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CLEMSON The records keep falling for Clemson.
With the their 45-10 win over Maryland today, the Tigers set a program record with their 12th consecutive home win. Clemson also had won 11 straight games from 1989-1991. Clemson scored 35 points in the first half for the third straight game, a first in the 116-year history of the program. And only 12 seconds elapsed between Clemsons first two scores of the game an Adam Humphries touchdown catch and Corey Crawford fumble return the shortest amount of time between scores in program history.
No. 10 Clemson (9-1, 6-1 ACC) so easily handled Maryland (4-6, 2-4) that disinterested fans were taking part in the wave early in the second quarter.
Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd played only two-and-half quarters but was able to complete 18 of 26 throws for 261 yard and three touchdowns.
DeAndre Hopkins caught four passes for 59 yards including his 14th touchdown catch of the season, extending his single-season program record.
Perhaps the only concern for Clemson was that star receiver Sammy Watkins injured his lower right leg in the first half and did not play in the second half.
Watkins was seen walking the sidelines in street clothes in the second half, without the aid of a walking boot or crutches. Clemsons radio sideline reporter said the injury was not considered serious.
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Below is our complete Putrified news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Putrified Releasing New EP
As previously announced, the Swedes from Putrified are working on a new EP for a release through Unholy Prophecies later this year. This will mark Putrified's first EP as a full lineup band.
Putrified has now revealed the titled will be "The Flesh. The Scythe. The Tomb." On side A of the EP will be two exclusive new studio songs, while side B will host two shorter instrumental interludes and two cover songs – "Devils Whorehouse" (Misfits) and "Morbid Tales" (Celctic Frost).
The band will record in its own studio and utilize the services of Oskar Solvik of Endarker Studio for mix and mastering duties as proved successful with the "Sacrilegious Purification" mini-album. Cover art will be done by Brian VDP. Stay tuned for more details.
Putrified Announces New Album
Sweden's Putrified has checked in with the following update about releasing a new full-length album this year:
"A new year is upon us and with that comes a lot of announcements, so I figured we might do one as well. We hereby announce the upcoming Purified full-length album for 2014, entitled 'Death Darkness Decay.'
"This is by far our most ambitious work up to date, which will be quite obvious once it's released. Built upon the foundation of last years rebirth 'Sacrilegious Purification,' a new temple has been erected reaching for new heights.
"This is not just a simple record, it's a whole lot more. N.Sadist (Patronymicon) & H.Sulphur (Patronymicon & Sordid Flesh) are among those who are contributing with vocals to the album. Which means that this will be Putrified's most dynamic work, thus far.
"More information will come in due time..."
Putrified Reveals "Sacrilegious Purification" Info
Sweden's Putrified will release the new mini-album "Sacrilegious Purification" on October 15th via Hellthrasher Productions. The following press release was issued about the coming EP:
"The follow-up to last year's 'Neurotic Necrotic' consists of 6 brand new tracks, combining raw death metal in the vein of the band's previous records with a bit of dense yet uplifting black metal, dealing with the themes of sacrifice, faith, spiritual death and the struggle of salvation through our flesh. The material was entirely written, performed and recorded by A.Death (Infuneral) and mixed / mastered by Oskar and Devo (Marduk) at Endarker Studio."
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Sweden's Putrified is gearing up for the release of "Sacrilegious Purification" via Hellthrasher Productions. Now you can check out several tracks from the pending release.
"Sacrificial Death Salvation" can be heard at Metalrecusants.com here, or you can check out two other tracks from the release in the player below. The track listing is as follows:
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Boy Scout Donation Letter
Boy Scouts of America is a group of school going students or youths. These Boy Scout groups train the enrolled students in various fields. They are trained on all extra curricular activities. Physical fitness, trekking, social service, etc. all are undertaken in Boy Scout sessions. The scouts have to clear various examinations and undertake some projects for clearing the scout course. For the projects they, need donations and they get donations by writing Boy Scout donation letters.
The boy scouts take up various projects like- tree plantation, etc. For such projects they need financial resources and raise the same by requesting for donations.
I have written a sample of Boy Scout donation request letters below. This will help you to draft a donation request letter for your project.
Sample Boy Scout donation letter
James Joy
London Boy Scout
London- 88102
Ph: 55566677788
Email: email@example.com
Mr. David Hudson
Food on Wheels
London- 88105
Dear Mr. Hudson,
I am James Joy and I got your reference from our Scout teacher, Mr. Mark. I have undertaken a project as a part of our Boy Scout curriculum.
My team and I have chosen the abandoned park behind the London Library as a part of our scout project. This is not a government owned park. It belongs to Mr. Charlie, who had a passion for gardening. Mr. Charlie stayed here in a small cottage in the garden, and looked after this park. He died four years back. Since then the park is abandoned. The park was maintained until he was alive. This park was open to all, and people used to enjoy their morning and evening walks, children played here, and it also provided a good view from the London Library window.
We have decided to revamp this park. Plants new trees, install some slides and swings and make a proper jogging track, and Mr. Mark told us that you have always supported such projects wholeheartedly. I have listed down the requirements for the project.
Requirements of the project are as follows:
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|2. Matte finish tiles (2X2)
|3. Cement
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|5. Benches
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Please contribute towards this project. You can either provide a monetary contribution or something from the goods mentioned above.
This park once revamped will facilitate around 400 people living in the vicinity. Besides, the visitors coming to London Library will also get a good view. The trees will provide a refreshing and soothing environment.
This effort will help the citizens in the vicinity enjoy their morning walks and live a healthy life.
Please help us to complete our project successfully.
Thank you.
Yours Faithfully,
James Joy
In this way, you can draft a Boy Scout donation letter and complete your project successfully. If you are a part of an Eagle Scout, the same letter will be useful for you as well.
You just need to remember, that your project should serve a purpose and you should be able to convey this to the reader. The reader will not donate for your project if its not worth or useful. You should thus plan a useful project.
Use the sample letter written above, and I hope you get good donations for your project!


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I've been designing ads for newspapers since I was fourteen years old. Being in the creative business is all I've ever done. There's something about the publishing business that is hard to explain. It's high stress and always deadline driven. Until I started my own business it has never paid very well either. And yet I always come back to it. I have run away from publishing several times. At the time I was glad to be away from all the stress of it.
"Just when I thought I was out, the pulled me back in."
I've always ended up back in the publishing world. It's never had anything to do with money. It's always been some deep-seeded love I have for it. Even during the hard times.
Perry Noble has a post today that reminded me of this. It's "Seven Questions a Staff Member Must Ask About Themselves."
Question number two is "Is this my passion or my paycheck?"
I've heard from pastors (and about them) "I would leave the ministry but what else would I do?" This has never really sat well with me. Ministry is a calling from God. In fact it's a calling that, if accepted, causes you to be held to a higher standard by God. Is that really something you want to do "just because you don't have another way to support the family."
Now, don't get me wrong. Everyone in ministry has bad days. During times in the past I've really wanted to run away from what God's called me to. In the end I came back. Kept working. Kept pushing through. A calling from God is something you would do whether you get paid or not (even though the Bible clearly states in Timothy people in leadership deserve pay).
I've wanted to leave ministry, but like publishing I always get sucked back into it. It's because there's something inside me that has to do it. I couldn't resist very long even if I tried.
So ask yourself today. If you are a pastor, which is honestly one of the hardest things you can ever do, are you doing it because you feel God's call on your life or is it because you can't think of another way to support your family? If you're in it for the money, ask yourself honestly how much good are you doing the people you lead?


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FLINT, Michigan -- The Flint Farmers' Market is battling to become the top market in the land.
The Flint market was just two votes out of first place on Wednesday in an online contest to determine the favorite farmers' market in the land.
The top vote-getter, Durham Farmers Market in North Carolina, has 1,069 votes. Another market in North Carolina trails in third, with 1,010 votes.
So far, the Flint market is winning praise for its selection of fresh produce and vegetables.
"It's an awesome place to go and buy fresh produce and support your local farmers!!!" wrote one anonymous voter.
Flint Farmers' Market spokeswoman Karianne Martus believes the local site will be on top when voting ends Sept. 17.
"We're going to win," said Martus.
The Flint market is using Web blasts and Facebook to encourage patrons to carry their market to the $5,000 prize.
The contest is sponsored by Care2.com and LocalHarvest.org. You can cast your vote at www.care2.com/farmersmarket.
The Flint Farmers' Market is located at 420 E. Boulevard and online at flintfarmersmarket.com.


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A seemingly upbeat Perry, who showed off newly dyed purple hair, ran inside the bash to dance and mingle with the crowd. And a source tells us that her late arrival kept the festivities going until 4 a.m. – past the scheduled end time.
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PHILIPPI - C.L. Lindsay will speak on Alderson Broaddus University's campus at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Wilcox Chapel. The theme of his talk is "Campus Computing and the Law."
In 1998, Lindsay, an
attorney, left his practice in New York City to found
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Since then, acting as its executive director, he has built CO-STAR into a national student rights organization that helps thousands of college students with their legal problems, free of charge, each year.
Lindsay's presentation will include the following topics: Understanding the implications of participating in campus "confession" sites, including potential legal and disciplinary liabilities for both posters and site administrators; Plagiarism and Intellectual Property; Potential Employers and Online Information - the content of your Facebook page can undermine future job opportunities; Privacy; How posting underage drinking on the Internet can result in disciplinary actions; and Cyber Bullying.
"The Office of Student Affairs is committed to providing programming that is purposeful," says Sarah Ward, dean of Student Affairs. "We understand that the use of social media and electronic communication is something that students not only face while they are here at ABU, but something that they will need to know how to navigate in their professional and personal lives post-graduation."
This event is free and open to the public. Students of all ages as well as parents are encouraged to attend.
"This talk will help all attendees to understand the dark side that using these modes of communication can have," says Ward.
According to his bio on bass-schuler.com, Lindsay is a nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of student rights and academic freedom.
He also wrote the book, "The College Student's Guide to the Law" which has become the definitive authority used by students and university counsel, and as a textbook for masters and law courses nationwide.
He graduated magna cum laude from Denison University, and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan.
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Thanks for the opportunity to speak today before this group on some of the technical challenges associated with the ongoing nuclear deterrence debate. My remarks today focus on what it takes to maintain an effective nuclear deterrent and the infrastructure and institutional challenges we are faced with that are often misunderstood in the political sphere. A good portion of this relates to the need to move forward with studying new ways of managing the stockpile, including potentially the reliable replacement warhead (RRW), a program that has been dubbed "controversial" and has been debated fairly significantly in Congress.
Let me back up for a moment. It is the Administration's and my view that to meet its own security needs and those of its allies, the United States will need a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future. Will we need this capability forever? Who knows, but given the state of the world, it seems reasonable to me that nuclear weapons are not going away any time soon.
However, the ultimate decision on our deterrence strategy is not mine to make. My job is to sustain the safety, security and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile and to ensure that this can be certified on an annual basis. My goal, as well as the Administration's, is to seek to achieve this with the smallest nuclear stockpile consistent with our nation's security.
In this regard, this Administration has done a good job; it has effected the largest reduction of our nuclear forces by any President. By the end of 2007, it had reduced by more than half the total stockpile inventory it inherited in 2001. This achievement was followed by the Administration's announcement in December of last year that a further fifteen percent reduction to the stockpile would be completed by 2012.
Even while these reduction efforts are continuing, there are some fundamental challenges that test our ability to maintain the existing stockpile today – let alone into the future.
One challenge is that our infrastructure is old and decrepit, with many of our critical facilities dating back to the Manhattan project. We are seeking to address this with a complex transformation initiative that would shrink the overall size of the infrastructure by more than 9 million square feet, while modernizing and maintaining key capabilities. Part of this effort is to transform the Cold War nuclear weapons complex into a 21st century national security enterprise that is more responsive to the customer, the Department of Defense, as well as other national security agencies that rely on our technical and intellectual capability in the areas of non-proliferation, nuclear counterterrorism and forensics, and intelligence.
Another challenge is the fact that we have not fielded a new warhead design in over 20 years and many of our key systems are over 30 years old. While these weapons remain safe and secure today, they will present some real difficulties in keeping them certified for stockpile use in the future.
A third challenge is that we are trying to maintain weapons which are composed of internal dynamics – consisting of plutonium, uranium, other chemical components, sensitive electronic fuses, and other materials – that were designed to last 20 years before being replaced. These weapons were certified using underground nuclear tests, which we no longer perform. We have been fortunate to some degree to offset this absence of testing capability by working with Congress to build a cadre of new scientific tools and advance computing capabilities that make up the Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP). However, while we have increased our overall scientific capability, we cannot escape the fundamental fact that we are working on Cold War-aged weapons with dynamic properties. We continue to see increased risk in our approach, absent nuclear testing, in assuring the long-term reliability of today's legacy stockpile.
To manage this risk, even while we shrink the overall size of the stockpile, we would like to explore the potential of developing and fielding modern replacement warheads for the legacy stockpile that are less sensitive to component aging or to manufacturing variances. These replacement warheads would have enhanced safety and security features appropriate for today's security environment that cannot be introduced in older weapons. This effort would also facilitate our ongoing transformation to a smaller, more efficient and more responsive nuclear enterprise, which, in turn, would provide opportunities for further stockpile reductions.
Of course, it is our view that we would only move forward on such a concept if it could be done without underground nuclear tests and would fully comply with our obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
Let me get a bit more specific on RRW, because there is much confusion surrounding this program.
Following the Administration's Nuclear Posture Review, in 2003 we "took stock" of ten years of the SSP and came to some important conclusions regarding our legacy stockpile. The assessment proved that the SSP is working and today's stockpile remains safe, reliable and does not require nuclear testing.
However, concerns have been raised by our laboratory directors that our current path – successive refurbishments to existing warheads developed during the Cold War to stringent Cold War specifications – may pose an unacceptable risk to maintaining a high level of confidence in warhead performance without conducting nuclear testing. These concerns are founded in the progressive evolution away from weapon designs certified with underground nuclear tests during the Cold War. Specifically, laboratory directors point to the inevitable accumulations of small changes from the original composition of these systems due to the continuous process of aging and refurbishment.
It therefore seems prudent to explore alternate means to manage risk in order to ensure long-term stockpile reliability. This is the impetus for our work on RRW: to examine how we better ensure the long-term sustainment of the military capabilities provided by the existing stockpile, not to develop new warheads for new or different military missions.
Additionally, if Cold War design specifications were relaxed, the opportunity would exist to design replacement warheads that:
Thus, we believe the RRW would offer means to facilitate our ongoing transformation to a more efficient and responsive, smaller, and less costly nuclear weapons R&D and production infrastructure.
Despite the obvious benefits of the RRW in terms of increased efficiency and cost-reduction for our nuclear program, we are often asked: if today's stockpile is safe and reliable, why start on RRW now? Why not wait for when Congress has completed its Strategic Posture Reviews in 2009 and 2010? There are four main reasons.
The first is stockpile diversity. The W76 SLBM warhead comprises an increasingly large fraction of the operational force, and currently there is no W76 "backup." We need to manage the risk of a catastrophic failure to this warhead by diversifying our stockpile with reliable, effective alternatives like the RRW.
Second, there are increased concerns, after 9/11, about the security of nuclear warheads and fissile materials. Major enhancements in security are not easily available in conjunction with our current efforts to extend the operation life of our existing warheads.
Third, we must ensure the transfer of nuclear design and engineering skills to the next generation. In five years, nearly all of the generation which developed and honed these design and engineering skills via nuclear testing will be retired or dead. Yet U.S. nonproliferation/threat reduction/emergency response efforts will still rely on these same skills in order to maintain our deterrent and support newly developing defense programs, such as nuclear counterterrorism. Developing these skills in our younger generations now is critical to transforming the nuclear weapons complex to a 21st century national security enterprise.
Finally, the effort to study the RRW and the information and knowledge learned from this effort will help inform the debate and efforts to understand what is possible in the future as it relates to a re-examination of our nuclear posture.
Some argue, however, that the RRW clashes with our current nuclear posture on non-proliferation as it would encourage other actors to move towards building nuclear weapons. However, our efforts to study the RRW are not in any way inconsistent with non-proliferation. In fact, they may be critical to non-proliferation in the long run.
I would remind the group that the United States has not designed or fielded a new nuclear weapon in nearly three decades, a fact which has done little to stop various nations that seek nuclear weapons from doing so. In addition, other declared nuclear weapon states are now currently modernizing. Both the UK and France have announced modernization efforts, coupled with announcements to reduce the size of their respective nuclear arsenals. Russia continues active modernization and R&D programs for warheads, missiles and delivery platforms. And China is introducing a new generation of SSBNs and silo-based and road-mobile ICBMs.
The activities of these countries, whose modernization programs currently exceed those of the United States, have not produced roadblocks to our common efforts to press increasingly robust non-proliferation initiatives. Thus, a similar U.S. program of nuclear modernization embodied in the RRW should have little impact on international non-proliferation efforts. We are assured of this fact because the RRW does not, in any capacity, provide a new role for nuclear weapons or new military capabilities. It is rather a means to more effectively sustain the military capabilities of the existing stockpile.
In addition, the RRW also bolsters our non-proliferation efforts in that:
The point of this discussion is that beyond the policy and theoretical discussion on the need for nuclear deterrence, or the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, that fact remains that it is a significant part of our existing strategy and it will likely be so for the foreseeable future given the nuclear nature of the world today. If we are going to maintain such a policy of deterrence, the instruments used to maintain that policy must be credible and managed in a manner that are sustainable for the future.
That doesn't necessarily mean more. In fact, it likely means a lot less, but getting there will not be possible without fundamentally changing how we do business. Two critical components of that are our complex transformation efforts and the need to study systems based on reliable replacement concepts. So where do we go from here?
In terms of transforming from the Cold War weapons complex to a smaller and more efficient 21st century national security enterprise, we are in the midst of completing an over 2 year long programmatic National Environmental Policy Act Analysis. This analysis has examined the effects of our proposed actions.
Our other element of change, the RRW study, made significant progress in 2007. However, this program was not funded in FY 2008 in part due to concerns expressed that the Administration had not fully communicated its policies which guide nuclear forces, posture and programs, including the RRW program.
In response to these concerns, the Department of Defense and we at NNSA have been much more active congressionally and publicly in discussing these issues.
Just last month, the Administration provided Congress with a second white paper intended to accompany the original white paper on nuclear policy transmitted to Congress in July 2007 by Secretaries Rice, Gates and Bodman. This second white paper outlines in detail the overall strategy which guides nuclear weapons programs including:
Our ultimate goal with the RWW study is two fold:
So what I hope that you take away from here this morning is that both the concepts of nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation are not mutually exclusive. They can, and in fact they do, work together to support our broader national security objectives. As long as we maintain a deterrent, the United States must continue to have a nuclear weapons enterprise that supports that deterrent. But it should be one that supports the science and knowledge needed for the growing areas of nonproliferation, counterterrorism and nuclear forensics, intelligence analysis and emergency response. As we maintain our nuclear deterrence, we will continue to shrink our stockpile and dismantle unneeded nuclear weapons, as well as look towards a future debate on the role of nuclear weapons in our national security policy.
Thank you. I'll be happy to take your questions.
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Rick "Ricky" Webster, 20, of Clinton, is charged with multiple offenses for allegedly having sex without revealing he has the virus that causes AIDS. He was first arrested in February for incidents that occurred last year, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office.
While he is being held in lieu of $110,000 bail, public defender Herminia Moreira asked Superior Court Judge Stephen Rubin to reduce that figure to $75,000.
The prosecutor's office has accused Webster of second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child and a diseased person committing an act of sexual penetration for having sex with a girl younger than 16 in August and September in Raritan Township. He was arrested on Feb. 19 and bail was set at $100,000 for that case.
The investigation by the prosecution's Sex Crimes Unit resulted in additional victims being located. On March 5, he was accused of engaging in multiple acts of sexual penetration with "J. Doe #2" between May 29, 2009, and August 2009 without advising the woman of his HIV status. He was charged with third-degree diseased person committing an act of sexual penetration, and bail was set at $10,000.
During today's hearing in Flemington, Moreira said the juvenile was a member of a group of friends of Webster's. His health situation is "public knowledge," she said.
"It was an assumption on his part that she had knowledge" of his HIV status, Moreira said in court.
Assistant Prosecutor Brian Shevlin reminded the judge that there are two victims. In the youngster's case, Webster "admitted that he had sexual intercourse with someone under age."
• Clinton man with HIV who preached abstinence is charged with sexual assault
• Hunterdon County man with HIV is accused of sex with juvenile
The bail range for sexual assault is $50,000 to $200,000, Shevlin said. At $100,000, "I don't think that's unreasonable," he said.
One of the first factors considered in a request for a bail reduction is the seriousness of the crime, Rubin said. "These are very serious charges," he said.
"The bail is well within the guidelines," Rubin said. "In fact, if anything, it's on the lower end. I'm going to leave the bail the way it is."
In a 2006 Star-Ledger series marking the 25th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, Webster talked about having contracted the disease from his birth mother and said he always had the support of his peers. He was adopted as an infant.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sex Crimes unit at (908) 788-1129.


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You couldn't have asked for much more in a high school tennis match than the one played Monday afternoon at the Leopold Center.
Altoona edged Hollidaysburg, 3-2, in a District 6 Class AAA team semifinal that featured three three-set matches and came down to a showdown at No. 1 singles where Mountain Lion sophomore Chad Allender topped Golden Tiger junior Amir Alkhafaji.
"This was our fourth [meeting]," Allender said, "and every time playing him is an honor because he's such a gentleman. It's so fun playing him; he's like no one I've ever played. Hats off to him."
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Altoona's Chad Allender competes for the Mountain Lions.
Hollidaysburg's Amir Alkhafaji returns a shot for the Tigers.
Allender and Alkhafaji drew a big crowd for their final set because all of the other matches already had been decided.
"I told Amir it's like Wimbledon every time we play," Allender said, laughing.
Allender has won three of the four meetings between the two and the Altoona sophomore needed every ounce of energy to prevail yesterday.
Alkhafaji won the first set, 6-4, but Allender evened the score with a 7-5 win in the second set. Allender then won the last three games to take the deciding third set, 6-3.
"My coach [Eric Hovan] gave me some words of encouragement," Allender said of his comeback. "I used my fitness and ran everything down and managed to play better the second and third sets.
"Halfway through my second set, we already had lost two matches," Allender continued, "so, if I lost my match, we would have been out of it.
"Coach said be like [NBA basketball star] Kevin Durant and win out, so I tried to be like Kevin Durant."
The teams split two matches in the regular season, both winning at home, Altoona, 5-0, and Hollidaysburg, 4-1. It was much closer this time.
Altoona's Ryan Good won in straight sets at No. 2 singles while Hollidaysburg's Max Sheetz did the same at No. 3 singles. The teams traded wins in doubles play, too. Altoona's No. 1 doubles duo of Joey Settimio and Mustafa Ahmad lost the first set before rallying to win the next two. Hollidaysburg's Emre Cardakali and Josh Cobler were victorious in the second doubles, also in three sets.
"Obviously, that type match can go either way," Altoona coach Eric Hovan said of the multiple three-setters. "We were getting [beat] early in a lot of those matches.
"We won at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles both down a set," Hovan noted. "Even the 2 doubles was down a set and took it to a third.
"You had to be impressed with how the kids competed today when they were down early."
Hollidaysburg coach Brian Denis was disappointed with the outcome.
"I thought that one team would win, 3-2, and I figured three and possibly four of the matches would go three sets," Denis said.
"We had our opportunities at No. 1 doubles to close it out in the second set and that certainly would have made it much easier," Denis noted. "But, they tried their hardest today and just fell on the short end of the stick.
"There were a lot of moment swings today and we might have panicked a little bit," he said. "For awhile, it looked like we were cruising, then all of a sudden we lost three sets.
"Tennis is a game of momentum and we had a little trouble matching their intensity. Once they sensed the momentum, they took it and ran with it. All the credit to them," Denis added.
Altoona plays at State College on Wednesday afternoon with the 6-AAA team title on the line.
SINGLES: 1, Allender, A, def. Alkhafaji, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; 2, Good, A, def. Johnson, 6-4, 6-0; 3, Sheetz, H, def. Reighard, 6-1, 6-2.
DOUBLES: 1, Settimio/Ahmad, A, def. Miller/Kirsch, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Cardakali/Cobler, H, def. Houk/Eiman, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.


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From: "Phil Barnett"
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Yet Another Ninja wrote:
>> On 7/12/2007 12:50 AM, Phil Barnett wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote:
>> >> There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening
>> >> something new ( private access, invite only, acl by ip, etc), in hopes
>> >> to avoid ddos and provide better services, more requent rule updates,
>> >> and so on. We are trying our best to keep it alive, but there is
>> >> only so much we can do with the limited time and resources we have.
>> >
>> > How about releasing the ruleset via torrent or something similar.
>> > Anything that you could do to distribute the load and location would
>> > make
>> > a ddos attack less effective. While there might not be a lot of people
>> > on
>> > this list who can use their server to take on the entire DDOS for you,
>> > there are a LOT of servers here that could participate in a pool.
>> >
>> > Maybe a DNS round robin?
>> >
>> > Just some ideas.
>> hey
>> great ideas - who volunteers to setup the Torrent stuff and manage it all
>> ?
> Thinking further, torrent is not exactly what is needed. Torrents need to
> be
> reseeded for every change, so that's a maintenance nightmare. RSS has some
> of
> the pieces, but i'm not sure if it can be just a file delivery method.
> rsync
> has obvious benefist in reducing bandwidth, but doesn't have any security
> built into it.
> I think some brainstorming to come up with a peer distributed subscription
> service is the starting point. If there isn't one, that's the next battle.
> We can't be the first people to come up against this problem. How have
> others > solved it?
If the file already exists:
/usr/bin/wget -r -l 1 -nd -N "$source$file"
/usr/bin/wget -l 1 -nd -N "$source$file"
"source" is the host URL directory eg. http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/
"file" is the file eg. 88_FVGT_subject.cf
Several times in the last day or so - nary a problem if I have that silly
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The City of Redding is establishing an eligibility list to fill a current vacancy in the Survey Office of the Engineering Division. Individuals in this classification, under the direction of the City Surveyor, perform various surveying and engineering related work. The primary responsibilities of the current vacancy are survey related.
Duties include: Research City right-of-way, easements and property ownership for City projects and City departments; coordinate right-of-way acquisition contract administration; perform surveying and engineering calculations; process easements and summary vacations; check parcel maps, final maps, lot line adjustments, assessment diagrams and legal descriptions; advise the public of survey and map related regulations and codes; review applications for survey related projects; design and coordinate preparation of survey specifications for capital improvement projects; prepare engineering reports and cost estimates for landscape maintenance districts and other assessment districts; coordinate activities with other City departments and outside agencies; and participate as a member of a survey crew.
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Saturday, September 24New Orleans City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street
Help Make a Difference! - Learn more about current and past projectsDonor Form. Participate as a donor in giving back to the community!
Bus DEPARTS at 8:30 am from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
The WEF Community Service Project, organized by the WEF Students & Young Professionals Committee (SYPC), offers WEFTEC attendees the opportunity to give back to New Orleans. This summer, the City of New Orleans is implementing multiple green infrastructure and sustainability projects on the City Hall grounds to solve issues and provide an education resource to the community. The 9th annual WEF Community Service Project will help propel this project forward by constructing bioretention cells and bioswales to capture and filter stormwater runoff to alleviate flooding and improve water quality.
Registration for the service project is free and open to all WEFTEC attendees and their guests. All volunteers will receive transportation to and from the site, a t-shirt, lunch, and a WEF Community Service Project ribbon for your WEFTEC badge. We look to have over 100 volunteers help make a positive impact on the local water environment of New Orleans!
As part of WEF's mission to increase public awareness on water related subjects, the SYPC will also be organizing a Water Palooza event on Friday, Sept 23. This event brings together water conscious organizations and companies to educate school age children in the community about the value of water through hands-on and demonstrative activities.
Funding for the service project is provided entirely by donations - both monetary and material donations are welcomed. You are welcome to contact Michael Quamme to donate materials and Caroline Pakenham for monetary donations.
Join WEF in committing to civic outreach and sustainability, and ultimately making an immediate impact on our host city, New Orleans!
Questions? Contact the WEF Community Service Project:
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Sunday, September 25 – Tuesday, September 27 The University Student Lounge is sponsored by environmental companies participating in the WEFTEC Students & Young Professionals Networking and Career Fair. Complimentary light lunch and refreshments are provided Sunday and Monday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm. The lounge will be open all day from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm offering students their own place to meet with fellow students and develop lifelong friendships.
Sunday, September 25, 2016 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Member Associations proudly select their best Student Chapter Design Team to participate in the annual WEFTEC Design Competition. Each design team will receive a recognition plaque and each team member will receive a certificate. Through sponsorships, award money will be presented to the 1st - 4th place winners from the Wastewater Design competition (hydraulic, capacity design, upgrades to existing systems, biosolids handling, etc.) and Environmental Design competition (contemporary engineering topics, i.e. sustainability, water reuse, wetland construction, etc.). The 2016 teams will be announced this summer.
Companies interested in sponsoring this event in 2016 should contact WEF Staff, Caroline Pakenham
Monday, September 26, 2016 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Students, Academics, Young Professionals, and Member Association Leaders are invited to attend this meeting held annually at WEFTEC. Come join in on helping shape WEFTEC programs for students & young professionals.
Monday, September 26, 2016 | 1:00 – 4:00 PM The Career Fair offers an opportunity to expand a student's knowledge of the water quality industry and to acquire better interviewing skills. Top environmental firms from the U.S./Canada will be on hand to meet informally with students and also pre-schedule interviewing opportunities. Students should submit (email) their resume to firstname.lastname@example.com by Friday, September 2, 2016!**Word and PDF format accepted**Come meet the following companies participating in this year's fair: AECOM, Arcadis, Black & Veatch, Brown and Caldwell, Carollo Engineers, CDM Smith, CH2M, Evoqua Water Technologies, Greeley and Hansen, Hazen and Sawyer, HDR, Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Companies interested in a 2016 Career Fair booth should contact WEF Staff, Caroline Pakenham.
Black & Veatch Student Appreciation Night Monday, September 26, 2015 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM JAX Brewhouse - 620 Decatur Street Ste. 1AThis annual event provides students an opportunity to network with their peers and to meet the leaders within Black & Veatch. Kick off the evening with Black & Veatch followed by the Students and Young Professionals reception as detailed below.
WEF Young Professionals Reception Monday, September 26, 2016 | 8:00 – 11:00 PMFulton Alley - 600 Fulton St. Join WEF's Students and Young Professionals Committee for a fun-filled evening of conversation and peer-to-peer networking. Your WEFTEC badge is required. This reception is made possible by contributions from corporate sponsors.For more information regarding 2016 sponsorship opportunities for the above events, details on submitting a resume, or any other questions, contact WEF Staff, Caroline Pakenham.


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When Moisturizer Is Not EnoughStefanie Wilder Taylor
I am in my forties. Yes, it's true. Seriously! No seriously, stop arguing! But when I'm out with my kids and they're yelling and screaming in a restaurant, I tend to get a lot of weird looks like, "Oh geez, another teen mom." Or "Didn't that young girl learn about birth control?" Or "For a teenager she's a great mother!" or "Didn't I see her on 16 and Pregnant?" I could go on.
I don't always feel great about my age, sometimes all the going to the gym, thinking about yoga, taking vitamins and moisturizing still leaves me feeling like the crows feet are winning the battle with my inner beauty. That's when I have to do a little something extra. Something out of the ordinary. Something Mad Love. Off the rails. Or just more crazy than yoga.Here now are my tips for looking and feeling more youthful.
Go to Brazil. Kidding. Get a Brazilian! 1 of 6Oh yes. If you've never gotten a full waxing, you're in for a treat —and by treat I mean a lot of pain. I'm not going to lie to you, it hurts like a swarm of bees stinging your crotch but it's over quickly and the results will leave your hoo-ha feeling twenty years younger!
Hula Hoop 2 of 6Honestly I don't know if this will make you feel younger personally, but it sure seems like something I would do. You know if I had a hula hoop and a bunch of time on my hands and somewhere to hula hoop where I wouldn't bump the couch or a small child in the face.
Don't Tweeze Your Brows Off. 3 of 6Since we talking hair removal, let me give you a helpful hint: I don't know who invented this look of tweezing your brows into a thin or non-existent line and then penciling it back in but it's not good. In fact, it really and truly makes you look crazy old. And if you insist on doing this, please, for the love of all things holy, don't color your brows in with a pencil that's lighter than your hair. Come on. That's just common sense.
Listen To Rap. 4 of 6It's impossible to feel old when your speakers are bumping from some Young Jeezy or Tygr. Okay I have no idea who those people are. I just Googled current rap but I do listen to old Tupac (I know there is no other kind since he's dead —I'm forty-five not eighty) and some stuff featuring David Guetta or whatever…don't quiz me. The point is, listening to 80's music may be fun but it will be a constant reminder of your age. If you're anything like me, you don't need that.
Watch Young Shows 5 of 6At first when you watch MTV you will actually feel older —like ancient. But just wait. The first time you seamlessly lay in a reference to the Pyramid House from "Extreme Cribs" (no, not a show about baby nurseries) and you get a look of shocked approval from your teenager, you will know it works.
Botox 6 of 6Duh. Don't do your lips though! You want to look young, not cray-cray.


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All-Star Game readying ambitious int'l telecast
As the NBA descends on Los Angeles for All-Star Weekend, the hoop circuit is readying its most ambitious international telecast yet.
The All-Star Game will be televised live in 43 languages to 215 countries and territories, including a first-ever stream to mobile phones.
Among the networks carrying the telecast are China's CCTV, India's Ten Sports, Al Jazeera (Arabic), TV Azteca in Latin America, ESPN UK, Canal+Spain, WOWWOW in Japan and Astro Supersport in Malaysia.
The league's cable network, NBA TV, will be available for the first time worldwide on mobile phones as it delivers backstage coverage.
The game and the All-Star Saturday Night events are also going out in 3D to more than 100 cinemas, including venues in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Mexico.
Pace is producing the NBA 3D events, using eight 3D cameras throughout Staples Center. Three will be "3D Shadow" cameras that sit atop the main broadcast's cameras.
The additional cameras for 3D, and the additional seat-kills they can require, have become an obstacle to 3D production at high-profile events, such as the Super Bowl. Shadow cameras alleviate that problem.
Sensio Technologies' 3D Live Network will bring the NBA events to cinemas.
All-Star Saturday night tips off at 8 o'clock Eastern/5 o'clock Pacific. The All-Star game starts at the same hour Sunday.
Both events are at Staples Center in downtown L.A.


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Comcast Corp. is facing a political battle in Washington with a rural television network that airs bluegrass bands, farming news, and Hee Haw reruns.
Comments have flooded the Federal Communications Commission docket - perhaps as many as 18,000, the network says - in the two weeks since RFD-TV's call-out to viewers on the Internet and cable channel.
"It's crunch time," Patrick Gottsch, chairman and founder of the Rural Media Group Inc., in Omaha, Neb., said this week in a phone interview.
"You got television executives who don't seem to look out the window between Philadelphia and Hollywood."
As TV executives go, Gottsch is a singular sort, fancying cowboy boots, leather vests, longish hair, and other markings that speak to growing up on a farm in Elkhorn, Neb.


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Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Other features include full support for shared libraries (with a SAT solver for dependency resolution), sharing between users, and integration with native platform package managers. It supports both binary and source packages, and works on Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows systems. It is fully Open Source.
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"So they don't share those same memories."By Halle Kiefer
We oughta have known.By Nate Jones
They even sing "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear."By Lindsey Weber
Word of advice: Don't ask Rob Corddry for a cup of sugar.By Eliot Glazer
Their show would be called Dave and Flav.By Margaret Lyons
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FXCM's Speculative Sentiment Index (SSI) is a powerful indicator of market sentiment that has been pointing towards dollar losses for several days now.
SSI Ratios Against the Majors | May 31, 2011, at 02:02 GMT
The SSI ratios for the major pairs show that more FXCM traders are long the dollar than are short. The SSI can help you trade against the crowd. It is signaling US dollar weakness, which may indicate a decline in the US dollar.*
You can follow the value of the dollar through the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index (INDEXDJX: USDOLLAR). This easy-to-use index tracks the US dollar against four of the world's most liquid currencies—the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, and Australian dollar—giving traders and analysts instant insight into the broad trends in the US dollar.
Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index since January 1, 2011. Source: FXCM Marketscope Charts
FXCM has recently developed the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index Basket, which closely tracks the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index. The index basket was developed to allow forex traders to trade their opinion on the US dollar without needing to choose a specific currency to trade against. The index basket can easily be traded on an FXCM demo account by buying or selling the symbol "USDOLLAR."FXCM plans to offer USDOLLAR trading on live accounts in the near future.
FXCM Inc.'s (NYSE: FXCM) Speculative Sentiment Index (SSI) shows retail trader positioning in the forex market. By following the SSI, you can see how many traders are entering or exiting the markets. The SSI has a strong history as a contrarian indicator and can be used as a currency forecasting tool. By following trader positioning in a currency, the SSI can be used as a tool to see whether the recent moves in that currency are merely a correction or if they are likely to lead to a larger trend*.
FXCM's Speculative Sentiment Index has been gaining popularity among traders, analysts, and other currency watchersas a way to gauge forex market sentiment. Now it can also be used as anindicator for the US Dollar, as shown in the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index.
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text: Largemouth bass fishing will continue to be good in 2016 as the population's size structure has remained relatively consistent since 2003, providing bass in all size ranges. About 1/3 of the bass population will be in the 12-15 inch protected slot which is similar to previous years and will continue to provide great catch-and-release fishing opportunities. A good portion of the largemouth bass will also be greater than 15 inches with several largemouth bass exceeding 18 inches. Anglers will also have the opportunity catch a few bass that exceed five pounds. Preferred angling spots for largemouth bass are along the edges of aquatic vegetation stands and along rocky shoreline areas. A few spotted bass have also been observed in Lake Springfield, and several should be available for harvest. White crappie is the dominant crappie species in Lake Springfield. Crappie anglers can expect some success, especially along the north shoreline on the west end of the lake during the winter months. Several bluegill greater than 6 inches were observed in our latest electrofishing surveys. Anglers fishing more remote areas of the lake will have a better chance at catching larger bluegill. The redear sunfish population continues to develop with more and larger redear sunfish being observed in our samples. Several redear greater than 8 inches will be available for harvest in 2016. Channel catfish are preferred by many Lake Springfield anglers and recent stockings of channel catfish should improve angler success. Flathead catfish are also present in the lake, but not as numerous. Favorite baits for catfish include nightcrawlers, chicken livers, and prepared dough baits. Anglers also have an opportunity to catch a variety of other fishes such as golden redhorse suckers, bullheads, common carp, rock bass (goggle-eye), longear sunfish, and green sunfish. Community Assistance Program fishing facilities are available and include a barrier-free fishing jetty and a disabled user fishing dock located near the dam. Lake Springfield is also part of the James River Water Trail, and canoes and kayaks are available (seasonally) for rent through the Springfield-Greene County Park Board at Lake Springfield Park. The boat launching ramp on the east end of the lake will remain closed for 2016.


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... We Will Follow On!"
The famous line in 'Follow Follow' has never really been as relevant as it has become in the last few days. Maurice Edu's injury-time equaliser in Lisbon has put the Gers into the Last 16 of the UEFA Europa League where we will take on Eredivisie league-leaders PSV a week on Thursday.
The authorities in Dublin must be dreading the prospect of 200,000 bears descending on the Irish capital. Incredibly, you might even have that figure travelling from Northern Ireland alone.
Rangers beat Sporting in 1972, and beat Moscow Dynamo in the final.
Rangers beat Sporting in 2008, and lost to Zenit in the final.
So what are the chances of Rangers getting to the final in Dublin and facing another Russian side?
It is a deflating feeling to lose an Old Firm derby, but to lose in such a manner like we did on Sunday was painful. I just hope the players and management feel the same.
The performance was absolutely woeful from start to finish. Gutless, uninspired and a distinct lack of basic ability. Seriously, not good enough.
Credit to Celtic though, the tempo of their play was unplayable for us at times and they pressed the game well forcing us into a number of errors. I was surprised that Ki didn't start the game but I suppose that's the difference in terms of squad depth.
We just didn't get started and a number of players were culpable of constantly giving the ball away - Edu in particular just seemed to give everything back to Celtic.
Each game against the smelly mob just seems to get more important in the race for the domestic treble.
Tomorrow is no different.
League matches are so much more important and tomorrow is by far the biggest Old Firm derby of the season. Remember, we still have another THREE to go including a Cup Final in March at Hampden!
The last two performances against Celtic have been far from acceptable and it's vital that we go to the San Giro and dominate the game early on. In the 2-2 game in particular, Ki and Kayal were given far too much space in midfield, and to be fair, both are players who will control a game if you don't put them under pressure.
I genuinely could not believe what I was watching at times on Thursday night.
1-0 up; Sporting rattled; a host of options on the bench - and what do we do?
Sit back in our own half; invite Sporting back into the game; make no changes while Sporting make three of them. Going by that, it is not a surprise that Matias Fernandez nodded home an equaliser for the visitors in the last few minutes.
The first half was a real disappointment for any of the 35,000 fans who spent £30 to be at Ibrox last night. Neither team had a hold of the game early on and Rangers were unable to ask any questions of a fairly fragile Sporting defence. Kyle Lafferty had a header at the near-post from El-Hadji Diouf's cross and Helder Postiga shot wide from a tight angle in the only two decent chances of the half.
Steven Naismith, Nikica Jelavic and David Healy were all on the scoresheet for the champions who produced, arguably, one of their most impressive performances of the season. Walter Smith decided to hand on-loan Arsenal youngster Kyle Bartley in midfield alongside Steven Davis with Mo Edu and Jamie Ness dropping out.
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Nikica Jelavic netted a hat-trick as Rangers hammered Motherwell in a 6-0 victory at Ibrox this afternoon.
It was much improved from Rangers after last week's performance against Celtic and some of the football today was an absolute joy to watch. At the heart of it, Steven Davis was like his old-self and kept everything ticking along in the middle of the park while Kyle Bartley was able to dominate that area of the pitch. There is such a difference around Ibrox when the team plays with pace and loads of movement and that was exactly what we got today. Well worth watching in my opinion.
Steven Naismith, in a central-midfield role today, popped up to score the opening goal on five minutes when he latched on to Vladimir Weiss' low cross and finished well with his right-foot. El-Hadji Diouf almost opened his Rangers account when he was sent through on goal by Weiss but Diouf was just inches away from collecting the pass. The good tempo and intensity from Rangers was continued for a decent spell of the first-half and Jelavic came close for the first time when his shot went just past the post.
It takes a while to digest the mayhem of an Old Firm tie and this one was no different - except it was actually a half-decent game for once!
Pre-match, it was a fantastic atmosphere and everything up until 5-10 minutes into the game seemed like a blur. Jamie Ness rattled home a stunning left-foot strike from long-range which I didn't even see hit the back of the net from my vantage point, instead, I got an arm around the throat to start off crazy celebrations. A bouncy in the 2nd minute of an Old Firm game - could it get any better?
Sadly, no.
In fact, it was a seriously embarrassing performance for a good 45-60 minutes of the match.
It's that time again in Scottish Football. The Old Firm derby has come around for the third time this season with this clash coming in the 5th Round of the Scottish Cup.
It could be the third of potentially SEVEN meetings between the two this season.
But it does not make it less important.
This time round, the confidence is coming from the green-quarter of Glasgow with Celtic fans believing that they will leave Ibrox with another victory. That opinion tends to be shared by the majority of Scotland's pathetic "pundits" and "experts" who have hardly offered any insight into how Celtic are their choice for this game except for the usual tag of playing such 'wonderful, expansive, Barcelona-style football'. We've heard it all before.
If Jelavic had been fit on the 2nd, it would have been an entirely different story.
We are in stronger position to the start of the month despite losing three players and bringing in three during the window. Senegalese International El-Hadji Diouf joined the club on loan from Blackburn and all eyes will be on the new signing come Sunday.
You better believe it, Brown, Kayal, Ledley and Stokes will be doing their best to make Diouf lose his temper.
Kyle Lafferty took advantage of Nikica Jelavic's injury by putting in an impressive performance last night against Hearts at Ibrox. Lafferty scored the only goal of the game on 4 minutes when he volleyed home from Whittaker's deep cross.
New signings El-Hadji Diouf, David Healy and Kyle Bartley were all left on the bench by Walter Smith as the Gers went for the same formation that dominated the reverse fixture at Tynecastle just a few weeks ago. Vladimir Weiss replaced Steven Naismith and Nikica Jelavic was missing from the team with a groin injury.
After Hearts' abysmal performance against Celtic, this was their last chance at saving what is an already dented title challenge. Confidence was high after the 1-0 win over Rangers in January and Hearts responded well to Lafferty's early goal with a lot of the possession and a few half-chances. Skipper Marius Zaliukas worked a superb save from Allan McGregor in the first-half but it was difficult for the Jambos to create much with Templeton and Kyle out of the team.
Lee McCulloch went off midway through the first-half and Smith handed a debut to El-Hadji Diouf who recieved a warm welcome to Ibrox by the Rangers fans who braved the heavy rain. Diouf showed some neat touches and floated in behind Jelavic and it was he who got the first clattering from Ian Black who is not the most popular player in Govan.
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The Woman's Club of Union recently sponsored Gabrielle Zurka a senior at Union High School to take part in a four-day Girl's Career Institute program held on Douglass-Residential College cam-pus at Rutgers University. Students attending the program were endorsed by their individual schools on the basis of service, ability and participation in school activities.
The Woman's Club of Union along with other woman's clubs throughout the state of New Jersey sponsor students each year to attend this event. This year 166 girls were given the opportunity to experience college life and attend workshops and lectures which detailed career opportunities for women. Gabrielle spoke at the Woman's Club of Union's opening meeting on September 3rd and said that she was very grateful to the Woman's Club for giving her the opportunity to attend the program.
Pictured are Diann Greco Co-President, Gabrielle Zurka and Maryann Higgins Education Committee.


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Gov. Bobby Jindal and his coastal adviser, Garret Graves, are conducting a "campaign of lies" against BP that misrepresents the company's record in cleaning oil from Louisiana's coastline and restoring both the environment and individuals harmed by its 2010 oil spill, a senior BP official said Thursday.
"No other company has done more in the wake of an environmental accident, and today, even in the face of this campaign of lies, we remain committed to paying all legitimate claims and helping restore the natural resources that were actually damaged from the oil spill," said Geoff Morrell, BP vice president & head of its U.S. communications.
Morrel's comments came in response to criticisms of the company made by Jindal during a Wednesday meeting of the federal-state Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council.
"BP needs to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their public relations campaign telling us how great they are and start proving it by addressing their Clean Water Act and Natural Resources Damage liabilities now," Jindal said Wednesday.
Morrell outlined BP's spending in greater detail Thursday than he did in a brief response he issued on Wednesday, but company officials would not say how much they've spent on advertising.
Morrell said BP has spent more than $26 billion to help restore the Gulf, including $14 billion for what are called response actions under the federal Oil Pollution Act, and for other clean-up expenses; and more than $11 billion spent on more than 300,000 individual, business and government financial claims.
In an email late Wednesday, Graves said Jindal's remarks were aimed at the "restoration" portion of the Oil Pollution Act's requirements of BP, and not to the initial response and cleanup dollars Morrell listed.
BP also has spent more than $1 billion to support the Oil Pollution Act's Natural Resource Damage Assessment process, including more than $500 million that's been paid to state and federal trustees for their expenses, Morrell said.
Under the NRDA process, BP and the trustees must come to agreement on what damages have been caused to natural resources and the public use of those resources as a result of the oil spill. The parties also have to come up with projects that restore or compensate for that damage. Under the law, as the "responsible party," BP is required to pay for the expenses associated with the NRDA process.
Morrell said that in 2011, BP "voluntarily agreed to spend $1 billion on projects to expedite the restoration of natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico while the NRDA process was ongoing."
In the joint press release announcing that agreement, the trustees agreed that BP's commitment was unprecedented, Morrell pointed out, and that the law didn't require an early NRDA payment.
"To date, BP has reached agreement or agreements in principle with the trustees on 38 projects representing approximately $665 million, including $370 million in Louisiana," Morrell said. "Ten projects have been funded, but the remaining $594 million in projects cannot be funded until the Trustees complete the public comment and approval process. We are disappointed that while we reached agreement in principle for these projects in February 2013, little progress has been made since."
Graves, however, said BP is to blame for much of the delay.
"After several months of negotiations, BP did agree to make a $1 billion down payment against their multi-billion liability associated with natural resource damages/injury; however, it took years to just get approval from BP on many projects that are still subject to planning and environmental review," Graves said. "They have only SPENT tens of MILLIONS on restoration. It's a fact. BP can spin all they want, but they can't make up numbers."
Morrell also pointed out that BP, at the urging of Jindal and Graves, paid the $260 million cost of building sand berms adjacent to the Chandeleur Islands on the east side of the Mississippi River, and along several islands on the west side of the river immediately after the spill. The state argued that the berms would capture some of the oil before it washed into interior wetlands.
But Morrell said a presidential commission investigating the oil spill and its aftermath "later found the political pet project to be flawed and ineffective."
The commission's conclusion was in the context of the berms catching oil, pointing out that by the time they were completed, the flow of oil had been shut off and only a small amount ended up on the berms.
However, BP later gave the state an additional $100 million it had committed to building the berms to transition them into properly designed barrier island restoration projects. And several scientists now say that the addition of the sand has extended the life of the rapidly eroding islands.
Morrell also repeated his contention that the company's efforts to complete cleanup of 4,278 miles of the 4,376 miles of the state coastline that was in active response was "extraordinary progress."
Jindal and other state officials have repeatedly referred to the 96 miles still in the clean-up program as 200 miles, the figure used by the U.S. Coast Guard, as the active cleanup occurs in patches along that longer stretch of coastline.
"Even this figure is understated because BP still refuses to survey half of our coast and they have repeatedly designated oiled areas as 'clean'," Graves said.
Morrell also characterized the contentions of Jindal and Graves that BP has spent more on advertising than on restoration, as "simply false" and "purposefully intended to mislead the public."
In response, Graves said the company submitted a letter to Congress saying it spent close to $100 million on a media campaign following the spill and more recent media reports "indicate that BP launched a half a billion dollar 'Make It Right' media campaign designed to improve their public image across the country while concurrently walking away from their responsibilities in the Gulf."
When asked how much BP has spent on advertising about the spill, BP spokesman Jason Ryan said, "We don't disclose the details of individual marketing expenditures."
Ryan said the ads were designed to keep the public informed of the company's commitments to repair the damage caused by the spill and compensate those injured.
Morrell said Graves has said publicly that BP owes $130 billion in natural resource damages, an amount he said was "absurd and reflect willful blindness as to the extent and effectiveness of our response.
"There is no denying that our extensive response efforts over the past three years were critical for reducing the environmental damage from the accident," Morrell said. "While the NRD Assessment is still ongoing, the amount of damage and the required restoration will ultimately be decided in court, not by state officials."
But Graves said news stories quoting him as using the $130 million figure were based on numbers in a Powerpoint presentation that were used incorrectly in the stories.
And Graves cited two recent legal developments as examples of how the company is attempting to avoid financial responsibility. One was BP's efforts to challenge the way a court-appointed administrator of the company's private economic damages settlement is granting claims. The other was BP's contention that it should not be liable for any Clean Water Act Fines. The firm made both arguments in briefs filed with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
"For the past year, BP's clear strategy in this case has been to try to portray themselves as the victim," Graves said. "BP is not a victim of this disaster. No mater what they say or do."


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2014 Kawasaki Teryx First Look 0
Kawasaki introduced the all-new 2014 Kawasaki Teryx at the manufacturer's annual dealer meeting in San Diego. The two-seater UTV gets a bump in power, more room, a larger chassis, upgraded suspension and a new CVT clutch. Although it is not a pure performance machine, Kawasaki promises a sportier ride while still increasing utility.
The Teryx's 90-degree V-Twin gets the same treatment seen in the 2014 Kawasaki Teryx4 for more power in the low- to mid-range. The displacement has been bumped from 749cc to 783cc for a 26% increase in horsepower and 12% more torque in that all important rev range. Optimized camshafts and revised exhaust headers work with the extra cubes for a smooth engine profile. Even with the boosted engine performance. Kawasaki claims fuel economy has been improved for an increased range for the 7.9-gallon tank.
Putting the Teryx's additional power to the dirt is a new Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) that includes a centrifugal clutch positioned between the crankshaft and CVT drive pulley for longer belt life and reliability. Instant acceleration is also achieved thanks to the centrifugal clutch preventing belt freewheel. Unnecessary belt wear is also controlled by a system that cuts power if the engine rpm is high with no movement from the rear wheels for more than two seconds. The CVT feeds power to a transmission that features high and low forward gears, neutral and reverse. Selecting 2WD, 4WD or 4WD with front differential lock is as easy as rotating the dash-mounted switch.
A new Double-X chassis features a highly-rigid square tube frame with two X-shaped cross members for optimum durability and maximum strength. Limiting flex, this frame improves handling in rough terrain. The Teryx's certified Roll-Over Protective Structure (ROPS) cab frame also bolsters the chassis' strength and extends out to the edges of the bodywork for expanded cockpit space. An 85.8-inch wheelbase matches the four-seat Teryx4, but a 16.7-foot turning radius makes maneuvering in tight quarters easy.
Fox Podium piggyback shocks offer up to 8 inches of suspension travel up front and 8.3 inches at the back. Both ends are adjustable for preload and compression to tailor the ride quality for work or play.
With the increased performance and handling comes the need for a strong set of brakes. 200mm front rotors gripped by dual-piston calipers promise to slow the front wheels with power and excellent feel. At the back an internal wet brake gives reliable service free from the elements.
Beefy 26-inch Maxxis Bighorn 2.0 tires help maximize the Teryx's performance with traction and control. The tire's construction and tread design gives excellent forward traction while biting hard for aggressive cornering.
Kawasaki's Electronic Power Steering (EPS) is calibrated to give the Teryx precise and low-effort wheel control. The Showa-built unit uses vehicle speed and torque sensors to determine the right amount of assistance. More power is added for slow speeds while the power is tapered as the pace quickens.


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People Magazine is reporting that Simon Cowell has picked music mogul Island Def Jam chairman Antonio "L.A." Reid to be a judge on "The X Factor". Reid will sit alongside Cowell on the panel.
Cowell told People, "We always wanted to work with L.A., whether it was now or in the future. Because in terms of his credibility and what he's achieved, he's always somebody who we would love to work with ... He's had so much success. And he's also a good friend of mine."
The X Factor is set to premiere on Fox in the U.S. in the fall. They will be holding auditions in Miami, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. There's a $5 million recording contract up for grabs for the winner of the show.
Two more celebrity judges are expected to be named. Cowell is still meeting with candidates.
"We've met with Paula [Abdul]," he says. "What I've always loved about Paula is that she actually has got good taste in music."
Cowell also reveals that Jessica Simpson is a frontrunner for one of the spots: "She's very into the mentoring side."
Who do you think would make a good judge for the new show?
Shania Twain? Christina Aguilera? Jessica Simpson? Lady Gaga?
Leave your suggestions in our comment section below.
Matt Cardle won The X Factor in the U.K.
» 'X Factor' winner crowned in the UK, but can Matt Cardle cross over? [Entertainment Weekly]


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Orwell's Guide to Making Jam
George Orwell's show a man famous for his political journalism more concerned with raising chickens.
This collection of George Orwell's "Diaries" is billed as "the autobiography he never penned," but it is certainly not your usual memoir. The entries are disjointed, emotionless and offer disappointingly few direct references or literary insights into Orwell's writing. None of this matters, of course: For Orwell fans, the diaries are still a fascinating read.
The first of the surviving diaries begins in 1931, when Orwell was in his late 20s, and he kept them sporadically until his death, at the age of 46, in January 1950. During that time he produced exemplary journalism and searing political commentary in the form of essays and books like "Homage to Catalonia." His commentary also took fictional form, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm." Yet very little of his intellectual existence is evident in his record of his daily life.
By George Orwell
Liveright, 597 pages, $39.95
"Diaries," masterfully edited by Peter Davison, reproduces the 11 diaries that survive. The majority were never meant for publication, and there are significant gaps, most prominently from his time in Burma and Spain. (Tantalizingly, diaries documenting the latter period may still exist in a locked archive in Moscow, having been confiscated from Orwell's hotel room in Barcelona.) The surviving diaries fall into two distinct types: domestic journals that record daily household events and observational notebooks that chronicle various periods of his life.
In the 1930s, Orwell and his wife lived in a 300-year-old cottage in Hertfordshire, England, where they grew their own vegetables and raised chickens and goats. His domestic diaries show a man known for his political musings more concerned about the health of his goats and how best to fertilize root vegetables.
Orwell fastidiously recorded the types of plants he grew, the number of eggs he collected from his hens, and the milk yield of his two goats. The diaries conjure up a bucolic existence; there is no mention of the extreme financial difficulties that the couple faced at the time. The only clues are the newspaper clippings that Orwell pasted into his diary, which indicate a need for frugality as well as his dislike of consumer lifestyles driven by advertising and brand names. One article is called "Fruit Bottling Without Sugar"; another describes how to make beer from nettles; another suggests recipes for what to do with sour milk. Orwell notes the result of various experiments, such as those aimed at producing fruit preserves: blackberry jam ("rather thick"), apple ginger ("a little too gingery") and apple jam ("does not seem great success").
If you read between these laconic lines, it is possible to sense a softer, almost romantic side, to Orwell. He notices when delphiniums, peonies, marigolds and nasturtiums come into bloom, and he charts the beginning of fall through the ripening of autumnal fruits: "The first Beauty of Bath apples today" and "Elderberries beginning to turn purple."
Perhaps most charming is Orwell's boyish curiosity about the natural world. He writes down small discoveries, be it a dead squirrel or the behavior of newts, tadpoles, slugs and snails. When he comes across a phosphorescent worm, he places it in a test tube and sketches it. Upon finding a strange patch of moss, he brings it home, "hoping it will grow" in his rockery. He compares the heat given off by goat and horse manure respectively (the latter is hotter) and cuts open ticks to see what is inside ("dark viscous blood").
There is, inevitably, a repetitiveness. Each day, Orwell counts how many eggs his hens have laid. Some days, there is only a terse, two-word entry: "one egg." Being domestic diaries, they contain nothing of a confessional or emotional nature: It's odd to read in the footnotes about the death of his father, the adoption of his son and the unexpected early death of his wife—none of these events are even mentioned by Orwell.
The observational diaries, which in this volume are intercalated with the domestic ones, include accounts of Orwell's hop-picking excursions in Kent and investigations into working-class communities around Wigan Pier in the early 1930s and his travels in Morocco later that decade. His notes on these journeys proffer delightful snippets of Orwell trivia. While visiting the museum of the Brönte sisters in Yorkshire, Orwell is "chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brönte's cloth-topped boots, very small." In Marrakech he smokes his first marijuana ("unpleasant taste &—so far as I am concerned—no effect").
His wartime diaries, written from 1940 to 1942, stand out in this volume as a short book-within-a-book. They provide a visceral portrait of London during World War II. He pinpoints poignant extracts from newspapers, posters, political pamphlets and conversations with friends and strangers. He also catalogs the chaotic swirl of wartime rumor, and even starts his own (that beer is about to be rationed) to see how long it will take to return to him (it doesn't). The mood of ominous foreboding, as well as the depiction of news distorted by propaganda, anticipates the grim atmosphere of "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
Readers already steeped in Orwelliana will delight in this edition of "Diaries." Those requiring more than the sparseness of his private prose might read this volume in conjunction with a biography of Orwell or his compiled letters ("Orwell: A Life in Letters," also edited by Mr. Davison). These can provide a fuller portrait of the man who, when he kept a diary on the Scottish island of Jura, where he finished writing "Nineteen Eighty-Four," made only one mention of any literary pursuit: On a misty day in August 1947, he spent "most of afternoon trying to mend [the] typewriter."
—Ms. Larkin is the author of "Finding George Orwell in Burma."


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Per Andrus last cc. Just started a new thread since I would never find the replies otherwise in this Yahoo mb carnage.
In response to your question: A sign of strength occurs (SOS) in the right hand side of a trading range and has wider (think twice as wide or more) as the bars in the recent past with volume that sticks out on the chart, think in the top ten. The close is above mid-range.
You don't have to sit in front of the screen to see this on the daily chart because you should not buy it immediately anyway. Let it go up. Buy it only when it retraces and tests or nearly tests lower support on lower volume. The SOS says demand has proved itself and it tells you there is a trend change and it is safe to buy the dips. Right now it is only safe to sell the reactions.
Check out DRYS, a dry shipper. The Baltic rate ticked up and so all the shippers showed a sign of strength a couple weeks ago. But look what happened it retraced to the 1/2-way level of the SOS bar and may retrace all the way back down to the break out price, the bottom of the SOS bar. The point is to be patient.
SKUL will probably pop or drop on th earnings release. But why risk holding it thru that? If you want to gamble, play poker imo. Because, whether it goes up or down will have little to do with the content of the news but more on the positioning of the very biggest players. They will use whatever news comes out to move it their way. Seldom if ever is there "perfect" quarterly results. Besides, if it goes up with an SOS, just wait, even if it doesn't retrace into the SOS bar, it will eventually retrace and there'll be plenty of run left.
Another, but more risky, entry would be a low volume test of the high volume low, $6.55 with a stop just under it. By the same token if it closes under 6.55 on high volume, get out of the way, it'll go to $5. JMO
Cool, thank you. I'll see if I can spot the next one to come (if it ever does!) and then may dip my toe on the inevitable retrace, as you describe.
When you say the bars should be twice as wide, on what sort of chart do you mean i.e. what do the bars represent? Price range for the day? Or some other sort other technical stat? Pardon my ignorance!
I am still interested in anyone's thoughts on this topic.
My opinion is that there is no barrier to entry. All anyone needs to do is buy one of the existing brands/companies....they are cheap. For example, MCZ (which I own some shares) has the Tritton brand which I'll bet someone could buy for less than $50 million. It is profitable and growing fast and has a nice high end niche. Or just buy SKUL, another cheap way to enter the market.
I really wonder what Andrus was trying to say.
Buying an existing company is not an "entry" by definition. Entry is developing / sourcing, purchasing, packaging, shipping and invoicing / billing new product. This would include profitable price points, volume of sales, salaried employees, incorporation or registration as a business entity.
I believe what Andrus was saying is that saturation and price points, SKU / shelf space availability etc. have become very competitive. Thus a barrier to entry (long term and profitable) The "5" players eventually he is referring to is the number that can survive as "players"
He also stated the in house design (that includes the sound profile, and mechanical design not just strickers and colors) is part of the barrier FOR THE 50.00 - 100.00 plus bracket product.
Sure someone can buy a set from china, stick their name on it, try to undercut everyone. Who is going to sell it?
Just my thoughts....
MCZ is a good company I am sure and they are a 30 million market cap .
By the way I keep hearing disappointed Beats customers on the street. Suckered into paying too much for "new hip status", you don't hear that about SKUL. Loyal expecially in the markets they target.
Sentiment: Strong Buy


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