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Solstice Advertising is a full service agency, with one ultimate goal: make your brand shine. We're not your regular run-of-the-mill agency though; we are a subsidiary of one of Alaska's largest companies, Calista Corporation. This gives us unique insight into the vast array of audiences that make up our great state.
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As one of Alaska's fastest growing industries, it's important to have messaging that is adaptable, distinctive and reaches the desirable audience. From providing targeted health care communications for rural and Native audiences, to helping industry related businesses stand out among the competition, Solstice is ready.
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As a subsidiary of Calista Corporation, the second largest Alaska Regional Native Corporation, Solstice understands Alaska Native organizations and their mission to serve communities and preserve culture. When it comes to reaching this audience, how you say it is just as important as what you say. Solstice Advertising is Alaska's leading agency for communicating with the Alaska Native audience.
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Resource Development
Alaska is rich in resources, from the kind you have to dig out of the ground to its fish-filled streams and roaming wildlife. Alaskans value these resources in a variety of ways and Solstice Advertising has partnered with many organizations involved in the responsible development of our state.
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Nonprofits are the glue of our communities, bringing many causes and important values to light. From fundraising challenges to forming meaningful community engagement, it can be difficult for many nonprofits to communicate their value and expand their reach. Solstice is the best at helping nonprofits create a communications strategy with effective deliverables on a tight budget and schedule.
Other Clients:
Do you know how people feel about your brand? Are you using that knowledge to direct your communications strategy? Luckily, Solstice has a large and ever growing toolbox to help your brand stand out among the competition, providing results and a return on investment. From building a brand, to developing a communications plan and functional website, Solstice can help any business – new or expanding – achieve its marketing goals.
Other Clients:
As a developing state, Alaska is dependent on its commercial sector to provide the goods and services for our expanding economy and infrastructure. Commercial businesses can be very competitive in the Last Frontier, which is why it's important your brand stands out.
Solstice is ready to provide strategic insight and help you see around the corner in the marketplace.
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One of the most enjoyable parts of our job is to create multiple design options the client gets to choose from for their project. Not all of them can be picked, and our designers can make it really tough with their amazing skills. Take a brain break, enjoy some great design and choose the version you would pick if you were the client.
Not all design options can be picked, and our artists can make it really tough with their amazing skills. Take a brain break, enjoy some great design and choose the version you would pick if you were the client.
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After reviewing a client's specific needs and challenges, we assemble a team with the most appropriate industry experience and the skills best suited for the particular project. This team is involved with the project from start to finish, ensuring that each member shares an intimate understanding of the client's business objectives and challenges.
What does all that mean for you? You've got an awesome team focused on your marketing and advertising needs.
After reviewing a client's specific needs and challenges, we assemble a team with the most appropriate industry experience best suited for the particular project. The team works with you from start to finish to ensure an intimate understanding of the client's business objectives and challenges.
What does all that mean for you? You've got an awesome team focused on your marketing and advertising needs.
- Traditional & Social Marketing
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Brad Fleming Art Director
Ideas that work
Brad was raised in the advertising world, starting at his father's agency in high school. His print, broadcast and digital work has been recognized in national and international awards shows and publications. More importantly, his creativity has successfully launched new products that far exceeded sales expectations. (That's what really gets him excited.)
One of Brad's favorite advertising quotes is from George Lois and reads: "Creativity can solve almost any problem — the creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
Elyse Delaney Copywriter
Elyse is an advertising hybrid, bringing a broad range of experience from different disciplines to the Solstice table: account manager, social media coordinator and blogger, just to name a few. This Vandal (as in, U of Idaho grad) is obsessive about merging creative ideas, solid strategy and grammatically flawless copy into effective communications for her clients. When she's not exercising her versatile ad skills, Elyse spends time jogging with her favorite running companion – Molly, a nine-month-old Husky.
Laura Spano Client Insights
Shake It Up
Laura is someone you want around in an emergency: with nearly three years working at the American Red Cross, she has multiple certificates in disaster response operations. She brings not only her quick reflexes and thinking to Solstice, but also her background as both a designer and a marketing strategist. She is able to efficiently and effectively listen to your ideas – and then, with her team, add to them. She has been actively involved for years with the marketing and communications community in Anchorage, mixing her nonprofit expertise with the world of advertisers, marketers, designers and businesses of all scopes.
Laura has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Washington State University.
Niki Engstrom Art Director
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Niki has a love for typography and studied it the way a helioseismologist studies the sun. As a freelancer, she even designed custom stationary for others to put their handwritten type on. But her design experience goes beyond making words look pretty: Her career began when she was a Golden Gopher (that's the University of Minnesota's mascot), where she was employed at The Minnesota Daily as the creative and production advertising manager. There, she led her creative team to win six national CNBAM awards, including the Best in Category for Digital Rate Card/Media Kit. Niki also served as the vice president of UMN's AIGA student chapter.
With both her years of agency and freelance experience, Niki brings a love of creativity and crisp design to the Solstice Advertising team.
Betty Brownson Web Developer
Recipe for Success
Betty approaches her discipline with the goal of designing beauty and function. As a former business owner, she brings an entrepreneurial spirit to every project. A mother of two, this lifelong Alaskan leads an adventurous life outside of work as well. Betty can be found flying small planes, building log cabins, hunting, fishing and, on occasions, making dresses. She does admit to one shortcoming… never successfully keeping a potted plant alive. We're certain she'll master the horticulture thing eventually.
Robert Manley Copywriter
Passionate Scribe
Robert loves advertising, when it's done well. He still gets excited by the potential in every new project. He believes that every communication should be unexpected, relevant and compelling. Robert has practiced his craft at a range of international agencies (TBWA, Ogilvy & Mather, et al) in a variety of locations (Dallas, Detroit, Sofia, Bulgaria) for a distinguished list of clients (Cadillac, Nissan, Absolut Vodka). Robert's favorite advertising quote is from Lee Clow: "Make it smart. Make it beautiful. Make it fun."
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Not everyone is born with a phone voice, but Elizabeth is a natural when it comes to providing great customer service for all of Solstice's clients. From managing billing to launching multi-tiered multi-channeled media buys, Elizabeth is always on top of it. She holds a bachelor's degree in business management with a focus on accounting and is truly a 10-key number crunching extraordinaire.
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Michelle is like a client communications therapist; she wants to know everything about your brand and all of its problems. She then becomes the messenger and shares the information with her team to bring the client solid solutions. She consistently keeps track of the production schedule and makes sure everything is on time and on budget. Her years of volunteer experience for many nonprofits combined with running her own businesses give her the perfect balance between being human and understanding the bottom line. Michelle is the kind of tactical manager you'll want to go to bat for your brand.
Lincoln Garrick President
Why He's the Boss
Lincoln is the kind of company leader who's the first one in and the last one out. He also comes up with creative ideas and strategy that leave you saying, "Now why didn't I think of that?" With his years of experience in advertising for a vast array of businesses and organizations, Lincoln knows how to help any client achieve their communication goals under any kind of timeline and budget. He is always able to get to the heart of what a client is trying to convey to their audience and supports the Solstice Advertising team in turning solid ideas into tangible results.
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We are also involved members of the marketing community, and you can find our team out and about at AMA, PRSA, AIGA meetings and local events.
To put it simply, we're a team so bright, you're gonna' need shades.
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A zoo keeper who dressed up as a gorilla for a training exercise was tranquillised after being mistaken for the real thing.
The incident took place at Loro Parque in Tenerife when staff where going through a drill testing them on what they would do if a gorilla escaped.
According to a local paper the staff member was running around the zoo to recreate how an escaped gorilla might act.
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.
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Television: Molson Canadian Oilers Pay Per View (starting at 6:15 p.m.)
Radio: 630 CHED, Oilers Radio Network and online at edmontonoilers.com. Game Notes | Oilers/Stars Stats Comparison | Player Head-to-Head Statistics If the Edmonton Oilers want to finish their current four-game road trip at .500 they'll have to do it against the league's second best team in the Dallas Stars.
With 79 points, the Stars are second in the Western Conference and second in the NHL's overall standings. They are also the only team in the league with eight wins in their last 10 games (8-2-0).
In fact, the Stars won seven straight games earlier this month and have come away with two points in nine of their last 11 outings. However, they fell 3-2 to the Calgary Flames in their most recent game at home on Wednesday night.
Edmonton's most recent game was a wild back-and-forth affair with the Nashville Predators.
LAST GAME: Predators 5, OIlers 4
The Predators held leads of 2-0 and 3-1 but Edmonton battled back to the point where they had a 4-3 advantage. However, Nashville tied it up and ultimately won the game 5-4 with a late third period goal.
This is the fourth and final meeting of the season between Edmonton and Dallas. The Stars have won the previous three - once in regulation, one in overtime and once in a shootout. Just The Facts...
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Pre-Game Audio... Will be available later today. The Other Side Prospect adjusting to life in Texas - He might still be a couple of years away from appearing in the NHL, but there's no question Dallas Stars prospect Sergei Korostin, a speedy right wing from Russia, is already making quite an impact in North Texas. ...more Guys behind the guys - These are long days for the Stars equipment managers, who are responsible for keeping the team's players outfitted from top to bottom. Take a behind-the-scenes look during a recent one game road trip to Minnesota. 700K | ...more Odds and Ends
Archive of Cal Nichols on Oilers Live - Cal Nichols was Thursday's guest on Oilers Live. He recounted the history of the EIG and hinted that a book is in the works that will reveal much of the group's hard work and hidden history. Follow the link to listen to the podcast. ...more Order PPV, win an Oilers block party! - The Edmonton Oilers want to put you into the game with the ultimate Pay Per View Block Party! Just watch Molson Canadian Oilers Pay Per View on February 22nd, when the Oilers take on the Dallas Stars and again on February 26th. ...more Comparing the last three seasons - Cal Nichols was Thursday's guest on Oilers Live. He recounted the history of the EIG and hinted that a book is in the works that will reveal much of the group's hard work and hidden history. Follow the link to listen to the podcast. ...more Fans battle Oilers alumni on Saturday - The Coca-Cola Ultimate Street Hockey Game is ready to roll this Saturday, February 23rd, at 1:00 PM, in the parking lot of the Save-On Foods at 11541 Kingsway Avenue. ...more From the Wire
The Dallas Stars know that to secure another Pacific Division title, they'll need to keep beating clubs fighting to reach the postseason. That would certainly describe the Edmonton Oilers.
Dallas looks for its sixth straight win over Edmonton as the teams wrap up their regular-season series on Friday night at American Airlines Arena.
Coming into this game, the Stars (37-22-5) have a four-point lead over Anaheim, which faces St. Louis later on Friday. Dallas has won the Pacific in three of the last five seasons, but also hasn't advanced past the first round since 2002-03.
Dallas center Steve Ott told the Stars' official Web site that they cannot afford to relax against any opponent. That includes the Oilers (27-29-5), who have only 59 points and the second-worst record in the Western Conference.
"They're another desperate team," he said. "I think every team we're going to be facing the rest of the way is going to be desperate to get in the playoffs, and for us, we have to play that way. We have to play our game and bury the bottom-tier teams."
Dallas, though, is coming off just its second loss in 11 games, 3-2 to Calgary on Wednesday. Marty Turco allowed the Flames' Jarome Iginla to score the go-ahead goal with just 2:27 to play and finished with 15 saves.
"We just made some crucial errors at bad times and didn't create enough chances," Stars coach Dave Tippett said.
Turco needs just four wins to reach 30 for the fifth straight season and also will be looking to extend his winning streak over Edmonton. Since a 2-0 loss at home to the Oilers on Dec. 8, 2006, Turco has allowed just nine goals in five wins against them.
He also hasn't dropped consecutive starts since Jan. 12-15. Following those losses, Turco is 9-3-0 with a 1.92 goals-against average and one shutout.
Edmonton will wrap up a four-game road trip trying to avoid its third consecutive loss. The Oilers scored three goals in a 2:18 span late in the second period on Tuesday to take a 4-3 lead, but fell 5-4 to Nashville.
"I think the past couple of games, we have battled pretty hard," Edmonton's Robert Nilsson said. "We just need to find ways to win games. We scored four goals. And when we score four goals, we should win."
The loss was Edmonton's first in regulation (14-1-3) when scoring at least four goals.
With season-ending injuries to leading goal scorer Shawn Horcoff and offensive-minded defenseman Sheldon Souray, rookie Sam Gagner continues to be a bright spot for Edmonton. The 18-year-old center, picked sixth overall in last season's NHL draft, has two goals and eight assists in a seven-game points streak. Prior to that run, Gagner had only four goals and 17 assists in 51 games.
He has one goal in three games when facing Dallas.
If Dwayne Roloson gets the start for Craig MacTavish's team in this game, he will have to forget a poor outing the last time he was in Dallas. Roloson allowed three goals in the first 9:06 of a 5-4 overtime loss on Dec. 10. Roloson is 0-2-2 with a 3.51 GAA in his last five starts versus the Stars.
Mathieu Garon has fared worse against Dallas recently, going 0-3-1 with a 3.35 GAA in his last four games, including three starts.
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Antibiotics 2013, 2(3), 339-351; doi:10.3390/antibiotics2030339
Empirical Antibiotic Therapy for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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AbstractVentilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common infectious complication in the intensive care unit. It can increase duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, costs, and mortality. Improvements in the administration of empirical antibiotic therapy have potential to reduce the complications of VAP. This review will discuss the current data addressing empirical antibiotic therapy and the effect on mortality in patients with VAP. It will also address factors that could improve the administration of empirical antibiotics and directions for future research.
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Despite all the rhetoric and resolutions emanating from Washington, two fundamental facts about the war in Iraq won't change. The killing will continue, but not all of it has to.
Iraqis will continue to die in large numbers regardless of what the United States does. The troop surge will shift the violence to other locations or cause the combatants to go underground for a time, but will do nothing to resolve the reasons for the fighting. The ignorance, arrogance and incompetence of the American architects of the invasion and its aftermath have created the perfect storm of factors that made the current civil war possible and inevitable for years to come. The deepening of the sectarian divide, the struggle over who gets to steal the oil revenue and the proxy fight for influence being waged by other countries in the region all ensure that peace will not break out soon.
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The politicians in Washington, whether they support the war or oppose it, do not want to end it at all costs, however. Those who pass legislation calling for a fixed timetable for withdrawing American troops do so secure in the knowledge that it will never be enacted. They would not pass a bill that would actually take effect because they are not about to remove the Iraqi albatross from around President Bush's neck and hang it around their own.
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Chaos in the region
At one point not so long ago, the war was sold to the voters with the claim that creating a democracy in Iraq would be easy and would spread across the region. Now the excuse for having to stay is that the chaos in Iraq will engulf the region. Both these variations of the domino theory are wrong, and the damage we are doing to our national security by staying is far greater than we would do by getting out.
To make our exit all we really need to do is select a date to celebrate our victory in Iraq. Opponents of the war will not have to worry about assuming responsibility for the war or any impact on the verdict of history. President Bush is sure that historians 50 years from now will look back on him as a visionary leader. With $500 billion squandered already and more than that yet to be spent repairing the damage to our armed forces, the true cost of Mr. Bush's trillion-dollar disaster will escape no historian.
Those politicians who profess to support the war should also be content with a declaration of victory. By asserting that we won there would be time for many voters to have forgotten the war by the next election. The declaration can't unfortunately come immediately, however, since the recent surge can't be expected to show results for a few more months. By saying we won then, no more terrorists would be emboldened and no one would doubt American resolve.
Where's the good news?
Some might question whether proclaiming victory should not be driven by the situation on the ground. That has never affected administration policy or pronouncements in the past, so why should it matter now? Besides the announcement is the perfect response to all those who complain that the good news from Iraq is not being reported.
To make it even more patriotic and above questioning, the date for V-I Day could be set for the Fourth of July. So let's support our troops and our politicians by bringing the former home this summer and letting the latter find a way out as well.
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They have to keep on mesage ; that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 that Sadam was the despot who deprived the region of freedom and stability; that Saadam and his regeimen was a persistant and present danger; the solution was straightforward; invade; topple the regeimen ; institute a proxy government ; elections ; annopunce the victory and depart.
The fact that all that was toppled was a bronze statue must be extinguished ; the botched execution and those that followed were carried out by Iraquis on Iraquis - not us- we have no blood on our hands
Its a bit like the Wag the Dog movie - if you see it on TV its for real; so its over to Hollywood , some b rated actors; good sound effects - Bright Eyes by Garfunlkle as Bush says again Mission Acompished on board an aircraft carrier , wiping a tear from his visionars eye ( special effects )- and as the swarms squabble at the gates of the embassy - fade out ..
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I Used To Love H.E.R.
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Here's the music video for Common's single.
Ice Cube, rapping on Mack 10's track, responded to what he perceived as a diss on West Coast gangsta rap in "I Used to Love H.E.R." with this song, which features the line: "Used to love her mad cause we f#@%&^ / Her pussy whipped b!%@# with no common sense."
Common responded to Ice Cube's rap with a scathing rebuttal.
This jazzy remix tosses Common's rap over a different sample, giving it a completely different feel.
"I Used to Love H.E.R." samples this George Benson song. Can you find the sampled clip?
Kanye West's hit song pays tribute to Common's song in the first verse, which uses to same metaphor of hip-hop as a woman that Kanye falls in love with.
Japanese rappers the Teriyaki Boyz and Kanye West play on Common's "I Used to Love H.E.R." in their own song.


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Avert your eyes!?! Get sexy with yourself!?! We can't tell what's going on here either.
Good for you, Lindsay. Now to just get a hang of the part where you wear your shirt, too. I know, these things are hard.
We have no idea what Paz has acted in, and we don't really care. She's wearing a thong for crying out loud. That is all you need to know about her.
Apparently Beyonce was tired of Tyra showing her up with her crappy wigs, so Miss Bootylicious got one at the Halloween store.
Now that Jon and Kate are officially getting divorced, we have been invited into their house to mess around with their stuff and find out what secrets lurk in their living room!
On-lookers said that Kate and Pete Doherty looked "out of it." Yeah, never would have guess that one.
The "Pharaoh's Tomb" takes a stab at recreating a famous Anna Karina scene from the French New Wave.
The shocking thing is you don't have to feel guilty looking at her, she's actually 23 and far from starring in any actual High School Musicals.
Fake boobs aren't the only things Heidi Montag recently acquired. She also picked up some sweet wizarding skills at Hogwart's.
Kirstie wanted to show Oprah up by stripping down to her skivvies. I don't care how well Jenny Craig worked for her, she still makes me uncomfortable.
Justin Long and Drew Barrymore were "caught" frollicking on the beach together. "Caught" as in after numerous calls to the paparazzi they began to pose weirdly on the beach.


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PLANO, Texas - Herbert B. Collier Jr., 72, died Oct. 18, 2004, at his home in Plano.
Born Oct. 13, 1932, in Paducah, Ky., son of the late Herbert B. Collier Sr. and Selma Attebury Collier, he attended grade school and high school in Paducah, graduating from Dorian Private School. After graduation, he entered the U.S. Army, serving two years in the Korean War, of which 18 months were served overseas. After leaving the military, he was employed by Equifax Corporation for 23 years, leaving in 1977 to pursue other interests.
On Aug. 3, 1957, he married Dorothy Marie Hampton who survives.
Also surviving are one son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Cindy Collier of Plano; one daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Brian Phelps of Little Elm, Texas; five grandchildren, Nicole Kennedy, Nick Kennedy and Becki Collier of Sikeston, Mo., and Chelsea Phelps and Christopher Phelps of Little Elm; one great-grandson, Hunter Kennedy of Sikeston; and one uncle and two aunts.
Preceding him in death were twin grandsons, two aunts and one uncle.
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When I read Matthew Gurjian's July 10 Commentary piece ("My dire experience going snout-to-snout with The Bear"), I recalled a story my mother told of life in rural Canada. It happened before the family came to America penniless in 1916, in singed clothing, after a forest fire cost them their home and farm.
As she told the tale, she and her seven siblings, walking back from school one day, spotted a bear cub and brought it home. To her mom, it seemed like a furry cat, and she let the kids keep it.
But after supper, there was a big bang on the front door. Wondering who it was, the family parted the front window curtains and realized Mama Bear was making a house call.
They picked up the cub, opened the door slightly, and threw the nursling out into the Contrecoeur, Quebec darkness, and into Mama Bear's arms.
Among her many other tales was the arrival of Halley's Comet in 1910. Even though she was just 12, she was not worried it would slam into their little town. Many others, however, became terrified, emptied and spent their bank account. It did seem to her that it was headed straight for their yard.
But, as my four siblings and I saw growing up, she was a non-worrier, as she showed during the two world wars, the Great Depression, the influenza epidemic, dad's joblessness and the family's near homelessness in the 1930s.
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I would like to thank each and every person who has taken the time and opportunity to visit our website. The ZBET prays that it will be a blessing to you as you peruse through each menu, page, and link. Our hope is that somewhere throughout this instrument and vehicle of ministry, Christ Jesus will be illuminated, burdens will be lifted, strongholds broken, shackles loosened, and yokes destroyed. My prayer is that God will supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.
As we embrace the year ahead of us, let us pursue the many uncharted pathways that God has predestined for us. We should attend to with conscientious concern the awesome assignments that are set before us. I challenged all to enter into partnership with me for several reasons. First, I am standing in agreement with you for the blessings and deliverance that you are soliciting from God throughout this year. Second, those things which are needful within the ministry can only be accomplished through corporate efforts. We must seek God together in prayer and also sacrifice together in labor to see it happen. I need you and you need me. Together we can grow and experience everything that God has for us! Finally, I am so excited about our movement into OUR season. For those of us who truly believe that, "Its DUE season at Zion", my challenge to you is to make it your business to PROMOTE YOUR CHURCH EVERYWHERE YOU GO! WE LOVE YOU ZBET!
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We greet you in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. In December 2011, the Zion Baptist Evangelistic Temple, most
affectionately known as "ZBET", launched our website, www.zbetcompton.net, affording the entire world to see what God is doing here in our ministry, as well as providing anyone desiring the opportunity to partner with us by being a blessing, to financially contribute to this ministry via electronic means, using the PayPal web service.
In November 2012, we acquired our credit card system, allowing every member and supporter of this ministry the ability to make their
financial contributions via swipe, debit, credit, or telephonically, using MasterCard, Visa and all other basic bank cards. Unfortunately,
many have been slothful and/or reluctant to make use of these convenient methods for whatever the reasons may be.
Because we live in the Information Age where nearly every transaction is done electronically, no governmental agency, corporation, organization, Church, or even any individual can maximize their God-given opportunities without embracing technology. With this thought in mind, and in an effort to familiarize everyone with this process, I am asking EVERY member of ZBET and every supporter of Pastor Kevin E. Stafford and our ministry across this country to join me in making at least one Electronic Seed Contribution to ZBET, in whatever amount you are led of God to do so. In the month of April 2013, I will be leading this initiative by sowing a seed of $50.00.
Again, at this time I am less concerned with the amount and more concerned with the process. You sow as God instructs you.
Please do so, most preferably via our website. If not, you can make a personal appearance at the main campus of the Church, or make special
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If you want God to bless YOU and ZBET as only He can do, "abundantly above all that we can ask or think", let's make full use of the technology of modern times and remain cutting edge. I will be receiving regular reports of each contributor and personally responding with Pastoral gratitude, as well as praying specifically for you! The favor of God be upon you and all that is yours is my continued prayer.
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Kingfisher Owes Over $36 Million in Taxes
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NEW DELHI — Kingfisher Airlines owes more than 2 billion rupees ($36 million) in direct and indirect taxes to the Indian government and the tax department is working on a plan to recover the amount, a top official said Tuesday.
"We will be making out a comprehensive action plan to recover the amount," Central Board of Excise and Customs Chairwoman Praveen Mahajan told reporters.
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Kingfisher has been making losses since its inception in 2005.
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Day 3: A tourney hosted by Lord Hewett at Oakenshield in honor of the impending birth of his first child and the turning of the season to Summer. Doran Dondarrion wins his spurs after defeating a field including Lord Allos Swann, whom he was squire for, Lord Belion Chester, Ser Wallace Chester, Ser Harwin Marbrand, Ser Galbin Stone, and Ser Ryck Westerling. At the final tilt, he broke five lances to Ser Andric Staedmon's one and was declared champion of the tournament. At the banquet after the tourney, hard words exchanged between the young Jonn Lannister and Ser Doran leads to swords being drawn both supporters of both youths, but the new-made knights balks at drawing his own sword and leaves.
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Lower Your Expectations for Home Prices, Sales
How much lower will home prices fall? In a report out Thursday, Moody's Analytics revised its estimate of the coming drop in home prices to 8% from 5%, thanks to what it calls "housing's backslide into a double-dip correction."
Moody's report cites some all-too familiar drags on the real-estate market: The home-buyer tax credits left the market with a hangover. The "market is now paying for [the credits] in the form of large declines in sales and slowing construction," writes Celia Chen in the report.
The weak economy, of course, is keeping demand low. And the number of foreclosed properties—and potential foreclosures—on the market could put more downward pressure on prices. Moody's is pretty grim on the impact of foreclosures on the housing market, writing that the weight of foreclosures on construction and prices "will only worsen before it improves."
As a result, Moody's moved out their projection for a bottom in home prices to the third quarter of 2011 instead of the first quarter.
The good news: Mortgage rates will likely stay low and job creation will eventually push up home sales, says Ms. Chen. Another positive: Thanks to the real-estate bust, the economy is less reliant on housing. That means a drop in home prices shouldn't drag the U.S. back into recession.
In a separate report out Thursday, Fannie Mae also scaled back expectations for the housing market. They now expect new and existing home sales to fall by 7.4% from last year, to around 5.1 million units. Previously, the firm had called for a 0.8% increase.
"Current housing market conditions seem dire with ample room for improvement," writes chief economist Douglas Duncan. "Leading indicators suggest that a free-fall is behind us but a strong rebound appears unlikely."


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The Android Experiment: I miss the Windows windows
Episode six revisits the failures
I HAVE NOW PASSED the halfway point of this experiment. The fact that I mention this shows that I'm getting a bit frustrated with it, so it's time for a half-time rant.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving up now. I've come too far, and in fact there have been remarkably few things that I have out and out failed to achieve, but the ones that have foxed me have been a right pain.
My Skype history runs to only a few hours. This is very frustating when someone sends me a hot lead in the morning and by half past four when I come to work on it I can't find it again. Additionally, Skype appears to have its own rules about whether or not to tell me when I have a new message, and indeed whether to stay connected. I blame Microsoft for this. Skype for Android used to be excellent until Microsoft got hold of it.
I've picked up a bunch of new CDs in the January sales. But unfortunately, Android has no support for CD ripping. If I have a disc image, there are apps like ISO Extractor to allow me to browse them, but no drivers to allow me to connect a CD player. I could ask my long-suffering partner, but I stupidly made a rule that I'm not allowed to get other people to do a job if I can't. So at the moment I have 19 shiny new drinks coasters and she's very relieved.
Of course I realise that physical media is dying and there is no reason for a new mobile operating system to be backwards compatible, but in this transition period, it would be nice if some enterprising person created a plug-and-play driver for Android so I can rip my CDs.
I included a video from Youtube in one of my articles today, but for some reason I had no way of getting the embed code and had to go all round the houses to get it. Apparently, Google thinks that an Android user doesn't need that kind of functionality, which is a worry because it's the type of thing that would encourage people like me to make this switch permanent. Oh, and you can't listen to Youtube videos in the background - they stop unless the app is in focus.
This is a very good example of why Android needs to evolve if it is ever to be a contender. Apps are about quick and dirty fixes to a service.
I've already documented my annoyance at trying to write news articles using Android. It involves using the same app for long periods and most of them are designed for that quick fix - a chance to catch the headlines, look up cinema times or navigate home. Once you start using them for long periods, the bugs become more obvious. The crashes, the crucial programs that autoclose without saving when RAM is full, and the bizarre moments when suddenly the keyboard disconnects itself and the only way to get it back is to reboot.
It's not that you can't do things. You can do almost anything, but it's slow and clunky and more often than not you have to invent workarounds to get there.
However, do you know what I miss about Windows? Windows.
Windows are the best thing about Windows and other PC operating systems. The lack of floating apps and screensharing has made my life miserable. There are a few apps that go some ways towards solving the problem, though. Try Floating Browser: the clue is in the name. However, these inventive solutions are just workarounds. Android as it stands simply cannot support multitasking properly, and it's a pain in the proverbial.
Okay, so there you are. I've had a rant and now I can get on with the second half of the experiment. There are lots of good things about using Android as well, but articles about how happy I am don't make very interesting columns, so I'll save those for another day.
There's still time to challenge me. If there's something that you think I should be doing in Android, let me know and I'll try and do it. You can send me a message via Disqus, below. You can tweet me at @INQ using the hashtag #INQAndroid.
As I mentioned, later this week I'm going to look at devices with larger screens, including the Lenovo Yoga 10, the one with the built-in stand. I also hope to get around to editing the video I promised, and answering the question, 'What on earth possessed you to buy a Samsung Galaxy Mega?'.
You can find the previous episodes of The INQUIRER Android Experiment here:
Prologue - We introduce the experiment.
Episode One - We learn that this won't be a walk in the park.
Episode Two - We explore all things musical.
Episode Three - We nearly give up, but then release a chart topper tune.
Episode Four - We answer some of the questions you've put to us.
Episode Five - We decide that when it comes to Android, size matters. µ
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A Casimir force for good in MEMS design
Nov 2, 2006
Researchers in the US and Russia have demonstrated that the Casimir force between two conducting surfaces can be controlled by modifying the density of charge-carrying particles within the surfaces. The result could have positive implications for the design of novel microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS (Phys Rev Lett 97 170402).
The mysterious attraction between two neutral, conducting surfaces in a vacuum was first described in 1948 by Henrik Casimir and cannot be explained by classical physics. Instead it is a purely quantum effect involving the zero-point oscillations of the electromagnetic field surrounding the surfaces. These fluctuations exert a "radiation pressure" on the surfaces and the overall force is weaker in the gap between the surfaces than elsewhere, drawing the surfaces together.
The Casimir force can be both a help and a hindrance in the design of the micrometre-scale mechanical components used in MEMS. It can cause trouble by causing components to stick to one another, but it has also been exploited to control the movement of conducting plates in MEMS devices. As a result, the precise control of the Casimir force would be an important tool for MEMS designers.
Now Umar Mohideen of the University of California, Riverside and colleagues have made an important step towards Casimir control by demonstrating that materials with higher charge-carrier densities are subject to greater Casimir forces than those with lower densities. The researchers came to this conclusion by using a contact-mode atomic force microscope (AFM) with a gold-coated polystyrene sphere of diameter 0.6 µm attached to the microscope's cantilever. The sphere was placed near to a silicon plate and the Casimir force between the two was measured. Two plates were studied – a control plate and a plate that was doped with impurities to boost its charge-carrier density by a factor of about 20 000. The Casimir forces differed by as much as 17 pN at 70 nm separation between ball and plate, which is about 7% of the total Casimir force on the ball and plates.
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POSTED ON Friday, 04.13.2012 / 12:50 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- Marty Havlat did in his first playoff game for the Sharks what only two players have done in Sharks history; score an overtime goal in a game that went beyond the first overtime. Game one against the Blues was only the sixth game in Sharks playoff history that went to double overtime or beyond. It was the fourth double overtime game while the Sharks have lost a triple overtime and a quadruple overtime game in their playoff history.
Havlat joins Patrick Rissmiller who scored in double OT in game 1 against Nashville on April 11, 2007 and Ray Whitney who scored in double OT in game 7 against Calgary on May 19, 1995 as the only Sharks players to score in double OT.
- The Sharks as a franchise are 9-4 when winning the first game of a playoff series and 4-10 when losing the first game of the series. Like scoring the first goal in a game, winning that first game is very important.
- If winning the first game is so important, why do I often say the series doesn't start until after the 1st game? Because that is when one team is desperate, angry, and will do anything to not go down 2-0 in the series. Games 2,3 and 4 are often the nastiest and meanest games in a series. Game 1 usually has a feeling out process and by the time you get to game five discipline becomes a huge deterrent for players to do something foolish on the ice.
- If the first two days of the playoffs are any indication we are going to enjoy a wild ride. There have been seven games and four of them have gone to ovetime.
POSTED ON Friday, 04.6.2012 / 3:00 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- We got a taste of playoff hockey last night in LA and it's only going to get better. Both teams really laid it on the line taking hits to make plays, blocking shots, getting punished in front of the net and doing whatever it takes to help your team win. We saw great moves, spectacular passes, great saves, phenomenal shots that led to goals and players showcasing the speed of the game with their tremendous skating.
- Love the idea of all 30 teams playing on the last day of the regular season. Because one team from each conference has to play against the other, why not have the previous two teams in the Stanley Cup play instead of the NY Islander at Columbus (who decided on that game by the way?). Wouldn't Vancouver at Boston be a great way to finish up the regular season and kick off the playoffs?
- Last night in LA, for the first time in Sharks history two players, Clowe and Thornton, got Gordie Howe hat tricks in the same game. Jumbo had1 fight, 1 goal and 1 assist while Clowe had 2 fights, 1 goal and 1 assist.
This is a good time to celebrate the great Gordie Howe. Here are some of his amazing accomplishments.
• Played 25 years, 1767 games for the Detroit Red Wings.
• Played 6 years in the WHA and then 1 season, at the age of 52, with Hartford in the NHL.
• Won 6 Hart Trophies as League MVP and 6 Art Ross for leading the league in scoring.
• Was as tough as they came. Gordie was a ferocious competitor and would get players back (often with his elbow) that went along with his amazing skill and hockey sense.
• Total professional career: 32 years, 2186 games, 975 goals, 2358 points, 2085 penalty minutes.
- #PlayoffHockeyIsTheBest_NuffSaid
- Dan Boyle after the win in LA. "That was a crazy game, man. Down three-one we battled back. They got another one, we took the lead. It was a pretty entertaining game for the fans and it was a hard fought win. We showed a lot of character."
POSTED ON Friday, 03.30.2012 / 12:31 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- I love the way Joe Pavelski plays the game of hockey. In the Sharks last four victories (Nashville, Detroit, Boston and Colorado) he has been the 1st star twice and the 2nd star twice. For good measure, he was also a star in the loss in Anaheim. The Big Pavelski uses all of his abilities to the utmost, and when the games are important, he finds a way to elevate his play. Pavelski competes every shift, plays for his teammates, and is about as selfless a player as you can get.
- I covered all the mirrors in my home because I'm ashamed to look at myself. Why you ask? Because in the past few weeks I have been cheering for teams that I would never in my wildest dream cheer for, including: Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and, if you can believe it, Vancouver.
- When Florida makes the playoffs they will end a 10-year postseason drought. So the dubious honors of "team that last made the playoffs" goes to the center of the hockey world, aka the Toronto Maple Leafs. The last time the Leafs made the playoffs was the 2003-04 season.
Only 232 miles separates Toronto and Detroit, but they are a lot further apart when it comes to hockey organizations. Both are Original 6 teams, but while one has lost 20 of 25 games and will miss the playoffs for the 7th consecutive season the other will be in the playoffs for the 21st straight year.
POSTED ON Friday, 03.23.2012 / 3:25 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- Sharks alternate captain Ryane Clowe, who had a three-point night against Anaheim on March 19, is someone to watch during the final stretch of the regular season and in the playoffs. Clowe is tough, mean, strong and has good hands and vision for a big guy. He makes others better just by his presence on the ice. This is his time of year!
#BeastOfBurden #UnderMyThumb
- Hope you are enjoying the roller coaster ride. If it's not keeping you interested, then you aren't paying attention. Here is what the Sharks have done in just the last two weeks, going back to March 10:
#ICan'tGetNo_Satisfaction #FlipTheSwitch
- On Thursday night, the Sharks held a 1-0 lead against the Bruins after the first period, but it was only the 18th time this year San Jose has led after the 1st. Based on the stats below, let's hope this trend continues. Here are the top and bottom teams in regards to having leads after the 1st period (NHL standings based on points percentage):
1. STL - 32 (2nd)
2. VAN - 31 (4th)
3. DET - 30 (6th)
4. PIT - 29 (3rd)
T5. PHI - 28 (5th)
T5. BUF - 28 (20th)
T25. EDM - 20 (29th)
T25. FLA - 20 (11th)
27. MIN - 19 (25th)
T28. TBL - 18 (23rd)
T28. SJS - 18 (16th)
30. CBJ - 15 (30th)
#StartMeUp #JumpinJackFlash
POSTED ON Friday, 03.16.2012 / 2:37 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- Speaking of Logan Couture... Congrats on back-to-back 30-goal seasons, in your first two full seasons in the NHL, a first in Sharks franchise history.
- Speaking of 'The Kid'... It's great for Pittsburgh, the NHL and the game of hockey to have Sid the Kid back playing. I just hope he stays healthy for the rest of the regular and postseason.
One of the reasons Pittsburgh has reeled off 10 straight wins is the play of MVP candidate Evgeni Malkin, who had this to say after his team recently beat Boston: "I not think about my points now, the season continues and playoffs come soon."
- Speaking of Boston... The Bruins are struggling as they are 2-6-0 in their last eight games, 3-8-0 in March after a very mediocre 5-7-1 record in February. As a matter of fact, the four teams who made it to the Conference Finals last year haven't exactly fared well in March. Vancouver is 2-4-0, Tampa Bay is 3-3-1 and San Jose is 2-3-3. The four teams combined records for March is 10-16-4.
- Speaking of scoring while your team struggles... Since the beginning of February the Sharks have scored 54 goals. Joe Thornton has 26 points so he has been in on 48.1% of the Sharks goals in the last 6 weeks.
Thornton had multi-point efforts in three games of the recent four-game road trip with three assists in Dallas, a goal and assist in Edmonton and a pair of assists in Calgary. The Sharks captain has been in on eight of the nine goals over the past five games.
POSTED ON Friday, 03.9.2012 / 8:58 AM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- The Sharks, more than any other team in the Pacific Division, control their destiny to win the Division. Why? Because the Sharks have twice as many divisional games left compared to the other teams – so if they do well in those games they should be in a solid position to finish 3rd in the Western Conference. Here are each team's Pacific Division records and how many divisional games they have left this year.
ANA 8-9-2, 5 games left (2 vs SJ)
DAL 10-9-1, 4 games left (2 vs SJ)
LAK 11-4-5, 4 games left (3 vs SJ)
PHX 10-6-3, 5 games left (3 vs SJ)
SJS 7-6-1, 10 games left (4 at home, 6 on the road)
- Excuses like not scoring and injuries are just that … excuses. In the NHL you have to find a way to win. The Blues average 2.54 goals per-game, which is tied for 19th in the NHL, but are 1st in the West with 91 points. While the Sharks would like to score more (who wouldn't) they are still 12th in NHL in goals/game with an average of 2.69.
The Penguins have 308 total man-games lost this year but are in 4th place with 85 points in the East. As a matter of fact, there are only 3 teams with less man-games lost than the Sharks, and they are the Bruins (71), Blackhawks (100) and Predators (120). The Sharks with 122 man-games lost to injury, have less than half than 11 teams including the Blues (268), Panthers (291), Flyers (306) and Jets (245) who are currently in the playoffs.
- Special Teams are important, the question is how important are they?
• Montreal has the best PK in the league and is in 15th place in the East.
• Edmonton has the best PP in the league and is in 29th place in the overall standings.
• The NY Rangers have the 29th best PP, or 2nd worst in the league. They are in 1st place in the East with 91 points.
• Ottawa, Philly, Winnipeg, Florida, Chicago and San Jose are all in the bottom 10 in PK in the league and all are in position to make the playoffs.
POSTED ON Friday, 03.2.2012 / 12:47 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- So after the 2-6-1 road trip the Sharks, to a man, said they had to play better defensively. So they give up one goal in the following two home games and still only get 2 points. It's playoff hockey time folks, and Ryan Miller reminded us he is one of the best goaltenders in the world when he's on his game.
- Since the All-Star break, the Sharks have struggled going 6-9-1. But it's not because of lack of leadership from Captain Joe Thornton. In the past 16 games, Jumbo has 21 points (six goals, 15 assists) and is a plus-3.
- It's official, concussions are now an epidemic in the NHL this year. It's bad enough that Jonathan Toews and Kris Letang are now out with concussions, but Todd McLellan became the second coach this year to get a concussion and miss games because of it.
POSTED ON Thursday, 02.23.2012 / 10:29 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- The stats don't lie. Scoring first continues to be very important in the outcome of games. The Sharks are 21-4-2 and 5th in the NHL with a .778 win percentage when they score first. In 896 NHL games to date, the team that scores first has a record of 604-188-104.
67.4% win the game
79.01% get at least a point
- Slumps, while not fun, are important in the grand scheme of things. Slumps force a team to sit down and evaluate where they are, make everyone accountable, get everyone on the same page and ultimately gives the players an opportunity to respond. The Sharks used the Columbus loss to respond and they did so in impressive fashion with the 2-1 win over Toronto.
- Well Jeff Carter got what he wanted … out of Columbus. He never engaged the organization or community and BlueJacket fans will be better off with Jack Johnson on the roster. As for Carter, I don't think they'll miss him.
- The Washington Capitals are 5-9-3 in their last 17 games and are currently in 10th place in the Eastern Conference. Alex Ovechkin is tied for 18th spot in the league with 24 goals, which is remarkable in that it didn't seem that long ago most hockey fans thought he was a shoe in for 50 goals a year. In 07/08 he scored 65, followed by seasons with 56 and 50 before dropping to 32 last year.
- The day after the 6-3 loss to Columbus, Joe Pavelski commented on how the team would get out of this slump. "It's going to be tough to get out of this. We're going to win a game 2-1 or 1-0 and it's going to be one of those tight ones where somebody steps up and finds a way. You never quite know who it's going to be, so that's why we need everybody."
POSTED ON Friday, 02.17.2012 / 10:14 AM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- Joe Thornton, with his three assists against Washington, has now had three or more assists in a game 49 times in his career. That's second among active players, with only Jaromir Jagr with 56, having done it more.
- Speaking of Joe, how about The Big Pavelski. In the 7 games prior to the Tampa game, Pavs has 5 goals, 5 assists, is +2 and has 26 shots. How important is Pavelski – check out these impressive stats:
61.9 Faceoff % - 1st NHL
22 Goals – T 21st NHL
Plus 15 – T 21st NHL Forwards
52 Takeaways – T 9th NHL
55 Blocked Shots – T 9th NHL Forwards
Road stats: 26 games, 11 goals, 13 assists, 24 points, +14
- The Sharks victory on Oct. 28 was important at the time, but looking back it's downright impressive. That night the Sharks beat Detroit -- in Detroit no less -- by the score of 4-2. It was only one of two regulation losses the Wings have had all season at The Joe. The other was on Nov. 3 to Calgary. Since then they have set a new NHL record by winning 21 straight home games.
- Here is how the Sharks have fared this year when:
Giving up 2 or less Goals. 29 times, 24-4-1, .845 points percentage
Giving up 3 or more Goals, 25 times, 6-13-6, .360 points percentage
POSTED ON Friday, 02.10.2012 / 1:08 PM PT
Time for my weekly Baker's Dozen.
- The Sharks have seven games remaining against Eastern Conference teams, including four on the upcoming road trip. Here is how the Sharks have fared this year and the previous three seasons against the East and how their record ranks among Western Conference teams:
2011-12: 8-3-0, 3rd (STL 11-0-2; COL 10-2-0)
2010-11: 9-8-1, 12th
2009-10: 12-4-2, T-2nd
2008-09: 12-3-3, 1st
- It's that time of year to focus on the special teams trends instead of the percentage for the entire year. The Sharks PP success and PK struggles back in October are really irrelevant right now. Here are the totals for 5-game segments for the past 25 games:
Last 5 PP: 5-13, 38.5%; PK: 8-10, 80.0%
Last 10 PP: 7-24, 29.2%; PK: 17-20, 85.0%
Last 15 PP: 11-42, 25.0%; PK: 24-28, 85.7%
Last 20 PP: 12-60, 20.0%; PK: 40-47, 85.1%
Last 25 PP: 16-75, 21.3%; PK: 51-61, 83.6%
- St. Louis started the season 6-7-0 before making a coaching change. Since then the Blues are 26-7-7 and one of the most impressive teams in the NHL. Sunday's game against the Blues, who are 2-0-0 against the Sharks this year and 22-3-4 at home, should have a playoff feel to it.
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Peitzmeier, a left-hander from Yutan, said it was "understandable" why Serrano left Cal State Fullerton for the Volunteers. Tennessee plays in the prestigious Southeastern Conference, and Serrano was an assistant coach at the school when the Volunteers advanced to the College World Series in 1995.
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MONTESANO — If the Montesano Bulldogs football team is to repeat as state champions this season, they'll have to do it as road dogs once again.
The reconstruction of the Rottle Field grandstand, razed by fire last September, has been delayed due to defects in the concrete risers that support the wooden benches in the grandstand, according to Montesano School District Superintendent Dan Winters.
Stadium contractor Rognlin's Inc., of Aberdeen, refused the precast risers provided by the supplier, according to Winter.
"There were defective spots in all of them. They rejected them and now we're starting over with that portion of the project," Winter said.
The project's completion, originally targeted for mid-October, is now delayed until late winter or early spring.
"Some of that has to do with weather," said Winter, noting that the construction of portions of the grandstand roof will require a stretch of dry weather.
Winter said there would be no additional costs to the district.
Montesano had already rescheduled three of its five varsity home games — Sept. 13 against Cascade Christian, Sept. 26 (a Thursday night) against Woodland and the homecoming contest Oct. 18 against Tenino — for Aberdeen's Stewart Field.
Still to be determined are the dates and locations for the mid-October contest against Rochester and the scheduled Nov. 1 Civil War with Elma.
Winter said there are conflicts at Stewart Field for those dates and — like the Woodland game — one or both may have to played on a Thursday night.
"It's disappointing," said Winter. "It's especially disappointing to those seniors who were looking forward to a chance to play at their home field this season. That is the biggest disappointment for us."
Montesano's junior varsity high school and junior high football games and varsity girls soccer contests will continue to be staged at Rottle Field without grandstand facilities.


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Online mixtape service, Muxtape, has been unceremoniously closed for the time being, but that whole thing about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), well that seems to be one big, fat joke.
There's no reason or timing for the shutdown listed on the site, beyond a single, relatively hopeful sentence that reads, "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA."
The temporary shutdown is likely due, at least in part, to the recent rise in popularity of the site, which has been garnering a lot of buzz, including a slot on PC Magazine's Top 100 Undiscovered Sites.
UPDATE: "For the past several months, we have communicated concerns to Muxtape on behalf of our members," an RIAA spokeswoman said in an e-mail. "Muxtape has not yet obtained authorization from our member companies to host or stream copies of their sound recordings."
Wrote Muxtape on its Tumblr blog, "No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned. Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage."
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My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Tools of Characterization
Character Analysis
The names used in My Ántonia often hint at something important about the characters. Then again, sometimes Cather just took names from the people in her own childhood, and so it's sometimes hard to tell which names are meaningful to the novel and which are just meaningful to Cather. For example, Jim Burden was actually the name of a grocer in the town of Red Cloud. It could just be that Cather liked this name. It could also be the case that Jim carries around a sort of "burden" throughout the course of the novel – the burden, say, of his inexpressible feelings for Ántonia? Or the burden that the narrator bears in trying to communicate the "incommunicable past"? Then there's Cutter, who goes by Wick but is actually named Wycliffe after the English religious reformer John Wycliffe – the first man to translate the Bible to English from Latin. Your guess is as good as ours as to why such a villainous character is tied so strongly to religious history. There's also Gaston Cleric, whose last name refers to a type of priest with strong ties to learning – fitting for the man responsible for Jim's education.
Physical Description
Physical descriptions of Ántonia strongly tie her character to the natural landscape of Nebraska. We learn that her eyes are "big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood," that "in her cheeks she ha[s] a glow of rich, dark colour," and that "her brown hair [is] curly and wild-looking" (2.3.14). When she grows up and starts working in the fields, we hear descriptions of her muscles and tanned skin – she's becoming less feminine, and her body reflects that.
And of course the description of Wick Cutter leaves little confusion as to the nature of his villainous character:
I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening. It was said he brushed them every night, as a woman does her hair. His white teeth looked factory-made. His skin was red and rough, as if from perpetual sunburn; he often went away to hot springs to take mud baths. (3.11.3)
It's significant that the immigrant girls who come to town are known primarily as "the hired girls" – their social status is marked by their occupation, by the fact that they have to work to support their families back on the farms. (The daughters of the wealthier merchant families aren't in this position.) Whether a given character is a farmer or a more urban merchant is an important division as well. An important part of Jim's character is his occupation of the moment. When he is a student, for example, much of the text is devoted to describing his studies. Remember that in the introduction we learned that Jim is a lawyer for one of the railroad companies. It's significant that Jim moved on from his farm hand days in one sense, to become a lawyer, but maintained a loyalty to his roots in another sense (by working for an industry that played such a large role in westward expansion).
Farm vs. City
As we discuss in "Setting," the two locations of farm and town are compared in My Ántonia. Jim and Ántonia both begin their lives on the farm and then later get to try out living in town, which constitutes a different life. Many of the characters end up either as farm people or as city people. For example, Ántonia tells Jim that she is much happier on a farm than she was when she lived in Black Hawk. Her husband, Cuzak, is the opposite, and would prefer to live in a city. Other characters like Lena and Tiny clearly like the hustle and bustle of society life.
Where a character prefers to live is a tool of characterization because it provides insight into their character. Characters who prefer town life are more into clothes, society, and dances, while characters who prefer the country life like the quiet of nature and the hard, and the steady work of running a farm. Jim is a tough case to decide, because he has chosen at the end of the novel to live in New York City, but he clearly harbors a romanticized love for the natural landscapes of the prairie.


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Lol this made me laugh hard.... get a job man. You can get cards performing at 300% of your current for less than 50$. Don't want to spend money? Where do you live? Romania? Ghana? The thing you are facing is called natural selection.
Made you laugh hard? i see, you got a wicked sense of humour, its a problem for about hundrets gamers abandonned the game, completely denied them to play. Im a physicist, live in eu for information, and i have to argue with nolifers like you about one crappy setting. Finished talking to you. Normal people will make a picture.
"And yes, it is hard to create a "new ingame graphic option about shaders", programming is not that easy. And well, probably it isn't worth the effort, GGG (and any other company) can't consider every aged piece of hardware."
I can tell you it is that easy, its few lines of command, youre right, they dont care about it althought they promised to fix it. Thats the minor reason why d3 plays millions and this, according to steam plays ten thousand...
So you are a physicist? Yeah, I'm the CEO of Microsoft, naturally overqualified people like you and me roam random computer game forums because their obsolete hardware can't compete anymore.
Alone the fact that your English grammar is almost obscenely bad plus the lack of understanding you have for a technical issue (which you should understand, beeing a physicist) plus the fact that your income obviously doesn't suffice to get at least just 2 or 3 years outdated hardware proves my point suggesting you to
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Daniel Pinero, 32, is charged with felony disseminating indecent material to a minor and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child and was sent to Sullivan County Jail without bail.
An investigation revealed that Pinero used his phone to send the photo to the girl's cell phone and then asked her to take a taxi to meet him for sex, state police said.
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photos: Ryan "Huggy" Hughes Halfpipe finals at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships at Breckenridge went on today under snowy skies. The snowstorm didn't phase Kaitlyn Farrington who landed two 900s in her run to put her on top of the podium. On the men's side, Shaun White took the Dew Cup, with Louie Vito in second, and Taku Hiraoka in third. Women's Halfpipe 1. Kaitlyn Farrington 2. Queralt Castellet 3. Maddy Schaffrick Men's Halfpipe 1. Shaun White 2. Louie Vito 3. Taku HiraokaRead More


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(Manchester United)
4 years ago
When I first joined I would comment on every other forum and no matter how rational, some fans didn't liked that and always voted rude and back then you didn't have to go to a person's profile to give them votes because you can just put your mouse cursor on their pic and give them votes. Also the last 40-50rude votes that i've got were after City winning the PL.... Lol.... City fans "love" me when I talk rational, a language they are not too familiar with. I am not too bothered by it because you'll see most fans here who give the bitter truth are not well received as opposed to the lovey-dovey fans who albeit right tend to be more subtle than be direct like myself
(West Bromwich Albion)
4 years ago
Thanks for accepting my request mate. 2 cool votes for you
(Manchester United)
4 years ago
Two Clever votes for you! Great if you could return the favour! Thanks
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Footyman1's dreamfooty team


text: I was in a little 2nd hand store and bought 150 grams of what I think is wool or wool blend. The 3 skeins cost me 1.50 Euros. About $2. Now, My question is: What to make with this yarn, (can't get more) It's pink tweed, (no labels) I have no idea of meters or yards, Was thinking of hats or scarves or Mobius but Would I have enough or too much? What to do with left-overs?