what this script does, can be done with CORS)
To-do list
- Check if constraints are in place before adding the menu item.
Not entirely unlike
- collective.quickupload
- Pure javascript files upload tool for Plone, with drag and drop, multi selection, and progress bar.
- collective.uploadify
- Multi File Upload for Plone.
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
1.1b2 (2016-04-25)
- Use jQuery .then() method instead of deprecated deferred.pipe(); fix image preview and upload progress bar. [rodfersou]
- Fix UnicodeEncodeError on JSVariables view. [rodfersou]
1.1b1 (2016-04-15)
- Remove dependency on Bootstrap (closes #46). [rodfersou]
- Use "application/javascript" media type instead of the obsolete "text/javascript". [hvelarde]
- Remove dependency on Products.CMFQuickInstallerTool. [hvelarde]
- Fix IE conditional comment on JS registry [tcurvelo]
- Drop support for Plone 4.2 (we no longer test under this version but it may work). [hvelarde]
- Make control panel configlet accesible to Site Administrator role (closes #35). [hvelarde]
- Updated Spanish translation. [macagua]
1.0rc1 (2014-10-24)
- Fix browser CORS check. [petschki]
- Add missing uninstall profile. [thet]
1.0b6 (2013-07-24)
- Fixes issue #24, upload not working on folderish objects with a default_page defined. [jpgimenez]
- Fix issue with collective.upload not setting filename on uploaded images (Archetypes). [ericof]
- Fix misplaced input element in chrome. [domruf]
1.0b5 (2013-06-13)
- Display viewlet only for users with Add portal content permission and if the context is a contaner [ericof]
- Fix issue with collective.upload ignoring title information [ericof]
1.0b4 (2013-05-02)
- Package now depends on plone.app.jquerytools >= 1.5.5 to keep it in sync with Plone 4.3 pinned versions. [hvelarde]
- Support Dexterity content types (plone.app.contenttypes). [ericof]
- Fix package dependencies. [hvelarde]
- Remove dependency on unittest2. This could break tests when ran under Python 2.6; you have been warned. [hvelarde]
- Package is now compatible with Plone 4.3. [jpgimenez, hvelarde]
- Add placeholders to input fields in upload template. [hvelarde]
- Fix translation. [quimera]
1.0b3 (2013-01-15)
- Added support for Cross-site file uploads. [quimera]
- Fixed URL generation in the sub menu item. [quimera]
- Fixed compatibility with Chameleon and the JavaScript template. [quimera]
- Refactoring (almost) all dirty JavaScript code. [quimera]
- Updated version of jQuery File Upload. [quimera]
- Add deprecation warning message on the IMultipleUpload behavior. [hvelarde]
- Tested compatibility with Plone 4.3. [hvelarde]
- Update package documentation. [hvelarde]
- Fix package license to GPLv2. [hvelarde]
- Package will now support Plone 4.2+ only. [hvelarde]
- Fixed browser layer interface. [hvelarde]
1.0b2 (2012-05-16)
- To avoid problems (for example with collective.googlenews) we pass portal site to namechooser instead of context, because the context could be another contenttype. [flecox]
1.0b1 (2012-05-02)
- Initial release.
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- Author: OpenMultimedia
- Home Page: https://github.com/collective/collective.upload
- Keywords: plone jquery upload
- Development Status :: 4 - Beta
- Environment :: Web Environment
- Framework :: Plone
- Framework :: Plone :: 4.3
- Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
- Intended Audience :: System Administrators
- License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)
- Operating System :: OS Independent
- Programming Language :: JavaScript
- Programming Language :: Python
- Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
- Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
- Package Index Owner: hvelarde, quimera
- Package Index Maintainer: collective
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Opening Date:
February 13, 2014
Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Justin Guarini, Christian Camargo, Brent Carver, Chuck Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell
David Leveaux, Don Roy King
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Romeo and Juliet perhaps the greatest love story of all time in its first Broadway staging in 36 years stars Orlando Bloom, who rose to fame in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.
Bloom makes his Broadway debut opposite the Tony nominated Condola Rashad (A Trip to Bountiful, Stick Fly).
The stunningly modern stage production was directed on stage by five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux. The cinematic release is directed by Don Roy King. The acclaimed cast of 25 includes Tony Award winners Brent Carver (Kiss of the Spider Women), Chuck Cooper (The Life), two-time nominee Jayne Houdyshell (Follies) and Christian Camargo (Twilight: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2).
Romeo and Juliet (Broadway HD) (NR)
Showtimes available three days prior to opening.


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Sports in 2011 was synonymous with labor-management relations, which became contentious in two of the three sports in which collective bargaining agreements expired—football and basketball.[1] The National Basketball Association (NBA or the owners), for its part, made it clear that it would utilize a lockout as a means of economic pressure to obtain the kind of agreement it desired. The lockout substantially disadvantaged the National Basketball Players Association (the union), which was nonetheless able to revive at the eleventh hour of collective bargaining due to the threat of antitrust litigation.
Now, as it was nearly thirty years ago when the first "cap" was negotiated between the union and the NBA, economics in basketball have been more perilous than in the other two of the Big Three sports in the United States[2]—baseball and football. Indeed, three decades ago, the 1981 playoff finals between the Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets were expected to be such a poor television draw that they were broadcast on tape delay, much of it after midnight, even though Celtics superstar Larry Bird was one of the players. Today, basketball revenues are approximately $4 billion annually, compared to football with $9 billion and baseball with more than $7 billion. This contrast in revenue, coupled with losses suffered by some of the less successful teams and teams in small markets, formed one element of the backdrop for the 2011 basketball negotiations.
A second element is the economic disparity between teams that may be partially responsible for the relatively poor competitive balance in basketball. That said, although the most prominent dynasty in baseball—the New York Yankees in the 1950s—was associated with low attendance and consequent economic decline in that sport, basketball actually flourished in the wake of the 1983 agreement that introduced a salary cap in the NBA. The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers formed their own two-team dynasty and faced one another in three memorable playoffs during that decade.[3]
A third factor is the NBA's involvement in small markets, where other major sports leagues fear to tread—i.e., Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, Orlando, and Memphis.[4] This has contributed substantially to the NBA's economic perils.
A fourth element in the backdrop for the 2011 basketball negotiations relates to race. The overwhelming percentage of NBA players are black and it is thought that roughly the same percentage of the affluent fan base in the sport is white. Players, rarely the object of fan sympathy in labor disputes, are at more of a disadvantage in NBA labor conflicts, a factor that led an National Basketball Players Association union lawyer and a television personality to liken the commissioner to a plantation owner.[5]
The backdrop for the 2011 negotiations was the economic weapon once regarded as a dirty word in the lexicon of American labor-management relations—the lockout. This economic weaponry, endorsed by the Supreme Court since 1965,[6] became the flavor of the two prior decades; baseball flirted with it in 1990, basketball in 1995 and 1999. One of hockey's lockouts even resulted in the cancellation of the entire 2004-05 season. The lockout again was utilized in 2011 by recently peaceable football as well as by basketball. The owners gravitated towards the lockout tactic because in the event of strike (protesting changes in conditions in employment, which proved ineffective), players who crossed the union picket line could play and still sue in antitrust simultaneously. The lockout put more pressure on the players to settle.
The other major legal framework for the 2011 basketball negotiations was the Supreme Court's 1996 ruling in Brown v. Pro Football, Inc.,[7] which recognized players' limited right to sue in antitrust. The Court, over Justice Stevens' strong and persuasive dissent, restricted antitrust law aimed at actions that restrain player mobility under the nonstatutory labor exemption to antitrust law unless collective bargaining was unlikely to revive or the union was moribund.[8] In basketball, the use of the lockout made it clear that, notwithstanding the negotiation of a substantial number of guaranteed individual contracts of employment between players and owners, the same policy prevalent in the rest of industry would apply—i.e., the players would not be paid because of the dominance of the collective bargaining process under federal labor law.
In all the major sports except baseball (though since 1998 baseball was governed by Brown by virtue of the Curt Flood Act) this meant that both sides immediately engaged in strategic behavior. Unions would threaten to disclaim interest in representation or decertify as a bargaining tactic, then mirabile dictu, revive at the time negotiations concluded since owners insisted upon it given the fact that a collective bargaining agreement with a union was the sine qua non for immunity from antitrust law. Scattered decisions addressing the lawfulness of this tactic supported it,[9] but the NBA, soon after the lockout commenced in July, initiated a preemptive strike against it in federal district court. The NBA proceeded in the Southern District of New York because the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has been traditionally hospitable to the preservation of the labor exemption in a series of cases involving both football[10] and basketball.[11] Subsequently, the NBA filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging refusal to bargain on the theory that insistence on this tactic was inconsistent with an effort to in good faith consummate a bargaining agreement—the statutorily required objective—just as their football counterparts had done earlier. The union had earlier filed its own refusal to bargain charges alleging a failure of the NBA to open its books[12] and other tactics that, in the union's view, constituted a totality of conduct inconsistent with the duty to bargain.[13]
The road towards an agreement was thus strewn with litigation because of deep-seated differences, perhaps as much between the clubs (as is often the case in sports league-labor disputes) as between the league and the union. The group of teams that were said to be losing lots of money and viewed themselves as unlikely to overtake the top teams included some of the small market teams—i.e., the Portland Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, and Houston Rockets. A subset of this group consisted of owners who had recently bought or wanted to sell and, it was said, sought to drive up the prices of their franchises: the Charlotte Bobcats, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers, and Washington Wizards. Nonetheless, two of the big-market rich teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, were in solidarity with this group.
In the summer months, however, the parties were far apart on a host of issues initiated by the owners, who sought to recapture gains made by the players and to rebuild the system. One of the major issues related to revenue sharing, a collective bargaining provision in existence since the time of salary caps in the early 1980s. The most recent agreement provided for a 57% share for the players. The owners proposed a fifty-fifty split, which they characterized as such because they sought a redefinition of revenues. The players maintained that the proposal was in fact somewhere in the mid-forties for most of the agreement, descending to the mid-thirties in the last three years. The owners also proposed a two-tier system for team salary caps, with a target payroll of $62 million, which they characterized as a so-called "flex-cap." The owners' arrangement also would have prohibited the guaranteed contract, previously addressed in both basketball and baseball through individual contract negotiations rather than the collective bargaining process itself. But union officials contended that a prohibition on guaranteed contracts and restrictions on "sign-and-trade" agreements between clubs would amount to a $7 billion decrease in pay over ten years and proposed instead a pay cut of $500 million over a five-year period.
The lockout was declared on July 1 and froze all negotiations with incumbent players as well as draftees. In the wake of the lockout, the parties met sporadically. In late September, it became clear that training camps were unlikely to open in October. By the first week in October, the entire preseason as well as the season's first two weeks were cancelled, with the owners insisting on a 47% share for the players and the players reducing their demand to 53%. At this point the idea of a fifty-fifty split was bandied about, but the union rejected it, according to David Stern.[14] Though the ominous clouds hovering over the negotiations indicated the potential for a cancelled season, as of late October, the parties still hoped for a full eighty-two-game schedule, albeit within a compressed period of time. But with the ongoing difficulties in resolving the parties' differences, the following day, a full season of eighty-two games became "irretrievably out of reach."[15] With the advent of November and what would have been the commencement of the season in that month's first week, beyond the seemingly intractable revenue split issue, the so-called "system issues" came to the front. The NBA sought elimination of sign-and-trade deals involving players like Carmelo Anthony, who had gone from Denver to New York the previous season, where the teams exceeded the basketball luxury tax or "soft cap" threshold. This meant that Anthony would be required to wait six months to sign a guaranteed extension and any player who signed such an extension could not be traded. And the incentive to stay with a team rather than move under a sign-and-trade deal would be provided by a five-year contract and a 6.5% raise with the old team as opposed to a four-year contract and a 3.5% raise with the new team. While abandoning the hard cap concept, the owners sought to reduce the number of so-called "midlevel exceptions" to the cap contained in the collective bargaining agreement as well as to add more punitive luxury tax provisions that would, in the union's view, "strangle" free agency.
In mid-November, matters came to a crunch when the owners presented the union with an alternative: accept either a seventy-two-game schedule or inferior terms on both the revenue split and systems issues in the future. This tactic, containing a two-tier "take it or accept an inferior offer"[16] or regressive bargaining,[17] had the effect of hardening the union's position and moving it towards decertification—a "nuclear winter" as Commissioner David Stern characterized it because of its potential to blow up the entire season through protracted litigation.
The union was under pressure by some players and agents who threatened to file a genuine decertification, which would oust the union permanently under Brown and would thus likely constitute a more successful dissident petition or union disclaimer. So the union took steps that were a kind of preemptive strike against the dissident petition. The fact that a dissident petition grounded in opposition to union leadership policy would have been more obviously in opposition to the collective bargaining process within the meaning of Brown undoubtedly played a dominant role in the NBA's abandonment of a "take it or leave it" bargaining stance. Thus the union announced a disclaimer and this opened up the door to antitrust litigation, which was then commenced.
The union now was represented by David Boies, who had only a few months before represented the NFL and successfully deprived that union of its only effective antitrust remedy—i.e., an injunction against the lockout, which would have required the owners to open the camps in early summer.[18] Thus the basketball union now would not pursue the injunction remedy, notwithstanding the persuasiveness of Judge Bye's dissenting opinion in the football case.[19] Of course, Boies would have met himself coming around the corner if he argued for it in basketball.
Nonetheless, even though the union was stripped of its most effective antitrust remedy, litigation seems to have moved the parties together. It most certainly called the NBA's bluff, in that the league's regressive or inferior option was quickly forgotten. True, the NBA obtained givebacks that are estimated to be worth more than $300 million. Not only did it win on revenue sharing with the players—the players will possess between 49% and 51% as opposed to 57%—but more stringent luxury tax penalties for violators also have been instituted. As National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter said, the latter element constitutes the "harshest element of the new system."[20] At the same time, guaranteed contracts were preserved, restricted free agents will benefit from the reduction of the so-called "match period" when teams may match competing offers from seven to three days, which may encourage bidding on these players. The cap remains soft in that the so-called incumbent "Bird" players (named for Celtics superstar Larry Bird) may exceed the cap and have more expansive increases and lengths of contracts than other players. A so-called "amnesty" for bad contracts was permitted, in that even though the contracts must be paid, a player on each club may be waived and his salary not counted towards his team's cap. What appeared to be a rout of the players in November emerged as a reasonable face-saving compromise.


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Chaz Williams Named To Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team
March 5, 2012
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Massachusetts sophomore Chaz Williams was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team as voted on by the league coaches and announced by the league office on Monday.
Williams leads UMass in scoring (16.2 ppg), assists (6.4 apg), steals (2.3), 3-point FG pct (.403), FT pct. (.780) and minutes (33.8 mpg). He also ranks among the A-10 leaders in scoring (7th), assists (1st), steals (3rd) and assist-to-turnover ratio (5th, 1.8). He is on pace to finish the season as the first true point guard to lead the Minutemen in scoring, assists, steals and minutes since Donald Russell in 1981-82.
The Brooklyn, N.Y. native and transfer from Hofstra is the 54th first team all-conference selection in school history and the first since 2007-08 when Gary Forbes was named the A-10 Player of the Year. UMass now has 20 first team honorees since the league's inception prior to the 1976-77 season.
For Williams, it marks the second career postseason honor following his selection to the Colonial Athletic Association All-Rookie Team when he played at Hofstra during the 2009-10 campaign. He averaged 9.8 points and 4.2 assists while starting 20 games.
*** Complete Atlantic 10 Release with Award Winners is below ***
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--The Atlantic 10 Conference announced Monday that Temple's Fran Dunphy has been named the 2011-12 Coach of the Year and St. Bonaventure senior forward Andrew Nicholson has been named the league's Player of the Year. The conference released the awards, along with the All-Conference teams in preparation for the 2012 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship, which begins Tuesday.
Saint Joseph's sophomore forward C.J. Aiken was named the Defensive Player of the Year while Richmond Freshman Kendall Anthony was selected as the Rookie of the Year. Sophomore forward Ronald Roberts of Saint Joseph's was voted the Sixth Man of the Year and La Salle senior guard Earl Pettis earned the Chris Daniels Most Improved Player Award.
The individual awards, along with the All-Conference Teams, were selected by the Atlantic 10's 14 head men's basketball coaches. The All-Academic Team was chosen by a vote of the league's 14 sports information directors.
Dunphy led the 24-6 Owls to their first outright regular season title since the 1989-90 season with a 13-3 A-10 record. Temple had an 11-game winning streak under Dunphy and has lost just three times since mid-December. That includes wins over No. 3/5 Duke, Maryland and Wichita State.
Nicholson led the league in scoring at 17.9 points per game and second in the A-10 in rebounding with an 8.3 rebounds per game average. He's scored 25 or more points in four of his last five games and he's broken 30 points four times this season
Aiken ranked fourth nationally and led the Atlantic 10 in blocked shots with 3.7 blocks per game. He also ranked ninth in the league in field goal percentage, hitting 53.8 percent of his shots. Anthony ranked second at Richmond in scoring, averaging 13.4 points per game, scoring 20 or more points five times this season. He was named A-10 Rookie of the Week in three of the first four weeks.
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Copyright 2003 Susan Yung
NEW YORK -- Julio Bocca
gave his final performance as Romeo in American Ballet Theatre's
production of Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo & Juliet" Saturday night
to a roaring, appreciative Metropolitan Opera House audience. Alessandra
Ferri, who danced the role of Juliet, joined ABT as a principal
in 1985, one year before Bocca. While they surely don't have the
youngest bones in the company, their artistic maturity packed an
emotional punch that is less developed in younger dancers.
Kenneth MacMillan choreographed
this production to Sergei Prokofiev's score for the Royal Ballet
in 1965; it was first performed by ABT in 1985. Nicholas Georgiadis
designed the sumptuous costumes and the neo-'B' movie sets. The
noble women wore gowns made of yard after yard of metallic-shot
brocade, and head caps the size of watermelons. The town's women
sported less cumbersome outfits which allowed them to do some dancing,
but they wore red afro wigs and white pancake makeup that rendered
them unidentifiable.
Bocca portrayed Romeo
as if he were everybody's best friend -- a guys' guy and a ladies'
man, too. He danced expressionistically, in big bold strokes, his
roguish hair adding italics to every casually executed bravura move.
He moved comfortably between gamboling with Mercutio (Joaquin de
Luz) and Tybalt (Ethan Brown), jousting with Lord Capulet (the savory,
wicked Victor Barbee), and romancing Juliet in several duets performed
with a touching sincerity.
Ferri embodied Juliet
wonderfully -- still gamine-like, limby, with beautifully shaped
feet, airy extensions and Gumby flexibility. But these assets would
mean little if she weren't so convincingly charming, petulant, and
passionate in the role. You really felt for her when she faced the
dour prospect of marrying Paris, played with appropriate stiffness
by Gennadi Saveliev looking a bit like David Hasselhof (if you squinted).
Bocca partnered her well, lifting her easily in a backbend, or wrapping
her up in his arms like a bird.
De Luz, who lately is
one of the most prominently featured soloists in performances I've
seen, showed a large helping of charisma both in his playful (yet
eventually fatal) jousting matches, and when leading a group of
mandolin players. He's always been a technical whiz -- a compact,
allegro killer -- but his onstage personality is developing in exhilarating
ways, especially when he is not overly costumed or made up. Stella
Abrera as Rosaline, a noble, carried enough haughty sangfroid to
ensure many future stints as nobility -- let's hope it's not a trap
without a door. Susan Jones was tucked deep inside her voluminous
nurse's costume, but sweetly conveyed her sympathetic character.
The venerable Frederic Franklin made a cameo as the Friar, unwitting
expediter of the fatal finale.
Ballet is, of course,
an art and not a sport, but the increasing level of physical prowess
certainly parallels that in sports, where advancements in performance
are measured with statistics. (Of course there are certain achievements
in ballet that have become de facto stats, such as 32 fouettes,
but they're not officially tracked, as far as I know.) Bocca, who
broke ground for the current highly evolved batch of dancer/athletes,
still comports himself with undeniable power, but the standards
are simply more demanding than when he first burst onto the scene.
Bocca will continue
to dance in other roles. His relaxed earthiness and exuberance came
across even in his solo curtain calls. While most of the dancers
execute these calls with certain formality -- moving far stage left
and bowing or dipping with a nodded head -- Bocca just cleared the
pulled-away curtain, and acknowledged the applause as if thanking
us individually for complimenting him in person. With genuine humility,
several times he tried to get Ferri to remain with him to receive
the applause. He will be missed as an accessible yet convincing
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College Hockey:32 NCAA tournament events up for bid soon around college hockey
If you're waiting to hear where the 2015 Frozen Four will be, you're in for quite a wait.
Site selection announcements for NCAA events from 2015 to 2018 are scheduled for December, according to the web site for the coordinated, NCAA-wide bid process.
That means the 2015 regional and Frozen Four hosts will have only 15 to 16 months before players are taking the ice for those events. To me, that suggests a greater likelihood of familiar venues that season, places that have been already seen successful weekends.
More information about what the NCAA is looking for will come out June 17, when bid specifications are released. Bids are accepted from July 15 to Sept. 16.
The NCAA is advertising for four seasons of postseason sites in men's and women's hockey, Division I and Division III. That means there are 32 openings to be filled across NCAA hockey.
In Division I men's hockey, some issues connected to the future of the regionals need to be addressed first.
Earlier this month, the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee heard ideas from coaches on changes to improve the regional atmosphere, but there was no consensus. The movement to return NCAA games to campus sites has its supporters but there also has been a good amount of pushback.
The 2014 men's Frozen Four is in Philadelphia, with regionals in Bridgeport, Conn.; Worcester, Mass.; Cincinnati; and St. Paul, Minn.
While we wait to see which venues step forward as bidders, here are some of the details that the NCAA has already posted:
• The minimum venue capacity for Division I regionals is 5,000, while it is 3,500 for the women's Frozen Four and 3,000 for the Division III men's championship. The men's Frozen Four also will have a minimum (it has been 15,000) but that detail isn't part of the bid brochure.
• The men's Frozen Four bid requires a minimum of 2,454 hotel room nights, 573 on the peak night. The women's Frozen Four needs 682 room nights (168 at peak), while the D-III men's championship needs 296 (85 at peak) and the D-III women's championship needs 305 (85 at peak).
• The men's Frozen Four is scheduled for April 9 and 11 in 2015, April 7 and 9 in 2016, April 6 and 8 in 2017 and April 5 and 7 in 2018.
• The women's Frozen Four and the Division III championships all are scheduled for the same weekend in the four years covered by the bid process: March 20-22, 2015; March 18-20, 2016; March 17-19, 2017; and March 16-18, 2018. Women's Frozen Four games are Friday and Sunday; D-III games are Friday and Saturday.
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Port Blakely Tree Farms' Environmental Education program began in 1991 through the Washington Forest Protection Association's Project Learning Tree. Since then, the program has given over 1,800 forest tours in Washington and Oregon, mainly to fourth-grade students.
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Hey guys I was just wondering what you guys thought would be some good ideas for a Chansey/Blissey, such as nature and move sets. Ty guys for your time and happy leveling.
Hey guys I was just wondering what you guys thought would be some good ideas for a Chansey/Blissey, such as nature and move sets. Ty guys for your time and happy leveling.
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Softboiled/Thunder Wave/Substitute/Ice Beam
this what i'd use but meh
Don't know! But Softboiled a must!
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The best nature for a CHANSEY would be.......BASHFUL
It seems that Bashful pokemon have high attack and hp
Because Chansey has really really high hp and crap attack, it would be a good choice
MOVES ummm....METRONOMEDOUBLE EDGE?EXPLOSION?
NONONO!!! No EXPLOSION!! It's supposed to be the HP wall and it can't die you dumby!
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er, isn't this the wrong place for a moveset?
i second softboiled.
Okay, Explosion is a bit far
Does it even get Explosion? The best nature is whatever raises Special Defense and decreases Attack, and the moveset is;
Blissey @ Leftovers
~ Aromatherapy/Heal Bell
~ Softboiled
~ Thunder Wave/Sing
~ Ice Beam/Seismic Toss
Depending on what your team has trouble with, you either para or sleep, and IB or ST. 'Therapy and HBell do the same thing. DO NOT USE PHYSICAL MOVES ON BLISSEY, IT HAS SHIT FOR ATTACK. That is all.
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Hatches @ 2520
Completed @ 2768
Toxic, Sing, Softboiled, and Ice Beam.
Solly I don't mean to be rude but why do you have sing and toxic, you can't put the same pokemon to sleep and poison them, right? Or is there another reason for the different attacks?


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The last 2 years I have done Some UMAnitarian work: Co-developing and evangelizing the User-Managed Access protocol.
My input: specify testcases and devise a interoperability testplan.
I also blog, tweet and FaceBook about UMA, counting THE retweets, blog and faceBook-likes & reads UMA is doing a good job.
Online UMA-marketing, I love it!
Back to testing.
Last year the UMA-specs were delivered to the IETF. A UMA-milestone, but also a wakeup-call for me.
Specs were changed, so my 2010 testcases were outdated.
Next to this, The UMA workgroup aka UMAWG, works along with OpenIDConnect for interoperability and changes in spec were necessary.
Also, more organizations got interested in implementing UMA, so it was back to the drawingboard.
However, waiting for a moment when less spec-changes were going on was wiser.
This moment has arrived and for the last two weeks UMA filled my evenings again: pseudocoding with megamugs of coffee.
Hopefully next week a draft can be sent to the UMAWG for review.
Also promising is the interoperability testing of The OpenIdConnect group (OSIS).
This interests me because of the re-usability of testmethods.
Well, that's my UMAnitarian work in a nutshell.
If this interests you, the UMAWG will be holding a UMA tweetchat, focusing on development, specs, interoperability and implementations of the UMA-protocol.
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Ok, back to the specs for some good ol' pseudocoding
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Defensive much? There's no denying that, even in this era of raunchy comedies, The Hangover was something different. And its massive success spawned a host of imitators: Due Date, Hall Pass, Hot Tub Time Machine and so forth. Still, that doesn't seem enough of a reason to bring Jay-Z into it. True, his "Reminder," the 2009 song used to soundtrack this teaser for The Hangover Part II, is a stirring rejoinder to all who may have forgotten him. But did we forget The Hangover? Or is someone a little dubious that it can sustain a sequel? Maybe that's why they picked a track from The Blueprint 3?
"Hangover 2″ Trailer Uses Jay-Z To Issue "Reminder"
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