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Paul Walker, senior meteorologist for Accuweather, out of State College, Pa., said Arthur will make its presence known mostly along Delaware beaches.
"The biggest thing will be rough surf and rip currents as the storm passes to the east late Friday and Friday night," Walker said.
The storm, which is expected to increase to hurricane strength on Thursday, will be on a path taking it away from land and will be far enough out to sea that it will not rain on Dover's parade or fireworks, he said.
"It's a pretty small storm, actually, and will stay offshore, about 150 to 300 miles to the east," Walker said.
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Urgent BF3 Match Request
Morning all at TOG. I'm bxpressiv recently promoted to the leadership group at The Sons of Tzu (you may know Adsa+Pinge who are GA admins and leaders of the team). So being recently promoted that means I'm doing all the leg work while the top ranks are sipping martinis on the beach so to speak. Adsa told me to track down Maddog who should point me in the right direction for who to ask but I couldn't see him in the contacts list, so here I am.
We had a scrim arranged for tonight but got told midnight last night they couldn't make it. A bunch of our guys play on your servers and you usually have a fair few on so I was hoping you may be able to get a team together. The details are as follows:
Scrim : 12 v 12 CQ (GA rules, everything goes I believe)
Date : Sunday 15 Jan
Time : 930pm AEDST (830pm QLD, 630pm WA)
Map : Grand Bazaar Small
I know it's really late notice so I appreciate if the request cannot be met. Even if it's not I look forward to having more pubs+games with you guys in the future.
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rgr, have relayed this to the BF3 forums to help get more notice.
btw the people you want to PM are...
Squad Leaders/Officers (links busted but the PM names will autocomplete)
- Black Sheep Axiom_Machina/Starjack
- Hellions Midnight74/Inglorious Nub
- Pukin' Dogs Raith/Mugger Murderer
- BlackJacks King_Rocket
I think that's correct, but you may want to talk to AngryCustard for the sheep, cos Axi is still away.
(if that's not right boys, you really should keep those lists current )
(EDIT: are GA really going for Bazaar small? That map's barely tolerable on large with 10v10 IMO)
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|15th January 2012, 12:46 PM
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I'm pretty sure GA is running large but it's 16v16. Originally this scrim was planned as a 10v10, hence we went small. We did a 9v9 the other night and I think the size went well. Provided the teams are close to evenly matched there's enough flanking opportunities to make it interesting. If the teams aren't evenly matched then the better team will cap out and spawn camp the weaker team, but that would probably happen on the larger map too.
|15th January 2012, 03:50 PM
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Trying to organise some folk to play. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to make the 12.
|15th January 2012, 07:49 PM
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Ok, recieved. I'll see what I can rustle up.
//Edit, just checked the time on this. I'll try and let the Sheep field this as its somewhat past my bedtime on a Sunday, but there will be some Dog's avaliable to fill in as required.
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The following rotation guide was developed through extensive simulations and play testing with the goal of keeping the guide as simple as possible without sacrificing performance. This guide also included AoE rotations and provides details on when to use special talents and cooldowns.
Single Target Rotation
Presence: Frost Presence (Two-Hand and Dual-Wield)
Dual-Wield Priority: Execute the following priority for Dual-Wield DPS.
- Soul Reaper Frost on targets below 35% health.
- Frost Fever Blood Plague maintained at all times.
- Frost Strike with Killing Machine or if RP will cap.
- Howling Blast with Rime procs.
- Howling Blast to dump Frost and Death runes.
- Obliterate to dump Unholy runes.
Two-Hand Priority: Execute the following priority for Two-Hand DPS.
- Soul Reaper Frost on target below 35% health.
- Frost Fever Blood Plague maintained at all times.
- Obliterate with Killing Machine.
- Obliterate with all runes available.
- Frost Strike to dump RP.
- Howling Blast with Rime procs.
For both play styles, your highest priority is to use Soul Reaper Frost on cooldown against targets below 35% health. After this, you need to maintain diseases on your target all times. Use Outbreak to apply diseases. Howling Blast will automatically apply and refresh Frost Fever, so the only disease you need to keep up is Blood Plague. Simply use Plague Strike with an Unholy rune or Outbreak whenever Blood Plague needs to be refreshed at <= 9 sec remaining. At this point, the two play styles differ slightly and will be discussed separately.
The dual-wield rotation emphasizes consuming Killing Machine procs with Frost Strike and then using Frost Strike to dump excess Runic Power. After this, watch for Rime procs and consume them with Howling Blast. Next, dump your Frost and Death runes with Howling Blast and your Unholy runes with Obliterate.
The two-hand priority emphasizes consuming Killing Machine procs with Obliterate. After this, use Obliterate when your Runes are full and can no longer regenerate. Frost Strike is then used to dump excess Runig Power and Rime procs are used for Howling Blast.
AoE Rotation
- Blood Boil to quickly spread diseases.
- Death And Decay with Unholy runes.
- Howling Blast with Death and Frost runes.
Use Blood Boil to quickly spread your diseases. After that, maintain Death And Decay with Unholy runes. Dump your Death and Frost runes with Howling Blast. Dump excess Runic Power with Frost Strike and excess Unholy runes with Plague Strike. Continue to watch for and consume Killing Machine and Rime procs.
Below is advice on how to use the performance-enhancing talents that were selected in this guide.
- Plague Leech should be used when Blood Plague is about to expire and Outbreak is off cooldown. Use Plague Leech to consume your diseases and quickly reapply them with Outbreak. You can then use the Death Runes normally as a part of your rotation.
- Blood Tap is best used by consuming your Blood Charge when they stack to 10+. Do not wait for a full 12 stack of Blood Charge before using them; you risk wasting any additional Blood Charge that might proc. The easiest way to use Blood Tap is to macro Blood Tap with Frost Strike so that Blood Tap is always used soon after it is available.
- Defile replaces Death And Decay and is used the same.
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- Paramilitary men are camping right outside gates
- There is the modern equivalent of the Passover in operation. If your security lights are not on mobs will enter your house. Woe unto you if you and yours are there
- Mobs have been forcefully circumcising people. Latest counts indicate about 20 people have suffered that fate. (NB circumcision is generally not practiced by the Luo community)
- 5 people have bled to death after forceful circumcision
More news from the rest of Kenya
- More about the burnt church in Eldoret. There are conflicting stories as to the number of people that were inside. Numbers are ranging from 50 to 250
- Despite the government banning the rally on Thursday, the ODM insists it will go forward. I plan to be nowhere near Uhuru park. Mobs repulsed from rallies are generally not forgiving.
- There is looming fuel shortage in most petrol stations in Nairobi
- The unrest in Kenya is affecting Uganda as well. (Uganda, being landlocked, gets a lot of its supplies from Kenya). Fuel stations in Uganda are running out of fuel.
- Goods are being held at the port at the request of buyers for fear that they will be looted/destroyed en route.
- Kibaki still refuses to directly address the issue of insecurity. Sometimes silence speaks volumes
- Samuel Kivuitu, ECK chairman has made some interesting comments on TV
- He was under intense pressure to make the announcement
- He contemplated resignation but felt that he would be perceived as a coward
- He claimed that the ECK had no legal standing to act on the objections of the political parties (Which I don't buy, especially the discrepancy between results announced at constituency level and those at the KICC)
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LORAIN — The story of the Easter basket at Lakeview Park cannot be told without harking back to Gerry Timko's summer of 1969.
Timko, who along with her husband runs Arbor Lights Bed & Breakfast, a historic Victorian inn just steps away from Lake Erie on Lorain's east side, has a classic coming-of-age tale featuring two teen girls, the boys who captured their fancy, a giant orange Easter egg made out of cement and a run-in with the Lorain police.
One recent afternoon, as she sat in the inn's great room, Timko chatted about anything and everything Lorain. But the Easter basket story? That she's reluctant to share — it's not like she's told it often.
Until now.
With a bit of prodding, Timko recalls laughing off an admirer's promises to get her an enormous egg while they were out on a date. Moments later, with the thud of 75 pounds of concrete in the back seat beside her, she realized she was a passenger in the getaway car.
Dropped off at home with her bright-orange booty, she had no choice but to confess her crime and recruit two more conspirators: her parents. Mom and Dad were hosting friends for a standing card game, and Timko vividly recalls the strained whispers as each alternately sneaked away from guests between hands and tried to figure out what to do next.
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Finally, they conceded, police had to be called. Timko and her friend sneaked peeks from an upstairs window as her mother met with the officer sent to retrieve the egg.
In the days that followed, she read it in the newspaper and heard on the radio: Case closed — the stolen orange egg had been returned to its rightful place in the basket.
"To say the least, it reflects what a guy will do to make a girl's wish come true," she said.
As for the guy? She's heard he's long since moved to Florida.
Timko's not alone in having a memory about the Easter basket. That's because, for whatever reason, the giant cement basket in Lakeview Park — the one that almost didn't get made because the idea just seemed too darn difficult — has become a special part of the hearts of Lorain residents. It's a destination — a place where annual family portraits were and are snapped, and with each click of the camera, a slice of life in Lorain through the years is preserved.
Trisha Traut Bard's memories include being nine months pregnant but not letting that get in the way of her family's Easter-morning tradition. She began having contractions while visiting the basket and gave birth to Gavin Bard later that day.
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A unique attraction
The Lorain Easter basket was almost never built.
Dave Shukait, the basket's eventual builder, said it couldn't be done when he first was approached with the idea by George Crehore, the city parks superintendent at the time, after Crehore's young son asked for a giant basket at the park.
Not only did Shukait build it, but the people came — and have continued to come for nearly 70 years of Easter mornings.
And why do they come? Few get very far when they try to put a reason into words. Like any good tradition, people do it because they've always done it and because their parents and their grandparents did it before them.
But come they do. And they take photos.
Each photo is a unique snapshot of growing up in Lorain. But viewed collectively, they read like a pictorial memoir of the city.
Plenty of changes are obvious: the fashions, the cars in the backgrounds, the basket itself.
But it's clear that even more remains the same. The faces staring back into the camera come from a variety of cultures, classes and generations to celebrate the one uniquely Lorain tradition they share. They're the resilient residents of an even more resilient city, smiling proudly whether that year's Easter feast will be bountiful or sparse. And, of course, there's the weather. It's always been pretty much a toss-up whether the basket-goers end up basking in the sun of a 70-degree day or trudging through a foot of snow.
Of course, when it does snow, it only makes the memories that much better.
"Some of the most memorable family photos, not to mention the worst family photos ever taken of my family, were taken at the Lorain Easter basket on or around Easter Sunday," said Lorain native Paul Baumgartner. "Let's face it: Easter Sunday is usually wet, white, cold, windy or gray in Lorain."
But what really sets the Easter basket apart?
Lorain, not to mention Lakeview Park, has plenty of attractions popular with locals and visitors alike. Unlike the lighthouse, Palace Theater, Bascule Bridge and Lakeview fountain, folks visit the basket to turn their backs on it. The Easter basket is content to be a backdrop: Photos and memories of the basket are as much about the people as the place.
"I remember being very excited about the picture because it wasn't a usual thing for us back then to sit for pictures," Barrios said. "We got on Easter best clothes and father had us make sure our shoes were well dressed as well. The Easter basket appeared so huge that it was a challenge to try to climb it, but we were soon caught and reprimanded that we weren't supposed to be getting our nice clothes so dirty."
And that's what Bret Morgan got a kick out of watching from his childhood home across the street.
"Every year we would get together and see what brave souls would turn out to jump from the rock wall (across the moat) to the grassy area under the basket," he said. "Several would make the jump over, which was easy. Most made it back, but some would fall short and wind up in the water, ruining their Easter Sunday dresses and suits."
A unifying site
Deanie Shukait has fond memories of going to the basket as a child. Even though she was a tomboy and wasn't used to dressing up, she couldn't help but admire all the Easter finery: women in heels, hats, bonnets, gloves and corsages, and men in buttoned-up suits. She couldn't have known it then, but she would one day have a special connection to the basket — she married Frank Shukait, grandson of the basket's maker.
She's since worked tirelessly as Easter basket historian, compiling an extensive collection of newspaper clippings and historical documents.
And the family room of her Lorain home pays homage to that mission. The walls are covered with family photos at the basket, Easter basket postcards, Lorain commemorative plates featuring the basket and much more.
But basket-making in their families or not, it's clear there are plenty who consider the basket their own.
Mindi Cocco Flynn made the newspaper as a child getting her Easter picture taken. And she didn't grow out of her love of the basket: She and husband Guy made sure to pose there for wedding photos last summer.
Chris Camp plans to bring back a tradition that stopped when his grandparents died: This year he, his wife and his parents will be taking daughter Nicolette for her first Easter pictures.
Brother and sister Courtney and Josh Vardous remember how the basket got their family a special visit from the mayor.
"Our cousin Mary Kramp (nee Papadakis) complained to the mayor in the '80s about the fact that the Easter basket decorations were taken down right after Easter," Courtney said. "We're Greek Orthodox, so our Easter is usually celebrated a week or two later."
Then-Mayor Alex Olejko not only heard her out but joined the family for Easter lamb that year. And the basket has remained decorated for Orthodox Easter ever since.
Roman Kniahynyckyj made the trip to the basket every year with his grandparents, who lived two houses down from the park. What does the basket mean to him?
"To me, it's a singular unifying symbol around which all Lorainites can rally," Kniahynyckyj said. "Although a lighthouse guides our way, the Easter basket makes us whole."
Lorain's other Easter baskets
Most people living in Lorain know the Lakeview Park basket isn't Lorain's only Easter basket.
Basket maker Dave Shukait built a smaller, round basket that sits alongside state Route 57 in South Lorain's Oakwood Park.
But few people know the rest of the story. Shukait actually built anywhere from four to seven even smaller baskets, some of which can still be found around Lorain. Shukait built the first four baskets for his home and for each of his three sons — Andy, Louie and Ed. Beyond that, the details get sketchy. A basket may have been built for a priest friend in Pennsylvania, and there may be baskets in Texas and Michigan.
The basket built for son Ed now sits in front of the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Frank and Deanie Shukait, on Winger Drive in Lorain, garnering plenty of attention despite its quiet location. People frequently knock on the door to ask about the basket or ask to take their picture with it, Deanie Shukait says.
Deanie Shukait cares for her basket, giving it paint touch-ups and an occasional complete paint job, just like its bigger cousin at Lakeview. She even completely emptied the basket once to inspect its condition inside and out. Her rare glimpse of the inside confirmed — that like any woven basket, it has the same weave inside as out.
Oldest son Andy gave his basket to a family friend, Rita Mrdenovich, before moving to Florida in the 1980s, and it now sits in front of her home on Elyria Avenue in Elyria Township. Mrdenovich says she'd always admired the basket, and Andy had always admired her holiday decorations and knew the basket would find a good home with her.
Two other baskets are known still to be in the Lorain area: one sits in front of a home on Orchard Hill Boulevard, off Cooper Foster, and another in the backyard of a home just south of Lorain's Central Park.
What about the other three possible baskets? If you happen to be in Pennsylvania, Texas or Michigan, keep your eyes peeled.


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Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is presently an adjunct faculty member in the Women's Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Studies program at Temple University where she teaches under/graduate courses, which examine the her/histories and contemporary realities of cisgender women and/or LGBTQ people in all of their diversity. They include Gay and Lesbian Lives (designed the revised undergraduate course), Audre Lorde: The Life and Work of A Silence Breaker (created and designed the new graduate/undergraduate course), and Graduate Introduction to Feminist Studies (designed the revised course). Additional work included moderating and participating on several Temple University sponsored roundtables and panels; personally inviting and hosting a wide range of nationally and internationally renowned scholars, cultural workers, filmmakers and activists who guest lectured in her classes and/or Women's Studies hosted events: Cornelius Moore, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., Tyrone Smith, Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D., Melinda Goodman, Barbara Ransby, Ph.D., Qui Alexander, Michael Simmons, Jennifer S. Leath, Ph.D., Stephanie Gilmore, Ph.D., and Tiona McClodden.
A Commissioner of Black Women's Blueprint's (BWB) Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Black Women and Sexual Assault, she co-authored, with BWB's Co-Founder and Executive Director Farah Tanis and L. Michelle Odom, BWB's Report on Racial Discrimination and Sexual Violence Against Women of Color, Including Those Identifying as LGBTQ, and the Impact of Inadequate Racial Justice Initiatives and Violence Prevention Policy Implementation in the United States She was also a member of BWB's 2014 six women delegation that presented at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland during their U.S. CERD Review. Ms. Tanis and Ms. Simmons co-authored the article, Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee, which documents the BWB's herstoric delegation's ground breaking work of testifying against state sanctioned and personal violence perpetuated against Black women and Black LGBTQ people in the United States at the United Nations.
During the first half of their spring semester of the 2013-2014 academic year, Ms. Simmons was the Erma Taylor O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor at Scripps College The Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hosted her. While in residence, she organized and hosted two campus wide events (The Feminist Wire's Mediating Feminisms Roundtable on how new media is deployed for feminist change-making; and Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence book reading and signing), participated in Scripps College's spring 2014 Humanities Institute's series "Feminism and the Radical Imagination;" screened her work; guest lectured in several courses and events held at Scripps, Pitzer, Pomona Colleges, and Claremont Graduate University.
Ms. Simmons is an Associate Editor of the The Feminist Wire (TFW), which is "an online publication that celebrates a multiplicity of feminist expressions from a variety of writers that span genders, sexualities, professions, races and ethnicities. The mission of TFW is to provide socio-political and cultural critique of anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics pervasive in all forms and spaces of private and public lives of individuals globally. TFW seeks to valorize and sustain pro-feminist representations and create alternative frameworks to build a just and equitable society."
In November 2014, Ms. Simmons co-curated and co-edited, with Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., TFW's thirteen-day forum commemorating Toni Cade Bambara's 75th birthday anniversary.This herstoric and ground breaking forum was the first on-line celebration of Bambara, an award winning internationally acclaimed Black feminist writer, cultural worker, and organizer. This celebration and collection features over sixty-nine essays, poems, remembrances, videos and testimonials from some of the leading Black writers, scholars, cultural workers, poets, filmmakers and activists in the United States. Ms. Simmons produced and directed TFW's Feminist We Love video interview with Black feminist writer and women's health advocate Linda Janet Holmes who is also Toni Cade Bambara's first biographer. The "Bambara Index" is available through this link: http://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/afterword-toni-cade-bambara/
Eight months prior to the launch of the Bambara forum, Ms. Simmons curated and lead edited TFW's two-week global forum commemorating Audre Lorde's 80th birthday anniversary. Similar to the Bambara forum, this herstoric and ground breaking online collection features fifty-nine essays, poems, remembrances, and testimonials from a wide range of established and emerging feminist scholars, activists, artists, and cultural workers based in countries in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Ms. Simmons produced and directed the two TFW Feminists We Love video interviews with Audre Lorde's daughter Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc., and Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D.who was Lorde's partner in the latter years of her life. The "Lorde Index" is available through this link: http://thefeministwire.com/2014/03/afterword-standing-lordean-shoreline/
In spring 2009, Ms. Simmons was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. During her residency, Ms. Simmons created, developed, and taught an undergraduate course entitled, Sisters Outsider: Diasporic African Women Narrative and Documentary Filmmakers. The syllabus from 'Sisters Outsider' is one of five syllabi featured in the Resources section of the 341-page Facilitating Campus Climates of Pluralism, Inclusivity, and Progressive Change at HBCU's. Funded by the Arcus Foundation, this first ever in-depth study on any historically Black college campus was Phase II of Spelman College's Women's Research & Resource Center's Audre Lorde Black Lesbian Feminist Project.
For more than twenty-years, Ms. Simmons has been both motivated and engaged as a cultural worker because she believes each one of us has the birth right to live in a world where oppression and exploitation based on gender, race/ethnicity, national origin/citizenship, sexual orientation, class, and/or religion of anyone is non-existent.
In 1992, she founded AfroLez® Productions, an AfroLez®femcentric multimedia arts company committed to using the moving image, the written and spoken word to address those issues which have a negative impact on marginalized and disenfranchised people.
Coined in 1990 by Ms. Simmons, AfroLez®femcentric defines the culturally conscious role of Black women who identify as Afrocentric, lesbian, and feminist.
For three years she co-produced two monthly public television programs for a PBS affiliate in Philadelphia. Her internationally acclaimed short videos Silence…Broken and In My Father's House, which were produced in 1993 and 1996, explore the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape, and misogyny.
An incest and rape survivor, she spent eleven years, seven of which were full time, to produce write, and direct NO! The Rape Documentary. This award-winning, internationally-acclaimed, groundbreaking documentary explores the international reality of rape and other forms of sexual assault through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism and cultural work of African-Americans. NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.
After a wonderful eight year partnership with California Newsreel, the oldest non-profit social issue documentary center and distributor in the United States, AfroLez® Productions is now the sole distributor of NO!. On February 14, 2006, NO! had her world premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA. In September 2006, NO! won the Audience Choice Award and a Juried Award at the San Diego Women Film Festival. NO! also won the juried Best Documentary Award at the 2008 India International Women's Film Festival. In 2009, NO! was among the invited 50 documentaries and short narrative films from 22 countries, which were featured in the Open Frame Film Festival, which is organized by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PBST) in New Delhi, India. NO! was also included in JustFilms, a new online archive of social justice films that the Ford Foundation has supported over the past 30 years.
NO! has been screened throughout the United States, in South Africa, Canada, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Czech Republic, Moldova, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Nepal, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Peru, Colombia, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, Brazil, India, France, England, Haiti, Guam, St. Thomas, Turkey, Malaysia, and Mexico.
Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple says, "If the Black community in the Americas and in the world would save itself it must complete the work this film [NO!] begins."
Several years after her world premiere in 2006, NO! continues to have an impact across the United States and globally. In fall 2011, Project STOP NOW!, an important Office on Violence Against Women/U.S. Department of Justice (OVW/USDOJ) funded-initiative that focuses on the prevention of violent crimes committed against women at United Negro College Fund (UNCF) member colleges and universities, purchased 26-copies of NO!. This purchase resulted in NO! being used as an anti-rape educational resource/tool on 26 Historically Black College/University campuses in the US. Most recently, at the end of 2012, the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault purchased 30-copies of NO!, 30-copies of Breaking Silences: The Supplemental Video to NO!, and 30-copies of Unveiling the Silences: NO! The Rape Documentary Study Guide. Each set of materials will be distributed to Sexual Assault Centers across the state of Iowa. During this same time period, Ethiopian feminist scholar-activist Dr. Mulumebet Zenebe who teaches at the Institute of Gender Studies (IGS) at Addis Ababa University shared that NO! will be included in their Master of Arts curriculum. As stated on their website, "[t]he IGS is the only institution in Ethiopia that provides post-graduate program study in gender studies. In April 2013, Spelman College's Women's Research and Resource Center (WRRC) purchased an additional five copies of NO!, which will be used in their long term work to address and eradicate rape culture on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and beyond. Founded in 1981, by Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the WRRC has been long-term supporter of NO! The Rape Documentary from conception (1994) to completion (2006) and distribution (present day).
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and honors including but not limited to:
- 2014 Erma O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor, Scripps College
- 2013 Co-Recipient, with Staceyann Chinn, Black Women's Blueprint's Revolutionary Women Speaking the Unspeakable Award
- 2011 NO! included in the Ford Foundation's JustFilms online archive
- 2010 Co-Recipient, with Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., Scarritt-Bennett Center's Ann L. Rescovac Courage Award
- 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Emporia State University
- 2009 Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago
- 2008 Philadelphia Black Gay Pride Legends Award
- 2007 International Federation of Black Prides Award
- 2007 Media Award from the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
- 2007 NO! designated as the Featured Event during the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's 2007 National Sexual Assault Awareness Month Campaign
- 2006 Ford Foundation grant to support the international educational marketing and distribution of NO!
- 2006 DC Rape Crisis Center's Visionary Award
- 2006 National Award for Outstanding Response to and Prevention of Sexual Violence from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- 2005 Inaugural Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation
- 2005 Artist-in-Residence at Spelman College's Digital Moving Image Salon
- 1995-2005 several research and development, production, and post-production grants from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Valentine Foundation, the Bread and Roses Community Fund, the Gloria Steinem Fund of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, the Open Meadows Fund, the Women's Way Discretionary Fund, Amnesty International Women's Human Rights Program, the Funding Exchange, Prince George's County Sheriff's Department, Prince George's County Council, Pennsylvania chapter of the National Organization for Women, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association (PIFVA), Cercle des Libres Penseurs des Bruxelles (Belgium), Group du 6 Novembre (France), Amnesty International-French Section, Ufficio Politiche di Genere Della Citta di Torino (Italy), La Casa Per Non Subire Violenza di Bologna (Italy), Azione Gay e Lesbica di Firenze (Italy), Coordinamento Lesbiche Romane (Italy), Casa Internazionale delle Donne (Italy) Arcilesbica Bologna (Italy), Associazione Cuturale Artemisia (Italy), Fuoricamp Lesbian Group (Italy), Circolo Maurice (Italy), Associazione Iroko Onlus (Italy), Associazione Le Bisce d'aqcua (Italy), and Collettive Femministe Libere Tutte (Italy).
- 2000 Bread and Roses Community Fund's Waters Award for Intergenerational Activism
- 1998 NAACP (Philadelphia Chapter) Exemplary Citizen Award
- 1998 Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute Center for Women
- 1995 Atlantic City Black Film Festival "Filmmaker" Award
- 1994 Philadelphia Gay Pride Female Grand Marshall
Ms. Simmons is also featured in Tiona McClodden's (aka tiona.m.) internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary black./womyn.:conversations with lesbians of African descent.
Ms. Simmons has screened her work, guest lectured, and facilitated workshops and dialogues to educate about, heal from, and work towards ending all forms sexual violence; queer identity from an AfroLez®femcentric perspective; the grassroots process of making social change documentaries; and non-Christocentric spirituality to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at colleges and universities, high schools, conferences, international film festivals, rape crisis centers, battered women shelters, community centers, juvenile correctional facilities, and government sponsored events across the United States and Canada, throughout Italy, in South Africa, France, England, Croatia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Mexico, Kenya, Malaysia, India, and Switzerland.
She is the author of the foreword to the Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence Anthology (AK Press 2014). Edited by Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister is an anthology of letters and other works created for survivors of sexual violence from other survivors and allies. It is a collection of hope and strength through words and art.
Feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem writes:
There is nothing on earth more changeful than telling our stories honestly, and listening to the stories of others with an open heart. That's especially true for survivors of sexualized violence who've been silenced by shame. These 50 brave Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence will open floodgates of memory, expose body-invasion as the most traumatic of crimes, and show victimizers the roots and damage of their acts. I'm very grateful to Lisa Factora-Borchers for editing this book, to Aishah Shahida[h] Simmons whose foreword sets a high bar of honesty, and to all the voices in it. I think you will be, too.
Order your copy of Dear Sister today.
Ms. Simmons is also the author of numerous published essays, some of which have been translated into French and Italian, all of which are featured in anthologies and journals in the United States and internationally including Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality & Activism (Jodi Gold and Susan Villari, eds., Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue (C. M. West, Ph.D., Ed. Haworth Press: Binghamton, NY, 2003); INCITE: The Color of Violence (various eds., South End Press, 2006); The Black Scholar (special 'Black Women's Activism' edition – Jennifer Hamer, Ph.D., and Helen Neville, Ph.D., eds., Summer 2006); Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence (Maria Ochoa, Ph.D., & Barbara Ige, Ph.D. eds., Seal Press, 2008); Savoring The Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara (Linda Holmes and Cheryl Wall, eds., Temple University Press, 2007); and WHO SHOULD BE FIRST? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign (Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds., SUNY Press, 2010); Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti Sexual Violence Movement (Jennifer Patterson, ed., Magnus Press, 2014/2015); and Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogies: When the Personal is Political and Academic (Gary L. Lemons and Aaronette M. White, eds., SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Ms. Simmons' cultural work and activism are featured in anthologies, periodicals, and blogs including, but not limited to Ms., ColorLines, The Root.com, Forbes, Crisis, Alternet, Racialicious, Left of Black, The Philadelphia Weekly, In These Times, Peace X Peace and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has also appeared on local and national radio and television networks including National Public Radio (NPR), Black Entertainment Television(BET), and Pacifica Radio Network.
In addition to her work for The Feminist Wire, she blogs at AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives. She has also written for Ms. magazine's blog. You can view some of her work on her youtube and vimeo channels. Follow her on twitter at @AfroLez; and connect with her on Facebook.
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It is true that I know some Nevadans that have gotten by with only 2WD vehicles during the winter. It is more economical, but then you have to be careful with how you drive. With 2WD, the power and torque are distributed to only one axle, not both. It's not just the road surface that matters. Other factors include steep turns and hills, especially if you live in a rural area.
There are some companies that can upgrade your SUV or other vehicle to four wheel drive. One is Quigley Motor Company in Manchester, PA. The company might have been headquartered in Southern California prior to being in Manchester. In their "About Us" section, it is stated that the company can equip GM's trucks and SUVs with a right-hand drive conversion, which has attracted customers in the United Kingdom, Africa and the Far East. Here is Quigley's website:
Other companies include Sportsmobile, Ujoint offroad, QuadVan and Advanced 4WD Systems.
As for converting an SUV from 2WD to 4WD, it depends on the amount of resources and connections that you have to make it possible. Make sure to not rush the conversion process, there are a lot of parts and details to look at and modify. To convert a hybrid SUV from 2WD to 4WD is more complicated. Feel free to type in "convert suv from 2wd to 4wd" if you want to perform a web search.
I will leave some links for you to look at in your spare time. One is for a 2009 Chevy Suburban owner wanting to change to 4WD. One is from an owner of a 1999 Toyota 4Runner and another is a 1994 Jeep XJ Cherokee.
Another option is to own an SUV with part-time four wheel drive, where you can switch from 2WD to 4WD with the simple pull of a lever or the push of a button. My mom has a 1996 Jeep Cherokee with a straight six engine, there is a switch to the left of the transmission lever that has 2H, 4H, 4L and something else. Here is a link that offers more insight into the comparison of 2WD vs 4WD:


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March 15, 2013
DALLAS (SMU) - The SMU women's rowing team begins the spring competition season Saturday against Creighton at White Rock Lake in Dallas at 8 a.m. After winter workouts and a week of training during spring break, the Mustangs look to build on a strong showing at the Head of the Oklahoma in September.
SMU defeated Creighton twice in March in 2011, winning all three races against the Bluejays at the Oklahoma Invitational before taking four out of five races in Wichita, Kan. on March 28. Saturday's race schedule will begin with the Varsity 4 competition at 8 a.m. The 2nd Varsity 8 race will follow at 8:15, with the 1st Varsity 8 race to start at 8:30. The novice heat will conclude the day's events at 8:45.
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"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"….Delores Hureta
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
Forgive. To forgive is to pardon. To pardon is to let it go. To forgive, you must truly let it go. You are not just letting go of the circumstances or wrongs, you are releasing it all. It never happened once. It is forgiven. "True forgiveness does not even remember the injury." (The Two Seekers) Forgiveness is an activity that moves us past hurts and disappointments and on to serenity and fulfillment.
Forgiveness is a gift that you give to yourself and to others. Forgive yourself. As stated by Robert Watts Jr. in "People Are Never the Problem," to fully enjoy our potential and to increase the potential in others, we must learn to forgive ourselves and our fellow man. When we forgive others, we are forgiven for the things we do wrong. Forgiveness is the power to start over and try again. Forgiveness is the power to do better next time. Give yourself that chance. The most enriching experience from forgiveness is that we gain a greater understanding of ourselves as a spiritual being.
When one is offended in some nature, intentional or not, it is an opportunity to respond with love and compassion as the Deity within us all would do. Troubled times provide prime opportunities to put our beliefs into practice.
I believe we are all equal and are one as our beginning, everyone's, starts with the same source, Deity, call Him/Her what you may.
To others, forgiveness is a gift because you are letting the other person take the "wrong" and are letting them release any fear or retribution. They can live in without hiding around a corner in fear. Fear causes many actions, anger and violence as well as illness and depression. The forgiven now feels like they can truly change because you have let go of the idea that they are bad. You release them from negative self-worth. You let them know that there is a clean slate and they alone have the choice to change or not.
Forgiveness does not mean you shouldn't file the information as if it were a lesson. That is what it should be - a lesson for all concerned. Use it to protect yourself and be sure it is not something that will hurt you again or destroy anything you have worked for. If it happens again, you are in a position to say that the person is noteworthy of trust and should not be part of your life. They lack respect and you cannot put yourself in that situation to be misled again. That person can be forgiven, even again, but you can also ask them to move on in their own life if the wrong is bad enough. Only you can determine if and when that point is reached. It is also a point when you need to ask yourself if you contributed in any way in making certain things happen or led the person to think wrongly. There is always cause and effect and there could be something that leads them to repeat their mistakes. You do not have to forget, just let go of the emotion attached to you don't become destructive, for if we do not practice forgiveness frequently, it can destroy us from the inside out and can also destroy those we love who are innocent bystanders.
Life is a wonderful roller coaster, full of ups and downs, filled with excitement and fear. We cannot and should not blame those who journeyed along with us, even if they pushed us off course. We have to find the lesson in where we are at the time and be thankful for being led to a place where we were able to experience it. Good or bad, we had an experience. If it was bad, be thankful for making it through and be thankful by forgiving them and yourself.
Forgiveness can be one of the greatest acts of kindness you can commit. Let go of the past and not only will you grant peace, you will achieve peace.
If we are willing and anxious to forgive others, why not forgive ourselves, for we are as worthy of forgiveness as our equals are. I was told once by a highly respected professional that I was the calmest person she ever met. I grinned at that comment, smugly perhaps, and told her that was because I was at peace. Peace? Yes, and I went on to explain to her that I was at peace because I forgave myself. I accepted the fact that as a human, I made decisions that hurt many others, though that was not my intent. In my search for happiness, I put others' interests secondary to mine. Did others have a role in my decisions and actions? Absolutely, but the ultimate decisions were mine. But, as I stated in earlier articles, life is an experience, a learning experience with no right or wrong decisions, for lessons are to be learned from whatever direction we choose.
Let Deity within you guide your actions in good times, turmoil or challenging situations. Listen closely. Deity is there guiding all of us.
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March 8, 2014
By Kasandra Martinson
MALIBU, Calif. ---The Bulldogs' three-match winning streak was broke on Saturday afternoon with a 6-1 loss to No. 38 Pepperdine at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, Calif.
"We competed well against a tough Pepperdine team, but we didn't capitalize on our opportunities which you have to do against good teams," said Fresno State graduate assistant coach Melissa McQueen. "We will learn from our mistakes and be ready for UCSB tomorrow."
The Waves jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after securing the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and 3. After Pepperdine won on court three, the 'Dogs countered with a win from Sophie Watts and Anneka Watts8-5. The doubles point was clinched when the Waves were able to outlast the Bulldogs at the top spot, 8-6.
The Watts twins are now 8-0 in doubles dual match play this season.
Pepperdine then went on to win 5-of-6 singles matches to win the dual 6-1. Sophomore Sofya Malysheva had the Bulldogs sole point of the day with a win over Christine Maddox in straight sets at the No. 5 spot.
The Bulldogs (4-8, 2-0 MW) look to bounce back quickly as they face UC Santa Barbara tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. at the Rec Cen Courts in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Fresno State 1, No. 38 Pepperdine 6
1. #23 Lorraine Guillermo (PEP) def. Sophie Watts (FS) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3
2. Matea Cutura (PEP) def. Rana Sherif Ahmed (FS) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
3. Michaela Capannolo (PEP) def. Aishwarya Agrawal (FS) 6-1, 6-1
4. Yuki Chiang (PEP) def. Anneka Watts (FS) 6-3, 6-2
5. Sofya Malysheva (FS) def. Christine Maddox (PEP) 7-6, 6-0
6. #120 A.Runglerdkriangkrai (PEP) def. Anne Susdorf (FS) 6-2, 7-6 (7-3)
1. Lorraine Guillermo/A.Runglerdkriangkrai (PEP) def. Aishwarya Agrawal/Sofya Malysheva (FS) 8-6
2. Sophie Watts/Anneka Watts (FS) def. Michaela Capannolo/Yuki Chiang (PEP) 8-5
3. Matea Cutura/Ale Granillo (PEP) def. Rana Sherif Ahmed/Anne Susdorf (FS) 8-4
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (3,5,4,6,2,1)
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Charlie Mariano: Parvati's Dance
Parvati's Dance
Charlie Mariano (saxes, reeds, nagaswaram)
Helen 12 Trees (MPS 15483)
Charlie Mariano (saxes, reeds, nagaswaram), Jan Hammer (piano, Moog synthesizer), Jack Bruce (bass),
Zbigniew Seifert (violin), John Marshall (drums), Nippy Noya (percussion).
Composed by Charlie Mariano.
Recorded: Munich, Germany, May 1976
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
Saxophonist Charlie Mariano is an admirer of the South Indian musical tradition and is a gifted player of the Indian double-reed wind instrument the nagaswaram. He put together the perfect band to play his composition "Parvati's Dance." It comes as no surprise that keyboardist Jan Hammer has an affinity for Indian music. He was a great fan of virtuoso vina player S. Balachander. Even today Hammer talks of the influence Balachander, who played a stringed instrument, has on his synthesizer playing. Hammer sought to phrase and bend notes in the same way that Balachander used his strings. Hammer says some of this influence can be heard in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, especially on Birds of Fire, and on later tunes he wrote and performed such as "The Animals." Add to the mix one of the greatest jazz-rock violinists, Zbigniew Seifert, who could play anything, and bassist Jack Bruce, who had a jazz background and was no stranger to Eastern sounds, and you had a veritable West-meets-East fusion even if there were no Easterners! John Marshall's percussion was Western-based, as was Nippy Noy's percussion. But Noya throws in some Brazilian accents to make things even more "world."
The main theme, as presented by Mariano on nagaswaram and Seifert in tandem, sounds like a heated conversation between two snake charmers. We are drawn into the exotic strains. There are comparisons between this performance and John McLaughlin's Indo-jazz Shakti band of that time. However, because of Mariano's sax contribution, the better comparison would be to today's highly popular Indian/world/jazz fusions that feature horns. (Saxophonist George Brooks's work with Surinder Sandhu comes to mind.) Perhaps with MPS's reissue of Helen 12 Trees, more credit will be given to Charlie Mariano and his fellow musicians for foreshadowing one of today's most exciting jazz musical movements.
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
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VII Photo Announces 5 New Photographers in its Mentor Program
VII Photo announced today that five emerging photographers have been selected to join the photo agency's mentor program.
This year's roster of photographers were chosen from 150 applicants. Over the next two years, VII photographers will mentor the five emerging photographers to foster their professional growth. The five are:
Poulomi Basu, based in New Delhi, who will be mentored by Stefano DeLuigi
Maika Elan, based in Hanoi, who will be mentored by John Stanmeyer
Ali Arkady, based in Khanaqin, Iraq, who will be mentored by Ed Kashi
Arthur Bondar, currently based in Moscow, who will be mentored by Donald Weber
Cristobal Olivares, based in Santiago, Chile, who will be mentored by Christopher Morris
These five replace the photographers who will soon complete their two years of mentoring in the program: Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Sim Chi Yin, Laura El-Tantawy, Jost Franko and Amanda Rivkin.
VII launched its mentor program in 2008. Past participants have included Benedicte Kurzen, Peter DiCampo, Erin Trieb, Agnes Dherbeys and Gulio Di Sturco. Anastasia Taylor-Lind, who entered the mentor program in 2009 and is now a full member of VII Photo, provided this fun quote for the VII press release: "When I joined the Mentor Program in 2009 I was working part-time as a chiropractor's receptionist to fund my documentary projects. I knew how to make pictures then, but not how to be a photographer. My mentor, Ron Haviv, taught me how to find my photographic voice and by the time I left two years later I was a fully fledged full-time photojournalist."
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Sept. 19, 2010
Arizona vs. Ohio State Final Box Score
TUCSON--The Arizona women's soccer team fell 5-1 to The Ohio State University, Sunday afternoon in the final match of the Cats Classic Presented by Loews Ventana Canyon Resort at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium.
Freshman Jensen Skinner's goal from her corner kick in the 74th minute kept the Wildcats from earning their second shutout loss on the season. Fellow freshman Jazmin Ponce led Arizona (2-4-2) with four shot attempts, and took one of the three on-goal attempts.
Ohio State (6-2-1) doubled Arizona on shots 16-8, taking a total of eleven in the second half of the match. Five of junior Ashley Jett's saves came in the second half.
Ponce, fellow freshman Ana Montoya, and sophomores Kristin Strother and Kirstyn Magyar were named to the 2010 Cats Classic All-Tournament Team.
"For today's game, we came out, and were not ready to face a team like Ohio State, and the results are indicative of that," Said head coach Lisa Oyen. "We didn't play well individually and collectively, and we need to do that in order to take on top programs like OSU. Like our other losses, this loss is a learning experience for us, and I know that we'll bounce back. That's just the kind of team we are. We weren't pointing fingers in the locker room after the game and feeling sad for ourselves, we were trying to find solutions, and that is exactly what I want to see. The players have to work to be better in order to be the team that they want to be, and I know they can do it."
Up next, the Wildcats head out to Los Angeles on Friday, September 24 to face Loyola Marymount at 4pm, and on Sunday Arizona will return home to host the University of Utah at 7pm at Mulcahy Stadium.


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PALM SPRINGS - With a 5-0 lead heading into the bottom of a regulation-meeting fifth inning vs. Pacific, a pre-arranged time-deadline prevented the University of Oregon softball team (12-4) from winning its fifth game of the Cathedral City Classic Saturday afternoon.
The Ducks started their 10 a.m. game on time, but after the opening batter walked, a rain delay held up the game for an hour and 40 minutes.
When play resumed, UO quickly scores two runs in both the first and second innings and another in the fourth, but was a half-inning shy of the win when the clock reached 12:50 p.m. - only an 1:25 before the Ducks' flight back home was scheduled to leave.
For the game, sophomore shortstop Kelsey Chambers went 3-for-3 with 2 RBI's, and four others hit safely - senior designated player Blair Williamson (1-for-2, 2 runs, 1 RBI, 1 walk), freshman right fielder Samantha Pappas (1-for-2, 2 runs, 1 RBI), junior first baseman Monique Fuiava (1-for-3) and freshman pitcher Jessica Moore (1-for-3).
On the mound, Moore continued her early season surge and struck out five, walked none and allowed two hits and no runs in her four innings.
For Pacific (4-6), starting pitcher Shaina Brock pitched the first 1.1 innings, struck out two, walked two, gave up three hits, and two of her four runs allowed were earned. Gabby McDaniel came in and pitched the final 3.2 innings, struck out five, walked two, yielded four hits, and allowed one unearned run. Tiger batters that hit safely included Megan Hom (1-for-2) and Kellee Wilson (1-for-2).
After Williamson walked to open the game, she stole second base, advanced to third base on a single by Pappas. A throwing error by the catcher on a Pappas steal allowed Williamson to score, and Pappas soon after advanced to third on an illegal pitch by the pitcher. Two batters later, Chambers knocked her in on a single to left field.
In the second inning, junior third baseman Cortney Kivett reached on a bunt via an error by the first baseman and continued on to second base. She scored on a double by Williamson, and the latter player moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Pappas sacrifice fly to center field.
The Ducks' last run came in the fourth when after two outs, Pappas reached on an error by the third baseman. Fuiava followed with a single to left field, and Chambers added her second RBI of the day with a single to center field.
Earlier in weekend contests also held at the Big League Dreams Complex, the Ducks scored a pair of wins on Thursday vs. No. 19 Texas A&M, 4-0, and Utah, 4-2, and on Friday vs. Hawai'i, 4-3, and Long Island, 3-1.
Oregon's fab freshman class continued to shine as left fielder Allie Burger batted a team-high .800 (8-for-10) in the four official contests and paced UO in hits (8). Second baseman Kaylan Howard belted UO's only homer of the trip and hit .273 (3-for-11), and right fielder Samantha Pappas batted .417 in the tourney (5-for-12, 3 runs, 2 RBI) and topped the team in doubles (3). Moore led Duck pitchers with her two wins, and struck out 24 batters in 17 innings, allowed only one earned run for a 0.41 ERA, and picked up the team's first save of the season.
Besides Moore, two other Duck pitchers logged wins on the trip – sophomores Samantha Skillingstad (1-0, 10 strikeouts, 7 innings) and Mikayla Endicott (1-0, 2 innings, 1 strikeout) – while junior Brittany Rumfelt did not allow an earned run and struck out one in her two innings.
Three other Duck hitters topped .300 –Williamson (.500, 6-for-12, 3 runs, 2 doubles, 2 RBI), junior third baseman Cortney Kivett (.364, 4-for-11, 3 runs, 1 double, 1 walk) and Chambers (.364, 4-for-11, 1 double, 5 RBI).
Looking ahead, UO heads south next weekend for one more non-conference West Coast tournament, and plays five games at San Diego State, Friday-Sunday, March 5-7. Oregon takes on Long Beach State and San Diego State Friday at 4:30 and 7 p.m.; Cal Poly and San Diego Saturday at 2 and 4:30 p.m. and Wisconsin Sunday at 9 a.m.
Oregon 5, Pacific 0 (Feb 27, 2010 at Palm Springs, Calif.)
Oregon.............. 220 10 - 5 7 0
Pacific............. 000 0X - 0 2 3
Pitchers: Oregon - Moore, Jessica and Kivett, Ashley. Pacific - Brock, Shaina;
McDaniel, Gabby(2) and Moore, Amy.
Weather: rainy, 55, wind 0-3 mph
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Sarah Palin did stand-up comedy on "The Tonight Show"
Sarah Palin's seething hatred for the liberal Hollywood elite seems to have subsided just in time for her to try to become one of them. So far this week, that effort has included a stand-up comedy routine on Jay Leno's reclaimed "The Tonight Show," making the rounds with producer Mark Burnett to pitch her own TV show about Alaska, stopping by the "American Idol" set, and horning in on the goodies at the Oscars gifting suites.
If a guy from another planet happened to drop in on Palin's little Tinseltown tour, he'd surely mistake her for one of the Hollywood types she claims to loathe -- especially if he observed some of her diva behavior.
Insiders at the Oscar gifting suites said she was an uppity, ungrateful bee-otch. E! News reported that Palin insisted the suite be opened two hours early for her. She took thousands of dollars worth of goods and services, but refused to be interviewed or photographed.
She arrived with a huge entourage that grabbed everything in sight. One vendor said:
They were like locusts. She showed up with like 20 people, and they immediately swarmed the place taking everything!"
Palin had said earlier that her visit was to support the Red Cross and she would donate some of the stuff she took -- like the 40 sets of Aiaiai headphones? -- to charity. But that's what she said about the $150,000 wardrobe the Republican National Committee bought for her, and that never happened. Ask John McCain about that fiasco.
On Wednesday, Palin stopped by CBS to meet the elite and pitch her show. According to the Hollywood Insider, one of the CBS execs joked:
She's pitching a sequel to Commander in Chief."
The White House may be just a fantasy, like her childhood dream of being the next Howard Cosell, but her future as a celebrity looks good.
Thursday she meets with NBC Universal TV Chairman Jeff Gaspin. Think about it. She could end up on the same network as Tina Fey. If Fey got sick, Palin could play her on "30 Rock."
Nobody wants to see that, but it would be a lot safer than watching her try to play president.


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Pit bull alerts deaf, sleeping owner to house fire
INDIANAPOLIS - A pit bull named ACE was being hailed a hero after he alerted his 13-year-old sleeping owner to a fire at their home.
The fire happened at a home in the 6400 block of Perry Pines Court on Wednesday just after 1 p.m., officials with the Indianapolis Fire Department said.
Nick Lamb is deaf and told firefighters he didn't have his hearing aids in. He said he was thankful that 2-year-old ACE started licking his face until he woke up.
"The fact that he knew something was wrong cause you couldn't smell that much smoke and he was in my room with me. The door was shut so he couldn't get out," Lamb said.
A cat named Pixie was also found by firefighters in the home. The cat was taken to the vet to be checked out but was believed to be OK.
IFD said the rest of the boy's family was not home at the time of the fire. Lamb said this was the first summer he was old enough to stay home alone.
"I smelled smoke. I thought for a second someone was home and they did something wrong cooking and then I went downstairs, the whole house was covered in smoke. I covered my face and we ran out the back," Lamb said.
Lamb said ACE will be rewarded with plenty of treats.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but the homeowner believes it was due to an electrical problem in the garage. Damage to the home was estimated at $175,000.


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iTunes irritations
By christophersaul on Jan 20, 2008
iTunes is really beginning to irritate me.
Not surprisingly, video takes up a lot of space. To solve this, I've moved my iTunes folder onto a central NAS - a nice little Linksys NSLU2 with two 500GB drives attached to it.
Every so often iTunes resets the default folder from the music folder on my networked Y drive to being on my PC's C drive. This means that after I've encoded a few video files and copied them over to the 'proper' music folder on the NAS, when adding them to iTunes, iTunes promptly wastes hours copying them all back to my C drive.
When resetting iTunes to point back to my Y drive, iTunes then takes about twenty minutes 'updating' the library.
I think I need to untick the option to consolidate my library to stop this happening or mattering. The consolidate library option's quite helpful though, as it does keep everything in on place automatically. What's annoying though is that you have to have everything in one place. I'd like to have my music on one drive and video on another to improve performance and to make space more manageable.


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