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They did not know the two firefighters from West Webster who were ambushed by a crazed gunman bent on death and destruction on the morning of Christmas Eve.
But that was not the point for more than 200 volunteer firefighters from Erie County who made the solemn journey to Rochester on Saturday to pay their respects and say goodbye to their fallen brothers.
"It was a very sad affair, but an incredible statement to the fire service and its brotherhood," said Mike Burns, a firefighter from the Hamburg Village Fire Department. "I couldn't even tell you the thousands of firefighters that were there."
As they stepped off the buses, the men and women from Erie County waited 2½ to 3½ hours in a line that snaked through the halls of Webster Schroeder High School before entering the gymnasium where the wake was held.
Wearing their dress blues and their shields covered with a black band of mourning, the local firefighters entered the high school gym as a unit and stood before the two closed caskets draped in American flags. The firefighters bowed their heads in silence, then gave a final salute.
"It was one of the saddest and proudest moments of my career to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of our Erie County firefighters," said Tiger Schmittendorf, deputy fire coordinator for Erie County Department of Emergency Services.
The firefighters boarded buses Saturday morning at the Erie County Fire Academy in Cheektowaga, where they practiced and drilled to be ready for every possible scenario a firefighter could encounter in an emergency. Now, they were departing for the wake of fellow rescuers who died under unimaginable circumstances.
Michael Chiapperini, 43, and Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, with the West Webster Volunteer Fire Department, were killed as they arrived to fight a fire set by the killer, William Spengler, 62, who had served 17 years in prison for bludgeoning his grandmother to death with a hammer.
Two other firefighters were wounded but survived.
Authorities say Spengler also killed his sister, whose remains were believed to have been found in the charred ruins of Spengler's home.
Spengler turned his gun on himself as seven homes around him burned down.
The deaths of the two firefighters have been especially painful to the men and women who serve in the region's volunteer fire departments.
Firefighters are trained on what to do if a floor collapses in a fire and on signs to look out for before an explosion.
They do it willingly, and for many, as volunteers because they love being able to help someone in trouble.
"We're supposed to be the good guys," said Wales Center Fire Chief Bob Gajewski. "We're coming because someone called for help."
For Blair Buczowski, one of four firefighters from the Hamburg Village Fire Department who carpooled to the academy, the killings were "an event that never should have happened."
"It hits so close," said Mary Eustace, another Hamburg Village firefighter. "It could have happened here."
That's what was so frightening – and sad – to the Erie County firefighters and the thousands more from around the state and across the nation who turned up for the wake.
Burns, also of Hamburg Village, pointed out that Chiapperini was also a police lieutenant and Kaczowski had been a 911 dispatcher.
That's exactly the same type of people who serve in volunteer fire departments like his own, Burns said. "It doesn't matter if it's West Webster or Westchester or West Buffalo," Burns said. "It's all the same.
Ray Ott, a retired firefighter from the Cleveland Hill Fire Department, said he had been to "countless" funerals of firefighters over his 40 years.
But he never heard of anything so horrifying happening to a firefighter.
A friend of his who was a Buffalo firefighter was attacked at the scene of a fire.
"He got beat up with a two-by-four," he said.
But that firefighter survived.
James Herr, a chaplain for Rescue Hose Company 1 in Cheektowaga, was at a loss for words to explain how something like this could happen.
"People do crazy things out there," he said.
Before boarding the buses, which were underwritten by the 100 Club of Buffalo, the firefighters bowed their heads in a moment of silence.
Schmittendorf reminded the firefighters gathered why they were going. "This is nothing more than what they would do for us," he said.
In fact, Burns said, he didn't hear one comment about having to wait 2½ to 3½ hours in line to pay their respects.
Nobody cared, Burns said.
"But as we got back on the bus," Burns said, "I heard many people comment: 'That was certainly worth the wait.' "
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. � The Detroit Lions have gotten quite a return on the $132-million, eight-year investment they made in Calvin Johnson nine months ago.
�He�s not trying to live up to a contract,� Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said Sunday. �Personal records are great, and we certainly celebrate the season that Calvin has had, but it hasn�t translated to enough wins.
�We need more help around him.�
That�s a fact.
The Lions (4-11) have lost seven in a row, the league�s longest active skid, after reaching .500 at the midway mark of a disappointing season.
During the losing streak, Johnson has been perhaps Detroit�s only bright spot. He broke Jerry Rice�s single-season receiving yards record of 1,848 in Saturday night�s 31-18 loss to Atlanta.
�It�s an accomplishment that took a lot of work,� Johnson said. �You can�t take that thing away.�
Schwartz said Johnson hasn�t racked up yards in blowouts because Detroit hasn�t had many of them in a season filled with closely contested losses. He does acknowledge that the team�s record doesn�t let Johnson�s accomplishment ring as true as anyone would like.
�It�s hollow in the fact that we only have four wins,� he said. �You�d like for that production to translate to wins, and you�d like to be able to celebrate that production with wins.�
In the win, the Falcons tried to take Johnson away as an option for Matthew Stafford in the passing game, but they couldn�t do it.
With 11 receptions for 225 yards against Atlanta, he also became the only player in NFL history with 100 yards receiving in eight consecutive games and with 10-plus receptions in four games in a row. He had seven receptions of 20-plus yards for the second time in his career, a feat no other player in the league has done since at least 1991, according to STATS LLC.
Johnson, who has tied another league single-season mark with 100 yards receiving in 11 games, can add to his record total of 1,892 yards receiving in Detroit�s finale Dec. 30 at home against Chicago and could reach the 2,000-yard mark.
Johnson�s 10th catch Sunday night was for a 26-yard gain with 2 minutes, 57 seconds left in the game. After breaking the record with that catch, he jogged over to the sideline to give the football to his father, Calvin Johnson Sr., and told him not to let it go.
Not even if someone from the Pro Football Hall of Fame wants it?
�Oh no,� he said. �That�s my ball.�
Stafford has done a good job of getting the ball to Johnson despite every team trying to stunt their connections and not having to worry about other playmakers because of Detroit�s injury-depleted receiving corps.
Stafford threw for 443 yards against the Falcons, setting an NFL record for the most yards passing in a game without a touchdown. With 4,695 yards passing and a game to go against the Bears, he and New Orleans� Drew Brees could become the first two NFL players to throw for 5,000-plus yards in consecutive seasons.
�I�d love to be able to be able to do it again,� Stafford said. �But I�d love for it to come with a win.�
Stafford, who has thrown the ball 685 times this season, is seven attempts away from breaking the NFL single-season record for attempts set by Drew Bledsoe with New England in 1994.
Johnson and Stafford have not been able to overcome the team�s minus-12 turnover ratio this season that ranks among the NFL�s worst in perhaps the statistical category that is tied most to winning and losing.
Against Atlanta, the Lions turned the ball over three times, and their defense didn�t recover a fumble or make an interception.
�We lose by 13, and 17 points come off turnovers,� Schwartz said. �We need to do a better job of taking care of the football. And also on defense, we need to come up with some.�
Detroit�s comeback hopes definitely were dashed after getting a safety with 1:21 left to pull within 13 points only to have Stefan Logan take a knee at his 4 on a free kick.
�That�s probably the first time I�ve seen somebody concede a punt in the field of play,� Schwartz said. �It was a poor decision. Part of a returner�s job is to know where he is on the field. Saying �I didn�t know where I was. I thought I was in the end zone� is not a valid excuse.
�When that error was made, it made it very, very difficult for the team to come back.�

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What's your distro of choice?
Why ask?
We decided that it would be interesting and useful to see what distros our readers use. Sorry if your distro is not shown... you know we can't show them all. We have listed the top ten distros from DistroWatch.com in no particular order. We may use this info to decide on what distros to focus on for future issues and articles.
I voted for Ubuntu since
I voted for Ubuntu since I've used it the longest (since Hoary). It's the one distro that you'll always find on my system. I prefer Debian-based distros. Debian itself complicated to set up in some areas. Lately my distro for experimenting is Arch Linux. It gives the administrator total control, but provides a nice package system--kind of a cross between Slack and Debian. Works well and is fast, too.
Whoa, first vote
I'm still a Debian user, despite my whining about some recent policy decisions. It's the biggest distribution and one of the most purely produced by a community process. I have a strong belief that you should truth-test your values, and using Debian is a matter of practicing what I preach. If community-based production is your primary consideration, it's hard to do better than Debian (though I believe some other distributions such as Fedora are catching up in this respect).
Community-based has a downside in that Debian tends to lack some professional polish, and it's certainly lacking in marketing panache (unless possibly we consider the strength of Debian's "community-based" image, which is well-established), but the upside is that it's a very thorough and well thought out system. It also tends to be a little out of date compared to distributions developed on a commercial basis.
I do also realize that my choice, once made, tends to be pretty permanent. I'm just too lazy to learn how a new distribution works, unless it has an awful lot to offer beyond what Debian can do.
Debian retains a very strong feeling of community participation, and I think that may be the most important reason for choosing it. At least with Debian, I know that it was designed "by users for users".
Red Hat Enterprise Linux derived distributions
There are GNU/Linux distributions that are derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (http://www.redhat.com/rhel), that is, recompiled from source.
Two of them are Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org) and CentOS (http://www.centos.org). They are rock solid, with Enterprise-level stability.
1 vote gets 3%
Yeah, that would be my vote for Mepis.
While I love ubuntu's depositories, I am a kde person - and Warren's distro rocks for everything I like about linux.
Do you bundle Suse Linux with OpenSuse??
If so then maybe change the infor to openSuse / Suse Linux or simply state any version of Suse.
Fair enough
We've added any version to Ubuntu as well to cover X/Ed/K/Ubuntu.
Give me out of the box graphical effects and apt
I like Fedora core 6 because of the extra out of the box graphical effects (child that I am), but prefer apt to yum, therefore I voted for Ubuntu.
Years of satisfied use with virtually no problems, other than self inflicted during the learning process. This one really works for me.
I like Fedora 1-5.
I like Fedora 1-5.
gentoo fullfills my whole
gentoo fullfills my whole life & it's my forever love :) .
ubuntu fits my needs
ubuntu has all the things which i wanted in a distro it is simply the best.
Ubuntu enshrines the spirit of Linux
Ubuntu is truly a community of caring folks. The distribution installs on anything and everything and is complete. It meets all of my needs. Living out ubuntu would help this old world of ours!
Well, Ubuntu is based on Debian/testing.
So that means that Debian is the largest distribution here :)
Well, not really
Ubuntu is more and more diverging from Debian. I believe that within a few years, it will no longer be based upon it that much.
Mandriva is just plain excellent
I've been using Mandriva for more than half a dozen versions. I tried Fedora Core 6 recently and, although I was impressed with the integration of SELinux, I was disappointed with the partitioning tool, the lack of "official" support for non-ext3 filesystems, and once I was set up, I concluded that Mandriva's urpmi is a better package tool than yum. Fedora is probably excellent for running servers, but on the desktop, you can't beat Mandriva.
Mandriva 2006 was good and
Mandriva 2006 was good and Mandriva 2007 is even better. KDE loads faster now. I've been using Mandriva for both Desktop and server and haven't encountered any problems so far which weren't caused due to my own ignorance. I've tried other distributions too, including Ubuntu, but I want to be able to play multimedia out of the box and not many other distros provide this.
Which Distro:
Archlinux,cause its the best,and the year i settled on Archlinux,i tested between 30 and 35 of distrowatch's best.Great community,wiki,chat channel and of cource developers:)),hands down Archlinux is the best i686 binary distro there is! I have used Archlinux since version 0.7 and am currently running 0.7.2 (Gimmick).
Red Hat 9.0
Red Hat is a nice one to operate but it is somewhat complex for the kernel programming, becasue it by default contains teh different version of gcc and different version of running kernel which always makes the externel modules programming difficult.
other distros
Please collect names of other distros and make our own "top ten" distro list.
I Like Ubuntu
I like it. Ubuntu is very user friendly.
S.A.M Harun
Once you go Gentoo, you never go back
Gentoo is the best distro I've ever used, I've installed kubuntu once, after all the stuff I read about it online, removed it after 3 hours and went back to my trust worthy Gentoo, you are able to configure your system you want it, not how someone wants.
1 vote for Puppy Linux
I'll put in a vote for Slackware based Puppy Linux.
Debian: who needs anything else?
Debian is the more stable and powerfull distro, no doubt on that.
Ubuntu also is a good distro.... BUT... uppsala!... it's only another Debian's son...
I bow to Debian
Shifted from Slackware to RH to Debian in 10 years. No intention of even seeing anything else.
PCLinuxOS: the only way to go for hardware
Shifted from Ubuntu to PCLinuxOS: it's truly remarkable. I haven't seen this kind of hardware detection since Knoppix. It even found my wireless printer adapter without me having to lift a finger!
Slackware user, need efficient Sonypi kernel patcj for my laptop, so now my Vaio VGN-BX194* (BX504 for US) is under OpenSuse10.2, the faster peripherics detection ever, even if it's a RedHat-like but it's a fun distro.
I relly mean that now it's is a good compromise for thoses you want easy hardware install and enougth advanced use of Linux (i can't use ubuntu after Salck for exemple).
For the specials WarXing week-end, i'm still using slack-based live CD...
The most important for linux i think is that now we don't need no more two weeks for install all stuff in a laptop (wifi cards, acpi...) and we can use it like a MAC OS or like a Windows, it's not so Geek but for working, my boss prefer see me programming than compiling my Kernel during office hours...
No *BSD's ?
Well, if I don't have a choice of *BSD's; it would be Debian or a derivative of Debian.


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MARTINSBURG - The West Virginia Department of Transportation's annual Transportation Planning and Programming Conference is being held in the Eastern Panhandle this week for the first time.
More than 120 transportation professionals from around the state are expected to attend the conference. It started Tuesday and continues through Thursday at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Shepherdstown.
The state Transportation Department partnered with the local Metropolitan Planning Organization to bring the conference to the Eastern Panhandle, Rob Pennington, director of WVDOT's Program Planning and Administration Division, said Tuesday.
"There's a lot of focus on our region," Bob Gordon, director of the Hagerstown Eastern Panhandle Metropolitan Planning Organization, said Tuesday during a break in the presentations.
The Hagerstown Eastern Panhandle MPO includes Berkeley and Jefferson counties in West Virginia and Washington County in Maryland. HEP MPO is the federally designated transportation planning organization for the urbanized areas of the Eastern Panhandle and Washington County.
Gordon said several of the presentations feature either ongoing or completed transportation projects in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, such as the Edwin Miller Boulevard pedestrian pathway study, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park alternative transportation study and the Fairfax Boulevard Complete/Green Street Plan in Ranson and Charles Town.
Having the conference in the Eastern Panhandle exposes public- and private-sector transportation officials from the rest of the state to this part of the state, Gordon said.
"This is their first trip to the Eastern Panhandle for a lot of the attendees," he said. "It opens their eyes to the growth and development here. It focuses on our realities on the ground that we must address."
The conference also allows local officials to get to know their counterparts from other parts of the state.
"They can see how we did things, and we can see how they did things," Gordon said.
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A fourth journal, Philadelphia's Legal Intelligencer, awarded Ricoh a bronze in this category, as well as a silver in electronic discovery and a gold in office equipment. Connecticut Law Tribune readers also awarded Ricoh the gold in the office equipment category.
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On July 4, 1776, the ruler of the British Empire, King George III, sat down with his diary and wrote, "Nothing of importance happened today."
Little did he know that the world would long note the Declaration of Independence signed that day by representatives of 13 British colonies in North America. The declaration went far beyond secession. It was a declaration of liberation from what was seen as overbearing and unjust rule.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . . Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes."
The Declaration of Independence was written during a time later labeled by historians as "The Age of Reason." The principal author, Thomas Jefferson, was an intellectual progressive in his day. His ideas and his words became a beacon that has shone around the globe for more than two centuries. They are among the most quoted words in the English language because they sing with the clarity of a universal truth - a hymn that goes beyond any one religion to a basic longing of mankind.
The great American experiment begun in 1776 continues. Today, basic principles of government are being argued as passionately as they were when the documents underpinning the U.S. government were written - by the voting public, Native Hawaiians and others. It has been and always will be an effort to bring human motive and action in line with the highest philosophical principles.
The realities of American life have not always stood the tests of reason or "unalienable rights," but the 1776 trust in reason and the good sense "of the governed" has more than stood the test of time. May it always be so.
(This editorial has appeared previously in The Maui News.)
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5 Reasons San Francisco is the Worst Awesome City in America
#2. The Public Dongs
That's right. Dongs. In public. Just, like, out and flopping around. Do you know how many times, prior to living in San Francisco, I had seen a man walking around completely naked in public? Zero. Do you know how many times I saw that happen when I lived in San Francisco? At least four, that I can remember. I lived there for three months. That's more than one public dong per month, on average. I don't know what the national statistics are like, but that's gotta be way above the usual per capita for that kind of thing.
Now, you're probably wondering what it is about seeing dongs in public that I will miss. Do I just like dicks? No, you're thinking of someone else.
More like GLAAD-Stone, am I right?
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Liking dicks, I mean. There are plenty of things wrong with Marion Gladstone, and that picture is at least ten of them. But it's certainly not his sexuality that I hold against him (or my body, no matter how many times he asks). What I personally enjoy about a public dong is the massive amount of attention that it draws. Say, for example, you're walking down the street, eating a slice of pizza, when a giant dollop of sauce falls on your shirt. Oh no! You've got a huge stain on your shirt! Whatever will you do?
In San Francisco, the answer is simple. Just look around until you spot this ...
... and then walk 15-20 feet to the left or right of it for the remainder of your trip. Don't doubt for one second that, if you're in San Francisco, someone in your general vicinity is stark naked. Just find them and stand nearby. Nobody will even know you're alive. A dong in public is like an invisibility cloak for anyone in the area who happens to be wearing pants, and it's a power you're able to access more regularly and effectively in San Francisco than anywhere else.
I'm fairly certain that all of this penis talk has Gladstone thinking about one thing right now, and that's eating. So, let's talk about food.
#1. The Access to Horrifying Food
Everybody knows that the food in San Francisco is incredible. Or maybe you don't, but you kind of do now, because I just told you. The food in San Francisco is incredible. There are restaurants everywhere, in every price range, and most of them are wonderful. But it's not the good food that I'll miss in San Francisco. What I'll really miss is the awful food. Can I give you an example? Surely I can, have a look at this.
This is what killed Luther Vandross.
That's one of those "burgers on a glazed doughnut" nightmares that I've read so much about. But prior to moving to San Francisco, the only place I'd ever heard of them existing were at minor league baseball stadiums and such. I found this one at a restaurant in San Francisco called Straw. It was a five-minute walk from my apartment. How does it taste? Terrible. Just so bad, you guys. When you bite into it, you're expecting that, somehow, all of these disparate flavors are going to come together to make something tasty. Like how stuffing and cranberries somehow taste delicious together or how KFC uses flour and stray pets shipped in from Third World countries to make delicious fried chicken. That doesn't happen, though. It's just beef, doughnut, cheese and bacon fighting for attention in your mouth. Eat a bacon cheeseburger, but first, drown it in syrup. That's what a doughnut burger tastes like.
But you know what? At least I can say I've tried it. If I didn't live in San Francisco for three months, I'm not sure I ever would have had the courage or ability to eat a doughnut burger. They don't just sell those things everywhere. But they sell everything in San Francisco. If you see Anthony Bourdain eating pork ankle tacos at a filthy food cart in Bolivia, there's a pretty good chance that disgusting food cart is actually a franchise with several locations in the Mission District of San Francisco. You don't have to wonder what pork belly doughnuts taste like, because you can just walk to a restaurant that sells them (delicious, by the way).
Enjoy them with an extra large douche!
See, good food is everywhere. To find the stuff that people claim is good but actually tastes like pickled death, you're usually going to have to do some searching and, likely, a lot of traveling. Not if you live in San Francisco, though. Be it doughnuts made from pigs or a bunch of those naked men that Marion Gladstone likes so much, you can definitely find it in San Francisco.
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Prince William, Kate and Prince Harry toured Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden near London, home to the newly launched Making of "Harry Potter" studio tour.
There, the royals, accompanied by 500 children and adults from charities they support, got a wand lesson, visited the Hogwarts Great Hall and saw props, costumes and models from the Potter series as well as some other movies.
"Where's my brother, why isn't he doing this?" William, brandishing a wooden wand, said during the lesson.
As Kate (who also had a wand, and wore a cream-colored dress with black spots from TopShop) and William giggled, they were given some "spell techniques' by tour guide Scott Heron, then asked to face a group of children called "Dumbledore's Army" – to whom William bellowed, "Expelliarmos!"
William also seemed particularly taken with props from The Dark Knight Batman trilogy. "I'm a very happy man," he quipped after exploring those life-size props.
"To be honest, I'm over the moon just to have seen the real Batmobile and Batpod – Josh, Barry, you don't do baby seats for those cars, do you, by any chance?" William added. "On the other hand Harry's just excited to see a real-life talking owl in the Harry Potter studios. I haven't told him yet that Harry Potter is fictional, so please keep the secret for a little longer."
Friday marks the studio's official opening, although it has already been used for films including All You Need is Kill with Tom Cruise.
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Editor: Your editorial on a "Cheap shot at Manchin," as most editorials, syndicated columns, individual entrees and national polls, falls upon deaf ears in Congress....
God has a sense of humour. He made liberals for us to enjoy and laugh at.
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What and Old...ignoring the question and changing the strategy which is always attack the person because that is what unintelligent lefties do when they have NO facts to disprove what you just proved. Priceless!!! Hilarious. Liberals are made for us to laugh at and enjoy. LOLOLOLOLOL.
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"Pure" and "Truth", Please don't drink anymore of that Koolaid... I'm surprised mummy didn't smack your fingers the first time you tried. I'm not a lefty...(Registered republican actually and have NEVER voted for Obama.) But that doesn't blind me to the problems that exist on both sides of the isle. The biggest one I see in conservatism right now is Church and state. It's no wonder "Rights" in this state get stereotyped as ignorant hillbillies. Look at your spiritual beliefs. I'm really glad you only speak for the few people in you cult/church, and not the real Republican Party.
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Guess that means What hasn't actually READ the book, eh?
Liberals too lazy to do the WORK. That's why they don't read the stupid bills they write and pass and later they complain like on Obamacare, that it won't work after all. What a bunch of stupid fools!
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Ever notice how the 'deniers' of truth about Obama always scream and deny the LOUDEST? That's because those with the most to hide; always scream the loudest. The lefties won't even believe Obama's own words out of his own mouth written in his own book. How stupid does that make them? Pretty darn brain dead. Bwahaha.....No wonder liberals cater to them; they KNOW they're the stupidest people on the planet and can get them to believe anything. They laugh at them as they watch them do exactly as they're told. Nice little useful idiots, eh???
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Obama IS muslim. All What's lies won't change that fact!! But you make me laugh anyway What. You liberals really should listen to yourselves. You're all so darn hilarious.
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Agree 100% with Puremagix.
Outlaw LOBBYISTS!!!
But then all those crooked politicians wouldn't get to collect all that bribe money. No party of thieves on either side would vote for that.
We also need to DEMAND the borders be shut down.....and all ILLEGAL ALIENS SHIPPED or MARCHED across the border and left!! We should NOT be 'rewarding' lawbreakers like the left love to do. Crooks love crooks!
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Anyone who was monitoring the situation would have easily predicted this would happen, but I thought it was worth of mentioning anyway (I'm not sure if something like this has been posted previously or recently, but I didn't remember seeing anything on it.).....
Pavel Datsyuk began the season ranked 10th in career NHL scoring among Russian players with 767 points. He has since passed Sergei Zubov, Sergei Gonchar, Pavel Bure, and Alexei Yashin to move up to 6th place with 785 points. And, he is 31 points behind Ilya Kovalchuk (5th) and 68 points behind Slava Kozlov (4th).
Player GP P
Fedorov 1248 1179
Mogilny 990 1032
Kovalev 1316 1029
Kozlov 1182 853
Kovalchuk 816 816
Datsyuk 796 785
Yashin 850 781
Bure 702 779
Gonchar 1193 777
Zubov 1068 771
Ovechkin 615 754
Pav shouldn't have any problems passing Kovalchuk (since he was kind enough to "retire") this season.... but he'll have to finish with slightly better than a point per game (and stay healthy) to pass Kozlov this year. What are the chances he'll do it? And, where will he end up on this list when he's finished with the NHL?
Also of note, Henrik Zetterberg began the season 13th overall in career NHL points for Swedish players with 672. He's passed Nichael Nylander and Kent Nilsson into 11th thus far this season with 690 points now.
Player GP P
Sundin 1346 1349
Lidstrom 1564 1142
Alfredsson 1195 1121
Forsberg 708 885
Naslund 1117 869
Sandstrom 983 856
T. Steen 950 817
H. Sedin 958 812
Salming 1148 787
D. Sedin 924 775
Zetterberg 731 690
It is unrealistic to expect that Zetterberg will pass anyone else this season. So, the only question here is - Where will Z end up on this list?


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on November 12, 2012 - 11:42 PM
LEWISTON – Welcome to Big 4 basketball, Katie Healy.
The St. Bonaventure freshman from Lancaster didn't know what to expect in her first clash with Niagara.
The 6-foot-1 forward, who earned News Player of the Year as a high school senior last season, found herself the centerpiece of a key run during a physical, exciting, ugly game as the Bonnies (2-0) held on for a 51-49 victory over Niagara in front of 532 at the Gallagher Center on Monday night.
Healy scored six straight points in a 12-0 run that turned a Bona 38-32 deficit into a 44-38 lead.
CeCe Dixon started the run with a three-pointer, then Healy went to work. She drove the lane, got fouled and hit both free throws. Then she hit a layup, followed by a short jumper. Alaina Walker capped the run with a layup and a free throw.
"It's all due to coaches and my teammates," said Healy, who finished with 12 points for the second straight game. "In practice they tell me to keep doing what I'm doing, that I'm so close and almost there. In practices my teammates are hard on me every day and don't give me a break."
Oh yes, the veterans take pleasure in schooling the underclassmen.
"I think the starters are doing a good job of taking it at them in practice when they are slacking and not working as hard as they should," said junior Doris Ortega, who led all scorers with 14 points despite struggling from the floor.
"Katie battles me in the post in practice and I tell her what to expect in a game, what's going to be open, what's going to happen. She's done a great job of learning in practice and transferring it over to the game."
The Bonnies needed a strong second half after Niagara nailed opened looks and hit tough shots for a 26-21 halftime lead.
The Purple Eagles shot 48 percent (12 of 25) in the first half.
"We got some defensive stops and really were able to get out and go in transition," Niagara coach Kendra Faustin said. "We also got more inside touches in the first that we didn't get in the second half."
Many of those touches were by junior Lauren Gatto, who finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds. She went 6 of 11 from the field and scored from all over the floor, the forward showing improved offensive confidence.
"All summer I practiced hitting outside and inside so I could have both options to my game," Gatto said. "We knew St. Bonaventure played behind and I worked on turning around and scoring quickly over them."
While Ortega notched her third career double-double with 10 rebounds to go with here 14 points, she struggled from the floor, shooting just 3 of 16. But she was aggressive in driving to the basket and hit 8 of 10 from the free-throw line.
Kayla Stroman had 11 points, all in the second half, for Niagara (1-1).
Niagara will play at home Thursday night at 7 against Bowling Green while Bona will be home on Friday to Colgate at 7.
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"When you do have a bond like ours, it is more like a partnership, not necessarily a brother-sister thing," Julianne, 25, tells PEOPLE. "You know when someone needs each other."
The Houghs both got their start as pros on Dancing with the Stars, and Derek, 29, finished second this season with Paralympian Amy Purdy.
Now, the two are back together again and spending lots of time rehearsing for the tour, practicing up to six hours a day. Derek says the long hours have definitely made them closer. "When you train together and travel together the relationship becomes very supportive," he explains.
The Utah-bred siblings are most looking forward to the tour's stop in their hometown, where they will perform for their friends and family.
"Our parents are very cool," Julianne says. "They are not super involved like stage moms and dads, but they are very proud."
Julianne says all the prep work for the tour reminds her of her childhood, when she and Derek left home at ages 10 and 13, respectively, to train at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
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SALEM - A Houston-based environmental and energy services company is planning to build a wastewater treatment facility in Carroll County for Chesapeake Energy.
Tervita Corporation uses hybrid water recycling technology that can remove hydrocarbons and suspended solids from produced water, top-hole drilling water and well pad rain water.
In a prepared release on Thursday, the company said it was awarded the contract to treat Chesapeake water in its Utica shale production in Ohio.
The process will help to help Chesapeake efficiently continue its Aqua Renew program by recycling water in its operations.
Tervita said there is also an option to implement mobile water treatment technology.
In addition to these services to Chesapeake Energy, Tervita said it can provide hardness removal, well site sludge and ponds treatment, if necessary.
Company officials were unable to get back with details on Thursday regarding the exact siting, acreage, number of employs and capital investment for the facility.
Carroll County Commissioner Thomas A. Wheaton returned a call on the answering machine but could not be reached for comment later on.
Phil Vogel, president of Tervita U.S., said, "This is a great opportunity for us to partner with one of the major players in the Utica by recycling and reusing a resource as vital as water,.
"Tervita's water treatment capabilities and technologies, paired with our integrated service offerings, are invaluable to our customers as they continue to put more effort into responsible and sustainable resource development."
Tervita can also deploy its proprietary Mobile Processing System to treat flowback and produced water by removing unwanted suspended solids, so water can be reused.
"Chesapeake Energy is pleased to select Tervita as our Utica water treatment vendor," stated Tim Dugan, Chesapeake Energy district manager, Utica.
"Tervita's treatment process will provide clean water and decrease our process costs which will increase our efficiency with reusing water."
In addition to water treatment technologies, Tervita offers a variety of environmental solutions in the Utica and Marcellus shale play, including engineered landfills, closed-loop systems, drilling fluids services and frack tank rentals.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the U.S. Chesapeake owns leading positions in the Eagle Ford, Utica,Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa, Mississippi Lime and Niobraraun conventional liquids plays and in the Marcellus,Haynesville/Bossier and Barnett unconventional natural gas shale plays.
The company recently invested significant resources to develop three new oilfield waste handling facilities in northeast British Columbia's Horn River Basin and Montney play regions, according to Tervita's website.
The three facilities opened in May and June 2012 and the company said they highlight its commitment to siting waste management infrastructure close to customers' operations saving them transportation costs and time, while reducing risk and maximizing netbacks.
Garry A. Smith, Tervita's President, Waste Processing, says, "We strive to be responsive to industry needs, and the three new waste facilities we have developed are a customer-driven solution to support northeast B.C. gas producers.
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COLUMBIA – The first sign of trouble came more than three weeks ago, between the hedges at Georgia.
WHO: Kentucky (1-3, 0-1 SEC) at No. 13 South Carolina (3-1, 1-1)
WHEN: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia
TV: Fox Sports Carolinas
South Carolina's defense was in the perfect situation. The Gamecocks had the Bulldogs at their 15-yard line, facing third-and-13.
One 85-yard touchdown pass later, game over.
USC coach Steve Spurrier vowed then he would get more involved with his defense, rolling up his sleeves to shore up the secondary. Three weeks later, the same problems exist.
The Gamecocks had three interceptions Saturday at UCF – more than doubling their season output – but took a step back with a complete meltdown in the game's final 10 minutes. USC allowed two passes of at least 73 yards, allowing UCF to claw its way back into the game before losing 28-25.
On the season, South Carolina is the only BCS team in the nation to allow three pass plays of at least 70 yards. No other SEC team has even allowed three pass plays of at least 60.
"We've got some issues that we haven't cleaned up yet, and we're going to try to clean them up," Spurrier said Sunday on his teleconference. "I'll be helping out with the secondary. Obviously, we haven't gotten it corrected yet, but we'll keep working on it.
"We had some good plays, but we had some careless plays late in the game that almost cost us."
Neither pass from UCF quarterback Blake Bortles was designed to go more than 30 yards. USC had dropped into a deep zone, trying to prevent big plays. Instead, busted coverage and missed tackles changed the game.
Defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward was disgusted with his secondary's lack of execution. He said the group played solid for most of the game, but everything fell apart down the stretch.
Making things worse, Ward knew the secondary's breakdowns were basic things that should never happen.
"We're letting guys get too wide open," Ward said. "We're trying to play zone coverage so that we don't give a big play up like when we play man (coverage). So we tried to play zone, and we've got to play better zone. That's way too many big plays in that scenario."
Defensive end Jadeveon Clowney wasn't about to let USC's secondary take all the blame after the game. To his left, cornerback Victor Hampton explained Saturday's breakdowns. Hampton said the defense can play more deep zone. Like Ward, he said the group just had to play it better.
Part of that is getting more pass rush on the quarterback so there isn't enough time to pass down the field. USC is second in the SEC with 12 sacks, three behind conference leader Arkansas. The Gamecocks have played one less game than the Razorbacks.
Clowney said the defensive line hasn't been near as dominant as last season, when USC had five more sacks than any team in the SEC. The defense is on pace for have four fewer sacks than in 2012. Clowney said players need to burst off the line of scrimmage faster, and quell their frustrations better.
"That's effort. You've got to give a lot of effort, man," Clowney said. "You getting double teamed, chill. … Everybody gets it. So you've got to fight through that, you know. You can't just come out there and walk around because you're getting double teamed.
"I tell them, 'Man, I don't want to hear that.' You've got to come off the ball full speed, and if you're tired let somebody else come in and rush full speed. But don't be out there not going full speed when you're out there.'"
Clowney and Hampton went back and forth accepting blame for the big plays their defense has allowed, like two people fighting over the same slice of pie. Bottom line is much simpler.
USC's defense has been mostly good this season. Big plays have left a bitter taste.
"We've all got to take responsibility for it," Hampton said. "It's not just DBs, it's not just linebackers, it's not just D line. It's the whole defense. We've all just got to be on the same page. When we're on the same page and executing, y'all see how we can play. Mentally, we've just got to be there all on the same page."
Steve Spurrier watches the Gamecocks in their 28-25 victory over Central Florida on Saturday. (AP Photo)×


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Most languages around today have some type of for loop syntax. Python is no different; in fact, in python for loops are highly preferred in most circumstances over while loops.
In languages like C one loops like this:
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for (i=0; i<length_of_sequence; i++)
Many Python beginners, whether they be coming from other languages like C, or brand new to programming, inevitably go through a phase where they try to do the same thing.
This results in things like this:
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for i in range(len(sequence)):
This is never the right answer. In python we have the power and ability to loop directly over the items in a sequence.
We can instead do this:
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for item in sequence:
It is simpler to type; simpler to read; and most importantly makes more sense. As we were never concerned with the index to begin with, we don't need to bother with it.
There are however cases in which one does want the index as well as the item. In such cases enumerate is the tool of choice.
Our loop becomes:
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for i,item in enumerate(sequence):
print("{} : {}".format(i,item)
In short, if you ever catch yourself writing range(len(sequence)) rethink your goal and figure out what it really is you are interested in.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Police were called to a fast food restaurant due to harassing phone calls.
The victim told police that she got a phone call from a former employees sister. That same former employee had stated to the manager that if she saw the victim at the fast food restaurant she was going to beat her up.
The victim told police she was at that restaurant the other day without incident. But then the victim got a call on her personal cell phone from the former employees sister that said, leave my sister alone or I will stomp you in the ground.
She asked that the suspect be placed on trespass from the restaurant and for the phone calls to stop.
The suspect was reached on the phone so she could be notified. She said she nor her sister called the victim and that the real truth was that the alleged victim had been calling and harassing her.
She was told to notify police in her jurisdiction if she wanted to file a complaint.
She was told she would go to jail if she came back to the restaurant and she said she understood.
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A kid thats quite kool, enjoys cake and a good laugh and is generally a nice person. Has a big smile and loves her style with the skinnies and curly hair. Pretty impressive personality aswell.
Man thats a kool girl, just like Meghane
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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Jon Hamm
- 1980s
An Early Loss
At 10, Hamm, whose parents divorce when he's 2, loses his mother Deborah to cancer. He moves in with his father Daniel – a salesman who runs the family trucking business – and excels at St. Louis private school John Burroughs, where he plays middle linebacker and the lead in the school's production of Godspell.
- 1991
No Fairy Tale
A sophomore at the University of Texas, Hamm loses his father to diabetes and poor health. He returns home to St. Louis, where he completes his studies at the University of Missouri – before packing up for Los Angeles in 1995. "Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life – so you'd better live it while it's here," he tells Parade in 2010. "I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it."
- 1997
Kissing Jennifer Westfeldt
Struggling to make a name for himself in Hollywood, Hamm gets a call from writer-actress Jennifer Westfeldt, who's casting her play Lipschtick – the basis of her acclaimed indie Kissing Jessica Stein. Hamm and Westfeldt hit it off onscreen (he lands a role in her 2001 film) and offscreen, with the pair embarking on a decade-long relationship that eventually grows to include a dog, Cora.
- 2001
Providence & More
While waiting tables, Hamm scores his first substantial acting gig – a recurring role on the TV drama Providence. Around this time, he appears in the Mel Gibson film, We Were Soldiers, and a slew of TV roles follow, enabling him to quit his day job. "I've probably been a waiter longer than I've really been anything else," he tells Vanity Fair of finally getting his Hollywood break.
- 2007
Mad About Hamm
Hamm gets the role of a lifetime, being cast as mysterious Madison Avenue ad executive Don Draper in AMC's first original series, Mad Men. The show earns him a Golden Globe win for outstanding lead actor in 2008, as well as repeated lead Emmy nominations. "We knew some people were watching and liked it," Hamm tells EW. "But to get the actual validation of 'We think you're the best' is amazing – and totally unexpected."
- 2008
Jon's Funny Bone
At the height of "Mad Mania," Hamm switches gears, hosting Saturday Night Live, where he mocks his TV character and even hawks Jon Hamm's John Ham ("The Ham You Can Eat in the Bathroom"). "He has that ridiculous sense of humor that we like to employ, a chasing-the-giggle kind of fun that's dark and weird," longtime pal comedian Sarah Silverman tells Elle. In 2010, the actor returns for more gags, with two more hosting stints on SNL.
Man of the Year
Hamm is named one of GQ's Men of the Year, sharing the honor with fellow cover stars President Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio and Olympian Michael Phelps. "I've been incredibly lucky in many ways," says the actor, who stars in the sci-fi blockbuster The Day the Earth Stood Still. "I'm working on something that I really enjoy; I've been really fortunate. I've been waiting around a long time, but I'll take it."
- 2009
Tina's Rock Steady
Continuing to show that he's more than a man in a suit, Hamm begins a recurring stint as Tina Fey's love interest Dr. Drew Baird on 30 Rock. Of working with the hunky star, Fey jokes, "I haven't actually looked straight at him yet since he's been here. I poked a hole in a paper plate and I look at him like that, like an eclipse."
- 2010
Out on 'The Town'
Building his film résumé, Hamm plays cops and robbers in actor-director Ben Affleck's Boston thriller, The Town. Of casting the Mad Men star, Affleck says Hamm "is really my idea of a man's man, which made it easy to portray him as a hero." The crime drama, which costars Blake Lively, Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner, debuts at the top of the box office, earning $23.8 million.
- 2012
A Lovely Collaboration
Hamm re-teams with his longtime love, writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt, on her latest film effort, Friends with Kids. "We were very proud," the actor said of working with his girlfriend, "and we put a lot of our own equity – and sweat equity – and emotional equity into all of that and that can sometimes not go so well, and it went really well."
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quote: All of the outrage whipped up around the issue of the conditions of workers in Apple's Chinese supply chain has, it turns out, been based on deliberate lies designed to further someone's career. Shame on him.
quote: the heaps of corroborated reports from investigative journalists from around the world.
quote: So... using slave labor to build our toys is totally copacetic, cuz like, that's just like the human condition man, and we can't do anything to change that man, so let's just profit off of it as much as we can man, and not give two shits about the slaves who do all the work man.Survival of the fittest man, or at least, those lucky enough to be born in a developed country man.You're adorable.
quote: Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head of a non-profit agency investigating the plants.The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is beginning a study of the working conditions of Apple's top eight suppliers in China, following reports of worker suicides, a plant explosion and slave-like conditions at one of those suppliers, Foxconn Technology Group.Auret van Heerden, president of the FLA offered no immediate conclusions on the working conditions, but he noted that boredom and alienation could have contributed to the stress that led some workers to take their own lives.In addition to Foxconn, FLA investigators will later visit facilities of Quanta Computer Inc, Pegatron Corp, Wintek Corp and other suppliers, who are notoriously tight-lipped about their operations.After his first visits to Foxconn, van Heerden said, "The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm."He spent the past several days visiting Foxconn plants to prepare for the study."I was very surprised when I walked onto the floor at Foxconn, how tranquil it is compared with a garment factory," he said. "So the problems are not the intensity and burnout and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment factory. . It's more a function of monotony, of boredom, of alienation perhaps."
quote: You appear to be an advocate for the factory profiteers,
quote: only a few of them are committing suicide
quote: The crocodile tears are shed by those excited by a chance to knock Apple but who were, and remain, silent on the worse conditions in the supply chains of other companies or products that they happen to like.
quote: The suicide rate in the Foxconn work force is lower than the national average suicide rate for China.
quote: Apples to oranges. Show me a comparison of the suicide rate between the workers in a United States factory and the workers in one in China and we'll talk. (Preferably show me the ones where the folks feel compelled to do the Dutch while on the clock.)


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State police made arrests in separate prison contraband incidents involving marijuana at two local correctional facilities on Saturday, officials reported Wednesday.
Jose H. Alicea, 28, of Syracuse was charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband and unlawful possession of marijuana for allegedly bringing a small plastic baggie of pot to an inmate he was visiting at Attica Correctional Facility.
He was arraigned on charges in Attica town court and remanded to the Wyoming County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.
On the same day, Candace Hurst, 28, of Buffalo was also charged with second-degree promoting contraband and unlawful possession of marijuana for bringing what was described by police as a "small quantity" of marijuana to a prisoner at Collins Correctional Facility.
She was turned over to troopers for processing and was released on an appearance ticket. She was scheduled to appear in Collins Town Court Wednesday evening.
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CHARLES TOWN - For the fifth year in a row, local golfers gathered at the Locust Hill Golf Course in November to provide a way for those less fortunate to celebrate the holidays.
The Nov. 10 Turkey Shoot golf tournament was a record year for fundraising, said Keith Rader, director of golf.
"We raised both money and food. Everyone who played brought in a 10-pound turkey, and we had 120 participants," Rader said, adding the total of 1,574 pounds of meat was donated to Jefferson County Community Ministries in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Keith Rader and Wayne Clark of the Locust Hill Golf Course present Commissioner and Jefferson County Community Ministries treasurer Lyn Widmyer with a check in Charles Town.
Last week, the Charles Town golf club donated the cash it raised to the ministries, just in time for Christmas.
Treasurer of the ministries, Commissioner Lyn Widmyer, accepted the $855 check, saying the funds will go toward community needs with paying rent, medical costs and transportation to jobs.
"This is particularly touching this year, because starting last year the needs in the community are so great, we had to actually go into our savings to transfer $50,000," she said. "We are facing the same increasing demand, but the community stepped up so wonderfully that we are hopeful we won't have to do the same this coming year."
The event's winning team consisted of Terry Mumaw Sr., Terry Mumaw Sr., Chris Ross and Bobby Jones, with a winning score of 58 over the other 30 teams.
According to Rader, the event began five years ago when the local golf club wanted to find a way to give back to the community.
The club's owner, Margaret Drennen, who also owns the Cress Creek Country Club in Shepherdstown, is very active in the community as well. Rader explained this was a way to impact the community in Charles Town.
"Many people were calling in before the event and asking when the turkeys were going to be in," Widmyer said. "If you take that amount of turkey, 1,574 pounds, and you figure half a pound of turkey per person, that's 3,000 servings."
Locust Hill Golf Course already has its 2013 event planned for Nov. 9 in Charles Town.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The Stetson lacrosse team knew the 2014 season opener was going to be a challenge. It proved to be true as #3 Syracuse recorded a program record 25 goal in a 25-0 win over the Hatters at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex on Friday night.
"Playing in the Champions Challenge was a very unique experience," Stetson head coach Nicole Moore said. "For our student athletes, it was a chance to play against a top caliber team and be surrounded by the best in the game. It is a great opportunity for Stetson University and Stetson Lacrosse."
The Orange scored just over a minute into play and never looked back. The perennial national contenders were clicking on Friday, after defeating Stetson's Atlantic Sun Conference foe Jacksonville on Tuesday.
Syracuse was led by Alyssa Murray, who scored four goals and had one assist for five points. Taylor Poplawski, Kayla Treanor, Katie Webster, Devon Collins, and Lisa Rogers also scored multiple goals for the Orange.
The Hatters recorded two shots, one each from sophomore Danielle Horgan and Samantha Akl, both of which were on target. Horgan and sophomore goalkeeper Caili Guilday picked up one ground ball each in the contest.
Stetson had five draw controls in the loss, as freshman Lindsay Summers corralled two to lead the way. Horgan and Sam Maguire also chipped in with one caused turnover each.
"As a fledgling program, the opportunity to play such a high caliber team can be a very positive one, and a chance for the team and individuals to grow," Moore said. "We were missing some key players tonight, which definitely hurt us, both within our team chemistry on the field and for subbing, though those that had the chance to step onto the field against Syracuse had a great opportunity to be challenged, be pushed, and get better."
The Hatters will have over two weeks off before returning to action on Sunday, Feb. 9. Stetson hosts Oregon at 1:00 p.m. in the first of five straight home games at the Athletic Training Center.
"We need to tighten up our defense and continue to build our offense," Moore said regarding what the team needs to focus on moving forward. "We are still putting in pieces of our system and will stay focused on bringing this team together both on the field and off."


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UNIVERSITY PARK - Valentine's Day evening at the Jordan Center only brought more heartbreak for Penn State. The Nittany Lions fell to Iowa, 74-72, extending their Big Ten-opening losing streak to a record-tying dozen games.
The loss ruined a spectacular effort by sophomore guard D.J. Newbill, who finished with a game-high 26 points and eight rebounds. Making it all the more painful: Penn State (8-16, 0-12) missed several key scoring opportunities in the final minute of the tight game.
"It was very frustrating," Newbill said. "We understand how hard we worked. We felt we deserved to make those winning plays. We felt we had the game."
State overcame a 12-point second-half deficit to trail 70-68 when Jermaine Marshall hit one of two free throws with 41 seconds remaining. But the Lions could not capitalize on several golden opportunities from that point.
After PSU's Ross Travis came up with a steal, Newbill missed a wide-open look from the arc that would have given the Lions a lead. Marshall rebounded but gave up a steal to Hawkeye Eric May.
May was fouled and missed the front end of a one-and-one with 30 seconds to go. Penn State pushed the ball up the floor, only two see Marshall's potentially tying layup blocked by Iowa's Melsahn Basabe.
Hawkeye Roy Devyn Marble grabbed the ball, was fouled and made two free throws. The score was 72-68. Then Newbill countered with a layup to trim the lead to 72-70 with five seconds left. Penn State was not done yet, though, and fouled Basabe with four seconds to go. He made the first and missed the second, and PSU went flying down the floor.
Down 73-70, Marshall was fouled with one second left. He made the first to cut it to 73-70 and then - while trying to intentionally miss the second to give his teammates a chance to grab an offensive rebound and score the tying bucket - Marshall's line drive somehow went in.
"We actually tried to miss the free throw and we made it," Lion coach Pat Chambers lamented. "And the ones we're trying to make, we miss."
Added Marshall, "I should have gotten it done. Unfortunately, it went in."
Only in this difficult season could making a free throw become an issue. Iowa (16-9, 5-7), meanwhile, did everything it needed to do to pull out the win.
"We made enough free throws, enough plays to beat a team whose going to fight you like no other team," Hawkeye coach Fran McCaffery said.
Penn State got off to another slow start in this game and was trailing 17-7 at the 13:00 mark of the first half. But then the Nittany Lions unleashed one of their best offensive barrages of the Big Ten season.
Behind the outside scoring of Newbill and Marshall, and a suddenly potent inside punch from center Sasa Borovnjak, PSU went on a 16-0 run. Borovnjak capped it with a layup at the 9:16 mark, giving the Lions a 23-17 lead. State was tallying points so fast (for it) that the scoreboard stopped working for a moment, and the PA man had to give score updates.
Of course, sustained scoring has not been a strength of the Lions this season. And as quickly as they heated up, they cooled off even faster, allowing the Hawkeyes to uncork an 11-0 rally of their own thanks primarily to the long-range scoring of guard Mike Gesell.
Both clubs eventually leveled off, though, and Iowa took a 38-34 lead into the locker room after standout forward Aaron White hit his only bucket of the half - a 3-pointer - at the buzzer.
But Newbill was the star of the period. His line from the opening 20 minutes included 16 points (on 7 of 9 shooting), three rebounds, two steals, an assist and a block. It kept PSU in the game even though the Lions were outrebounded 24-11 and shot only two free throws (making both).
Iowa appeared to blow it open early in the second half, leading by as many as 12 (61-49) before the Lions came storming back.
"What Penn State has done all season long is, if you don't take it from them, they're going to keep coming," McCaffery said. "They're going to close it and make it the kind of game it ended up being."
The just could not close it all the way.
"We tried, we really tried," Chambers said. "The ball just didn't go in for us, it bounced the other way.
GAME NOTES: Marshall finished with 14 points and 10 assists. ... Marble led Iowa with 22. ... PSU also lost 12 straight to start Big Ten play in 2009-10. ... Penn State is at No. 4 Michigan Sunday. The game tips at noon and can be seen on the BTN.
IOWA (16-9): Basabe 4-8 3-4 11, White 2-4 4-7 9, Woodbury 1-3 0-0 2, Marble 6-12 9-11 22, Gesell 5-8 2-2 13, Olaseni 0-1 0-0 0, Oglesby 2-8 0-0 5, Clemmons 1-2 0-0 3, McCabe 1-4 0-0 2, May 2-4 2-2 7. Totals 24-54 20-26 74.
PENN ST. (8-16): Borovnjak 6-8 2-2 14, Travis 2-7 0-0 4, Newbill 11-20 1-1 26, Marshall 3-13 6-10 14, Colella 1-3 0-0 3, Taylor 2-5 0-0 5, Montminy 2-2 0-0 5, Graham 0-3 0-0 0, Wisniewski 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 27-61 10-15 72.
Halftime-Iowa 38-34. 3-Point Goals-Iowa 6-21 (May 1-1, Clemmons 1-2, Gesell 1-3, White 1-3, Marble 1-5, Oglesby 1-6, McCabe 0-1), Penn St. 8-17 (Newbill 3-5, Marshall 2-4, Montminy 1-1, Colella 1-3, Taylor 1-3, Travis 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Iowa 40 (Woodbury 7), Penn St. 29 (Newbill 8). Assists-Iowa 15 (Gesell, Marble, White 3), Penn St. 17 (Marshall 10). Total Fouls-Iowa 19, Penn St. 19. A-7,636.


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Urinary incontinence is the loss of voluntary bladder control causing leakage of urine. This temporary or chronic condition has multiple mechanisms and many causes. Each cause has its own methods of diagnosis and its own treatment plan.
Urinary bladder function is a careful balance between pressure from the bladder to empty and resistance from the sphincter (valve) at its outlet. Pressure to empty increases suddenly when the bladder reaches a certain volume.
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5 Facts About Thanksgiving Your History Teacher Left Out
I'm glad you're still here. Put on a jockstrap; you're about to get sacked in the Knowledge Bowl.
The Pilgrim Fathers at the Plymouth Feast in 1621 weren't Puritans. They were Brownist Separatists who suffered religious persecution because their church taught that they should annoy the hell out of their neighbors. They sneaked away to Amsterdam, only to discover it contained Dutch people, so they set sail for Massachusetts (a tribal word meaning "That's a lot of chusetts!"). They landed at Plymouth Rock*, saving it to later land on Malcolm X.
If Plymouth rocks, does that mean Blarney's stoned?
*Except that probably didn't happen either.
The rest of the story you know: they lucked into Squanto (more on him in a minute), borrowed some food from the Wampanoag tribe and when their crops came up, it was praise the lord and pass the turkey.
Too bad for your school play that Spanish explorers in the Texas panhandle held the first Thanksgiving back in 1541 to thank God for the chance to swipe firsties from Englishmen. Zoiks!
Spain all up in this American bitch. A few years after that dubious first Thanksgiving came the ascent of Philip II, king of pajamas, and also Spain.
Philip II prepares for bed.
In 1564, some French Huguenots celebrated their own thanksgiving for safe landing, even if it was in Florida. These colonists honored King Charles by naming their settlement "Fort Caroline." Oh, France! Sometimes you are too French for your own good. This was one of those times.
Spain heard about the gender-bending fort and said, "Thees weel no do!" while twirling its waxed mustache. Philip was busily Inquiring the crap out of non-Catholics back in Spain, and decided he couldn't have anyone teaching Indians the wrong way to cower before God. Historically, Catholicism and brutality are two ideas Spain has a hard time relinquishing, or even distinguishing. When his highness' Darth Vader, Admiral Pedro Menendez, landed in Florida, he threw his own party of thanks -- unfortunately for the French, this was the kind where the pinatas are Protestants.
Brought to you by authoritarianism!
Nobody expected this joke!
Amidst La Inquisicion Dos: La Bugalu Electrica, Menendez founded St. Augustine and held yet another thanksgiving with the native Timicuans, meaning the Spaniards can even claim the first cross-cultural Thanksgiving.
So why don't we celebrate that feast of thanks instead of the one that happened years later up north? Well, in addition to the obvious fact that none of those people's offspring ever got elected president, they dined on bean soup. That's an even sadder Thanksgiving meal than a Hungry Man dinner served to an elderly widower whose children don't visit the nursing home anymore. Speaking of which, that was the last time Floridians had anything to be thankful for.
But that's to be expected, right? America was officially settled by the English, so that's whose day of thanks they celebrate today, right?
Still, you can draw a straight line from our holiday back to the minimally murderous 1621 feast in Plymouth: turkey, the itis and sharing a meal likely to break into a fight. All they left out was tracing hand-turkeys on construction paper.
If you don't still make these, you're not having fun.
The only catch is they didn't think they were having a Thanksgiving. And they should know. As you might have noticed in the Florida example, you couldn't turn around in those days without running into a feast of thanks. It was kind of an official thing, and the Plymouth settlers had one every week -- presumably giving thanks that their blood was recovered from scurvy but not yet healthy enough to be appetizing to malaria carrying mosquitoes. The point is, the 1621 shindig American traditions recreate and tell stories about on Thanksgiving was not one of them. It was a harvest festival.
This belongs to us all
And therefore an excuse to show this picture.
Of all the official thanks those grateful fauns gave, this was not one of them -- replace the prayer and contemplation with gut-busting portions and camaraderie. The Pilgrims had just cleared their first crops, meaning they could get off the Wampanoag welfare teat. They invited their benefactors to party with them, and hey! Good times in America!
So it turns out the gluttony part is the only thing our Thanksgiving got right. In fact, if you were to go back in time to the meal we're supposedly recreating, and asked one of the settlers how their Thanksgiving was going, they'd think you were being a buzz kill. It would be like your ancestors coming back to a college football tailgate, and asking us how we were enjoying keeping holy the Sabbath. Thanksgiving was every freaking Sunday. The harvest festival was their one chance to forget about being thankful, and just eat and drink their faces off. The idea that you would show thanks while doing that would have been completely baffling to them. But that's just because they didn't know how thankful we could be for pie.
Harvest festivals were about all the Pilgrims and Wampanoags had in common. The only other thing they shared? Tisquantum.
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He was much more helpful than Tisanalog and Tisdigital.
Tisquantum became Squanto, the archetypal friendly Indian. He helped the white man out, and in return the white man invited him to his bitching party. Even Steven! We suppose now you're going to tell us that Squanto doesn't accept payment in turkey. We have a word for people who go back on deals, Squanto. It's called ... well, never mind.
Guns, germs and steel.
Native Americans got it worse than anybody in this country's history, and despite being the mascot for how great everyone was getting along back then, Squanto was one of the best examples. Kidnapped by an Englishman, purchased by Spanish friars and somehow able to talk his way back home, the guy had every right to hate England. When his buddy Samoset introduced him to the Pilgrims at the end of a mean winter, Squanto could have left them to suffer from freezing, starvation and Englishness.
Instead of generalizing, he taught them farming and hunting methods, while negotiating a little farm-aid from the Wampanoag tribe. If there was anything to be thankful for in 1621, it was Tisquantum. He corrected the Pilgrims' method of working the earth at high-speed to the sound of "Yakety-Sax."
But he didn't just save the Pilgrims from nature; he saved them from getting indiscriminately whacked, and paid for it with his life.
After five years of eating terrible pub food, Tisquantum made it back to his village only to discover that everyone had died of plague. All his family, all his friends, Shakespeare* ... dead in the five years he'd been in England. So on the bright side: he was now chief of his tribe. On the much darker side:
Brought to you by smallpox!
"Tisquantum" was a Patuxet name meaning "Forever Alone."
One morning, he experienced that joy every man feels at least once in his life: the day you learn your oppressors are living in the boneyard of your ancient culture. And even though the best science of the day knew contagion was either caused by sin or a witch's curse, nobody picked up on the fact that new diseases were popping up wherever white folks went.
Squanto had hired himself out as a guide and translator, only to see his clients slaughtered by the Wampanoag. If the Pilgrims had made a wrong move, well ... it's not that the tribe was hellbent on killing Europeans (another English speaker, Samoset, treated them pretty well); they just weren't inexperienced in the craft.
His negotiating peace between the two groups, and the half-century of good relations that followed, was amazing when you consider neither side fully trusted him at first. In fact, at one point the Wampanoag chief Massasoit was convinced Tisquantum had betrayed him, and demanded the English hand him over.
Making things worse, in the spring of 1622, Myles Standish decided to just up and stab himself some natives. Market research showed the move tested poorly among a sample poll of local tribes. And still the double-outsider Squanto spent the rest of his life knotting the ties that bound.
And what was his reward? Dead in a year of smallpox. Some historians think that was odd after he'd survived several years in London, and suggest that the Wampanoag poisoned him, but smallpox is kind of hard to mistake. Either way, he was a classier guy than either side he helped.
Ha! Well-played.
Historians agree "Pilgrims vs. Turkeys" was the dumbest season of Survivor yet.


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Thursday, 7/26/12
It's a carnivore carnival at Casa de Bonner this weekend. About once a quarter or so, we buy a bunch of meat to throw on my beloved bar-b-q pit. I have three chickens, four racks of baby backs and a picnic ham for pulled pork. I plan on spending all day Saturday tending the fire. I really love doing this. It's one of my fav things. Granted it does take up most of the day, but it's worth it. We vacuum seal all of it, throw it in the freezer, and it's there whenever we want it. Smoked chicken and greens. Baby, that's eating.
I really have to say something about that senseless Colorado theater shooting spree. My heart goes out to all those families that lost loved ones. I can't imagine heading out for what was supposed to be a fun night...and having it end like that. I just can never understand how some people are capable of this kind of thing.
Friday, 7/20/12
Waiting with baited breath (never really knew what that meant) for the summer edition of Restaurant Week. It starts this Sunday...and runs through Friday. A great opportunity to try out those restaurants you've always wanted to, but never got the chance. Or just get a great meal at an old fave for a great price. Mariners fits into that category for me. This year they are doing a surf and turf thing. For $25.00? I'm in. This is like Christmas in July for foodies. The options here in Madison are phenomenal. That's what makes our Restaurant Week the best in the Midwest. Bon Appetit!
Wednesday, 7/11/12
My mother-in-law Barb had some major league surgery several weeks ago...and is still on the mend...but doing well. During her convalescence, Barb's sister (Aunt Francis) came in to lend a hand on the home front in Ripon. We picked Francis up at the airport after her flight from her home in California. We don't often get to see her, so that was very cool. She gets to Wisconsin probably once a year or so. She is the coolest. I mean I'm obviously not going to say how old she is (she is my mother-in-law's sister mind you) but she looks great, has an awesome personality. She's witty, smart and fun and we love her to death. I only wish she could spend more time in Madison when she makes the trip so we could have some fun. Not that Ripon isn't an entertainment mecca in its own right. It's just that it's really hard to beat Madison in the summertime. We put Francis on a plane Monday after her ten-day stay with Barb. Sad day knowing we won't see her again til October 2013. I'll miss her. She keeps daring us to come out to her place in Monterrey, and we just may have to do that soon. See ya Franny. I dig ya!
Friday, 7/6/12
I'll admit it...the heat is getting to me. And a lot of other people, too. Fuses are short on the roads. I can't remember a stretch where I have been honked at...or gotten so many dirty looks...or one finger salutes so many times. I think as the temperatures go up, people's tolerance goes down. Thank goodness it's almost over (for now). If you have a garden, or a farm, I don't have to tell you what a battle it is to keep things alive, much less thriving. I am literally spending hours a week watering all those pots of flowers that we thought were such a great idea back in early May. My poor veggies are struggling, too. The only thing that doesn't seem to be affected by the heat...are weeds, hornets, and those pesky little ground squirrels that seem to have an appetite for any thing blooming this year. But as they say, this too shall pass. Like a kidney stone!
Monday, 7/2/12
My daughter Lizzy just got a new dog. Teeny tiny. It's a tea cup Shih Tzu/Miniature Pinscher cross. "Derby" probably tips the scales at a pound and a half right now, and it's likely she won't break seven pounds full grown. She has been coming to my house while Lizzy works. Just until she gets a bit older. She's only ten weeks old. Derby girl is all dog, though. A real gamer. There is nothing much more adorable than my 60 pound Standard Poodle, Ziggy, getting on the ground and playing with this mini dog. They play tug-a-war with one of Derby's little toys. I can't believe how gentle Zig is with her. Even though there are slip-ups sometimes...he makes sure not to step on her...and when he grabs her in his mouth...he never bites down too hard. She loves it...so does he. They are best friends already.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - With his team trailing struggling Northwestern 33-16 late in the first half at the Jordan Center Thursday night, Pat Chambers' body language said it all. The usually ebullient coach squatted near the corner of the scorers' table, a towel in his hand and a look of utter frustration on his face.
It was going to be a long night. It is going to be a long season.
"That was embarrassing," Chambers said after the game. "That's the first time I've said that in the year and a half I've been here."
Fresh off blowout losses to Michigan and Minnesota, the Wildcats entered this game 0-2 in the Big Ten and without standout forward Drew Crawford (shoulder injury). They promptly blasted the Nittany Lions, 70-54, as PSU fell to 8-7 on the season and 0-3 in the Big Ten.
Considering Chambers' bunch was actually favored by two points in this game - which will be a rarity in a conference with six ranked teams - Thursday's result was disappointing on every level.
Chambers began his postgame press conference with a statement in which he ripped himself.
"I have to do a much better job of preparing my team and getting them ready to play," he said, his voice rising as he spoke. "This one's on me. We did not play with any energy or enthusiasm."
Things got away from Penn State midway through the first half. Leading 12-8, suddenly the Lions could not make a shot, going two of their next 15 heading into the break. The poor shooting led to frustration, which in turn led to poor defense. It didn't help that the refs seemed quick on their whistles.
It all amounted to a 25-6 Wildcat run that blew it open. Trailing 33-18 at the half to an outfit that runs a patient Princeton-style offense, there would be no spirited comeback - something the PSU football team seems to do every season against Northwestern.
Asked what was going through his mind late in the half, Chambers said, "I was just disappointed. You're not playing hard. I felt like we were going through the motions. Again, my fault."
And yet it only got worse in the second half. Early on, 6-foot-1 Wildcat guard Dave Sobolweski strolled down the lane and scored with no resistance. That prompted Chambers to pull starting center Sasa Borovnjak. On NU's next possession, forward Kale Abrahamson bombed in a 30-footer to make it 41-20. The margin would grow as wide as 23 (56-33) with 7:47 remaining.
Individually, guards D.J. Newbill and Jermaine Marshall led the Lions with 20 and 13 points, respectively. But even they were ice cold, going a combined 10 of 31 from the field. Rookie forward Brandon Taylor was 1 of 6 and sophomore forward Ross Travis 2 of 7. As a team, PSU shot 18 of 57 and missed 22 shots in the paint.
"We're missing point-blank layups," Chambers said. "But where does that start? Maybe there are distractions."
The Lions themselves did not have a chance to take any blame - none were made available to the media after the game.
To his credit, Chambers returned to his typical sideline form in the second half - bouncing around, hollering at the officials and barking out instructions to his players. But when he needed a break, he was back squatting at the corner of the scorers' table, his chin in his hand.
The towel, not yet thrown in, was resting at his feet.
"I've got to figure it out, fast," Chambers said. "Again, that's my job."
Game notes: Northwestern improved to 10-6 and 1-2 in the Big Ten after losing its first two conference games by a combined 46 points. ... Sobolweski led four Wildcats in doubles with 18 points. ... Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien watched the game from baseline seats near the PSU bench. He was joined by strength and conditioning coach Craig Fitzgerald. ... Penn State plays its third game in six days when it faces Purdue in West Lafayette Sunday. It tips at noon and can be seen on the BTN.
NORTHWESTERN (10-6): Swopshire 5-8 6-8 17, Abrahamson 3-6 1-2 10, Olah 1-2 0-1 2, Sobolewski 7-14 1-2 18, Hearn 3-7 7-11 14, Jimenez 0-0 0-0 0, Marcotullio 0-4 2-2 2, Turner 1-1 0-0 2, Demps 2-5 0-0 5, Montgomery III 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 22-48 17-26 70.
PENN ST. (8-7): Taylor 1-6 0-0 2, Borovnjak 2-5 3-5 7, Travis 2-7 0-0 4, Newbill 6-19 8-9 20, Marshall 4-12 3-3 13, Maduegbunam 0-0 0-0 0, Jack 0-1 0-0 0, Montminy 1-1 1-1 3, Colella 1-4 0-0 3, Graham 1-2 0-0 2, Wisniewski 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 18-57 15-18 54.
Halftime-Northwestern 33-18. 3-Point Goals-Northwestern 9-22 (Abrahamson 3-5, Sobolewski 3-6, Swopshire 1-1, Demps 1-2, Hearn 1-3, Montgomery III 0-1, Marcotullio 0-4), Penn St. 3-15 (Marshall 2-6, Colella 1-3, Travis 0-1, Taylor 0-2, Newbill 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Northwestern 33 (Olah 8), Penn St. 37 (Travis 9). Assists-Northwestern 12 (Sobolewski 5), Penn St. 7 (Newbill 3). Total Fouls-Northwestern 16, Penn St. 23. A-NA.


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So we advance a day closer to hatching. patily excellent summary for Sunday tells us that it was a two fish day. I guess that should please EJ after a hungry Saturday.
Today is also the day of Roy Dennis's talk in Boat of Garten. Will any forum member be attending?
EJ is sitting contentedly on her nest tonight. The weather chart suggests it will be a cold night but a sunny morning.
Thank you for excellent summary patily, and as tiger says, another day closer to my 1st hatchings.
I watched Countryfile and noted that the highlands are in for some more snow (in the high grounds) and now feel for our parents. However, we must remember that EJ and Odin are veterans of the scottish gales and I'm sure will cope admirably.
The reference of Boat of Garten, (Roy Deninnis) brought bitter/sweet memories for me as in a past life we used to rent a house there but it was just for the purpose of skiing and no thought to our gorgeous pair. At Easter break, it was so cold that it brought tears to our eyes and the heating bill was enormous.
Anyway, sorry for being so shallow and hope the talk is well attended.
EJ had a stretch and some flaps @ 0253hr:
She's awake and looking around, not alarmed.
Evening everyone: EJ awake and in for her usual wait for Odin.
Evening, Annette :-) Here's EJ, she won't look at us at the mo :-( Frosty?
EJ gets up to chat to eggs, then settles again.
I wonder if she's looking at Odin in his tree? Is that the right direction?
Hey Scylla: I'm not sure where Odin could be. Day cam is on; doesn't look like there'll be much sun this morning.
EJ DOES have frosty feathers - again! DAY cam on.
Good morning - I'm awake as dozed off around 8pm last night due to 2am start for dawn chorus!
I like listening to dawn chorus at LG.
Quick glimpse of eggs as EJ adjusts her position
Morning, Birdsong - hope I'm not about to post the same picture as you have :-)
Here she is checking the eggs. movie version:
It's thawing now, just looks wet. Here come the geese :-)
Odin arrives. Early today!!
How lovely, an early visit from Odin! No fish of course, the water must be icy-cold.
Odin says good morning