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Cultural Ties
Cultural Ties - a celebration of cultural diversity - was a global project and the brain child of London art dealer, Kapil Jariwala.
Date: Friday 7 March - Friday 25 April
Venue: Panorama
Time: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION
The brief was for 77 artists from around the world to design neck ties, and a limited edition of 300 of each tie were produced for sale worldwide via selected retail outlets, gallery shops and the internet.
It was hoped that the project would raise $1 million for UNICEF, in particular for their clean water programme. The Italian firm Ratti, a major producer of fine textiles for the fashion world, was chosen and the artists' designs were transformed into shimmering, sensual velvets, taffeta and densely woven jacquard.


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Initiatives and Programs
The Handlebar:
The Handlebar, launched in 2011 by students, faculty and staff in collaboration with the Center for Sustainability Education and the Idea Fund, strengthens Dickinson's living laboratory for sustainability education by providing a context for meaningful service, community building, resource sharing and experiential learning. In The Handlebar, students, faculty and staff work as leaders and volunteers assisting fellow members of the Dickinson Community to learn the skills of bike repair and maintenance, building their own bike mechanic and leadership skills, participating in a program that reclaims and reuses materials to provide a valuable environment-friendly benefit to the community, and promoting life skills for more active, healthier and sustainable living.
Bike Share:
Two free bike-share programs lend bikes to all Dickinsonians in an effort to increase biking on and around campus.
- Red Bikes can be borrowed from the Department of Public Safety for short-term use during daylight hours.
- Green Bikes can be borrowed from the Center for Sustainability Education for semester-long use.
Dickinson's Green Bikes Program, available to members of the College community, extends from The Handlebar's efforts to increase bicycle use on campus while supporting sustainable reuse of bikes and bike parts. Students, faculty & staff can borrow a Green Bike, rebuilt by students, faculty or staff from the fleet for an entire semester ($25 deposit required).
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) loans bikes to members of the Dickinson College community through its Red Bikes program. Students, faculty, staff, and their visiting family members may borrow a bike for a few hours– or an entire day– so long as they return the bike before sundown of that same day.
Bike Racks:
Dickinson College has invested in many bike racks across campus to provide convenient and safe bike parking for all.
Biking Listserve:
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Music duo Daft Punk will share the stage with Stevie Wonder at the Grammys this year on Jan. 26.
While celebrating the success of the their hit album "Random Access Memories", Daft Punk will also be joined by Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. It's not clear what song or songs Stevie Wonder will perform with the group.
Up for five Grammy nominations to include Best Dance/Electronica Album and Album of the year for "Random Access Memories" and Best Pop/Group performance for "Get Lucky", the duo's last performance was in 2008 with Kanye West.
This year's Grammys promises to be an exciting one with performances by Country stars, Blake Shelton, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. Other performances will include, Kendrick Lamar, Imagine Dragons, Pink and Nate Ruess, front man of Indie Pop band Fun.
Other nominees include, Jay-Z, Macklemore, Lorde, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams. The biggest night in music will be hosted by L.L. Cool J.
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Dec. 24, 2009
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -Nic Wise drove the length of the court for a layup with 1 second remaining, and Arizona defeated North Carolina State 76-74 on Wednesday night.
The Wildcats (6-5) blew an 8-point lead in the final 37 seconds as the Wolfpack made two 3-pointers and converted on a three-point play.
But after North Carolina State's Javier Gonzalez barreled into the lane to tie it at 74-74, Wise, who finished with 18 points, weaved through a sea of red jerseys and laid the ball in.
Wise's big play came two nights after he hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to defeat Lipscomb in overtime. He celebrated his latest heroics by leaping upon the press table and pointing to the exuberant McKale Center crowd.
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We aren't finding anything "classic" about this stunning Holly Yashi Classic Pearl Bracelet ($48). In fact, it's as far from grandma's old yellowed pearls as you can get (no offense, grandma!). But we get what they were going for when they called this beauty a classic. It's bound to be around your wrist for all your go-to classy events from here on out!
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Graphic designer and recent Harrington College of Design graduate, Alex Gilbert, is building art with a purpose and philanthropic mindset.
He can add a new victory to his repertoire, the Sustainable Chicago Poster Design Competition: CITY IN A GARDEN competition. The City of Chicago called on dedicated graphic designers of all ages, to design with a mission in mind. The challenge was to design a powerful, attention-grabbing, memorable poster, incorporating what it means for Chicago to be a sustainable city. The image must ignite a call-to-action and incite residents to make a difference in the community.
"Graphic design is more unique in the sense that it is about communication and job fulfillment: solving problems through design," Gilbert says. "This competition was a problem and my design was the solution for promoting sustainability."
The technical and advanced capabilities of graphic design permitted a rare opportunity; uninhibited artistic freedom to create and express a vital message to the community.
Gilbert says that graphic design differentiates itself from other fine arts by producing content with meaning, not just aesthetic value. His process is more than just creating an attractive work, but a piece that is founded on a positive purpose that boldly states we need more good in the world.
His winning design titled, "Define Your City," (pictured to the left) is an expression of minimalism, reminiscent of his inspiration and renowned graphic designer, John Massey. Massey is known for his strategic use of color and selective copy to deliver profound meaning in his work.
To bring this work together, Gilbert began by addressing the issue at hand: an acute need for sustainability and an even more acute need to spur awareness in a diverse and often-distracted Chicago. He then planned his color scheme, red, white and blue to implicitly symbolize the American flag. He constructed the sharp lines and dimensions to the right to allude to the city skyline. The green plane cutting through the center simultaneously divides and unites the city with the concept of environmental stability.
The poster will be displayed on Chicago's bus shelters and information panels to remind residents to join the movement to create a more sustainable city to live in.
His untitled piece, featuring ladders aimed to the sky and hands intertwine (pictured in the photo gallery to the left) was initially designed for the not-for-profit, Neighbor's House in DeKalb, which provides free and low-cost youth reading and homework programs.
He utilized geometric forms to exude a sense of a united community and togetherness. For this purpose, he veered away from literary content and allowed the shapes and images to speak for themselves.
The ladders symbolize progress in community outreach and the development of the organization. The locked hands display a connection between the followers (the community) and God, an image that is powerfully linked to the organization's mission. With this work, Gilbert challenges the line drawn between fine art and graphic design. He combines the two to create a spiritual and thought-provoking representation of Neighbor's House's contribution to society.
Gilbert's current projects include freelance commercial work as well as assuming the role of Membership Director at the Chicago Design Museum. The museum, which began as a pop-up, is now in its third year. This year they are premiering their first permanent space. Gilbert is committing his time to creating a detailed membership model.
He is also pursuing more opportunities in graphic design for not-for-profits and creative collaborations. Chicago can look forward to more innovation and impacting artwork from this young artist.
To see more of Gilbert's work, you can follow him on Instagram at @everyday_type or Twitter at @alexggilbert. Also, stop by the Chicago Design Museum to support talented artists like Gilbert and Massey at 108 North State Street, 3rd Floor in the Loop.


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Duquesne Stops UMass, 2-1
Oct. 24, 2003
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The University of Massachusetts' men's soccer team gave a valiant effort, but came up short falling to Duquesne, 2-1, in a battle of two of the Atlantic 10's top teams. The loss drops UMass' record to 9-5-1 overall and 3-3-1 in the Atlantic 10.
The two teams played a cautious first half, but Duquesne got on the board first with a Damien Pottinger goal just four minutes before halftime for a 1-0 lead. Duquesne dominated the first half, outshooting UMass, 12-5, but Colin Burns (Newark, Del.) made four first-half saves to keep the Minutemen in the game.
UMass came out in the second half as the aggressor, and knotted the score at one when freshman Richard Higa (Honolulu, Hawaii) found the back of the net at the 59:43 mark for his second goal of the season. Oral Bullen (Brooklyn, N.Y.) assisted on the goal for his 15th point of the season. But Duquesne answered with a Pat Dillon netter at the 77:32 mark to give the Dukes a 2-1 advantage, and the Atlantic 10 victory.
The Dukes outshot UMass, 19-14, and had seven corner kicks to three for the Minutemen. Burns finished the game with six saves for the Minutemen.
UMass will be in action next on Sunday, Oct. 26, with a 1:00 p.m. against St. Bonaventure.
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Not sure another wing that can't score is what the Raptors need.
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it def. wouldnt hurt..if hes healthy he def. impacts the game when hes on the floor..& hes a pretty good 3pt shooter
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Raps should just wait until the off season and offer Dorrell Wright the MLE.
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Sun Soaked Dawgs Wrap Regular Season
A number of wins at today's Ken Shannon Invite set the Huskies up well for championship season.
Goethals Breaks Another 30-Year-Old Record
In her last two times on the track, the junior has rewritten longtime UW record in the 10k and 5k.
Huskies Pick Up Seven Wins At Pepsi Team Invite
Mel Lawrence sets the meet record in the steeplechase in her first Hayward Field run since 2010.
Huskies Head Home With Solid Day At Stanford
Husky 4x400m relays close out the meet with top times in several years.
Goethals Crushes 10k Record Plus Huge 5k For Babcock
Megan Goethals moves to No. 6 in Pac-12 history with her 10,000-meters debut.
2012: Earned his first career All-America honor as part of UW's distance medley relay indoors which set a pair of school records ... ran the 800-meter leg on the DMR, also including Ryan Soberanis, Maurice McNeal, and Joey Bywater, which took 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Nampa, Idaho, earning Second Team All-America status ... the DMR smashed its own school record at the Alex Wilson Invite at Notre Dame, running 9:31.68 to qualify for NCAAs ... previously the DMR took fourth at the MPSF Championships in a time of 9:35.06, which was a school record at the time ... also indoors, ran a season-best 800m time of 1:52.27 at the Alex Wilson Invite and a mile best of 4:11.50 at the UW Invitational ... outdoors, he ran at the Pac-12 Championships at 800-meters, clocking a season-best time of 1:51.77 to take 10th overall ... also ran 1:51.82 at the UW-WSU Dual to take fourth ... earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention. 2011: Made a lot of progress during the outdoor season, running under 1:52 in the 800-meters very consistently ... competed at his first Pac-10 Championships at 800-meters, placing 13th in a time of 1:51.30 ... set a new PR of 1:51.20 at the UW-WSU dual, placing fifth ... sixth at the Oregon Relays in 1:51.39 ... started the outdoor season with a then-PR of 1:51.94 at the Stanford Invite ... second in the 1500m at the Ken Shannon Invite in 3:55.12 ... indoors, posted a season-best of 1:52.64 in the Husky Classic 800m ... 15th in the 800m at the MPSF Championships in 1:54.03 ... earned a Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention.
2010: Competed at three indoor meets, starting with the UW Indoor Preview where he took fourth in the 600-meter run in 1:22.37 ... twice ran with the 4x400m relay and ran on one DMR ... finished his first 800-meters in 1:56.69 at the Husky Classic ... competed unattached at two outdoor meets, redshirting the season ... fifth at the WWU Twilite Meet in the 800m at 1:57.16.
High School and Personal: Born in Spokane, Wash. ... parents are Cathy and Mark Whitley ... has two older sisters, Lara and Lindsay ... a three-time 4A state qualifier, competing in the 400m, 800m, and 4x400m relay ... placed third at state in the 800-meters as a junior in 2008, and was seventh as a senior in 2009 ... won the Greater Spokane League 800m title in 2008 ... anchored the state champion 4x400m relay team in 2008 and also ran on 4x4 relays placing sixth and fourth at state in his first two years ... first team All-League for three years ... placed fifth in the 800m at the 2008 USATF National Jr. Olympics in Omaha, Neb. ... won the 800-meters at the 2008 Pasco Invite ... took fourth in the 800m at the Golden West Invite in Sacramento as a junior ... also lettered three years in basketball and was a captain as a junior and senior ... played three years of football and was a two-time All-League defensive back ... earned the Greater Spokane League Scholar Athlete Award in 2009 ... graduated with a 3.96 GPA.
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2011 MPSF - 15th, 800m
2011 Pac-10 - 13th, 800m
2012 MPSF - 17th, 800m | 4th, DMR
2012 NCAA Indoors - 10th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2012 Pac-12 - 10th, 800m
2013 MPSF - 10th, 800m | 5th, DMR
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Fresh Air Weekend: Louis C.K., Miles Davis And A Military Dog
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Louis C.K. On His 'Louie' Hiatus: 'I Wanted The Show To Feel New Again': The comic tells Fresh Air that after Season 3, he "aggressively forgot the show existed for a few months." Then he got back to work. Louie is now in its fourth season.
In 1970, Miles Davis Played Four Sets For A New Audience: That June, Miles Davis played four nights at the New York rock palace Fillmore East. Those performances are now out in full for the first time.
Civilian Life Taught This Military Dog Some New Tricks: As a bomb-detecting Marine, Zenit the German shepherd never chased his tail or dug holes. Those are skills he learned after he was adopted by his one-time professional partner, Cpl. Jose Armenta.
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Re: [groovy-dev] making the bytecode generation more understandable
On 9 Oct 2004, at 06:33, John Rose wrote: > On Oct 8, 2004, at 4:48, Neil Ellis wrote: >> ...Groovy will get is an optimization on the static cases but will >> fundamentally have to treat objects as being dynamic (i.e. it can >> never >> complain that a does not have a method b). This may seem like >> nitpicking, but it is a fundamental difference. I.e. if I type >> "".eqwals("") the compiler will not complain and it will become a >> runtime error which to me is not static typing. > > Neil, earlier you wrote that you want a "strongly typed safe, > performant" language. > > "Safe": Groovy, like anything built on the JVM, will have a certain > level of safety. > > "Performant": With the optimizations James is thinking of, this should > be possible. > (There has to be a weak sort of sealing rule which says that the > runtime cannot contradict > observations about class structure made at compile time. This may be > reasonable for > Java fields and methods, but might not for other kinds of Groovy > members. > This requires study, I think.) > > That's two out of three; not bad. By "strong typing" you mean (quite > reasonably, > though it wasn't clear to me at first) specifically the error checking > of member > references. As you point out, this is not in Groovy. In order to put > it into > Groovy, we would need a sealing convention strong enough to state at > compile time that a type is totally non-extensible beyond what is > visible > at compile time. Such a sealing convention might possibly emerge from > our work refining the scoping rules, and the way they interact with > static > typing, but (I think) it will require extra care to make this happen. > > Here's an example of different kinds of typing. > > File f = new File("foo") > def x = f > Object o = f > f.getName() // OK, statically bound call to File.getName > x.getName() // duck-typing says OK, calls File.getName more > slowly > o.getName() // Neal wants a compile error on this one! Agreed - those would be my thoughts too, since the developer explicitly wanted to constrain o to be of type Object. The only real value of static typing (apart from the performance boost) is (i) IDE metadata for name completion and (ii) to generate compile errors if you make a typo. It seems if we've got the metadata available at compile time, we might as well generate compile errors. > Neal's compile error would occur (I suppose) because the compiler > would note the following facts: > 1. Object is the type of o > 2. Object's compile-time type has no getName method > 3. no Groovy method called getName is imputed to Object (at compile > time) > 4. there is no "runtime invoke" hook on Object (either actual in > Java or imputed via G. M.) > > By the "imputed" stuff I mean what is found in the bunch of > definitions in DefaultGroovyMethods. > By runtime invoke hook I mean the usual InvokerHelper machinery > interface, which is currently > (I think?) made applicable to all Groovy object references, regardless > of type. Yes. If a type is statically constrained, we could use regular static method dispatch in the bytecode and so avoid using the slower, dynamic invocation. But thats purely an optimisation. > To make these steps work we would need 1. compile-time types, 2/3. > compile-time models > of types, and 4. most plain Java compile time types not to use the > invoker. > > Types subject to 4 would compile correctly only in a Groovy > compile-time environment > which was fully "up to speed", with all the latest imputed Groovy > methods. > I suppose that's an OK rule. > > This seems like a lot of structure, but if we are needing some of it > for other purposes > (like performance) maybe it's reasonable. > > As a reasonable alternative, we could punt on the performance helps > and the static typing, > and adopt a simpler "always dynamic" understanding of Groovy member > references. > In this understanding, the type of a variable doesn't affect the > compilation of its member > references. > > Instead, the variable type simply makes an assertion about the types > of its values. > The key impact of such an assertion would be a type test on every > assignment to > the variable, causing an exception if somebody tried to put the wrong > type in. > There's also an effect of typed method arguments on method calls, of > course. > > The maxim "Groovy is a dynamic language" can't always guide us. It > doesn't > help with the scoping of local names, for example. (We don't want to > repeat > the early design errors of Lisp with dynamic scoping, errors which > Smalltalk > avoided.) But maybe it is the right answer for member references. > > As we refine and clarify the scoping rules of Groovy, we'll be drawing > the line > more clearly between static and dynamic behaviors. I'm curious which > of the > two models for member references will turn out to be the right balance > of clarity > and power. Agreed. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/


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Last night on "America's Got Talent" 12 new acts performed in hopes of receiving America's vote and thus moving on to the semifinals; only five can move on and the rest will go home.
There were great ones such as "Aerial Animation", creative and just fascinating, "Darik Santos", awkward comedian and that is exactly why he is hilarious, "Jaycob Curlee" perhaps nerves got the best of him last night, but he is still a great singer, "Mara Justine" is a fabulous vocalist, who also last night was a bit nervous; however, she should be in the semifinals, "Mat Franco" outstanding magician who time after time, leaves audience, judges and viewers mesmerized with his talent. "Hart Dance Team" did not leave an impression as positive as they had after their audition and that is unfortunate, "Acte II" was good but not as outstanding and heartfelt as other performances. And of course there are acts that are there just to fill a space in the category to which they belong, but are they acts that could headline in Las Vegas? No.
It seems as though a prerequisite must be fulfilled of choosing an act that is just annoying and outright insulting to those with real talent, such is the case of "Juan Carlos", and then there is "Loop Rawlins" twirling a rope and it gets boring and makes viewers wonder if perhaps is time for a snack…"Livy, Matt and Sammy" weren't impressive at all, and "Andrey Moraru", yes, he is strong and has great balance but can this be in act that audiences would sit through for an hour? No. Is there innovation in the horizon? Doubtful.
America will cast its vote and tonight the results will be announced and there will be much excitement for those moving on and relief that those not amusing at all will finally go away. Recaps and episodes can be watched online at www.nbc.com/agt
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Group will again offer Christmas care packages to troops
Published: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.
Operation North State, a group based in northern Davidson County that provides military support services, has started accepting the names of 1,500 North Carolina deployed troops to receive its 2013 NCCARES Christmas boxes.
This year's gift box will feature a minimum of 41 North Carolina products and messages. Last year's gift boxes included North Carolina products and special messages from Gov. Bev Perdue, Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and NASCAR great Richard Petty and messages from students from 41 educational institutions from around the state.
Operation North State will hold a toiletry drive in October. All items collected will be used in the NCCARES gift boxes as well as be distributed to veterans living in North Carolina's four veterans homes.
The organization is also seeking 30 items to auction at The Patriot Gala being held Nov. 2 at Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte. All proceeds from the auction will be used to help fund the 2013 NCCARES Christmas box project. Visit www.patriotcharities.org for more information.
Cash donations are also welcome to help with costs associated with the Christmas boxes.
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LOS ANGELES - Tyler Gaffney ran for more than 100 yards for the fifth straight game, but Stanford dropped a 20-17 decision to USC Saturday night at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Gaffney dashed for 158 yards on 24 carries and both Cardinal touchdowns.
After the teams carried a 17-17 tie throughout the fourth quarter, USC pulled ahead with a 47-yard field goal from Andre Heidari with 19 seconds to play.
"They made the plays at the end to win it and we didn't," said David Shaw, Stanford's Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football.
The Cardinal (8-2 overall, 6-2 Pac-12) dug itself a 17-7 hole by the 9:05 mark of the second quarter, as USC (8-3, 5-2) scored on each of its first three possessions, including two first-quarter touchdowns, with commanding marches down the field. Stanford had previously allowed just one first-quarter drive by its opponent to finish in the end zone this season.
USC quarterback Cody Kessler was hitting his talented receiving corps while in the pocket and on the run. He went 12 of 14 in the first half for 158 yards and a touchdown, before finishing with 288 yards on 25 of 37 passing.
Gaffney put together the highlight of the night in the first half on a 35-yard touchdown to give the Cardinal its only lead of the day, 7-6. The running back was bottled up after getting a hand off and looked like he would be taken down for a loss before bouncing outside and finding open field to the goal line.
"You don't ever assume you're stopped as a ball carrier," Gaffney said of the run. "You keep going until the whistle blows and sometimes even shortly thereafter."
Stanford manufactured a field goal to end the first half to cut the Trojans' lead to 17-10, closing the gap to one possession heading to the locker room. Gaffney led the Cardinal in the first 30 minutes with 80 yards on 12 rushes.
"We were lucky to be down seven," admitted Shaw. "We held on as long as we could. [USC] played great in the first half, they really got after us."
The Cardinal quickly turned the momentum of the game after the break with a 10-play, 92-yard drive. Gaffney ended it with an 18-yard scamper to even the score at 17, where it would stay for the next 23:03 of elapsed game time.
Stanford's defense was punishing for the remainder of the contest, but the Cardinal continued to miss opportunities to take the lead. On the ensuing drive after Gaffney's second touchdown, Stanford had a 30-yard field goal blocked and would later add two fourth-quarter interceptions to the list of squandered chances.
"In the second half we did a heck of a job. We didn't make enough plays on offense and when we did make plays, they didn't result in points," Shaw added. "We got down there twice and got the field goal blocked and threw an interception. That's not going to win on the road in this conference."
The defense, which held USC to 23 yards on 13 carries in the first half, blanked the Trojans for zero rushing yards over 14 second-half carries. Linebackers Trent Murphy and Shayne Skov (9 tackles) led the charge. Murphy was a frequent visitor to the USC backfield, pestering the Trojans with eight tackles, two sacks and four tackles for loss.
Kessler called Stanford, "the best running defense we've faced all year" and went on to say, "Guys were doing their assignment and making blocks but seemed like those guys didn't want to be moved. They were so big it was hard to get them off their blocks."
USC's five drives leading up to its game-winning field goal each went for 26 yards or less thanks to Murphy, Skov and the rest of the Cardinal front, before an untimely interception gave the Trojans prime field position to set up the finishing effort.
Su'a Cravens' interception of Kevin Hogan gave the Trojans the ball at their own 44-yard line with 3:02 left. USC ate the clock with a series of run plays, short passes and a key fourth-down connection between Kessler and Marqise Lee to bring the ball to the Stanford 29-yard line with 25 seconds left. It was enough to give Heidari, who was previously 3-8 from 40 or more yards an opportunity for the winner.
"We lost, it's not a good feeling," Gaffney remarked. "We expect to win every game. This is the first time I've lost to them, I think it's the first time anyone on the team has lost to them. It's a tough thing to swallow."
The Cardinal snapped a program-best four-game winning streak over USC with the loss. Stanford also falls from the top spot of the Pac-12 North Division.
The season continues next Saturday as Stanford plays host to California in the Big Game. The game time is to be announced.


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(1) A representative of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries may be present during any operation to plug and decommission a geothermal well. If the representative determines that the plugging and decommissioning is satisfactory, the representative shall approve the plugging and decommissioning of the well.
(2) Within 45 days after the completion of the plugging and decommissioning of any geothermal well, the operator of the well shall make a written report of all work done. Within 45 days after the receipt of the report, the department shall furnish the operator with a written final approval of the plugging and decommissioning or a written disapproval setting forth the conditions upon which the disapproval is based.
(3) Failure to plug and decommission in accordance with the approved method, failure to submit to the department any notice or report required by this chapter or failure to furnish the department with any required information shall constitute sufficient grounds for disapproval of the plugging and decommissioning and shall constitute unlawful abandonment of the well.
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So I understand that to forward a packet, a router needs 3 pieces of information: next hop, egress interface and Adjacency (L2 information). On a Cisco router, this will be stored in FIB and CEF.
What confuses me is that it appears next hop is needed only for finding out adjacency info (by ARP), because really only L2 info is necessary when forwarding a IP packet to the next router.
So my question is why there is this indirection between next hop -> adjacency? Why can't this adjacency information be collected directly? And how is this egress interface decided inside a router?
Or it would be more helpful if someone could explain how are the two tables (FIB and CEF) populated?
I guess my question itself is very confusing. So here I am trying to make it more specific/clear.
I am aware that there are many different routing protocols. However, my question isn't really about how the routes are received or calculated. It's more in line with what happens in a router after these information is received. To be more specific, in a router, adjacency is usually inserted by ARP instance. And next hop information are the ones inserted by routing instances. So here I am assuming that next hop is already known/calculated by the routing instance.


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"She sounds like Jewel…." Sexy singer Jewel helped spawn a viral sensation when she donned a disguise to perform at a Los Angeles karaoke bar in a scene from a comedy video posted on FunnyOrDie.com over the summer Now the video that's still heating up search engines is headed to the small screen. TBS has […] Continue reading TBS Picks Up "Undercover Karaoke" TV Series
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In what could have been the coolest musical treat for Partygoers at a karaoke bar in Michigan, Gerard Butler, Demi Moore and Michelle Monaghan all took to the stage to sing. Butler and Monaghan are currently shooting 'Machine Gun Preacher' together. And Moore is working on 'LOL: Laughing Out Loud' with Miley Cyrus, reports the […] Continue reading Butler, Moore and Monaghan's Michigan karaoke stuns fans
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On the island of Culebra — which sits about 20 miles east of Puerto Rico— visitors will find a beach perfect for families, snorkelers and those looking for a remote spot that boasts a delightful aesthetic from nearly every angle. Flamenco Beach's 1½-mile strip of sand is the most popular on Culebra and is often recognized by travelers and experts as the most beautiful in all of Puerto Rico.
Facilities like bathrooms and showers can be found on site, and the beach's white sand is peppered with kiosks selling refreshments or offering chairs and umbrellas for rent — all available for inexpensive prices (about $10 USD each). Amenities and tranquility are among the many allures of this favorite spot but above all else, travelers simply can't stop raving about the beach's beauty. "The water is shades of teal, turquoise, and blue. I've never seen such amazing ocean water," one TripAdvisor reviewer raved. Some travelers do complain that Flamenco Beach's popularity means it can get a bit crowded on the weekends (despite a lack of fancy resorts or restaurants). And your company won't just be of the human variety; fish tend to swim right up to the shallow water's edge.
Flamenco Beach is also home to a campground, should you care to spend the night outside, under the Caribbean moon. In order to camp you'll have to pay a fee of $20 USD, and you'll need to bring your own equipment (or ask the campground office for details about renting a tent). If you're staying on Culebra, this beach is a must, but from the main island it can be quite a trek. Air Flamenco and Cape Air offer flights between San Juan and Culebra. Ferries also run to and from Culebra, though the schedule and availability are often unreliable. Flamenco Beach is free to visit and is open daily from dawn to dusk.
Nearby Things To Do
Bioluminescent Mosquito Bay (Vieques)17.6 miles away
Sun Bay (Vieques)19.0 miles away
El Yunque National Rainforest22.7 miles away
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Dorado Beach, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve65.5 miles away
Hotel El Convento53.6 miles away
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It has already been quite the year for Pharrell Williams. The "Happy" singer is set to make his Apollo Theater debut on June ,3 as he has been slotted to kick off the latest installment of "American Express Unstaged" live-streaming concert series. According to Billboard.com on Monday, the concert series, in partnership with Vevo and YouTube, will stream live here on June 3.
The 41-year-old Williams will be the latest performer to play the "Unstaged" series following a year that has seen the music producer drop a hit album and dominate the airwaves with his Oscar-nominated hit, "Happy." The concert series will be directed by Spike Lee and will be the 14th installment of the event.
Lee, who considers Pharrell a good friend, is excited about working with the Grammy Award-winning producer. In an interview with the New York Times, Lee said:
Pharrell and I have been friends for years and we've talked about working together, and now it's coming to fruition and I'm happy about that – we both are. I've been going to the Apollo since I was 7 or 8-years-old. I think it was a great choice by Pharrell to have his concert there. It's one of the great places for music in the world, when you think of all the people who've come across the stage."
Lee also made reference to Pharrell's signature Vivienne Westwood mountain hat that will definitely be apart of the performance that will be streamed online. Lee will also be the first director to direct an "Unstaged" concert for a second time. His first shot at the project was back in 2010 when he teamed up with John Legend & The Roots.


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Social Security benefits are something a large portion of people can look forward to receiving when they retire. Here before you is a breakdown of how the money for those benefits is accumulated to later be given back to you.
I am sure that you have seen a subcategory entitled FICA on your paycheck stub. The acronym that you have been witnessing stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. The Act requires your employer to deduct a select the amount of money from your check that can later help you.
12.4 percent of the monies deducted within the FICA category on your check are social security taxes. The Social Security taxes deducted from your check are placed into a trust fund. The money from the trust fund is used by the government to support retirement and disability programs. Therefore, it is from this fund that you later will receive your Social Security benefits after you retire.
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Our kids were in a gang. Not an urban gang, but a play gang. We lived in suburbia while they were growing up, and I loved the sound of the gang moving from yard to yard playing kick the can and ghost in the graveyard and spud. We all watched out for them, and the yelling and screaming and laughter rang out and reached those of us lucky enough to be home to hear it. It was what summer was all about. I don't hear that anymore, and it's sad. Kids today are inside on their computers and phones or watching TV. It's a huge loss for all of us.
The media has created such a fearful world that working moms now, probably out of a perceived sense of necessity in insuring their child's safety, warn the kids not to go outside "until they get home." They have chores to do and technology to keep them happy, but they are isolated. No friends to play with, no running and screaming, no happiness floating in the air, and I miss it. The kids are also missing the socializing and dealing with people that they get when running with the gangs.
It's a dilemma since women went to work outside the home. None of us wants our kids in danger, but it's also a danger keeping them cooped up all summer without the freedom of running all day with friends. When I was a child, I disappeared in the summer and came back at dinner time, and my parents never seemed concerned. It was natural. However, today, with kidnappings and shootings and horrible accidents constantly broadcast, it's no wonder parents fear for their kids' safety and keep them inside while they're away. Boredom makes them turn to technology, and technology is easier than reading, so they also don't read anymore. I fear for this generation.
Today is more difficult than ever to be a parent. Not only do we need to worry about the typical problems of accidents and kids getting sucked into drugs, but now parents must also fear what technology is doing to the physical, mental and emotional sides of our kids. We all come home tired from work, and it takes extra energy to boot a recalcitrant child outside when all they want to do is play video games on the couch. Some parents choose to avoid the battle, but our kids are the ones that really lose when we allow them to remain inactive.


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Sunday, Drudge Report editor, Joseph Curl wrote, "Even MSNBC's raving liberal Rachel Maddow was stunned" by the latest report of three indictments against high-profile Democrats hitting the news one after another. Curl quoted Maddow, "
"There are now three Democratic state senators with federal criminal indictments against them just this session resulting already in eight felony convictions. And yes, the Republican Party is essentially defunct in most of California and probably beyond reviving; but, if anything can bring them back, it's probably days like this."
The Drudge editor recalled how Democrats were able to dance and sing "culture of corruption," all the way to a victory in midterm elections back in 2006 when it was disgraced Republicans in report after report. Now, Curl warned Democrats, whether cyclical or not, as the old saying goes, "the shoe is on the other foot."
The Democratic party effectively unified local and national campaigns around the slogan or meme "culture of corruption." Curl may have remembered how Howard Dean sounded off in 2006, saying, "Republicans have made their culture of corruption the norm."
In Curl's opinion, it's the nature of the political beast that elected officials who rise to power as their party rises in power all too often sink in corruption — that's the real "norm." The Drudge Report editor acknowledged corruption occurs in both parties. Curl explained, "Sadly, this culture of corruption is cyclical, first one party, then the other — whoever has been in control so long it becomes corrupt."
"Now, it's the Democrats' turn," to face the wrath of disgusted, angry voters pointed out Curl. Noting that it was particularly bad timing for President Obama, Curl added that watching " their elected officials being frog-marched in handcuffs," had a chilling effect on the confidence of voters.
Curl referenced the following scandals involving Democrats as politicians are heading into the midterm elections:
- Leland Yee, California state Sen. (D), was arrested on corruption, conspiracy, and federal gun trafficking charges along with 28 others.
- Ron Calderon , California state Sen. (D), has been charged with influence-peddling although he has plead "not guilty," accused of taking bribes to perpetuate an audacious, $500 million health care and workers' compensation fraud.
- Roderick Wright, California state Sen. (D), was convicted the last of January for perjury and voter fraud. He is defending getting "paid while on leave."
- Keith Farnham, Illinois state Rep. (D) resigned March 19, citing health concerns, following the seizure of computers from his home offices, reported to be a search for evidence of child pornography. He never missed a meeting for ill health.
- Gordon Fox, former House Speaker of Rhode Island (D), stepped down and was replaced after the FBI raided his home and office, reason still unknown.
- Patrick Cannon, Mayor of Charlotte, N.C. (D), resigned following FBI charges he accepted nearly $50,000 in bribes. Cannon faces up to fifty years if convicted on all counts; his arrest came when he showed up to collect a pay-off.
In spite of ongoing coverage of these scandals on the Drudge Report, Curl notes that conservatives are mostly mum, "keeping their powder dry." However, Republicans may be waiting to add "corruption" to their bag of Democrat sins. After all, Matt Drudge, the founder of Drudge Report, who pops up in strange company, a report here, name dropping there, recently warned that Republicans were making a mistake if they thought they could win on Obamacare alone.
Curl did give a nod to those who suspect these reports are being broken in advance of the midterm elections, by design. It's a design many think will save Democrats seeking reelection and media Democrat supporters, such as Rachel Maddow, from having to deal with a devastating report of corruption popping up on the Drudge Report on the eve of the elections.


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We are excited to welcome Shabana Basij-Rasikh to the County Theater on Saturday, March 9th at 10am to introduce GIRL RISING, a documentary about the power of education.
The film features nine extraordinary girls from nine countries striving beyond circumstance, and pushing past limits. Their unforgettable true stories capture the strength of the human spirit – and the power of education to change the world. Voices lent for the narration from Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, and Kerry Washington.
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Shabana Basij-Rasikh grew up in Afghanistan where women are forbidden to go to school. However, she managed to get an education by dressing as a boy, attending a secret school and finally graduating top in her class at Middlebury College. She is now Managing Director and co-founder of the SOLA (School of Leadership – Afghanistan), and in connection with 10×10, the organization presenting this film, she is traveling the world to bring about change and awareness.
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Pete Handley, 60, who represents Carterton South West, lives in Shilton and is married.
His political biography lists his interests as agriculture, auctions and rugby – he is vice president of Witney Rugby Club.
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He has been deputy mayor of Carterton twice and served as the town's mayor during the Queen's Golden Jubilee. He is also a life member of the GMB Union.
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text: As I mentioned this in my MM discussion proposal, I am sending the followingpatch for discussion.This helps some workloads we use, that are normally run with little memoryheadroom and get occasionally pushed over the edge to OOM. In some cases,the OOMing thread can't exit because it needs to acquire the mmap_sem,while the thread holding mmap_sem can't progress because it needs toallocate memory.IIRC we first encountered this against our 2.6.18 kernel; this has beenreproduced with 2.6.33 (sorry, we'll have to clean up that test case a bitbefore I can send it); and following patch is against 2.6.34 plusdown_read_unfair changes (which have been discussed here before, notresending them at this point unless someone asks).Note that while this patch modifies some performance critical MM functions,it does make sure to stay out of the fast paths.Use down_read_unfair() in OOM-killed tasksWhen tasks are being targeted by OOM killer, we want to usedown_read_unfair to ensure a fast exit.- The down_read_unfair() call in fast_get_user_pages() is to cover the futex calls in mm_release() (including exit_robust_list(), compat_exit_robust_list(), exit_pi_state_list() and sys_futex())- The down_read_unfair() call in do_page_fault() is to cover the put_user() call in mm_release() and exiting the robust futex lists.This is a rework of a previous change in 2.6.18:Change the down_read()s in the exit path to be unfair so that we donot result in a potentially 3-to-4-way deadlock during the ooms.What happens is we end up with a single thread in the oom loop (T1)that ends up killing a sibling thread (T2). That sibling thread willneed to acquire the read side of the mmap_sem in the exit path. It'spossible however that yet a different thread (T3) is in the middle ofa virtual address space operation (mmap, munmap) and is enqueue tograb the write side of the mmap_sem behind yet another thread (T4)that is stuck in the OOM loop (behind T1) with mmap_sem held for read(like allocating a page for pagecache as part of a fault. T1 T2 T3 T4 . . . . oom: . . . oomkill . . . ^ \ . . . /|\ ----> do_exit: . . | sleep in . . | read(mmap_sem) . . | \ . . | ----> mmap . | sleep in . | write(mmap_sem) . | \ . | ----> fault | holding read(mmap_sem) | oom | | | / \----------------------------------------------/Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <firstname.lastname@example.com>diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.cindex f627779..4b3a1c7 100644--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c@@ -1062,7 +1062,10 @@ do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address); return; }- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);+ if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))+ down_read_unfair(&mm->mmap_sem);+ else+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } else { /* * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded indiff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.cindex 738e659..578d1a7 100644--- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c@@ -357,7 +357,10 @@ slow_irqon: start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT; pages += nr; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);+ if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))+ down_read_unfair(&mm->mmap_sem);+ else+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT, write, 0, pages, NULL); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.cindex 7f2683a..2318d3a 100644--- a/kernel/exit.c+++ b/kernel/exit.c@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk) * will increment ->nr_threads for each thread in the * group with ->mm != NULL. */- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);+ down_read_unfair(&mm->mmap_sem); core_state = mm->core_state; if (core_state) { struct core_thread self;-- Michel "Walken" LespinasseA program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.


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Posted January 28, 2006 - 04:32 PM
I swear there was a hook by Dallas in the neutral zone, leading to the rush that they tied the game on. *shrug* What can you do?
Posted January 28, 2006 - 04:37 PM
And we're going to overtime...
Posted January 28, 2006 - 04:46 PM
Posted January 28, 2006 - 04:56 PM
Damnit. Manny still has no damn lateral movement.
Posted January 28, 2006 - 09:28 PM
This was a bad week we were 1 and 3, we need to focus on our passing and taking penaltys! I hope that this is a much better month for us and we take back first place!!
Edited by SYfanSD, January 31, 2006 - 09:42 AM.
Posted January 29, 2006 - 09:41 AM
It seems that out of all the factors that win or lose a close game it come down to goaltending. Does anyone here think we really have the goalie combination for a cup run? I will not rag on either goaltender, but I'm beginning to have my doubts.
Posted January 29, 2006 - 11:06 AM
I think our goaltending can handle the playoffs, just not the way they're playing right now. And Babcock has to be willing to play Osgood, who at least has experience in the postseason no matter what else you think of him.
Posted January 31, 2006 - 09:43 AM
We all know that Ozzie can handle tough times. We saw this in 98.
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It doesn't look like the model sporting the Snowy Cabin Dress ($29) at Urbanog has spent much time at the same types of winter cabins we've been to! That doesn't mean we aren't fans of the dress, though. We can winter-ize it with a pair of leggings, tall boots, and a big ol' down parka. Add a few sips of bourbon and we'll be warmed to the core in any drafty winter cabin!
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The mission of the Somerville Arts Council (SAC) is to cultivate and celebrate the creative expressions of the Somerville community. Through innovative collaborations and quality programming we work to make the arts an integral part of life reflective of our diverse city.
Somerville Arts Council
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Applications for field trips are accepted. (Formerly known as PASS applications.)
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Everybody knows that the White House has been home to many important people throughout the years; however, did you know that many of these important people liked beer.
Barack Obama - Yes it is true that he is the first person in the White House to brew beer; however, he is not the only President to dabble in the beer world.
George Washington - His beer of choice was a lager beer and brewed beer on his plantation to last year around. A recipe found by the New York Public Library shows how in 1757, how George Washington brewed his beer.
To make Small Beer:
• Take a large sifter full of bran hops to your taste
• Boil these three hours then strain into a cooler
• Put in 3 gallons of molasses while the beer is scalding hot or rather drain the molasses into the cooler and strain the beer on while boiling hot
• Let stand till it is little more than blood warm, then put in a quart of yeast if the weather is cold, cover it over with a blanket and let in work in the cooler 24 hours.
• Then put it into the cask leave the hole open till it is almost done working and bottle it that week it was brewed
Thomas Jefferson - was also known for brewing beer at his home in Monticello, in fact when he got older he focused a large amount of studies on brewing and built the most up to date brew house during that time.
James Madison - This former President actually wanted to start a government run brewery and wanted to establish a secretary of beer position in the cabinet.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Everybody knows that he is the one who legalized the sale of 3.2% alcohol which lead to the fall of prohibition.
Jimmy Carter - He made brewing beer and wine at home legal again for the first time since prohibition.
Not all former people from the White House have liked beer though, Woodrow Wilson started prohibition and Rutherford B. Hayes banned all beer and other alcohol from the White House (because of his wife). So now that you know a little more about beer history, enjoy your beer and drink safe.


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The Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend's Exhibit Hall is a beast all its own. It's where the leather and kink diehards cross paths with the weekend's spectators. Once upon a time, any curious soul could simply walk in off the street and start shopping – or gawking. But even with the introduction of an Exhibit Hall admission charge last year for those not registered with MAL, the hall seems as popular as ever.
"It certainly has become a big part of MAL," says Chris Wilkins, the Centaur MC's Exhibit Hall chair for the past four years. "Looking at the number of participants, versus those just in for the day for the Exhibit Hall, I would say it's one of the major attractions."
With some 30 vendors of various sizes selling everything from portable slings to jewelry, lubricant to paddles, there is certainly something for everyone. Or, as Wilkins puts it, "It's a dynamic mix of people and exhibitors. If you want it, you can probably find it. Or, at least, find someone to point you in the right direction."
One of the vendors who regularly makes the run down from New York is kinky clothier Nasty Pig. Nasty Pig CEO David Lauterstein promises that the MAL pilgrimage with wares in tow is not as grueling as one might think. There is a warehouse. There is hired help. There is a system.
"We've got it down to a science," Lauterstein says with a laugh, giving much of the credit to the moving crew Nasty Pig hires for the haul. "Being from New York City, we're of the belief that other people should do the driving."
Jim McGlade, owner of The Leather Rack, could likely even make the journey on foot – though not with his arms full of merchandise. But even with his shop of clothes, toys and accessories sitting atop Dupont Circle, he still finds it important to participate in the Exhibit Hall.
"It's worthwhile," he says of The Leather Rack's MAL presence. "We have a lot of history within the leather community across the country. But we do offer a discount if you come to the store."
And discounts can be the name of the game, particularly for that heavy piece of equipment for which you'd rather not pay shipping costs. Beyond that, Wilkins says now may be the time to buy.
"Six years ago, sales started going down. Now it looks like they're on the rise again."
Entry to the Exhibit Hall is included in MAL registration. Otherwise the cost is $25 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, $20 for Saturday and Sunday, or $10 for any one day.
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B-CU's Second Half Defense: No TDs In October
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Release: 11/01/2012
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One of the few games Bethune-Cookman has given up a second half touchdown this season foreshadow the Wildcats' current run of three games pulling off an impressive defensive feat.
Alabama State had the Wildcats down 21-0 in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge on a blistering September afternoon before B-CU scored the next 38 points for an impressive opening day victory.
The Hornets' late touchdown was a rarity this season.
The next week, South Carolina State was held scoreless the final 30 minutes. Tennessee State the same. And in the month of October, Bethune-Cookman gave up two field goals to North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central.
That defensive run has put the Wildcats (6-2 overall, 5-0 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) in the driver's seat for a conference championship run that begins Saturday at Morgan State. B-CU's the only remaining unbeaten team in league play.
So, is it a matter of conditioning, the ability to make adjustments or simply an overall stellar coaching effort by defensive coordinator Yogi Jones? Head Coach Brian Jenkins says "it's all of the above."
"We take pride in being a well-conditioned team," Jenkins said during his Wednesday media luncheon. "Coach Medgar Harrison has done an excellent job in that regard.
"Coach Jones has done a great job with his schemes and making the adjustments," Jenkins. "Good things have come in the second half because of it."
Jenkins wants the high level of play to continue Saturday against a Morgan State team (3-5, 2-3) team that can't be overlooked.
"They are a very talented, very deadly football team," Jenkins said. " We hope to go up in their territory and play a flawless football game to keep us on track."
Other comments from Jenkins:
More on Morgan State...
"They have a good running back, quarterbacks who can make plays and a defense that's active and aggressive. I have a massive amount of respect for [Defensive coordinator] Alonzo Lee because he gets the most out of his players and [Head Coach] Donald Hill-Ely just finds a way to keep his team competitive. We're not overlooking this group."
On MSU losing close games...
"When an animal is injured, they're more dangerous. That's Morgan State. They're in the game. One or two plays and they walk away with a win. That's why they are like an injured animal... they find a way to fight to survive. They won't lie down."
On Penalties...
"We have some little things we need to fix. We had too many penalties last weekend and I'm not happy about that."


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The Endling Volume 2 Chapter 20
The Endling Volume 2 Chapter 20
Posted June 12, 2014
What happens to humanity after a billion years of evolution? Amber Black is about to find out.
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Hey guys,
I debated whether to put "The End" in that last panel and ended up deciding not to. So in case that was a mistake: The End.
I've got a blog post up about ending this strange little series: http://thrillbent.com/blog/the-end/. But I did wanna leave this note, too, to say thank you and ask one–okay, two–more things of you. One…can you spread the word? If you liked the series or know someone who would, please share it! Secondly…can you tell us your thoughts? What you liked, didn't like? Everything? We wanna know. So please comment here, on our facebook page (facebook.com/TheEndling) or on Twitter (twitter.com/TheEndling). Thank you so much for coming along on the ride with us!
Lou, thanks so much for all your thoughtful comments! You are dead on about the visuals…some unforgettable work in there by Cecilia Latella and Jenn Manley Lee. It's funny you say that about Amber's Dad, because I didn't even think of that until about halfway through writing this thing–my original thought was that we'd simply not meet him. Anyway, good on you for guessing it–I tried not to telegraph it too much. And I'm psyched we got you on the Primogenitor! Your gracious thoughts on the series overall are very, very much appreciated. Thank you for reading and sharing!
Actually, I think I had it figured it by the time I wrote that…but I'd love to know when you figured it out! I did point at it a little more than I was super-comfortable with, so I'd love to know what gave it away! Thanks again–and if you ever make that t-shirt a reality, you are duty-bound to share the image with us!


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The younger kids drew a collective breath. They were used to Rob's outbursts but not to this level of threat. Marty, still panting from the scuffle, left the room. Rob gave us all a tight smile and tipped the brim of an imaginary cap. The real point, Rob explained, was that he didn't care about any of us—except the little kids who could "catch up with him" when they were older. He said, "I'm sorry if it bothers you. I just really have no feelings for you." He shrugged. "It's kind of a relief to stop faking it."
Rob had one thing right. It was almost a relief. Like watching someone die after a long and painful illness.
I had to be willing to risk the possibility that Rob would follow through. His voice was as lifeless as lead. And after all the insults, whining and swearing—after all the oxygen Rob had consumed in our lives—I could finally see the truth as though the words were written in forked lightning on the glowering sky, about to open in a fierce thunderstorm: Rob didn't really hate only me; he hated himself for what he had become. He'd become a whiner whose default response to the slightest challenge was rage and blame. I knew at that moment that unless he (and I) stopped forgiving that behavior, he could never change.
The door closed. Our sixth grader, Francie, said, "I hate Rob. He makes you cry."
I didn't hate Rob. I still loved him, though I doubted he could ever love me in return. But that love had become an old refrain, a lullaby played on a broken player, a tune only I could hear.
Relief, and the freedom to give all my attention to the rest of my family, was real. But it was pierced by grief.
In fact, I thought I would lose my reason.
For four months, I brushed and flossed my teeth, read to the younger kids and lay down in the gloaming to cry, sometimes waking with my hair so damp that it was as if I'd had a swim before bed. Not knowing if Rob was even still in town, or physically well, or employed, I picked up the telephone 200 times. I put it down 200 times. We didn't know his few friends: There was no one to ask about him. I couldn't even have the small solace of knowing he was OK. Chris would never have prevented me from calling Rob, but I knew that he also was at the breaking point. To give in would have cost me not only my boy but perhaps also my marriage and the respect of my other children, forever.
Then came the day that Marty left for college. I was cooking spaghetti sauce, making my hands busy because my heart was tearing into so many chunks and layers. Through the open kitchen window, I heard Rob's crummy car chugging up the hill. My breath began to come in gasps: What could Rob want? Was he in real trouble? Surely Rob hadn't come to say good-bye to Marty—the sibling he abused most, calling him faggot, sissy, idiot? Indeed, however, it was just that. In the garage, Rob kissed Marty and held him close, although Marty, mystified and wary at first, held back. Then Rob came into the house. Because I could not say, "Oh, how my eyes have hungered just for the sight of you," and he could not say, "I was so wrong," I said, "Would you taste this? I think it needs sugar."
Rob said, "It's perfect."
He stayed six months.
Sleeping on a mattress in the basement, he paid off his aggravated parking tickets and patched up his car. With a score equaled only by a handful of others in the history of the state's HSED test, he got his high school diploma and a Pell grant. Terrified, he set out for college in faraway Florida. And just this past winter, after studying full time for less than two years, he took his degree in computer engineering.
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Bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley was awarded his second honorary doctorate yesterday (May 19) at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
The honor was bestowed upon the 87-year-old music legend by Yale president Peter Salovey—himself a bluegrass enthusiast, who plays bass in the Professors of Bluegrass band.
Stanley was cited as "the patriarch of traditional mountain and bluegrass music."
"From the Clinch Mountains of southwest Virginia to the concert halls of the world, you have taken a distinct American sound and made it your own," read Stanley's doctorate citation. "Your music has its roots in the gospel songs of your childhood and in the banjo playing you learned from your mother. The Stanley style of picking produces a distinctive and characteristic rhythm, and generations of singers have been influenced by your signature voice with its mournful sounds and raw emotional power. You are a living legend and we sing your praises as we award you this degree."
Yale follows Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., which conferred an honorary doctorate on Stanley in 1976. He was joined at Yale by fellow honorees Tim Berners-Lee—inventor of the World Wide Web—and poet Rita Dove and actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith, among others.
Long the leading exponent of traditional Appalachian music as well as a founding father of bluegrass, "Dr. Ralph Stanley" has toured and recorded for 68 years. His career began in 1946 with older brother Carter Stanley as the Stanley Brothers.
After Carter's death in 1966, Stanley fielded bands featuring the likes of Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Charlie Sizemore. In 2000, he achieved mainstream country music stardom with his appearance in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Stanley celebrated his latest honorary degree by playing banjo on an orchestral version his signature song "Man of Constant Sorrow."
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About the Selkregg Award
The Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award is a $5,000 award that supports faculty to develop community engaged research, creative activity, and course-based service-learning projects. The Award seeks to encourage, reward, and inspire faculty at UAA to creatively engage their students in learning and research that equally benefits the students and the community at large.
The Selkregg Award draws from a memorial fund established in the name of Fred M. Selkregg, Jr., a longtime Alaskan who was a civil rights activist, community leader, and spiritual teacher; and Dr. Lidia Selkregg, a city planner and UAA professor who worked passionately for Anchorage's ports and watersheds, rural and urban welfare, and civil rights. The Selkreggs brought a commitment to openness, truth, democracy, and social justice to all of their work. Additional gifts are provided by the Iden and Selkregg families.
Purposes of the award are to recognize community engagement projects with significant discipline-based scholarship, community partnership, and student leadership development. The proposed projects should ultimately aim to improve the quality of life for Alaska residents and develop ethical values, civic leadership, democracy, and social justice on campus and in the community.


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The Youth Birding League will meet on Jan 11 at the Irvine Nature Center. The hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Participants will build birdhouses. The League is for youngsters between 10 and 15 years old. Registration is required. There is a one-time fee of $10.00 for members and $20.00 for non-members. To learn more, call (443) 738-9220.
The Baltimore Free Store will have its next free market at the C C Jackson Recreation Center on Jan 11. The market will accept donations from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and give away goods from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. To learn more, e-mail email@example.com.
The Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville is holding weekend animal encounters on Jan 11 and 12 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on both days. Visitors will join a naturalist for an animal and an activity. The latter may be a story, craft, or hike. To learn more, e-mail email@example.com.
The Maryland Native Plant Society is offering a field trip to Carderock, Maryland on Jan 11. The hours are 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Participants will learn how to identify winter trees and shrubs along the Potomac River. People may want to bring water, snacks, hiking shoes, field guides, binoculars, note pad and a camera. The trip will be canceled if it's snowing or raining. To learn more, e-mail email@example.com.
The Pocomoke River State Park is holding a bald eagle watch on Jan 11. The hours are 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The program includes a Scales and Tales live animal show, a watching station, a hike in the park to see eagles, and an optional boat tour with the Pocomoke Canoe Company. A naturalist will guide visitors in the Milburn Landing Area of the park and talk about bald eagles and bald cypress. Admission costs $10.00, but the boat ride costs $20.00 extra. To learn more, contact Angela Pease at (410) 632-2566 or email@example.com.


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It might not be foreseeable for the common Canadian citizen and even the government to see the looming dangers of the unfolding economic wars. The unfolding war is squarely between the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the Ministry of Finance.
The war is solely on the budget cut which, as claimed by the finance minister, Jim Flaherty will only affect what he termed as the back office. On the contrary, the parliament asserts that only 15 percent of the budget will cater for internal services.
With 15 percent gone to the internal services, the rest of the savings that is 85 percent is bound to be sourced from services that will have an effect on the people. These are the services that are very essential to them.
A spreadsheet, involving information regarding government departments on ways to implement the 5-10 percent cuts that have to be sourced by the various federal government departments has been published by PBO.
Health Canada, being a huge department, has not offered detailed information of how many of its programs will be affected by the substantial cut on their budget.
The puzzle is, despite the approval of the cuts, ministers are giving no or very little information with regard to the budget slashes that will affect the programs and the services. These are indeed some of the things that are primary and beneficial to the general public.
Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, together with his staff in their comparative analysis managed to link the performance indicators on the 2012 budget and the information about the budget slashes.
From the comparative analysis results, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in its food safety program is likely to be hit with a $19 million annual cut. To be in compliant with the federal regulations, the food program had targeted 98 per cent of the federal establishments.
To the amazement of many Canadian citizens, the Agency never released the most important information. This is the kind of information that would have made it clear to the people the effects of $19 million cut on the 98 percent target.
Despite the Minister of Finance claiming that from the 19,200 jobs that will die away, 7,000 will disappear through slow distraction. On the flip side, Mr. Kevin page was also able to unravel that the figure points to 500 jobs only.
The Privy Council Office, in support of the ministers, laid a claim that angered Mr. Page. They said that information regarding job cuts is way off the mandate of the PCO. This forced Page to seek legal opinion regarding his mandate, which is still pending on his part. Kevin page clearly stated that he could not do his job as the adviser to the parliamentarians on matters touching on the finance of the federal government without such crucial information. He went ahead and called the parliamentarians and the people of Canada to put pressure on the government to release this information.


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Jordan Tolbert
April 19, 2014
DALLAS (SMU) --- SMU Head Coach Larry Brown announced Jordan Tolbert will join the Mustangs for the 2014-15 season. Tolbert is transferring from Texas Tech. He will join McDonald's All-American Emmanuel Mudiay as newcomers on the Hilltop next season.
In three seasons at Texas Tech, Tolbert averaged 10.7 points and 5.7 rebounds. As a junior at Texas Tech, he was second for the Red Raiders in scoring (10.7) and rebounding (5.8). He averaged 9.8 points and 5.4 rebounds as a sophomore after leading TTU in both categories as a freshman with 11.5 points and 5.7 rebounds. Tolbert was an Academic All-Big 12 honoree in 2012-13 and named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2011-12. The Fort Worth native spent his prep career at All Saints Episcopal High School.
Twelve Mustangs return next season from a team that went 27-10 and reached the NIT championship game. SMU reached as high as No. 18 in the national polls while accumulating the second-most wins in program history. The Mustangs finished tied for third in the American Athletic Conference (12-6) and totaled four wins over ranked teams. The squad went 18-1 at home, including 12-1 in the renovated Moody Coliseum, while setting a new SMU single-season attendance record that included nine sellouts.
SMU Men's Basketball Signees
Emmanuel Mudiay (G, 6-5, 190) Arlington, Texas (Prime Prep Academy [Dallas, Texas])
Jordan Tolbert (F, 6-7, 240) Fort Worth, Texas (All Saints Episcopal/Texas Tech)


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Horror is such a marginalized genre that since filmmakers have been making horror movies, the experiences they are meant to inspire have had an umbrella effect over everything else in the film – unless one happens to be a connoisseur, the only thing in view is what is terrifying and nothing else. That isn't to say horror movies need or are supposed to be grandly elaborate narrative endeavors engineered with nuanced plot development and emotional growth, but the goings-on usually leave little room to appreciate a writer and/or director's intentions – aside from the generalized blatant metaphor of the movie, its hard to distinguish art and innovation when you're jumping out of your seat or averting your eyes in instinctual fear. But I've always found that horror movies, when studied closely, are never just horror movies – it is a genre that other genres naturally gravitate to, like strange attractors, uncomplimentary forces combing to powerful effect. You're Next, the 2013 mumble-gore film that found mainstream fame, is such a meeting, a low-budget concoction of home-invasion horror, black comedy, and hard-hitting action.
Created by writer and director team (respectively) Simon Garrett and Adam Wingard, You're Next is the story of the Davidson family and their reunion weekend at their yuppie Missouri vacation mansion. Along with pater and mater Paul and Aubrey are their adult children Drake, Crispian, Felix, and Aimee and their respective significant others Kelly, Erin, Zee, and Tariq. All arrive and prepare for the big family dinner, meanwhile nearby neighbors have been butchered by assailants in animal masks. That night in the middle of a dinner argument (a great metatheatrical moment where characters argue about the meaningfulness/meaninglessness of indie cinema), one of the dinner's party is murdered by one of the masked assailants. There appears to be no rhyme or reason as to why they are being terrorized, but as each person meets increasingly more spectacular demises Crispian's girlfriend Erin (Sharni Vinson) leads the ever-dwindling pack of survivors in brutal defense against the killers.
A lot of what makes this movie to great is its defiance in the face of horror movie conventions – in a broad definition (because I hate spoilers), it replaces orchestrated pointlessness with naturalistic contexts. The characters behave believably, the villains have purpose, and the "final girl" is heroic not because she survives but because of how she survives (she's got one of the coolest, most unique and improbably probable character back stories I've ever come across). The action of You're Next is horrifically gory, the kind of squeamishness-inspiring brutality that could make anyone overlook the action aspects and how wonderfully intense they are; Wingard and Barrett clearly have a warped sense of humor to pair with their fanboy love of horror. But it does make a great excuse to watch it a second and third time. The humor is sharp, the violence is hard, and the horror is even harder, but the thing I admire most about this movie is that it wasn't over-thought. So many action and horror movies get bogged down by whoever's need to explain beyond what is readily needed in the situation – there's nothing worse than when abundances of information get in the way of forward moving action and horror. In fact, by those rights, You're Next is a home run for both genres.


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Hi, I'm running MoinMoin 1.9.6 [release] on Scientific Linux (A RHEL clone) 6.4. I've moin configured so that anyone may create a user, but users cannot create any pages unless they are in a group, and the group page is itself protected. Spammers are creating users. This is not a problem; I detect and delete them periodically. However, spammers are attempting to create pages and each time this happens moin leaves an empty file in data/pages/. The proliferation of these files is causing problems. It would be nice if moin only allowed a user to attempt page creation when the user has permission, but that's for the future. Right now I want to know if there's a way I can prevent moin from creating the empty files and plugging up the filesystem. Yes, I can get rid of the pages with 'moin maint cleanpage', and I do. But I'd much rather not have the pages created in the first place. Is there a solution?(Continue reading)