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Not afraid of the home crowd, The Wolverines of Michigan jumped all over the host team Northwestern, and beat them soundly to the tune of 3-0, setting up a rematch with rival Michigan State in the championship game, who defeated top seed Penn State, 3-1.
Michigan, riding its wave of momentum, struck first with a Tyler Arnone goal in the 3rd minute. Arnone, an all-Big Ten First Team selection, caught a volley and fired it into the left upper side of the net from the right wing, past Big Ten first team keeper Tyler Miller. It was his 5th of the season, assisted by Zeke Harris (Detroit City FC), and Fabio Pereira. The Wolverines seemed eager to pounce, out-shooting Northwestern 7-1 within the first 17 minutes. Michigan was also aggressive on the defensive side of the ball as well, picking up six fouls early to NW's 3, including a 24th min yellow on James Murphy, who scored the game-winning goal in U-M's 1-0 quarterfinal win over Wisconsin.
The Wolverines onslaught continued in the 39th as the T.J. Connection struck the back net, with TJ Roen converting a shot from inside the box from TJ VanSlooten. The shot hit right post and deflected into the net.
Adam Grinwis (Michigan Bucks) was called upon to make his first save just before half, as Jarret Baughman of Northwestern fired one but he was up to the task.
Etienne Lussiez came off the bench to score his first goal of the year in the 52nd minute off of a feed from Pereira. Fabio played a ball from 35 yards out to senior Lussiez, and Etienne beat Miller inside the box to the lower left-hand corner.
Northwestern had a prime scoring opportunity but Cole Missimo's header attempt was saved by Grinwis in the 62nd minute.
A Michigan record was surpassed tonight also, as Latif Alashe (Detroit City FC) started his 82nd straight game (every game of his career), breaking Ryan Sterba's record of 81 straight starts. Grinwis also extended his shutout streak to three straight games, giving him six overall this year.
Next up, the Wolverines will battle the Spartans with a spot in the NCAA tournament on the line. In their last meeting, Michigan walked away with a 1-0 win in the season finale last weekend. The game-winner was scored on a timely header by Kofi Opare (Michigan Bucks, Detroit City FC). This match-up, however, will not have the Big Bear Trophy on the line (as it is a regular season trophy), but instead a guarantee that the 2012 season will continue at least one game longer as the loser of Sunday's final is not assured an at-large bid in the NCAAs.
The rematch takes place at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Northwestern's Lakeside Field and will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.
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Triple burner 5 helps cool hot flashes
This point, known to acupuncturists as Triple Burner 5, is located on the back of the wrist, in the middle of the wrist about two inches down from the prominent crease.
It is excellent for cooling heat and reducing pain. You (or your pregnant partner) may experience bouts of hot flashes and night sweats and feverishness during pregnancy, as the fetus growing and quickening inside the womb generates heat.
Many pregnant women with fever, agitation, or pain of the joints or face can benefit from this point.
Pressing this point increases circulation within the energy pathways and can also be used preventively upon awakening each morning to avoid developing the symptoms.
Note: Remember these vignettes are not medical advice.
Step one: Locate the point Triple Burner 5 on the back of the wrist. The correct point will likely feel a little tender when using a firm touch.
Step two: Using your thumb or index finger, press and hold the pressure for 10 seconds. Repeat several times per hour, or until symptoms lessen.

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Who reads the newspaper while driving? I'm guessing not that many. Who texts while driving? More than the number who read newspapers, is my ...
Who reads the newspaper while driving? I'm guessing not that many. Who texts while driving? More than the number who read newspapers, is my assumption. Including my brother, who probably speeds at the same time. Scary.
How much more distracted can a driver get? Your concentration's gone. Your eyes are off the road. One hand's off the wheel. And, according to reports, being distracted by conversation on a cell phone -- and I'm going to take a leap to say that's similar to following a text conversation -- is like driving drunk. All in all, a tad dangerous, no?
Now the question is, how many states have laws against texting? How many have laws against reading the newspaper, putting on make-up or eating a Whopper while driving?
How much of a difference do those laws make? If people lack common sense, will the law affect their behavior? What are states finding?
California is one of the more recent states to ban texting while driving. But here's the funny thing. Although you are prohibited from sending email or browsing the Web while driving, you are allowed to type directions into the GPS on your phone, and read directions from a phone map or GPS program. But, "We do not recommend you do that," says a California Highway Patrol officer.
Sounds a little mixed up to me. I wonder how many drivers know these quirky details. Or care.
Any other state texting laws with interesting exceptions?
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Now that you have a feel for the big Color Wheel let's see how to rotate hues and modify saturation values using one of the Photoshop's most powerful features a Hue Saturation Adjustment layer. I've opened this image called Yellow slats.psd, and notice that we have two layers, one is the background layer which contains these slats of wood painted yellow and then I have a reduced version of the Color Wheel with all the important stuff in it. That is we can see the Saturation going from low to full volume along each of these spokes and we can see the Hue is represented around the perimeter and we see the main hues that is red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, and once again red positioned at each of the 60 degree increments.
Now what's amazing about this is you have full and unbridled control over color values inside of Photoshop. Let me show you what I mean. I'm going to bring up the Adjustments panel, and because it's covering up the all-important Color Wheel I'm going to go ahead and drag this blank area to the right of the word Masks over to the left so we have a Floating Adjustments panel, and then I'm going to press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and hover over the second icon in the second row which is Hue/Saturation, click on it with Alt or Option+Down and you will be invited to name the new layer.
I'm just going to call it hue & sat, because those are the attributes we're going to be changing. And I'll click OK and that fills the Adjustments panel with the Hue/Saturation and Lightness options here. Now the Hue value can vary from -180 to +180 degrees, so you have the full 360-degree Color Wheel covered. And if I start reducing this value, watch red in particular. Rotate in a counter-clock wise direction around this Color Wheel to the point where if I reduce this value all the way to -60 then I displace yellow with red and I displace green with yellow and cyan with green and blue with cyan and magenta with blue, and what was formerly red with magenta, and as a result all of these slats of yellow wood are now red in the background and a very vivid red as well, you have to bear in mind.
When you rotate the hues inside of Photoshop a color might become much more saturated than it was before or much less saturated. It's just a function of the relative saturation of each of the hue values. Now if I wanted to change everything that's yellow like these yellow slats of wood here to green instead, then I would displace what was formerly yellow with green which would mean I need to rotate the colors in the clock-wise fashion so I would change the Hue value from -60 to just plain old +60 and get this result here. If I wanted to make the slats violet instead, I would change this value to -120 and you can experiment with that value to your heart's content.
I'm going to click on the word Hue to select the numerical value and I'm going to change that value to -20 in order to rotate the yellows more toward a kind of pumpkin-orange here. Then I'm going to Tab my way down to the Saturation value. Now check this out, if I increase Saturation all the way to a hundred, I end up infusing gray with color. So you can see that I'm bringing out the most vivid possible colors even from the absolute center of that Color Wheel. Now most of the other color values in the image were very close to full intensity in the first place so we're not seeing that much difference there.
If you reduce this Saturation value you're ultimately going to decline the color intensity to absolute gray as we see it here. Now I prefer to see something in the - 40 zone which will deliver these low saturation orange slats. Then there is Lightness, now I don't think much of the Lightness value inside the Adjustments panel because it ends up creating a low contrast image, no matter what. So if you raise the value, notice you're increasing the brightness of black, you no longer have anything resembling shadows inside the image and you squish the remaining colors inside of a smaller area of the histogram.
Whereas if you reduce the Lightness value, once again you squish the colors, but this time you squish them towards the shadows. You completely and altogether lose your highlights. So this is rarely an option unless you're applying it extremely selectively. This is rarely an option that you set to anything other than zero. Finally we have this Colorize check box and that replaces all of the Hue and Saturation values inside the image with just one Hue value and one Saturation value a piece, otherwise the luminance is left unchanged.
So I'll go ahead and turn on Colorize so you can see what I mean. Everything becomes red because the Hue value is 0 degrees, and by the way that's where things start. 0 degrees starts on the right-hand side of the wheel, then 60 degrees is yellow, 120 is green, 180 is cyan, 240 is blue, 270 is magenta all way back to 360 which is red again. And you can see that represented by this Preview inside of the slider Bar.
So if you change the value to 30 for example you'll see that you're at orange inside the slider Bar and sure enough you're seeing a low intensity orange here in the background. If you want to increase the intensity of the colors inside the image then you increase the Saturation value. At 100% you're seeing full on orange everywhere inside the image. Notice though that the original luminance information from black to white remains intact so you still have all your shadows, all your highlights, and all your mid-tones. No if you want a kind of Sepia effect you probably go with the Hue value in the 30 range, you might click that value and press Shift+Up Arrow or something to take it up to 40 and then you would reduce the Saturation value to something along the lines of 30%.
It works pretty darn well with a photographic image, you can produce that Sepia effect very quickly using a combination of values around this range with Colorize turned on. There are better ways to work. I'll show you that when we take a look at the Gradient Map command in a much later exercise. In the next exercise we'll see how you can adjust one range of hues independently of another.
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Exorcisms Are Making a Comeback—and Not Just at a Theater Near You
Exorcisms aren't just for Catholics. Rev. Bob Larson, an evangelical minister based in the U.S. who says he conducts hundreds of exorcisms annually, has noticed a significant increase in the last half-decade. The reason? "Moral decay," he says. "The violence, drugs and sex abuse. You don't have to look further than BTK, who says he has demons." In Italy, some 500,000 people are seeking out exorcists each year, according to the Association of Italian Catholic Psychiatrists and Psychologists. Carlo Climati, a representative for the Regina Apostolorum, Rome's pontifical university, blames the country's growing fascination with the occult. The church accepts only a small percentage of those claims as legitimate; nonetheless, Rome's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, is booked months in advance. Says Amorth: "People come to me saying, 'You are my last hope.'"
According to Father Thomas Weinandy, a spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if you or a loved one has an aversion to sacred objects (like holy water and the cross), displays superhuman strength or has the sudden ability to speak in foreign languages never studied, then an exorcism may be in order. The new course in Rome teaches priests to use psychiatric evaluation to distinguish between mental illness and possession.
"I don't know if the head-spinning is an actual historical case but there is some very bizarre behavior, like people climbing the walls," says Father Weinandy. On two occasions, Father Amorth says, he has had glass, keys and nails spat at him. "The objects materialize the instant they come out of the mouth," he says. Amorth also claims that one man "rose 40 centimeters [about a foot and a half] off the ground."
"Every one of these cases can be attributed to a mental disorder, most often schizophrenia," says Dr. Bernard Vittone, director of the National Center for the Treatment of Phobias, Anxiety and Depression. "In schizophrenia, the cardinal symptom is the delusion of being controlled." Joe Nickell, a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry, who has investigated cases of possession for over 30 years, says bluntly: "There is no scientific evidence in any of these cases that anyone showed supernatural strength."
During the Catholic ritual, the exorcist sprinkles the possessed with holy water, reads a litany of saints and Biblical passages, then those in the room recite the Our Father. After showing the cross, the priest recites a gentle formula ("God please take care of this person and dismiss the demon"). If that doesn't work, the priest resorts to stronger commands. "Usually that is when things get going," says Father Herbert Ryan, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University. "It is very frightening, let me assure you."
"Since I was a child I was aware of the presence of entities tormenting me," says a 37-year-old Italian woman who wishes to remain anonymous. "My parents thought I was crazy." She says after seeking help for depression and stomach pains, "I realized I had problems mainstream medicine could not cure." She has since sought help from a half-dozen exorcists. During numerous exorcisms, she suffered stiff limbs, abdominal and head pains and shortness of breath. She was also aware of speaking gibberish in a childish voice. Today she feels better and no longer undergoes the rite, but "If I don't drink the exorcised water," she says, "the stomach pains come back."
Anneliese Michel, who died of malnourishment, "is the only case I have ever heard of this happening," says Father Ryan. However, "people helping in the exorcism can get tossed around like volleyballs," he says. "Black and blue, ribs broken. It is a mess. But the priest, he is holding the cross and that is great protection."
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Are California's giant dead oarfish a sign of an impending earthquake disaster?
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- October 23, 2013
IS THE discovery of rare "sea serpents" off the coast of California at the weekend a sign of an impending disaster?
Carcasses of two of the sea snake-like creatures, of 5.5m and 4.2m in length respectively, were discovered washed up along the state's coast last week.
According to Japanese folklore the so-called 'monsters of the deep' rise to the surface of the ocean and beach themselves to warn of a coming earthquake, CBS Los Angeles reports.
In the months before the Fukushima earthquake disaster, over a dozen slender oarfish washed ashore or were caught by fisherman on the country's northern coast near the quake's epicentre.
"Japan is bracing itself after dozens of rare giant oarfish - traditionally the harbinger of a powerful earthquake - have been washed ashore or caught in fisherman's nets," the UK's Daily Telegraph reported at the time.
The March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused more than 15,000 deaths, according to Japanese emergency agencies.
The damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant went into meltdown.
Scientists, however, disagree with the ancient fable and say there is no scientific relationship between sightings and seismic activity.
"It's probably just a coincidence," Rick Feeney, a zoologist at the US Natural History museum said.
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Watcher of Brisbane Posted at 10:41 AM October 23, 2013
Don't dismiss folklore. There is usually a reason why it has become folklore - maybe because it's right?
catgrrl Posted at 10:21 AM October 23, 2013
So you just leave these dead fish in the water so that they feed other sea life, breakdown and nourish the water, etc, it's the food chain - you don't need to bring them to shore for the world to see! Humans have no idea! :-/
Jock of North Geelong Posted at 10:06 AM October 23, 2013
Don't knock old folk lore's or legends, sometimes listening to Mother Nature and her children, all creatures great and small, etc. Might be the reason you and I survive, on this planet, we call home. I have no problems with what Scientists might say or believe. But sometimes, they should also look to what nature is doing, as some cultures, people still do today.


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RANDOLPH -- The "unarrest" of a DWI suspect in Randolph by two officers who lost their jobs for covering it up was an isolated incident, township Police Chief Robert Mason said today.
Mason, who has been on the township squad for 24 years and chief since February, said the actions of officers Stephen Kepler and Shawn Boyhan - to eliminate the Aug. 21 DWI arrest from computer dispatch records after they learned the suspect was related to another officer - was a rarity.
"My belief is this was an isolated incident," Mason said. "Could there potentially have been an incident or two that happened in the past that I am not aware of? Certainly, it's a possibility."
"No question, it is a black eye for the organization, and it's something we are going to have to overcome," Mason continued. "As isolated as this is, it happened, we recognized it and dealt with it immediately."
On Monday, Kepler, 49, and Boyhan, 31, admitted in Superior Court in Morristown their roles in altering computer dispatch records to make it look like the DWI arrest never occurred, and freeing the suspect without any charges.
The patrolmen faced up to 18 months in prison if convicted of fourth-degree removal or concealment of official records. But they were allowed to avoid prosecution in the case by enrolling in pretrial intervention, a court program that will result in dismissal of charges if they stay out of trouble for a year. Both men also forfeited their jobs.
The incident occurred late Aug. 21 and early Aug. 22, when Boyhan stopped the driver of a 1995 Chevrolet on South Salem Street on suspicion of driving under the influence and arrested him after he failed field sobriety tests, authorities said.
Boyhan impounded the vehicle, but while driving the suspect back to police headquarters, the man said he was related to another Randolph officer. Boyhan contacted Kepler, a senior officer and shift supervisor, about letting the suspect go, and Kepler agreed. The pair then pressured a female police officer dispatcher to alter records to show the vehicle had been stopped and impounded because of a suspended registration, though no ticket for that infraction was issued.
A day or two later, concerned officers alerted their superiors, who contacted the Morris County Prosecutor's Office, said Mason, who declined to identify the officers who came forward. The identities of the suspect and officer to whom he is related also were not released.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Above and beyond the normal reasons for loving Christmas as a kid, I loved Christmas for the specific reason that under the Christmas tree each year was how I replenished my sporting goods.
Usually by December my baseball and bat had more electricians tape holding them together than cowhide or tempered ash, and because we played in all kinds of inclement weather and baseballs always seemed to find their way into the deepest mud puddles, by Christmas Eve, throwing these things was like competing in the shot put.
I had to rely on Santa Claus to bring the new baseball bat, or baseball, or even baseball glove so I wasnt too ardent in my efforts to catch Santa in the act of leaving presents under the tree.
You never wanted to run the risk of getting nothing but clothes for Christmas and we took that threat seriously.
What we got as presents under the tree was also a coordinated community effort up and down the street among the neighborhood gang.
If Tommy and Roger next door got a football for Christmas, I usually wound up with the baseball and bat. Rick and Greg from down the street would get the basketball.
Moose and Skeeter up the street would get the new basketball net every year and by noon on Christmas Day, rain, sleet or snow, somebodys dad was on the top end of a ladder attaching it to the basketball goal nailed to the McDonalds roof above the driveway. The ladder would barely be out of the way and wed be firing jumpers from behind the shrubs.
The basketball had to be a special outdoor ball so it could bounce in cold weather. In the event we lacked a good VOIT basketball, wed take the new leather Wilson and let it sit in a bucket of hot water while we played with last years ball.
After a good soaking wed take the new Wilson out, all warm and expanded and it would bounce great.
Tommy and Rogers mom worked at MacGregors Sporting Goods so we could count on getting great deals on irregulars that were rejected off the production line.
My first two baseball gloves were MacGregor rejects.
I didnt care.
These were baseball gloves.
We also made it a point every summer to attend Bat Day with the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field. Thats the only way we were able to replenish our supply of Louisville Sluggers in the event the bats we had from last year had been broken too many times.
Trademark up, was the Golden Rule. If you didnt hit with the trademark up and wound up breaking the bat, you were banned from using the good bat until you proved your worth.
To this day I cant pick up a baseball bat even the aluminum ones and not make sure Im swinging with the trademark up.
Christmas Day football games were a time to show off our latest Cleveland Browns jerseys. Teams would be divided between whomever got the brown jerseys or the white jerseys on Christmas morning. You might find the occasional renegade Packers or Cowboys jerseys thrown into the mix, but it wasnt so much the jersey as the number we coveted.
We all wanted number 32, Jim Browns number.
I tried to claim a genetic link with Jim Brown because we shared the same last name but the guys on my street didnt buy that one for a minute.
Pass plays rivaled anything dreamed up by George Patton and there was no better pass pattern run that didnt include a screen off the forsythia bushes.
We played whatever sport was in season - baseball in spring and summer, football in summer into fall, and basketball from winter into spring. Our games transformed our back yards and driveways into whatever basketball court, football field or baseball park we saw on TV that Saturday, and of course we all did our own play-by-play calls, including the roar of the crowd.
You try running a pass pattern, catching the football, outrunning the defender, calling the play Jimmy Brown! Hes at the forty, the forty-five, midfield! and provide accompanying crowd noise.
Do all this without hanging yourself on the clothesline, too.
Talk about complicated.
Man, I miss it more every day.
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Class: Junior
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Honors and Activities: Presidential Scholar, Named an Outstanding Freshman
About me: I like the Honors College because of the small classes, and being able to have meaningful discussions with my teachers and fellow students is an option I wouldn't have in most regular classes. I wanted to become an Ambassador because I felt I needed a way to get involved on campus. Devoting time to the Honors College seemed like the best way I could do that because it helps the next generation of Eagles find their place on campus.
I love the different teachers I have gotten to study under this year, especially Dr. Kuczaj and Dr. Goertzen! Their active learning trips have been an amazing help to my understanding of the world and how fun being a professor can be. I have recently considered becoming a teacher of marine biology. I have always loved studying animals, and my two trips with Dr. Kuczaj have sparked an interest in becoming a professor in the field. I definitely plan on attending grad school. I am very glad that I made the decision to come to Southern Miss. The teachers that I have met this past year have been amazing and tremendously helpful. I am honored to have studied under them.


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Title: Steamer ESCORT at West Mystic Shipyard
Accession Number: 1965.859.28
Category: PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Type: glass negative
Maker: Scholfield, Everett Augustus
Place: USA, CT, Mystic
Date: 1866
Materials: glass
Description: Collodion stereograph glass negative, by Everett A. Scholfield; steamer ESCORT (built 1862 by George Greenman, Mystic, CT, 453 tons, 185 x 28 x 9.5; abandoned 1912); at West Mystic Shipyard, near Mystic Iron Works, 1866; old stone quarry at Mason's Island visible at right; tugboat towing unidentified schooner out to sea; in foreground remains of wharf and building of whaling firm J. & W. P. Randall. See "Mystic Built", page 64. See 1965.859.27 for similar view.
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A power outage that persisted through the weekend in parts of Greeley and blackened areas of downtown Saturday night is being chalked up to a mechanical device's failure at a substation, according to an Xcel spokeswoman.
Michelle Aguayo on Monday said it appeared that when the device failed, the system tried to reset itself as is standard within the power grid. That's why most electricity outages affect a large number of customers at first and, as the system resets itself, most areas come back online within a minute or two.
But in Saturday's case that left approximately 17,000 customers in the dark. The system could not clear the problem and crews had to physically go to the location to make necessary repairs.
The outage started around 9:06 p.m. Saturday and lasted for more than an hour in some areas. Parts of Evans and LaSalle also went dark.
If you've been noticing an apparent increase in power outages across Weld County, you're not alone.
Aguayo said crews are investigating what, if any, link there is between other power outages from the past several months and Saturday's event.
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Let me state, for the record, that I know nothing about sports.
I don't watch them; I don't follow them. My parents didn't. I never did as a kid. I don't now with my family. Occasionally in the finals of a season, a few names flutter into my consciousness and then, just as quickly, disappear. I'm not proud of this. I watch, rather wistfully, as sports informs the conversations of a wide range of folks, as I watch families and friends gather in living rooms or in bars to scream and shout and be together. I have observed all this, yet I am not part of it, and at a fundamental level, I can't understand:
What is the pull of this thing called sports?It was in this spirit that I approached Roger Director's "I Dream in Blue" (Harper, $24.95), a chronicle of his lifelong obsession with the New York Giants football team and the 2006-2007 season. That I laughed at the many comic moments and was touched by the poignant moments, that I came to understand something of the history and present of the New York Giants, is testament to how good the book is.
Speaking of testaments (what a segue!), Director recounts that the book was prompted by his wife's insistence that he write a will.
"There was a way in which a will was a summarization," Director told me recently over breakfast at Fromin's Deli. "It represented that the best was over, that I was heading back to the clubhouse."
Perhaps a hint of how Director was going to react was apparent when the attorney asked him to name a guardian for his child. Director didn't hesitate for a second:
"Tiki Barber," he said, referring to the Giants' former running back.
Even today, Director still believes he could have eventually convinced Barber, but he could not convince his wife.
So as he was poised to become, in his words, "super-adult," Director decided to reconnect with his "superkid," and spend a season following the New York Giants, a team that has been part of his psyche since the 1956 NFL championship game played in Yankee Stadium, in which the Giants bested the Chicago Bears 47-7 and that he referred to in our conversation as "the native soil" from which all his sports desire grew.
Now would be as good a time as any to reveal that I first met Director many, many moons ago, at a mutual friend's bachelor party. As I recall, Director was trying to talk some of the more inebriated members of the party (it could have been me, but sealed court records prevent me from saying so) off the terrace ledge of a suite at the Morgan Hotel in New York. At that time, Director was a sportswriter, a columnist for the New York Daily News.
By the time I turned up in Los Angeles, Director was deep into a successful career as a TV writer-producer on such programs as "Moonlighting" (which gave him material for his 1996 novel, "A Place to Fall"), "Mad About You," "Arli$$" and "NCIS."
In my estimation, Director is one of the more genial people in Hollywood, but as he faced, in his words, "the burden of late middle-aged disappointment," he found himself falling prey to a whole host of issues: He was, on occasion, screaming at TVs and at people in bars (this was Giants related), and he was suffering from restless-leg syndrome, which was keeping his wife up at night. At the same time, his daughter was growing up, and his wife had returned to graduate school. So he decided to revisit his inner child, or in Director's words: "I got all dressed up to date the Giants again."
Sharing Director's "dream in blue" educated me about Giants lore, past and present. I gained an appreciation for the late owner Wellington Mara, coach Bill Parcells and players such as Andy Robustelli and Frank Gifford -- names that until now, meant little to me (beyond the Kathie Lee reference). Director has a particular soft spot for Robustelli -- a gentleness he ascribes to the player's first name, and the fact that he reminds him in spirit of his father. The scene where Director finally approaches Robustelli at old-timer's day at the Meadowlands is moving and revealing about the mental fortitude that is central to great athletes and so often lacking in mere mortals in general, and overly empathetic writers in particular.
Regarding the 2006-2007 Giants: Director delves into Eli Manning, the quarterback who must suffer the burden of his last name. I also learned that many players are smart, despite what we read in tabloids about their hors concours activities. As Director reiterated to me at breakfast: many are college graduates from good schools, whose attendance of classes one would not want to have to match, and who are compelled for their day job to study, review and retain tremendous amounts of information, even as their bodies receive pounding that few of us could withstand, or even appreciate.
As for Director's man crush on Barber, it continues unabated: "He's a stellar guy. He's an interesting guy because he's a guy with no boundaries in his mind about what he can do. I would not be surprised if Tiki ended up sitting in the Capitol someday."
You heard it here first.
Then there is Tom Coughlin, the Giants' coach, whom Director can't seem to abide. Director rails at Coughlin, whom he sees as a tyrant, unwilling to tailor his approach to best motivate his players. Although he acknowledges that Coughlin "works very hard," Director feels that like getting a great performance out of an actor, "you can't just have one set of rules." But it was more than that. One got the feeling that Coughlin was, in some deep way, an affront to Director's conception of the Giants as a team; an insult, in some way, to the memory of his father -- to the gentleness that Robustelli embodied.
I have a running joke with my wife, where she asks what my column is about this week, and I answer: "You know what it's about -- it's about me." So, too, Director's book is as much about the Giants as it is about him.
Director has made a living writing TV scripts, and given that doing so is generally more lucrative than writing books, or writing for a newspaper, Director will most likely continue to do that for as long as they let him. But I wish that weren't the case.
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County Council lawyer: Beeman attorney missed deadline to appeal removal from office
Erie County Council's lawyer has told the panel that former councilman Ebert Beeman is now out of appeal options.
Beeman's lawyer disagrees.
County Council's solicitor, Tom Talarico, told the panel this week that lawyer Jeffrey J. Del Fuoco missed the Dec. 30 deadline for appealing Erie County President Judge Ernest J. DiSantis Jr.'s Nov. 30 ruling that removed Beeman, 63, from office.
DiSantis' ruling came down roughly four months after Beeman, a registered Republican, was sentenced to a 366-day federal prison term for Social Security fraud.
Del Fuoco, however, filed Beeman's appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday and said he believes the appeal deadline is Sunday, not Dec. 30.
Typically, appeal deadlines are no more than 30 days after the court ruling at issue is handed down.
Talarico said Beeman's appeal needed to be filed before Dec. 31.
Beeman asked Del Fuoco, in a Dec. 17 affidavit sent to Del Fuoco and others via certified mail, to make sure his appeal was filed on time.
Del Fuoco told the Times-News he believes the appeal deadline is Sunday, based on the fact that DiSantis, on Dec. 6, rejected a Del Fuoco motion to dismiss the Nov. 30 ruling that removed Beeman from office.
"I have 30 days from Dec. 6," Del Fuoco said.
Asked about Beeman's Dec. 17 affidavit asking that an appeal be filed quickly, Del Fuoco initially said he did not remember reading or receiving it. Later Friday, Del Fuoco confirmed that he had received it.
"But the bottom line is his appeal was filed (Friday)," Del Fuoco said. "It is done."
Del Fuoco said he expects Daneri to file a motion to quash Beeman's appeal, claiming that it was filed late. Daneri could not be reached for comment.
DiSantis, on Nov. 30, ruled that Beeman's offenses constitute "infamous crimes" that warrant his removal under the Pennsylvania Constitution.
But in the appeal filed on Friday, Del Fuoco claims that only Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania Senate, by a two-thirds vote, can remove Beeman from office.
Daneri has said, in previous interviews, that while an elected official can be removed from office via the governor and state legislators, it is not the only way. Daneri has called DiSantis' removal decision proper.
Erie County Council has moved on without Beeman.
The panel, on Dec. 21, appointed Edward J. DiMattio Jr., of Waterford, to serve the remainder of Beeman's term.
KEVIN FLOWERS can be reached at 870-1693 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNflowers.


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We study organizing principles of mesoscale self-assembly phenomena that lead to creation of artificial
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emergence of various degrees of (liquid crystalline) order as a result of the self-assembly. Examples of current research projects
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Optical Contact-Free Control & Generation of Topological Defects
Defects are responsible for many well-known processes: plastic deformations and fracture in metals are governed by dislocations,
vortices in the atmosphere show up as tornadoes, disclinations in condensed matter can mediate phase transitions, cosmic strings have played an
important role in the early Universe cosmology, etc. Defects in liquid crystals can be obtained in phases with varying degrees of orientational
and positional order and have been routinely used as model systems, for example, in many cosmology in laboratory experiments. We have developed
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singularities in tightly focused laser beams. This new unique experimental capability
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Topologically Nontrivial Active Colloids and Non-Equilibrium Self-Assembly
We combine topology and active matter paradigms in an effort to achieve topology-dictated nonequilibrium self-assembly of
topologically distinct active particles. Active colloids are a distinct category of nonequilibrium matter in which energy uptake, dissipation
and movement take place at the level of discrete microscopic constituents. They are known to provide types of self-assembly not accessible in
traditional condensed matter systems, such as living crystals recently studied by Chaikin, Pine and colleagues. However, only topologically
trivial types of active colloids have been realized in the past (in other words, the used constituent active particles were spherical or
topologically isomorphic to spheres). Our preliminary observations show that the interplay of topologies of surfaces and flow fields generated
by the self-propulsion of active particles can result in highly unusual yet controlled and practically useful forms of self-assembly. To pursue
this research direction, our group recently succeeded with practical realization of such active topological colloids. The research on this system
transcends the traditional disciplines, ranging from mathematics (topological theories), to physics (active particle behavior, self-assembly),
and to chemistry and chemical engineering (material synthesis, photopolymerization, and surface functionalization).
The future project outcomes may potentially impinge on our ability of designing new
nano- and meso-scale materials with properties not encountered in naturally occurring systems.
Sculpturing Nano-Structured Matter by Controlled Self-Assembly
Particles embedded in a liquid crystal can interact with each other via elasticity-mediated forces.
We study how the host mediums intrinsic order translates into the self-organization of immersed inclusions depending
on shapes/sizes of particles, molecular alignment, and used host anisotropic fluids. Controlled molecular alignment
and inter-particle interaction forces are explored for nanocrystals and colloids of complex shapes. The interactions
are strongly anisotropic and structures "mimic" molecular alignment fields. The self-assembly properties can be controlled
by designing surface boundary conditions and particle shapes. We seek to establish general understanding of this emergent
self-assembly behavior, as well as approaches to control structural self-assembly of nano-sized particles, which are
much needed for the development of novel methods of manufacturing tunable optical materials.
Biofilms and Cell-Matrix Interactions in Contexts of Cyanobacteria & Biofuels
Bacteria often live in multicellular communities known as biofilms.
Unlike their planktonic counterparts, bacteria in biofilms are encapsulated in an extracellular matrix,
a complex mixture of macromolecules (including DNA). We use biophotonics and soft matter approaches to
quantitatively explore interactions of cells with the extracellular polymeric matrix in the biofilms.
Our group utilizes holographic laser trapping to manipulate positions and orientations of hundreds of
cells in 3D, measure cell-matrix interaction forces, the strength of binding of bacteria to surfaces,
and many-body interactions between bacteria during the so-called "quorum sensing" and at later stages of
the biofilm formation. This study will advance quantitative understanding of structural organization in
bacterial biofilms and is of both biomedical and technological importance.
Laser-guided Self-Assembly of Dynamically-Controlled Photonic Structures
Our study shows that the self-assembly of photonic liquid crystal structures can be guided by laser beams.
In a topologically frustrated chiral nematic liquid crystal, a focused beam can locally switch between a uniform state and a
long-term-stable localized structure with a distorted solitonic molecular alignment field.
The structures are stable over long time at no external fields, but can also be erased by applying a voltage pulse or reshaped
by a laser beam. Our research group explores the fundamental physics of these phenomena in contexts of applications such as
tunable photonic crystals, singular optics, data storage devices, light/voltage-controlled diffraction gratings, & all-optical information displays.
Particle-like Excitations of Continuous Fields
A wide variety of quantum field and condensed phase phenomena arise as a result of the
existence of particle-like excitations of continuous fields. In a liquid crystal model system, we have
observed distinctive particle-like excitations in molecular orientation patterns that enable a
continuous localized twist in 3D, which we call toron. The basic configuration is a double twist cylinder closed on itself
in the form of a torus and coupled to a surrounding uniform field by a pair of point singularities, so that the topological
charge is conserved. Remarkably, such structure enables significant localized molecular twist in all directions and can be
incorporated into a uniform field. Numerical calculations show that this structure can be a ground state for confined chiral
nematics. We also recently demonstrated that the torons are topologically equivalent to the much-storied Hopf fibration and that
each toron can be transformed to it by annihilating topological point defects with each other. We continue to explore the stability,
structural diversity, and possible new condensed matter phases formed by these and other building blocks with topological singularities.
Self-Assembly of Organic Liquid Crystalline Semiconductors
Organic photovoltaic devices are poised to fill the low-cost niche in the solar cell market and
have a potential option of being produced in the form of flexible films. However, power conversion efficiencies for
organic materials remain low (~8%). In collaboration with NREL, we employ self-organization of
organic molecules into ordered columnar discotic and lamellar phases in the effort to improve charge carrier
mobility and efficiency of the organic PVs. This becomes possible only now, after recent advances in understanding of
fundamental phenomena in organic photovoltaic materials and those associated with self-assembled structures of
molecular alignment in nano-confined liquid crystals.
Knotted Fields
Since the origins of the mathematical knot theory, development of which was prompted by
early attempts of understanding structure of atoms, knotted fields and vortices arise in superstring and
quantum field theories, quantum chromodynamics, plasmas, cosmology, elementary particles, and other systems.
Their complex structures can be predicted from solutions of nonlinear field equations, but are rarely accessible
to direct experimental visualization. On the other hand, colloids and liquid crystals offer complexity in degrees
of freedom and symmetries that allow for probing analogous phenomena on completely different scales, such as kinetics
of atoms in glasses and cosmic strings in the early Universe. To extend these possibilities, our group developes nematic colloids
with mutually tangled physical knots of particles and molecular orientation fields. The interplay of topologies of surfaces, fields,
and defects guides the molecular orientation field to comply with the knotted particle shape, generating knotted, linked, and other
three-dimensional configurations that match theoretical predictions and may allow for insights into many topologically analogous phenomena
in other branches of physics. Ranging from scales of elementary particles to cosmology, there are few theoretical predictions of knotted
field configurations that can be tested by experiments, which is due to the lack of experimentally accessible systems and techniques.
Our model system of knotted nematic colloids for probing of a potentially scale-invariant interplay of topologies of knotted surfaces,
fields, and defects. Similar to probing the cosmological Kibble mechanism using LC phase transitions and melting of atomic crystals
with colloids, this model system may enable new cosmology- and particle-physics-relevant experiments in laboratory as well as topological
soft matter arising from the directed mesoscale self-organization of knotted colloidal atoms driven by topological relations.
Topological Colloids and Liquid Crystals under Topological Surface Confinement
Being abundant in nature, colloids find increasingly important applications in science and technology,
ranging from direct probing of kinetics in crystals and glasses to fabrication of third-generation quantum-dot solar cells.
Since naturally occurring colloidal particles have shapes that are typically determined by minimization of interfacial tension
(e.g. during phase separation) or facetted crystal growth, their surfaces tend to have minimum-area spherical or topologically
equivalent shapes such as prisms and irregular grains (all continuously deformable homeomorphic to spheres). Our research
group fabricates and studies colloidal particles with different numbers of handles and genus g. When introduced into a
nematic liquid crystal, these particles induce three-dimensional director fields and topological defects dictated by colloidal topology.
While electric fields, photothermal melting, and laser tweezing cause transformations among configurations of particle-induced structures,
three-dimensional nonlinear optical imaging reveals that topological charge is conserved and that the total hedgehog charge of
particle-induced defects obeys predictions of the Gauss-Bonnet and Poincaré-Hopf index theorems. This allowed us
to establish and experimentally test the procedure for assignment and summation of topological charges in three-dimensional
director fields. These direction may lay the groundwork for new applications of colloids and liquid crystals that range from
topological memory devices, to new types of self-assembly, to the experimental study of low-dimensional topology.
Nanostructured Self-Assembly and Controlled Alignment of Anisotropic Nanoparticles in Complex Fluids
Self-assembly of nano-sized functional units is an exceptionally promising way of designing
inexpensive artificial composite materials with new macroscopic physical behavior and properties.
The main objective of this project (funded by the DOE) is to explore self-organization of anisotropic nanoparticles
into colloidal composites with tunable ordered structures. The research is focusing on understanding and control
of self-assembly of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles, as well as on material behavior arising from their
ordered self-organization and alignment. Fundamental studies of shape-dependent colloidal interactions and ordering
of quantum dots and plasmonic metal nanoparticles will reveal underpinning physical mechanisms that guide mesoscale
morphology and ultimately determine material properties of the self-assembled composites. These properties are characterized
and correlated with hierarchical structures and composition. Control of the particle and molecular structural organization,
along with the ensuing composite properties, is achieved by using intrinsic assembly and re-alignment into various mesomorphic
phases, applying electric, magnetic, mechanical, and optical fields, as well as changing surface treatment at the nanostructured
solid and liquid crystal interfaces. Analytical and numerical modeling of colloidal interactions and material properties will
provide important insights at different stages of this project. This research may enable new, cheaper, and more efficient renewable
energy technologies, a new breed of energy-efficient information displays and consumer devices, as well as a fertile ground for new basic science.
Advancing Insulation Retrofits from Flexible Inexpensive Lucid Materials (AIR FILMs) for Single-Pane Windows
We are developing a flexible, transparent window film that can be applied onto single-pane windows.
Our approach for thermal barrier is based on liquid crystalline phases of nano-cellulose aerogel that have low-emissivity properties,
which will help prevent heat loss through windows. We plan to produce the thermal barrier using low-cost cellulose nanorods synthesized from food industry waste.
We aim to produce a film that the consumer can easily apply, which could decrease costs by eliminating professional installation labor expenses.
Soft Condensed Matter Research
Liquid crystals and colloids
Our research is focused on finding new liquid
crystal phases and structures and new types of colloidal and molecular
interactions with the goal of developing novel materials for
technological applications of importaance for the society (such as
information displays).
Optics &
Photonics Research
Adaptive light & matter
We are interested in novel physics phenomena and
technical approaches that allow for optical control of properties and
structural organization in ordered soft materials as well as in the use
of soft materials such as liquid crystals to control light.
& Nanotechnology Research
Nano-structured materials &
nano-scale phenomena for metamaterials assembly
Our focused effort is to understand organization
of nano-structured materials & nano-scale phenomena (such as
interactions between nanoparticles) with the goal of finding novel
approaches for optical metamaterials self-assembly
Biophysics and
Biomolecular Materials Research
Physics of biomolecular assembly &
biological cells
We study the physics phenomena behind
biomolecular assembly & interactions between cells. For example,
the image to the right shows a nematic-like ordering of rod-shaped
bacteria in the extracellular polymeric matrix of DNA.
Energy Research
Soft Condensed Matter Physics &
Nanoscience for Renewable Energy
We develop novel organic photovoltaic solar cells
and light-harvesting approaches utilizing nanostructured soft materials
such as smectic and columnar discotic liquid crystals that are doped
with nanoparticles or infiltrated into nanostructured materials.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - News broke late Monday night indicating running back Silas Redd is considering transferring to USC, and that the school has notified Penn State that it is recruiting the standout junior.
All day Monday, questions surfaced about how many Nittany Lion players would take the NCAA up on its offer of being able to transfer to another school and play immediately. The first hint of that didn't come until about 10:30 p.m. Monday when ESPN's Joe Schad reported the news about Redd.
Just like it did when SMU received the death penalty in 1987, the NCAA stipulated in Penn State's punishment that all football players could transfer to a Division I school and be eligible to play without sitting out the customary one year.
Redd was asked by reporters upon leaving a team meeting Monday morning if he was planning to stay at Penn State. Like every other player leaving the meeting, Redd remained silent as he stared straight ahead while walking to his car.
He is expected to attend Big Ten media days later this week in Chicago, where he can address the transfer speculation.
Even the most talkative PSU players, such as Matt McGloin, remained quiet after meeting with coach Bill O'Brien in the Lasch Building on Monday. Several were asked if they were told not to speak, but none answered.
Senior linebacker Michael Mauti looked mad, with anger dripping from his face as he exited the Lasch Building about an hour after the NCAA handed down its severe sanctions.
There's good reason for Mauti's anger, along with every other current Penn State player.
These players, innocent bystanders in the Jerry Sandusky scandal, went through incredible adversity at the end of last season, and Monday most of them learned of one disappointing reality: They will never be able to play in another bowl game as members of the Nittany Lions.
There perhaps could be a redshirt player who lasts beyond the four-year bowl ban, but given severe scholarship reductions, it could be several years after that before PSU returns to a bowl game.
There once was a lengthy period of time when every recruiting class of Joe Paterno's could boast of having one undefeated season or a chance to play for a championship. Now, there could be multiple recruiting classes that never even get a chance to play in a bowl game.
O'Brien did not speak to the media following the team meeting, but he undoubtedly spent time talking to his players about the positives of remaining at Penn State.
"Today we receive a very harsh penalty from the NCAA and as head coach of the Nittany Lions football program, I will do everything in my power to not only comply, but help guide the university forward to become a national leader in ethics, compliance and operational excellence," O'Brien said in a university statement.
The first-year coach, who has a five-year contract worth $2.3 million per season, then went on to address his future at PSU.
"I knew when I accepted the position that there would be tough times ahead," he said in the statement. "But I am committed for the long term to Penn State and our student athletes."
Whether Redd or other current players will remain committed to Penn State is unknown. There's not only the immediate-eligibility incentive for them to leave, there's also the incentive for other schools to swoop in and try to lure top players who can help their program immediately.
The NCAA is allowing for a smooth transfer in every way, should the players choose to leave Penn State. Even if other schools already are at their limit of 85 scholarships for this season, the NCAA will allow PSU transfers to go there, as long as that school reduces its scholarship total the following year.
Penn State players can even transfer to another Big Ten school without that program suffering any penalties.
How many, if any, players will bolt from Penn State with the season just six weeks away is anyone's guess. But if an integral, high-profile player like Redd were to leave, that could lead other key players to make the same decision.
Redd rushed for 1,241 yards and seven TDs last season as a sophomore and would be expected to make an immediate impact if he were to transfer to USC. Losing him would be a big blow for the Lions, since the second-string tailback is Bill Belton, a converted receiver.


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Hi people, this is a rant ill warn u in advance. Lately i have been hearing about people complaining wiis graphics. I was reading egm and they had their revieew of resident evil 4 on wii. they said that the graphics no longer impress after seeing games in hi def for 2 years. also in the same magazine, in the review of smg, they said that it wouldnt hurt if wii was a bit more powerful. the graphics are good but not excellent. also in a thread posted by zapsant93, someone from ngamer reviews brawl and doesnt like wii in general. u would think that wii owners would know that the graphics are not on par with 360 and ps3 after hearing about it for a year and a half. They think they are being subtle in mocking wiis graphics but we know. So my point is that we know that wiis graphics are not good. no need to keep reminding us. if us wii owners have no problem with it, why should u? if u want hd graphics, pick up a 360 or ps3, leave us alone.
'nuff said
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Yes, the game critics need to get that through their thick heads.....along with people who chose 360 or PS3 over Wii.
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true i hate when they do the if only it was on 360 it would look much better crap.
It's the deffensive "videophile" gamer. These so called "hardcore graphics" gamers that want there systems specs to be top each year.
Just poor sports because there system is loosing to a more "popish" system on the sales end.
It was the same way for the IPod, sure there are better MP3 players on the market, they have more features,memory,larger screen ect. ect. but people still picked up the user friendly simple IPod over and over again making it number one.
Now its happening in the Video Game Console world and they are just being deffensive. There is no reason to be in my opinion, all the consoles do excellent in one way or another and they all are selling more than enough that they will still be around for another generation, so there is nothing to be deffensive or scared about. Im geeked about all the competition this round its only good for the gamers when the consoles have to fight this much to be "cutting edge" we get the most for our dollar when things get flipped upside down and more people join the gaming community!
Not to mention the fact that RE4 is a hastily-done port and doesn't even take full-advantage of the Wii's graphics hardware.
Originally Posted by Napalmbrain (Moderator)Originally Posted by FR. (Moderator)
Most of the people complaining about Wii graphics (in this forum) are either random new Wii owners or people who seem to be getting tired of their system while seeing all these gameplay trailers and screenshots of 360/PS3 games and are envious.
I think Wii graphics are fine, I think RE4, SMG, MP3, Zelda:TP, Godfather, etc. all look fine even after playing my 360 alot. As long as everything doesn't feel all dark and cloudy to where it feels like I can't tell whats going on then its fine.
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Graphics by themselves do not make a game great. I've played some really good games that have weak graphics and I've also played games with stunning graphics and weak gameplay. Graphics do add to a game's appeal but I wouldn't buy a game just because it looks amazing.
Nintendo took a risk when creating the Wii, the system could have flopped. Instead of dropping money into the video cards, they looked into new technology to make games more enjoyable for all types of gamers, not just the hardcore gamer niche. Now that they know they have something that will survive the technological market, the next attempt will have better visual specs as well as online capabilities.
As the original poster said, if you want stunning hd graphics, pick up a 360 or ps3. And I'll also add, if you want fun and intuitive gameplay, pick up any system and try the games before you buy.
I like that... Most people will try to act like the Wii is the only one thats fun and 360/PS3 have bad gameplay simply because graphics.Originally Posted by Thor's Hammer
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100% agreed! I have to admit, I am a graphics whore. But I already know the Wii does not have the hardware to output good graphics. What made me get the Wii is it's controls, not it's graphics. To satisfy my graphics, I have a great PC so it goes hand in hand with my Wii.


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DeLand, Fla. - The Stetson men's golf team opened its 2011 spring season with two days of Ryder Cup-style competition against Army Saturday-Sunday at Victoria Hills Golf Club in Deland, narrowly falling 6.5 points to 5.5 points to the Black Knights. Senior Gabe Costa (Tequesta, Fla.) and junior Sam Ryder (Longwood, Fla.) won both of their matches the last two days for the Hatters.
Costa and Ryder teamed up for a dominating 5 & 4 win in Saturday's best-ball format over Army's Ethan Johnson and Matt Krembel; in Sunday's singles play they defeated Michael Zierdt and Matt Philie, respectively. Stetson had a 3-1 lead over Army after Saturday's best ball matches but the Black Knights would come back for the overall victory with 5.5 points in the first six singles matches on Sunday.
Stetson is off until February 28, when it starts traditional tournament play at the Charleston (S.C.) Shootout. The tournament runs through March 1.
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Content WindowInternational Monetary Agreements Amendment (Loans) Bill 2012
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
As passed by both Houses
International Monetary Agreements Amendment (Loans) Bill 2012
No. , 2012
A Bill for an Act to amend the International Monetary Agreements Act 1947 , and for related purposes
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 3
Schedule 1—International Monetary Agreements Act 1947 4
Part 1—Amendments commencing on or after 17 November 2012 4
Part 2—Amendments with later contingent commencement 6
A Bill for an Act to amend the International Monetary Agreements Act 1947 , and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the International Monetary Agreements Amendment (Loans) Act 2012 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1, Part 1
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(a) 17 November 2012; and
(b) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3. Schedule 1, Part 2
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(a) immediately after the commencement of the provision(s) covered by table item 2; and
(b) the start of the day the changes in credit arrangements made by paragraph 1 of Decision No. 15073-(12/1), dated 21 December 2011, of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund become effective for Australia.
However, the provision(s) do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.
The Minister must announce by notice in the Gazette the day the changes in credit arrangements become effective for Australia.
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Kelly Dwyer of BDL: "'Dependable' might be a curious choice of words for a player that missed out on the last nine games of his team's 2013 playoff run, someone that is coming off of a significant meniscus tear (a scary injury that sees you back on the court quicker than ACL tear sufferers, but one that leaves you far more prone to reoccurring knee wear and tear). We use the word not because, prior to Patrick Beverley's feint, Westbrook had not missed a single game due to injury dating back to his high school years, but because (more than ever) his Oklahoma City Thunder will be relying on Westbrook's All-NBA-level production to chase after that elusive NBA championship. They're going to badly depend on it, as the West gets deeper and tougher. It's a strange word to use for someone that is known as much for his 4-15 nights from the field as he is all-around brilliance, but this is where the Thunder are at now. James Harden and Kevin Martin are gone, with only increased usage from Westbrook and Kevin Durant to take their place (unless you think second year guard Jeremy Lamb is ready for his close up), and Oklahoma City's chances rest on Westbrook returning to becoming a high-efficiency, high-scoring, high-energy playmaker. Coming off the first real (and major) injury of his playing career, can Westbrook handle it? Depends."
KD took some heat for the way his Redskins performed last night. First, Russell Westbrook, then KD responded, then Serge Ibaka, and then the capper with LeBron: "Can somebody please check on @KDTrey5. He may be heading to the ledge! Hahahaha."
Chad Ford's ridiculously early mock: "Oklahoma City is the rare team loaded with both veteran talent and interesting young players at virtually every position. They don't really need anything right now, making Micic an attractive option. Micic was terrific in the U-19s this summer and proved he could hang with some of the top collegians on Team USA. He might be the headiest point guard in the draft and could be a nice long-term fit in OKC."
KD and Seymour Hoffman star in a weird YouTube video.
Nets Daily is already off and running with KD's 2016 free agency: "Could the Nets owner be talking about KD? Again, do the Nets play in Brooklyn? Of course, he is. Note as well the Prokhorov said "two years from now," as in 2015, not 2016. If all goes well, the Nets should be under the luxury tax threshold and be able to complete sign-and-trades, as well as sign players to the MLE and BAE. They will have flexibility. Anyone think stars don't notice what the Nets have done this summer, showing a willingness to spend, spend, spend? Pundits may shake their heads, but fans and players notice, particularly when their own billionaire owner is trying to do all he can to avoid the luxury tax."


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Could you pull off the perfect crime?
The new ABC reality series "Take the Money and Run" asks that very question.
Offering two civilians a chance to win $100,000 in cash, they're asked to take a briefcase filled with the prize money and hide it within an hour.
If the money is still in their hiding place 48 hours later, it's theirs.
The catch is trained detectives are on the case and in pursuit of the briefcase.
And if they find it, they get to keep it.
A team of interrogators are also involved and work with the detectives to try to lead the contestants into confession.
After being given one hour to hide the money, the contestants are taken into custody and placed into holding cells while the detectives start the investigation.
They even go as far as to force them into an orange jumpsuit.
With so many series in which the criminals are seen as the bad guy, "Take the Money and Run" offers a new perspective.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, best known for his work on "CSI" and "The Amazing Race", I expected the episode to be a mindboggling game of cat and mouse.
In the premiere episode, which aired on Tuesday, August 2, brothers Raul and Paul were offered the opportunity to try to outsmart detectives Cliff Cook and Dean Taylor.
Despite my respect for law enforcement officers, I found myself rooting for the contestants.
Raul, the more athletic and alpha brother, took the reins on where to stash the money while Paul, in tow with the briefcase, waddled behind.
After finding a dead end with their first idea of hiding it at a restaurant, the brothers decided to bury the case in San Francisco's Lafayette Park.
With the intentions of leading the detectives on a time-consuming goose chase, they phoned up two friends and their brother, Robert, as accomplices.
All seemed to be going smoothly for the brothers until Paul began to crack.
After being told "Do you want to go home? If you tell us where the money is, you can go home in 20 minutes" by one of the interrogators, Paul blubbered back a yes.
Soon enough, he was confessing everything.
"I would tell you where it was exactly but I don't remember," he said once he had given away the coordinates in the park to the best of his ability.
Although the chase started strong, and the brothers tried to dupe the detectives and interrogators to the best of their ability, Cliff and Dean located the briefcase with plenty of time to spare thanks to Paul's confession.
The brothers had good ideas to involve accomplices to throw the detectives off their trails but their accomplices didn't hold their own.
One accomplice smugly tried to talk the detectives in circles before they gave up, and another awkwardly stood in his doorway while answering questions.
After Paul voiced his frustration with himself for giving up, he was comforted by the interrogators who compared him to hardened criminals releasing their confessions.
Their comparison was if true criminals cracked and gave confessions, Paul wasn't a bad son or brother for spilling the beans as he said he was.
In the preview for next week, the contestants looked a little more resilient than the Bustamante brothers so here's hoping they don't crack like an eggshell.
As the episode ended, it left the audience with two questions.
Who would you trust as an accomplice and where would you hide a briefcase with $100,000?


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UNISDR Announces Online Dialogue for Post-2015 DRR Framework
14 August 2012: The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) has announced that it will convene an online dialogue on a post-2015 Framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR). The dialogue will take place from 27 August - 30 November 2012, and will form the first round of a series of online consultations in the lead up to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, scheduled to take place in 2015, in Japan.
To inform the dialogue, UNISDR has released a ten-page background paper, titled "Towards a Post-2015 Framework on DRR," which outlines the trends and progress in DRR. It also identifies ongoing and future challenges, and explains the process of national, regional and stakeholder consultations.
The paper underscores the need to fully internalize the various practical links among disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and sustainable development in disaster risk management initiatives. It further stresses that guidance exists in some areas including: risk assessments with a view to eventually arriving at a common definition of disaster and risk; integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management; working at national and local levels; and vulnerability of communities to the impact of hazards. [Publication: Towards a Post-2015 Framework for DRR] [Towards a Post-2015 Framework for DRR Website]


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Men's Basketball Hosts Eastern Michigan Wednesday
The Ball State men's basketball team plays host to the top defense in the Mid-American Conference when Eastern Michigan visits Worthen Arena for a 7 p.m. tipoff Wednesday.
The game will be televised by Ball State Sports Link and will air on Comcast Indiana (channel 81) and Comcast Michigan.
Ball State (4-17, 1-9 MAC) and Eastern Michigan (13-10, 5-5 MAC) split two meetings last season. The Eagles enter Wednesday's matchup first in the league in a number of categories, including scoring defense and field goal percentage defense.
Game Information
Ball State vs. Eastern Michigan
Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. ET -- Worthen Arena (Muncie, Ind.)
Live Coverage
• Television: Ball State Sports Link (live on Comcast Indiana 81 and Comcast Michigan); Play-by-play: Luke Martin; Analyst: Torey Fox; Sidelines: Connor Onion
• Radio (Flagship): Ball State Radio Network (104.1 FM WLBC); Joel Godett (play-by-play); David Eha (analyst)
• Radio (Student): Sports Link Radio (91.3 FM WCRD); Sean Stewart (play-by-play) & Petar Hood (analyst)
• Internet: Live video and audio available through the Ball State All Access package at ballstatesports.com; Live stats also available.
What You Need to Know
• Ball State continues its three-game home stand Wednesday against Eastern Michigan in the first of two meetings between the teams in the next month.
• The Cardinals are coming off an 80-73 loss to MAC leader Toledo in a game that was within a single possession in the final minute.
• Ball State has been balanced offensively with four players averaging 9.8 points per game or better: freshman Zavier Turner (12.4 ppg) and seniors Chris Bond (11.9), Majok Majok (11.2) and Jesse Berry (9.8).
• Majok owns eight double-doubles on the season and is one of 16 players nationally averaging a double-double at 11.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. His rebounding average ranks 18th in the country.
• Turner has moved into 10th place on Ball State's all-time freshman scoring list with 260 points this year.
• Freshmen have accounted for better than 40 percent of Ball State's minutes and scoring, and the Cardinals have started three rookies for much of the year.
• Ken Pomeroy rates Ball State's non-conference schedule No. 37 in the country and its overall schedule No. 68. The Cardinals have played only four teams all season outside the Pomeroy top 200.
• Ball State is playing its 93rd season of basketball and its first under head coach James Whitford.
Scouting Eastern Michigan
• Eastern Michigan (13-10, 5-5 MAC) enters play Wednesday third in the MAC West Division.
• All five of the Eagles' league losses have come against teams contending in the MAC East: Akron (twice), Ohio, Buffalo and Miami University. Three of those losses came by four points or fewer.
• Eastern Michigan comes to Muncie fresh off a 70-53 win over Kent State.
• Junior college transfer Karrington Ward leads the Eagles with 13.0 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, while Glenn Bryant (10.5) and Raven Lee (10.3) are also averaging double-figure scoring.
• Eastern Michigan tops the MAC team statistics in scoring defense (62.8 ppg), field goal percentage defense (.371), blocks per game (5.9) and steals per game (8.6).
• The Eagles played a challenging non-conference schedule that included games against Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky, UMass and Purdue.
The Series with Eastern Michigan
• Ball State and Eastern Michigan will be meeting for the 94th time with the Cardinals leading 54-39 in the all-time series.
• Ball State is 23-17 against the Eagles in Muncie and 11-9 inside Worthen Arena, although Eastern Michigan has won four of its past five road games in the series.
• The teams split their two contests last year with Ball State winning 60-58 in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Jan. 9, 2013) and Eastern Michigan claiming a 56-50 victory in Muncie (Feb. 16, 2013).
• Wednesday's meeting is the first of two this season between the MAC West Division rivals. They will meet again at Eastern Michigan on March 4.
Schedule Strength
• Ball State's non-conference strength of schedule is ranked No. 37 in the country by Ken Pomeroy, while its overall SOS is No. 68.
• The Cardinals have played only four teams all year rated outside Pomeroy's top 200.
Home and Away
• Ball State has posted a 4-6 record at home this year but is still in search of its first road victory.
• The Cardinals' shooting numbers have been virtually the same no matter where they play -- 40.0 percent at home and 39.7 percent on the road.
• The biggest difference has come on the defensive end of the floor, where Ball State is allowing opponents to shoot 50.2 percent overall and 39.8 percent from 3-point range on the road.
• At home, the Cardinals are holding opponents to 42.1 percent shooting and 24.8 percent from beyond the arc.
Cardinals Excel on the Boards
• One of Ball State's biggest strengths this season has been rebounding.
• The Cardinals own a +3.3 average rebounding margin for the season, which ranks third in the MAC behind only Toledo (+4.9) and Northern Illinois (+3.6).
• In league play, Ball State has a +2.4 average rebounding margin, which also ranks third in the conference.
• The Cardinals have outrebounded all but three of their MAC opponents: Western Michigan (36-34) on Jan. 26, Akron (34-28) on Jan. 29 and Buffalo (37-33) on Feb. 5.
• Saturday Ball State held a 39-33 advantage against Toledo, which leads the league in rebounding margin.
Turnovers Telling the Story
• Ball State has been prone to high turnover numbers this season.
• The Cardinals are turning the ball over more than any team in the MAC at 17.0 per game.
• Ball State has held its turnovers to 13.5 per game in its wins compared to 17.8 in its losses.
• The Cardinals turned it over a season-low 10 times in the Jan. 3 victory over Oakland City and a season-worst 23 times in the Dec. 17 loss at Marquette.
Finding Lineup Consistency
• Ball State used a different lineup for the first time in 11 games Saturday against Toledo when Jesse Berry started at the No. 2 guard instead of Mark Alstork.
• The Cardinals utilized six different lineups in the first 10 games of the season but then settled on the same one for 10 in a row. During that stretch, they started three freshmen -- guards Zavier Turner and Alstork and forward Franko House -- along with two seniors -- forward Chris Bond and center Majok Majok.
• Bond has started all 21 games this season, while Turner and Majok have each made 20 starts.
Bond Having His Best Season Yet
• Senior forward Chris Bond is averaging a career-high 11.9 points per game in his final season for the Cardinals.
• Bond has reached double figures in 11 of the past 13 games and averaging 13.0 points per game over that stretch.
• He scored a career-high 20 points earlier this year against Southeast Missouri and has reached 16 points in six games.
Ball State's Iron Man
• Senior forward Chris Bond has made 52 consecutive starts dating back to the last game of the 2011-12 season.
• Bond is the only Ball State player to start every game this season and was one of only two (Jauwan Scaife) to start all 30 a year ago.
• He has started 90 games in his career, including all 79 in which he has played over the past three seasons.
Bond Keeping Good Company
• Chris Bond now owns career totals of 935 points, 547 rebounds and 142 steals.
• In surpassing 500 career rebounds Jan. 15 at Ohio, Bond became only the second player in Ball State history with at least 800 points, 500 rebounds and 125 steals in a career.
• Bonzi Wells (1994-98) is the other. He ended his career with 2,485 points, 843 rebounds and 347 steals.
Majok One of the Nation's Best on the Boards
• Senior center Majok Majok ranks 18th nationally in rebounding at 10.0 boards per game. Only Buffalo's Javon McCrea (10.2) averages more among MAC players.
• Majok owns 14 double-digit rebounding games this season, including a career-best 18-rebound effort Jan. 3 against Oakland City.
• Majok led the MAC last year and ranked 18th nationally at 9.8 rebounds per game.
Majok Majok's Double-Doubles
• Majok Majok is one of 16 players in the country averaging a double-double at 11.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.
• The last Cardinal to average a double-double in a season was Theron Smith, who tallied 19.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in 2001-02.
• Majok owns eight double-doubles on the year and 17 for his two-year Ball State career.
• With 25 points and 18 rebounds in the non-conference finale versus Oakland City, Majok became the first Ball State player with at least 20 points and 15 rebounds in a game since Terrance Chapman did it in a January 2005 game at Eastern Michigan.
• For his two-year Ball State career, Majok is averaging 10.9 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
Berry Nearing 3-Point Record
• Jesse Berry is closing in on the school record for career 3-pointers. He ranks third all-time with 196 makes and already owns the school record with 588 career 3-point attempts.
• Former Ball State teammate Jauwan Scaife set the school record for 3-pointers last year, finishing his career with 203 treys. Patrick Jackson (1998-2002) is second with 202.
• Berry matched his career-high earlier this season with six 3-pointers Dec. 30 at James Madison.
Berry Reaches 1,000
• Jesse Berry surpassed 1,000 points for his career Nov. 30 at Cleveland State. He now owns 1,117 career points, the most of any current Ball State player.
• Berry is the 27th member of Ball State's 1,000-point club. Former teammate Jauwan Scaife, now a graduate student manager, became the 26th member last season.
Turner from Beyond the Arc
• Zavier Turner ranks second in the MAC in 3-point percentage (.421) and third in the league in 3-pointers per game (2.1).
• Turner has hit at least three 3-pointers in nine of the Cardinals' 21 games, including a career-high four against Marquette and Miami.
More Turner Rankings
• Zavier Turner also ranks in the top 20 in the MAC in minutes per game (32.2, 6th), assists per game (3.2, 7th) and points per game (12.4, 18th).
• He leads MAC freshmen in each of those categories (including the ones in the previous note).
Historical View of Turner's Numbers
• Zavier Turner is climbing Ball State's all-time chart for scoring by a freshman. He ranks 10th on the list with 260 points and is 15 points shy of Duane Clemens (1996-97) for ninth.
• Turner, who leads Ball State with 12.4 points per game, has reached double figures a team-high 15 times this season.
• Earlier this season, Turner became the first Cardinal with at least 17 points and at least four assists in the first three games of a season since Larry Bullington in 1973-74 and just the second to accomplish the feat since Ball State began tracking assists in 1973.
• He became the first Ball State freshman with at least 17 points in the first three games of a season since Jim Fields in 1975-76 and just the second since freshmen became eligible for varsity competition in 1972.
Alstork's Big Night at Kent State
• Jan. 11 at Kent State, freshman guard Mark Alstork became the first player since 2008 to lead Ball State in points, rebounds and assists in a game. Alstork finished with career highs of 15 points and 10 rebounds and matched his career best with five assists.
• The last Ball State player to accomplish the feat was Peyton Stovall on Jan. 16, 2008 against Western Michigan. Stovall led the team with 18 points and tied for team-high honors with seven boards and one assist.
Youth and Experience
• Ball State's lineup this season is heavy on both experience and youth.
• There are only two scholarship players on the Cardinals' roster outside the freshman and senior classes, so those two classes account for the majority of the minutes on the floor.
• Ball State's freshmen have stepped in to make an immediate impact, accounting for more than 40 percent of the team's minutes and scoring.
Persistent Crowder Gets His Chance
• Ball State walk-on senior guard Kindon Crowder has seen action in 10 games, including nine of the past 14. He played a season-high 14 minutes off the bench Feb. 18 versus Miami.
• Crowder is a former team manager for the Cardinals who first earned a roster spot as a practice player a year ago.
• He played high school basketball his freshman year at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago but did not play his final three seasons at Munster High School in Indiana.