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Commenter Paradox Me believes there's plenty of room in video games for more wise, experienced, and humorously nostalgic old men, leading the charge or just kicking back and telling us all about how Speak Up on Kotaku was better when they were kids.
Video games need more old-timers, like the three gentlemen you see to the left. Tellah (Final Fantasy IV), Galuf Halm Baldesion (Final Fantasy V) and Cyan Garamonde (Final Fantasy VI).
Why, you ask? For starters, their mere presence is a breath of fresh air. Our games are chock-full of pretty boys and gruff young sprouts, so it's a nice change of pace to see someone who's getting up there in years tagging along, pulling their own weight, showing these whippersnappers how things are done. It's almost inspiring, really.
Secondly, they usually serve some very important roles. The first being balancing the story/character development. Young characters in games are often egotistical, overconfident and quick to take action. They could stand to learn a thing or two from their more experienced comrades. More games could benefit from introducing a voice of reason.
The other role is equally important in my humble opinion: comic relief. Who doesn't get a chuckle out of the lecherous old man, or carefree drunkard? Perhaps recurring ramblings of how they did things "back in my day" or jokes about their memory starting to go. I know, it sounds horribly generic, but timing and context are everything!
So yeah, more capable old folks in games please!


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I'll post some specs for two video files and I'll ask you to decipher why one plays, the other does not:
File 1:
File Type: MKV
Size: 13.0GB
1 Video Stream: AVC
2 Audio Streams: DTS/AC3
7 Text streams: UTF-8/UTF8/PGs/PGS/PGS/PGS/PGS
Overall bit rate: 15.2 Mbps
Writing application: mkvmerge v6.3.0
Writing Library: libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.0
First Video Stream: English, 1920*800 (2.40:1), at 23.976 fps, AVC (firstname.lastname@example.com) (CABAC / 5 Ref Frames)
First Audio Stream: English, Unknown / 1509 Kbps, 48 KHz, 24 bit, 8 Channel / 6 channels, DTS (MA/Core)
Second Audio Stream: English, 640 Kbps, 48 KHz, 16 bits, 6 channels, AC-3
File 2:
Files Type: MKV
Size 8.91GB
1 Video Stream: AVC
1 Audio Stream: DTS
Overall bit rate: 10.4 Mbps
Writing application: Handbrake 0.9.9
Writing library: libmkv 0.6.5
First Video Stream: English, 9000 Kbps, 1920*800 (2.40:1), AVC (email@example.com) (CABAC / 4 Ref Frames)
First Audio Stream: English, 1509 Kbps, 48 KHz, 24 bit, 6 channels, DTS
These are the same movie backed up in only slightly different ways. Why does File 1 stream perfectly and File 2 skips around randomly and doesn't play scenes in order (it started about 10 minutes into the movie the first time, then I restarted and it jumped ahead to 3 minutes in, etc...)
I have a variety of other issues with files telling me they're unsupported, as well, when they're AVC video encased in MKV container with DTS or DD audio, but I'm more interested in why these two files result in drastically different quality of playback?
Is it the encoding level (4.1 vs 4.0...4.1 works but 4.0 doesn't, which is weird to me), or the number of reference frames? I don't know that much about encoding video, so some basics training might be required....
Thanks guys.

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Actors fulfill Williams' vision in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'
Published: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:49 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:49 a.m.
"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? Just staying on it, I guess, long as she can," purrs Maggie, the cat in Tennessee Williams' iconic tale of a Southern family disintegrating beneath a sweltering Mississippi sky and Flat Rock Playhouse's mainstage production, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Want to go?
What: Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Where: Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage, 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock
When: Through Nov. 18. Performances at 8 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays
Tickets: $35, with some discounts available. Call 828-693-0731 or visit
Always an ambitious undertaking, the Pulitzer prize-winning "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is certainly done justice here, with stellar performances by all the cast.
As the play opens, wealthy landowner Harold "Big Daddy" Pollitt is returning from his recent exploratory surgery, celebrating his 65th birthday and what he and Big Mama think is his newly announced clean bill of health. The extended family, who seem to know more than the patriarch about the true state of his health, are gathered for the birthday, but more importantly to secure their places in Big Daddy's will.
Big Daddy's son Gooper is hoping that his five children, with one on the way, will finally usurp his brother Brick, an ex-football star and the apple of his daddy's eye. Hoping to win even more favor, Gooper and his wife, Mae, try to heighten his parents' disgust for Brick's growing alcoholism and his troubled, childless marriage with the beautiful but desperate Margaret, better known as Maggie the Cat.
Maggie, who obviously has no natural affection for children, tries her best to interest Brick in producing an heir to make Big Daddy happy. As she says, in the way only a Tennessee Williams' woman can say, "You can be young with money, but you can't be old without it."
What we, along with the rest of the family, can't figure is why isn't Brick interested in this beautiful, voluptuous, passionate woman? And why did he start drinking so heavily after his best friend Skipper died? Such are the questions that everyone is dying to answer — the secrets that are so indicative of any Williams play, that once revealed, inevitably leave pain and suffering behind.
There's not much worse than a bad production of a Tennessee Williams' play, but it's equally true that there's nothing much better than a good production and this one is great! Leading the way is Big Daddy, played deliciously by J. Kenneth Campbell, a veteran actor of stage and screen with too many credits to fit into the program.
Campbell fills this tough, self-made man with all the contradictions that make Big Daddy one of the most intriguing characters in American theater. One moment he is gentle and tender with his favored son, and the other, harsh and cruel with his faithful wife of 40 years, Big Mama, who is played with humor and compassion by area favorite Barbara Bradshaw. The two, like too many parents, make the mistake of pouring their favor on the talented, but rebellious, golden boy and despising the hard-working and compliant, but boring, one. Preston Dyar plays this first-born "second" son, Gooper, and expertly reveals the pent-up resentment that being second best for years and years has wrought.
Erin Maguire is Mae, Gooper's prolific wife, who is despised by pretty much everyone despite her fertility. Maguire is convincing as that type of Southern woman whose disappointments have led her to develop a petty and vindictive nature, yet, amazingly, she is also very funny.
Adria Vitlar, as Maggie the Cat, is another classic Williams woman, beautiful but growing older, fearful because she doesn't know how to be anything but beautiful to anybody, desperately determined to survive. Vitlar is so beautiful and desperate and damaged, we can't see how Brick could resist her, and yet he does, time and time again, cruelly and completely.
Played wonderfully by Robert Eli, Brick, despite all the pleading and prodding of his wife and father, remains an enigma, growing more and more secretive, despite his words, as he pulls himself further and further into the bottle, trying to forget everything, and everyone, waiting for the "click" that brings oblivion. Seeing Brick self-destruct, along with his family, we see clearly that Tennessee Williams knew what untreatable pain is, knew all about unquenchable desire.
Minor roles in Tennessee Williams' plays are rarely minor, and that is true for this production as well. Scott Treadway as Reverend Tooker reveals the superficiality and hypocrisy of the purely social religious person, and Michael MacCauley as Doctor Baugh proves the adage, "There are no small parts, only small actors."
The set is really a character itself. Designed by James W. Johnson, it is inspired by the ruins of the Windsor plantation, "the biggest plantation home ever built in Mississippi," according to the director's notes. Flanked on all sides by huge, crumbling columns encased in creeping, dying vines, the set is a fitting frame for the languid, tragic death of one Southern family, trapped by greed and, as Brick and Big Daddy will never let us forget — mendacity — "There ain't nothin' more powerful" than that.
Katie Winkler, a member of the Dramatist Guild of America, teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Blue Ridge Community College and is active with the drama department there as an actor, director and writer.
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December 14, 2005
Massachusetts and Connecticut Offer Renewable Energy Funding
Both Massachusetts and Connecticut are currently accepting applications for renewable energy funding. The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) is offering $21 million through its new On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation (DG) Program, which is designed to encourage commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities to install equipment that produces electricity using clean energy technologies. Approved energy sources include fuel cells, certain types of hydropower, and wind, solar, and biomass energy. See the CCEF press release and the Onsite Renewable DG Program Web page.
In contrast, Massachusetts' Renewable Energy Trust is offering financing for the companies that provide such energy technologies or services. The Sustainable Energy Economic Development (SEED) Initiative will provide convertible loans of up to $500,000 to Massachusetts-based companies that provide products or services related to energy from fuel cells, solar cells, hydropower, or biomass, wave, tidal, or wind energy. The loans could also go to companies that are producing products such as inverters, controls, switching equipment, storage, and instrumentation for a specific renewable energy application. Applications are due on January 13th. See the SEED initiative Web page.


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Eagle County Open Space is getting a $4.5 million grant from Great Outdoors Colorado.
Most of the award - $3.96 million - will fund a conservation easement on the 1,017-acre Colorado River Ranch and a purchase of the 288-acre Nottingham property.
"This will preserve 1,305 acres with four miles of Colorado River frontage and 1,245 acres of wildlife habitat, effectively connecting the Flat Tops Wilderness to the Bull Gulch Study Area," said Eagle County Open Space Director Toby Sprunk, who now has quite a feather in his cap after his first year on the job.
The remaining $600,000 of grant money was awarded jointly to Pitkin and Eagle counties for purchase of the Saltonstall parcel near Basalt.
Gov. John Hickenlooper announced the eight recipients of the GOCO grants on Tuesday. There were originally 67 applicants, which were pared down to 17 and then the final eight.
"To be one of the eight winners out of 67 tells you the significance of this project," Sprunk said. "It's a pretty exciting time, I'm thrilled."
The Colorado River Ranch will remain in private ownership and continue operating as a working ranch, producing organic cattle and hay. As part of the deal, Eagle County will be allowed to provide irrevocable and permanent public access to the Colorado River and to the historic Colorado River Ranch schoolhouse, as well as on the boundary to the Bull Gulch Wilderness Study Area.
Commissioner Jon Stavney said the easement on the Colorado River Ranch provides a centerpiece for the county's larger river access plan. While access across the entire ranch will not be open to the public, the county will add improvements at the southern portion of the property with the intent of having it managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
If the project closes as planned, Eagle County will likely complete boat launch improvements in 2013, which Stavney said will provide a badly needed public river access point between Burns and Cottonwood.
"We certainly appreciate the landowner's patience during this process," Stavney said.
The Nottingham property includes 228 acres and two miles of river frontage. It is anticipated the property will be owned by the county and managed by the BLM. Uses being contemplated at the site include primitive camping, fishing and hiking to complement other options available along the Colorado River.
"These are pretty much the final key pieces of the puzzle," Sprunk said. "We're basically done buying property on the Colorado River, though there might be another small one at Derby Junction but that could be years away from happening, if at all. My next focus will be open space in municipal areas."
The Saltonstall property is 145 acres that would provide better access to the "Crown." The Crown is 9,300 acres of BLM land that spans parts of Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties, and includes a network of trails. It is currently most commonly accessed from Prince Creek Road off State Route 133 outside Carbondale. With the Saltonstall property, Basalt residents could bicycle to the Crown from town.
The land is under contract for $5 million and the deal is set to close Oct. 1. Eagle County, Pitkin County, Basalt and the Mid-Valley Trails Committee are all partners in the deal. Eagle County is pledging $2 million and Pitkin County slightly less than $2 million. Basalt is good for $500,000 and MVTC is chipping in $50,000. The original GOCO grant application requested $500,000.
The other projects to win GOCO grants were:
• Poudre River Trail Corridor Improvement Project - $5 million
• Denver South Platte River Vision Implementation Project - $4.6 million
• Plains to Peaks Trail in Clear Creek Canyon - $4.6 million
• Triple Creek Greenway Corridor Project in Aurora - $3.4 million
• Fountain Creek Watershed Trails and Recreation Projects between Colorado Springs and Pueblo - $2.5 million
• Colorado Riverfront Trail Project in Fruita - $2.9 million
• Yampa River Legacy Project in Steamboat Springs - $2.4 million


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Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
2067 U.S. Hwy. 278, SE, Social Circle, GA 30025
(Feb. 8, 2012) ATLANTA -- Gov. Nathan Deal recognized three corporate forest landowners today for their stewardship in land management and practices benefiting the state's wildlife.
Plum Creek, Georgia Power and Wells Timberland were honored by Gov. Deal for participating in the 2011 Forestry for Wildlife Partnership, a program administered by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division. Forestry for Wildlife Partnership is a voluntary program that promotes blending wildlife conservation into corporate forestry practices and offers choices through which landowners build a program compatible with their forest management objectives.
"As Forestry for Wildlife partners, these companies have exhibited their willingness to go beyond industry standards in managing their lands to benefit wildlife," Gov. Deal said. "With more than 90 percent of Georgia's forestland in private ownership, successful wildlife management requires this type of conservation leadership."
DNR Commissioner Mark Williams and DNR Wildlife Resources Division Director Dan Forster joined the presentation at the State Capitol.
Georgia Power, Wells Timberland and Plum Creek have helped improve nearly 974,000 acres for wildlife. The Wildlife Resources Division recognized the three as Forestry for Wildlife Partners for integrating wildlife conservation practices into their forest management programs. Some of the practices included:
• Preparing wildlife conservation plans that detail natural resources inventories and outline management strategies that combine forest and wildlife aspects.
• Providing internal training opportunities for employees on how to blend forestland management with wildlife-friendly practices for multiple natural resource benefits.
• Incorporating wildlife management into land-use planning and timber management practices.
• Providing valuable data for Wildlife Resources Division research projects.
• Providing public recreational opportunities on corporate forestlands.
• Participating in partnerships with conservation organizations.
• Managing riparian forests for wildlife use and water quality protection.
Habitat is the key to wildlife abundance. Georgia has more than 24 million acres of forestland. Of that, more than 90 percent is privately owned. Corporate forest landowners manage about 12 percent.
Georgia Power helped develop the Forestry for Wildlife Partnership in the 1990s and Plum Creek joined in 2004. Last year marked Wells Timberland's first in the program.
Forster welcomed Wells Timberland, saying their involvement underscores both the company's emphasis on achieving conservation objectives and the success of Forestry for Wildlife Partnership.
"Because the vast majority of Georgia's wildlife habitat is found on private lands, it is critically important that we find creative and sustainable ways to partner with private landowners to meet our mission of wildlife conservation," Forster said. "Working with some of Georgia's large corporate landowners through this innovative program provides the most cost-effective scale for us to work on private lands to address important conservation needs."
Efforts benefiting from Forestry for Wildlife include management of endangered red-cockaded woodpecker habitats, bald eagle and swallow-tailed kite nesting, isolated wetlands critical to protected reptiles and amphibians, and rare remnant Coosa Valley prairie and Black Belt prairie habitats containing endangered plants. The partnerships also provide numerous public hunting opportunities.
Among the 2011 partners, Plum Creek used less-intensive site preparations to retain native groundcover and continued working with partners like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect wading bird rookeries; Georgia Power expanded its use of prescribed fire and further developed conservation partnerships with groups such as the Georgia Wildlife Federation; and, Wells Timberland sufficiently thinned pine plantations to allow native understory plants to grow into beneficial wildlife habitat.
All of the conservation enhancement components and reporting procedures are compatible with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc., a voluntary approach in the forest industry to maintain high environmental standards on lands managed by corporate landowners.
Call (770) 761-1697 or go to www.georgiawildlife.com for more information about the Forestry for Wildlife Partnership or other private lands initiatives.
2012 Forestry for Wildlife partners Georgia Power, Plum Creek and Wells Timberland gather with Gov. Deal and DNR leaders at the State Capitol on Feb. 8.
Wells Timberland representatives with Gov. Deal, DNR Commissioner Mark Williams (third from right) and Wildlife Resources Division Director Dan Forster (far right).
Plum Creek representatives with Gov. Deal, Commissioner Williams (left beside the Governor) and Wildlife Resources Division Director Forster (far left).
Georgia Power representatives with the Governor, Commissioner Williams (far left) and Wildlife Resources Division Director Forster (far right).


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Can Russia Maintain Current Oil Production Levels until 2020?
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Uncertainty whether Russia can maintain its high level of oil production continues – 10.7 million b/d in 2012 to date on average. A new more benign tax regime that has recently been put in place and significant industry investments may plausibly enable the Russian Bear to extend its "plateau production" to 2020.
The post below outlines how this impressive achievement has been made possible, given that the decline of existing production is plausibly 6% or more every year for most old giant fields in West Siberia. In other words, the Russian oil industry needs to invest substantially in pushing more oil from existing fields (lowering decline rates) and new field developments to keep production steady.
How long production levels can be maintained beyond 2020 is a difficult question, and one that I have left to answer another day. A view of ongoing developments and things to come up to 2020 is available below the fold.
This post was informed by a presentation by TNK-BP's Oleg Mikhailov held at the unconventional gas conference 27-28 November in Aberdeen, with additional information from investor presentations of major Russian oil companies, a few peer-review studies, and a recent study on the Russian Oil & Gas Sector by Wojciek Kononczuk of the Center of Eastern Studies in Warsaw which I recommend reading.
Although TNK-BP recently became a part of Rosneft, making Rosneft the biggest oil company in the world, (see investor presentation) it will be referred here as TNK-BP.
The current state of Russia's oil production
The background of Russian oil production is a story of rapid increase from 3 million in the 1960s to an enduring plateau ±11 mb/d in the 1980s, a rapid drop to 6 mb/d in mid-1990s due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, followed by a revival as investment began flowing again.
Figure 1 – Russian and former FSU oil production Jan 2002 to Oct 2012, including condensates and NGL. Datasource: IEA
Today Russia is at the point where the production output of many older giant oilfields in West Siberia is declining. It is not an easy job to maintain production given the maturity of these reservoirs. Significant continued investment is required in more difficult to produce reservoirs in West-Siberia itself, in more costly techniques to pour more oil out of mature fields, and in new regions. Thereby costs are driven up due to increasing distance (infrastructure needs), harsher climate, and more challenging reservoirs. To enable investment, favourable financial and oil price conditions are required.
Table 1 – shares of Russian regions in oil production in 2010. Source Wojciek Kononczuk 2012
Figure 2 – map of Russian oil production. Source: Wojciek Kononczuk 2012
Keeping West Siberian declines in check
Related Article: Three Dilemmas Awaiting OPEC in the Future
To ensure continued high flow rates, a lot of investment is being made by the industry in venturing into remote oil regions and difficult reservoirs to keep production flowing. In the words of Mikhailov, "We are relying more and more on either tight reservoirs or even venturing into unconventional and shale type plays." Two key developments, investment in difficult reservoirs and tax regime changes, show that the industry and government are indeed making a substantial effort.
The industry has focused development in mature regions on what is called "challenged reserves" (TNK-BP now Rosneft) or"Hard to Recover reserves" (Gazprom Neft) which were previously uneconomic. These can be classified into various categories including:
• Low permeability formations with highly irregular reservoir properties
• Under saturated reservoirs in low-permeability reservoir rocks
• High-viscosity oil deposits with gas caps
• Remaining oil reserves in high water cut fields
• Unconventional reservoir rocks
• Thin reservoirs (couple of meters thick)
To recover more oil from these poor quality reservoirs, a range of technologies is deployed combining multiple leg horizontal drilling, multi-stage hydrofracking, and other technologies. TNK-BP alone has about 10 billion of technically recoverable resources in such fields, and is targeted to exploit 4.5 billion of these under its new "challenged reserves" recovery program, which focuses on 7 development projects. To give an order of magnitude, TNK-BP was the third biggest oil producer in Russia, and total Russian annual oil production is equal to approx. 3.8 billion barrels.
The combination of these technologies with brute drilling force (many wells with lots of rigs in use) is what allows production in West Siberia to not decline as rapidly as would otherwise be the case. To make this happen, technical expertise is drawn from service companies like Halliburton and Schlumberger by TNK-BP, and joint ventures with players like ExxonMobil and Statoil by other players. "TNK-BP had 130 multi-stage fracking operations versus 15 last year, and going forward need to do 1000 well drilling operations or even more per year to access these reserves. Such drilling requires 30%-40% growth in drilling activity. A factor of 5 – 10 for multi-stage operations. We need contractors to invest in this equipment. To expedite this we are working with key oilfield service providers Schlumberger, Halliburton and others," as stated by Mikhailov. For an example of such projects, here is an interesting news item with quantitative bits on the Severo-Khokhryakovskoe field being developed by TNK-BP and Schlumberger.
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Monday, Feb. 6 • 8 p.m. ET
Tiger Arena (6,000) • Savannah, Ga.
RADIO: NewsRadio 1360 AM KKTX (Steven King)/GoIslanders.com
LIVE STATS: SSUAthletics.com
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will conclude its week-long road trip with a Monday night game at Savannah State in Tiger Arena. The game will be the second of a doubleheader with the women's team playing Longwood, with that contest slated for a 6 p.m. tipoff. Start time for the men's game is tentatively set for 8 p.m. Steven King will have the call of the game on NewsRadio 1360 KKTX and GoIslanders.com.
The Islanders have dropped three straight games and currently sit 3-7 and on the edge of the Southland Conference Tournament. Their last time out, A&M - Corpus Christi lost a tough contest to Northwestern State in Natchitoches, falling 82-68. Chris Hawkins-Mast had one of his finest games as an Islander, dropping 21 points and snaring 16 boards in the loss.
Savannah State is 13-10 overall and 7-2 in conference play. The Tigers have won five and a row and eight of their last nine. The team has been particularly difficult in Tiger Arena, holding a 9-1 record in the building.
• Chris Hawkins-Mast is coming off one of his best games in an Islanders uniform with 21 points and a career-best 16 boards at Northwestern State. The 16 rebounds were the most for an Islander since Demond Watt had 16 against Texas A&M last year.
• Terence Jones has three 20-point games in his last four and has averaged 23 points over that span. He is 30-for-60 overall, 13-of-26 from downtown and 19-for-23 from the stripe.
• A&M – Corpus Christi has seen strong improvement at the free-throw line over the last six games. The Islanders have shot .667 at the stripe over that string, in contrast to a .575 mark prior to the UTA contest.
• Jason Smith had a career-best 12 points at Northwestern State, going 4-of-8 from the field.
• Texas A&M – Corpus Christi has overcome large second-half deficits in each of its last two wins. The Islanders came back from down 16 points (40-24) with 15 minutes left against Sam Houston, and rallied from a 10-point deficit (58-48) with 10 remaining against Texas State.
• Freshman Johnathan Jordan is poised to have an opportunity to break the school record for assists (Brian Evans, 132 in 2002-03). He leads the league with 4.4 assists per game and is on pace for 132.
Savannah State has had a strong season under Horace Broadnax, going 13-10 despite playing one of the toughest non-conference schedules in Division I basketball. After a 1-5 mark out of the gate, SSU has gone 12-5 since then, with losses to Arkansas, Georgia Tech and Wisconsin among those five.
Rashad Hassan leads the team with her 13.0 points per game, while Deric Rudolph has also averaged in double figures with 11 points. Arnold Louis has been the primary force inside with 9.3 points and 8.3 rebounds each time out.
Chris Hawkins-Mast scored 21 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds, but Northwestern State outdueled the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team in an 82-68 victory on Saturday at Prather Coliseum. Terence Jones added 21 points and Jason Smith had a career-best 12 in a losing effort.
Louis Ellis led the way with 17 points for the Demons (14-9, 7-2 Southland), who maintained their hold on first place on the East Division of the conference with the win. Shamir Davis (15) and James Hulbin (14) finished in double figures as well. William Mosley had nine boards and four blocks for NSU. The Islanders won the battle of the boards, 41-34.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi holds an 8-2 edge in the all-time series against the Tigers, with many of the 10 contests coming when the schools were both independents. The Islanders are 4-1 both at home and on the road against Savannah State, but have fallen in each of the last two meetings, including a stunning 63-57 overtime defeat at the American Bank Center on Feb. 7 of last year. The last trip to Savannah resulted in a 47-42 defeat in 2008.
The Islanders are wrapping up quite a journey over the past week, as this is the final of three road games over a span of six days. It is also the beginning of a stretch where they play five of six and seven of nine away from the Coastal Bend.
The Islanders will cover 2,178 air miles in addition to 500-plus miles of bus travel (mostly between Thibodaux and Natchitoches) during this trip. This road swing rivals the Islanders' ventures in the Las Vegas Classic, with four games in seven days.
Junior Terence Jones had delivered some big games this year, but against Texas State, he shifted into another gear. Playing in front of his son (Terence III) for the first time in Corpus Christi, the elder Terence netted a career-high 33 points on 9-of-18 shooting and 13-of-14 from the free-throw line.
The 33 points were the most by an Islanders player since Kevin Palmer scored 35 against UT Arlington on March 12, 2009, in the Southland Conference Tournament. Most impressive was the manner in which he scored his 33, as he did much of his damage on the drive as opposed to from the outside. He went 7-for-11 inside the arc and also used his drive to get to the stripe, where he came up just three FT shy of the school record.
He showed it was no fluke in the Stephen F. Austin contest, posting another 9-for-18 performance in which he scored 20 points. He added 21 at Northwestern State, going 5-of-7 from the outside, for his fourth 20-point outing of the season and the fifth of his career. He now sits in sixth in the conference at 14.4 points per contest.
Jones now has 128 career threes, putting him fourth in Islanders lore. He is still over 40 away from the school record. Here is the all-time list in the category:
Senior Chris Hawkins-Mast has had an interesting senior season. An electric player, Hawkins-Mast has still been overshadowed by Terence Jones, but in many cases he has put up strong, consistent numbers.
He got his first standout performance against Texas State on Jan. 25, notching his first career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds. His runner in the lane gave the Islanders a 69-68 lead they would not relinquish in the closing minutes. He also grabbed a defensive rebound with the Islanders holding a 71-68 lead shortly thereafter.
His last contest was even better, as he went 9-of-18 from the field for 21 points and snared a career-best 16 rebounds, the most since Demond Watt had 16 against Texas A&M last year. He now has two double-doubles in his last four games and is averaging 14.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in that span.
On the season, the Washington, D.C. native is second on the team in both scoring (12.2) and rebounds (5.7). He has a tremendous ability to get to the rim, and has now taken over the team lead in points in the paint, with 154 on the season. He is 84-of-185 (.454) on two-point shots this year.


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Exa Showcase : customers testimony
By Eric Bezille-Oracle on mars 11, 2013
In my last blog entry, I shared with you some quick videos illustrating our strategy to simplify IT. To move from videos to reality, if you are in Paris, on March 21st, I invite you to register (here) to an event where Oracle Engineered Systems / Exa* customers will share their results. You will have the opportunity to listen and ask questions to :
- Elizabeth Rabet,VP IT Finance, Capgemini
- Eric Minet, CTO, Lyreco
- Stéphane Hamy, Responsable MCO SI, Cofely France
If you are running your ERP on SAP like Lyreco, have a big Data-warehouse to optimize like Capgemini or relying on modernizing your FORMS & REPORTS applications like Cofely, I am sure you will get very interesting feedbacks.


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Former Vandebilt Catholic standout Brady Domangue, a pitcher for LSU-Eunice, allowed seven hits and struck out 11 batters in eight innings on Thursday night, but LSU-Eunice fell to Baton Rouge Community College, 2-1.
Both runs were unearned.
LSU-Eunice is now 31-4, and Domangue is 8-1 with a 1.05 ERA, 70 strikeouts and 19 walks. He is an LSU signee.
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Those who know me know my two grand passions: cake with buttercream frosting and the "Gilmore Girls."
Currently, I'm watching season two on DVD.
For those who don't know about the "Gilmore Girls," it's a now-canceled TV series about a single mother and her teenage daughter who live in Stars Hollow, a quirky little town outside Hartford, Conn. The mother, Lorelai Gilmore, is young, gorgeous, witty, talks a mile a minute, loves movies and TV and eats like a horse.
Chief Justice John Minton Jr. spoke on March 29 at Campbellsville First United Methodist Church on the subject that all Christians are called to ministry within their communities and the world according to their particular skills and gifts. Several from the Taylor County Bar Association and others within the justice system were in the audience.
Campbellsville Baptist Church will host a four-week sermon and Bible study on Sunday mornings beginning this Sunday.
During the difficult financial times, lay-offs, unemployment and pay reductions, most are trying to decide which bills will go unpaid.
The sermon series "It's a New Day" aims to promote financial freedom.
Each Sunday will feature a different topic:
May 3 - Who's in control? - God's responsibilities and our responsibilities.
May 10 - Giving back - Investing for eternity.
My daughter, Alison, is still laughing. Her 7-year-old daughter, Caroline, was out on the deck the other day hollering to her friends, "Yo! What up, homies?"
Alison said she was both horrified and amused. "I don't remember giving birth to a gangsta," she said.
I reminded her of the time we walked to her elementary school to see who her first grade teacher would be that year. The lists weren't posted yet and she shook her head and said, "What a bummer."
Spurlington United Methodist Church and its women's group have supported Taylor County Preschool with continuous donations. The group has given snacks to the classes for several months as well as provided Christmas presents and lunch for one class. Pictured are, from left, Linda Hamilton, Mary Hare, Sharon Feese, Margaret Sapp, Debbie Wentworth and Sandy Hodges.
Taylor County Ministerial Association will host its annual celebration of National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 7.
All members of the community are invited to join together for a time of prayer for our homes, state and nation at Campbellsville University's Winters Dining Hall.
The annual prayer breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. and will feature Pastor Mikie Ash of Mount Union Baptist Church in Green County.
Those planning to attend the breakfast should contact Pastor Michael Caldwell at 469-3929, as seating is limited.
Campbellsville Christian Church will continue its 125th anniversary celebration on Sunday, April 26 with "Focus on the Past."
Services begin at 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m. and will feature a worship pattern from the 1950s.
Guest speaker for the day will be former minister Paul W. Patton, who will present the first person portrayal of Alexander Campbell.
Truly, when God created the 24-hour day he did not factor in blogging.
There's got to be trillions of people who detail their every thought, word and deed and breakfast item (complete with photos) on their blog ("Web log," an online diary of sorts).
About 85 local students will go without food and sleep in a cardboard box this weekend.
According to Dave Collie, youth minister at Campbellsville Baptist Church, 26,000 children die all over the world every day from hunger-related issues.
"That is 300 school buses of children every day."
The 30-Hour Famine event will begin Friday at 7 a.m. and continue through noon on Saturday. Churches involved are Campbellsville Baptist, Living Grace and First Church of God.
I can honestly say it was the best gefilte fish I ever ate, mainly because I'd never eaten any before.
"Gefilte" sounds tastier than "ground up raw fish mixed with eggs, onions and matzoh meal then stuffed into the skin of a de-boned fish and poached."
I ate it as part of a Passover Seder as a guest of Congregation Beth Sholom Jewish Synagogue in Beverly Hills, Fla.
Besides gefilte fish with purple horseradish on top, I ate parsley dipped in salt water, washed my hands symbolically several times, drank four cups of wine and sang in Hebrew.
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Augusta Technical College is one step closer to breaking ground in Columbia County. The school just received more money for a new campus. News 12 is on your side with what the money is for and how it will help hundreds of students get an education.
Thirty-four acres of farmland and $1.2 million closer to bringing students to the croaking frogs.
"There's an administration pod, there's an industrial pod, a classroom pod," said Mr. Terry Elam, President, Augusta Tech.
Augusta Tech is working on its final plan before setting up shop. Since 2000, the school has received more than $5 million from the governor's office, money for design and construction. The most recent dollars will be for furniture and equipment.
"It will be for computer labs, labs for industry, this money will be used to buy equipment for training," Elam said.
The groundbreaking for Columbia County's campus will come sometime later this year. The school will cover 22,000 square feet of this property and hold 400 students.
President Terry Elam says the plot of land along Horizon South Parkway near Grovetown is needed.
"We don't have a permanent literacy site in Columbia County. We have a site that's given to us by a church, but obviously we need to have our own," Elam said.
Not only will there be adult literacy classes, but welding, business classes and technical education. There are also programs that won't be at the other campuses.
Three weeks into class at the Augusta campus, Rose Kizziar knows students will find their perfect fit.
"Augusta Tech just happened to fulfill all of my needs. I can come to school anytime day or night, there's weekend tutoring, and all the teachers are more than welcome to help you if you need anything," Kizziar said.
For Seattle to the south for Rose, but for some here, an education may just be in their backyard.
All that's left now is money to pay the staff. Augusta Tech also has campuses in Thomson and Waynesboro. Columbia County's campus should be open in 2008.


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LegalZoom Gets in the Ring with Rocket Lawyer
Online legal documents company LegalZoom.com Inc. is suing one of its rivals Google-backed Rocket Lawyer Inc., over alleged violations of Federal Trade Commission guidelines and what it calls unfair business tactics "for the purpose of injuring LegalZoom."
"We think the claims are completely frivolous," Charley Moore, Rocket Lawyer's founder and Executive Chairman, said on Tuesday. "It's simply an attack on their fastest-growing competitor."
The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in California, comes as Rocket Lawyer is poised to expand into the U.K.
LegalZoom declined to comment on the suit. A spokesman provided this statement: "The complaint seeks to stop Rocket Lawyer from misusing the term "free" in its advertisements and promotions. It is bad for consumers and bad for the industry. . . The FTC has guidelines around the term "free" and we believe RocketLawyer ignores them."
LegalZoom's suit says that Rocket Lawyer misleads customers by describing some services—such as incorporating a business—as "free" when users must still pay state filing fees or subscribe to a membership plan in order to access the service.
LegalZoom also accuses its rival of trademark infringement and unfair competition because, among other allegations, Rocket Lawyer allegedly registered internet domain names such as www.legalzoomgadget.com that it says are "confusingly similar" to the company's trademarks.
Both companies offer low-cost legal services for small business and consumers by providing legal documents for routine transactions and, increasingly, access to local attorneys through pre-paid legal service plans.
Founded 12 years ago, LegalZoom sells personalized legal documents—wills starting at $69, trademark registrations for $169, plus government filing fees—and has filed for an IPO with the SEC that could raise as much as $120 million. Over the years it has itself been the subject of lawsuits, mainly ones accusing the company of the unauthorized practice of law.
LegalZoom also now offers prepaid legal plans for small businesses and consumers.
Rocket Lawyer opened up shop in 2008 with a slightly different model: give customers the forms for free and then offer additional legal guidance via pre-paid legal plans that cost anywhere from $9.99 to $39.95 per month.
"It's only because of Rocket Lawyer's growth that it [LegalZoom] is relying on litigation rather than innovation to compete," said Mr. Moore.


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DALY CITY -- Michelle Wie sounds as if she's ready for the next chapter in her compelling story.
A one-time teen sensation who burst onto the national stage at age 10, Wie will tee it off Thursday in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at Lake Merced Golf Club riding a wave of positive emotions.
She's fresh off her first LPGA Tour victory in four years, in her home state of Hawaii.
Now, Wie, 24, finds herself at her "second home," the Bay Area, along with her Stanford pals and fellow members of "Nerd Nation." She graduated from Stanford in 2012, majoring in mass communication.
"I think the best five years of my life were spent here in the Bay Area," Wie said. "I met so many great people here. I just absolutely fell in love with the area, just the culture of San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose. It's amazing."
She visited The Farm on Monday after catching a red-eye flight from Hawaii and taking a quick nap. She hung out at the golf and football facilities, even chatting with Cardinal football coaches about recruits.
"It was amazing. I was overwhelmed with emotion," she of the trip. "Wanted to hug every single freshman I saw because I wanted to be them."
The $1.8 million, 72-hole Swinging Skirts tour event, partnered with a Taiwan-based Swinging Skirts Golf Team, is filling a void left when the LPGA stop at Blackhawk Country Club ended in 2010 after a five-year run.
The new event boasts a stout field that includes 18 of the world's top 19 ranked players, among them Pleasanton native Paula Creamer, world No. 1 Inbee Park, Hall of Famer Juli Inkster of Los Altos and Wie, who leads the 2014 money list with $616,555 in earnings.
Perhaps Wie's golf game is finally catching up with her fame. She has a new tabletop putting style and seemingly a firm grip on her career.
Wie leads the tour in scoring average (69.57) and greens in regulation (81 percent). She placed second in the Kraft Nabisco Championship on April 6 and last week won the LPGA Lotte Championship by rallying from four shots back to beat Angela Stanford with a final-round 67.
"She has every shot in the bag," world No. 2 Suzann Pettersen said of Wie. "She's very talented. She seems very comfortable with her putting these days, which has kind of been her hurdle for years. Great to see her succeed."
Even still, Pettersen, thinks Wie should have won more by now.
"If you ask me, Michelle has underachieved," Pettersen said. "She's way better than what she's performed up to this date, since she joined the tour."
Wie's story has taken many twists and turns.
Injuries and putting issues have helped account for just three career tour titles, hardly the kind of production one expected from a prodigy who competed against men at least five times before her 16th birthday. At 14, she missed the cut by one shot at the 2004 Sony Open.
During her struggles, which included a 79-tournament LPGA winless streak, Wie was often treated as if she were a cautionary tale of a phenom who got too much, too soon. Some even questioned her decision to go to college during her career, but Wie cherished her time at Stanford.
"I'm so proud that I'm a Stanford grad," she said. "I really believe that we are a bunch of nerds, but at the same time I think we're kind of cool. No, I don't think so. Yeah, they are cool. I don't know if I am."
Pettersen applauded Wie's decision to go to Stanford.
"Michelle is a smart girl," Pettersen said. "Not that many girls out here that have completed four solid years at Stanford while playing golf on the LPGA. That takes a huge effort. For her to finally concentrate on golf full time has helped her golf."
Clearly, Wie believes the journey has led her to the right place.
"Everything that happens to someone makes them who they are," she said. "I don't try to be perfect. I make mistakes. I'm really grateful for all the ups and downs I've had. I really feel like that's what makes me who I am today."


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1. BUSTED BRACKET: The way the NCAA tournament has played out so far, it's anyone's guess which team will raise the championship trophy on June 25 or 26. Only three of the eight national seeds reached the CWS—No. 1 North Carolina, No. 3 Oregon State and No. 4 LSU. That's tied for the fewest since the NCAA went to the current tournament structure in 1999. The five other teams that made it to Omaha won super regionals on the road, the most ever.
2. PRIDE OF THE BIG TEN: No pressure, Indiana, but it's been awhile—three decades, actually—since the Big Ten has made it this far. The 1984 Michigan Wolverines were the last Big Ten team in the CWS, but the conference hasn't won a game in Omaha since the Wolverines beat Stanford 11-4 in 1983. The last Big Ten national champion? Ohio State in 1966.
3. BEAVERS ON A ROLL: Oregon State's top three starters have done all that's been asked of them and more. Andrew Moore, Matt Boyd and Ben Wetzler have combined to go 33-5, and they've pitched six innings or more in 35 of their 47 starts.
4. BULLDOGS, BY A WHISKER: In his first 22 years as a head coach, Mississippi State's John Cohen required players to be clean shaven. Sophomore pitcher Trevor Fitts convinced Cohen to ease the facial-hair ban after giving him a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation that showed all the baseball greats who sported beards and mustaches. Given the green light, about a dozen players put away their razors, and the Bulldogs rolled off 17 straight wins to start the season and reached the CWS for the first time since 2007.
5. NOT SO BRAWNY BRUINS: UCLA comes to Omaha batting .251, ranking 253rd out of 296 Division I teams. No team in the last decade has made it to the CWS with a lower average. In fact, no other CWS team over that span has come in batting lower than .271. Pitching and defense are what it's about for the Bruins, who are 15-2 in one-run games and 34-1 when allowing the opponent three runs or fewer.
6. STRONG-ARMED RODON: North Carolina State's Carlos Rodon's nation-leading strikeout numbers are impressive, but so is his ability to keep on dealing when other pitchers would have called it a day. The burly left-hander has started 17 games, tied for most in the nation, and has thrown 104 or more pitches in 12 of them. He's gone over 125 in six games, including his season high-matching 133 against Rice last Saturday.
7. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THIS GUY: North Carolina's Cody Stubbs can't escape the shadows of two teammates—No. 6 overall draft pick Colin Moran (Marlins) and third-round pick Kent Emanuel (Astros). Fact is, Stubbs would be the biggest star on most other teams. The senior first baseman, taken by the Royals in the third round, is batting a team-leading .366 and is third nationally with 76 RBIs and fourth with 26 doubles.
8. HIT ME ONE MORE TIME: Louisville sure does have a knack for getting smacked by baseballs. The Cardinals have been hit by pitches a nation-leading 128 times. Few players have been beaned as often as Coco Johnson. The Cards' cleanup hitter has been hit 23 times, including twice in Sunday's super regional-clinching win over Vanderbilt. It didn't seem to bother him. He reached base four times.
9. SLICK-FIELDING TIGERS: LSU's .980 fielding percentage is best among CWS teams and fifth-best in the country, but the Tigers are just .964 in five NCAA tournament games. Most of the sloppy play occurred in one regional game, against Sam Houston State. LSU committed five errors that day, almost 10 percent of its season total of 51. The Tigers made just one error in their super regional against Oklahoma.
10. INSTANT REPLAY: The situations where CWS umpires can use video replay have been expanded to include balls hit down an outfield line to determine if they're fair or foul. Last year, instant replay was approved at the CWS for the first time and was limited to reviewing whether a batted ball cleared the fence, went foul or whether a fan had interfered. No plays were reviewed in 2012.


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Pocono Mountain Regional Police are still investigating the murders last week of two Stroud Township men found shot to death in Coolbaugh Township.
"We're continuing to follow leads and examine evidence," Police Chief Harry Lewis said.
An officer on patrol found the bodies of Bertoldo Velez, 55, and Joseph King Jr., 38, both of Penn Estates, early Friday morning in the parking area of Coolbaugh Township Park off Route 423, across from Tobyhanna Army Depot.
King was in the front passenger seat of Velez's 1997 Chevy Cavalier, while Velez was lying on the ground beside the car. Both men had been shot multiple times and an autopsy on Velez later revealed he had been smashed in the head with a rock, said Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen.
Allen said all bullet casings found at the scene came from a .45-caliber handgun and estimated the men had been killed sometime late Thursday night.
Both men were neighbors and worked at United Envelope, which makes envelopes, in Mount Pocono. Velez bundled waste paper while King, who had just become the father of a weeks-old baby, operated a forklift truck handling materials.
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Pocono residents and local officials turned the spotlight on Met-Ed during a Thursday evening forum addressing the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.
"If they gave me a chance to choose my electric provider, I'd drop Met-Ed like a lead balloon and go to PPL," said Stroud Township resident Bruce Samson, who was without power for a week following the storm.
Saw Creek Estates resident Kristina Newman, also in the dark for a week, said she felt the power company's preparations before the storm were "abysmal."
"Your customer service agents knew nothing about the storm or what wires were down and when power would be restored," Newman said, addressing the panel of local officials and state representatives who came to hear residents' gripes.
Bushkill resident Joe Meehan lost $350 worth of food and had to stay at a hotel when the temperature inside his house dropped to about 44 degrees. His power was also out for a week.
"Did the power company really look at the worst possible scenario," he asked.
The meeting at Fernwood Resort in Bushkill was attended by Chairman Robert Powelson and other representatives of the state Public Utility Commission, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and utility company representatives. It was organized by State Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20.
For more on Thursday night's meeting, check back at PoconoRecord.com and read Friday's Pocono Record.
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Still six months to go until the birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's bundle of joy, but already E! network execs are rubbing their hands in giddy anticipation.
"Kim and Kanye are an incredibly dynamic couple, and their baby news is just so exciting," network president Suzanne Kolb said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
In other words, bring on the ratings boost.
"Like so many Kardashian fans, we love it when this close-knit family gets even bigger," Kolb added.
Exploitation equals money, right?
"We look forward to sharing the joy as they prepare for more diapers, more bottle and without a doubt, more fabulous baby wear."
Ah yes, you can never have too much of the Kardashians.
Hollywood Reporter also reports that the network "will continue to cover all aspects of Kim's life as it always has."
Does that mean cameras in the delivery room?
West announced Kardashian's pregnancy during his concert on Dec. 30. The couple has dated publicly since April, six months after Kardashian split from husband Kris Humphries. The Kardashian-Humphries divorce is still pending.


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Stream flow, reservoir levels debated; comments accepted until Feb. 27
The Reservation's fish and farmers all need water to survive. In years when there isn't enough of the wet stuff to go around - which will probably be the case in 1987, thanks to an exceptionally dry winter -- whose needs will be filled first? Can the resource be managed so all water users are satisfied? If so, how?
Those were some of the questions
on people's minds two weeks ago when the Bureau of Indian Affairs' proposed 1987 interim stream flow levels were discussed at a series of five public hearings.
The hearings were a result of a court order prohibiting the BIA from implementing any water management
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Using "the best data available", in the words of Wyman Babby, the Flathead Agency superintendent, the plan attempts to address the summer water needs of the Reservation's fisheries and irrigators.
Interested individuals are strongly encouraged to read the proposal, which was released to the public Jan. 30, and submit written comments by 4:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 27. (Copies of the plan are available from Jim Claar at the BIA in Pablo.)
Send comments to: BIA Superintendent, Drawer A, Pablo, MT 59855.
plan that doesn't consider the rights of all interested parties. The court order was itself a result of a lawsuit filed last summer by a group of non- Indian irrigators who said they weren't consulted when alleged harmful-to-farming minimum stream flows were proposed.
BIA Flathead Agency superinten-. dent Wyman Babby conducted the hearings, which went beyond the usual procedures for public hearings. His introductory remarks were followed by technical presentations by irrigation and fisheries experts. An hour of off-the-record questioning-and-answering between individuals and a variety of BIA employees (from the local agency as well as from both the Portland and Billings area offices), was followed by on-the-record comments from a number of speakers.
Reports from those who attended the Arlee, Charlo and St. Ignatius meetings say those meetings were lively and spirited, with non-Indian irrigators easily outnumbering Indians or pro-fisheries speakers.
The Feb. 12 meeting in Pablo was less eventful (as was the Hot Springs gathering the following evening, according to sources). Testifying in behalf of Tribal interests was Tribal Council vice-chairman Ron Therriault. He first pointed out that the BIA hadn't drafted an interim water management plan, as it believes, but rather an interim in-stream flow plan. He said the Tribes supports the concept of a
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SPARTANBURG, SC-- Mrs. Bobbie Dale Coates Dill, 71, of 120 Leawood Drive, Spartanburg, SC, died Wednesday, February 13th, 2013, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home.
Born March 9th 1941, a daughter of the late Luther "Bill" Coates and Ruth Loving Coates Stuard. Mrs. Dill had retired from Smith Drugs #2 in Spartanburg, and was a long standing member of her beloved Church, Croft Baptist Church, were she held many positions over the years. She considered her Church Family to be Gods Richest Blessings and had many Blessed friends.
Survivors include one son, Jimmy L. Dill of Spartanburg; two daughters, Pamela Gail Allen of Spartanburg and Laura E. Howell (Tommy) of Union; one brother, Joel Christopher "Butch" Coates (Dana) of Virginia; one sister, Nadine Brown of Florida; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and her former husband, Jimmy E. Dill.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Jimmy Coates and Rev. Larry Coates; and one sister, Dixie Coates.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 16th, 2013, at 4pm at Croft Baptist Church with Reverend Joe Dempsey officiating. Interment will follow at Glendale Cemetery.
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In Lieu of flowers, the family request memorials to be made to Spartanburg Regional Hospice, 686 Jeff Davis Dr., Spartanburg, SC 29303, or Croft Baptist Church, 4190 E. Croft Circle, Spartanburg, SC 29302.
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- PC Interface
- HDCP Compatible
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- Dimensions
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TV Tuner
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I upgraded my old Sony one with this LG TV. It has everything i need: passive 3D feature, smart feature, great design, nice sound, stunning picture quality... plus I found the price very reasonable. Overall, 100% satisfied.
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I think this is the perfect size for anbody's bedroom. My wife is really pleased with this TV. The price and quality matched really well. She likes how the home dashboard interacts with the magic motion remote. We love watching movies 3d at night. I thought 3d only looked good on the big screen TVs.
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Reviewed by andrew. Review Posted 31/07/2012
I don't understand people who buy active 3d TV for only a 32 inch TV. Passive is always the preferable method to choose. I love the cinema 3d from LG. The motion is brought out to life with strong contrast and deep black level. I recommend anyone looking for a Smart TV for a great price.
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Roger showed a terrifc display against Andy Murray today, capturing his 4th Australian Open and 16th grand slam title 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(11).
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Modern history is riddled with examples of respectable populations harboring criminal subpopulations: Sicilians and the mob, Chicagoans and rum runners, abolitionists and the underground railroad.
But when it comes to collective criminal complicity in 2012, Durango�s dog owners are surpassed perhaps only by the evasive taxpayers of Greece.
Durango Police Department Lt. Ray Shupe said police regularly issue citations to people who refuse to leash their dogs while walking in public. John Patla, director of La Plata County Animal Control, said officers typically issue five $45 tickets a week to Durangoans who let their dogs roam the town unattended, like animals.
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Albertsons, north City Market, and Natural Grocers likewise said � excepting service animals � dogs were absolutely forbidden from their premises.
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Though the health department�s Schaub said dogs� proximity to food posed obvious public-health risks, she noted that big chain grocery stores are in a legal bind: They risk civil penalties if they break health codes, but if they turn away legitimate service animals, they risk violating the Americans with Disabilities Act � and, therefore, costly lawsuits.
Lija Day, Colorado Service Dogs� executive director, said: �You can�t tell someone who�s disabled �don�t bring in your service dog.� It�s like taking their wheelchair and making them crawl across the floor. The dog is medical equipment.
�According to federal law, all store managers can ask is: �Is that a service dog?� That�s it. No certification is necessary,� Day said. �Unfortunately, people abuse this to get their nonservice dogs into stores.�
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Other than dogs, only Capuchin monkeys and miniature horses are officially sanctioned service animals in the United States.
Riverview Animal Hospital�s Dr. Stacee Santi said dogs� stature in human society is deservedly unique.
�Cats might serve a therapeutic purpose, but you can�t really make a cat do anything. Animals like snakes, lobsters � they�re not capable of loving you back. And while monkeys, elephants and even giraffes might be trained as companion animals, there�s an access issue.
�Where dogs are especially apt to service humans: They�re kind-natured, trainable and loving � in a way that�s unmatched by anything on the planet, service dog or not. There�s just different rules for dogs,� Santi said.
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Local restaurants have gotten on all fours finding ways to legally gratify Durango�s dogs � and their incorrigible owners.
Steaming Bean supplies dogs with complimentary water bowls. Mallory Nicklas, of Guido�s, said dogs are welcome on the patio.
�Sometimes it�s like a nice little puppy party out there,� she said.
Other businesses can show dogs even more hospitality. 6th Street Liquor invites dogs to come in.
�After all, nothing�s more �Durango� than dogs � except maybe beer,� employee Charlie Fox said.
FLC student Sullivan recalled he once brought his dog Kenny into the Smoke Shop on Main Avenue.
�Kenny just took a big (fecal liberty ) right on their floor. The guys at the Smoke Shop dealt! They still let dogs in. It�s a big reason I�m still here. We�re such a huge dog town,� Sullivan said.


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