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SAN JOSE -- The 195-pound match at the Central Coast Section wrestling finals was an all-football player affair with a couple of running backs squaring off at Independence High School.
Archbishop Mitty's Chandler Ramirez, the No. 2 seed, defeated Sean Lydster of Gunn, who was unseeded, 7-4.
"When I came in to school life I was just football, football, football,'' Ramirez said. "My freshman football coach (Chris Curry) was also the wrestling coach. He got me started wrestling. I loved it ever since. I don't know, there could be a future here.''
Lydster and Ramirez were both standout fullbacks and linebackers during football season. Lydster pulled a big surprise Saturday making it to the championship match.
"He's just a very good athlete,'' Gunn coach Chris Horpel said. "He has a small bag of tricks, but he made them work again and again. He got his body and mind all in sync. If we can fix a couple of technical things he could do some damage at state.''
South San Francisco's Arthur Georgiyev won the 182-pound title, 7-3 over Monterey's Jacob Golden.
"Coming in my freshman year my coach said to stay with it and become a champion,'' Georgiyev said. "I stuck with it. Hard work pays off. Winning a championship is just amazing. No one can take it away from you.''
Saratoga junior Graham Grant won the 220-pound title with a pin in the second round.
"This is exactly what I wanted, I'm really happy,'' Grant said. "It was really good for getting me ready for state. I'm hoping to place if everything goes right.''
Live Oak's Isaiah Locsin barely got in a workout before ending his 120-pound match with Sean Summers of St. Francis in 55 seconds on a pin.
"He's a great opponent and great friend,'' Locsin said of Summers. "In the offseason he helps get me in shape.''
It was the third consecutive CCS championship for Locsin, who will attempt to defend the state championship he won last year as a sophomore.
"I just want to say thanks to my teammates for making wrestling such a fun experience,'' Locsin said.
In the most closely-contested match of the evening, Riordan senior Elijah Davis battled defending state champion Nikko Villareal of Gilroy to a 1-1 tie through two overtime periods. In the third overtime, Villareal took a 2-1 lead with 8.9 seconds left on a point awarded for a technical violation on Davis, who then chose to assume a neutral, standing position in the hopes of getting a takedown. That choice gave Villareal another point. Villareal was then penalized a point for stalling, but still emerged with a 3-2 victory.
Gilroy, with four individual champions, won its 11th consecutive team title. The Mustangs scored 210 points. Palma was second (142.5), followed by Alisal (125), St. Francis (110), Mitty (108.5) and Gunn (106).
Mitty's Shane Triantos, a No. 6 seed, reached the 145-pound final, but then ran into defending champion Zac Contreras of Riordan, who defeated Triantos 24-9.
Pioneer had two No. 2 seeds who reached the finals -- John Sinclair at 152 and Grant Biral at 160. Both lost but advance to the state meet as second-place finishers.
"Having two kids in the finals, I don't know if Pioneer has had anyone in the finals, ever,'' Pioneer coach Fernando Flanagan said.
Christopher's Jimmie Lopez defended his title at 106, opening a 12-0 lead on Silver Creek's Alvin Nguyen before finishing with a pin in the third round. Serra senior Elias Hernandez advanced to the 113-pound final, where he lost an 8-2 decision to Gilroy sophomore Jesse Vasquez. Jerry De La Rosa (132), also a senior at Serra, lost to Gilroy's Paul Fox 7-1. Half Moon Bay's Joseph Lowman lost the 170-pound bout to Alisal's Jovan Villalobos 15-4. And Fremont's Gary Miltenberger (285) battled Palma's Hildelv Manzur before losing by pin at 5:59.
Girls wrestling
Cadence Lee of Gunn (103), Cady Chessin of Los Gatos (114) and Jasmine Mendoza of Overfelt (138) won state titles at the girls state championships in Lemoore.


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Commenter Madammina's tale of playing through Kingdom Hearts with her little brother reminds us how much fun it is to play video games with our loved ones in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
As very few of you know, I've been playing Kingdom Hearts with my baby brother. He wanted to play Kingdom Hearts 2 because Mickey is on the cover, but it would make even less sense for him if we jumped right in (He's smart, but he's 4 and has a deplorable lack of traditional Disney knowledge. I'm not sure how much of this he's getting. He was terrified of Dragon Maleficent and is curious about the Darkness though. And knows that Riku should be hanging out with the good guys)
Anyway, Today I finally beat Kingdom Hearts 1 with him. He went into a fit because... Mickey Mouse appeared in the ending. I had completely forgotten about it, and he was over the moon. He's now talking about playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and...
Well, I'm back to what gaming is all about for me. Simply having fun and playing with the family. All he wants to do is hang out with Disney characters and play as Mickey Mouse. I can't do the last thing, but when you are surrounded by a lot of negativity in a fandom like Kingdom Hearts, it's really nice to have your baby brother babble at you about how Mickey is in the game and how he wants Bartz to show up (He watches me play Dissidia)
I'll have to replay Birth By Sleep (again, sigh) with him when I'm done with Kingdom Hearts 2, but it's still just nice. More people should do it, just sit down and play with no thought on trophies, scores, theories, whatever. Just hang out with the family and have fun.


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Passers-by Find Body of a 24-Year-Old Man in Saddle Creek Park
Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 2:51 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 2:51 a.m.
Two passers-by found the body of a 24-year-old man lying on the shore at Saddle Creek Park on Thursday, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies say the cause of death of Bryan Sullivan, of Lakeland, is pending toxicology, but that there was no trauma to the body.
According to a PCSO affidavit, a friend of the victim's was arrested by detectives on a charge of resisting without violence when he gave a conflicting statement about how Sullivan's body ended up at the park.
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Awards and Fellowships
Each year the Society recognizes individuals for their contributions to a variety of activities including achievements in research, improvements in clinical care interventions and delivery, advocacy and outreach programs, mentoring activities, and other services to the Society and the field. Early stage clinicians and researchers are eligible to apply for the Samuel Gershon Award. The Mogens Schou Award recognizes the achievements and contributions of individuals that have worked to promote research, clinical service delivery and advocacy and have supported the activities of the Society.


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Green Day is back to business -- and has scheduled a hometown show to prove it.
The famed East Bay punk-pop band, which canceled a tour a few months back due to lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's substance abuse problems, will perform April 16 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.
Tickets go on sale to the general public at noon Friday (Feb. 15) through Ticketmaster outlets (www.ticketmaster.com). Pre-sale ducats are available beginning at noon Thursday. The password for the presale is "cuatro" (see www.apeconcerts.com for more information). Tickets are $50.
Indie-pop darlings Best Coast open the show. That's a pretty big deal, given that Best Coast's sophomore effort, "The Only Place," was one of the best albums of 2012.
Green Day will be supporting not just one, but three new studio albums -- "Uno!," "Dos!" and "Tre!" Those albums were released in rapid succession, during a three-month period in late 2012.
The band had originally planned to support those albums with an intimate-venue tour, which included dates at the Fillmore in San Francisco and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Plans were put on hold, however, after Armstrong's expletive-laced rant at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in September. Armstrong would later seek help for substance abuse problems.
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MENLO PARK -- Facebook's stock soared late Wednesday after the company released another blockbuster financial report, even as analysts debated whether the giant social network can continue growing as rapidly as it has in recent years.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been investing heavily in new products and technology, from mobile messaging to virtual reality. But on Wednesday he warned those efforts won't turn a profit right away. Some experts have argued that Facebook needs to start making money on those initiatives if it wants to keep posting huge increases in sales.
Facebook reported impressive numbers for its second quarter: Revenue rose to $2.9 billion, up 61 percent from the same period in 2013. Profit soared to $791 million -- more than double the $333 million reported a year ago.
Facebook's revenue has exceeded Wall Street projections for nine quarters in a row, as the company has rapidly built a mobile advertising business that it didn't have two years ago. Facebook now gets more than 57 percent of its revenue from showing ads to users on smartphones and tablets.
"One thing that's exciting is that there's still so much more room to grow," Zuckerberg said. While Facebook's U.S. users spend an average of 40 minutes a day with the service, he added, people spend far more time "engaging with digital media with TV, phones and computers" -- implying there is room for Facebook to occupy more of that time.
Zuckerberg, however, cautioned not to expect immediate results from recent initiatives like Facebook's move to buy the messaging service WhatsApp for an eye-popping $19 billion, or its $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR, a maker of virtual reality games.
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg also said the company will proceed "slowly and carefully" with efforts to sell ads on the Instagram photo app, and with its decision to add video commercials on Facebook's mobile news feed.
"We could take the cheap and easy approach" of shoveling ads into those services, Zuckerberg added, "but we're not going to do that. We're going to take the time to do this in a way that we think will be right over multiple years."
Several analysts have suggested Facebook needs to start tapping those services for revenue if it hopes to maintain the phenomenal growth rate the company has enjoyed for the past two years.
"Sustaining the current revenue growth rate will be harder in the second half of the year and into 2015," Carlos Kirjner of Bernstein Research said in a recent note to investors.
If Facebook wants to grow more, added Ben Schachter in a report from Macquarie Securities, it will need "to show traction in some of the new businesses still in development."
But Colin Sebastian of Baird Equity Research said in an interview that Facebook "still has plenty of room to grow in advertising." Still, he conceded, "they won't be able to grow so quickly."
Facebook shares rose more than 5 percent in late trading after the earnings announcement Thursday, as the stock climbed above a record $75.
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I first learned how to make bagels last spring as part of the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge. Peter Reinhart's recipe is fabulous and remains one of my favorites from his book. Once I mastered the original recipe, I started tinkering with adding in whole grains (surprised?) This recipe for 100% whole wheat bagels yields a very flavorful and chewy bagel and I promise you that you'll never know it's whole grain.
100% Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
1/2 tsp instant yeast
2 cups (8 oz) white whole wheat flour
2 TBSP vital wheat gluten
11 oz. room temperature water
In the bowl of your stand mixer, whisk together the above ingredients until everything is moistened and the consistency of a thick pancake batter. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for approximate 2- 2 1/2 hours. The mixture will become very foamy and bubbly and will nearly double in size.
1/2 tsp instant yeast
1 3/4 cup (7 oz) white whole wheat flour
1 1/2 TBSP vital wheat gluten
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp diastatic malt powder
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 1/2 TBSP sugar
1 cup raisins, rinsed and patted dry
Add the instant yeast to the sponge and stir well. In small bowl whisk together the flour, wheat gluten, salt, malt powder, cinnamon and sugar. Add to the sponge and using dough hook, knead until dough is smooth and elastic, about 6 minutes. Remove dough from bowl and place on clean countertop.
To finish and bake bagels:
Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, spray with cooking spray and dust lightly with cornmeal or semolina flour.
Bring a large, wide pot of water to a boil and add 1 TBSP baking soda. Remove bagels from the fridge and gently drop them into the boiling water. Let them boil for one minute, then flip them over to boil on the other side for one minute. Remove bagels from water with a slotted spoon and place on prepared baking sheet.


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With SVG export, I get a viewable file. But when I import the file into Inkscape, the scale is really messed up. It plots around 1/10 as large as it should.
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Tuesday night, a central question surrounding the Eagle River Station proposal was poised: If the development proceeds, what is the minimum commercial square footage the project would build and what public improvements would be required?
According to financial consultant Arne Ray of Ray Real Estate Services Inc., the financial consultant who has been hired by the town to examine the numbers and help craft an agreement with the developers, detailing out the minimum public improvements list provides the answer.
"Two hundred and ten thousand square feet is the minimum. That would be the smallest level of development if the project were to proceed," said Ray.
Eagle River Station is a commercial/residential project proposed by Trinity RED Development of Kansas City Mo. The project is planned on an 88-acre property located on the eastern end of town, south of Interstate 70 and north of U.S. Highway 6. ERS would include 582,000 square feet of commercial space and 250 rental units in the first phase. The second phase calls for up to 150,000 square feet of commercial space and another 300 rental units.
Back in 2009, the town board approved a plan for the development but in a municipal election in January 2010, voters rejected the proposal. RED Development has since retooled the proposal and resubmitted it to the town last May. This fall, members of the Eagle Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the revised ERS plan.
In formulating his numbers, Ray noted that the town will require many public improvements - such as roads, water and wastewater lines, trail connections, a water storage tank - as part of the development deal. Many of those improvements must happen before any commercial space can be built including a new Interstate 70 interchange and connector road, improvements along U.S. Highway 6, extension of Chambers Avenue through the property and water and sewer system improvements. Ray said the cost of these public improvements would tally approximately $21.4 million and RED would need to build at least 210,000 square feet of commercial space to make the finances work.
However, Ray noted a middle-of-the-road development scenario is more likely - 561,000 square feet of commercial space and public improvements totally $54 million.
Ray's figures are based on a model of $240 per square foot in annual sales. Town board member Scott Turnipseed asked how that figure, which Ray characterized as "reasonable or even conservative" was derived. Ray cited his 35-plus years of experience in his field.
"I am comfortable with those projections," Ray said.
Mayor Ed Woodland asked what kind of retailers would be represented in a $240 per square foot sales scenario. He noted that Target, for example, typically sees annual per-square-foot sales of $300 to $500. In contrast, Woodland said Eagle's current annual square foot sales are around $150. Ray noted that some stores will have lower figures and some will have higher, but retailers will need to see at least $200 per square foot annually if they open outlets at ERS.
"They couldn't justify the investment at $125 per square foot," Ray said. "These stores will do their own market analysis."
During a lengthy session of public comment, some area residents honed in on the financial details while others offered more general reaction to the ERS plan.
Robin Smith said today's economic reality required more diligence than ever to make sure Eagle is getting a good deal from the ERS developers. "I'm happy to support this project, if it was done the right way," said Smith. "If that project is a flop, it will be our billboard on the highway."
"The town has done everything it can possibly think of to best protect ourselves," said Woodland. He pointed to two aspects of the financial deal as "put up or shut up" issues. The first is the three-year vested rights to the development. The vested rights provision means that the developer has to begin construction within three years or their approved plan expires and they have to go back through the town's review process. "RED hasn't asked for a single day more than the minimum," said Woodland.
Additionally, he noted the tax increment financing deal (see accompanying box) cannot be assigned to another entity. As a result, if RED sells the property, the town does not have to honor the TIF deal. Woodland said RED would not sign off on such a deal if it didn't plan to stay involved with ERS over the long haul.
Steve Visosky noted that as a resident of Eby Creek Mesa, he does not live within the town boundaries and cannot vote if the ERS issue goes to the polls. However, he said the development would have a negative impact on his family, friends and existing Eagle businesses. "How does a shopping mall fit Classic Colorado (the town's slogan)?" he asked. "I wish you guys could make a decision that will make me proud to live in Eagle."
Lori Martin noted two years ago, Eagle voters turned down the ERS plan. "I just feel like its you guys against the people who said no, we don't want this," she said.
Chip Bair voiced support for the plan, saying ERS would provide jobs and increase tax revenue for the town.
"I truly believe we have an opportunity for success here," said Chip Bair. "It is inevitable that something will be built on this land that so many people seem to view as their own."
"Basically, I think Eagle needs something to revitalize our economy," said Jim Kunkel. "I think we can do this development and still have an outstanding place to live."
The Eagle River Station public hearing will continue Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.


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Friday, 10/29/2010
Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
Set 1: Star Spangled BannerThe Star Spangled Banner, My Soul, BagAC/DC Bag, Ocelot, SampleSample in a Jar, Light UpLight Up Or Leave Me Alone, Sugar Shack, TimberTimber (Jerry) > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, Axilla > Rift, MomaThe Moma Dance[1] > Cities > 46 Days
Set 2: PYITEPunch You In the Eye > Sand -> Carini > CaspianPrince Caspian, Corinna, Piper > ThemeTheme From the Bottom > GolgiGolgi Apparatus > SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light > Fluffhead
Encore: Loving Cup
[1] Unfinished.
Average Song Gap: 7.84
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Moma Dance was unfinished.
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Song Distribution:
2 Joy
2 Farmhouse
2 Billy Breathes
2 Stash
2 Junta
2 The White Tape
1 Round Room
1 The Story of the Ghost
1 Hoist
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2010 Fall Tour."
i dont think this show is getting the credit it deserves. there werent rarities but....
I would have to say that a corrina is a big enough rarity to make a show.. first played in 87 and then only 4 times from 90-11.. that is a rather rare tune but I am not sure how rarities is defined, I know as a deadhead one rare song a show was rather special and would get passed around in a crappy sounding cassette..
just now listening to this enjoyable show but was not there in person
I would say the Moma>Cities>46 Days is definately the highlight of this show.
Straight up 3 stars
Boys really started to get locked in this past summer. The rust from the 5 years off
was much less apparent. This was most noticeable in their jamming and group interplay. This show continued to show strides in the right direction.
The Star-Spangled opener wasn't a big surprise considering the enormous U.S. flag awash in light on the coliseum wall directly across from the band. It was a fun way to begin. My Soul then AC/DC Bag we're both nailed and gave the show a late 90'S feel at the start. Trey really shines in this segment. Next comes Ocelot and it contained a nice airy jam with a smooth flow to it. Mike and Fish really led this groove. The acoustics are surprisingly crisp and clear in this venue. Mike's bass really pops and resonates here. Standard Sample follows and then the rarity of Traffic's Light Up or Leave Me Alone. Page delivers as usual on this. Sugar Shack and Bouncin follow and are standard. A dark Timber! Is played in between and is the highlight of the set until the segment of Axilla>Rift, moma dance->cities>46 Days closes out the set. The 5 sons were a blistering end to the set. The Moma>Cities combo was smooth and funky. Set 1 was lengthy and really ended on a high note after a pretty standard start.
Set 2 starts out with a bang with a P.Y.I.T.E.>Sand>Carini trifecta. Sand is the star here in my opinion as it enters some pretty spacey areas. Carini hits on some dark and evil patches too and it seemed like it was gonna take off before Trey summoned Fuckerpants out of the abyss. Thankfu


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Symptoms may include:
Ulcers can cause serious problems and severe abdominal pain. One problem is bleeding. Bleeding symptoms may include:
A perforated ulcer is a break through the wall of the stomach or duodenum. It causes sudden and severe pain.
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Mad Bull XM203S Shorty 40mm Airsoft Launcher
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- niceI bought this same thing on Amazon(costs more) for my M-16 and oh my gosh. IT WAS AWESOME. I was facing some noobies and they were like "Oh, it's problably just a laser sight or something." So we went into battle and they had a bunch of springers and one AEG and we were all gas and AEG and i got one good shot in with this little hunni and they gave up! what noobs... anyway.. Shorty'z please lower the price.. its awesome and all. but make it 100 and it will sell like CANDY!
- I do not own this...Do not take the rating for this particular piece of equipment to be 100% true.
I own a different version called "Mosquito Molds Mini-Launcher". It's another brand. (It looks dumb, but gets the job done!)
I can tell you from my experiences that having a grenade launcher will always give you the upper hand. Even if your 100ft away from your target, it's still a big help because it keeps your enemy running! They don't want you anywhere near them with all that power!
Like I said, it looks kinda' bad on my Dark Hawk b/c it sticks out about 1.5in.
The first time my friends saw it they were like "What the hell?" and made some hurtful jokes... those jokes didn't last long! (lol: when your playing with this make sure your friends have full face masks on, not glasses)
One last thing: You guys all say they should make it cost less... I got news for you; you are not going to find one cheaper.
This is the world of real Airsoft! It's not cheep! Shorty USA is dedicated more to beginner�s airsoft. Recently they have expanded to include AEGs and are now covering the serious Airsofter. Grenade launches are simply not cheep... I doubt you can find one for much less.
Btw, I'm pretty sure $125 is just the launcher and you need the shell too! If your paying $180some for this, you better be into airsoft and own soothing other than a springer. My launcher cost me $250!
Welcome to the world of serious Airsoft!
- FantasticI lead and run the finances of my team. Take it from me finding a corporate sponsor for this kind of activity is tricky. Thus most of the weapons come from my own or the pockets of my team members. I constantly search the web and airsoft stores for the bigger better deal. When your resources are limited and your eyes for airsoft glory are huge it makes for a tough situation. Having finally gotten my guys upto Heavily upgraded ICS M-4 rifles and MP5s It was time to add more power to this already sweet aresenal. For three months I went through the net going over every airsoft distributor I could find. None of them had a launcher as well built or as reliable as this one for less. This launcher on the bottom of a M-4 with a collapseable stock is beautiful. It gives you plenty of room for a handle plus room for the launcher which performs better then most M203 replicas. As well as take a tremendous beating. A note to the wise if you see so much as one of these things being used against your team take the wielder of that unit out fast! Just one M-4 with this launcher attached can do devastating damage to your team. Ive seen this launcher score upto 5 kills at a time! Especally against teams that have never fought against such a weapon before!
- Ok, don't screw around with this!My friend has one attached to his m4, and whenever we airsoft everyone is wanting to be on his team. Anyone who wasn't on his team just stayed cleared of him. Some first-time hotshot players mistook it for a flashlight and charged him with their new unupgraded tokyo marui's. Being total noobs, they didnt have any extra mags, and they only had one standard 68 rnd mag. My friend decided not to waste any of his ammo but just fired a fatty shell right at them. Now my friend always uses his grenade-launcher on newcomers as a lesson, this launcher feels like you just got punched real hard in the chest, a great add-on to any rifle!
- Great LauncherMy friend put this launcher on his MP5 and it is awesome. The gun itself looks way cooler than it did before. It is a really helpful accessory. He took out a group of three people with the grenade launcher. He has never had a problem with it. If you are willing to spend the money, get this. If you have a bigger gun, you may consider the long version.
- not aloudI was playing airsoft with my friend and nailed him in the head with this thig and it sent him to the hospital so my mom thinks its a weapon and will not let me use it she almost broke it off of my gun
- I must agreeI have to agree with the guy who said Shorty needs to lower the price of this item. . . I would totally buy it if it was like $99 bucks or something.
Editors note: We are selling this launcher at the minimum price the manufacturer allows us. And honestly, $125 is pretty good for a full metal launcher.
- Best price for the bet launcher.In Hong Kong same launcher sells for 119$. You wont find it cheaper.
- flippin sweet!man this thing is awesome im definitely gonna buy one.
- WOW I THINK THIS ROCKS!NATO WOLVES (my friends and my military club)JUST BY READING THIS STUFF IT MAKES ME WANT TO BUY IT RIGHT NOW BUT I DONT HAV ENOUGH MONEY.IF I COULD I WOULD BUY A FULL SIZE ELECTRIC AND BUY THIS.


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This week's episode of "The Walking Dead" delivers much of the emotional punch of the premiere as Rick reunites with his family, Lori grapples with guilt and Daryl Dixon learns what happened to his brother Merle.
Riding a wave of buzz from its U.S. debut, the AMC adaptation of Robert Kirkman and company's Image comic broke records for international audiences and has already been given a 13-episode second season.
"Guts," the second episode of AMC's "The Walking Dead," introduces more of the ensemble cast and injects humor into the show, providing a more satisfying result for fans of the comic book and zombies in general.
For those who missed the beginning of the zombie apocalypse on Halloween, AMC is streaming the first episode of "The Walking Dead" in its entirety for a limited time. SPINOFF has the video and details.
With a hit TV show and an aggressive publishing plan for his comics in place, Robert Kirkman is riding high, so what better time to look back at the video that kicked off his recent run as an Image partner.
With 5.3 million viewers, the AMC adaptation of Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard's zombie epic netted the biggest audience in the network's history and the biggest cable debut of the year.
CSBG's Kelly Thompson looks at the female characters in Robert Kirkman's long-running zombie survival series and how they're portrayed on the printed page, from Lori Grimes to the katana-wielding Michonne and more.
With the AMC television series debuting this weekend, CBR wants to make sure you're up to date with all of our "Walking Dead" coverage, so click here to shamble along with all of our interviews, previews and reviews!
SPINOFF reviews the pilot episode of "The Walking Dead," calling the series premiere a success thanks to brilliant performances from Andrew Lincoln and Lennie James, not to mention Greg Nicotero's zombie effects.
Cast, crew and the undead converged in Hollywood for the premiere of AMC's "The Walking Dead," where the series creator was in attendance, stars lined up for photos and zombies lumbered down the red carpet.
On Tuesday, zombie hordes struck a number of the world's most iconic and famous landmarks. In Boston, Massachusetts, not even Rick Grimes himself could save the Washington Monument from the shambling undead.
CBR News spoke with "The Walking Dead" actors Andrew Lincoln (Rick), Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori) and Jon Bernthal (Shane) about their time spent surviving the upcoming AMC zombie series.
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Argentina, 2011, 112 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Spain, Brazil
Genre/Subjects: Coming of Age, Drama, Family Issues, Historical/Period
Program: Focus on Nation Cinema: ArgentinaLanguage: Spanish English Subtitles
DIRECTOR: Benjamin Ávila
Producer: Luis Puenzo, Benjamin ÁvilaScreenwriter: Marcelo Müller, Benjamin ÁvilaCinematographer: Iván GierasinchukPrincipal Cast: Natalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio, César Troncoso, Benjamín Ávila, Cristina Banegas
Director Benjamin Ávila's debut is based on his experience growing up under Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s. Juan spends his childhood moving from place to place after his parents, along with thousands of other communists, flee Argentina following President Juan Perón's death. Five years later, the boy and his family return to Buenos Aires, where his parents intend to continue fighting the junta. Juan must assimilate without drawing attention to the family.
Under the assumed name "Ernesto," Juan enrolls in the local public school. His parents, devout Montoneros, continue anti-government warfare under the guise of a chocolate-peanut business. During the day Juan tries to be like his classmates, but his education at home is anything but typical—he is taught how to load a gun and where to hide if the house comes under attack. The guerrilla tactics effectively rob him of what's left of his childhood. Juan just wants a normal life, and as his own sexuality begins to dawn, he finds puppy love with his classmate María. Parallel to the story of their budding relationship is the destruction of Juan's family and his acutely developed political awareness.
In the final scene—using Andy Riva's stylized animation—Juan's mother (played by superstar Natalia Oreiero) is shown the way he remembers her: at times tender and loving, at others fierce and raging. Like so many stories from Argentina's dark past, Clandestine Childhoon is a vision of a life gone awry pieced together from distant memories.
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Senior Associate Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti interviews Professor Richard Vogel, Chair of the Water: Systems, Science and Society program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bhaskar Chakravorti: My old firm, McKinsey, issued a widely publicized report in 2009 pointing to a "water gap" primarily driven by four countries that collectively account for 40 percent of the world's population and 30 percent of global GDP - China, India, South Africa and Brazil. Each has drastically different water issues and collectively will account for 42 percent of projected water demand in 2030. While McKinsey did identify potential approaches to addressing the gap, the solutions are far from straightforward. This does not even cover regions such as the Middle East and North Africa, which is arguably among the most water-constrained region in the world. The sharing of water among countries is an issue fraught with tension in many parts of the world. Access to the sources of water yields immense economic and political power. I think it is not an understatement to say that the availability of clean water is at the intersection of global business demographics, geopolitics, technology trends. It is essential to survival. Worldwide demand for it is growing, many sources of water are drying up and there isn't a clear strategy for how manage the supply. Are we getting to the point where clean water is the new oil?
Richard Vogel: It's a compelling question, because there are more similarities than there are differences. There are differences, but the similarities are profound, and they predominate.
The issue with water is that we can't live without it. We could live without oil because it's a substitutable resource, but we can't live without the benefits of oil. I am currently working with the World Bank, on an evaluation of the proposed Rogun Dam in Tajikistan, which is a large dam where the primary purpose is to generate hydroelectricity. So there are situations where water can be a substitute for oil. On the other hand, there are over a billion people who lack access to clean water and there is no substitute for clean water. There are certainly similar issues with oil; in many parts of the world, it's in short supply.
If you Google "water crisis," you get about 180 million hits. This global "water crisis" is in some ways analogous to what we once viewed as an oil crisis, and now see as a much broader energy crisis.
According to the USAID global water crisis site, of the 48 countries experiencing chronic water shortages by 2025, 40 are either in the Middle East and North Africa or in Sub-Saharan Africa. The twenty countries in the Middle East and North Africa are the worst off. The worldwide demand for water tripled in the past century. And it is currently doubling roughly every twenty-one years. This is clearly unsustainable, and the places that will be hit hardest are places that are already having serious water shortages.
You think of water as being different from oil because it's renewable, but there are a lot of places where water behaves like a non-renewable resource, just like oil. If you go to the Ogallala aquifer in the Great Plains of the U.S, or to the Great Plains of China, or to Venice, or to many places in India, you see land subsidence and other results of ground water pumping. There are places all over the world which draw groundwater in a non-sustainable way, analogous to the way in which oil is drawn from the ground.
Such groundwater reserves, often termed fossil aquifers, are not being replenished at a rate equal or greater than the rate of withdrawal. There are generally two types of water of concern: renewable and non-renewable water. The most compelling issue is that most of the non-renewable water is being consumed by agriculture. If you look worldwide, a very large fraction of agricultural water is non-renewable. And of course, food and water are linked. In the same way that oil is a commodity that generates so many other products, water is used in almost every process you can think of, including energy generation, and even including oil. Both oil and nuclear power plants require water for cooling.
As far as the differences between oil and water are concerned, there are quite a few. Water has a religious and a spiritual component. Water is also a human right. And most importantly, it's a pre-requisite for our balance of life. There's no substitute for water. Also, water can sometimes be a substitute for oil; hydro-electric power is a case in point.
BC: As you look around at the pricing of water in different regions of the world, is the pricing reflective of the market conditions? A water gap should raise prices according textbook economics, which would, in turn, force us to better manage our usage of water, innovate, etc. Yet the prices haven't reflected the gap. What's the reason for that?
RV: That's a historical problem with water, because water is not like other assets. First of all, there's no substitute for water. There are different needs and demands and sources of water, but there are no substitutes for the commodity. If you think about the places where water scarcity threats are greatest or those places with the least clean water per capita, you end up thinking about the billion or so people that don't have access to clean water. The demand curve for water isn't what you learned in your economics courses, because you simply must have a certain minimum quantity of water to survive and because people don't always behave rationally when it come to water due perhaps to its aesthetic, religious and/or spiritual value. It's a challenge to price it; the price - quantity relationship just doesn't behave the way economists would like it to. Many people will argue that privatization of water is ideal, but there are limits as to how feasible this is. You would hope for a more efficient system, but there are limits to how flexible a resource water is, like the absolute minimum threshold of water needed for survival.
BC: So there are political constraints that prevent prices from acting as market signals?
RV: There are political constraints. There are all kinds of constraints with water because it is essential for life. That's the real problem.
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BC: So when you consider the notion of oil, it's highly necessary, but there are substitutes. That said, it is the predominant source of energy. And it is priced, as we all know, not necessarily by market conditions, but by an oligopoly. And there are a number of dynamics involved in oil prices. But oil is more than just demand, supply and pricing. Oil has a number of other ramifications. It has implications for power, it has implications for geopolitics, and it has a second and third order effect on a variety of different industries. So consider the comparison of water to oil. You very eloquently talked about the demand/supply parallels between water and oil. You also talked about the fact that the pricing mechanism for water is different than the pricing algorithm for oil, for understandable reasons. What about some of the other characteristics of oil? Do you see some of those other characteristics transferring over to water in the future as the water gap widens?
RV: Let's consider the issue of water conflicts and the notion of fighting wars over water. My cousin, Peter Haas, is a professor of environmental political science at UMass and disagrees with many people who argue that wars have been fought over water. That just isn't the case. Surely water is important, but the balance of power is even more important when it comes to war. Look at the Bangladeshi community, or Palestine and Israel. These are certainly places where tensions may erupt at any moment, but there's a balance of power that prevents that. That said, the Arab Spring has shown us that the power balance could change dramatically in the future. Thus the Arab Spring and other similar movements, have the potential to alter the future balance of power in terms of water security. So our future water security may evolve. In fact, both Kofi Annan and the U.S. Department of State over a decade ago argued that water is likely to be the future cause of most wars. That simply hasn't happened yet.
Next, consider the many applications of water. Like oil, water has many purposes. Water is useful for irrigation, water supply, recreation, hydropower, cooling, navigation, etc. Competing needs for water are commonplace, with often little water left to sustain environmental requirements. Environmental requirements are the river flows needed to sustain aquatic life in all its forms. South African water law puts the human need for water on the same level as environmental needs for water. The UN recently voted that water is now a universal human right. We already don't have enough clean water for human uses; sustaining flows for environmental requirements will further dramatically tax our water resource systems, and promises to be one of the largest water challenges for future generations.
BC: Could I nudge you a little bit further towards the future? Not necessarily suggesting that we pretend that there is a crystal ball, but you have a deep understanding of the underlying drivers of the demand and supply of clean water. Is there a scenario where there is a future flashpoint in a region of the world where we have a water-centered crisis? Is there an upheaval, say like the Arab spring, waiting to happen in a region that you can think of that could be sparked by ownership of water, or lack thereof?
RV: The Middle East would be the most obvious one to start with. Given that this is an arid region, one expects that there's not enough water there. Certainly, if Turkey decided to reallocate their water resources by modifying their dam operations, as they already have on several occasions, then downstream water allocations to Syria and Iraq would be impacted. Essentially Turkish dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers control a great deal of water which ultimately flows through both Syria and Iraq. Turkish disruption of the flow of the Euphrates in January 1990 to fill water reservoirs in front of the Atatürk dam highlighted Syrian vulnerability to Turkish control over upstream water resources.
But our thinking on this is that water conflicts may be, in fact, be one of the few conflicts we can actually solve. For example, using water resource systems/economic allocation models, we've shown mathematically that modest cooperative efforts in the Middle East can lead to benefits to everyone. My colleague Professor Annette Huber-Lee has written a book on this (Liquid Assets: an economic approach to water management and conflict resolution in the Middle East and beyond) and has recently shown that each country could benefit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year each, if Israel, Palestine and Jordan were to cooperate on water management. So the challenge is how to get there.
BC: Okay, in the spirit of understanding the sources of potential tension, let's explore in a different direction. We know that there are certain regions, where there are dramatic changes happening in the underlying economies, like India and China. And along with rapid economic growth, there is a massive migration to concentrated urban areas, which seems like a recipe for water problems. Because you are concentrating large numbers of people on a small space, these scarcities arise. And then as we know, different emerging economies are taking different approaches to resolving these issues, which then creates its own set of negative consequences. For instance, in China they're re-routing water from the main waterways towards the urban centers. But then it diverts water away from the rural communities. In India, the solution is unclear because the groundwater level has gone down significantly near several of the urban areas. For example, Bangalore, a city in the south that has experienced rapid population growth is also experiencing a drop in its groundwater levels. Do you see urbanization and the water gap to be closely linked?
RV: These problems are very interesting because they are not just about water scarcity, but urbanization, so your point is well taken. In my field, there is a tremendous focus on what the impact of future climate change will be on our water resources. That's very important work, because climate change will exacerbate already existing sea level rise and will lead to significant changes in the timing and magnitude of runoff especially in regions with a large amount of snow storage and glacial melt will cause further challenges. But if you're in a city, water problems are dominated by the impacts of urbanization -- floods and droughts for example. Some recent studies have shown that some of the largest increases in floods and their associated flood damages, in Africa and in the U.S., have occurred in the urban centers, and not because of climate change. Replacing pervious surfaces and vegetation with impervious surfaces such as rooftops, driveways, roads, parking lots, etc. leads to precipitous increases in river flows. In other words, urbanization leads to increased flooding and water shortages and to a host of other water problems and this issue is not receiving the attention that it should, in part due to our focus on the important and compelling impacts of climate change.
BC: So as you train future generations of students who are thinking about these problems, are they coming up with solutions and frameworks?
RV: That's what our graduate programs here at Tufts are all about. Our graduate program, called "Water: Systems, Science, and Society" (WSSS), is an interdisciplinary education and research program. The WSSS program brings together faculty and students from Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Nutrition, Fletcher, Medical School, and Vet School through its support of interdisciplinary research and education and work with community stakeholders. Perhaps the biggest impact of the WSSS program is on our own students. WSSS has allowed students to experience faculty engagement across schools, and that is unprecedented in the history of Tufts graduate programs. Students have had the opportunity to conduct cross-disciplinary field research in virtually every continent through WSSS fellowships in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the US. This is probably the most profound and lasting change of the WSSS program: creation of future leaders in water planning and management that are fluent in the language of inter-disciplinary work.
There are all these wonderful water initiatives all around the world - very wealthy people, for example, bringing water to poor people, and that's wonderful. But I wish that they could come to Tufts and listen to what we do. We could train the populations to obtain their own water resources, manage their own water resources in a sustainable fashion and to educate future generations to do the same. It's that old adage that you can always give somebody fish but you also have to teach them to fish. And that's not enough here; you can bring them water, and teach them how to get their own water, but you've got to teach them how to manage their water and to educate their children how to do the same. And that's what we do here in our WSSS program. We take an integrated approach.
BC: Of the various technologies and solutions that you and your colleagues are thinking about, are there ideas that are potentially scalable, to the size of the major urban areas in the emerging world, with densities of 10-20 million people?
RV: Our focus is mostly on integrated water resource planning. For example, we might examine a large region or a city to help them clarify their own water resource management concerns and how they might go about planning their water resources in a sustainable fashion. I would hope that with more collaboration with colleagues and students in Fletcher's business program and the business community at large we can develop broad-based solutions. There are many corporations concerned that the risk of water shortage will affect their bottom-line. So they should be very interested in working with us.
That is in part why we have this very broad and interdisciplinary WSSS program. We have people from The Fletcher School and numerous other schools thinking about water from so many different dimensions, which is the only way to address some of the world's most vexing water challenges. Each facet of the solution is so different and it cuts across so many different disciplinary boundaries.
BC: Do you see a place for an industry in the future, that is like the oil and natural gas industry? The focus of the industry would be to distribute water from one location to destinations worldwide. The water could be piped or sent over in tankers. Is there a future where that's a viable business?
RV: It already is. T. Boone Pickens decided to completely re-vamp his business from oil to water and is doing just that: sending water from his land to the nearest cities. Also, another exciting area is that of virtual water. One can just as well sell wheat or corn to the Middle East as one could either bring them water or help them increase their own water resources. It might be a lot easier to bring the wheat and corn by ship than to build the requisite alternative water infrastructure in the Middle East. The idea is of embedded water – embedded in crops and products. It is another way to solve a lot of these vexing water problems.
BC: Just so that I understand, virtual or embedded water is in the agricultural product, which has absorbed water. Is that right?
RV: It's the water embedded in any produce or service. If you think about a place that's really got a water scarcity, you could build a pipeline and bring them water. Instead, you could also just sell them many of the products that they use which require water to produce. Because agriculture is the largest user of water, instead of exporting water, you could export the crops. This is something we do quite a bit of already for other manufactured products. If you systematically manage these virtual water flows, that's another way of thinking about managing our water resource systems.
BC: Any other innovations on the horizon?
RV: More generally, one of the most exciting areas for innovation, would be to transfer ideas from the energy sector. For example, the idea of smart grids is now being applied to water systems – there are so many ideas like that that could be transferred to the water sector. I think these ideas are very exciting. Pricing is another example. I would look at situations, products, and/or services where they have the most creative pricing and then see how they could be applied to water. There are a good deal of ideas like these being tested in California, where water is scarce, such as the idea of banking water. A water bank is a tool for leasing water for a limited period of time on a voluntary basis between willing water rights holders and users. It provides temporary transfers of water entitlements based on how much water a user needs and when it is needed without a permanent change in water rights. These types of clever ideas are only possible when one views water as an economic good or commodity, which it is, ultimately. There are all sorts of clever things being done, which is what makes my profession so interesting!
BC: In closing can I ask you a really silly question?
RV: Go ahead.
BC: The silly question is if the ice caps are melting and glaciers are melting, there should be more fresh water going down into the valleys. So is there a future where we start capturing more, and there's actually a positive effect of climate change?
RV: It depends. It's all about the distribution of water. It depends on where those ice caps are. If they're running into the ocean, it's not going to help us much. You'd need better capture technologies. Timing is also an issue. Typically the runoff occurs at times when you don't really need it as much and so again, distribution problems pose the biggest challenges to managing our water resources. They're also the most costly because water is heavy and difficult to transport. It's easier to transport electricity, or even food.
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Adams was nominated by a team member. The following was written about Adams on her nomination forms:
"The pediatrics wing needed someone to ride with EMS to Louisville as an extra set of hands. Donna willingly agreed to go even though it wasn't her department, it was late afternoon and she was unsure of when she would be back from the trip. Donna always strives to make the ER patient comfortable by talking to them and offering the 'warm fuzzies.' She is always eager to assist the nurses and physicians. Donna has a great personality and is fun to be around."
Taylor Regional Hospital has collected the best recipes from team members, family and friends and compiled them into an attractive keepsake cookbook. These one-of-a-kind cookbooks are currently available for sale for $15.
They may be purchased at the following locations: Citizens Bank and its two branches, Taylor County Bank main branch, Community Trust Bank and one branch, Forcht Bank and one branch, Mitchell's Men's Wear, Magnolia Alley, PVA Office, Taylor Regional Hospital Gift Shop and the Taylor Regional Hospital Human Resources Department.
Kroger manager Kevin Taylor and Campbellsville Mayor Brenda Allen cut the ribbon Wednesday morning, Feb. 13 at the grand opening of the remodeled Kroger at 1509 E. Broadway. The remodeling added 2,500 square feet, a drive-through pharmacy, a nutritional center, an improved deli and new refrigeration equipment. The new decor also features an additional express lane and new, faster checkout lane technology. Several door prizes were given away.
Cover Me Clothing Store has opened next to First Baptist Church at 704 E. Broadway. The store is a nonprofit entity for people who are in immediate need of clothing items due to fire, eviction or other emergency situations. Clothing is free for a donation. The store is operated by the church's Mother's Board. Store hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Tuesday's and Thursday's.
Taylor Regional Hospital recently recognized new team members for their first 90 days of service with a breakfast in their honor.
On Feb. 17, Paul Malone of Campbellsville was named first runner-up in the senior division of the 51st Annual Kentucky Auctioneer Association Bid Calling Contest.
Malone is principal broker/principal auctioneer of Malone Realty & Auction Co. Inc., 211 E. First St.
This year's contest, in conjunction with the KAA Convention, was in Bowling Green. The contest is open to all Kentucky auctioneers who are members of the KAA.
Taylor Regional Hospital recently received recognition for achieving a reliability score of 100 percent on the first quarter 2007 hospital validation from Health Care Excel Hospital Quality Initiative.
Each quarter hospitals nationwide are required to submit quality data to both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission. This data is available to the public at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
Faye Veatch, RN, quality reviewer at TRH, achieved this distinction for the hospital.
Strategic Intelligence Systems Vice President Jane Chappell received the 2008 Raytheon CEO Award in a recent ceremony at the Raytheon Leadership Forum in Boston, Mass.
Chappell, the former Jane Parrott, is a graduate of Taylor County High and Western Kentucky University and is married to Henry Chappell, also formerly of Campbellsville. Currently living in Plano, Texas, she is the daughter of Joyce C. Parrott of Campbellsville and the late Robert E. Parrott.
The Raytheon Award honors employees who have exemplified the company's core values and delivered exceptional results.
Citizens Bank & Trust Co. has contributed $10,000 toward the Writing Center at Campbellsville University.
The mission of the Writing Center is to enhance learning in all content areas by providing extra assistance as needed. Students may receive assistance with writing techniques, editing, proofing and referencing skills.
Students may also use one of the 15 new computer workstations updated with Windows Vista to enhance various classroom assignments.
Betty Jo Shuffett of Greensburg recently completed a likeness of Taylor Regional Hospital in support of the hospital's annual Gala.
Shuffett's artwork will be featured on the cover of a cookbook, which will be sold as a fundraiser in support of the Gala planned for this fall.
The cookbook is a collection of recipes from TRH team members and will be available for sale in the next month. The cost of the cookbook will be $15.
Shuffett donated more than half the value of her artwork for use on the cookbook cover.
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Summit High's volleyball games against Glenwood Springs Tuesday may have started slowly, but the Tigers pulled out a three-set win in the end.
The Tigers defeated the Demons, 25-22, 25-23, 25-22, led both by the stellar defense of senior Anna Zangari and the kill-team of Sara Metzger, Kates Raymond, Madison Anderson and Lexi Zangari. It redeems a four-set loss to Glenwood on Oct. 13.
"Anna had 19 digs in the three-set match. Her digs weren't just numerous, they were also key," head coach Liz Hughes-Waddick said. "When our block wasn't there, Anna was. She also served very well, with three aces against a very tough Glenwood serve-receive. We scored 17 points while Anna was serving."
On the offensive side, Anderson had 13 kills, Raymond tallied 12, Lexi Zangari had 10 and Metzger numbered seven. Raymond tied Anna Zangari's points while serving, tallied seven digs and 11 serve-receptions. The team attacked with a .264 percentage in 50 kills and 17 errors.
"That's right where we want to be," Hughes-Waddick said, adding, "With seven kills and a never-say-die attitude, (Metzger) led the Tigers to the three-game sweep. You can see her desire and will all over her face."
Each set wasn't won by much, with the Tigers allowing themselves to get into a hole at the start of the first set with less-than-stellar serve-receptions and problems completing plays.
"The girls never got down," Hughes-Waddick said. "Never. Their faces showed a strong belief in each other."
The third set started off with a misserve by Brett Huntley, stringing the team into a six-point deficit. With Anna Zangari's serving leadership (including one ace to tie the score at 7-7), the team caught up and began going point-for-point against the Demons.
The ball came back to the Tigers after a teamwork play between Raymond's pass to Huntley, who set it to the outside for Anderson to kill. Another Anna Zangari ace put the score at 18-18.
The Tigers clawed their way into a 23-22 score before a few more kills and Anderson sinking the final point in the Demon court.
"It was a match won by a fabulous team," Hughes-Waddick said. "They have faced a lot of adversity this year and have risen above it."
It helps to have defensive specialists Davis Gidney and Kyla McCann helping develop the team's ability to keep the ball in the air.
"(The team) knows that without Anna and our back row digging, and without our front row running a fast offense, none of them can score. The front row has faith in the back row and the back row has faith in the front row," Hughes-Waddick said. "They are really trusting each other. It is going to be a great week for practice and we are looking forward to another win against Delta. In their gym."


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Former Raiders coach Hue Jackson said he has not heard from Cal but that he would be interested in the Bears' coaching position, calling it "a golden opportunity" for whoever gets the job.
"I think they can be as good as they want to be," Jackson told this newspaper Tuesday in a phone interview. "They should have an opportunity to compete for the Pac-12 championship, BCS bowls, the national championship. Why not Cal?"
Jackson, 47, was offensive coordinator at Cal in 1996. Currently coaching defensive backs and special teams for the Cincinnati Bengals, Jackson led the Raiders to an 8-8 record in 2011, his only as head coach in Oakland. He was the Raiders' offensive coordinator in 2010.
He stressed that he has not heard from anyone at Cal, but would welcome a call. "I'm sure I would. I see no reason not to," he said.
Cal fired 11-year coach Jeff Tedford last Tuesday after the Bears finished with a 3-9 record.
"I think whoever they decide to bring in will inherit a golden opportunity," Jackson said. "I'm not putting down coach Tedford. He did a great job. I think Cal is on the rise."
Jackson has coached exclusively in the NFL since 2001, including stints as offensive coordinator for the Redskins and Falcons. But he downplayed the difficulty of transitioning back to college, where he also has experience at USC and Arizona State.
"In the National Football League you still have free agency, which is like recruiting. It's not totally the same, but there a lot of parallels," he said.
Jackson also is confident that the renovated Memorial Stadium and year-old high-performance center will help them attract top-level prospects.
"I know they've done a tremendous upgrade. It's a place you can recruit to," he said.
Jackson spent the '96 season at Cal, working under coach Steve Mariucci on a team that featured quarterback Pat Barnes and tight end Tony Gonzalez. The Bears started 5-0, including a road win over 17th-ranked USC, then wound up 6-6 before Mariucci left to become coach of the 49ers.
"I know from my time there it's a special place," Jackson said. "It was a lot of fun and it was an environment where a student-athlete could go an get an unbelievable education while competing at the highest level you could.
"There was a sense they were very interested in Cal being among the elite teams in all of college football."
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Mondays letters: 'Voter fraud'
Published: Monday, June 16, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 13, 2014 at 4:06 p.m.
Voter fraud
To the editor: Republican voter suppression efforts will probably not work. Democrats will make sure that people get their photo IDs and people will vote. Even so, it is worthwhile to see where the voter suppression idea comes from. It goes back to the 1980s and to a founder of the modern American conservative movement, Paul Weyrich.
Weyrich said, "Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our (Republican) leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
A key to understanding his intentions here is the phrase "quite candidly." In other words, "Let's be honest folks, the more people who vote, the more Republicans lose." Weyrich is not talking about "voter fraud"; he is talking about voter suppression. What is so cynical is that he is talking to a group of well-meaning Christians who think getting people to vote is a good thing.
One should be wary of Republican accusations of "voter fraud."
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To the editor: I am glad I live in the USA where anyone with the desire and financial resources to do so can open a retail business. However, I was disappointed to see the Times-News felt it was newsworthy enough to publish an article (on the front page of the Local & State section of the June 11 paper, no less!) on the opening of a business promoting the unhealthy habit of tobacco use.
Particularly disturbing was the description of the "inexpensive" method of roll-your-own cigarettes and mentioning its popularity among the "younger crowd." Tobacco use in any form, e-cigarettes included, is unhealthy to everyone. Smoking is banned almost everywhere for just that reason. Why give free advertising to something as foolish as this?
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To the editor: I would like to respond to the anti-gun lady's letter. She said the gun rights folks are out defending their rights to carry a concealed weapon. Yes, ma'am, I do that just about every day. You see, ma'am, I see the same crimes you see being reported by the media. I am trying to make sure I am not going to be one of those statistics.
I suggest you do a study to see how many of the bad guys have a gun permit. Don't point your finger at me. Ban guns for the good people, and all of us could become a statistic. "Hey, my kid got shot, but I support the rights of this person who killed him to have that weapon" is absurd. Ma'am, I guarantee you this person who killed was carrying a gun for evil, not for protection, and has no right to carry that weapon.
You need to get off the anti-gun soapbox and work hard to get to the root of the problem, but nobody wants to touch that rising problem.
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1. Aha! moment -- 43 Emacsen -- feel free to steal this idea! =)
You know how geeks do _really_ crazy things with their favorite applications? Like the way I practically live in Emacs? And the way some people practically live in Microsoft Excel? We use applications for _far_ more than they were originally imagined to do.
So let's help people think out of the box. Let's show them what geeks push their applications to do.
What would be ultracool?
Think of the way 43things lets you say you've either done something or you plan to do something. Add a software context and support screenshots. For example, you could add "Do mail" to your list of things, set "Emacs" as your software, and post a screenshot (optional) of Gnus (or even Rmail). Tick a little checkbox if you don't mind if people to ask you for help, and add a short note about your experience if you want... Oooh, and throw tagging in there somewhere.
Why is this ubercool?
- You see what other people do with a certain application. (And you
will begin to appreciate the insane flexibility of the Emacs text editor!)
- You see how other people do something, and maybe even how popular
something is.
- You see what friends and similar people use. =)
I want this. I think it would totally rock. I'm crazier about it than the Eclipse snippets project my research supervisor wants me to consider. I think we might get all sorts of useful data about geek program usage, if we can get people to do this. For example, I'd _love_ to find out what other crazy geek things people who have similar usage patterns for Emacs might be doing, or what other applications they're crazy about... For example, I'm crazy about Mozilla Firefox--but I know people out there are doing even cooler things with it!
Steal this idea. Run with it. Make it happen. If I can use it for free and I can copy my data easily, I'll be one of your first users and evangelists! =)
Tracing the thoughtpath for fun: how did I get to thinking about that?
- Well, I was thinking about Google and how I want to be an evangelist more than I want to be an engineer.
- Then I thought about evangelism and what I usually get excited about.
- Which naturally made me think about Emacs.
- So I thought about all the crazy stuff you can do with Emacs.
- And then I thought about Danny O' Brien's lifehacks talk and how power users do crazy things with applications.
- Which made me wonder what other people are doing with Emacs.
- Which made me want to start a blog (or revive emacstidbits).
- ... but then I wanted to see _other_ people's stories...
- ... and although some stories are on http://www.emacswiki.org , they're still buried in technical information...
- ... so wouldn't it be cool if we could bring those stories out and make them
easy to capture and browse?
- Which made me think of other services that did that, like 43things.
- Which gave me that aha! moment!
N degrees of Sacha Chua's mind. Emacs is my Kevin Bacon. ;)
2. Rosa Parks and software freedom
What a fine and wonderful world we live in now, particularly in the egalitarian wonder of the Internet, where age, race, gender and creed are invisible...
... and where countless people are also invisible, also unheard.
The digital divide grows ever wider. As companies raise prices, crack down on copyright violations, and festoon their code with legal protections, people are left further and further behind.
That's why I care so much about software freedom.
Most people see two parties involved in software piracy. There's them, and there's the company. The company doesn't generally lose much from piracy, and may have even factored that into their marketing strategy. The people who pirate software focus on what _they_ gain: powerful software available _now._
But I see a whole web of relationships. I see potential alternatives languishing because people don't bother to try out something else. I see startups and small businesses struggling with high software costs. I see schools torn between the reluctance to raise tuition and the need to prepare their students for the real world.
And I see people being locked out of this world. They are second-class citizens by law and custom. They don't have dollars for software or the inclination or ability to modify it.
They do not sit at the back of the bus. They are outside the glass windows, looking in.
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LB Quinton Powell of Daytona Beach, FL said Monday night he's down to a final three of USC, Southern Cal and Oregon. He visited Southern Cal last weekend and will visit USC this weekend. He is scheduled to visit Oregon the last weekend. Powell said he enjoyed his visit to Southern Cal last weekend and really liked the coaches there. He's been to USC before and will be coming alone for this visit. He talked last week with USC coach Steve Spurrier and recruiter Steve Spurrier Jr. Powell is expecting coaches from all three schools to visit this week. He does not plan to announce a decision until Signing Day on ESPNU.Tweet
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It's funny how some things work out.
When West Virginia University was considering joining the Big 12 Conference, there was some fear that it wouldn't be able to compete with its flagship member, the University of Texas, which has its own television network.
Guess what has happened? (As if you didn't already know).
The Mountaineer football team beat Texas. WVU's men's basketball team has handled the Longhorns twice. And the West Virginia women's team won its first meeting against UT.
So in high-profile sports, the score is West Virginia 4, Texas 0.
Let's hope that streak continues.
That's what will happen on Thursday night in Huntington, when the top two Class AAA?wrestling squads in the Mountain State will decide who goes into the state tournament as the favorite.
Parkersburg South is the four-time defending state champion and is bidding to be the first school to win five straight Class AAA titles. But the Patriots will enter their meet against Huntington High ranked second in the latest ratings on wvmat.com. Coach Rob Archer's Highlanders dominated the Mountain State Athletic Conference meet last Saturday and have so much quality they have earned the top spot in the poll.
Veteran wrestling observers consider the match a virtual dead heat. It certainly represents an opportunity for South to make a statement. If it can go into Huntington's gym and beat the Highlanders, then it can do it again at the state tournament, even though tournaments and dual meets are two different animals.
Anyway, it's great to see quality programs like South and Huntington on top. Sooner or later, Huntington is going to win its first state title. Obviously, those of us in Parkersburg hope it is later. But we have so much respect for Huntington coach Rob Archer and his parents, Bill and Diane, who run the state tournament, that we will be happy for them when that day comes.
Last week, it was Phil Mickelson's turn to lap the competition at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Every sport needs a rivalry to hold fan interest. When a sport has two players at the top of their games, interest soars.
Who didn't tune in when Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe battled one another in tennis or Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were duking it out?
Golf has a lot of young, up-and-coming stars.
But most of them have plastic personalities and don't create the type of excitement that Woods and Mickelson generate.