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- Choosing or creating a data source
- Using Mail Merge with Outlook contacts
- Merging data from an Excel spreadsheet
- Inserting address blocks and greetings
- Matching fields from a data source
- Previewing merge results
- Using rules for customized merges
Skill Level Intermediate
Most organizations maintain a lot of data in Microsoft Excel, and it's easy to see why. Excel is incredibly powerful and yet simple to use when you want to enter, sort, filter and analyze data. Let's see how we can use Microsoft Excel as a data source for our mail merge. We have our letter open, with the text that will be variable text highlighted. Let's go ahead and open an Excel workbook. We will go to Select Recipients > Use Existing List, and I am going to go open my Exercises folder in Chapter 1 and select the Vendors Workbook.
When I open the workbook, there are two different tables listed, but these aren't really tables; they are worksheets. I know they are worksheets, because they have a dollar sign at the end of their name, and it says that the first row of data contains column headers for both of these. There are some column headers, so that's great. Now, I am going to open up this first data set, which is called Current. When I click on Edit Recipient List, you will notice that the Data Source is listed as the workbook Vendors.xls, and then we have, at the top here, field names or column headings that were picked up out of that data source: Last, First, Email, Name of Company.
If you scroll across, you will notice this is a nice data source. Every column has a heading, the data looks like the data we would expect, and then out to the end, we start getting F10, F11, F12. These are field names. They will keep going as long as we actually have space, and this is simply the unnamed columns that we have. We don't have any data in those columns, so we don't really care. This all works for us. Let's now take a look at the other data set that we have in this same workbook inside of Vendors.xls. We will go back to Select Recipients > Use Existing List, and return to the Exercises folder on the desktop and open Vendors again, and this time we are going to choose the second worksheet, which is called Pending.
I am going to click OK and look at the Recipient List, and one of the things I will notice is that this worksheet is actually more like most of the worksheets you will probably use. The data doesn't start immediately at the very top of the worksheet. There's a couple of rows that have other information in them - perhaps titles or instructions - and so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight rows of data that really aren't data. The unfortunate thing about this is that because our information doesn't start in row one with column headings, what I have is one label that says Type vendor application.
It's actually just some information, and then those unidentified fields, F1, F2, F3, F4, and so on, start immediately. So even though the information is labeled with an application date, a reference check date, first, last, and so on, I'd like these fields to be up here, but they are not, simply because they are not in row one. There are some folks who would just proceed through this merge at this point, but I am not one of them, because I actually want to be able to put fields in my letter and see what they are called. I don't wan to have to create a little cheat sheet that says F3 really is the first name, and F5 really is the name of the company.
So we are going to go make a change to this worksheet in Excel, so that we can more easily identify it for use in our mail merge. I have already opened this workbook in Microsoft Excel, and if you look, here is that current sheet that starts in row one with our field names. Here is the Pending sheet, and if we take a look, rows one through eight have nothing to do really with the data that we will use in a mail merge. So what I am going to do is I am going to select the data that we do want to use in our mail merge, and we are going to give it a name, so that we can find that name when we open the workbook.
So we are looking at A through K, and then all the way down to row 88. You could select a few extra rows if you wanted to. And the speedy way to select this range of data, or any other range, by the way, is to select the first cell, hold Ctrl and Shift on your keyboard go to the right and go down. Excel will automatically select all the way to the right, until it runs out of cells that are used, and all the way down, so again, another really quick way to select this data. The goal here though, is to name this data range. To the left of the Formula bar is an area called the Name Box, and I can click in the Name Box and simply give this a name.
It can't have a space in it. For example, these are our pending vendor applications, so I could call his PendingApps, for example, any name I want, and then I have to remember not just to click somewhere else, but to press Enter. That's the part you are most likely to forget. So I am going to press Enter, and I can check that that name works by clicking any place else in the workbook, clicking the down arrow ,and going back to PendingApps. And Excel says, if you choose this, this is the area that we are talking about. My attention here isn't to teach you about naming in Excel other than this; however, I will tell you that you will find all the names in the workbook by clicking the Formulas tab and choosing the Name Manager, and if you need to edit or delete or rename this named range, this is what you will do it here, in this Name Manager dialog box.
Let's go ahead and save our Excel workbook, and it says it's in Compatibility Mode right now. We could take care of that while we are here, as well, by converting it. So we will click OK. We will click Yes, and now this Vendors workbook is no longer in Compatibility mode. It's a nice 2007-2010 Workbook now, and we are going to save this entire workbook and close it. Now, we are back in Microsoft Word again, and let's go find that named range. We do it exactly the same way we found the worksheets. Select Recipients > Use Existing List. Our Excel workbook is still on the desktop.
It's still in the Exercises Folder in Chapter 1, and you will notice now that when we open that workbook, we have the two worksheets that end in a dollar sign, but we also have that named range we just created and saved the workbook. So let's go pick up PendingApps as our mail merge data source, and when we look at Edit Recipient List, you will notice that only the named range is imported; therefore, we get nice field names at the top of our Mail Merge Recipients List. Now you can do all of the same things and this mail merge Recipients List from Excel as you could in the list that we typed ourselves, or in the contacts we imported from Outlook.
We can sort using the column headings or open a Sort dialog box. We can Filter, to say, for example, that we only want to have those records where the Business State is Equal to Ohio or the Business State is Equal to California. You may actually enter a lot of these if you wish to limit the list, and we should only now see records from California and Ohio. We can find duplicates. We can look to make sure a particular recipient is in our list. If we know that we are looking for someone that should be in this data set, that's a good way to check and make sure that you have the data that you actually want.
So, two different ways that you can identify the actual Excel data that Word should use as your data source: first, a simple worksheet that ideally contains no other data, or second, by identifying the data in Excel, naming the range and saving it. You will always make this choice based, not on what's happening in Word, but how your data is arranged within the worksheets in Microsoft Excel.


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Just Do What Fred Did
Fred in his heyday.
Fred and John Wayne on a shoot
All of you certainly remember Fred Goldberg, who ran Chiat/Day's San Francisco office, as well as founding his own agency. As reported earlier on this site, he has written a book: "The Insanity of Advertising."
Many of you will also remember Robert Chandler a writer and creative group head in the LA office from 1977-1981. He sent me his very own review of Fred's book, to which he places the first finger of each of his hands in an enthusiastically upright position.
To Chiat/Day alum, to anybody in advertising, or who find advertising and marketing intriguing,
I commend to you Fred Goldberg's new memoir on his adventures in the ad trade, THE INSANITY OF ADVERTISING, to be published in January.
Fred and I worked on some of the same accounts and in some of the same places - notably Chiat/Day and Y&R on Apple and Gallo - but never at the same time.
I was always hearing about Fred, sometimes when he'd been at a place before me, sometimes when he'd gone on to a place I'd worked.
Fred, like Jay Chiat who figures large in his memoirs, has been both notable and controversial. And for similar reasons. He has a reputation as being very smart, very tough, and very demanding.
And being and doing so, he always got good results.
Fred inspired both admiration and trepidation, both affection and the opposite. But, that is almost always the arc of an outstanding career, if not absolutely always.
I've read two chapters of his book. The are engaging, straightforward and very readable. In each instance where I've known the subject or the people, I've found Fred's observations to be astute, accurate. And, particularly interesting to hear his perspective on things I knew from my own and others' points of view.
Fred went on to found a very successful agency, Goldberg, Moser & O'Neil of San Francisco.
I'm not necessarily a fan of books on ad biz, even when very good. And, I often have a peculiar aversion to reading about things I know a lot about personally. Perhaps through fear or anticipated annoyance that the writer is going to getting things a little or very wrong.
But, I have enjoyed Fred's chapters, and after having partaken of the hors d'oeuvres, look forward to the entire meal in January.
His promotional website is very good.
And here's the Amazon page.
Submitted by Robert Chandler, Chiat/Day L.A. writer and creative group head,
1977 - 1981
And here are some spicy excerpts from Fred's book:
Jay hired me after a breakfast meeting at the Cheese & Olive in Marina del Rey. The next most memorable thing about that morning I was hired came after we shook hands. He said, "Come with me." We walked across Ocean Avenue to a place called the Baja Cantina, where about 20 of Jay's buddies and gal pals had gathered for brunch. It was only 11 a.m. and half of them were already drunk as skunks. The other half were high as kites. I thought to myself, what have I just done?
At the end of 1985, Jay Chiat came up with one of his largest and most grandiose ideas. Why not buy two great creative advertising agencies, Ally & Gargano and Hal Riney, and create a new entity to be known as Ally Chiat Riney? This naming would likely be the only thing that the three companies might amicably agree upon since the names were in alphabetical order, thereby removing some of the political and emotional tension.
In many ways, this combination, Ally Chiat Riney, was a brilliant thought since it would have brought together arguably the three most creative agencies of the time, each a key player in an important advertising market: NewYork, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, respectively.
Not too much thought was given as to how Ally and Chiat and Riney might work together, well or not, but Jay offered that he would "run it." Uh-huh.
John Sculley (ex–Apple Computer CEO) writes in his book Odyssey that he asked Chiat/Day, "See if there is a way to take advantage of the fact that 1984 was the year that George Orwell chose for his famous prophecy of a totalitarian regime in which Big Brother controls all of man's actions and thoughts."
Actually, the Orwellian idea had been bouncing around Chiat/Day well before Sculley even arrived at Apple. I will give him credit, though, for sometimes recognizing a good idea when he heard one, since the idea had been discussed as part of the product launch.
He wanted to see where we were at and upon looking at the very first ad threw a tantrum of disappointment and went on to crap on every single piece of advertising we had lined up around the conference room walls.
"Show me the work." "This is all shit." "What have you guys been thinking?" "We're in trouble." "This is shit." All of this was expressed at the top of Jay's voice in an extremely irritated and condescending manner. Which was par for Jay's course.
Everyone was sufficiently demotivated and tired, when Lee Clow asked Jay to take a stroll with him, which they did. Lee used that walk to speak persuasively and in his usual calm manner. "OK, asshole, you go present whatever you want."
We all went to sleep and the next morning drove over to Apple and presented all of the work exactly as it was the night before. Of the 45 ads, 44 were approved for production.
All excerpts (c) by Fred Goldberg and Council Oak Books


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The initial recipient of the award will be Latasha E. Shaw. The prize will be awarded to the Latasha Shaw Foundation.
The tragic death of Latasha E. Shaw on September 29th has deeply affected many of us in the University of Rochester community. It is saddening enough to lose any employee at the age of 36, but so much harder to bear when she was fatally stabbed when she went to an intersection in northwest Rochester where her daughter earlier had been assaulted.
Her life was a testament to the value she placed in helping others. She was a friend to many at our University, a leader of the River Campus Chapter of SEIU Local 200 United, a woman of indomitable courage with great love for her family. She was also someone remembered for always smiling, for the joy she took in being with her friends, for her support of colleagues.
In subsequent years, the Associate Vice President for Human Resources will chair a selection committee otherwise composed of non-management employees.
The 2008 recipient will be honored at the Annual Employee Service Awards Dinner to be held in June 2008.
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on November 17, 2013 - 12:01 AM
The Last First Day
By Carrie Brown
292 pages, $24.95
Evil Eye: Four Novellas
Of Love Gone Wrong
By Joyce Carol Oates
The Mysterious Press
216 pages, $23
By Karen Brady
Love is sad, and sometimes savage, in two fascinating new works of fiction by Carrie Brown and Joyce Carol Oates – one tender, one unnerving, both driven by fear.
Brown's novel, "The Last First Day," is the gentle offering here – a tale of such true love that its protagonist, Ruth van Dusen, lives in constant terror of losing her cherished husband, Peter.
Oates' "Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong" deals with love that is far more complicated – a woman in each of its four novellas finding herself under the possessive sway of a persuasive and, ultimately, evil man.
Polar opposites at first glance, the two books are further linked by the vulnerabilities of all of the women here – women already damaged and ripe for the picking.
In this sense, "The Last First Day" and "Evil Eye" make intriguing psychological studies. Beyond that, they both involve the sorts of private sorrows and secret fears that, if we can't identify with them, even a little, may be lurking right next door.
Brown's Ruth van Dusen is a case in point. Outwardly, she is the kind and capable wife of the longtime, revered head of the Derry School – a New England boarding and prep school founded in the 1800s, initially "to educate boys once referred to as unfortunate."
We meet her on what will turn out to be the van Dusens' last "First Day" at Derry, where they have lived for more than 50 years, 40 of them in the headmaster's house. Ruth, at 76, is preparing for the evening gathering she and Peter have held for faculty and staff at the end of every Derry "First Day" (of the fall semester) since Peter became head of school. Finding an old film projector and reels of footage from Peter's early days as an American history teacher at Derry, Ruth is reminded of the winter Robert Frost came to read his poems at Derry:
"The evening had been a triumph for Peter, who had arranged it, and an honor for Derry, which then had no real standing among boys' schools of the day.… Mr. Frost had eaten his dinner with apparent appetite but without saying much, his head bent over his plate. His face was so shut away and expressionless that Ruth imagined he had suffered recently a personal loss of great severity.
"But when he began to read in the chapel later that night, coming up to the podium after Peter's introduction with the slow steps of a man accompanying a coffin to the grave, his voice was surprisingly strong. Ruth knew that even the philistines among the trustees could not have failed to be moved.
"I have been one acquainted with the night, Mr. Frost began …"
Ruth's fond revery is short-lived, however, for she is uneasy these days, Peter now suffering from a rare and debilitating disease and she well aware of what the future will inevitably bring. And there is something else: Although she feels blessed by her long marriage to the notable, upstanding Peter, she is also, at 76, achingly aware that she "had wanted to be of use in the world" and that, in this regard, "her work … had not been equal to Peter's."
Brown's Ruth is, then, petulant but proud of her lot – known for her warmth and domestic skills as the-woman-behind-the-man, a Smith College graduate whose married life began in an era when most females could only dream of making a mark. Plus, Derry was a world unto itself, set on many acres in Maine, a place where a headmaster's wife could easily feel "stuck."
Lulled into this dynamic, the reader of "The Last First Day" is soon surprised: Brown's novel takes a U-turn. The expected doesn't happen. Something else does – and all of a sudden it is 1945, Ruth but a child, moving from town to town, from seedy home to seedy home, with her untrustworthy father, each move generating still another "first day."
Brown is skilful in this, showing us how time and place may have nothing to do with Ruth's sense of powerlessness, how she came by self-doubt honestly and how even the esteemed Peter had once, and gravely, been a coward.
Brown is also a poetic writer, particularly when describing the roughly beautiful Maine outdoors, and if – at times – her plot twists seem a bit contrived, we suddenly realize these are not twists but metaphors for Ruth's universe. In one instance, during the First Day gathering in the headmaster's home, she enters the kitchen to check on her famous cheese puffs – and is held up at gunpoint by a man in tatters who, against the shrill sounds of the cocktailing First Day crowd, steals her old Subaru. Ruth's response, after hearing him drive away, is to tend to the cheese puffs.
This is a book that grows in strength, spanning the 1960s to the present day and giving us, in addition to the van Dusens, the memorable Dr. Wenning, a female psychiatrist Ruth worked for during Peter's days in graduate school at Yale. Dr. Wenning, most of whose family died in concentration camps, is a voice of wisdom throughout "The Last First Day," always seeing clearly what Ruth cannot.
Oates' "Evil Eye" also concerns women still in victim mode – but there is nothing subtle about these novellas. They are straight-out sinister and all the more chilling, as their protagonists are clearly in danger.
Because these are works by Oates, each is masterfully wrought – particularly the title novella, "Evil Eye," which gives us Mariana, the young fourth wife of an internationally respected academic named Austin Mohr. He is 30 years Mariana's senior, and they live in the home he has shared with all of his wives, filled with exotic objects, including "a strange sculpted-glass object," a "nazar" given to Austin by his first wife, Ines, "to ward off the 'evil eye.' "
As we enter their home, Ines is coming to visit – an event that will underscore for Mariana why her predecessors (as well as Austin's children) "fled him. All of them." Later, she will realize, "It must be all women he fears and loathes – I am only the current woman."
In "So Near Any Time Always," the spaces in the title are deliberate, a graphic way of emphasizing the Gogol-like way the young man Desmond mesmerizes Lizbeth, the girl from Strykersville, instilling his presence upon her psyche for all time.
"The Execution" has a male protagonist (yet a female victim) – Bart Hansen, a boy akin to the real Christopher Porco, who kills his father and critically wounds his mother only to profess his innocence and have his maimed and now-dependent mother stand behind him. (Oates, brought up in the Lockport area, sets his trial for murder in Niagara County.)
Finally, there is the alarming "The Flatbed," in which love "indistinguishable from possession" will cause "bright laughter" to fall from the protagonist's mouth "like broken glass."
These are not novellas for the faint of heart. But, if you are up to them, they are glorious.
Karen Brady is a former Buffalo News columnist.


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The golden age of Roger Ebert FEB 17 2010
Esquire has a really nice feature on Roger Ebert, who has experienced a rebirth as a writer since a series of operations .
But now everything he says must be written, either first on his laptop and funneled through speakers or, as he usually prefers, on some kind of paper. His new life is lived through Times New Roman and chicken scratch. So many words, so much writing -- it's like a kind of explosion is taking place on the second floor of his brownstone. It's not the food or the drink he worries about anymore -- I went thru a period when I obsessed about root beer + Steak + Shake malts, he writes on a blue Post-it note -- but how many more words he can get out in the time he has left.
I've always liked Ebert and I consider this version an upgrade...he's doing his best work. (thx, david)
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Earthworm salad served at Kremlin dinner for President Wulff
Russian officials have been left red-faced after a salad containing a live earthworm was served at a dinner in honour of German President Christian Wulff, media reported Thursday.
The incident came to light after a Russian regional governor, evidently finding the matter hilarious, wrote a Twitter entry about the worm and linked to a photo. The governor, Dmitri Zelenin, has been branded an "imbecile" and could now lose his job, The Moscow Times reported.
Zelenin, 47, former head of the giant mining company Norilsk Nickel, has since removed the blog post and photo. In the original post, Zelenin quipped of the worm: "It was a very special way to show the salad was fresh."
The invertebrate salad was served at a dinner at the Kremlin on Tuesday night in honour of Wulff, who is on a state visit to Russia. He has met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
In the photo posted by Zelenin, who is governor of the Tver region in western Russia, a worm is clearly crawling on the edge of the plate. It is not known how Wulff reacted.
Sergei Prikhodko, an aide to President Medvedev, called for Zelenin to be sacked. It should be possible by law to fire a governor because of "imbecility," he said.
"Fortunately, I'm responsible for foreign policy questions, but I should probably suggest to my colleagues who are dealing with the law to introduce to the criteria for evaluating governors a line on 'termination for imbecility,'" said Prikhodko, according to The Moscow Times
"I won't even comment on irresponsibility and foolishness," he said.
Medvedev has the power to hire and fire the 83 regional governors in Russia.
Anatoly Galkin, the Kremlin's head chef, brushed off Zelenin's allegation as "nonsense" in an interview to Lifenews.ru.
All dishes served in the Kremlin "go through a very careful examination," Galkin said, adding that he was on vacation and could not personally look into the matter.
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sustantivo (plural tyrannies)[mass noun]
1Cruel and oppressive government or rule: refugees fleeing tyranny and oppression
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- Freedom fighters must have some way of overthrowing tyranny, oppression, or imperialism.
- The Second World War has long been presented to the American people as a 'Good War,' a war for democracy against fascism and tyranny.
despotism, absolutism, absolute power, autocracy, dictatorship, undemocratic rule, reign of terror, totalitarianism, Fascism;
oppression, suppression, repression, subjugation, enslavement;
authoritarianism, high-handedness, imperiousness, bullying, harshness, strictness, severity, cruelty, brutality, ruthlessness, injustice, unjustness
1.1 [count noun] A state under cruel and oppressive government.
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- The first was the identification of socialism with the Stalinist tyrannies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
- A central problem of socialist politics is to prevent the workers (including socialist entrepreneurs) from creating tyrannies of producers.
1.2Cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control: the tyranny of her stepmother figurative the tyranny of the nine-to-five day
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- In order to be able to do this, we needed to be free from all kinds of arbitrary power, including majoritarian tyranny.
- In our conflict with terror and tyranny, we have an unmatched advantage, a power that cannot be resisted, and that is the appeal of freedom to all mankind.
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the tyranny of distance
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Fresh off his run on The Incredible Hulk, writer Greg Pak will team with artist Mike McKone on Astonishing X-Men, Marvel announced today.
Their run begins in November's Issue 44 as Storm seeks out Cyclops in a story that Marvel promises will feature "not just all-out action, but possibly a surprising romance." But wait, isn't Ororo, queen of Wakanda, married to T'Challa?
"After Xavier, the X-Men's two greatest leaders are Scott and Ororo," Pak says in an interview at Marvel.com. "They've borne responsibilities few others can conceive. And just those experiences alone should provide them [with] reasons to bond. But maybe they've just never had a moment to consider it; each has always seemed to be wrapped up in a wild romance with someone else. The current Scott/Emma and Storm/T'Challa relationships are amongst the most passionate in the Marvel Universe. So yes, what the heck is going on? I'll just say that everything that's happening is utterly inconceivable, but completely real, completely in character, and completely in continuity."
Astonishing X-Men marks a return to Marvel's mutant franchise for both Pak and McKone. Pak wrote two X-Men: Phoenix miniseries as well as Magneto: Testament, while McKone co-created Exiles and drew issues of X-Men: Prime and X-Men: Unlimited.
"I am so ridiculously happy to be working with Mike on this book," Pak says. "He's tearing it up with his trademark clean lines, dynamic action, and phenomenal character work. And he's cranking up the sexy like nobody's business. Just look at that cover.
Finally!! It took long enough.
Hm, just feels wrong somehow.
Like seeing two siblings go at it. Or even Superman/Wonder Woman.
But wait, wouldn't this take place after schism? SPOILERS!!!
Yeah, baby, yeah!
About time!
Okay, so now after Schism Astonishing X-Men will be IN-Continuity? I thought that the WHOLE PURPOSE of Astonishing was to be a continuity light story so that people could read and X-book without having to worry about being bogged down with continuity and references to what's going on in the wider Marvel universe. Did I just imagine that whole thing.
Also, if this book comes out in November then Marvel just botched another attempt at creating drama…. there were rumors put out by the writers of Schism and such that Cyclops might NOT make it through Schism… unless by seeing Storm's mohawk this is a flashback or time slip or time travel thing… in which case you're referring to older X-Men comics which once again breaks down the whole light continuity marketing campaign. Ugh… seriously… do we need astonishing?
Isn't that Storm's new costume from Xenogenesis? I didn't know they were still keeping those.
Well, I'll see the reviews and how things pan out, but I don't know about this. Scott and Emma need to go now, but Storm and T'Challa has such a flavor to it. If it's only temporary, I won't mind.
So they're saying that it's completely IN character for Scott to cheat on his girl and Storm to cheat on her husband? This is just silly. Astonishing should've ended when Joss Whedon left.
This series is kinda unnecessary, just like Girschler's X-Men. It should have been canned after Ellis's bio-sentinel arc.
It's just been plodding along every since with Gage and Way and just doesn't have a heck of a lotta purpose. Again, like Girschler's X-Men.
And yeah, Storm kissing Cyclops does seem a little like a brother and sister making out. Kinda weird, honestly.
What flavor is there to Storm and T'Challa? You barely even see them together anymore. And the whole Storm and T'Challa thing was ridiculous to begin with. They were never much more than acquaintances until Marvel decided they should be married, then they retconned both their histories to establish some sort of connection so it would all make sense. It was essentially a case of "Hey, they're both from Africa! Let's make them be married!" Sheesh. I don't care one way or another for the Cyclops/Storm relationship, but if it breaks up Storm and T'Challa, I'm all for it.
YUCCH! i'll buy this book so I can burn it. I won't actually burn it, but I won't share it with any of my friends. This storyline turns me off! I hope it's a secret past story or something, I could see Storm hooking up with Cyclops at one time, but she's a married woman now! That's just wrong. I guess Marvel doesn't want black people buying their comics, because this is a real diss. Show black people some respect! That's as bad as Michelle O'Bama kissing Bill Clinton. Where's the Black Panthers when we need them? And the Ultimate Spider-Man Black/Hispanic thing, written by a white man? Luke Cage marrying Jessica Jones and they have a kid? C'mon, Marvel, too much controversy of this type could cost you readers. I'm on the fence right now, I do not like this!
I believe that ever since Ellis got on the book, we've been seeing the X-Men in Ghost Box worlds. Because that whole 'light continuity' thing doesn't work for me. If I see Storm with a mohawk then it's not the same woman in the other X-titles.
And for the record, I DO believe Scott would cheat on Emma. Why wouldn't he? He cheated on Jean WITH Emma. But it's Ghost Box Scott.
@Rick: not sure if serious… -_-;
Anyway, I'm calling psychic manipulation. Maybe Empath is out of jail and somebody remember what his powers actually are.
Or maybe Pak just miss Claremont's X-Men, who were very open minded.
Also, where are the big names writers who were suposed to work on Astonishing. I'm not talking about quality (I lobe Gage, although I'm not a fan of Way and Pak), but, popularity. Gage, Pak or Way are not big superstars like Whedon or Ellis.
In continuity is not the same as referring to continuity.
A story that's in continuity is one that will be and can be referenced by others in the 616 but it is continuity light in that it won't rely heavily on whatever events are happening in other books at the time.
To me storm's mohawk suggests this story will be set in the past. Whatever the story though an X-book by Pak and Mckone is one I'm looking forward to!
@Rick: if you buy the book, you're suporting it. If you don't like, don't contribute to the sales.
This image was meant to shock with something never done before and pull people into this failing book. There's probably an explanation for this that won't shatter their current relationships.
The bigger issue is how does Storm have a mohawk in only this book? Then again, Psylocke has different powers in UXM and UXF, so it's whatever these days.
BTW, Scott cheated on Madelyne Pryor for Jean. He cheated on Jean for Emma. He will cheat on Emma for ______?
The ever rotating cast of women for cyclops
Can't say I've ever read a Pak book–but McKone's a talented artist.
Just what we needed, still another Scott centered story.
I think Cyke and Storm make PERFECT sense! I mean, I wouldn't touch Scott w/ a ten foot pole after the way he's been written in recent years, however he and Storm always had such a great relationship in the past. I think she and Scott make WAY more sense than Storm and Black Panther. That said, I know they're just teasing us w/ an image like that. It bums me out, but I'll absolutely be picking this up even if romance isn't in the cards.
Just don't see sparkage between Cyclops and Storm. I think she might respect his tactical abilities but I don't see her finding him all that compelling as a romantic interest: too stoic and repressed. Bad girls like Emma might enjoy loosening up Boy Scouts like him. Jean might find his obsessive determination forcefully appealing but my idea of Storm would find him boring. And not sure if Cyclops is easy going enough to ever forget that she kicked his @$$, without her powers, when vying for leadership of the X-Men. He might like Emma's playful pushing of his boundaries but my idea of Cyclops is too competitive for being considered the one, true mutant leader that when Storm disagrees with him, he'd only read it as insubordination.
I was, however, an advocate for her hooking up with his son, Cable, back in the day.
The moment Marvel decided to write the stories and define their characters as a whole they lost me as a buyer. Nothing seems even remotely interesting to me any more, 'cause most of the characters seem "controlled", "puppeteer-ed", and totally out of synch with their older selves.
True, Scott has a history of cheating, so Marvel would eventually try that way, but now? seriously? and with Storm???
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Marvel characters used to be written as real people, with actual feelings and with real relationships. Alas, those were stories of the past.
Cyclops and Storm from one of the worlds revealed during the Ghost Boxes story?
Oooh, now THAT is an interesting twist. I mean it goes along with the "continuity light" peice (love that phrase by the way – I think it really encompasses what the "Astonishing X-Men" book of the X-Books has become – encompasses ~ lol). On the one hand I agree with some of the other sentiments about how Astonishing X-Men should have ended when Joss Whedon left. He really did something unique with the brand. On the other, I like how Astonishing X-Men was a "stand-alone" story book that you could enjoy without having to pick up every other X-Book to "get" the continuity. Plus, the X-Books are pretty moody; its alllllll about this sense of urgency and social upheavel. Everything is all about the end of the world to the point where you're like "For crying out loud, lighten up!" Go eat some ice cream or..something!
It could be Emma in Storm's body. That has been done before.
Okay, BLECH. Not in a rascist manner, but in a manner of WHY ARE THEY BEING OUT-OF-CHARACTER???? THIS is why I prefer the animated universes.
Pak had me when he said "After Xavier, the X-Men's two greatest leaders are Scott and Ororo". Yes!!! that's what I've been saying, but all of the recent writers have been having such a love affair with Scott that they haven't even thrown Storm a bone!
I grew up reading the Claremont's X-Men in the 80s and Storm was the shit back then, so she's my X-Leader all the way. Scott was such a minor X-character back then, I can't wait until he get relegated to background again!
Nice abs.
It all depends if this is set in the past or present. Hopefully Storm says sorry your not my type.
I've always found both Storm and Cyclops to be pretty boring characters. This seems like yet another desperate attempt to spice them up. (Seriously, the mohawk? Please.)
I don't like the idea of either Ororo or Scott cheating on their spouse/partner like that at all — but I'm far more baffled, and frankly disturbed, by the suggestion that there's something intrinsically wrong with "the Ultimate Spider-Man Black/Hispanic thing, written by a white man" or "Luke Cage marrying Jessica Jones and they have a kid."
As a total side note, by the way, we've seen Emma do the "simulate being other people while lovemaking" thing before, including psychically "dressing up" herself as Jean and Scott as Wolverine (though not at the same time). So who knows how that might play into this?
I'm glad I have all the X-Men books from the 60's, 70's, 80's and some of the 90's to enjoy. I have really lost interest in the multitude of in bred X-Men titles and spin offs that are so lost in their own convolutions, it's hard enough to afford let alone follow what's going on.
I couldn't care less for much of the X-Men these days. They have changed so much from the characters I used to know.
no thanks. Though I am sure that all the africaphobes who hate the Ororo/T'Challa relationship on principle are pleased as punch at this development.
Even though they arn't related, it still feels alittle like incest! haha…
Is Scott just doing the rounds now? That will be the 3 main X women he's been with (plus Psylocke…any others?). Rogue must really be feeling left out … although, that power of hers is probably a deal breaker!
I was under the impression that Astonishing X Men wasn't in continuity. Is that not the case anymore? Or is this story going to be a flashback, which would make sense looking at Storm's hair.
The only thing I can say right now is this….
Cyclops is "THE MAN"!!!
Could they be posed in a more awkward looking position?
Cyclops would never go for Storm. He clearly has a psychic fetish. He would cheat, though. That's been well established. Cheating on a psychic… not the smartest of X-Men.
Ugh! This is like Zack and Lisa getting together!
Somewhere Forge/Screech has a broken heart…
Just read on Newsarama that this is indeed post-schism
Ororo should have married Forge, now that stupid characterless Black Panther.


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Uploaded By: Bernardo Galmarini
Beautiful photo Bernardo. Was this only one exposure? I am impressed with how still the water is and how calm the reflections are.
Hi Patrick,
Yes, it was one exposure. And the afternoon was very pleasant and calm! Thanks and best regards!
Lovely shot - great colours. If I had to nit-pick, there is a reflected light in the bottom right of the image which, to me, is a little distracting, especially as I can't see the actual light that is being reflected. Personally, I would remove it in post processing and I think it would make an already strong shot even stronger.
Hi Tricia!
Thanks for the advice! I think you are right ;-) Best regards!


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The bread can be made up to three days ahead, but you'll want to toast it or rewarm it in the oven before serving.
1 cup butternut squash purée (see Note)
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon allspice
Honey Butter, if desired, for serving (see below)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly oil and flour a 9-inch loaf pan; set aside. Using an electric mixer, combine purée, eggs, oil, water and both sugars. Mix on medium speed until well combined.
Add flour, baking soda, salt and spices and mix on low speed just until combined. Do not overmix.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in the center of the preheated oven 1 hour or until a pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove bread from pan and cool on a wire rack until ready to serve. Slice and serve warm with Honey Butter, if desired.
Makes 12 servings.
Note: For testing purposes, I used canned Farmer's Market Organic Butternut Squash Purée. Look for a brand that is pure squash with no additional spices, or roast your own butternut squash and purée. Check out kitchenscoop.com for that recipe.
PER SERVING: Calories 250, Fat 10 g (2 g sat), Cholesterol 27 mg, Sodium 214 mg, Fiber 1 g, Carbohydrates 38 g, Protein 3 g
1 stick (1/2 cup) lightly salted butter, softened
1/4 cup honey
Whip together all ingredients until smooth. Serve at room temperature.
PER TEASPOON: Calories 45, Fat 4 g (2 g sat), Cholesterol 10 mg, Sodium 27 mg, No fiber, Carbohydrates 3 g, No protein


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Definition of picrite in English:
A dark basaltic rock rich in olivine.
Example sentences
- The tholeiitic picrite basalts and basalts of the Mailaka sector have higher 87 Sr / 86 Sr and lower cNd 88 than the weakly alkaline basalts.
- Two series of igneous rocks have been found: tholeiitic, ranging from picrite basalt to basaltic andesite (to rhyodacites); mildly alkaline, with a more restricted compositional range (picrite basalts and basalts).
- The effects of depth and degree of melting are well illustrated by terrestrial basaltic magma types, which can be divided into three broad groups: basalts, komatiites, and picrites.
- Example sentences
- The nephelinites are conformably overlain by picrites and picritic basalts of the Letaba Formation, although in the southern Lebombo the picrites directly overlie the Clarens Formation.
- Farther east, the abundance of rift tholeiites and associated high-temperature picritic lavas suggests proximity to break-up and formation as part of a Neoproterozoic SDRS package.
- The picritic lavas and cumulates drilled in westernmost Victoria are compositionally very similar, with low TiO 2.
Early 19th century: from Greek pikros 'bitter' + -ite1.
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The Bet
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Analysis: Writing Style
Calm, Deliberate, Concise
The second part of the short story features an attempted murder. The banker, skulking through the shadows, creeps up on the lawyer fully intending to kill him and make it look like an accident.
What do we assume the writing of this scene would sound like? Suspense! Thrills! Chills! Gasps of anticipation! But what do we get instead? A writing style that extinguishes all our excitement like a bucket of water:
Going to the spot where the lodge stood, he twice called the watchman. No answer followed. Evidently the watchman had sought shelter from the weather, and was now asleep somewhere either in the kitchen or in the greenhouse. […] He felt in the darkness for the steps and the door, and went into the entry of the lodge. Then he groped his way into a little passage and lighted a match. There was not a soul there. There was a bedstead with no bedding on it, and in the corner there was a dark cast-iron stove. The seals on the door leading to the prisoner's rooms were intact. (2.6-7)
Check out how even when the action is at its most tense, there are almost no adjectives or adverbs to give any flavor to the steady narration of "first he did this, then he did that." How does he call the watchman—with fear in the voice? Quietly, then louder? Trying to seem normal? Worried about getting found out? We have no idea.
And then inside the guesthouse, we get the same thing. How is he moving—carefully? Quickly? Resolutely? It doesn't really matter to the narrative, since it's just not about this guy's feelings. The style of the writing underscores that by driving the plot forward without too much concern for the emotions of the characters or of the reader.


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Though they are members of the same political party, Indiana U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly is not a fan of President Barack Obama's use of executive order to reform the nation's immigration policy.
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A depleted uranium ammunition testing area at the Jefferson Proving Ground could be closed.
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CGLA students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on educational activities that nurture self confidence, inspire leadership, encourage critical thinking, and promote academic excellence. Below are a few of the many exciting activities CGLA students have the opportunity to participate in during or after school.
LEGO Robotics
CGLA students have an opportunity to participate in the FIRST Lego League Robotics state competition each year, which involves more than 70 teams from across the state. The program is international, with more than 11,000 teams worldwide and 6,000 in the U.S. The Chattanooga Engineer's Club serves as a sponsor of CGLA's teams and provides materials and supplies. Each year, the competition has a theme, and student teams work together to explore, design, create, test, and retest robot designs and engineering concepts related to the theme. The 2010 theme, Body Forward, focused on biomedical engineering and CGLA's three teams, comprised of 10 students each, presented on premature infants and incubators. CGLA's teams have celebrated many successes: at the 2009 competition, a CGLA team won a special award for success: "Against All Odds"— recognition for extraordinary performance by a first year competitor—and the second place trophy for engineering teamwork. In 2010, CGLA's "Aquamarines" team took home the Spirit Award for embodying the Lego Robotics Core Values, which focus on teamwork and the spirit of friendly competition. CGLA Technology Instructor, Caleb Bagby, coordinates the program.
Young Southern Writers at CGLA
CGLA students have the opportunity to tap into their creative side by participating in the annual Young Southern Writers Contest, which is sponsored by the Arts and Education Council. CGLA Reading Specialist Casey Clear coordinates the contest for CGLA, which is a perfect compliment to the CGLA Poetry Out Loud competition. In 2011 and 2012 CGLA had several student winners, who were honored at an awards ceremony sponsored by AEC.
Suntrust Youth Bank
Through an innovative partnership with SunTrust Bank, in August 2010 CGLA students launched the first YouthBank located in a Hamilton County school. The CGLA – SunTrust Youth Bank is an innovative partnership that established a deposit-only SunTrust mini-branch within the CGLA school building. The student-managed branch is open each week, providing students with an opportunity to save for the future while honing financial literacy and math skills. Girls are able to open savings accounts, and SunTrust matches their savings dollar-for-dollar. Several CGLA students serve as YouthBank staff and manage most aspects of the YouthBank's operation. SunTrust employees have provided financial literacy education to all CGLA students and specialized training to the YouthBank student management team.
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A Controversial Part of the Voting Rights Act Gets Another Close Look
Should it still be the law to require states and voting districts throughout the country (but mostly in the south) to seek approval from the Department of Justice before making changes to their election procedures?
Well, Congress has decided that it has. In 2006, Congress extended the portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires "covered" jurisdictions to seek DOJ approval for another 25 years.
But was Congress's decision to do that justified by the evidence?
That's the topic of a lawsuit playing out in Washington, D.C., federal court. According to this AP story, on Wednesday, federal judge John Bates questioned whether the provision, called the "preclearance" provision, is outdated. He expressed skepticism over using evidence of racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago to justify continued election monitoring for a group of mostly Southern states. Click here for a WaPo article from Wednesday on the case.
The comments came during oral arguments in an Alabama county's lawsuit targeting the law. Shelby County, backed by conservative legal groups, argues that the Voting Rights Act — enacted in 1965 and extended by Congress for another 25 years in 2006 — relies heavily on past discrimination in determining which jurisdictions are covered by the requirement.
Justice Department attorneys, supported by lawyers for several civil rights groups, responded that Congress extended the law with overwhelming majorities based on evidence that racial discrimination continues today. The new forms of discrimination — while more subtle — are most common in the jurisdictions with the most checkered racial pasts, they argued.
In June of 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling that surprised many, declined to shoot down the section, known as Section 5, though it allowed the challenger in that case, a part of Austin, Texas, to raise the issue directly with the Justice Department.


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PRANA is the Sanskrit word for vital life. It is your breath.
The pulse of your heart. The rhythm of your creative genius.
Your guiding life force.
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Yoga has structured and guided my life, since the age of 19. I've taught yoga classes and trained new yoga teachers all over the world — from New York City to San Francisco to Thailand to India to Brazil, and beyond.
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Over the past 13 years, I have deeply explored Viniyoga, Iyengar yoga and Ashtanga yoga — and I've had a chance to meet legendary yoga teachers and icons, face to face.
My yoga classes are informed by my background in dance, my work as a healing body-worker, the Feldenkrais method of Somatic Education, and sacred philosophies, including the Advaita Vedanta. For me, yoga is about discovering new choices . . . becoming the strong, intuitive and empowered heroine of your own life . . . and really experiencing what it means to be alive, with every breath, and every moment.
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Project Management
Bika lab systems employs a project methodology based on MITP (Managing the Implementation of the Total Project) developed by IBM, ISO 9000 conformant and taught at the Stellenbosch Business School in Cape Town
The project's objective and scope is established and a comprehensive work breakdown structure defining deliverables and schedules undertaken, agreed upon and accepted together with procedures for monitoring progress
To form the basis for tracking, reporting and control of the project, a further planning and estimation stage dictates how the project will handle the building, testing and integration of program modules, its delivery and release, documentation, operations, support and training
Project scope is managed through a change management procedure, performance and delivery through up-to-date definition and status of each. All project plans kept up to date. Progress is regularly measured and reported against plans, highlighting variations and issues are managed to resolution. Risks, potential impact and actions are reassessed. All project procedures are maintained to support the project quality objectives
The project is completed per project completion report, in which post project responsibilities are established and the process reviewed to provide a basis for future co-operation and improvements to the process
Project Administration - Online Project Office
Bika implements a 'Project Office' as a password protected part of her web-site, allowing project members easy access to documentation and reference to important project information, eg project plans and schedules, progress reports, change control, issue and risk management information
Online Issue Management
In any project there are events that are not going to plan. These issues, impacting on any aspect of the project, are managed via working procedures established at the outset to ensure they are fixed with the minimum impact to the project
Bika uses an on-line issue tracker in support of these processes
Project members get logins in the issue tracking system, log and assign issues to other members and include others to be copied in email communication on the issue
Issues are given priority according its urgency by the project member logging it and she may escalate the priority there-of should conditions ask for it. The issue will go through different statuses as it is addressed and this progress can be followed in the tracker. Only the project member who logged an issue, may close it as resolved. It stays in the database and remains searchable for future reference
The Bika and client project managers are responsible for chasing issues assigned to their team members respectively
Quality Management
MITP is a quality management system in its own right and the records generated as a result of its use as a project management system, constitute quality records by definition. All these records are open to team members in an on-line depository and include all project plans and deliverables
Performance Management
In the project establishing phase, 'tracking indicators' are identified against which actual performance can be measured. These are derived from milestones achieved, tasks completed and deliverables built, tested, accepted and released
Information gained from tracking performance against the indicators help the project managers to identify problems as quickly as possible and provide the basis for taking corrective action
This Information is presented as progress reports circulated and discussed at project reviews. This leads to a better understanding of problems, the management there-of and rapid agreement on plans to correct out-of-line situations
Progress reviews create a sense of ownership within a project team and to the client reassurance that the project is moving to plan and that issues are addressed


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On 1/17/2006 4:23 PM Pacific, gwtc wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>> Terry (and Q and gwtc)...I don't think you understand what I am asking, or
>> saying. If firefox searches for the extensions and themes and search
>> engines, what good is it if it isn't going to at least notify you that it
>> found some. The radio buttons only apply to FF. So the question is what
>> happens if you have the check boxes checked for themes and extensions and
>> search engines and it finds some. What happens next (ie is it going to
>> notify you that it found some or what - if not what good are the check
>> boxes). I can't be much clearer than that...Pete
You are correct in stating that FF doesn't directly notify you when
updates to extensions/themes are available. However it does indirectly
tell you that updates are available in the extensions/themes windows by
placing an "Update" clickable button next to the extensions/themes for
which updates are available.
Perfect? No! Usable? Depends on the user!
Irwin Greenwald - Mozilla Champion
Etiquette - http://www.mozilla.org/community/etiquette.html
About Profiles -
OE Quotefix - http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/


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The Apple Store is located in Easton Town Center, near Nordstrom and opposite Anthropologie. Easton Town Center is located inside Interstate 270 in NE Columbus, 4 miles north of the airport.Parking: metered street, or lots behind the store; from rear lots, use the Northeast Passage and turn right on The Strand.Public Transit: use Central Ohio Transit bus lines 16, 38, 40, 92 and 95.
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After a short Christmas break, local prep basketball action is scheduled to resume tonight.
Highlighting the slate, Frontier visits Waterford in a non-conference boys' tilt.
The Roger Kirkpatrick-coached Cougars (3-5) last played on Monday, drilling visiting Beallsville, 89-46.
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Frontier's Damon Metheney, right, battles a Caldwell cager for a loose ball during Pioneer Valley Conference boys basketball action on Dec. 3. The Cougars are scheduled to play at undefeated Waterford tonight.
Frontier has been particularly hot in its last two games, averaging 82 points and knocking down a combined 33 threes.
Against the Blue Devils (2-4), Drew Schneider led the way with a career-high 33 points, which included nine triples, equaling a single-game school high. Rodney Barnes added 14 points, Damon Metheney netted 11, Jeremiah Helmick had 10, and Levi Cochran contributed nine.
The Waterford defense, needless to say, will have to pay special attention to the perimeter when Frontier is on offense.
Off to a 6-0 overall start on the season, the Tom Simms-coached Wildcats haven't seen game action since defeating visiting and defending Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division champion Federal Hocking, 51-41, on Dec. 20. The green and white cagers featured a balanced attack with Cody Paxton scoring 14 points; Tanner Pottmeyer, nine; Eli Strahler, eight; and Trystan Crawford and Garrett LeMasters six apiece.
Also tipping off for the boys tonight will be Belpre at Watten and Caldwell at Meadowbrook. Wood County Christian and Williamstown are scheduled to compete in the Gilead Tournament and Wirt County Tournament, respectively.
In girls play, Caldwell is at Morgan.
On Saturday night, the Jordan Thornhill-led Belpre boys will be back on the floor to host Marietta in a non-conference game at 7:30 p.m. The Mark Duckworth-coached Tigers (3-2) have been off since beating Rosecrans (2-5), 55-38, on Dec. 20. MHS has one of the tallest frontcourts in the area with 6-foot-6 Jon Wood and 6-5 Braden Riley.
With 6-2 junior Corey Hill stroking the ball with authority (17 points vs. Rosecrans) from the perimeter, Marietta could be a team to keep an eye on.
The Mark Hannuksela-coached Marietta girls (6-3) have also been playing good ball of late, coming off a 68-52 triumph over visiting Morgan Monday night. Starr Johnson paced the orange and black winners with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Lauren Martin chipped in with 18 markers; Alle Moore netted nine; and Lain Weppler had eight. The Lady Tigers are scheduled to play Cochocton in an East Central Ohio League game Saturday at 5 p.m.
Also on tap Saturday, the Warren girls are at Morgan; Beallsville is at Frontier; and Williamstown visits Ritchie County.
On the boys' side, Williamstown and WCCS continue tournament play, while Morgan travels to Trimble, and Caldwell takes on Whitehall/Harvest at Meadowbrook.


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Linebrink led the National League preserving 36 leads in front of Trevor Hoffman. Meredith had a 5-1 record and a sensational 1.07 earned run average in 45 appearances.
And both got off to a fast start this season.
Meredith didn't allow an earned run until his 13th appearance on May 2 – lowering his overall Padres ERA to 0.84. And Linebrink's ERA was a glistening 1.99 on June 22.
Both gave up a homer in the bottom of the eighth as the Colorado Rockies rallied from a 5-2 deficit to hand the Padres a fourth straight defeat – matching the longest losing streak of the season – in the opener of a seven-game road trip.
Greg Maddux was in line for his 341st career win until Matt Holliday hit a three-run homer to tie the game off Linebrink in a scenario strangely familiar to a Padres loss five nights earlier.
And Meredith entered the game to give up the decisive two-run shot to the first hitter he faced – Brad Hawpe.
The 7-5 loss dropped the Padres two games behind the Dodgers in the National League West and wasted six spectacular innings by Maddux in which he yielded two runs and five hits with no walks and two strikeouts. He also added a single and stole the 10th base of his 22-year major league career.
"In the big picture, he is going to help us," Black said of Linebrink. "I know he hasn't pitched like he's expected to pitch.
"We'll talk about some things tomorrow. There's a number of things on the pitching side."
Linebrink has been scored upon in seven of his 14 appearances since June 22. Over that span, he has allowed 12 runs on 20 hits in 13 1/3 innings – an ERA of 8.10. That has raised his season ERA from just under two to 3.80.
He has already surrendered nine homers in 45 innings this season compared to nine in 75 2/3 innings last season.
And while Linebrink has given up homers, it's as much his wildness that has done him in.
Last Wednesday, while also protecting a Maddux lead at Petco Park, Linebrink walked two Mets on nine pitches with two outs before serving up a home run fastball to David Wright.
Last night, he hit Cory Sullivan on a 2-and-2 pitch to open the inning, then walked Kazuo Matsui on four pitches in front of Holliday's homer.
"I'm up in the zone," said Linebrink. "I'm trying to do too much with my fastball. If you're up in the zone, it's a recipe for disaster. You're going to get hurt, especially in a place like here.
"The hit batter and walk is frustrating. If you get beat, you want to get beat on a hit."
The Padres rebounded to win last Wednesday's game. Last night they could not, although the game was still tied when Linebrink departed in favor of the equally struggling Meredith, who gave up the game-winning home run to Hawpe.
Those two homers, incidentally, were the first allowed by Padres pitchers at Coors Field this season.
Since his season-opening scoreless inning streak was stopped, Meredith has been scored upon in 13 of his 35 outings. His ERA over the span is 6.09 – raising his ERA for the season to 4.31.
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Heath Bell again worked a scoreless inning in the seventh after taking over from Maddux. Bell's ERA is 2.11, although he, too, is coming off a patch where his ERA rose from 1.03 on June 8 to 2.29 just after the All-Star break.
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