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Recent Event Highlights: California Schools Turn to SaaS After Budget Cuts - T.H.E. Journal, Mt. Pleasant works to make all its students proficient - Connellsville Daily Courier, Bedford BOE Decides Against Flipping School Start Times - Patch.com, MCA-II tests, most Frazee students master reading, juniors struggle with math - Frazee Vergas Forum, Grade School Goes Digital - CNBC.com, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools limit online course offerings - The Daily Tar Heel, and 110 more...
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California Schools Turn to SaaS After Budget CutsT.H.E. JournalStudy Island, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool from Archipelago Learning, is becoming more popular in California following education budget cuts and pressure to improve student results. High schools are encountering more demands from ...
Mt. Pleasant works to make all its students proficientConnellsville Daily Courier... a continuing alignment and revision of curriculum; development of school improvement plans; continued use of data to improve instructional delivery; and the use of software such as Study Island, Performance Series, Dibbles and Accelerated Reader. ...
Bedford BOE Decides Against Flipping School Start TimesPatch.comOther online initiatives include rolling out an online system called Study Island, which will be used to review and monitor student learning, and provide tools such as preparation for the SAT, ACT and AP exams. According to Patrick, the district is ...and more »
Foundation surprises NISD teachersSeguin Gazette-Enterprise"This is for a web-based program called Study Island," said Thompson. "The kids can get on it at home and school. It has fun games and they don't even know that they are studying. It is in line with the TEKS that we have to teach. It is individualized. ...
MCA-II tests, most Frazee students master reading, juniors struggle with mathFrazee Vergas Forum"We also have Study Island which is a software program that students can utilize as a tool to assist them in areas where they want to improve," Nudell added. "This helps to motivate students in a different delivery method. ...and more »
Grade School Goes DigitalCNBC.comArchipelago's Study Island, supplemental education software that makes frequent use of learning games, is designed for digital natives who are accustomed to using keyboards and being online, says spokeswoman Christy Linn. "By ensuring education is fun ...and more »
The Daily Tar HeelChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools limit online course offeringsThe Daily Tar Heel4th graders at Glenwood Elementary complete a reading pre-assesment on website "Study Island" on the school's laptop. Although some North Carolina school districts are increasing online course offerings due to ...and more »
New Jersey Schools Turn to Supplemental Online InstructionT.H.E. JournalA variety of New Jersey schools are deploying Study Island for the 2011-2012 year. The Web-based Study Island provides supplemental resources to help students learn subjects based on New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, ...
Study Island Embraced by New Jersey Schools Transitioning to Digital EducationMarketWatch (press release)DALLAS, Sep 6, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- When the new 2011-12 school year commences, more than 35 percent of New Jersey's public, private and parochial schools will be using Study Island, the web-based, high impact, low cost standards mastery ...and more »
Ontario Argus ObserverNew Plymouth is blending classes to meet standardsOntario Argus ObserverThe school also uses Study Island, which is more of diagnostic testing software program students can use to take tests and complete some assignments. Van Weerdhuizen said the first week of school the students were excited that so much of the class was ...
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Shares of Archipelago Learning (ARCL) Fall to New 52-Wk Low; Piper Jaffray ...StreetInsider.com (subscription)First, we have limited visibility on the timing and likelihood of major Study Island customer renewals. We believe 2 of Archipelago's top 5 customers (New ...Piper Jaffray Downgrades Archipelago Learning (ARCL) to Neutral; Core Business ...StreetInsider.com (subscription)all 2 news articles »
Learning should not stop in the summerChillicothe GazetteAgain, there are Web-based activities that can accentuate a child's learning, and many schools use programs such as Study Island, which are available to ...
Region 5 Education Service Center In Texas Approves Study Island As A Resource ...PR Web (press release)The web-based Study Island educational program provides standards-based instruction, practice, assessment and productivity tools that improve the ...WAGNER MIDDLE SCHOOL WINS $5000 IN STUDY ISLAND NATIONAL SPRING CONTESTeSchool News (subscription)Archipelago Learning buys Educationcity for $87MBusinessWeekArchipelago Learning Inc. to Present at the 30th Annual William Blair Growth ...MarketWatch (press release)Dallas Business Journal -EducationInvestor -Stock Markets Reviewall 35 news articles »
Harding lags on OH grad test resultsMarion StarShe said the high school is improving resources, such as introducing the software program Study Island to the high school. The school is working with ...and more »
New Trinity starting summer program for elementary school students; spots ...Clayton News Star... journaling and working with the interactive, Web-based Study Island software, which helps prepare students for the state's end-of-grade examinations. ...
Lion's Tale: How PSSAs affect NHSmy.hsj.orgSure, the PSSA may not be the scariest of all standardized tests, but here are some words that still make juniors cry: Study Island. ...
Summer Camp for the Students' Minds: Archipelago Learning Launches Study ...MarketWatch (press release)"Study Island Summer Camp provides the best of both worlds; offering fun and engaging games that reinforce and advance learning. ...and more »
The Daily Item of LynnSaugus student scholars enjoy luauThe Daily Item of LynnStudents in kindergarten through fifth grade worked all year on Study Island, an Internet site where they complete lessons and take online tests aimed ...and more »
Fulda Free PressFulda Free PressFulda Free PressThis discussion brought up Study Island that is available on the school's Website. Mr. Slaathaug said that for the 2010-2011 school year, some Fulda school ...and more »
This is a video showing how to use Qwizdom response systems with Study Island. Study Island supports using Qwizdom Q2s, Q4s and Q5s to answer questions. This video only demonstrates "Student Paced" mode.
This is a video showing how to use Qwizdom response systems with Study Island. Study Island supports using Qwizdom Q2s, Q4s and Q5s to answer questions. This video only demonstrates "Teacher Led" mode.
Lenoir County School students finish End of Grade testing this weekENC Today"The online 'Study Island' program also shows us explanations of what we have done wrong." Moss Hill Principal Donna Grady said she decided last school year ...
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250000 Questions answered on Study Island! Philadelphia's Wagner Middle School students (The Grizzly Bears) earned a Gear up for the Test Study Island Pep Rally
PCLC Study Island Pep Rally
Parkway Elementary School Alliance, OH Study Island Spring 2010 Contest Entry
Students and teachers show their enthusiasm for the web-based instructional program Study Island.
Study Island Pep Rally Fred A. Anderson Elementary School
Charles L. Spragg Elementary School Study Island Pep Rally 2010 Video
Amanda Clearcreek Middle School (Ohio) contest entry for the Study Island video contest, April 2010
Halifax Elementary Students have some fun before MCAS testing begins.
We love Study Island! Teachers and students like the instant feedback, the games and being able to use our CPS system with it. Every grade that took state assessments made Standard of Excellence. We know its because of Study Island. Study Island makes it fun to review for our assessments.
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Study Island and USA Test Prep showdown.
This video is a demo of Classroom Response System (CRS) integration within Study Island. Turning Tech's RF receivers are used to answer questions during the demo.
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Northwest NEWS
eptember 9, 2002
Local units respond to 9-1-1 fire call
BOTHELL - Bothell Fire and E.M.S. crews responded to a call at 18625 92nd Ave. NE with units from Woodinville Fire and Life Safety and Northshore Fire Department at approximately 4:10 p.m. last Friday, Sept. 6.
Arriving units found flames and smoke coming from the roof. Residents were located outside the home. Fire crews entered the home and extinguished the fire. The family cat was found inside the home and was returned safely to his owner.
The fire appeared to have started on the exterior of the home and spread quickly to the attic. A resident was home and heard a cracking sound. He walked to the back of the home found flames extending to the roof.
He quickly called 9-1-1 from outside the home. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Estimated property loss is over $150,000.
Remember, if you see or smell smoke in your home it is important to evacuate immediately and call 911 from outside. Smoke detectors are an extremely helpful tool to help safeguard your home. If you live in the city of Bothell and you need a smoke detector, the City of Bothell Fire and E.M.S. will install one for you free of charge.

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Director wins Cinematic Imagery Award
George Lucas will be honored with the Cinematic Imagery Award during the 13th annual Art Directors Guild Awards on Feb. 14 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
The Cinematic Imagery Award goes to an individual whose body of work has enhanced the visual aspects of the moviegoing experience.
Past recipients include Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Frank Oz.
Designer Paul Sylbert will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.


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Selena Gomez Gets All Wet in 'Come & Get It' Video [Pic]
Selena Gomez is all wet…at least in an image she shared from her 'Come & Get It' video shoot. The singer is submerged in water, with her hair slicked back, surrounded by cameramen. She's a water nymph and an aquatic vixen in this shot.


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2011-12: Appeared in one doubles match, pairing with Dane Moran against Youngstown State on March 14.
2010-11: Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team...earned singles and doubles wins against Oberlin on March 29 in his only action of the spring.
2009-10: Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team...made one singles appearance, winning 6-0, 6-1 in March 29 win over Oberlin...one doubles appearance, teaming with Cesare Gallo to earn an 8-2 doubles triumph in Feb. 21 victory against Siena.
2008-09: 0-2 at #6 singles on the season...2-0 in doubles, pairing twice with Maksim Levanovich...those doubles wins came in Hatter victories over Siena (Feb. 23) and Roger Williams (March 19).
Prior to Stetson: Hyma earned six varsity letters at Westminster Christian High School in Miami...played for Head Coach Peter Lehmann....15-8 in singles and 7-7 in doubles his last two years...team captain.
Personal: National Honor Society and Math National Honor Society member his last three years at WCHS...son of Bruce and Janet Hyma was born November 2, 1989 in Miami, Fla.


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The local Marine Corps League will continue its efforts to help veterans by donating a check for $1,500 to the Augusta-Aiken Warrior Project this afternoon.
The organization is making a short event of the donation in Veterans Park, located at 1435 Richland Ave. The event will begin at 4 p.m.
Jim Kline, Sergeant at Arms for the organization, said the event will feature guest speaker U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.
Kline added the Marine Corps League raised the $1,500 through a pancake breakfast hosted at Fatz restaurant. He explained that the donation is going to the Augusta-Aiken Warrior Project due to their focus on the medical needs of veterans.
While the Marine Corps League focuses more on helping veterans find employment and other issues, he said, it all falls under the umbrella of helping those who have served.
"We're all wanting the same things – a better life for veterans," he said. "We think this will be a great presentation, we're excited to have Congressman Wilson in attendance, and we're inviting everyone to attend."
The Marine Corps League is compromised of military officials from the Marines and Navy, as well as associate and auxiliary members from other military branches of service, who have served and have been honorably discharged. Today, League membership nationally has grown to over 60,000 members.
The James L. Hammons Detachment No. 939 was formed in 1996 in Aiken. Today, the detachment boasts more than 100 active members.
Derrek Asberry is a beat reporter with the Aiken Standard. He joined the paper in June 2013. He is originally from Vidalia, Ga., and a graduate of Georgia Southern University. Follow him on Twitter @DerrekAsberry.
Editor's note: The Aiken-Augusta Warrior Project was referred to incorrectly in a previous version of this story. The Aiken Standard regrets the error.


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Donald Trump won't be firing Nielsen Media Research anytime soon.
In numbers provided by the ratings service, last Thursday's penultimate episode of his NBC reality series "The Apprentice" drew 21.8 million viewers, beating the CBS war-horse "Survivor: All-Stars," which attracted 20.2 million (a still-excellent showing).
Meanwhile, in a carefully orchestrated build-up to this Thursday's live, two-hour "Apprentice" finale, the 57-year-old real-estate mogul will be just about everywhere on the tube. (Last week he even sat down with Ellen DeGeneres on her syndicated daytime NBC show and noticed her "beautiful" mother in the audience. "She's available, if you're interested," Ellen shot back at him.)
Monday at 8 p.m., NBC's "Fear Factor" is due to feature Miss USA contestants, followed at 9 p.m. by the pageant itself, which is owned by Trump. On NBC-owned MSNBC at 9 p.m., Trump advisers George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher will chew the fat with Deborah Norville.
Then on Wednesday night, NBC will broadcast an "Apprentice" repeat at 8 p.m., followed a "Dateline NBC" look behind the scenes of the series at 9 p.m., with series producer Mark Burnett (who also produces "Survivor").
And don't look for everything to come to an end with Thursday's finale. A special two-hour "Dateline Friday" will feature a lengthy profile of the Donald and his latest book, "Trump: How to Get Rich." Earlier on Thursday, the "Today" show is planning to talk to 14 "Apprentice" contestants to discuss the finale.
And for those who wish to get a bit of Trump's action into their wallets, Bank One Corp. is now offering a Donald Trump-branded credit card under an agreement announced last week. Trump Rewards Visa cardholders will earn credits that can be redeemed at select Trump hotels and casinos.
"The Trump Visa card is the best deal ever for Visa customers. Saying 'no' to this card could get you fired," Trump said in a press release.
Trump Outdraws Viewers of 'Survivor'
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'Dancing with the Stars' may shake up its judging panel; 3 pros also expected to leave
"Dancing with the Stars" may shake up its judging panel; 3 pros also expected to leave
None of the judges is signed up for next season, reports the NY Post, whose source says that Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman are probably out. Meanwhile, dancing pros Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Cheryl Burke are unlikely to return.
FX orders "The Comedians" starring Billy Crystal
Crystal will play a comedy veteran who's paired with a younger, edgier comic host of a late-night show in a project that comes from some of the brains behind "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Burn Notice."
"The X Factor" considered reuniting the original "American Idol" panel
A producer proposed a reunion with Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. But the idea was nixed because the show was closing deals with Paulina Rubio and Kelly Rowland.
Billy Baldwin joins "Copper"
He'll play successful businessman William "Wild Bill" Eustace in the final two episodes of next season.


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Glossary of genetic terms
- Authors
- Benjamin A Raby, MD, MPH
Benjamin A Raby, MD, MPH
- Section Editor — Genetics
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Harvard Medical School
- Robert D Blank, MD, PhD
Robert D Blank, MD, PhD
- Professor of Medicine
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Section Editor
- Anne Slavotinek, MBBS, PhD
Anne Slavotinek, MBBS, PhD
- Section Editor — Genetics
- Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
- University of California - San Francisco
- Deputy Editor
- Jennifer S Tirnauer, MD
Jennifer S Tirnauer, MD
- Deputy Editor — Hematology
One of the greatest obstacles clinicians experience in reading about and understanding genetics is the extensive use of technical language and jargon. It should be noted that genetic terms are frequently used imprecisely in published clinical literature. The following is a compilation of some of the most important technical terms.
A more extensive discussion of terms can be accessed in standard genetics reference texts [1]. In addition, a guide for the conventions regarding the proper names of genes and alleles in humans can be found at www.genenames.org/guidelines.html.
Glossaries of epidemiological terms and terms that apply to systematic reviews and meta-analyses are presented separately in UpToDate. (See "Glossary of common biostatistical and epidemiological terms" and "Systematic review and meta-analysis", section on 'Glossary of terms'.)
●Allele — One of a series of alternative forms at a specific region of a chromosome. At the DNA level, different alleles have different base sequences.
●Allele frequency — The proportion of chromosomes in a population harboring a specific allele. "Minor allele frequency" typically refers to the less common variant at a biallelic locus and is usually used to refer to the frequency of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP).
Subscribers log in hereTo continue reading this article, you must log in with your personal, hospital, or group practice subscription. For more information or to purchase a personal subscription, click below on the option that best describes you:Literature review current through: Aug 2016. | This topic last updated: Mar 14, 2016.The content on the UpToDate website is not intended nor recommended as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your own physician or other qualified health care professional regarding any medical questions or conditions. The use of this website is governed by the UpToDate Terms of Use ©2016 UpToDate, Inc.References
- Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics, 2nd ed, Maloy S, Hughes K. (Eds), Elsevier, 2013.


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Transfer pattern. Use Mocha for face area; Primary Yellow for cap rim; and Primary Yellow, Christmas Red, and True Blue for cap sections. Paint eyes True Blue. Use large pouncer brush and Ultra White to stamp circles for baseballs. Allow all to dry.
Mix equal, small amounts of Mocha with Sweet Melon. Use small pouncer brush dipped into mixture to stamp cheeks on face. Allow to dry.
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April 4, 2012
Pictures from a Time Before Oil Was King
Cara Parks, Foreign Policy
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Few things can alter a society as radically as the discovery of oil, and few places prove this as vividly as the Gulf states. The economy of Kuwait, for example, depended historically on its natural harbor in the Persian Gulf, which linked it to the thriving pearl trade and allowed for the flourishing of other maritime enterprises. But that was before oil was discovered in the region in 1938. After the interruption of World War II, Kuwait's economy underwent a massive transformation. Oil revenue flowing into Kuwait City tripled from 1951 to 1952, and then tripled again from 1952 to 1953.
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The federal government is set to give Wisconsin almost $1 million to improve the Port Washington breakwater.
Click here to watch the report
The Army Corps of Engineers had leftover money this year, and plans to stabilize and improve the surface of the port's north breakwater.
Mayor Tom Mlada said the area is not safe because parts of the breakwater are eroding and in some places there is no protection between people and the water.
"The long-term effective solution that you have in place is a sustainable solution, that you don't just have a really nice surface walkway but that you have an overall structure that we feel good about for another maybe 40 or 50 years," Mlada said.
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Well it's taken me awhile, but here are the results of my second round on the HCG diet.
Total Weight Lost~
Starting weight: 165.8
After the 2 loading days weight: 166.0
After the VLCD (24 days) weight – also called Last drops/dose weight (LDW): 154.4
I include the weight gain from loading in my total weight loss because I feel that had I not given myself 'free reign' to eat like that then I wouldn't have gained the weight in the first place. That said, my total loss for round 2 was 11.6lbs.
Total inches lost~
Start on 12-30-10 / Finish on 1-25-11
Rt. Arm: 12.75 / 12.5 = .25 inch lost
Lt. Arm: 12.5 / 12.25 = .25 inch lost
Neck: 12.75 / 12.25 = .5 inch lost
Chest: 36.5 / 35.75 = .75 inch lost
Midriff: 39.25 / 37.5 = 1.75 inches lost
Waist: 32.5 / 30.25 = 2.25 inches lost
Hips: 43.75 / 42.25 = 1.5 inches lost
Rt. Thigh: 27 / 25.5 = 1.5 inches lost
Lt. Thigh: 27 / 25.5 = 1.5 inches lost
Rt. Knee: 17.25 / 17 = .25 inch lost
Lt. Knee: 17 / 17 = no loss
Total added together for inches lost = 10.5 (10 1/2) inches lost from my entire body!!!
Things I changed this round and trouble I encountered~
This time around I decided to try and get more variety in my daily menu. Since I hate most of the options available on the original approved foods list, that meant just doubling up on chicken one day and then having my normal chicken followed by beef the next day and so on. (Double chicken, chicken then beef – double chicken, chicken then beef – etc.). I found that this alternating meat schedule did seem to help my weight loss. I also attempted to eat my beef for lunch instead of dinner in hopes that might change things for my losses… it didn't though. At the beginning of the second week I had started to take a probiotic (had to wait for it to come in the mail or I would have started it before week 1), but by the end of the week I stopped taking it just in case it was slowing my losses. I have no proof whether it did or not to be honest, but I stopped anyway. (I have since started to take them again and they really help me with digestion so that will not be something I stop taking again).
Here are the numbers for my weekly losses:
Week 1: 6.4lbs lost
Week 2: 2.6lbs lost
Week 3: 2lbs lost
Week 4: 0.6lbs lost – I cut this week short though because I stopped early. There were only 3 days in this week for losing weight.
I had decided to stop this round early because of other medical problems I was encountering. None of my medical issues pertained to the diet though. I have nerve damage in my feet (Morton's neuroma) and I have a sensitive bladder. I found that eating the oranges and lemons on the diet caused a major flare up of my bladder sensitivity so I guess you could call that related, but the diet did not 'cause' the issue is my point. I wanted to go into maintenance (Phase 3) so that I could better fuel my body for healing in hopes that I might be able to get well from my foot injuries.
This round was definitely harder in the mental aspect I will be honest. When I went in to round 1 I was leaving behind microwave foods and fast food… all choices that I knew were terrible for my body and making me sluggish and lethargic. Once I entered round 2 I had already drastically changed my diet for the better. I learned how to cook meals and incorporate tasty spices for flavor, I bought organic foods, I ate much lower in fats (now most of my fat comes from either healthy sources like nuts or it comes from cheeses hehe – I love cheese!), and high in veggies and fruits. It was excruciating to me to leave those healthy food choices behind because I knew those choices were NOT what made me overweight. So mentally being on the VLCD was torture – I kept craving some fresh cut pineapple, Greek yogurt, bananas, and broccoli with a little cheddar cheese on top amongst other things.
On the other hand there were aspects of this round that I found much easier as well. I had much more knowledge going in and that helped me feel more confident that my losses would be good. I knew what signs to look for that a true stall was coming. Also, I knew how to handle a stall if it did happen. I was much more relaxed about seeing small numbers on the scale – I lost a tiny bit each day and by the end of the week it would add up to at least 2lbs lost. I also felt better throughout because I did not suffer as badly from any kind of detox period. Less headaches, less hunger, and I just felt better throughout in general. (Not to say I didn't have my crappy days – there are always crappy days lol).
Before and After time!
This time I was braver as promised and wore some spandex lol.
The differences aren't exactly drastic, but they are impressive to me for such a short amount of time. My body has smoothed out quite a bit from this round and I feel more confident these days.
Here is a look back from the beginning of Round 1 until the end of Round 2:
Sadly the bagginess of my clothes in the first round's photos makes it tough to compare – but I can see some major changes in there! Also keep in mind that I started to take my pics from Round 1 a bit late – I actually started at 180.0lbs and I finished Round 2 at 154.8 for a total loss of 25.2lbs!!
Here's a better picture for showing where I started to where I am now:
So that's it for Round 2 on the HCG diet. Does this end my journey? Heck no! At this point I am changing my method of weight loss from the HCG diet to eating healthy + exercise. This is going to be a tough journey for me since I am starting it off with atrophied muscles and injured feet, but I need to get my body back into some semblance of good shape lol. True health and wellness cannot be acquired through any diet alone, exercise is absolutely necessary to become fit and healthy. Please remember that being "thin" is not the goal you should be focusing on – you should want to be "fit" because getting thin happens to be a wonderful side effect of getting fit. You will live longer, have more energy, have more endurance, and also be more balanced in your moods and mental health when you are truly healthy. I have used the HCG diet to "jump-start" my weight loss and I always knew it would not be the end of my road. From here you can continue to follow my journey through the world of exercise and fitness along with TASTY healthy eating because I will continue to chronicle my journey for all of you and I hope I can inspire you to make the same journey along side me.


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Fine Dining at Grouse Mountain Grill, Pines Lodge, Beaver Creek, Colorado
Stay slopeside at the luxurious Pines Lodge, and dine like a king at the Grouse Mountain Grill, the AAA Four Diamond Award-winning restaurant that features stunning views of Beaver Creek Resort. Zagat raves about the joint as the best in the region, and Grouse is the highlight of the annual Beaver Creek Culinary Festival. Executive Chef Ted Schneider prepares elegant game, beef, fish and fowl with a signature rustic style, served graciously in a warm, welcoming environment. For a divine taste of Grouse Mountain, try the recipe for honey & lemon venison osso buco with goat cheese risotto at home:
Honey & Lemon Venison Osso Buco
with Goat Cheese Risotto
Serves four
8 venison shanks, cut "osso buco" style
3 T vegetable oil
1 cup lemon peel, fresh
2 cups lemon juice
1 cup honey
1 cup brown sauce
Salt and pepper
Salt and pepper venison shanks. Dredge in flour and fry in vegetable oil, turning to make sure both sides have browned. Place in a baking dish. Add lemon juice, honey, lemon peel and brown sauce. Bake at 350° covered for 1 to 2 hours or until "fork" tender. Skim off excess fat, and serve over the goat cheese risotto with some of the sauce.
Goat Cheese Risotto
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup shallots, finely chopped
1 3/4 cups Arborio rice
1/2 cup white wine
6 cups chicken stock, hot
4 T butter
6 oz goat cheese, room temperature
Salt and pepper to taste
In a heavy bottomed pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add shallots and stir until translucent. Add rice, stir until coated with oil. Add wine and simmer until evaporated. Add half chicken stock, simmer until evaporated. Add remaining stock and simmer until evaporated until rice is soft on the outside with a chewy center. If rice is crunchy, add another cup of stock and allow it to evaporate. Repeat if necessary. Remove from heat and stir in the butter and goat cheese. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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This is my "CrossFit doesn't have to be fun to be fun" face.
The 4th workout of the CrossFit Open will be announced tonight and just like in previous weeks a few of us will get together to do a trial run of it. The first year of the CrossFit Open I was a scoreboard junkie and pretty much a nervous wreck before the WODs. I feared the exposure of my weaknesses and lived and died by my performance. This year is different because I have 2 simple mantras. The first one is simple: As I warm up I remind myself that this is fun! That's right. All of the suffering should happen in training so I can actually have some fun competing. When I'm loose I'm positive, I get more reps, and generally perform better in a state that wrestlers call "relaxed intensity." There's only 2 weeks left in the Open and I encourage you to have fun this week! The other mantra is to trust my training. At this point in terms of Open standing the hay's pretty much in the barn. There's not a whole lot we can do other than skill practice so what's really happening is a test of fitness. I trust that I've prepared myself either to the best of my abilities or at least as much as I'm going to get to and so when I'm warming up I'm relaxed, confident, and ready to enjoy some mass quad destruction. So for 13.4 you have two mandates: Trust the hard work you've put in and have some fun doing what you love with your friends. That's what it's all about!
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Family Statistics: A great new feature
Family tree charts are very useful for an overall view of our ancestors, while descendant chart printouts help us understand, in a linear format, how the generations of our family relate to each other.
Now there's an entertaining way, via MyHeritage.com's new free tool, to learn family statistics contained in your data.
Called "Family Statistics," the new tool will help researchers access and understand 45 sets of statistics gathered from the information in their trees. It will also help identify data entry errors so they can be fixed.
The stats are organized into six Family Zones: names, places, ages, births, marriages and divorces.
Colorful charts indicate the age bracket distribution across your tree, as well as oldest and youngest family members. Learn who lived the longest, who married the youngest, who married the latest, which couple had the most children and many more details, such as the most common birth month of your relatives.
Family Statistics is completely free and easily accessed from the MyHeritage welcome page or from the Reports tab of members' Family Tree sites. If you've just joined MyHeritage, but have not yet uploaded a Gedcom or entered family tree date, you won't see the Reports tab. That should encourage you to add more data s soon as possible!
How can Family Statistics help you in other ways?
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Thanksgiving: Family Health History Day
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today - it is also the sixth annual National Family History Day, declared by the US Surgeon General.
Everyone should know their family medical history. The holidays are great times to get this project started, to collect information from the gathered generations and learn what they know about their own parents and grandparents.
Knowing as much of this information as possible may help assist children and grandchildren to be aware of family risks and recommendations. It will help you when you talk to your own doctor or other healthcare professional.
Most of us have been to a new doctor whose first questions for us concern what diseases or conditions are in our family. They ask about diabetes, heart disease, kidney problems, cancer, allergies. They might ask what your grandparents suffered from and when they died (very young, a long life?).
I would hazard a guess that we may know what our parents suffered from, and perhaps the medical conditions of our grandparents, but how many of us know much more than that? To learn more, talk to your relatives about their own ancestors. Write down what they say, even if they are using old medical terms. There are websites that provide current terminology for the old names, search for "old medical terms."
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Making maps: A volunteer army covers the world
Did you know that armies of volunteer mapmakers are out there - all around the world - adding data to existing maps, fixing errors on those which exist, and creating digital maps of places for which no maps are available.
A picture is worth a thousand words and a map of a place closely associated with nostalgia and family history uncovers long-forgotten memories. Those memories reveal that we don't even know what we've forgotten until a map or photo jogs those brain cells. I applaud all those mapmakers!
I learned about the new term geo-volunteerism from a recent New York Times technology article that focused on how these individuals are really making a difference.
Have you ever experienced a problem while relying on a GPS device? Perhaps the city maps are not updated in a timely fashion or perhaps the responsible company relies on a big digital map provider who doesn't have a resident army on the ground.
When visiting a genealogy society in northern California in 2007, the group's president picked me up from the train and we drove to his home. As we neared his neighborhood, he pointed to his GPS device and said to watch it. The disembodied voice kept insisting the driver turn left at the next intersection, but my friend was in the right lane. I looked left and saw a large building. If we turned left, we'd drive in the front door. He turned right into his own street. This was a few years ago, and I hope that the city's maps have now been updated by some of these mapping volunteers.
With thousands of geo-volunteers around the world, local maps are getting quick fixes. People who live in the area know almost immediately when a new road has opened, when a new building has changed traffic patterns, or when a new housing complex hasn't been added to existing maps and GPS devices. They know about these things because they cover their own cities and neighborhoods every day.
The article demonstrates that Google and other websites now understand that local residents can fix problems more quickly than professional digital map providers.
Two websites were mentioned in the article - OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia - and I decided to see what they might have for places I have lived. The non-profit OpenStreetMap has some 180,000 contributors who have made free maps available to everyone. Its maps are used in IPhones and even on a White House website. Wikimapia's volunteers create maps that are layered on top of Google's.
I checked an online resource for locations where my family had lived in New York. In the Bronx, we lived in Parkchester, a large, multi-building development built by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and now operated as a condominium. This map (right) shows our apartment building (well, the general location), as the interior streets of the development are not on this map.
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Digitized Maps: Another source of family details
As family history researchers, we are usually fascinated by maps - at least I am. These visual interpretations help us understand our family's origins in other countries and provide information on how our immigrant ancestors traveled to ports to board their ships, in addition to understanding historical events.
Those maps can be found in gazetteers and online. There are also local maps that can help us locate relatives who lived in towns and cities. Some local maps are for tax purposes, and others were developed for fire insurance liability.
In the US, the Sanborn Company published more than 660,000 maps from 1867-1970. These maps were drawn to help insurance underwriters understand the risks of insuring buildings in cities and towns.
For more than a century, over 660,000 Sanborn maps have demonstrated the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. New digitalization projects, such as the one at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (Ohio), preserve the original colors in the two volumes scanned so far. Volume 1 runs 1904-1917, while Volume 2 runs 1904-1930.
The originals were colored according to construction key and other details. Some libraries have microfilmed copies of the maps which are only in black and white, but digitization preserves the original colors (see below)
Let's take a look at what the Cincinnati maps hold for illustration purposes. At this library, there's a separate PDF document online for each index page and map sheet.
All the sheets are on a map index (see below). Each sheet shows about four to six blocks. The scale of 50:1 means that each inch of the map covers 50 feet, allowing for considerable detail. Major public buildings include houses of worship, companies, public schools and more.
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The Arch Street Presbyterian Church Choir is made up of an eclectic group of singers who come together on a regular basis to sing praises to God. We offer ministry opportunities, fellowship, and creative renewal. The choir is open to all adults. Church membership is not required.
Our diverse repertoire includes classical, spirituals and gospel music and adds to the rich experience of community felt at Arch Street and within the fellowship of our members and friends. Our music ministry sometimes goes beyond the church walls as we sing at various events in Philadelphia and the vicinity.
The Arch Street Choir sings during Sunday morning services at least three times a month. We rehearse after worship. Join us and be uplifted as we minister in song!
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I've got a grand-daughter that loves to garden and my husband loves growing things too. She and her grand-pa usually does a planting project together each time she visits.
I thought DuneCraft's new LED Light Cubes Mini-Meadow Garden or Mini-Cactus Garden would be a great project for them to do together. Since my husband loves cactus I decided on the Mini-Cactus Garden.
It was really easy to set up when it came and has been a fascinating experience to watch cactus grow from seeds.
These complete kits come with the terrarium, growing medium, LED lights, seeds, and complete instructions-just add water! It also comes with a USB so you can plug it into your computer so the Cacti can clean the air and even absorb electromagnetic rays. I put out LED cube in a UBS plug and have it with the rest of the plants.
We took the circular growing medium disk out and wet it with water until it was soft. Spread it out in the terrarium and sprinkled the seeds and gently pressed them into the soil.
There are 15 powerful micro LED lights which provide light for the seedlings and plants to grow well and stay healthy. The switch on the lid can be adjusted to turn on the blue lights to foster foliage or the red lights to encourage flowering. Depending on what is being grown both lights can be turned on at the same time.
The light has three different settings and a timer!
The Mini-Meadow would be great too and I think would be uplifting and cheerful especially during the winter months.
The LED lights are low-energy bulbs so it won't affect our light bill by using them nor will they burn the plants. We are really looking forward to growing tiny gardens in spots around the house by buying more LED Light Cubes.
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Svinklovene is a part of the dramatic landscape by Svinkløv Dune Plantation, a 700 hectar large state-owned area, which is open to the general public. The shallow, southern part of the area was up until the Middle Ages an open strait connecting the North Sea to the Limfjord.
The breathtaking scenic view from the top of Svinklovene is not only beautiful, it is also very much historic. Just south of the ranges of hills, there was once an open strait "Sløjen" and a passage leading merchant navies and viking ships back and forth between the Limfjord and the North Sea. The stretch was monitored from the viking castle Aggersborg, and it was functional until at least the 13th century. The area that surrounds Svinkløv Dune Plantation was originally the north-western part of a large island in the Stone Age Sea.
Svinkløv Dune Plantation is more than 100 years old. It is as a very diverse conifer plantation providing good cover and hence fine living conditions for animals, birds and insects. Roe deer is quite common, and for the patient there are good possibilities to see red deer. The entire flat area, with its small lakes, was actually one big ocean during the Stone Age - situated more than 50 metres below the level of where you see the plantation today. Back then, the water level was six metres higher than that of today. Svinkløv Dune Plantation has been appointed internationally worthy of preservation - an EU habitat.
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April 26, 2004 - Happy 34th Birthday, Tina!
10:00 p.m. What a day! It started out special and continued long into the night. Tina and Sissy had a very touching time together late tonight. This time Tina initiated the exchange and Sissy expertly helped Tina feel comfortable. Over the winter months these two girls have developed quite a fondness for each other. I have no doubt that Sissy will be the one to coax Tina out into the big outdoors soon. What a blessing they are to each other.
Tina turned 34 today...how do we know? She was captive born. All of our other elephants' birthdays are chosen for them, but this is really the day of Tina's birth. It is strange to consider if Tina might sense that this is her birthday but consider this: over the past two days Tina has broken into song on numerous occasions which causes us to wonder. Could she know this is a special day? Does her internal clock calculate a year's time? Impossible, how could this be? Well we are not saying it is so; we are only making the observation that Tina has been singing for two days now. What is she singing about? We will allow ourselves the fantasy that Tina is singing her birthday song.
Today Tina had her first taste of a non-dairy product that is made to taste like ice cream. Normally we don't feed her anything that would not normally be found in her diet in the wild, but we indulged Tina knowing what a sweet tooth she has. Ice Cream was always included in the special treats that Tina received over the years at the Vancouver Game Farm. Tofutti smells and tastes like ice cream but does not contain any diary products or harmful chemicals. Made from soybeans it does fall into the category of food that is not harmful to her. As you can see, she really enjoyed it!
Tina has been with us for nine months, and although her recovery has been slow, it will be permanent. She has changed her eating habits to better satisfy her nutritional needs, she bonded with all of the other elephants, and she of course continues to enjoy being showered with attention from her caregivers. Now we just have to get her to appreciate the big outdoors on a fulltime basis instead of only on occasion.
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Here are my observations from Wednesday night's Indianapolis Colts training camp practice:
- Wednesday's practice was the first practice in pads. Keep that in mind. My overall impression was that training camp is as much about development as it is evaluation. Be very careful not to read too much in to any one observation. What you are getting from the many excellent fan reports and tweets is snap shots. It would be like trying to piece together the plot of the Godfather using a few random still images taken by people who had never seen the end of the movie. The biggest mistake fans can make with training camp is to draw conclusions from a small and incomplete sample.
- Anyone recently resigned or reworked was sitting last night. That means no Tommie Harris, Nate Davis, ect. Peyton was there and engaged. The reports that he was throwing yesterday were encouraging, but that was well before I arrived.
- Curtis Painter wasn't perfect, but he was noticeably better than I thought. I grant you that his competition was Mike Hartline, but he completed a pair of gorgeous balls to Reggie Wayne. He threw with some zip, and looked generally competent. Anyone hoping he'd come to camp as a complete trainwreck is going to be disappointed. I'm no Painter fan, but I did think he was the best backup option last year, and after seeing him last night, I won't be surprised if he wins the job again.
- I thought Gonzo had a bit of a rough night. He got some separation deep, but failed to haul in some passes. It's always hard to tell if that's on him or Painter, but at one point Lacey had him locked down pretty well. Gonzo made the catch, and Lacey drew a penalty flag from the official that was there for training purposes, but in a real situation, Gonzo would have been looked off. He worked out a lot with the second unit.
- Mathis was back, so anyone wondering if his temporary absence was some kind of secret contract antics can put that to bed. Please.
- Jerry Hughes had some nice moments, openly abusing Ijalana early. He's definitely quick.
- Castonzo verses Freeney is a mismatch. Freeney made him look silly with a spin move, popping Delone Carter in the hole just as he took the handoff. The fumble was not Carter's fault. He had no chance. It was on one of their snaps against each other, though. Don't worry too much about Freeney besting a rookie playing against him in pads for the first time. There's is no analog in football to his spin move.
- Carter looked good over all, but it's frankly impossible for me to evalute running backs in a situation where they aren't really being tackled.
- Overall, the defensive line looked better than the offensive line.
- Rookie WR Larron Moore dropped several passes. Rough night for him on a day when most receivers were catching the passes fluidly.
- McAfee had a punt that hung in the air forever. Guy next to me timed it at 5.1 seconds of hang time. Garcon, Gonzo, and Powers were all fielding punts.
- I stopped by to say hello to Chris Spann, brother of Chad Spann (read that great profile). The family was out watching camp. We only spoke for a minute or so, but they seemed very nice. I asked if they were nervous at all, and Chris's answer was illuminating. "We've been through this before". I forgot how many years of games and practices the family goes through before a son or brother makes the NFL. It's too long a road to sweat a training camp workout the first week in August.
- I took some pictures at the time, but the network was simply too slow to upload them to twitter over the wifi connection. I'll upload higher quality non-smart phone photos taken by my friend and 18to88 correspondant Nate Manahan later today. Frankly, I hate smart phone pictures, they never look good. The second one is a sasquatch style shot of Peyton. Couldn't you tell?
- Don't come to camp without having an updated roster.
- There are some great tweeters out there. Be sure you are following Andrew Mishler from Ball State and Dan Graham, who had good insights last night. Fair warning, Graham can be salty, but has good information.
- The amazing thing about camp is how fan friendly it is. The $10 parking fee is reasonable, but then when you are there the concessions are all fairly priced. Four bucks bought me a bottle of water and a Dr. Pepper. That's a far cry from the prices at the Luke. By making camp free and offering so many great options for families, the Colts have really made it possible for the fans to get close to them. Not everyone in Indiana can afford tickets to a game, but a lower middle class family of five can go to Anderson and for $50 of gas and parking get to see the team up close and have a lot of fun. It's really an amazing thing.
- Fans line the fences hoping for autographs. Considering there were thousands there last night, it's really an amazing scene.
- My kids got into a conversation about the Colts. It went like this:
Ellie: Peyton Manning is the best player on the Colts.
Scott: Peyton Manning is the best player in football.
Ellie: It's the same thing.
Scott: Yeah. Mommy, is Peyton Manning real?
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Not counting the pep band, how many Citadel cadets do you think attended the Bulldogs' Saturday night home basketball game against Wofford?
Did you guess 300?
Not even close.
Only 50?
No, way lower.
A hearty half-dozen?
In one of the saddest coincidences of the college season, the number of cadets in the end zone student section exactly matched the Citadel win total for the season: Four.
"I try to focus on preparing my team and getting them ready to play, but certainly a homecourt advantage is a help," Citadel head coach Chuck Driesell said after Wofford's predictable 77-56 victory before a crowd of 1,333 at McAlister Field House. "It is disappointing that the cadets don't come out."
Past Citadel basketball misery has made bestseller lists. Former player Pat Conroy wrote "My Losing Season." Seth Davis in his brilliant new "Wooden: A Coach's Life" reports that Los Angeles media in 1972 ripped the legendary John Wooden after a 105-49 rout of The Citadel for scheduling a foe worse than the team from L.A.'s Crenshaw High School.
But a 4-22 record with 14 straight losses and no Southern Conference wins is bad even by Bulldog basement standards.
"You see it all the time in sports; when you get that one win, you can build on that," Driesell said. "Then everybody's feeling good and the confidence level picks up. Confidence is a big part of an athlete's performance. Right now, we're very low in that category."
This Citadel basketball team, according to USA Today's Sagarin computer poll, is 348th among the 351 NCAA Division I teams. Driesell is 28-90 in his fourth season with the Bulldogs.
The student body has the school spirit of a dead minnow.
No cheerleaders, either
To make support matters worse, The Citadel opted this season to cut its cheerleader squad. Now, when things are bleakest, there's not even a loyal pom-pom or megaphone around.
Overall, there might be a more depressing homecourt scene in college basketball. But it must take a national tour and magnifying glass to find it.
It's up to Citadel officials to fix all of this, before fans and recruits are frightened beyond repair.
Not that the season has been without positive signs for a young team that doesn't have a senior.
Matt Van Scyoc, a 6-6 sophomore forward from Green Lake, Wis., is a terrific talent, one of the best players in the SoCon.
Sophomore forward C.J. Bray (James Island High School) is averaging 4.3 points per game but scored 9 points early in the first half of last week's loss at Appalachian State.
Brian White, a 6-6 freshman from Richmond, Va., looks like a major building block at times.
The Citadel has lost two SoCon games in overtime, two others by five points or less.
Too often, however, the Bulldogs play below their modest potential, grasping for any approach that works - only to switch gears again.
The fans deserve better, and the players deserve better student support.
Believin' or not
Sure, it was an "open weekend" last week at The Citadel, with cadets free to leave campus and find more fun than watching Wofford pummel their classmates. Lots of home basketball games have been played on open weekends before, but few with so few students on hand.
"I don't think about it that much," Van Scyoc said. "On the court, you're just trying to do things as a player. But if it's louder, it's definitely more fun. But you can only do so much with the fan support. I tried talking to my fellow cadets, but they'd rather be downtown than watching us."
At least the pep band came through with zeal. As Wofford's Lee Skinner attempted a free throw at the other end of the court, band members shouted, "Skinner's not gonna make it!"
Someone else at McAlister Field House has faith. During a Saturday night timeout with Wofford up 73-45 and 4:31 remaining, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" blared over the public address system.
Too bad a lot of Citadel people didn't believe in the first place.
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Understanding Bushonomics
How We Got Into This Mess in the First Place
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In 1914, Henry Ford convinced the directors of Ford Motor Company to increase the minimum wage it paid most workers to $5 a day. In return, Ford, the first company to use the assembly line to produce automobiles, got greater commitment from its employees to help management achieve the potential efficiencies possible with assembly production. In addition, the company gained so much free publicity that it was able to virtually eliminate its advertising budget for years after the announcement. But Henry Ford argued years later that the biggest benefit to the company was the enrichment of its workforce, "For on that day we first created a lot of customers."
For a time, Ford's action put upward pressure on wages not only among automobile manufacturers but in other industries as well. In less that a decade, however, Ford's leadership in profit sharing was almost totally ignored by most U.S. businesses. The 1920s were a period of remarkable growth in industrial output. Between 1920 and 1929 worker productivity grew by 63 percent while real wages (after accounting for inflation) fell by 9 percent. The benefits of this productivity boom accrued entirely to business. Part of it was distributed to stock holders in the form of dividends, helping to push share prices ever higher, while the remainder was invested in new plant and equipment, which further increasing productivity and industrial output.
That cycle continued until October of 1929, when Wall Street suddenly realized that consumers could not begin to purchase all of the goods and products that this capacity was capable of producing. The late Arthur Schlesinger wrote in The Crisis of the Old Order:
Management's disposition to maintain prices and inflate profits while holding down wages and raw material prices meant that workers and farmers were denied the benefits of increases in their own productivity. The consequence was the relative decline of mass purchasing power. As goods flowed out of the expanding capital plant in ever greater quantities, there was proportionately less and less cash in the hands of buyers to carry goods off the market. The pattern of income distribution, in short, was incapable of long maintaining prosperity.
Nearly three quarters of a century after the 1929 crash, George W. Bush began gathering his economic advisors to prepare the policy agenda for his incoming administration. There seemed to be little appreciation of the lessons of either Henry Ford or the Great Depression. The first orders of business were massive tax cuts focused heavily on corporations and the highest income individuals to foster economic growth through assistance to the "supply side" of the economy.
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But by now, Mountaineer fans must be accustomed to Dana Holgorsen's squad taking control in the second half. This contest followed the same pattern, as West Virginia scored 23 points in the third quarter and a total of 33 unanswered points to start the second half.
"We wouldn't be 5-1 if we weren't showing some kind of consistency," the first-year head coach said. "We have success offensively. We all want to score every time we have it, but that's not reality. I think we're all happy with 43 points."
The tenor of the game changed entirely as UConn was driving on its first possession of the third quarter. The Huskies had a first-and-10 at the Mountaineers' 13-yard line, preparing to take the lead with either a field goal or touchdown.
Quarterback Johnny McEntee pulled the ball down and began to run, but was spun around, allowing WVU cornerback Pat Miller to knock it free. Linebacker Jewone Snow scooped up the loose ball and ran it back 83 yards to the UConn 12. Two plays later, West Virginia's Geno Smith found Tavon Austin for a score, making it 17-9.
"At the end of the day, this is high-level football, and you have to make plays," said Huskies head coach Paul Pasqualoni. "They made the plays, and that play that linebacker made hitting Johnny, that's a key play and a big play in the game."
"You can't win a championship unless you have three sides of the equation," Holgorsen said. "The thing I like about this team right now is all three sides of the ball understand their jobs."
Momentum had permanently shifted to the home team's sideline. The Mountaineer defense forced a quick three-and-out, and on WVU's first play after UConn's Cole Wagner boomed a 63-yard punt, Smith hit Stedman Bailey about 20 yards downfield. Bailey stutter-stepped, making a Huskies defender fall in the process, and he ran in untouched for an 84-yard score. The floodgates had officially opened.
"The one that took the wind out of our sails was the 84-yard one," Pasqualoni said.
Snow made another huge play on defense, as the redshirt freshman teamed up with defensive end Bruce Irvin to sack McEntee in his own end zone for a safety. Austin returned the ensuing free kick to midfield, and Brad Starks made a highlight-worthy catch for a 22-yard touchdown to make it 33-9 at the end of the quarter.
West Virginia (5-1, 1-0) added another 10 points early in the fourth quarter before Holgorsen had seen enough from his starting quarterback and sent him to the bench with a 43-9 lead.
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The longest drive the visitors managed after that play covered only 13 yards on four plays. Five of Pasqualoni's team's final six drives ended in punts, and the sixth ended with WVU's third quarter safety.
"The defense played fantastic," Holgorsen said. "That was a heck of a second half. That was a dominating performance from our defense. The run defense [was good], we got after the passer and created turnovers."
It wasn't always that easy, however.
Holgorsen called out Mountaineer fans at his Tuesday press conference for a poor turnout on Homecoming Saturday, when only 46,603 saw WVU beat Bowling Green 55-10 in chilly, rainy conditions in Morgantown.
Attendance was far better this time around, with the notable exception of a student section that was perhaps two-thirds full at kickoff time. Students slowly got to their seats during the first quarter, but the sections never filled to capacity.
Those that showed up late only missed another slow start for West Virginia. UConn possessed the ball for more than 11 minutes in the first quarter, and both teams managed only a field goal in the period. But Dave Teggart kicked a 53-yarder on the first play of the second quarter to give the Huskies a 6-3 edge.
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Sensing momentum shifting in his team's direction, Holgorsen called for a hurry-up tempo when his team got the ball back. It drove to the Connecticut 40-yard line, where it faced a fourth-and-1 situation. Smith hurried his team to the line and tried a quarterback sneak -- West Virginia's first play under center in the entire season -- which failed miserably.
The Huskies (2-4, 0-1) took possession with 55 seconds until the break and moved quickly. They reached the Mountaineers' 5-yard line, but didn't have enough time to take a shot at the end zone. Teggart came on once more, made an easy 22-yard field goal and got UConn within 10-9 at the break.
But players insisted there was no panic in the locker room, perhaps largely because they have already experienced this several times in the 2011 season.
The slow start didn't stop West Virginia on Saturday, just as it hasn't all season. WVU topped the 40-point mark for the third time in six games this season, something the program only did three times in three seasons under Bill Stewart's tenure as head coach.
Smith had another phenomenal day, throwing for 450 yards on 27-of-45 passing. The junior tossed four scoring passes. He was only 13 yards shy of his school-record 463 yard performance, set only two games ago in a loss to LSU.
Bailey, Smith's teammate at Miramar (Fla.) High School, once again displayed good chemistry with his quarterback, catching seven passes for 178 yards and two scores. It was the redshirt sophomore's fourth-straight game topping the century mark. No one else in school history has ever done that even three consecutive times.
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The LSU at Eunice Bengals shut the game down early Saturday and Sunday, adding two more wins to complete their sweep of a three-game weekend series against Baton Rouge Community College.
With the wins, the top-ranked Bengals are now 33-7 for the season.
Saturday afternoon, the Bengals added two runs in the bottom of the eighth to end the game 16-6 under the 10-run mercy rule.
LSU transfer Kellen Bozeman opened up scoring in the bottom of the first inning, tripling to score the first of four runs.
Delta Cleary tripled to score another run in the bottom of the second for his first of three RBI.
Boomer Blanchard hit a two-run home run over the left-field fence in the bottom of the fourth inning, and tripled for one run in the next inning for another run.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Bengals led 14-6 when Cleary flied out to center to score one run; then Matt Creel singled to drive in his third run of the game, ending the contest.
Creel (4-0) pitched the win, giving up five unearned runs off of seven hits and a walk during the first five innings of the game, while striking out seven batters in 23 at-bats.
Starter Travis Bertrand took the loss for BRCC, giving up seven earned runs off of nine hits and striking out four batters in the first two innings.
The Bengals ended Sunday's contest with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to take a 11-1 win.
LSUE drew first blood in the first inning when Creel doubled to drive in one run.
The Bengals added two more in the bottom of the second, loading the bases before Boomer Blanchard sacrificed for one run and Creel singled for another.
In the bottom of the third, Jason Terrel scored on BRCC shortstop Jarrod Fabacher's wild pitch before the Bengals loaded the bases again, scoring three more runs on a walk, a hit batsman and a wild pitch and giving LSUE at 7-0 lead.
In the bottom of the fourth, Terrel tripled before being driven home on a home run to deep right center by catcher Nate Peterson.
The Bears scored their sole run of the game in the top of the fifth on Chase Sims' base hit, limiting LSUE's lead to 9-1.
The Bengals ended the contest two innings later, when Peterson tripled and then scored on freshman pinch hitter Joey Johnson's base hit; Johnson then scored on a wild pitch by reliever Edward Sutton to end the game.
Stefan Comeaux (4-0) pitched the win, giving up one unearned run off of five hits and one walk in the first four-and-two-thirds innings of the game while striking out eight batters.
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I also take issue with your misuse of the sarcasm smiley.
As for Hanyu's GOE, I think it's reasonable since when he is on, his jumps are truly spectacular and judges tend to be impressed by big jumps other than smoothy skills on ice. He does has a weak jump now and then, but overall his jumps quality are better than most skaters in the men field. When I say better, that means "in general", not in any particular jump. Pchan, even when he nails the axel, could not get high GEO as Hanyu's 3A. The only Asian men who has a better Axel than Hanyu is Han Yan, but he is off-on-off-on-off. Hanyu's biggest mental block at the moment is his 4S, but finally he landed it in Worlds so I guess next season he's gonna aim for consistency of this jump. He's gonna be shaper in his moves. Personally I think Hanyu's GOE is quite well-deserved.
About the PCS inflation. I also find it's stupid and confusing and incomprehensible too. At this rate, all the medal contenders (whom the judges have already decided even before the SP) will likely to get all 90s PCS for free skate now, the rest should just go home.
In 2012, only PChan was rewards 90s PCS for his spectacular skating skills which was quite well-deserved when he was on. But when he was off, I don't see it why they gave him such score. Don't get me wrong, I love PChan, but I have to admit PCS inflation all started from him. It's not his fault, it's the judges' fault for over-rewarding him with over-the-top PCS even when he fell.
And this was just the beginning of a bad trend. Look at what happened at Sochi, ladies events. They gave all the medal contenders relatively even mark in PCS so they could use TES and GOE as excuses.
Now worlds 2014, all the men with exceptional SP get 90s PCS. Machida jumped 10 points in PCS for his flappy bird program. Okay his SP was really good but I don't get his LP at all. Even when he was on, I would only give him 82-84 PCS at most for that performance. If they were more strict on him, 80 PCS is at most. Hanyu's PCS is 91 which is quite unreasonable for his Juliet-narcissist long program and I don't understand why/how, David Wilson and Brian Orser's reputation? His higest PCS score should just be 85-87. Anyways, kudo to him for finally delivered a clean long program for the second time in the season. I was so moved by his effort, he deserved the gold. Not that PCS score, though.
But anyways, PChan, Hanyu and Machida are not the ones who get unreasonable high PCS for lackluster long program. even Javi get 91 PCS, as high as Hanyu, what can I explain? I don't get it either. I love Javi out of these 3 most, but I admit he sometimes look labour on ice. His LP this season suits his personality and strength so well, but still not a masterpiece or a memorable program. I blame that on the choreographer. But overall his LP works. What a pity he mad mistakes, other wise he would have been the gold medalist because top 3 have relatively same PCS, so the one with higher TES would likely to be the winner.
Overall, I am okay with the placement, but their PCS should just be in mid 80s at most.
Hanyu was held up as Chan's rival. The ISU wanted to avoid a scandal like London worlds happening in Sochi. They needed a genuine rival who can unseat Chan when he makes more than one error. Since no one can expect the higher PCS than Chan, the "rival" must be someone who has decisive technical advantages (base values). Hanyu was the chosen one and now he is the favorite at every competition
Machida was held up only because it was in Japan. He would be behind Fernandez everywhere else. Since Hanyu was THE favorite, he received the major part of the home boost.
Fernandez is held up as the European favorite, same as Kostner of past eight years. But his position is not as secure as Kostner (who had the Speedy backing and weaker competitions in Europe).
Hanyu definitely deserves high marks for his lovely 3A, but not for every element he does and certainly not the PCS he gets. And with the PCS gap now being what it is, everyone else might as well pack it in.
If anything, Fernandez is held up because he's a good jumper and from Team Orser. There is no bonus for being Spanish or some kind of all-Euro PCS boost.
Yagudin, Lambiel and Chan are the Gold Standards to me. ( We discuss about Chan because he didn't win Olympic Gold, which he could win even with a mediocre skating, but he was not able to do so.., but still many unmachable quality included in his skating as a whole package like the other 2 I mentioned).
I don't agree with his PCS (and Machida and Javi's PCS as well) but personally I think Hanyu's GOE is quite reasonable, and the main reason is that judges tend to be impressed by big jumps. Technically if I were a judge and I have only 5-7 minutes to score each skater, I would tend to give higher mark for the one who execute most of the elements well, especially who has big and beautiful jumps.
It's not like the judges have hours and hours to review all the jumps and compare each one to another. Hanyu might not have the highest mark of GOE for each elements, but he often gets relatively high marks for all the elements. For example, he might score lower in SS and IN, but still remarkable high compare to most men, while the one who get the highest mark in SS get extremely lower marks in other elements. When the general quality of all elements are relatively high, it's understandable that Hanyu often ends up with high GOE. Ever from his debut at senior worlds, unless he was remarkably off like what happened in his SP at worlds 2013, judges often give him high execution mark, it's not a plot they use to pack him up against PChan because he was still just a newbie at that time. His TES in all of his three worlds are highest of all men.
It's a tendency for the judges to score him high GOE. And it's subjective since they have had an impression for a while that Hanyu has spectacular jumps (and it's true) and they love that, so high GOE is a bonus.
Anyways, at least Hanyu delivers most of his jumps well (not the 4S) and people can see that "oh, beautiful jump", unlike a certain olympic champion with unreliable jumps and not so beautiful executions. You know who.
The programs of 1948 are empty compared to today. Yet, would anyone dare argue that Patrick Chan and Yuzuru Hanyu are better than Dick Button? Frankly, as much as I think people were way too harsh on Patrick Chan and the other men, in general, regarding their skating in Sochi, I would never compare him favorably with Takahashi or Lambiel, let alone Yagudin, Browning Button, Curry, etc.
The gold standard is not about doing more than what your predecessors have done, in my opinion. All sports evolve, and figure skaters are now doing things that were not considered in years past. Does competing in this era automatically make Chan and and Hanyu the gold standard over others that have come before them? I would say no way, and I say that as much as I love Hanyu. He has a lot of developing to do to. As for Chan, there is something lacking there, in my opinion. I know he has legions of fans, but no matter his accomplishments, his skating has never won me over. He gets the points, that's for sure, but I would not go out of my way to see him perform.
That is a really good point, Panpie. You said it... all sports evolve, and figure skaters these days need to be technically superior than they were in the past... and superior in areas outside of the elements. You won't get a John Curry anymore because skating is different now. So why not just let John Curry be John Curry, and Chan/Hanyu be Chan/Hanyu?
A song sounds way better on vinyl than mp3, to a lot of people... a silent film is more enjoyable to some than a film wrought with special effects. But these are the times.
You want John Curry, go and watch John Curry. But don't expect skaters these days to have to live up to that when the sport of figure skating is becoming more technically demanding (as any sport that truly evolves inevitably ends up doing). If every skater is giving clean performances with 5 jumping passes and simple choreography and easy spins, you're sending the sport back 30 years, and then you REALLY won't get people watching it.
I don't want to watch a competition with 30 John Currys because that to me isn't a competition worthy of 2014. That's not to say I don't respect the past but people should move forward instead of having a retrospective way of thinking, "Welllll, back in the good ole days, we didn't have none of these transitions and spins nonsense! Watching Curry do a walley on my grainy VHS was better than any goshdarn quad."
I agree with you! I love the skaters from my childhood and they have a halo of nostalgia surrounding them, but I want the skaters of today to keep pushing the sport forward technically...and artistically. -However 'artistically' may not be what I or others remember from the good old days.
Another way of looking at it is, when you get a younger fan of figure skating (there are plenty of them here in Japan) who has grown up with Mao, Hanyu, Daisuke and Chan, and show them John Curry, do they think, 'gosh, things should really go back to that'? Not those I have shared my love of figure skating with, although everyone is different.
I guess that the gold standard is someone who by the standard of their time was 1. really good results-wise (bonus if it was at truly major events) 2. a strong skater technically and hopefully artistically, and 3. often ahead of the game either technically or artistically. It's one thing to learn triples when it's standard and another to be the first to do a triple jump, or to have Dartfish to work on your jumps as opposed to improvising, or to be so special artistically/as a free skater that you're remembered 40 years later. The gold standard should stand the test of time even if the technical level continues to progress.
Buttercup, have you actually gone back and watch slow-mos of his landings? Most of them are quite good and deserve the + GOEs. Why do you think he's being accredited for being a great jumper? He knows this too, which is why even with the fall on the first salchow in the FP, he gives his all into his other jumps to secure the number of points he can collect on his triples, particularly his axel combinations. A couple of his landings can be better in terms of the speed coming out but I don't see why people are complaining about his GOEs when he makes lutzes look effortless.
Also, people focus on his jumps but his spins? Like Simon Reed said from Eurosports, they are to die for. They're extremely centered and very fast, even when you're comparing against top 15 mens. Also, his flexible body makes them look almost rubber-like. He definitely deserves all GOEs in his programs. Sometimes, after watching him spin in competition, everyone else seems to be moving at a much slower rate.
What is a 'gold standard' anyway? One thing by which everything else is measured?
Figure skating is a broader sport than that. Each figure skater owes it to themselves to maximize on their strengths and minimize their weaknesses and the roads to that goal are many and varied. This is a competition first and foremost. If a skater can make up for their lack of artistry with speed and jumps, then it is their right to do so and good for them! If a skater happens to have both...well, that's the best isn't it? But there is no one perfectly balanced between the two. Who is to say the artistic skater is 'better' than the technical skater? Artistry and Technicals have points assigned to them so that you can excel greatly in one or the other...or both. I like this about figure skating.
It's arguably better for a skater to be excellent or memorable in a particular aspect of their skating and weak in other parts, rather than being average or slightly above average in all aspects of your skating. It's why people will remember Lucinda Ruh more than other World and Olympic medalists, and why Jason Brown can get 4 million Youtube hits without a quad.


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At Cherry Hills Country Club outside of Denver last week, Pat Wilson teed it up at the U.S. Amateur with some of the best in the world.
So when he arrived home and began preparations for the 97th Met Open Championship this week, he had a feeling that he'd be perfectly warmed up.
He was right on the money.
The 21-year-old Andover resident threw up a big and bold first-round score at Plainfield Country Club in Edison Tuesday: A 7-under 65 to take the overnight lead by one stroke over a group of four others.
"It was a real big confidence-booster just to play in that," Wilson said of his U.S. Amateur experience. "That was really my goal for the summer and going out there. I didn't have my best and I still almost made match play, so I felt good. It was a lot of confidence gained. Playing under such tough conditions, the course today just didn't really seem that hard or difficult."
Wilson though, knows that there are still two more days of competition left in the 54-hole event.
And plenty of talented players still lurking.
Defending champion Tyler Hall of Wayne is one of those one shot back after an opening round of 66.
Met Amateur and NJSGA Amateur champ Ryan McCormick of Middletown is two back after a strong comeback late in the day to shoot a 67.
Nationwide Tour player and Wyckoff native Morgan Hoffmann is at 3 under.
"Obviously, it's nice to get off to such a good start, but unfortunately, I've been in this position before and it hasn't worked out for me," Wilson said.
"So I'm just going to try and take it in stride, now that I know I've played well today. Just have to bring that confidence tomorrow and try not to go backwards."
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State police said they are investigating an armed robbery in Mount Alto, Franklin County.
Two men broke into a home in the 7300 block of Slabtown Road about 8:30 a.m. Monday by kicking in a side door, troopers said.
A 24-year-old woman was home at the time. One of the men held a gun to her head, told her not to look up and wanted to know where the money was, state police said.
The robbers got away with about $5,000 and the woman was not injured, troopers said.
Anyone with information is asked to call state police in Chambersburg at 717-264-5161.