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Carol Vorderman wants to spice up the Loose Women line-up – with a fella.
Regular panellist Carol, 53, thinks new boss Martin Frizell should give the show their very own Man Friday.
She said: "I think it would be good, we could have a guy on every Friday.
"It would work because occasionally we've had people like Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr who have stayed for the whole show and it has really worked well.
"I think now with the new boss Martin and the team they're open to ideas."
Carol McGiffin, Lisa Maxwell and Denise Welch have recently left the panel and there's speculation ex-GMTV boss Frizell wants to axe other stars.
Ratings for the ITV daytime show have fallen from two million to 700,000.
Recent changes have seen the arrival of Myleene Klass and bigger roles for Ruth Langsford, Kaye Adams and Jane Moore.
And Carol wants DJ pal Liz Kershaw to join the panel. She said: "There are a couple of my buddies I'd like to see join – Liz Kershaw is definitely one. She's a great, feisty Northerner. She's definitely not afraid to speak her mind."
Carol, who is dating ex-Red Arrows pilot Graham Duff, 38, is on the show less as she plans to fly around the world solo.
A show insider said: "We're looking at lots of ideas at the moment, the programme will be changing."


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College Hockey:No. 7 Lakers Sweep Niagara
ERIE, Pa. — Today's rematch between Niagara and Mercyhurst was in many ways like yesterday's game–lots of Laker goals and rough play from both teams. Yesterday's game ended with roughing, slashing and body checking penalties and it picked up today right where it left off.
The only glaring difference today was Niagara (9-11-2,2-3-1 CHA) had a short-lived lead when freshman Ashley Riggs scored on a power play just over 6:00 into the game. That only seemed to wake up the Lakers (17-5-2, 7-0-1 CHA), who went on to score five unanswered goals for the 5-1 win.
Hard work at practice has paid off for the Lakers in the form of a seven-game winning streak. They've allowed 1.17 goals per game–the lowest average in the nation. Mercyhurst coach Mike Sisti is proud of his players' hard work and knew sooner or later it would show.
Sisti said, "Any time we play Niagara we get their best. We respect them. I just think our kids are starting to gel. We always work hard but things are now starting to come together."
After Riggs' goal the Lakers poured it on. Within the next minute, Quebec native Stefanie Bourbeau stole the puck off a Niagara stick in the corner, circled around in front and wrested it over the shoulder of Niagara net minder Nikki Rudi. Ten minutes later Bourbeau scored again on a give-and-go from senior Teresa Marchese. Mercyhurst outshot the Purple Eagles 15-8 in the period.
The second period was all Mercyhurst. Niagara couldn't mount any sort of attack against the ubiquitous Laker defense.
"We have done all the little things we wanted to," said captain Chrissy Yule. "We have worked really hard on our 'D' zone coverage. The coaches have told us what the little things were to win and we executed it perfectly."
Mercyhurst continued the scoring onslaught when Laker sophomore Michelle Bonello scored on the power play at 6:31 of the second period. Three minutes later, Ashley Pendleton stole the puck and fed freshman Stephanie Jones for a breakaway goal right down the middle.
Yule finished the scoring for the day on the power play at 12:20 of the second period. She flipped one into a wide open net after she was left alone on the right side. Mercyhurst outshot the Purple Eagles 22-3 in the decisive second period.
The Lakers' fourth line got a lot of game experience in the third period like yesterday and held Niagara to five shots on goal.
Niagara coach Margot Page was not down about the performance. She is excited for a possible rematch in the CHA playoffs.
"In the third [period] we came back and battled hard," Page said. "It was a no-score period which is what we wanted Mercyhurst is a great team and the better team this weekend. We have a lot of work to do to be able to meet them in the CHA playoffs."
Next weekend the Lakers hope to continue their winning ways as they travel to Colgate. Niagara would like to start its own winning streak at Cornell.
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Brian Vincentwrote a review of Arc'teryx Venta Softshell Pant - Men's on March 6, 2013
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Television: ESPN with Brent Musburger (pxp), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Heather Cox (reporter). Radio: Oregon IMG with Jerry Allen (pxp) and Mike Jorgensen (analyst). Free audio stream available via TuneIn.com. Satellite Radio: Sirius 91, XM 91. Additional Radio: Sports USA with Mike Cripino (pxp), Gary Barnett (analyst) and Travis Demers (reporter).
•UCLA leads the all-time series, 39-26, including a 12-6 mark at Autzen Stadium, but the Ducks have won four straight and nine of the last 11 meetings between the two sides.
•Saturday's matchup is the first conference game between UO and UCLA since a 60-13 Oregon win at Autzen in 2010. The Ducks hosted the Bruins in the 2011 Pac-12 Championship Game, winning 49-31.
•SO QB Marcus Mariota has attempted a Pac-12 record 265 passes without an interception, including all 197 attempts this season. His last INT came the last time ESPN's College GameDay visited Eugene - Nov. 17, 2012 vs. Stanford (1st half).
•Mariota has passed for at least one touchdown in all 20 games of his career. He has scores both passing and rushing in nine straight, trailing only Tim Tebow (14) for the longest such streak since 1998.
•SO RB Byron Marshall has rushed for 100-plus yards in all four Pac-12 games this season.
•The Ducks, who did not have a single player with 500 receiving yards last season, already have two through seven games this year in SR WR Josh Huff (627) and SO WR Bralon Addison (543).
•Oregon ranks second nationally in scoring offense (57.6), rushing offense (332.4), total offense (643.1) and turnover margin (1.86). Defensively, the Ducks are ninth in the nation in yards allowed per play (4.46) and passing efficiency defense (102.30), and 12th in scoring defense (17.3).
•No team in college football has more plays of 20+ yards (66) than Oregon, while the Ducks' defense has allowed the fourth-fewest (18).
•40 of Oregon's 53 offensive touchdown drives (75.5%) have lasted two minutes or less.
•The Ducks are 43-4 (.915) overall this decade, including 29-2 (.935) in Pac-12 play.
Mark Helfrich is in his first season as Oregon's head coach after serving as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2009-12. During that span, he was directly involved in the success of a program that constructed a 46-7 record and appeared in four consecutive BCS bowl games, including the 2011 BCS National Championship game. Helfrich began his coaching career as a graduate assistant with the Ducks in 1997 and has since accumulated seven seasons as an offensive coordinator at two BCS schools and 15 years coaching quarterbacks. He was named Oregon's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on April 30, 2009 following three seasons in the same capacity at the University of Colorado (2006-08), five years as quarterbacks coach at Arizona State (2001-05) which included his final three campaigns in Tempe, Ariz., as passing game coordinator, and three seasons as quarterbacks coach at Boise State (1998-2000). Along the way, Helfrich was named National Quarterbacks Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2012 by FootballScoop, in addition to being one of three finalists as its national offensive coordinator of the year honor. Over the course of his last 13 seasons, Helfrich has played a role with offenses that have ranked among the nation's top-eight teams in scoring offense six times, the top six in rushing on four occasions, the top five in total offense four times as well as the top five in passing twice. As Oregon's OC he helped orchestrate attacks that were responsible for the top three total offense outputs in school history (2010-12) - including a school-record 7,319 yards in 2011 - as well as the only teams to account for more than 600 points in each of the last three seasons. Helfrich is the first native Oregonian to head the university's football program since John Warren in 1942.
As the Ducks continue their quest for a fifth straight BCS bowl game appearance, all eyes are on second-year starting quarterback Marcus Mariota. The redshirt sophomore from Honolulu has the challenge of following up a campaign that saw him set the Pac-12 freshman record for touchdown passes (32) and lead the conference in passing efficiency (seventh nationally) en route to Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year and All-Pac-12 first team QB honors. Through the first seven games of the season, he has totalled 2,051 yards passing and 493 rushing with 28 total touchdowns (19 pass, 9 rush) and no interceptions. Mariota currently ranks fifth nationally in pass efficiency rating (181.72), second in points responsible for (168), second in yards per carry (10.06) and fifth in total offense (363.4 ypg). Considered by many national outlets as a Heisman Trophy candidate, Mariota is on four prestigious watch lists: Davey O'Brien Award (national quarterback award), Maxwell Award (most outstanding player), Walter Camp Award (most outstanding player) and Manning Award (top quarterback honor, including bowl game).
Marcus Mariota continued his streak of touchdown passes in a game with two TD tosses in Oregon's 62-38 win vs. Washington State on Oct. 19. The sophomore has thrown at least one touchdown pass in all 20 games of his career, totaling 51 scores through the air. Mariota, who has 19 touchdown passes this season, has thrown for two or more TDs in a game 14 times with a career-high six touchdown passes at California as a freshman. He also has thrown four or more touchdowns in a game six times. Mariota's 20-game touchdown pass streak is tied for third in the nation behind Fresno State's Derek Carr and Marshall's Rakeem Cato.
Of Oregon's 53 drives resulting in touchdowns this season, 40 (75.5 percent) have lasted two minutes or less.
The Ducks are 16-6 against AP top 25 teams since Mark Helfrich's first year on staff as offensive coordinator in 2009, including a win over No. 16 Washington in Seattle on October 12. At home, UO is 10-2 vs. the top 25. Oregon is 4-1 in road games against ranked foes and 2-3 at neutral sites during that span.
ESPN College GameDay will produce its weekly college football preview show from the University of Oregon Saturday, marking the eighth appearance in Eugene by the immensely popular show which features host Chris Fowler along with analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, and reporters Sam Ponder and Tom Rinaldi. The live broadcast (6-9 a.m. PT) will originate from the Memorial Quad on campus. Oregon, which becomes the first school to host GameDay five consecutive years, has a 5-2 record when the show airs from Eugene, with defeats coming vs. No. 18 Stanford in overtime last season and against No. 6 Cal, 31-24, in 2007. In 2011, the No. 9 Ducks beat No. 18 Arizona State, 41-27. Other home wins in front of GameDay were a 52-31 victory over No. 9 Stanford in 2010 (UO was No. 4), a 47-20 Halloween upset of fourth-ranked USC in '09 (UO was No. 10), a 35-23 win vs. No. 6 Arizona State in '07 (UO was No. 4) and a 29-10 upset of No. 6 UCLA in 2000 (UO was unranked).
With a standing room only crowd of 56,949 at Autzen Stadium on Oct. 19 vs. Washington State, the Ducks ran the nation's third-longest sellout streak to 93 consecutive games (cap. 54,000), dating to 1999.
Oregon has won 18 straight road games, which leads the country. Northern Illinois is second on the list with 13. The Ducks' last road loss occurred on Nov. 7, 2009, at Stanford (51-42) – the only conference road setback in the past four seasons.
1. Oregon - 18
2. Northern Illinois - 13
3. Alabama - 11
4. Texas A&M - 8
5. Oklahoma - 7
With seven total touchdowns at Colorado Oct. 5, SO QB Marcus Mariota tied the Pac-12 record and set the modern day school mark for total TDs, besting the previous mark which had been accomplished six times, including Mariota's own six-touchdown effort at Cal in 2012. The second-year starter was 16-of-27 passing for 355 yards and five touchdowns against the Buffaloes. He also ran seven times for 43 yards and two scores.
Oregon has not lost a game in regulation since falling 38-35 at home vs. USC on Nov. 19, 2011. The Ducks current string of 23 games without a non-overtime defeat is the longest in the FBS.
SO WR Bralon Addison, who took over as the Ducks' primary punt returner at the end of last season, tied the Oregon and Pac-12 records for punt return touchdowns in a game, bringing back two (75 and 67 yards) in the Sept. 28 win vs. Cal. He joins Cliff Harris as the only other player in school history to duplicate that feat (vs. New Mexico in 2010), while they join USC's Mike Garrett (1965 vs. California) and UCLA's Sam Brown (1954 vs. Stanford) as co-holders of the league record. Addison's punt return total of 142 yards was the most by any Oregon player in one game since Keenon Howry's school-record 186 yards vs. Stanford in 2001. The Missouri City, Texas standout currently ranks third in the country in punt returns, averaging 22.3 yards on nine returns.
Since then-top rusher JR RB De'Anthony Thomas was sidelined on the opening kickoff vs. Cal Sept. 28, SO RB Byron Marshall has taken over as Oregon's backfield workhorse and put up four straight 100-yard games, including career-highs of 192 yards and three touchdowns against Washington State and a career-best 23 totes (122 yards) at Colorado. In the Cal game, Marshall ran for a then career-high 130 yards and two TDs. At Washington, he ran for 106 yards and a pair of scores. The playing time is hardly new to Marshall, who has started six of seven games this season and amassed 746 yards and nine TDs on a team-high 111 attempts.
Last season, Oregon did not have a single receiver amass 500 yards. Through just seven games in 2013, the Texas duo of SR WR Josh Huff and SO WR Bralon Addison have each eclipsed the mark with Huff grabbing 32 balls for 627 yards and Addison with 32 catches for 543. Both players surpassed 100 yards receiving in back-to-back games at Colorado and Washington, highlighted by Addison's two games of 150-plus and four touchdowns.
The Ducks, who had a total of six 100-yard receiving performances over the past two seasons, have posted seven through just over half of the regular season slate in 2013. SR WR Josh Huff has four, SO WR Bralon Addison has two and FR TE Johnny Mundt has one. Two players have reached the mark in the same game three times this year, giving UO 16 such single-game duos in school history.
With seven consecutive victories to start his Oregon head coaching career, Mark Helfrich has tied C.W. Spears (1930) for the best first-year start in school history.
Tight end Johnny Mundt made quite a debut catching passes in Oregon's win vs. Tennessee Sept. 14. With expected starter Colt Lyerla out of action, the true freshman made his first start, recorded the first five receptions of his career, including a pair of touchdowns, while amassing 121 yards. That yardage total ranks as the ninth-most in a single game by a tight end at UO and is the highest total since Ed Dickson had 148 yards on 11 catches vs. Cal in 2009. Mundt was named the John Mackey Award's national tight end of the week and is one of two freshmen on the midseason watch list. He is UO's fourth-leading receiver with 12 receptions and 216 yards and has now started four of seven games.
The Ducks have scored at least 50 points in six of their seven games this season after putting up 62 against Washington State last Saturday. Oregon had a school-record five-game streak to open the season before being "held to just" 45 points in a 21-point win at Washington on October 12. Oregon ranks second nationally in scoring averaging 57.6 points per game. UO is the first major program to put up at least 45 points in its first seven games of the season since Harvard in 1887.
The Oregon blur offense may generate the most buzz among college football fans and media, but the UO defense has made more game-changing plays than any other defensive unit in the country since the start of 2012. The Ducks led the nation with 40 takeaways (25 interceptions, 15 fumble recoveries) a year ago - 32 by current players - and already have 21 (11 INT/10 FR) in 2013.
SO QB Marcus Mariota has not been intercepted in 265 pass attempts, dating to last season. That streak is a Pac-12 record, besting USC's Brad Otton, who had a streak of 216 in 1994-95. Kellen Clemens held the former UO mark of 178 in 2004. No other QB in the FBS has more than seven touchdowns without a pick this season, while Mariota has tossed 19. Mariota's last INT came at the end of the first half vs. Stanford on Nov. 17, 2012.
JR CB Dior Mathis, also a member of the UO track & field team, put that track speed on display at Virginia Sept. 7, when he intercepted a pass deep in the end zone and ran more than 100 yards before getting knocked out at the UVA 3-yard-line. Officially, the third pick of his career went in the books as a 97-yard return, tying Kenny Wheaton (vs. UW in 1994) and Kenny Bryant (at TCU in 1977) for the second-longest in school history. It was the longest non-touchdown interception return by a Duck.
An often overlooked facet of Oregon's run of success has been the continuity of its coaching staff. First-year head coach Mark Helfrich is in his fifth season on staff, but he is supported by several assistants who have served the last three UO head coaches. Running backs coach Gary Campbell is in his 31st year on the Oregon staff, which is the longest tenure of any Oregon assistant football coach in school history. In addition, offensive line coach and running game coordinator Steve Greatwood enters his 27th season at UO, linebackers coach Don Pellum is in his 21st campaign, while defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti has spent 21 full seasons at Oregon over three separate stints.
The Ducks' current roster features three players who have etched their names on a prestigious rushing list. SO QB Marcus Mariota, JR RB De'Anthony Thomas and SR WR Josh Huff own three of the longest runs in school history. Thomas' 91-yard touchdown run in the 2012 Rose Bowl Game is the second-longest at Oregon, Mariota ranks fifth with his 86-yard score at ASU - the longest rush in the Pac-12 during the 2012 season - and Huff is tied for sixth with an 85-yard TD vs. Arizona in 2010.
After 100-yard rushing performances the first two weeks of the season, SO QB Marcus Mariota became the first Oregon signal caller to accomplish the feat in back-to-back games. Mariota is second the nation in average yards per rush (10.06), while ranking 77th in average yards per game (70.43).
With 1,245 yards on the ground through his first 20 games, SO QB Marcus Mariota is closing in on the UO career mark for rushing yards by a quarterback. At his current pace, Mariota would hit the mark in the Ducks' tenth game of the season (Nov. 16 vs. Utah). Jeremiah Masoli has the record with 1,386. Like Mariota, Masoli also attended Honolulu's Saint Louis High School.
1. Jeremiah Masoli (2008-09) 1,386
2. Reggie Ogburn (1979-80) 1,358
3. Marcus Mariota (2012-) 1,245
4. Dennis Dixon (2004-07) 1,208
The Ducks have scored a program-best 645 points in each of the past two seasons, finishing second nationally in 2012 (49.6 points per game) and third in 2011 (46.1). Last year's team set the UO bar for touchdowns with 89, despite playing one less game than the 2011 team, which found the end zone 88 times. This season, Oregon's 56 TDs and 403 points are the top marks nationally through Oct. 20. UO has at least six TDs in every game this season (9-8-8-8-8-6-9).
The 2013 Oregon Ducks return 56 letterwinners, including 16 starters - nine on offense and seven on defense - from last season. By contrast, the 2012 squad, which finished the season ranked No. 2 nationally, had 52 returning lettermen and 12 starters, including only five on offense.
Four true freshmen saw action in the season-opener vs. Nicholls: OL Cameron Hunt, TE Johnny Mundt, DE Torrodney Prevot and K Matt Wogan. Joining that quartet in Week 2 was LB Tyrell Robinson and RB Thomas Tyner.
Since 2000, Oregon is 37-6 (.860) in regular season, out-of-conference games, earning notable victories against the likes of Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Michigan (x2). During that stretch, the Ducks are 4-1 against the SEC, 1-0 vs. the ACC, 5-2 vs. the Big Ten, 1-1 vs. the Big 12, 4-0 against the Mountain West, 12-2 vs. the WAC, 2-0 against Conference USA and 7-0 vs. FCS sides.
A staple of Oregon's blur offense in recent years has been "explosion plays" of 25 yards or more from scrimmage. After seven games, the Ducks have already racked up 48, with 19 resulting in touchdowns. In 2012, Oregon accumulated 46 after an incredible 69 such plays in 2011.
75 - Addison rec. at COLO (Mariota)*
71 - Mariota rush at UVA*
66 - Tyner rush vs. WSU*
65 - Huff rec. at WASH (Mariota)*
57 - Mariota rush vs. WSU*
57 - Mundt rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)
54 - Huff rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)*
49 - Marshall rush vs. NICH*
47 - Marshall rush vs. NICH
46 - Mariota rush vs. NICH*
46 - Huff rec. vs. NICH (Mariota)
45 - Hawkins rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)*
45 - Forde rush vs. NICH
44 - Addison rec. at COLO (Mariota)*
43 - Addison rec. at WASH (Mariota)
40 - Forde rush at COLO
40 - Thomas rush at UVA*
40 - Lowe rec. vs. NICH (Mariota)
39 - Huff rec. at COLO (Mariota)
38 - Addison rec. at WASH (Mariota)
38 - Addison rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)
37 - Marshall rush vs. WSU
37 - Allen rec. vs. COLO (Rodrigues)
36 - Marshall rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)
35 - Marshall rec. vs. WSU (Mariota)
35- Mariota rush at WASH
31 - Huff rec. at UVA (Mariota)
31 - Tyner rush at UVA*
31 - Huff rec. vs. NICH (Mariota)
30 - Marshall rush vs. WSU*
30 - Addison rec. at WASH (Mariota)
30 - Addison rec. at UVA (Mariota)*
28 - Mundt rec. vs. CAL (Mariota)
28 - Thomas rush vs. TENN*
28 - Thomas rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)
28 - Huff rec. vs. TENN (Mariota)
28 - Thomas rec. at UVA (Mariota)
28 - Rodrigues vs. NICH
27 - Huff rec. vs. NICH (Mariota)
27 - Addison rec. vs. NICH* (Mariota)
27 - Mariota rush vs. NICH
26 - Marshall rus vs. WSU*
26 - Mundt rec. vs. WSU (Mariota)
26 - Huff rec. at WASH (Mariota)
26 - Mariota rush vs. NICH
26 - Huff rec. at COLO (Mariota)*
25 - Marshall rush vs. CAL*
25 - Huff rec. vs. CAL (Mariota)
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For the second year in a row, the Ducks are taking the field wearing the fully integrated Nike uniform system that debuted at the 2012 Rose Bowl. The uniform incorporates pinnacle performance innovation and design while providing enhanced thermoregulation and more durability with the inclusion of Nike Chain Maille Mesh - a lightweight ultra-breathable material - used in both the jersey and pant.
2013 Combinations
1-White White (a)-White
2-Carbon (1)-White (b)-Steel
4-Black-Green (c)-Green (c)
5-Green-White (a)-Green
6-Carbon (1)-White (b)-White
(1) sunburst faded wings (aka "Sonic Boom")
(a) green numbers trimmed in silver, green wings
(b) green numbers trimmed in yellow, silver wings.
(c) Fighting Ducks apple green
Bralon Addison, So., WR
Week 5
Pac-12 Player of the Week (special teams)
Josh Huff, Sr., WR
Week 7
Paul Hornung Award Weekly Honor Roll
Marcus Mariota, So., QB
Week 7
Davey O'Brien National QB
Pac-12 Player of the Week (offense)
Week 6
Pac-12 Player of the Week (offense)
Johnny Mundt, Fr., TE
Week 3
John Mackey TE of the Week
De'Anthony Thomas, Jr., RB
Week 3
Paul Hornung Award Weekly Honor Roll
Week 2
Pac-12 Player of the Week (offense)
Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Jr., CB
•Bednarik Award (defensive player)
•Bronko Nagurski Trophy (defensive player)
•Jim Thorpe Award (defensive back)
Hroniss Grasu, Jr., C
•Outland Trophy (interior lineman)
•Rimington Trophy (center)
•Rotary Lombardi Award (lineman/linebacker)
Josh Huff, Sr., WR
•Biletnikoff Award (wide receiver)
Tyler Johnstone, So., OT
•Outland Trophy (interior lineman)
•Rotary Lombardi Award (lineman/linebacker)
Boseko Lokombo, Sr., LB
•Butkus Award (linebacker)
Marcus Mariota, So., QB
•Walter Camp Award (player of the year)
•Maxwell Award (player of the year)
•Davey O'Brien Award (quarterback)
•Manning Award (quarterback)
Terrance Mitchell, Jr., CB
•Jim Thorpe Award (defensive back)
•Bronko Nagurski Trophy (defensive player)
Johnny Mundt, Fr., TE
•John Mackey Award (TE) Midseason List
De'Anthony Thomas, Jr., RB
•Walter Camp Award (player of the year)
•Maxwell Award (player of the year)
•Paul Hornung Award (most versatile player)
•Doak Walker Award (running back)


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Member of the 2004 and 2005 Canadian Junior National Team; represented Canada in the 2005 World Cup Qualifier in Cuba
On Bawden: Skillful leader who has played at the top level internationally... great play-making ability from the backfield.
2005 Update
As a Junior In 2004: Named to the NFHCA National Academic Team ... Member of the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's and UMass Athletic Director's Honor Rolls for both the fall and spring semesters ... Picked to the Atlantic 10 All-Tournament team as well as the Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference squad ... Selected to attend the NCAA Leadership Conference in May of 2005 ... Started all 22 games ... Fourth on the team in scoring with four goals and an assist for nine points ... Took 41 shots, 24 of which were on goal ... Tied for the team lead with two game-winning tallies ... Scored a career-high two goals, including the game-winner, against Saint Joseph's (11/5) in the Atlantic 10 Tournament ... Also scored the game-winning goal against Vermont (9/26) ... Posted a goal against Richmond (11/6) in the A-10 Championship game and dished out an assist against La Salle (10/10).
As A Sophomore In 2003: Selected to the NFHCA National Academic Team ... Atlantic 10 All-Conference pick ... Member of the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's and UMass Athletic Director's Honor Rolls ... Played and started 19 games ... Led the team in scoring for the second straight year with three goals and one assist for seven points ... Took 15 shots, nine of which were on goal ... Scored goals against Fairfield (8/30), Saint Joseph's (10/12; game-winner) and Richmond 10/19) ... Notched an assist vs. Saint Louis (9/6) ... Team was 3-1 when she recorded at least one point.
As A Freshman In 2002: Named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference team ... Selected to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad ... Named to both the A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll and the UMass Athletic Director's Honor Roll ... Played in 22 games, making 21 starts ... Took 15 shots ... Recorded a team-high 12 points on six goals ... Scored goals against West Chester (10/20), Rhode Island (11/2), Ohio (9/22), La Salle (10/19), Richmond (10/11) and Boston University (8/31), which was her first collegiate goal.
Before UMass: Played for Bryan Snider at Penticton (B.C.) Secondary School ... Named Top All-Around Female Athlete as a junior ... Received the 2000 MVP and Heart & Dedication awards ... 2002 Ewart award recipient (combined athletic and academic scholarship honor role award) ... Team captain as a junior ... 2002 member of Senior Team Alberta and U-21 Team Alberta ... Senior team placed fourth at Nationals ... 2001 member of the U-18 Team British Columbia that won the national championship ... Member of Team Adanac that was Florida Field Hockey Festival pool champions and placed third in the 2000 BC Summer Games.
Personal: Jaime LeeAnn Bawden ... Born February 2, 1984 ... Daughter of George and Sylvia Bawden ... Sister of Geoffrey ... Cousin, Sarah Joy, played soccer for the Canadian National team ... Member of the Commonwealth College, majoring in Biology.
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UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel announced this evening after team position meetings that Kevin Prince would start at quarterback in the 2011 season-opener at Houston on Saturday. He also indicated that he expected Richard Brehaut to see action in the opener.
"I wanted to create competition during camp and I wanted to give both kids an ample opportunity to win the job," said coach Neuheisel. "Having done that, it was too close to call and I believe that both deserve to play; Kevin will start."
"Both quarterbacks have experience and I feel that both have the team's confidence. The competition will continue though. Having been in this position myself, I will not ask anyone to diminish their goals to be the one and only quarterback at UCLA. Until one separates from the other, both deserve the chance to play. I feel they each bring something valuable to the table for this team."
"I want to compliment both of these young men on how they have handled this situation. They have each continued to support the other throughout and I believe that will continue."
Redshirt junior quarterback Kevin Prince (#4) appeared in five games in 2010, all starts. He was sidelined for the balance of last season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his knee on Oct. 23.
Prince started and played every snap in last season's opener at Kansas State despite missing the bulk of pre-season camp with a muscle strain (oblique). He scored UCLA's first touchdown (11-yd run) and threw a 29-yard touchdown to Ricky Marvray with 1:19 remaining to bring the Bruins to within two points, 24-22. Against Houston, he directed five scoring drives (four tds, one fg). He passed for 99 yards and was the team's second-leading rusher with 60 net yards, including a two-yard touchdown. At Texas, he ran for 50 net yards and threw a one-yard scoring pass to Ricky Marvray. Prince's knee was sore and swollen the week following the Texas game and he did not see action versus WSU. He returned to the lineup at Cal. He did not play at Oregon due to the injury and decided to undergo surgery.
In 2009, Prince started all 11 games in which he played. He became just the second Bruin freshman (redshirt) quarterback to open a season under center, and the first to win a season-opener, when he took the first snap in the San Diego State game. He became the second freshman quarterback in UCLA history to pass for over 300 yards three times in a season (Tommy Maddox, 1990).He was third on the team in rushing (165 yards) and his 2,229 yards of total offense rank No. 14 on UCLA's single-season list (No. 2 among freshmen behind Maddox), his 179 completions rank T-No. 11 (No. 2 among freshmen) and his 2,050 passing yards rank No. 18 (No. 2 among freshmen). In 2009 at Oregon State, he passed for a career-high 323 yards and rallied the Bruins from a 19-3 deficit. He led touchdown drives of 70 and 94 yards and threw scoring passes of 58 yards to Nelson Rosario (8:06) and seven yards to Taylor Embree, on fourth-and-seven, with 2:06 remaining. He also passed for a pair of two-point conversions. In the final quarter, he completed nine of 13 passes for 198 yards and the two touchdowns.
At Washington State, he recorded his third 300-yard passing game. He completed a career-high 27 passes and led the Bruins in rushing with 76 yards, including a 68-yard touchdown scamper, the longest run by a Bruin quarterback since John Sciarra had a 71-yard non-scoring run against Tennessee in 1971. His 390 yards total offense rank No. 9 (tied) on the single-game total offense list.
Kevin Prince - " ... like coach has said, Richard has done a great job in camp and deserves a chance. Both of us have split reps during most of camp. It is a decision we both knew was possible. We are in this for the team and coach feels this gives the team the best chance for success .
True junior Richard Brehaut (#12) appeared in nine games, with seven starts, in 2010. He started the final six games of the season. On the year, Brehaut ranked ninth in the Pac-10 in passing yards (144.00) and passing efficiency (110.22) and 10th in total offense (150.78).
He saw his first action of 2010 when he came off the bench in game two versus Stanford. Brehaut made his first career start versus Washington State and completed 12 of 23 passes for 128 yards. On the day, he engineered seven scoring drives - five tds and two fgs. He also scored the go-ahead touchdown on a one-yard run to cap off a 99-yard drive. All five touchdown drives covered at least 67 yards. At Oregon, he started his first road contest. Against Arizona, he threw for his first two career touchdown passes. His 68-yard scoring toss to Randall Carroll was the team's longest since Ben Olson and Brandon Breazell hooked up on a 69-yard scoring play versus Oregon State in 2007. Brehaut also connected on a 49-yard touchdown pass with Josh Smith on a flea-flicker play. In the win over Oregon State, Brehaut led a last-second game-winning field goal drive. UCLA started its final possession on its own 17-yard line with 48 seconds remaining and he moved the Bruins 49 yards, setting up Kai Forbath's game-winning kick. He completed four of six passes (37 yards) on that drive.
At Arizona State, he set school records with his 33 pass completions (old record, 32 by Troy Aikman v. USC in 1988) and 56 pass attempts (old record, 51 by Dennis Dummit v. Cal in 1970). He also set personal bests with 321 passing yards and three touchdown passes. His three touchdown passes measured 46, 21 and four yards. He also ran for a 12-yard touchdown.
Richard Brehaut - "Both of us have competed for the job and have played well. We both have experience and have played in big games. As long as this helps the team to win, I am all for it."


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Hugoton senior offensive lineman and defensive end Colton Lissolo is the fifth of 10 winners of the Billy's 10 Best 250 dollar scholarship. Lissolo was an all Great Athletic Conference player as a junior and won state wrestling last winter. He is also a member of National Honor Society. He was announced as the winner during Thursday night's On the Sidelines show which airs Thursday nights at 6 p.m. on 102.7 and live from Billy's. He joins Sublette's Garret Tatman, Southwestern Heights' Alex Adame, Tyrone's Travis Shield, and Hooker's Kyle Bingham as winners of the Billy's 10 Best 250 dollar scholarship.
Each team featured on Thursday night's "On the Sidelines" will have a $250.00 Senior Recipient chosen from the next nights game and will be announced the following week on "the SportsGuys" and again Thursday night at Billy's.
The recipient will be chosen by football coaching staff and will be awarded for best performance, most dedicated, most hustle, etc as decided by staff.
Nine area winners will be joined by one Liberal Redskin Senior (Picked the ninth game of year).
At the conclusion of season the 10 Winners plus their parents, and the Head Coach and Wife will be honored at a dinner honoring Billy's Ten Best. The night will include a dinner, a speaker, and the announcement of one winner, who will receive an additional $250 Scholarship.
The scholarship will be distributed the following year to the college - Vo Tech that the winner is attending.
Thursday "On the Sidelines Schedule" airs at 6:05 p.m. on 102.7 FM 'The Legend". The game of the week airs at 7 p.m. Friday nights on 102.7 'The Legend'.
Sidelines show and GOW schedule
September 1 - Sublette (at SWH)
September 9 - Southwesten Heights (at Elkhart)
September 16 - Tyrone (vs. Forgan)
September 23 - Hooker (at Turpin)
September 30 - Hugoton (vs. Scott City)
October 7 - Moscow (vs. Dighton)
October 14 - Beaver (at Hooker)
October 21 - Satanta (vs. Sublette)
October 28 - Turpin (vs. Mooreland)
Awards Dinner - TBD
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The Iliad
by Homer
The Iliad Book 6 Summary
- The battle rages on.
- At one point, the Trojan warrior Adrestos is thrown from his chariot when it crashes.
- Menelaos goes up to him to kill him, but Adrestos begs for mercy. He says his father will be able to pay a big ransom if Menelaos takes him alive.
- Menelaos is about to spare him, when Agamemnon comes along and starts calling his brother a wuss. "What did the Trojans ever do for you?" He says. "We should kill them all."
- Unfortunately, Menelaos gives in to peer pressure and knocks Adrestos away from him. Agamemnon then spears him, killing him.
- Now Nestor comes along and tells the soldiers to stop wasting their time stealing things from the bodies of their enemies. His point could be summed up as: "Less grabbing, more stabbing!"
- The Trojans are about to retreat when Helenos, a son of Priam, goes up to Aineias and Hektor and tells them to rally the troops and fight in front of Troy's gates.
- Helenos also adds a special message for Hektor: he should go back to the city and tell the older women to find the best, loveliest robe they can, and present it to the statue of Athene in the temple on the heights. They should also promise to sacrifice twelve young female cows in her honor. In return, they should pray for the goddess to protect them from Diomedes.
- Helenos says the Trojans are now more afraid of Diomedes than they ever were of Achilleus.
- Hektor does as he's told. First he rallies the Trojans, then he tells them to hold out while he goes on his mission. Then he heads off.
- Now, the Trojan warrior Glaukos is about to engage in battle with Diomedes. Diomedes, impressed with his opponent's courage, asks him who he is. (He also wants to make sure that he isn't a god—he's done enough fighting with divinities for one day.)
- Glaukos first says, "Who cares who I am? People are born and die all the time like leaves." After that, though, he mellows out a bit and tells a long story about his ancestor.
- Glaukos's story goes back to the city of Corinth in the region of Argos. Back in the day, the queen of Argos had the hots for Bellerophontes, a young warrior. (If his name rings a bell, you might know him by the more usual English spelling of "Bellerophon.") Bellerophontes, however, being an honorable man, wouldn't mess around with the king's wife.
- Feeling rejected, the queen decided to get back at Bellerophontes by telling the king that he had been putting the moves on her.
- The king of Argos didn't like the sound of this one bit. He decided to send Bellerophontes on a mission to Lykia. He gave him some tablets to take with him, on which were scratched symbols instructing the king of Lykia to do something nasty to Bellerophontes.
- (This story is the origin of the expression "Bellerophontic letters," in which someone is made the unwitting bearer of a message harmful to them. For a parallel, think of what happens to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Alternatively, think of a time when you tricked someone—or maybe were tricked yourself?—into saying something stupid in a foreign language.)
- When Bellerophontes arrived in Lykia, the king asked to see his references. As soon as he read what they said, he immediately sent Bellerophontes off to do battle with the horrible Chimaira—a beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake. The king was pretty sure that would finish him off.
- (This creature is better known in English by its Latin spelling, "Chimera." In fact, "chimera" —uncapitalized—is a common English noun. Check out its definition here.)
- Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective), Bellerophontes defeated the Chimaira handily. He also made light work of the next enemies the king sent him to fight: the tribe of the Solymoi, and the Amazons, a tribe of female warriors. He even defeated an ambush the king set to kill him on his way back to Lykia.
- When Bellerophontes got back, the king was so impressed that he said, "Hey! You're awesome! I don't want you to die—I want you to marry my daughter! And stay with me here in Lykia!" (Or something to that effect.)
- Bellerophontes apparently thought this was a good way to patch things up, because Glaukos tells us that he and the princess of Lykia did settle down, and ended up having three children. The children's names were Isandros, Hippolochos, and Laodameia.
- Here's how they turned out. Isandros was killed by the god Ares. Laodameia had a fling with the god Zeus, and became the mother of Sarpedon, whom we've met already. Hippolochos was the father of Glaukos. In this way, Glaukos finally wraps up his story.
- When Diomedes hears this, he is overjoyed. It turns out that his grandfather, a guy called Oeneus, once hosted Glaukos at his place back in Argos. They also exchanged gifts. This means that they were bound by ties of "guest-friendship," a very sacred relationship.
- Okay, this calls out for explanation. That's why we interrupt our program (hey, if Glaukos can do it with his long family tree, why can't we?) to bring you the following Historical Context Lesson.
- The good thing is, "guest-friendship" (called xenia in Ancient Greek) isn't all that complicated. Basically, it was a form of ritual friendship between members of different clans or social groups. Such friendships often sprang up between travelers and their hosts—hence the name. The start of such a friendship would be symbolized by some sort of ritual, often including the exchange of gifts.
- Once this ritual had been performed, the guest-friends were linked by a bond similar to that of family. Just like a family connection, the guest-friendship connection was passed on the offspring of the respective guest-friends—just like what happens with Glaukos and Diomedes. This brings us to the end of our Historical Context Lesson.
- Because Diomedes and Glaukos now regard each other as family, this makes it pretty much impossible for them to kill each other. (As Diomedes puts it, there are plenty of other people on each side for them to kill.) Instead, the two warriors exchange armor as a token of respect. (Though we are also told that Zeus confuses Glaukos so that he gets the short end of the stick—exchanging his own gold armor for Diomedes's bronze.) Then they part ways.
- Meanwhile, Hektor has arrived back at Troy. First he heads to the palace of his father, King Priam.
- There Hektor finds Hekabe, his mother. She tries to get him to relax with some wine and make a sacrifice to the gods. He says, "No way, I've got more important axing to do. And anyway, if I was going to make a sacrifice I'd have to clean myself up and stuff." Instead, he repeats Helenos's message about the women offering a robe to Athene.
- Hekabe and the other women pick out their finest robe, and go up to Athene's temple. There, they make their sacrifice and pray for success. We are told the goddess ignores their prayer.
- At the same time, Hektor goes and finds Paris back in his house. He cusses him out for not fighting.
- Paris says he accepts the criticism—but also claims he was just about to head back to the fighting. He says Helen was just getting him ready
- At this point, Helen approaches Hektor and tells him how she wishes she had either had a better husband or had died in infancy, instead of causing so much trouble. She also tells Hektor to relax with her.
- Hektor says that he has to go see his wife and son.
- When Hektor arrives at home, however, his wife and child aren't there. A servant tells him they have gone to the Skaian Gates.
- Sure enough, once Hektor gets there, he finds Andromache holding their baby son, Skamandrios, whom the citizens have nicknamed "Astyanax," meaning "Lord of the City."
- Andromache asks Hektor why he has to keep fighting. She predicts that he will be killed in battle. She explains that Hektor is all she has in the world—after her father and brothers were all killed by Achilleus. (Andromache mentions that Achilleus had the decency to give her father a proper burial —this is important to keep in mind for later in the book.)
- She also tells Hektor how her mother was once taken prisoner by Achilleus and held for ransom. Soon after she was released, however, she was killed by disease.
- Andromache suggests that Hektor should make the Trojans pull back to fight from a defensive position in front of the weakest point in the Trojan walls. This is the same place where a large fig tree grows.
- Hektor says that he is troubled by the same thoughts as his wife. All the same, he insists on following the warrior's code. He grimly foresees the day on which Troy will be conquered, and when his wife will be forced into slavery. He says he would rather die before that day.
- Now Hektor goes to embrace his son, but the boy is terrified of his helmet. This makes his parents laugh. Hektor removes his helmet, picks up his son, and prays to Zeus to make him a better warrior than his father.
- At this point Hektor tries to reassure Andromache, saying that, if he is killed, that means it was fated, and no one can escape the fates. He tells her to go back to her weaving work in the home.
- Andromache appears to obey her husband, but when she gets home, instead of working, she leads the household women in mourning for Hektor—even though he is still alive.
- Meanwhile, Hektor meets up with Paris, who is now enthusiastic about rejoining the battle.
- Hektor encourages Paris, telling him that he's a good warrior, he just has to keep his chin up.
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Seville Village Council special meeting to discuss appropriation for 2010, 6:50 p.m., municipal building, 120 Royal Crest Drive.
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Security | March 9th, 2010
For those that have used peer guardian exclusively for the past few years, phoenix labs has release their new product, peerblock. PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.
god mode, rawr
Windows 7, Windows Vista | March 9th, 2010
Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder. By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition. The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, although some are warning that although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.
To enter "GodMode," one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:
Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options. I'm not sure it's my idea of playing God, but it is a handy way to get to all kinds of controls.
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Azure Server, Windows Server | March 9th, 2010
Put simply, Windows Azure is the Windows Server operating system redesigned as a cloud-based service. At a very high level, Windows Azure is much like Windows Server, except that it's hosted by Microsoft at its datacenters and not on-premise at your own company. That is, it provides a platform on which developers can create hosted applications and companies can run hosted applications and store data in the cloud.
But Windows Azure is not simply the current version of Windows Server modified to work in the cloud. Yes, Microsoft did of course start with a Windows Server core to create Windows Azure, but the system was also designed from the start to work as a cloud-hosted service. As such, Windows Azure and Windows Server both have capabilities that are unique to one that are not available in the other. According to Microsoft, the company will continue developing each product separately, all while bringing the respective capabilities of each system closer together. That said, because of their unique focuses, it's likely that they will never truly mirror each other fully.
Another important aspect of Windows Azure is that it works within Microsoft's notion of a hybrid computing model, allowing companies to utilize on premise servers for those tasks that need to be hosted onsite and cloud-hosted services that do not. So your company may choose to host some of its applications and data in the cloud but retain other on premise applications and data as needed. This system can also be utilized to slowly move resources to the cloud over time as you evaluate the cost, effectiveness, and convenience of such a strategy.
cannot map to DFS/IFS shares on vista/7/8
AS400, Security, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista | March 9th, 2010
On your Vista/7/8 PC do the following:
1) Click All Programs-Accessories-Run and type secpol.msc and click OK.
2) Verify if dialog box appears.
3) From Security Settings console tree, expand Local Policies then click Security Options.
4) In the right pane, scroll down to the setting called 'Network security:Lan Manager authentication level Properties' and double-click it.
5) Note the current value and change it to be 'Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated'.
You should now be able to access network shares on any DFS/IFS system such as an AS/400.
remove active desktop recovery
Windows XP | March 8th, 2010
Add the following DWORD to remove the ugly white wallpaper asking to restore active desktop.
- User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
- System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
- Value Name: NoActiveDesktop
- Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Value Data: (0 = disable restriction, 1 = enable restriction)
windows 8 presstalk
Windows 8 | February 15th, 2010
If you had been impressed of how user-friendly and comprehensive Windows 7 is, wait until you have installed Windows 8 in your personal computer! It is the newest operating system from Microsoft and since they have just actually launched the Windows 7 in 2009, you might start wondering what was wrong with the 7th version? Nothing was wrong, it is just that the company is trying to figure out the most convenient and comprehensive operating system to match the fast paced technology, as well as the demands of its users.
Still, there are so many speculations going around the informational technology world. Rumors have it that a new operating system is also in the making, while some are looking forward to another. What is clear is that Microsoft is unveiling Windows 8 soon and the Mobile Windows 7 today, February 15th 2010.
Check back frequently for more updates on Windows 8 and other upcoming MS announcements.
DNS – the root of all evil or an angel in disguise
Networking, Windows Server | February 15th, 2010
How DNS should be configured? In a Windows Server environment, DNS is configured incorrectly more often than you'd think. After installing the DNS service on a server, that server must (there are a few uncommon instances where this might not be true) use its own IP or localhost for DNS resolution. Most of the time, here's what I see. Upon opening the network connection tcp properties, DNS is set to that organization's ISP DNS settings. Maybe sometimes, localhost in primary and an ISP DNS in the secondary. When you think about it logically:
- You just installed a DNS service, why would you need to outsource it?
- Do you really think your ISP cares what you name your internal systems?
- If they did, would you want them to know?
ISP DNS should never be used as an internal resolution source. That's why your network is "private". ISP DNS should be setup as DNS Fowarders. This means, if you browse to www.google.com on a workstation, the workstation should only query your internal DNS. When your DNS server browses its own DNS records and does not find an entry for www.google.com, it should then look to its forwarders for an answer. Your ISP should know this name, if it doesn't, it will forward it to its forwards. So on and so forth. This is the order of DNS and should always be followed, unless you like seeing red marks in your event logs.
printer hardware wizard continues to come up
Windows XP | February 14th, 2010
There are lots of posts regarding Windows XP and older model deskjet printers. There is a KB article describing this issue but does not resolve the issue completely. Here is an unofficial fix. MS has no plans to correct the problem.
1. Log in with admin rights.
2. Regedit and locate hklocal/system/currentcontrolset/enum/lptenum.
3. There will be entries in this key, find the printer and remove it and all subkeys.
4. If you cannot, right click lptenum and give yourself full rights. After it's deleted, remove inherent permissions from lptenum and add only "SYSTEM" with read only access. Close regedit.
5. Remove the printer from Control Panel / Printers if it's installed already.
6. Reboot. The hardware wizard should not appear this time if all steps were completed correctly.
7. Manually install the printer.


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i was awoken at 4 am on the dot by something i never thought i would ever hear in my neighborhood at night.
i have NEVER seen a wild/city owl during the night before, let alone a pair. This just got me so excited i can just barely contain myself!
i've always been a bit of a bird freak and always lose it whenever i personally witness something new or amazing. This little chance encounter is on par with my first time seeing a kingfisher in one of the small lakes around here.
i just wish i had some sort of device that could have captured a coherent image in the dark so i could properly identify their species. Really all i was able to see were some shadowy outlines upon the neighbor's chimney and heard their distinct call. i was however, able to spot tufts of feathers or "horns", so they are definitely a type of horned owl.
Oh dear this has me excited! i might search the neighborhood to see of i can find some owl pellets and perhaps track down an approximate location to where they may be roosting.
Aah...i should really go back to sleep now.
Good night... er... morning? Whatever! Go to sleep, Emerald!


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[Here is a follow-up to The Loser Tribe. But don't think gloom; it's a higher vibe.]
by Jerome du Bois
I found Joe Baker's essay for "Remix," now on exhibit at the Heard --though he ain't no mo. I read it on Hearsight, and copied it immediately, since the website seems aphasic. As for the essay, I don't know if it's been edited or not, but the point is moot, it should be taken out and shot. A misbegotten thing, it manages to be at once turgid, stentorian, disjointed, and ridiculous, like a man intoning a nursery rhyme while standing in two buckets of manure.
I won't wade in with a total fisk; it's a waste of time, and I'm no masochist. I'm going to focus on what Mr. Baker says about four of the pieces in the exhibition, and I'm going to ignore all but the first of his sudden autobiographical digressions --"The year is 1957"--"It is Ash Wednesday"-- thrust into the reader's precarious attention like a bum lunging out of an alley: "Hey, come back heah, I gotta tell ya--" with no transitions, linking sentences, or explanations as to why the vignette is right there at that point in the . . . thing. Baker does warn the reader: "With Remix, as I've listened and observed, seeking to feel the mood or temperature of this artists' collective, old stories have emerged, re-invented themselves,and become relevant again." Relevant to him, maybe, but they don't do anything for me. And these easy careless airy phrases: just how did the stories "re-invent themselves"? What bullshit. Basic anthropomorphism, Baker. Only people can invent and re-invent stories; the stories just sit there until revision. I understand poetic license, too; I just think he's operating without one. And it really isn't an "artists' collective," is it? It's just a cull from the Rolodex based on a cliché.
The guy's a blowhard and a hypocrite, big surprise. Who do these people think they're writing for? Answer's easy: each other. Anybody else, they don't really take seriously, because they think they can talk over them, using words like "challenging" and "transgressive" and "hegemony" and "other" and "colonialism," rolling them toward you like juggernauts. But they're just papiér mache Hollywood boulders, echoing hollow when you knock them out of your way. Here's Joe:
I would never presume to use an artist's work to illustrate a concept or idea.
Sure. Get me up off the floor. As I wrote in "Dazed and Confused In The Glittering World," that's exactly what he did with Steve Yazzie's Monument Valley driving and drawing stunt, by vamping "The Vanishing American" over it. And his motivating idea, another big surprise, was as old and dried up as buffalo chips.
Mr. Baker, the drum is trying to tell you that it's tired.
Mr. Baker, the horse's ghost is trying to tell you that it's dead.
Mr. Baker and his crew think writing is a disagreeable chore --and it is, when he and his simpleminded thumbfingered numbskulls attempt it. And they think reading should be the same way. The hell with that. As the music-loving Emperor of Austria once said, "Let's have some fun."
In the last piece I mentioned in passing a Joe Baker howler: "Whatever the case, mediocrity no longer held my attention." It was about him watching an old house being torn down and a new --a newfangled-- house being built down the street from his parents' home in Dewey, Oklahoma, when he was a kid. Just before that, he writes:
Perhaps the events unfolding then [the house construction] were some kind of rite of passage, an inevitable coming of age played out during the cold war period following World War II. Or perhaps creativity was being unlocked in me, propelling me toward an attraction for the original that still moves me today. Whatever the case . . .
Guy's as swoony as a hothouse flower. What wonderful unseen force, arriving from somewhere, was "unlocking" the sleeping beauty of his creativity and leaving behind an unerring compass toward the original? This is all retrospective, remember; no eleven-year-old phrases his thoughts and feelings that way. Baker reminds me of Richard Papen, the twenty-year-old protagonist of Donna Tartt's college murder mystery, The Secret History. In the opening paragraph, she perfectly nails the hyperventilating self-involved romanticism of the young:
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
Am I making fun of Joe Baker? I don't think I have to, he's doing fine by himself.
This is the house that moved him so much, by the way: the Comer House. Photo by Jack McSorley. Okeydokey. Whatever floats your spaceship, man.
I have to assume that he showed drafts of his essay to others; or maybe he didn't have to; maybe that's why, for example, the sentence
How could contemporary architecture illicit such angry responses of disgust, outrage, suspicion?
slid by everybody involved: nobody read carefully. That's illicit editing, idnit?
I'm dwelling on this story because it's relevant, not to "Remix," but as a clue to the kind of cultural profile Joe Baker wants to project --edgy, avant-garde, brave. Apparently the Comer house elicited
incidents of vandalism, and letters to the editor of the local newspaper referring to the residence as a monstrosity, an eyesore. The Comers themselves were rumored to be Communists, Progressives, individuals to watch out for.
Then we "fast forward" to 2006 and the third season of Artspeak at the Heard Museum. Artspeak, presumably curated by our hero, got generally good reviews, but . . .
Letters to the museum director employed declarative language to say, "Shame on the Heard!" Rumors questioned the authenticity of the artists and the squandering of valuable museum resources on "claptrap." Accusations that the curators supported political propaganda were common. I took to wondering whether I might be accused of espionage.
I myself question the authenticity of the old word "claptrap" but what the hell, there are probably plenty of wised-up geezers who care about the Heard. And who says employed declarative language to say ? Isn't that about three words worth of redundancy? And do rumors question anything? He's squandering valuable word meanings. And the sarcastic reference to espionage, evoking the McCarthy era, falsely collapses the distance between then and now, as if there has been zero progress. A lie. But now Joe Baker has the aura of pushing the envelope, no mediocrity here.
Really? Just before he begins his descriptions of the pieces in the exhibition, he sums up the approaches of the artists with a quotation which he obviously thinks is a real zinger:
Perhaps they relate to Fab Five Freddy's fabulous summation of postmodernism and the hip-hop aesthetic: to "take a bit from here and a bit from there and bring them all together . . . yet not forgetting history."
How lame can you get, Mr. Baker? Is this you laying out your street cred? Shouting out your props to your peeps and all that other stupid debased lingo in a pathetic attempt to appeal to youth culture, not exactly the avant-garde of any society. Sheeple, more likely. Are you not six decades old, sir?
Mr. Freddy's sentence is not a fabulous summation of anything, but a typical example of mediocrity in all modes: in concept, formulation, and expression. Clueless Freddy is simply describing a normal human's thinking life. Baker's impressed, but I see a toddler who thinks he invented walking.
Enter Exhibit One of these bits from here and there:
Bernard Williamss Charting America provides a clear and direct example. Art historian and critic Kathryn Kramer observes, These cultural charts evoke a nonlinear historical consciousness at odds with the notion of a progressive evolution from past through present to future that marks the historical consciousness of Western nations.
Actually, Ms. Kramer, progressive evolution is not a notion and not part of anyone's consciousness; it's inextricably tied to the arrow of time and to social organization. You know: people improving their lot. That's why satellites supplanted smoke signals, dig? And if you follow the symbols on the wall, they do describe a natural timeline, with sailing ships at the beginning and TVs and computers at the end.
Black cutouts resembling silhouettesart for the common people in colonial New Englandarranged in horizontal bands against a white background provide cultural clues to Western expansion and the societies that have inhabited North America. The cutouts move across the visual field like streaming text messages in Times Square, creating a new language of postcolonial cultural mixtures.
Objection to the use of the word "language," which is a far more complex entity than this mélange with no structure, grammar, or syntax. Baker is trying to float Williams's flatfooted wall.
Williams has researched the myth of the American west, combing archives, museums, and historical societies throughout the United States.
I'm confused: is he researching the "myth" or the history of the American West? Or is he confused? Now I'm more confused.
His studio, on Chicagos Westside, is itself a vast archive of references, books, and publications.
None of it online. Thanks, Mr. Williams.
Charting America, embedded with narrative symbols of a collision of American Indians, Hispanics, Africans, and Europeans rewrites American history. The viewer is reminded of a story unfolding, with all the tropes of colonial exclusivity giving way to a more complex tale of past and present.
Selective more than complex. Notice he has room for plenty of guns, for example --two M-16s?-- but no room for airplanes. I guess Kitty Hawk was in Europe somewheres, huh? How about the light bulb, Mr. Williams --the one over Tom Edison's head-- so that we may illuminate your silly wall? I'm reminded of a story, all right, the same old anti-American crap that's been coming out of the academy and the art world for over twenty years. What's new?
And hey, Mr. Williams, what's it like out there on the ragged edge of acceptance, struggling, sweating, scraping, fighting white racists every bloody step of the way, trying to overcome the continuing crushing legacy of the white male hegemony? You poor bastard! But you won't share Louis Sullivan's fate, will you? though you pick your way through his black curves and marching patterns like a bower bird after its booty. And you won't die alone and broke in a Chicago hotel room, thanks to progress, the evolving law, and the USA. He only has immortality; you have tenure.
Baker describes Exhibit Two, Kent Monkman's gay Indian riff, which I won't even go looking for an example of:
Playing on the voyeuristic tendency of how Native people are perceived by the art establishment, Kent Monkmans installation Shooting Geronimo doesnt hold back. The painted tipi, perhaps a stand-in for an adult video booth, features sexually charged cowboys and Indians acting out in a highly eroticized scene, complete with a Monument Valley backdrop. The cast, including Thosh Collins, Quetzal Guerrero, and Alex Meraz, masterfully fulfills the dominant cultures every fleshly desire of the exotic other. Caramel to cinnamon and buff, they subvert and dislodge societys appetite for the sensationalized Native. . . . His earlier series of paintings, The Moral Landscapeappropriations of the romantic landscapes by 19th-century American painters Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, George Catlin, and Paul Kanehave challenged Christian ideologies and the notion of Manifest Destiny. According to Monkman, the paintings investigate the relationship of sexuality to conquest, xenophobia and imperialism. In my versions, the familiar players in North American history (Indians, explorers, and cowboys) are reconfigured in provocative and humorous sexual vignettes set against sublime landscapes. Emulating the context of the original paintings as ethnological documentation, or pictures from a travelogue, my paintings play with power dynamics within sexuality to challenge historical assumptions of sovereignty, art, commerce, and colonialism.
We didn't see the tipi, thankfully, but we did see his tiny antiqued photos of himself in (really bad) drag, and a painting of a guy leaning off his horse to embrace another guy. I quote all the above because I want to tell you that Kent Monkman leaves out the most important part of what it used to mean to be Native American, tribal, and homosexual: you were a shaman; you were Berdache. You were the bridge between everything the tribe knew and everything else. You were a door and a doorway, the one --the only one-- who stepped boldly into a darkness blacker than night. You were honored and envied, your status the equal of even a war strategist like Crazy Horse.
It is absolutely no suprise to me that Kent Monkman and all these newfangled Indians are running like the dickens from spirituality: it would hand their own hollow hearts back to them, and they might have to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling. For now, for them, what's important to foreground is provocation, play, and low humor; they avoid like the plague the uncanny mysteries of the real Other; life is but a joke, and there's a hole in the sky where God used to be.
And the gay thing is so old, you guys. Most people in the larger world don't care what's going on in the back of Geronimo's Cadillac. It's so over that it's done and gone.
Exhibit Three --Anna Tsouhlarakis's video "Let's Dance"-- we wrote about in The Loser Tribe, but now we have more information:
. . . was created during a residency at . . . Skowhegan . . . where, over the course of thirty days, she danced thirty dances with people from diverse cultures. The multiplicity of traditional dances, including the hora, Indian two-step, Harlem shake, and Irish jig, allows the artist entry into other space, while placing the other into the artists space. Through this out-of-joint participation, Tsouhlarakis constructs a kind of pictorial grammar, creating a certain time-out from cultural identity. She creates a radically neutral time.
In other words, she becomes even more of a lazy talentless nobody than she was thirty days previously. Sorry, Mr. Baker, but all the huffing and puffing, all the juking and jiving, won't keep this tired idea hoofing. As we already noted, she insults all the dances and all the traditions: by not rehearsing, or preparing, or respecting them one damned bit. This is art? This is preparation? This is postgraduate thinking? This is cleaning an idea? This is an idea? I'm truly floored: The "other" talk is a decrepit skeleton on crutches, stumbling and crumbling into busted-up dust, yet it still gets some pretty big bang for its limpydoodle buck.
As part of our recent Gershwin-era kick, we got hold of some Fred & Ginger movies, including "Shall We Dance." The scene where they sing and dance and tap dance --on roller skates-- to "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" required 150 takes. Of course there's no comparison, but Ms. Tsouhlarakis didn't even try to master just one of those dances.
Now the reader's asking, Why does this guy bother? Good question, because I don't get a damned thing out of it except the grim satisfaction of not letting people get away with bullshit. You know, on Sunday somebody(s) from The Heard Museum spent more than two hours on The Tears Of Things, reading what you would expect. We don't know who it was. Did they comment? No. Did they send us an email? No. Did they try to engage in dialogue with us in any way? No. So, yes, we see you, you multiculti cowards, not only your hideyhole hypocrisy and your eagerness to bayonet the wounded, but your embarrassingly obvious inability to challenge idea with idea, reason with reason.
So why do I bother? Because they're accountable. They're out there in the world, making moves, making claims, dropping their rap, dropping names. It's my world, too, so I call them to account, because I think they're warping the culture into a worse than disagreeable state.
Exhibit Four is the well-known Hector Ruiz, who we also wrote about in the Loser Tribe. Here's part of what Baker has to say about Ruiz:
Shunning mechanization to create his provocative wood sculptures, the artist carves away the façade of rhetoric and language and cuts to the core of inequity and divisiveness in the human race. Revealing hidden histories in which racist acts today are linked to those of the past, Ruiz underscores the reality of racial oppression as a clash between Western thought (power/superiority) and indigenous culture. For Ruiz, identity is symbolically played out on the streets, in the museums and cultural institutions, and in the bedrooms of Phoenix every day. Art critic Lara Taubman notes, Ruizs work encompasses the broad, complex, and often painful world particular to the Arizona and neighboring Mexican landscape. United States and Mexican border issues, immigration, conflicts of gender and sexuality, and urban development oblivious to the needs of the individual and the landscape create a combinative world that is seen through Ruizs own emotionally critical lens instead of through a universal one.
Sorry to inflict Taubman's inflated rhetoric on the reader --a "combinative world?"-- but this is what comes out of the head of an independent curator who's part of the problem, so you get what you get.
When Baker writes,
Ruiz underscores the reality of racial oppression as a clash between Western thought (power/superiority) and indigenous culture
he's telling a couple of lies. First, Ruiz is so racially oppressed that businessman Treg Bradley, a product of Western thought, bought up his whole Heard show not long ago, and Remix will give him more mileage and cachet. While Ruiz is badly carving satirical statues of white businessmen, and generally making anti-American, anti-capitalist gestures, he (and Bradley) benefit from the whole American system. Ruiz isn't blind to it; he's laughing at the gringos behind their backs.
Second, Baker, who elsewhere makes much of cultural oversimplification and stereotyping, actually wants us to think there are no power/superiority "issues" in indigenous cultures, as if they live under a bell jar in Eden, without conflict, without envy, serene and superior to the rest of us.
I said four examples, and there they are. I've made my points, so now I'm off to work on something else. I don't want to drag this on--
but there's just one more thing. Joe Baker is now gone from the Heard as a curator, and Brady Roberts is gone from the Phoenix Art Museum as a curator, and Jim Ballinger mentioned on Hearsight resolving their "curator issue," and Robert Sentinery is always casting about for themes for JAVA, so why not a Curator Issue?
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The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
The View from Saturday Chapter 2 Summary
- We're back at the final match of the bowl. You didn't forget where we were, did you?
- Mrs. Olinski and the district superintendent, Dr. Roy Clayton Rohmer, watch the guy asking the questions. He is super fancy.
- Mrs. Olinski thinks back on when she ran into Dr. Rohmer a few weeks ago. Let's put it this way: He's not the kindest of the bunch.
- More thinking on Mrs. O's part. This time, it's about Nadia, who recently moved to Epiphany. It's taken Nadia a while to warm up to everyone, and Mrs. Olinski was thrilled when Nadia started being friendly to her.
- And fancy that—Nadia answers the next question in the match, which is about the Atlantic Ocean.
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What type of education is required to become a nurse practitioner?
Anyone who would like to become a nurse practitioner is encouraged to first pursue a bachelor's degree in nursing. This process usually takes approximately four years to complete. Once a person has graduated from an accredited nursing program, then they will need to complete a licensing exam in order to become a registered nurse. A quality educational program will often include special preparation courses that are designed to help students to pass the clinical exam. Most people work as a registered nurse for a period of time in order to gain some experience in the health care field before pursuing their advanced degree.
Nurse practitioners are required in most areas to have completed advanced coursework in nursing before they are able to become a licensed nurse practitioner. This involves completing a master's degree or higher in the nursing field. Most advanced degrees take approximately two years to complete and include working within the medical field in clinical rotations. During their master's program, nurse practitioners select an area of specialization in which they would like to focus on for their studies.
What is the career outlook for a nurse practitioner?
Nurse practitioners are in high demand in the medical field today. After graduating from an advanced nursing program, nurse practitioners can expect to find work in hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centers. Some nurse practitioners even open their own medical practice and independently treat patients. A beginning nurse practitioner can expect to earn an average salary of $90,000 or more a year. In order to obtain the best career position, nurse practitioners should choose an area of specialization that will offer them a greater chance of employment opportunities. They should also take advantage of any internships or volunteer opportunities that are available to them while they are in school as this can help them to gain valuable experience that can help them to be competitive when applying for positions as a nurse practitioner.