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To pretend you're scholarly on a topic when your knowledge extends only to the topic's Wikipedia entry. Often done on the fly in online chat.
"He acted like he knew about the Edo Period, but he was probably just wiki-fronting."
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Microsoft Thinks Windows Vista Sucks. Get in Line.
Microsofts lumbering hulk of a failure, Windows Vista, is no longer your only option when purchasing a new PC. Microsoft, finally smelling the technological wet one theyve dealt, agreed to let PC manufacturers offer XP as a downgraded OS to buyers.
Personally, Ive had nothing but IT problems since I switched my home candle-making business to
The bad news is that this may be a limited-time-only deal. Still trying to push their aborted fetus of an OS as hard as they can, and citing a Windows Life-Cycle Policy, Microsoft have said theyre going to force manufacturers to stop offering the XP option after January 31st.
The worse news? It turns out if you paid for the Microsoft software bundle designed to downgrade your machine to XP, you totally got ripped off, since all Windows Vista user agreements entitle the buyer to a free downgrade anyway. Its actually a brilliant marketing strategy: sell us solid waste, then after weve eaten it offer to turn it back into a sandwich for forty bucks.
Its kind of like the whole New Coke fiasco, except that New Coke actually beat Coke Classic in blind taste tests, whereas if Windows Vista were a food, it would probably have a good amount of pig scrotum in it.

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The reason I get up in the morning and the reason I pass out at night.
beer GOOD!
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Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Helping white people dance since the 1600's.
by Homer Simpson June 14, 2003
The cause of and solution to all life's problems!
-via Homer J. Simpson
by Lugermeister June 14, 2004
Its the fifth element after water, fire, earth and wind... Nothing exists without it!
- Life sucks...
- Here have a beer!
- Life sucks only when the beers effect wares off!
- Here have a beer!
- Life sucks only when the beers effect wares off!
by BeerMaster November 12, 2003
A magic potion used to make people of the opposite look better
She had no teeth and a 3 inch diameter goiter on the side of her bearded face, but after a 12 pack of beer I didn't even notice.
by smoog August 13, 2004
a liquid form of carbohydrates that should be drank as a replacement for all other liquids, especially water
i'm hungry, where is the beer for my cereal
that was a hard workout, i should rehydrate, where is my beer
that was a hard workout, i should rehydrate, where is my beer
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what men need to function daily
Its 6 a.m. damn it i need a beer to get going
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More than 16 hours after it started, the first day of work for the 2013 Stetson football team came to an end Sunday night when a more than three hour practice session ended shortly after 10 p.m.
On a day that started with a wake-up call at 6 a.m. and included conditioning tests and plenty of meetings, then end came with the more than 50 first year players in the Hatters program getting in some extra work for 30 minutes after the rest of the players called it a day.
For those first year players, the pace of the day was understandably difficult.
"There is no question," Hatters head coach Roger Hughes said with a smile. "They are thinking about home and mom and why they ever wanted to play college football about now."
Hughes could smile at the end of the day, but things did not get off to the kind of start he had hoped for. For the most part, the Stetson players were on the own over the summer with a workout plan to follow. The results were not what the Hatters coaches had hoped for.
"The start of the day was not very good because we didn't come into camp in the shape we needed to be in," Hughes said. "That is a reflection of our summer program, and we obviously have to get that part fixed."
Things picked up as the day progressed and the entire 120 member squad was ready when practice started.
"I liked the tempo at practice tonight," Hughes said. "I think there was a lot of carry over from last year and I think the upper classmen are trying to get the freshmen acclimated and learning. They have really taken on a leadership role with the new guys. There was a lot of focus because there is the understanding that, this year, it counts.
"We have to get into better playing shape, but the attitude, the tempo and the focus were great. It was a day we can build on."
Hughes said the fact that he and virtually his entire coaching staff have been together for a full year helped a lot with managing practice. Only running backs coach Atif Austin is new to the staff this year.
"We have worked together for a year and we have an understanding of each other, and everything was better," Hughes said. "Everything was faster and everything had more of a game-like tempo to it. Last year, during our first warm-up drill, we threw 30 passes before we completed one against air. This year, everything was crisper.
"I think our kids have worked very hard on the mental side of things. From a physical standpoint, we are a little behind, but I'll take responsibility for that because I should have had them better prepared for what we needed them to do."
The Hatters will continue with practices in just helmets for the first few days as part of the NCAA acclimation period, but that does not mean the work will be any less.
"We just have to get them to understand our routine," Hughes said. "We want to get as much work in during these first five days before we hit them with two-a-days."
The Hatters will be back out early on Monday morning with another round of conditioning followed by morning meetings. The first-year players will attend orientation meetings in the late morning before special teams meetings after lunch. The team will return to the practice field on Monday night at 7 p.m. for their second full session.
All Stetson football practices are open and free to the public. Season tickets for the return of Stetson football are still on-sale, but good seats are going fast. Visit www.gohatters.com/tix to order tickets or call 386-738-HATS to order by phone.
Fans can also follow the Hatters online via social media on the official Stetson Athletics Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/stetsonhatters ) and through the Stetson Football Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/stetsonfootball ). On Twitter, follow the Hatters @StetsonHatters @StetsonFootball and @JohnB_Stetson.
Fans should also remember to signup for Hat-Alerts, the official Stetson Athletics Text Messaging service at www.gohatters.com/text.
As the countdown clock continues to wind, also visit the Stetson Football A-to-Z Gameday Guide ( www.gohatters.com/gameday ) to get all the information you will need for making the 2013 Stetson football season successful.


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Clackamas County intends to amend the Consolidated Plan in the following manner:
Program Year 2011-2012 (2011 Action Plan)
1. Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program (2011/0023) – The County proposes to cancel the 2011 project and reprogram the funds into a new 2012 TBRA program. The funds will continue to be used to assist individual households who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The assistance may be used for rent, utility costs, security deposits, and/or utility deposits. The maximum assistance is 24 months. The budget for the new 2012 Log Outproject will be $100,000.
Program Year 2012-2013 (2012 Action Plan)
1. 2012 HOME Administration (2012/0009) –The 2012 Action Plan budgeted $74,316 for the administration of the HOME Program. This amendment proposes to increase this budget from program income receipted during the 2012-2013 program year. The amount to be reprogrammed will be limited to 10% of the total amount of program income received. The estimated increase in the HOME Administration budget will be $55,000. The new HOME Administration budget will be $129,316.
For additional information, or to submit comments on the proposed amendment, contact Chuck Robbins at the Clackamas County Community Development Division (503-655-8591), Public Services Building, 2051 Kaen Road – Suite 245, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045. Comments will be accepted until 5:00 PM on Monday January 21, 2013.
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Acronym for "Let's make it happen", which means what you think it means. However, it usually does not happen. Commonly used in Silicon Valley by overly energetic and undersexed young professionals.
Even though Daniel's friends were all hungover and tired, he wanted to go clubbing in the Castro district, so he kept shouting, "LMIH LMIH LMIH!"
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COLUMBIA — The game was big enough for a veteran quarterback to feel weak in the knees. And Dylan Thompson was no veteran quarterback.
WHO: No. 20 South Carolina (5-2, 3-2 SEC) at No. 5 Missouri (7-0, 3-0)
WHEN: Saturday, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Columbia, Mo.
LINE: Missouri by 3
Thompson is a full-time backup, cast in South Carolina starter Connor Shaw's shadow. Only, as the Gamecocks prepared for their rivalry game at Clemson last season, Shaw's shadow was on the sideline. USC's starting quarterback was out with a sprained left foot. The biggest game of the season belonged to Thompson.
It was his chance to shine, his responsibility to shoulder the pressure. No time to panic.
Thompson played brilliantly. Cool and calm, unbelievably poised, he tossed three touchdown passes and led the Gamecocks to a 10-point road win over the Tigers.
"Dylan is always ready," running back Mike Davis said this week. "That's just the type of person he is."
Those are reassuring words from a teammate, because Thompson faces a similar situation this week — only the stage is even bigger.
With its SEC East hopes on the line, No. 20 South Carolina travels to No. 5 Missouri for a 7 p.m. kickoff Saturday on ESPN2. Once again, it's Thompson's game. His chance to shine. His responsibility to shoulder the pressure.
Once again, Thompson is preparing for a huge road game against a team called the Tigers. Though, he admitted, last season's Clemson game only helps so much.
"It's a new team, new game," Thompson said. "Missouri's a great team. They've got a good crowd. We just have to be ready for that and take it. This week's the biggest game we've played yet, so let's just focus on that."
Shaw's status this week is uncertain, with coaches playing a bit of gamesmanship. The senior quarterback suffered a left knee sprain late in USC's loss at Tennessee last weekend. Shaw has returned from the seemingly impossible, most recently last month when he sprained this throwing shoulder at Central Florida but started the next week against Kentucky.
This week, Shaw could be a backup. He could play sparingly. He could watch all four quarters from the sideline.
"Uh, you never know," quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus said, smiling. "We'll see. We'll see. He'll get better every day. He goes to rehab. He's rehabbing every day, and he's good with all that stuff to. He takes care of himself and does what he has to do to get rehab. So we'll see how the next couple days go."
Regardless, coach Steve Spurrier said Thompson will start. As the junior prepares for Saturday, he's expecting to play the entire game.
"I would think so," Thompson said. "Anytime you're starting, obviously, you want to feel that way. I'm just excited for our team. It's a good opportunity for us, going to Missouri."
It's ironic — though, fitting with how this season has gone in the SEC East — that the division title could be decided by a pair of backup quarterbacks. For Missouri, Maty Mauk has proven to be capable as a freshman. He replaced starter James Franklin last week, helping guide the Tigers to a home win over Florida.
At season's beginning, nobody would have predicted that Thompson and Mauk would start in the division's biggest game. If Thompson seems unaffected by the magnitude of what Saturday could mean — either pulling USC back into prime position in the SEC East race, or practically eliminating it from the hunt — that's because he is.
Thompson has been here before. It's nothing new. After Wednesday's practice, as he called this weekend his team's biggest game of the season, his demeanor was fit for a glorified exhibition.
"In the big scheme of things, it's not that big," Thompson said. "You've just got to take it for what it is and roll with it. I'm just excited for the opportunity."
Mangus said the most important thing to quell a quarterback's nerves is live snaps. Thompson has plenty of those. Even when Shaw is healthy, it's not uncommon for the backup to enter for a drive here, a few plays there.
Unlike most backup quarterbacks, Thompson knows he has a good chance of playing in most games. It sharpens his preparation for the week. He knows how to study an opponent as if he were the starter.
It's a good thing. This week, it's Thompson's game.
"Dylan's a good player, and he'll get his chance to go this week," Mangus said. "He's had a good practice a couple days, but he always does. Dylan gets himself ready like he's a starter, and that's why I don't worry about Dylan. He'll be ready to roll."


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Leslie Nearhoof, 76, admittedly has had a "heavy foot" for most of his 60-year-driving career.
The Altoona man loves big band music, going to church, spending time with his sweetheart and driving his Cadillac.
"I try to keep it under 100," Nearhoof said of his speed.
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(Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec) Leslie Nearhoof of Altoona and Jeanne Bolger of Martinsburg have taken the Seniors for Safe Driving course to update their knowledge of the rules of the road and learn how to overcome the effects aging can have on driving.
He joked his stiffening right leg somehow wants to keep the throttle to the floor some days.
For many seniors, however, the changes that come with an aging body can deter their ability to safely operate a vehicle.
Programs are available locally to help senior drivers re-learn the laws of the road and have their car assessed to prevent accidents.
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Driving classes
June 12, 5 to 9 p.m. (refresher course) at Altoona Regional, Allegheny Room, sixth floor.
July 14, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Altoona Regional, Rotunda Room, sixth floor.
Aug. 7, 5 to 9 p.m. (refresher course) at Altoona Regional, Allegheny Room, sixth floor.
Sept. 15, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (refresher course) at Altoona Regional, Rotunda Room, sixth floor.
Oct. 9, 5 to 9 p.m. (refresher course) at Altoona Regional Health System, Allegheny Room, sixth floor.
Nov. 13 and 14, 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Altoona Regional, Allegheny Room, sixth floor.
Dec. 8, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (refresher course)
at Altoona Regional, Rotunda Room, sixth floor.
To register, call 800-559-4880 or visit www.sfsd.com or seniorsforsafedriving.com
May 19, June 16, Aug. 18, Oct. 20, Dec. 8., all at 8 a.m. at Blair Senior Center, 1320 12th Ave. Cost is $12 for AARP members; $14 for nonmembers. Lunch is provided.
Nov. 17, free eight-hour course for veterans and spouses.
July 21 and Sept. 8, 9 a.m. four-hour refresher courses will be held at Blair Senior Center.
To register, call 946-1235.
Robert Deweese, 76, teaches the eight-hour AARP driving courses at Blair Senior Center one Saturday a month. He said the course gives an awareness of the driving laws as they have changed through the years.
Nearhoof recently took a refresher driver's course through the Northern Blair Senior Center.
The course, Seniors for Safe Driving, is much like the AARP course that allows individuals 55 or older to review the laws of driving and adapt to driving as they age.
The incentive is the federally approved 5 percent car insurance deduction. Seniors can take either the AARP or the Seniors for Safe Driving class every three years and receive the discounts again.
Nearhoof said he initially took the seven hour course over two days - for the discount. He admitted he learned some things along the way.
"I feel that everyone regardless of age should take this course. It prepares you to drive objectively," he said.
Seniors for Safe Driving instructor Don Kobak said the course aims to help seniors realize their body and reaction time has changed with age.
"[The course] reminds us we're not 20 years old anymore," Kobak said.
Kobak, who is also the manager of the Northern Blair Senior Center, decided to teach the class because he was a student 10 years ago who benefited from it.
Students learn the influences changes in vision, hearing and even their medications can have on their driving ability.
Night driving, poor weather conditions and how to navigate around tractor-trailers are some of the issues discussed.
Nearhoof's sweetheart, Jeanne Bolger, also drives a Cadillac.
Bolger, 84, of Martinsburg has a new outlook on life since she was diagnosed with colon cancer in August 2010.
"I couldn't drive for almost a year," she said.
"I was very shaky and unsure when I started driving again," said the former Blair County jury commissioner and admitted she "hated turning around to back up. I hate to back up."
She said she is a good night driver as her vision is still tip-top.
Nearhoof said his eye sight is good also, and he has no problem driving at night.
Vision tips
Deweese recommends seniors test their peripheral vision on a regular basis, because their vision may not be as good as they think.
One way to check, he said, is to look straight ahead and hold your hands out to the side and wiggle the thumbs, moving them outward until the thumbs are no longer visible.
The exercise tests how much a person can see to the side.
"I teach alternative mirror adjusting," Deweese said, "There is a different way to adjust your side mirror," he said, that will aid seniors with the "blind spot."
CarFit adjustments
To help seniors make adjustments, Altoona Regional Health System introduced a program April 21 called CarFit.
The program is a 12-point assessment of the vehicle itself, said Dana Tomlinson, occupational therapist and certified car fit technician
She said the technicians do not assess anyone's driving skills but examine side mirrors, headrest positions, the driver's ability to reach handles and knobs in the car and a measure of the distance between the chest and the steering wheel.
Another CarFit event is being planned for September, Tomlinson said.
For seniors who do need to make adjustments, the AARP website lists car modifications they can consider such as pedal extenders, a spinner knob for those who have weakness in one arm, cushions and hand controls.
Taking the safe drivers' class helps, too. Nearhoof saved $40 on his insurance from taking the course.
And although he has had his share of accidents in the last 10 years, he said none were his fault.
He has hit three deer and his Buick was T-boned four years ago when a driver failed to stop for the red light and smashed the driver's side.
"Every Sunday they kid me at church. They say 'Leslie, did you keep it under 100 this week?'"
Nearhoof said he has been slowing down as he heads out Interstate 99 to see Bolger.
"I try to keep it at 60 or 65."


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In 2001, violinist Ioana Galu left her native Romania on a scholarship to pursue a second master's degree at Bowling Green State University. She completed that degree and went on to receive a doctorate there, as well. In the process, she made friends in the music department, served as a graduate assistant and filled in as an instructor for two people on sabbatical.
Since 2004, Galu has been a member of the music faculty at Heidelberg University, which she calls "my home, my love." In April, she is to turn 39 and notes she has spent 13 years - a third of her life - in the United States.
"I've been received here with open arms. I've been encouraged to learn the language. I'm on a mission to learn it. I believe in everything America stands for. ... I think I am successfully immersed in the culture," Galu said.
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The Eastern String Quartet includes (from left) Iuliana Cotirlea, Kyla Witt, Jason
Heidelberg and Ioana Galu.
Members of the Heidelberg Jazz Combo rehearse.
Galu also is on the faculty for the Eastern Music Festival in Charlotte, N.C. She estimates playing 30-50 recitals per year, which has introduced her to more musicians, composers and conductors. With government and local support, she and her colleagues in Romania organized a summer music festival in 2010 and invited Galu's American friends to perform.
Those who participated have been warmly welcomed and treated "like royalty," she said.
"We have had three editions of this wonderful festival already ... in my hometown in Romania. It's called 'American Musicians in Bistrita,'" Galu said. "We eat great food. We attend great concerts."
Now, Galu has organized a concert, "Ioana and Friends," for 7 p.m. Friday in Brenneman Music Hall on the Heidelberg campus. The performers include BGSU faculty members Julie Buzzelli (harp), Kevin Bylsma (piano) and Penny Kruse (violin); and Heidelberg faculty members Barb Specht (clarinet) and Steven Kruse (viola).
Although she has performed individually with all of the musicians who will be on stage for "Ioana and Friends," the group of past and present professors and students of hers never have been together on the same concert program. Buzzelli and Galu collaborated in a radio broadcast. Bylsma and the Kruses have performed with Galu as part of her annual chamber music festival in Bistrita. The Kruses also hosted Galu in their home, becoming her adopted family while she was at Bowling Green.
"Penny Kruse was my coach when I did my master's. then she became my mentor when I went for my doctorate," Galu said.
Also performing Jan. 11 will be Iuliana Cotirlea, a former student of Galu's in Romania, and the Eastern String Quartet of Galu, Cotirlea, Kyla Witt and Jason Heidelberg. Rounding out the cast will be the Heidelberg Jazz Combo, comprised of students Kyle Sherepita, Collin Stump, Melissa Flowers, Kyle McDonald, Mike Lee, Lucas Walter and Mackenzie Honaker.
"Ever since I came to the United States, I wanted to make connections between the two countries. That was very important to me," Galu said. "The Romanian artist who is coming, Iuliana Cotirlea, was my violin student at the Conservatory in Romania. I taught there for three years. She is now a very established artist."
Some of the jazz combo members are Galu's students, whom she likes to include in her recitals. She made every effort to find a date when everyone was available In choosing the music, she contacted each artist and reviewed pieces they had enjoyed playing together in the past.
Penny Kruse wanted something for two violins and piano. Galu and Steven Kruse are to play three "small, gorgeous pieces" for violin and viola. Buzzelli selected a composition by a French composer. Galu said she wanted the string quartet to do something "romantic, and heart-breaking and inspiring and cheerful at the same time," so they chose something by Mendelssohn.
Galu also wanted to include a contemporary composition she had heard, "Toccatina a la Turk" for two violins. When she could not find the music, she contacted the composer, Atar Arad.
"You break your hand. it is so difficult, but it is so beautiful, it's worth it," Galu said. "He actually sent me the music. He mailed it to me."
At a summer music festival, Galu had met Paola Marques, a Columbian composer. When Galu asked whether Marques had any contemporary pieces for solo violin, the response was "I do." Marques offered Galu a formal, dramatic piece, "Voice of Silence."
"I learned it in a heartbeat, and I thought, 'This has to be played at Heidelberg,'" Galu said.
With so much variety, Galu is certain the program will be innovative and interesting for the musicians and for the audience. It will be about 90 minutes of "charming works of music" with a short intermission.
She is dedicating the concert to the Friends of Heidelberg Music.
"Those are fantastic people. They knew my first name during the first month of school," Galu said. "This is something special because I have people that have been my mentors, my friends, my students, are my students, are my close friends, my colleagues. I couldn't have found a better mix of past, present and future."
Admission to the concert is free. A reception is to follow, and Galu plans to make some of the food herself.


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ROCKFORD — Local student Ceyda Bertram was named to the fall 2013 dean's list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Bertram, a biology major, received this honor for completing a minimum of 12 credit hours and achieving at least a 3.0 GPA for the fall term. For information: rpi.edu.
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The Stetson Rowing Lightweight 4 crew of Cox Madeline Briggs, Deonna Graham, Alicja Duda, Tori Teter, Kiara Urena won the bronze medal Sunday at the 2013 Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships at the Melton Lake Racing Venue in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
"The girls just did a fantastic job today, I am just the proudest coach," Stetson head coach Mark Wilson said. "These young women have been through so much this year and I am just so happy that they pulled it all together and raced so well."
After a great start the Hatters were in third place at the 500-meter mark behind a very fast Liberty Crew and Tampa team. Stetson stayed strong and actually started to move on Liberty around the 1000m mark but remained third behind Tampa and Liberty, but ahead of Florida, the University of Charleston, and Georgia.
The Hatters were sky high after the race and showed the good sportsmanship that every Hatter shows as they congratulated the winners on the water and later on shore. The team was happy and enjoying the victory.
In the Varsity Open 4 again the Hatters did a fantastic job of racing. Although they finished sixth of six teams in the grand final they came away with a sixth-place finish out of 24 teams in the event for the weekend.
"I am so proud of the way this boat raced this weekend, they were really incredible and made such vast and fast improvements in the last two weeks of training," Wilson said. "The team did a fantastic job this weekend and are on their way to being a force to be considered when on the water.
"This weekend is important for our team going forward," Wilson added. "I am really excited not only about where the team is now but where we are going!"


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Columbiana names new athletic director
February 13, 2013
COLUMBIANA — A new athletic director will replace Bob Spaite this June for the city school district. Spaite stepped down from the position in January, citing the position's heavy workload as a reason....
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Located at the United Way of Weld County office at 814 9th St. in Greeley, the orientations will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and 6 p.m. on Jan. 22.
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If you've ever doubted that President Barack Obama is a toxic mix of ruthless politician and committed ideologue, consider his damn-the-torpedoes, full-speed-ahead commitment to "green" energy and cap and trade.
Why the double-down, especially with the economy limping along? Two possibilities:
(1) Obama is continuing to seize political opportunities.
(2) He's advancing an agenda that has nothing to do with global warming.
Climate change/global warming/man-made global warming has served the Democrats well over the years, but it hasn't been pretty. As Kimberly Stassal of the Wall Street Journal recently put it, "Turn over any green-energy rock, and wiggling underneath will be the usual creepy mix of political favoritism and taxpayer-funded handouts."
Obama has benefited by betting on the right losers. Remember Solyndra? Its executives donated at least $87,000 to the Obama campaign in 2008.
The Democrat Party also has fed at the trough. In 2012, the League of Conservation Voters doled out $14 million to defeat candidates who didn't support action on "climate change." (The LCV's track record is mixed.)
Global warming has been an easy ride for the Democrats, mainly because they've had most scientists in their back pocket. But there's "science" and then there's "science," and it would appear that just about everyone but Obama has figured that out.
Global warming took direct hits in 2009 with "Climategate," and new revelations have emerged almost daily since then.
Just this week, Reuters reported that scientists "are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions."
And then there's Joe Oliver, Canada's minister of natural resources. He recently told a Montreal newspaper, "Scientists have recently told us that our fears (on climate change) are exaggerated."
That fits what the late Stephen Schneider, an IPCC author and professor at Standord University, said in a Discover magazine interview in 1989.
He admitted that scientists "offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of the doubts we might have." He added, "Each of us (scientists) has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
Global warming, then, is fast becoming toast. So why would Obama resurrect it in his second term?
Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and IPCC official, let the cat out of the bag in 2010. "One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth."
Former U.S. Sen. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo., U.S. undersecretary of state for global issues during the 1992 U.N. Earth Climate Summit, makes a similar point: "We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."
Maurice Strong, one-time former under-secretary general of the U.N., closes the circle. "We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse."
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., has introduced H.R. 662. The bill, now before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, would halt U.S. funding of the two U.N. agencies. U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is one of 26 co-sponsors.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (November 30, 2012) – The Florida Atlantic University athletics department recently received a gift of $500,000 for its on-campus stadium from Boca Raton-based ADT. In appreciation, a large clock featuring the company's iconic blue logo will be mounted on the exterior of FAU Stadium, which welcomes thousands of guests at football games and other events throughout the year.
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The ADT clock, an emblem of the company's support of its hometown university, was originally installed at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, during the famed ballpark's 99th anniversary year. A ceremony to celebrate the clock's new location at FAU Stadium will take place on Saturday, December 1 at 2 p.m., prior to the FAU vs. University of Louisiana at Lafayette football game. ADT Vice President of Consumer Marketing Lewis Long will present Saunders with a check on the field during halftime.
"We are proud to have such a famous piece of ADT history in one of the newest college football stadiums in the country," said ADT Chief Marketing and Customer Relations Officer Tony Wells. "Contributing to the communities where we live and work is important to all of us at ADT. We look forward to a long and successful relationship with FAU as we expand our presence in Boca Raton."
ADT also has signed a sponsorship agreement, which recognizes the company as the exclusive security provider of FAU athletics. As part of the sponsorship, the ADT logo will be featured on all football coaches' headsets. In addition, FAU and ADT will collaborate on an internship program for student athletes and on other academic activities at FAU.
The ADT Corporation recently became a public company trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "ADT." Founded in 1874, ADT is one of the most well-known and trusted brands in the security industry, with 6.4 million customers.
To date, FAU has secured more than 30 named sponsorships for the stadium. The University is offering naming rights for more than 30 additional venues in and around the stadium to help fund the $70 million project. The 29,419-seat open-air stadium, completed in 2011, features 6,000 premium seats, including 24 suites, 26 loge boxes, 1,000 premier club seats and 4,000 priority club seats, and the latest, state-of-the-art amenities.
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Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of three signature themes – marine and coastal issues, biotechnology and contemporary societal challenges – which provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU's existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.


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Monday, July 14, 2014
On July 7 at the 140th Imperial Session (annual meeting) of Shriners International, representatives of the world-renowned fraternity elected Summerville resident Kenny Craven to the international Boards of Directors for Shriners International and their official philanthropy, Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Craven is the first Shriner from South Carolina in the organizations 142-year history that will serve as part of the 13-member board that helps govern the Shriners fraternity and the Shriners pediatric health care system.
In 2024-2025, Craven is set to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Shriners International and the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Craven, a lifelong resident of Summerville, S.C., served as the Potentate (President) of the Omar Shriners, the Mount Pleasant, S.C. chapter of Shriners International, in 2012. Craven joined the Shriners fraternity in 1988 and has held several leadership roles with various organizations such as the Summerville Masonic Lodge, Charleston Restaurant Association, and the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to becoming the highest ranking Shriner in the world, Craven will be able to bring the Shriners annual international convention to the city of his choice in the summer of 2025. The Shriners Imperial
Session will create an estimated $36 million economic impact on the host city as thousands of Shriners from across the world travel to the annual convention.
I am honored to have the opportunity to represent nearly 300,000 Shriners from across the world in this position, said Kenny Craven. Having the chance to help lead an organization that has changed the lives of over one million families through expert pediatric care will be a truly rewarding experience, Craven continued.
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William C. Dibble knew tough times long before he became a World War II prisoner of war and was forced to work on a German farm in often unbearable conditions.
When he was 11, his father, Leon Dibble, died from the lingering effects of being gassed by the Germans during World War I.
"Sometimes he was so sick; he couldn't go out. He had worked as wallpaper-hanger but then found work through another veteran taking care of Niagara Square, Lafayette Square and Shelton Square. He would shovel the snow," the 91-year-old son says in recalling his dad's hard life.
An only child, Dibble said he and his mother, Catherine, barely made ends meet. His mom worked in the family business hanging wallpaper, and he went to school. But when he graduated from Boys High School on Oak Street, Dibble said he found work at Beals, McCarthy & Rogers Hardware Store on Lower Terrace, next-door to Memorial Auditorium.
"I would check supply orders that were going out on trucks," Dibble recalls of his 50-cent-an-hour job. At end of the shift, he would drive home to Forest Avenue on the West Side in his late father's 1931 Chevrolet.
Life for mother and son was interrupted when Dibble received a draft notice in late November 1942.
A week later, he was stationed at Fort Niagara in Youngstown, and then it was on to Fort Bragg, N.C., for training in field artillery. By April 1943, he arrived in North Africa at a troop-replacement depot, where he was assigned to the 1st Division, 26th Infantry.
"On July 10, 1943, I was in the first wave to hit the beach in the invasion of Sicily. It was pretty rough. I lost some friends before we even got to shore. I'd been looking for them and was told they were floating in the water," Dibble says.
On July 26, out on patrol, he and six other infantrymen were pinned down in a ditch under German mortar fire. "Shrapnel hit the back end of my left foot, and it felt numb," Dibble remembers, "but only the boot had a cut in it. I raised up my head, and all hell broke loose.
"They started firing with their rifles, and I put my head back down. Better to be hit in the foot than in the head. I tried wiggling my toes and it took awhile before I could start feeling them again."
In the meantime, the main unit had pulled back because of the heavy artillery fire from 88 mm guns, leaving Dibble and his patrol stranded.
"We radioed and asked them to shoot smoke shells so that we could get back," he says, "but they told us to wait until dark and come back then because they didn't want to give away their position. But this was at 8 in the morning."
Time was not on their side.
"We lay in the ditch, barely able to move for a few hours, and then the Germans came charging in," Dibble recalls. "They were yelling, 'Hands up.' I started to raise my rifle, and I saw that one of the Germans had a cannon pointed right at my head. I just put my rifle down. They told us to undo our ammunition belts and to leave them with our rifles."
As they headed through enemy lines, Dibble started thinking about the canteens they had left behind attached to their ammo belts.
"I asked the German sergeant if he could get our canteens; it would be nice to have them, I thought," Dibble says. "He said, why did I want the canteens? And I said, it was a long way to Germany. He gave me a dirty look, but he did send someone back to get our canteens."
For 21 months, Dibble was a prisoner of war in northeastern Germany near the Polish border, where he worked on a farm growing potatoes and various grains. "We worked from 7 in the morning to 7:30 at night six days a week, and Sundays we were busy most of that day with chores," Dibble says. "The worst part was being out in the spring and the fall with the cold rains and winds. Even if we turned blue, they didn't give us one hour off."
Living conditions were beyond cramped. He shared a four-room cottage with 27 other POWs. And the menu for chow was limited: "We had boiled potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
Plenty of carbs, but what about protein? "Now and then, we got a Red Cross package that would have coffee, powdered milk and a couple cans of meat," he says.
When Russian forces started approaching Germany, Dibble says, he and the other prisoners were put on a forced march during one of the coldest winters on record. "We'd sleep in barns or sometimes in the open. We didn't have sleeping bags or blankets, just our overcoats," Dibble explains. "We'd bunch up together. We marched over 500 miles."
Despite the hardship, he says, he and his fellow POWs were blessed. Other prisoners ended up killed by friendly fire from U.S. fighter planes.
"But we stayed in line in our column. We didn't run, and that let the pilots know we were prisoners. They'd tipped their wings at us," Dibble says. "The ones that ran in other columns, the pilots figured they were Germans."
On April 11, 1945, he says, the 9th Army liberated him and his buddies. About being a free man, Dibble says, "It felt wonderful," and the C rations they were given tasted delicious. "We were put on airplanes and taken to Camp Lucky Strike on the coast of France."
By May 1945, he was back in the United States, but his service was not over. "I was sent to Oklahoma to be retrained for the invasion of Japan," he says. "Thank goodness that did not happen."
On Nov. 3, 1945, he was back home and living with his mom in their first-floor apartment at 204 Forest Ave.
He returned to the hardware store but later secured a job as a mechanic with the Postal Service, retiring in 1983. In 1950, he married Loretta Ward, and they raised two children, Bill Jr. and Donna.
"My wife died in 2003, but my two children visit me all the time," he says. "They are wonderful to me."


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The MIQE guidelines recommend quantification and quality assessment of nucleic acids. Thermo Scientific NanoDrop spectrophotometers provide reliable determination of nucleic acid concentration and purity. When performing absolute quantification of target sequences with qPCR, prior knowledge of sample concentration is important, because sample values must fall within the standard curve.
Precise quantification of unknown nucleic acid samples by spectrophotometry ensures that the resulting Cq values lie within the linear portion of the standard curve and that accurate and reproducible data are obtained.
Relative quantification is suitable for measuring changes in gene expression under various conditions. Variability in gene-expression assays is frequently caused by the use of very low template quantities. Relative quantification can also be used for SNP genotyping.
When performing this type of assay, it is important for the signal strength in the unknown and control samples to be similar. SNP genotyping is also highly dependent on template concentration. Low template quantities make allele calls difficult or unreliable (Figures 1A+B).
Validation of new reference genes requires accurate quantification of input RNA to ensure that the proper reference genes are chosen. Moreover, accurate quantification of nucleic acids is essential when appropriate reference genes cannot be identified and gene-expression studies are normalized to total RNA input.
Nucleic acid concentrations have been traditionally measured by using a spectrophotometer to determine the absorbance of UV light at 260 nm (A260). Typically, quantification of nucleic acids is performed after nucleic acid extraction.
The NanoDrop 2000 series UV-Vis spectrophotometer facilitates rapid measurements of very small sample volumes (0.5 µL—2.0 µL), with a dynamic range of 2 ng/µL—15,000 ng/µL for DNA, without the need for a cuvette or dilutions. The 2000c cuvette capability extends the detection limit down to 0.4 ng/μL by extending the pathlength.
The spectrophotometer determines nucleic acid concentration and generates full absorbance spectral data. Both RNA and DNA absorb UV light at 260 nm; therefore, an absorbance measurement determines total nucleic acid concentration.
A260/A280 and A260/A230 ratios are routinely used for purity assessment of nucleic acids. The A260/A280 ratio, which is an indication of the possible presence of protein, should be approximately 1.8 for pure DNA and 2.0 for pure RNA. Nucleic acids should have an A260/A230 ratio between 1.8 and 2.2.
Because impure samples can sometimes have ratios within the acceptable ranges, researchers should also examine the spectral data. This data can provide additional information regarding potential chemical contaminants (e.g., phenol and guanidine) that may be introduced by extraction procedures and can act as PCR inhibitors.
Because many chemical contaminants exhibit characteristic spectral profiles, spectral analysis can be used to identify the source of contamination. For example, a sample containing phenol will have increased absorbance both at 270 nm and below 240 nm. These changes in sample absorbance lower the A260/A230 ratio and shift the spectral peak to about 270 nm (Figure2).
In contrast, a DNA sample containing guanidine hydrochloride and a sample of pure DNA will have similar spectral profiles in the 260 nm to 280 nm region. However, the presence of guanidine increases the absorbance in the spectral region below 240 nm and therefore, lowers the A260/A230 ratio (Figure 2).
The broad utility of qPCR and RT-qPCR has brought forth a myriad of applications across a wide range of scientific and clinical disciplines. However, a lack of consensus existed on how to best perform and evaluate qPCR experiments. The MIQE guidelines have been developed to encourage best practices and allow reliable and unequivocal interpretation of qPCR results.
Best practices in qPCR first focus on the pre-qPCR steps, because inaccurate characterization of the starting material may generate unreliable qPCR results. The NanoDrop 2000 series can be used to determine the concentration and purity of nucleic acid samples before a qPCR experiment.
Andrew Page, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is applications manager, and Ilsa Gomez-Curet, Ph.D., is a bioscience consultant for Thermo Scientific NanoDrop products.
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COLUMBIANA - Crestview coach Paul Cusick smiled as he clutched the game ball after the Rebels' 57-14 victory over South Range on Friday.
Having just completed the first 10-0 season in school history, he had no idea what would become of the ball.
He knew it symbolized something special though.
"I don't know what we're going to do with this one yet," Cusick said. "It's Collin (Gilbert's) favorite ball, so we might have to substitute another one in there."
South Range put up as much of a fight as Crestview has seen during the Inter-Tri County League Tier 1 slate, but it was far from enough to prevent the Rebels from claiming their fifth straight league championship.
Crestview senior running back Nick Blower rushed for a career-high 301 yards - along with three touchdowns - as he and the rest of the Rebel starters played into the fourth quarter for the first time since the first game of the season against Columbiana.
Gilbert rushed for 144 yards and four touchdowns. It was extra special for the junior quarterback because he was going up against his cousin South Range senior Robert Seman.
"I texted him last night before the game," Gilbert said. "I said 'growing up was fun, but it doesn't get any better than coming down to this game.'"
Seman did his best to equal his younger cousin's output. He hauled in seven passes for 195 yards including touchdowns of 29 and 85 yards. The 85-yarder came with 8:40 left in the third quarter and had the Raiders within striking distance at 28-14.
"We had some leeway there, so I could admire what he did a bit," Gilbert said. "If that had been a game winner, I don't know if I would have been real happy with him. I want to see him do well. He's a great guy."
South Range did recover an onside kick after that touchdown following a lengthy 10-minute discussion by officials on the legality of the play. It didn't bother the Rebels though.
"It was probably the right call by the officials after everything was sorted out," Cusick said.
A few minutes later, Gilbert was racing down the sidelines on an 80-yard touchdown run and the game was put to bed.
On the defensive side of the ball, junior Jake Ferris came up big with two interceptions - the first of his career. One was initially returned for a touchdown, but it was wiped out by a penalty.
Ferris, who scored defensive and special teams touchdowns earlier in the season, was given a chance by coaches to add an offensive touchdown to his total when he plunged in from 1-yard out with 4:15 to go in the third.
"(When we got the ball to the 1), coach Cusick kind of gave me a little look it seemed like and just gave me the opportunity to punch it in," Ferris said.
The Rebels broke last season's school record scoring mark of 531, set in 13 games. They now have 563 points heading into the playoffs.
"To be able to do that in 10 games is pretty impressive," Cusick said. "Our offense has really played well and has made plays, game after game."
Raider coach Dan Yeagley said he was pleased with the effort from sophomore quarterback Ryan Miller who was making his second career start. Miller completed 11 of 24 passes for 233 yards and the two touchdowns to Seman.
"He's a very good quarterback," Yeagley said. "He had a great leader in (starting quarterback) Ross Stoffer (who was lost for the season against Springfield). Ross was still coaching him on the sidelines. He did some things very well tonight and I'm looking forward to having him for two more years."
Crestview's first round playoff game will likely be at home at 7 p.m. next Saturday, but the Rebels will have to wait until tonight to see how everything shakes out.
"We're in week 11," Cusick said. "We can't worry about who, when and where right now. We'll just have to wait to see how everything shakes out."
Game notes
- The 50/50 raffle prize was $262.
- Nick Blower has 1,729 yard rushing this season.
- Penalties and indecision by game officials on an on-side kick made for a really long third quarter.
- A loud cheer when up when it was announced that Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary's beat Ursuline, 16-14. That result most likely handed Crestview a home game for the first round of the playoffs.
- Both teams wore orange trim as a tribute to Rebel football player Dustin Gorby who is undergoing cancer treatments.


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When South Carolina State University's new president, Thomas Elzey, attended his first board meeting last summer, he learned that the school expected only about 3,000 students to enroll in the fall.
Declining numbers
S.C. State total fall enrollment over a six-year period:
Year Students
2013 3,461
2012 3,807
2011 4,326
2010 4,362
2009 4,538
2008 4,888
Source: S.C. Commission on Higher Education/S.C. State
That represented a drop of more than 800 students from the previous fall.
"I almost fell out of my chair," Elzey said.
Public colleges and universities operate largely on money they bring in from tuition and state appropriations. If enrollment is low, the school's budget will take a hit.
And S.C. State can't afford any more hits, said Elzey, 60, who came to S.C. State from The Citadel, where he was executive vice president for finance, administration and operations.
When he took the reins at the state's only public, historically black university June 15, the school was facing a deficit of about $9 million, which it had accumulated over several years.
The university has faced huge problems in recent years, including financial and program issues at the troubled James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center, criminal charges filed against its former board chairman, a former board member, and former police chief, and a faculty so dissatisfied it voted that it had no confidence in the school's former president.
But Elzey said the school can be turned around. And it's important that that happen, he said, because it serves some of the state's lowest-income students who might not be able to get a college degree if it didn't exist.
"It's a new day here," Elzey said. "We're moving forward."
While enrollment and financial problems are just two of the issues the school is facing, they are so large and central to the university keeping its doors open that Elzey said he is taking them on first.
Growing the numbers
Elzey said the university already has made drastic budget cuts to put a dent in its deficit. "But we can't cut our way out of this. We need to grow our way out of this."
That means enrollment must increase, and many people at the university and off-campus supporters have to get involved. "I've characterized it as an all-hands-on-deck effort," he said.
When he learned early in the summer that enrollment was expected to be only around 3,000 for the fall — that's total, not the freshman class — he mobilized his staff to address the problem.
They came up with some scholarship money, largely through the school's foundation. Then they reached out to students who had a tuition balance of less than $1,000. That amount can keep a student from returning to school, he said. Staffers offered scholarships to those students so they could return.
Through those and other efforts, fall enrollment was 3,461 students, he said. He hopes 3,800 students will enroll next fall, and he hopes the numbers will continue to increase. As recently as 2008, there were 4,888 students on campus.
Board Chairman William Small, who also is new to his post, said students at historically black colleges often face financial challenges. Public colleges already had suffered state budget cuts and had to raise tuition to compensate, he said. And new federal rules that make it harder for parents to qualify for loans exacerbated the problem.
The university needs to come up with more scholarship money to help students, he said.
And the school must clean up its reputation after the problems in recent years, he said. Those problems, which were generated by administrators and board members, also contributed to declining enrollment. "We were shooting ourselves in the foot while the state and federal government were shooting us in the chest," Small said.
Elzey said cleaning up the school's reputation starts with cleaning up the campus. When he arrived, he said, the clock on the library's clock tower hadn't worked for a decade, standing as a beacon of campus neglect. He made sure it got fixed.
And he's making sure campus buildings and grounds are clean, and the outdoor lighting works. Those things may seem small, he said, but they instill pride in the school.
Student support
Student body President Akeem Brown said Elzey is helping the Student Government Association make major improvements to the student center. That building is especially important in Orangeburg, where there are few off-campus activities available.
And student leaders have come to support their new president, he said, which represents a major change of heart.
Many students, including Brown, strongly supported the university's hiring interim President Cynthia Warrick as permanent president. They even staged a protest over Elzey's hiring.
Brown said Warrick allowed students to have a voice in campus matters, and Elzey also is doing that. That's really what students wanted all along, he said.
Brown said that when he walked into the student center last week, he saw that the walls had been painted garnet and blue, the school's colors. Elzey, he said, "gets things done." If he had to give Elzey a letter grade for his performance so far, "I would give him a B-plus."
Frank discussions
Thomas Cassidy, an English professor and president of the school's Faculty Senate, said Elzey is doing very well in some areas.
He's facing enrollment and budget deficit issues head-on, improving the look of the campus and working to raise money.
But he's not making the faculty an immediate priority by offering raises and hiring new faculty members to fill important positions.
"But we feared much worse," Cassidy said. "We feared academic infrastructure would be cut." Now it simply isn't going to expand.
The faculty had a contentious relationship with former President George Cooper and voted that it had no confidence in his leadership. Cassidy hopes things eventually improve under Elzey, who he said at least is listening to the faculty. "He's not ignoring us," Cassidy said. "We've had frank discussions."
Giving back
The school's alumni also want to help restore respect and dignity to the university.
Michael Allen, a 1982 graduate and community partnership specialist with the National Park Service, is the new chairman of the Charleston alumni chapter.
His wife also is a graduate of the school, and his daughter is a student there. He's working to grow his group, which is holding fundraising events to raise scholarship money.
"S.C. State allowed me to sit where I am today," said Allen, who also coordinates the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. "It's time for renewal."
Vernell Brown, chairwoman of the university's National Alumni Association, is a 1971 graduate of the school. She has three adult children who graduated from S.C. State and a granddaughter enrolled there now.
Members of her group support Elzey and the university, she said, and so far, most people think he's doing a good job. They especially like that he is focusing on finances and enrollment, she said.
But it might take a little time for some people to be convinced that he's up to the monumental task of pulling S.C. State out of financial crisis.
"There are always questions because he's a new leader and we've had a lot of leaders," she said. "Some people are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
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If I may speak Canadian for a second, few organ-eye-zations were as happy to see the end of the NHL lockout as the NBC Sports Group, which is in the second year of its 10-year, $2 billion contract to carry NHL hockey.
It was Jan. 2, 2012, when the cable channel Versus was rechristened NBC Sports Network, which debuted with postgame analysis of the New York Rangers' 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL Winter Classic. (The game itself was on NBC.)
NBCSN built on its audience during the London Olympics last summer, but a lot of that momentum was squandered when the NHL owners locked out the players and wiped out the first three months of the hockey season.
NBC Sports Group, which is owned by Comcast/NBC Universal, took a hit in advertising revenue during the work stoppage. The network doesn't share specific figures, but companies such as GEICO — one of the largest advertisers for NBC hockey broadcasts — don't pay for commercial spots on games that don't take place. The NHL Winter Classic and the All-Star Game were also wiped out this season, further dimming the sport's TV luster.
The bright spot for NBC is that the 48-game regular season will be followed by a full playoff tournament, which is when ratings and network revenues are at their highest.
The Sabres' opener against the Flyers today gets national attention, with Mike "Doc" Emrick and Pierre McGuire on hand at First Niagara Center to call the game for NBC. Buffalo has one other home game on NBC – Sunday, Feb. 17, against Pittsburgh. Five of the Sabres' games will be carried on NBCSN, and MSG will have the other 41 this season.
All of NBC's hockey talent sounded excited to be getting back into the booth this past week during a conference call with media writers and broadcasters. McGuire said he can't wait to feel the energy inside First Niagara Center.
"That's going to be a very exciting game based on the energy level that's in the Sabres' building," McGuire said. "The excitement of the fan base, and the fact that last year's science experiment didn't work out the way they wanted to. So General Manager Darcy Regier said, 'We're going to make some changes. Rather than be a smaller team we're gonna bring a little bite in.'
"So Steve Ott is one of those guys, coming over from Dallas for Derek Roy. Marcus Foligno is another one of them. The son of Mike Foligno is going to bring a whole lot of physical impact to the party.
"I think the biggest thing is Tyler Myers is a year older, a year stronger and a year more mature," McGuire continued. "This is an opportunity for Ryan Miller to really make a statement that he is one of the better goalies that's played in the league over the last 15 years."
Emrick said it is always "magnificent" for him to return to Western New York and witness the Sabres' fan support.
"Even in years that haven't been that great in the past, they have had the fans there," Emrick said. "I think Terry Pegula and his arrival energized the whole community once again, that had maybe had some sour moments. ... The reason for them to support hockey is because it's a part of their upbringing, it's a part of their DNA, as it is with most hockey communities."
Emrick talked about hearing coach Lindy Ruff speak last week about how heartened he was by the sight of thousands of fans at the team's first public scrimmage.
"Just on a Monday night in January and that many people showed up," Emrick said. "It'll be an energized atmosphere, it's their first game, and I just can't wait for that action to take place on Sunday afternoon. … I hope the organist is still there to play, 'Let's go Buffalo!' "
McGuire has been doing his research. He summed up the Sabres prospects for this year.
"I think the season's going to come down to this: Can Cody Hodgson deliver as a No. 1 center?" McGuire said. "Can Tyler Ennis step up and be the dynamic smaller player that he has to be for this team, and can Tyler Myers have a bit of a bounceback to how he was as a rookie?
"If those three things are all checkmarks, saying yes, yes and yes, then I think Buffalo has got a real chance to make it in the playoffs and do some damage, because that's where I think Ryan Miller is the most comfortable. But if you don't have three solid checkmarks by Cody Hodgson, Tyler Ennis and Tyler Myers, I don't think you're gonna make the playoffs. Those three guys are critical to that team."
Today's NBC coverage gets under way at noon with NHL Live, a pregame show hosted by UB graduate Liam McHugh and featuring analysts Mike Milbury and Keith Jones. The show will air from NBC Sports Group's brand new International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. Sam Flood, executive producer for NBC Sports and NBCSN, was asked if the technology in the new center would bring any new special effects to the game broadcasts. The short answer is: no.
"Our job is to honor the game of hockey," Flood said. "Glowing blue pucks and pink pucks and green pucks and red pucks, that's not what we're about," he said, in a not-too-subtle reference to Fox Sports and its FoxTrax puck that glowed on the screen."
Jeanneret returns
Rick Jeanneret is behind the Sabres' microphone for his 41st season. As the Sabres announced in June, Rob Ray will be paired with Jeanneret as the full-time color analyst for the TV (MSG) and radio (WGR) broadcasts.
Brian Duff is the full-time TV host for games on MSG. Harry Neale, Danny Gare and Mike Robitaille will also contribute analysis.
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Photo: Christian Randolph/Staff Photographer
A Big Tex that appears perfectly fine on one side, but is covered with burn scars on the other walks the streets on the 3900 block of Cedar Springs Road for the Oak Lawn Halloween Street Party in Dallas on Saturday Oct. 27, 2012. (Christian Randolph/The Dallas Morning News)
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