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Any ideas for providing some quiet for an older child to do homework? My 10-year old needs some quiet from his 4- and 1-year old sisters while he does homework yet he needs to be near me for questions and help. Our home is very small, so if he sits at the dining room table (and I'm generally downstairs in the dining room, living room or kitchen) then the girls are right nearby and he's within eyeshot of the TV if that's on. Maybe I just need to outfit him with horse blinders and earbuds! <g>
Does anyone have suggestions on a good book about St. Nicholas for children (currently 2.5 and 4)?
Carolyn, take a look at The Miracle of St. Nicholas by Gloria Whelan. Age level is 4 and up, but your littler one will like the pictures.
For Carolyn A: A lot depends on your 10 year old, some can handle it more than others. But, I think all of my kids, to some degree, needed some time to work without distractions and without being felt like they were being secluded from everyone else. What works for us is to schedule the school day around those quieter times. If you haven't already done so, could you pencil in a schedule for everyone? Then, the subjects he finds more challenging or simply easier to be distracted from, could be worked around his sisters routine (or visa versa). So, maybe they could play quietly together for 30 minutes while he is doing his math or something. Then, if they watch TV at a certain time he could work on another more challenging subject? Probably things like handwriting could be done with a bit more chaos. My current 9 year old is by far my most easily distracted (and always mooovvvviiinnngggg). My mom works in the school system with special needs kids and she suggested to me that I make him his own workstation using 3 piece cardboard fold out things like used for science fairs (about $4). That would give him a little cubby (those horse blinders!) and maybe he can add cool things inside to make it more enjoyable rather than feeling secluded. Good luck!


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Mountains to Molehills: 'Tool of choice'
Published: Friday, December 13, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 2:14 p.m.
Anthony Jeric of Hendersonville says his "fellow Curmudgeon Club colleague," Doug Freeman of Hendersonville, correctly argued in a recent Mountains to Molehills column that privately held, large-clip semi-automatic rifles are no defense against the U.S. military. "It may be a mistake, however," says Mr. Jeric, "to assume that regular United States troops will be a domestic oppressor's tool of choice. Anyone familiar with the U.S. military officer corps knows they have been indoctrinated against the use of force against U.S. civilians. The use of paramilitary forces against a disarmed civilian population is the more likely scenario. Even a dictator like Moammar Gadhafi had to rely heavily on Tuareg mercenaries because part of his regular force preferred desertion to bombing fellow countrymen. Adolf Hitler relied on armed Brown Shirts, the SS and eventually the Gestapo to help gain and hold domestic power as opposed to using the Wehrmacht. A wannabe U.S. dictatorship's most likely choice, due to size and lack of indoctrination in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, is Homeland Security. A civilian population armed with something close to military standard issue, that is overwhelmingly opposed to the establishment of a dictatorship, may well be the greatest deterrent to such an outcome. If the government over the years trusted and sponsored civilian ownership of standard issue military rifles, first .30-40 Krags, then .30-06 Springfields, followed by M1 Garands, why is it suddenly so bad to have an AR15 that copies the M16 but is without the fully automatic capability?"
BLOCKED SIGNALS: The thinking of a Mountains to Molehills reader that you don't need satellite or cable TV service to get dozens of local channels, that you only need an antenna, isn't always true in this neck of the woods, according to Jim Hart of Hendersonville. "We live in the mountains, and the mountains block the signals for most of us," he says. "To see what you may receive, go to antennaweb.org, type in your ZIP code and address. Or you can come by Radio Shack in Highland Square Mall, and I will look it up for you."
COFFEE OF THE DAY spotted on a recent Friday at Joey's New York Bagels at 1500 Haywood Road in Hendersonville: "Jamaica Me Crazy."
ANOTHER ROOM, FAST!: A drunk staggered up to a hotel desk late one night and demanded another room. "But you have the best room in the house, sir," answered the desk clerk. "I don't care," he said. "I want another room, and I want it quick." The desk clerk turned to the bellhop and said, "Move this gentleman out of 506 and put him in 509 right away." Completely satisfied, the inebriated guest moved toward the elevator. "Would you mind telling me, sir, why you didn't like 506?" asked the clerk. "Well, for one thing," said the guest, "it's on fire!"
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: No one should miss the Carolina Concert Choir's 35th annual Christmas Concert at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Bo Thomas Auditorium on the campus of Blue Ridge Community College. The choir will feature singers from Western North Carolina and South Carolina. The concert will begin with traditional carols, "Deck the Halls," "Fum Fum Fum," "O Magnum Mysterium," "I SawThree Ships," "Away in a Manger," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Whence is That Goodly Fragrance," "Go Tell It On the Mountain" and an audience sing-a-long. Following intermission, the Christmas section of Handel's Messiah will be presented with orchestra members of the Hendersonville Symphony and soloists. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are also available from choir members, at the Downtown Visitors Center in Hendersonville, at Laurel Park Wine Market in Laurel Park, at The Wrinkled Egg in Flat Rock and online at carolinaconcertchoir.org.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Millionaire's Shortbread (Treats For Co-Irkers)
I hope you co-irkers have a cow handy, because these are going to make you want to kill for a glass of milk. Rich, rich, rich! Enjoy!
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- June said...
Geez louise Mags - there's someone you know in Tucson that LOVES caramel more than she loves shortbread, and way more than she likes chocolate. I'd say she'd think these little square beauties aren't cut way BIG enough - LOL Now...wouldja' just post the darn recipe?!!! I'm hurtin.
- September 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
- Co Irker said...
Okay - confession time.
I went on at 4:30am to check what we are having. I know, I know - I'm baddd. But, in my defense, if you didn't make such lucious treats I wouldn't be so nosey.
Anywhoo, I would never, ever, EVER criticize the manna that you make for us. But, I will say this - there's ALOT of caramel in there. And that's not neccesarily a bad thing, but I don't think that's what you were trying to achieve.
I will gallantly volunteer myself and my posse of coirkers to be your willing guinea pigs when you transform this recipe into the exquisite shortbread that it was meant to be.
Yes, I know, I'm a suck up and PROUD of it.
Thank you our charismatic caramel creatin' cutie.
LOVE your new banner!
- September 25, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- stephchows said...
It's funny just from the picture I was thinking WOH that's a LOT of caramel... guess it was! Still look tasty though :)
- September 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Chocolate, caramel and shortbread sounds like a fabulous combination. I'll look forward to the recipe update! Fun new banner!
- September 25, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Mags said...
June: I'll email you the link to the website, OK? I suppose true caramel fanatics might find this proportionate, but it just struck me as overpowering.
Co Irker: Do you guys have any undecayed teeth left after eating those? I almost didn't sent them in, but I thought, what the heck. It's either that or throw them in the trash.
Steph: The caramel was overwhelming!
Barbara: Thanks for commenting!
- September 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Moogie said...
I know you didn't find them on my blog, because everything I make is perfect.
- September 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Mags said...
Moogie: You mean everything you buy at the bakery and then blog about is perfect. (HEE!)
- September 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Lady P said...
yeah - offsite co-irker here who has failed to see any goodies arriving at her humble work door from mags
don't care if their be too little chocolate and too much caramel this time around (you can fix that for us next week, to be sure) just want some deserts over here - please
- September 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
- Mags said...
Awww Lady P: didn't you get co-irker treats today? Gonna have to fix that for next Friday for sure!
- September 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Those look pretty tasty - although I love caramel (and lots of it). I look forward to seeing your version of the recipe, though! I'm sure it will be marvelous.
- September 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM


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Marquee Grill chef Tre Wilcox shares his skills at VIP event
Just a couple of days after being featured as the cover story of our community paper Best Southwest Neighborsgo, chef Tre Wilcox was the focus of about 50 clients of Time Warner Cable Business Class. Instead of being entertained on the golf course or in a stadium suite, these guests were treated to a VIP Culinary Experience at Marquee Grill that included a four course meal, a cocktail hour with drinks prepared by celebrity mixologist Jason Kosmas and Wilcox demonstrating how to create big eye tuna tartar (with jalapeno avocado puree, radish and toasted sesame panko).
Wilcox talked about his journey to become a top chef. He grew up in Duncanville and loved soccer. But cooking soon beckoned. He's self-taught and learned mostly by watching great chefs. His career took off at Abacus, where he was mentored by Kent Rathbun. Wilcox also got national exposure from being on Top Chef.
Guests raved about their meal, which started with crispy duck spring rolls or Beeman Ranch Texas rolls, then included salad or shrimp bisque as the second course, four choices of entrees as the main course and ended with blackberry cheesecake or an amazing marquee tart with chocolate ganache and caramel popcorn.
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A solid Buried Alive opener for the first set, nothing too special going right into a good Poor Heart. Flowing nicely into ATR, which was not very sharp tonight. Golgi seemed early for some reason, but was well played anyway. My Friend was also pretty good, even the intro. Llama was rocking as usual. Esther actually came out good too; the last few have been a bit weak. Stash had some rough parts from Trey and then took on kind of a Creature from Mars tone? Kind of an average tired sounding version with a rough end as well. Glide was ok with a nice long pause at the end. Divided Sky was rough, all over the place from all four members. Cavern wasn't much better as Trey muffs the vocals, so they play around to make up for it. This was a very weak two song ending to an average first set.
Cup was also kind of average for the second set opener. Fall down drunk is right, and maybe that's the problem tonight as they can't get it together for the timing on Rift again. Tweezer at least settles things down a bit. Lifeboy was a surprise and wasn't too bad though it had a weak ending. Then the Balls come out for an anniversary of sorts as this was the venue, not the exact day (Trey erroneously points out), for the inception of the Ball Jam. Mike gets the middle of the set with a good Weigh that almost sounds like a Misty Mountain Hop in the middle solo. Mike's Song is really funny and a good jam. Hydrogen wasn't too bad overall. Weekapaug is unique with the ridiculous Psycho Killer jam in it. The Horse was well done tonight, but Silent's timing is back off a little. HYHU brings Fish out for a well performed Brain. Tweeprise wraps up an awkward, and kind of messy second set.
My Sweet One gets the call as the speedy fast encore tonight. Then everyone gets shushed for an average Grace.
Seeing the over four star rating of this gave me high hopes of more magic, but overall this show was just way too sloppy, even with the Psycho bust out. I've got to go with three stars to bring the average down on this one. What do you want for a Tuesday night, right? Last week of the tour...


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Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 7:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 7:59 a.m.
Henderson County Tourism Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the Blue Ridge Community College Conference Center.
Wit Tuttel, marketing director for the North Carolina Department of Tourism, will be the keynote speaker. This event will also include educational sessions for attendees and networking opportunities.
The conference is free to Henderson County businesses. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The first annual conference is sponsored by the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority and BRCC's Small Business Development Center.
For more information, call 828-693-9708.
BREVARD — Brevard College music faculty members Katherine Morgan Palmer and Dr. Kathryn Gresham will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, in the college's Porter Center for the Performing Arts.
The program will include music by Mozart, Faure, Liszt, Gershwin and Barber.
Five Images for Solo Piano was written for Palmer, who is a pianist, by Brevard College alumnus Timothy Crist. The song, "The Gift of Life," was written for Gresham's former teacher, Judith Bettina, on the occasion of her daughter's birth.
Gresham is an associate professor of music and coordinator of the music major at Brevard College. Palmer also has served on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center and is a pianist with the Mountain Chamber Players.
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 828-884-8328.
"Manage Your Money: Stop Laughing, It's Possible" course will be taught from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, and Monday, Jan. 28, at OnTrack WNC, 50 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville. The classes will be taught in a room on the second floor.
This informative course deals with the basics of tracking your spending, budgeting, setting goals, saving to realize those goals and more.
The class is free, but registration is required.
For more information or to register, call OnTrack WNC at 828-255-5166, Ext. 3.
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Dusty was born May 24, 1983 and passed away on August 28, 2012.
Dusty has left behind his father Roy Bland, mother Theresa Milne, step-mother Shirley Bland, grandmothers Joyce Bland and Bonnie White, sister Misty Adams, step-sister Jennifer Olson-Bartell, and brothers Cory Bland and Kyle Bland, and a step-brother Randy Olson. He is also survived by nephew David, nieces: Ashlyn, Emma, Destiny, Paige, and Hailey.
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verb (replies, replying, replied)[reporting verb]
1Say something in response to something someone has said: [no object]: he was gone before we could reply to his last remark [with clause]: she replied that she had been sound asleep [with direct speech]: 'I'm OK—just leave me alone,' he replied
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- I doubt I'm entitled to go too far in this discussion but I couldn't resist the impulse to reply to the last comment.
- Nobody from the Film Council is on hand to reply to Cox's remarks.
- When trying to convince Eliza to play along with his bet, he lures her with promises of endless chocolates and just as she is about to reply to him he pops one in her mouth, silencing her.
respond, answer, say in response, rejoin, return;
retort, counter, fling back, hurl back, retaliate, come back
rare riposte
1.1 [no object] Write back in answer to someone: she replied with a long letter the next day
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- As my colleague, Colin Hay wrote an effective counter-critique, I decided not to reply directly.
- I used to write letters but they never replied, she said.
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acknowledge, write back;
take the bait, rise to the bait, come back
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1A verbal or written answer: I received a reply from the managing director 'No,' was the curt reply
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answer, response, acknowledgement, rejoinder, return, reaction;
retort, riposte
informal comeback
1.1 [mass noun] The action of answering someone or something: I am writing in reply to your letter
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- Some of them get through fourteen episodes thinking that the emails she sends them are personal to them, and in reply to the ones that they send her.
- Some might use the ultimate moral catch-phrase 'two wrongs don't make a right' in reply to this situation but the fact of the matter is that two rights don't make a right, and a wrong and a right don't make a right.
1.2A response in the form of a gesture, action, or expression: Clough scored the first goal and Speed hit a late reply
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Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French replier, from Latin replicare 'repeat', later 'make a reply' (see replicate).
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An AMBER Alert went out in Tallahassee on June 22, 2001.
Fourteen-month-old Aysha was sleeping in the back of her mother's car, when the repo man got behind the wheel and took off.
Once he realized his mistake, the child was quickly returned.
Since Florida started issuing AMBER Alerts in August 2000, it has been used 40 times, and directly credited with helping to find six children. Florida has an agreement with six other southern states, so if authorities have reason to believe a child and his or her abductor are headed that way, those states will go ahead and issue an AMBER Alert. With the legislation that was just signed in Washington, that connection now extends nationwide.
AMBER Alerts are issued here at FDLE Headquarters in Tallahassee.
The phone rings, and the alert system is put in motion. The Big Bend doesn't have the interstate road signs that Florida's bigger cities do, but radio and TV stations are on board to get the word out when little ones are in danger.
Right now there are more than 400 missing children in Florida, not including some 3,000 runaways.
An AMBER Alert is only issued when a child is in immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death.
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The AMBER Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS), formerly called the Emergency Broadcast System, to air a description of the missing child and suspected abductor.
This is the same concept used during severe weather emergencies. The goal of the AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe return of the child.
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UA gymnastics faces rival Auburn
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 12:25 a.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Few rivalries in sports are more lopsided than the one between Alabama and Auburn in women's gymnastics. The Crimson Tide has beaten the Tigers in 105 consecutive meets, a run that spans three decades and includes regular season meets as well as postseason competition.
No. 5 Alabama will try to make it 106 in a row tonight when the No. 15 Tigers visit Coleman Coliseum. "The Streak," as it's come to be known, doesn't appear to be in danger, at least on paper. But in-state rivalries can bring out the best - or worst - in teams at the most unsuspecting times.
"What I want the ladies to focus on is not 'The Streak' as everybody talks about," Alabama coach Sarah Patterson said. "Because we can't control what the other team does. We just need to be at our best. We are still the No. 5 team in the country right now, and we have not nearly hit our peak."
The two rivals are currently trending in opposite directions. Alabama has lost its last two meets, while Auburn has reeled off two victories in a row.
The Crimson Tide, however, feels it is still a long way away from reaching its full potential. And there would be no better time than at home against Auburn to finally put everything together.
"We know that they're probably going to have the meet of their life," senior Marissa Gutierrez said. "So we just have to use that to fuel us and make us even better."
The disparity in the series record isn't exactly reflected in the previous few meetings between the schools, especially in Auburn. Alabama has won the last three meets in Auburn by a combined score of just .55.
And the magnitude of the rivalry isn't lost on Patterson's gymnasts, many of whom come from outside of the state of Alabama. She said she relies on the older gymnasts to educate them. And once they experience a football season it becomes even more apparent.
"I think people kind of get it with football, with how big of a rivalry things are," said senior Ashley Sledge, who is originally from Birmingham. "So by the time we get around to gymnastics season everyone has it: you don't want to lose to Auburn."
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The University of San Diego will host the third annual Southern California Botball Tournament Saturday, March 31.
The robotics competition runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in USD's Sports Center, just east of the main campus entrance at the top of Linda Vista Road. Students will be available for filming throughout the day but because the robots are light sensitive, the best times for filming are the practice sessions between 8:30 and 10 a.m. and noon and 2 p.m. Finals for the competition will be at approximately 5 p.m. with an awards ceremony to follow.
At the tournament, 31 student teams from grades 7-12 from all over Southern California will participate, bringing their robots they have worked on for seven weeks. Their robots are autonomous and will be performing their tasks without using a remote control.
The event is free and open to the public. Students and families who are interested in math, science, technology, and robots are encouraged to attend.
Botball is an educational program organized by the Norman, Oklahoma-based KISS Institute for Practical Robotics that emphasizes learning basic principles of engineering and programming through direct experience in building and programming working robots. KISS is a National Partner in Education of the NASA Robotics Education Project. USD's Institute of College Initiatives and the USD Engineering Programs are co-sponsors of the event
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Bayou Roma restaurant, located at 123 Fifth Ave. in historic downtown Hendersonville, will be closing its doors Saturday.
"Due to circumstances beyond of our control, we are having to take these measures," said owner James Martin. "We want to thank all of our loyal customers that have supported us these past 18 months."
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Oxford opens season in fine style
Throughout the preseason and especially during the past few days, Oxford High football coach Joe Stochmal harped on the fact that the Woverines had never beaten Weston and dropped a 34-15 decision in Week 2 last year.
That all changed Thursday afternoon in the season opener. The Wolverines went on the road and topped Weston, 23-6, in a South-West Conference matchup.
"This was really huge for us," said Oxford senior quarterback Kyle Chudoba. "It's a real confidence booster. You could tell on the bus ride over and in the locker room just prior to the game that everyone was focused and ready to go."
Chudoba, making his first career start at QB, converted seven of 16 passes for 145 yards, including a 33-yard TD strike to Kevin Loschiavo for the opening score of the game.
Senior Chris VanKam-erik recorded two interceptions, including one that he returned 41 yards for a touchdown, and also caught two passes for 43 yards. Loschiavo caught four passes for 94 yards.
Oxford running back Marcus Esteves rushed the ball 11 times for 54 yards and a touchdown while Steve Persson had 11 carries for 49 yards and intercepted a pass on defense for Oxford (1-0).
"We started off pretty well, but we know that we have a lot more to improve on and that's what's good about us," said Chudoba, who also played defensive back. "Weston runs the triple-option. Our game plan was to shut them down, and we did a pretty good job. (VanKamerik) got a pick early in the game and that helped set up our offense."
Oxford plays at New Fairfield a week from today. The Wolverines went 8-2 last season, narrowly missing the Class S playoffs.
"We can't afford to have a slip-up," said Chudoba. "We wanted to get our season off to a good start, and we're all feeling pretty good right now. It was definitely a fun bus ride home. But we'll be back to business (today)."
Sam Panton had 17 carries for 91 yards for Weston (0-1).
Oxford defensive coordinator Charlie Rizzio was pleased with the defensive effort.
"Overall, we played pretty well," said Rizzio. "Historically, we have struggled a little bit defensively against Weston. We had given up big plays and a decent amount of points in those games. But we have a veteran group of kids this year, and they were prepared."
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Janice learns it was all staged.
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UA's Grant takes challenge for Boys and Girls Club
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 11:24 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama basketball coach Anthony Grant will participate in the Infiniti Coaches' Charity Challenge on behalf of the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama for the chance to win $100,000 for the charity.
Voting opened Tuesday for the 48 participating coaches and charities at www.espn.com/infiniti and votes can be cast daily.
Grant was a Boys and Girls Club attendee as a youth, along with other familiar names such as actor Denzel Washington and Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
It is a main reason Grant, along with his wife, Chris, have selected the local Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama as the charity to receive the donation.
"It is a privilege to be a part of the 2013 Infiniti Coaches Challenge," Grant said.
"This is for a great cause and it is something that has special meaning for me.
"Both my wife and I have worked closely with the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama and we are happy to provide support and assistance to our community and this particular organization."
Infiniti, a corporate partner of NCAA men's basketball and the National Association of Basketball Coaches, will donate $5,000 to each of the participating charities and award $100,000 to the winning coach's charity.
The program pits 48 NABC coaches in a fan-vote challenge, with the total contribution again exceeding $300,000. Fan participation will determine the winner over an eight-week period.
For the first six weeks, four brackets of 12 coaches will be paired against each other, with the winners from each group moving on to the next round in week seven and the final round in week eight. Fans can vote for one coach per region per day.
The winning coach will be announced March 11.
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slot 1
1A long, narrow aperture or slit in a machine for something to be inserted: he slid a coin into the slot of the jukebox
More example sentences
- This user-friendly machine has a tiny slot for inserting the bank-notes and the service provided is free.
- I inserted a CD into the insert slot on the machine and it pulled the CD inside.
- Coffee drinkers in luxurious coffee shops may throw a disrespectful or pathetic look on me, one who puts coins in the slot of a coffee machine.
1.1A groove or channel into which something fits or in which something works, such as one in the head of a screw.
Example sentences
- It's certainly usable, but maybe having slots instead of screw holes for more flexibility when mounting would have been better.
- When placed into a slot that fits the screw's groove and shape, this allows for rotary motion to be converted into forward or backward motion.
- It's easy to find a bit that fits the screw slot properly.
2An allotted place in an arrangement or plan such as a broadcasting schedule: a late-night television slot landing slots at O'Hare
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- The subject of no fewer than three slots on television news bulletins on Thursday night, it was an unprecedented achievement for an editor demanding his paper gets talked about.
- The BBC is to place greater emphasis on foreign affairs programming with the announcement of funding for more commissions, to be broadcast in prime-time slots.
- In another change from the usual pattern, the lectures will be broadcast in a morning slot at 9.00 am (with a repeat in the evening).
spot, time, period, niche, space
informal window
verb (slots, slotting, slotted)[with object]
1Place (something) into a long, narrow aperture: he slotted a cassette into the tape machine the plates come in sections that can be slotted together
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- This is what a new £7.4million extension to Bradford Royal Infirmary will look like when the prefabricated sections are slotted together.
- South Lakeland residents are being urged to slot their coins in the collecting tins of the Royal British Legion to invest in a poppy to wear with pride.
- The best outcome would be encouragement of a view of education which placed more emphasis on drawing people out (which is what the Latin educare means) and less on slotting them in to jobs.
insert, put, place, slide, slip
1.1 [no object] Be placed or able to be placed into a slot: the processors will slot into a personal computer
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- Hakkinen, who started from third position, quickly slotted behind Schumacher, both avoiding the pile-up drama going on behind them.
- Anyway, we placed the tin full of snow on the kitchen table and I carefully spooned some out onto a blank slide which I then slotted under the microscope lens.
- Into this you can slot 35 mm slides and negatives (two at a time) to transfer to your computer for posterity, or print out for all to enjoy.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'slight depression running down the middle of the chest', surviving as a Scots term): from Old French esclot, of obscure origin.
Words that rhyme with slotallot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht
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noun(usually slots)
The track of a deer, visible as slotted footprints in soft ground.
Late 16th century: from Old French esclot 'hoofprint of a horse', probably from Old Norse slóth 'trail'; compare with sleuth.
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Syllabification: slot
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Slot 3
(the Slot) Name given in World War II by US forces to New Georgia Sound, in the central Solomon Islands. Japanese forces trying to defend Guadalcanal were seen as coming consistently down this passage from the northwest.
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There's a big lizard out there, rumbling toward a cineplex near you. And I don't know if we should try to stop it.
Like so many middle-aged men, I grew up with serious love for Godzilla. I loved him when he was bad, I loved him when he somehow became good, and I loved him when I could see the zipper going up the length of his back. When Channel 2's late-night "Creature Features" played Godzilla movies, I got the same feeling that I did in later years when going to see my favorite band play in concert. I wanted to name my first born after Godzilla, but her mother apparently didn't watch the same movies I did growing up.
So you'd think I'd be happy that they're bringing back my old pal next year, in a real bang-up 21st-century action film -- especially since someone has to erase the still-lingering stench of the 1998 reboot, starring Matthew Broderick. In that movie, my friend was stripped of his iconic look and personality in favor of some redrawn alien dinosaur-looking thingie that ended up being a girl (well, if it wasn't a girl, then I don't know what it was doing having eggs, which, of course, were just intended to spawn a sequel in case the movie did well enough, which it didn't).
A dependable star
With the old Godzilla, Hollywood didn't have to hedge its bets. Either another monster threw him into the ocean at movie's end or he jumped in himself after vanquishing the latest threat to humanity, leaving everyone on the shore wondering when the next movie would come out and whether he was really a fish. Of course, he would always return. Godzilla was like a modern Sylvester Stallone: from another age, yet determined to come back and destroy again. And you always got the idea that, whether cast as the good guy or the bad guy, he was always having a good time. If some of the later movies became tongue-in-cheek -- and some did -- at least the title character seemed like he was in on the joke.
But things have changed in Hollywood. The standard in giant monster movies is no longer sticking a guy in a suit and letting him wrestle another guy in a suit, crushing a major metropolitan area in the process. We have an updated "Transformers." We have an updated "Star Trek." We will have an updated "Star Wars," for which Disney didn't pay billions of dollars just to get Mark Hamill off unemployment. Standards have changed and, if you're going to reboot a classic, you better do it bigger and better than anyone ever imagined.
Loads of personality
But what would that mean for Godzilla, whose personality is somewhere between your favorite nasty guard dog and cousin Eddie from "Christmas Vacation"? He celebrates, he gloats, he unleashes history's worst case of bad breath. Either we loathe him for being a radioactive menace (in the 1954 original "Godzilla" film) or love him for destroying anything that even looks cross-eyed at his child (in 1967's "Son of Godzilla"). Either way, he stood for something.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are mum on the plot. At least there are indications the filmmakers are taking this seriously, casting talented actors such as Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston. Right, Bryan Cranston. Godzilla hooked on meth would be pretty entertaining.
Here's hoping they can balance the action with giving the big boy the personality he deserves. If they can't advance the franchise without retaining the things that made Godzilla so awesome to begin with -- which the 1998 reboot utterly failed at -- then it won't work. Sometimes all the 21st-century big-bang technology glosses over what makes a character iconic. Hopefully the special-effects wizards who will no doubt turn this into a 3-D extravaganza will understand that and perhaps include the moral equivalent to the zipper running up his back in a couple of scenes.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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If you have a social media account like Facebook, you've definitely seen them.
They sum up complicated and sometimes controversial issues in a glance.
They're called "memes."
"I think most people have seen them even if they can't identify it and if they only read it on paper they probably don't know how to pronounce it," said UCCS Communications professor Laura Eurich.
"Meme" rhymes with "Team."
The creator of a popular Facebook page "Colorado Springs Memes," says they are popular because of our shrinking attention spans.
"Attention spans, especially with the advent of social media, text messaging, Twitter, things like that are just going to get shorter and shorter," said the creator who wants to remain anonymous so he can continue to have creative freedom.
Eurich says memes are the modern "water cooler" conversations that we share via social media.
"Where we used to talk about the weather, well now we can all like a meme on Facebook," Eurich said.
What makes a good meme is simple.
"I think the best memes are the ones that are relevant, quick, concise and to the point…and funny," said COS Memes.
Besides brevity, humor is a must with memes.
"Any picture with a quick and witty caption," COS Memes said.
COS Memes says his biggest audience is 18-24 year-olds. And his favorite memes usually involve KRDO Newschannel 13's Chief Meteorologist, Matt Meister.
"Meister makes it very easy," COS Memes said.