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SAN FRANCISCO -- Coaches universally harp on one quality of a team more than anything else. Playing for each other.
Hard to imagine LSU coach Johnny Jones could be any happier about how his team is approaching its latest assignment.
The Tigers (19-13) take on San Francisco (21-11) at 9 p.m. Wednesday in an NIT quarterfinal game, and the theme from a media session was crystal-clear.
LSU's players want to keep the season going as long as possible for seniors Andre Stringer and Shavon Coleman.
"Those guys have been like big brothers to me, and I'm glad they get a chance to go out like this," freshman Jordan Mickey said. "We want to play our best basketball for them."Johnny O'Bryant knows how bittersweet this last leg of the season will be.
One way or another, his days of playing with Stringer as a teammate are numbered. The two have been friends since junior high and each is a big reason the other is at LSU.
"When I saw him after the Kentucky game, that hurt me pretty deep," O'Bryant said. "He didn't know if he was going to get to put this uniform on again, and that was devastating. It's a thrill for me to play with him for however long we get to now."
And there's no mystery about how the Tigers want this to play out.
The goal is to win three games and get to the NIT Final Four, which is played in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Maybe not quite as big a stage as the NCAA Tournament, but the thought of finishing a season in the world's most famous basketball arena is a powerful caveat.
"We've got this chance now, and we need to make the most of it," junior point guard Anthony Hickey said. "We have a chance to finish strong. We have to play with the mindset that we can win this thing and come back next year and be a much better team."
Blocker extraordinaire
Mickey finally climbed into elite company when he rejected a pair of shots against Kentucky last Friday in the SEC Tournament.
The two blocks give Mickey 101 this season, and he joins Shaquille O'Neal as the players in program history with 100 or more swats in a single season, O'Neal did so in each of this three seasons.
Mickey is tied for the SEC lead this season with Kentucky's Willie Cauley-Stein, who sent 6 shots the other direction - including a handful of Mickey's - when the teams met in Atlanta.
Beyond that, Mickey is also just the 11th player in SEC history to block 100 or more shots and becomes the fourth freshman to do so in a row, following Nerlens Noel and Anthony Davis of Kentucky and Sam Muldrow from South Carolina.
More perspective of Mickey's season: He has more blocked shots than USF does as a team. The Dons have blocked 83, led by Mark Tollefson's 30. Not that San Francisco should fret because Mickey also owns more rejections than Mississippi State and Florida in the SEC.
Anchored by Mickey, LSU has 190 blocks as a team and has a chance to finish with a top-five season in program history. The 1990-91 team recorded 198 rejections (O'Neal with 140) and the 2007-08 club had 196.
Long-range success
With three starters and a sixth man capable of getting hot from outside the arc, LSU has quietly put together one of the best 3-point shooting seasons in program history.
LSU at San Francisco
WHEN: 9 p.m. Wednesday
WHERE: War Memorial Gymnasium | San Francisco
RECORDS: LSU 19-13, San Francisco 21-11
The Tigers have connected on 215 treys, with Stringer (67) and Hickey (61) leading the way. That's already tied for second place all-time with the 2002-03 team. Last season LSU bombed away for a school-record 234 makes from outside the arc.
Hickey eclipsed his career-high in a season when he jacked in a 3-pointer early against Kentucky. If Stringer makes one from long range against the Dons, that will be his new season-best. Coleman has tripled his 3-point output with 40 this season after making only 13 as a junior.
Stringer needs more two more treys to catch Torris Bright for second place on the school's all-time list with 237. Darrel Mitchell tops that chart with 258.
Tough enough?
LSU played 13 games this season against teams in either the NCAA Tournament or NIT and went 4-9 in those games.Three of the Tigers' four victories from that group came vs, teams ranked 50th or better in the RPI: St. Joseph's, Missouri and Kentucky.
LSU also lost two games against top-50 teams in the closing seconds, falling at UMass in the season opener at Kentucky, 77-76 in overtime.
USF is 3-7 against NIT and NCAA teams, with sixof those losses vs. WCC foes -- one vs. St Mary's, two against Gonzaga and three against BYU.
This is the second trip to the NIT for three Tiger veterans.
O'Bryant scored 12 points and Andre Stringer had 10 and 6 assists when the Tigers lost at Oregon in 2012, 96-76, in what turned out to be coach Trent Johnson's final game.
Anthony Hickey also played and finished with 2 points, 4 assists and 2 steals in 21 minutes.
Shavon Coleman does have some postseason experience, In both of his season at Howard College, the Hawks played in the NJCAA tournament, falling to Marshall Henderson and eventual national champion South Plains College in the 2012 regional championship game that determined who went on to the national event.
- O'Bryant has scored 20 points or more 14 times this season and 25 times in his career. He needs to more rebounds to climb into the top-20 all-time in LSU history. He currently has 689 boards, 10 fewer than Nikita Wilson.
- Stringer is within range of climbing up two or three more spots on LSU's all-time scoring chart. He is at 1,341 points, which ranks 23rd. He needs two more points to catch Clarence Caesar, six to catch Marcus Thornton and 16 to reach Dewayne Scales, who is in 20th place.
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Wow. The Wii Fit sounds pretty fun. I hope to get this as soon as it comes out. Thanks for the post CantGetAWii.
SourceHuffing and puffing. Aching all over. Sweat glistening on a furrowed brow. All this just from lifting the balance board out of the box.
Behind that nimble white exterior lies a weighty stash of blubber-monitoring tech, all designed to compliment the Wii Fit software and rate you from fatty to flimsy.
Now, we needn't tell you that fitness is hardly team NGamer's strong point. We think tiny meals are an insult to large plates, and exercise is what's done to young girls with spinny heads and pea-green puke.
As such, it'd be wrong to cast a health-conscious critical eye over Wii Fit (just as we wouldn't trust Rosemary Conley's review of a Big Mac) so instead we ask the simple question: is Wii Fit actually fun?
Ski Slalom
Although easy to ace with your hands (see Laz-E-Boy box, far right), the Ski Slalom is one of the more sophisticated indicators of the balance board's ability to supply control to a full-fat game.
While carving a path is tricky, it shows enough nuance of control to prove the balance board could quite happily be used in a standalone skiing title.
Thinking of SSX Blur, where some find the nunchuk a tad over-sensitive, the body's sluggish leaning certainly makes sense.
Forehead meets ball
You lean. You head the ball. Thus the name. And it's one of the best. Successfully weaving your bonce between the undesired boots and panda heads is not so much down to speed, but the ability to steady yourself - extra momentum can too often propel you into the path of a size ten Nike. A great grin maker, this.
Step Aerobics
The aerobics highlight is an intro movie in which a line of imported Miis performs a flamboyant chorus line bow - made all the more hilarious when said line is populated by Hitler, Jesus and Borat.
The task itself plays like the slowest bemani title ever designed, a zombie-like shuffle on and off the board, performed to an auditorium of enraptured Miis.
In fact, the slow lurching is reminiscent of old lady exercise classes. An evil sight indeed.
If we needed any more convincing about the balance board's potential, Snowboarding did the trick.
Rotating the board 90 degrees and mounted in true boarding fashion, we weaved down a speed-slalom, altering speed with gentle forward or back positioning, just as it should be.
The speed of this straighter run (compared to Skiing) showed off some exhilarating moves. 1080 Snowboarding, here we come.
Bubble Maze
Hmmm, seems like someone took a cheeky peek in team Mario Galaxy's recycling bins: directing this bubble through a top down maze is alarmingly similar to navigating Bubble Blast Galaxy's birdseye labyrinth.
Still, the lean to steer controls work well, though once solved we don't see much incentive to return. As with Wii Play, many of these games could do with fattening up.
Hula Hoop
As with ol' fatty's gyrating antics in WarioWare, there's hours of cruel enjoyment in the sight of a panicked games journo trying to keep an invisible hoop around their waist.
Factor in directional body thrusts to grab extra hoops for a fun, if simple, game.
The Penguin Game
Okay. So the sight of your Mii tucked inside a penguin costume? Cute. But the game itself? Left us cold (ho ho).
Aiming to gobble as many fish as possible, you lean left and right to tilt the iceberg, sending ol' Happy Feet in the relevant direction.
Kind of like the polar opposite (again, ho ho) to Super Paper Mario's Tilt Island - where you tilted Mario away from falling obstacles - this scoffing mission isn't the deepest of Wii Fit's an-tarc-tics (whither).
Ski Jump
Whereas the football and hoop tasks both offer on-screen avatars that respond directly to your movement - giving a clear indicator of how movement affects the game - the Ski Jump is slightly more secretive with its calculations.
Crouched in what is best known as the impromptu outdoor toilet pose, your centre of balance needs aligning with the small blue dot for maximum speed.
It's the jump itself that mystifies, a sudden shift into upright never quite giving you the air you'd hope for. Is there a premium angle? File under hmmm.
Ball Puzzle
Not so much of a puzzle - any dolt can see that those balls clearly need plopping into those glowing holes - but getting your head around that board/body movement can baffle even the most spatially aware.
The trick is gentle learning, followed by sharp jerks to flip teetering edge balls back into the centre.
As a setup, it's infinitesimally simpler than Koroinpa, but then in that game you weren't controlling things with a big fleshy pillock.
That's you, by the way (nothing personal, we're also intending to mean both us and them).
Proving that Wii Fit is in fact some form of covert circus recruitment tool (it sends the details of highly accurate balancers to a shady carnival committee that then select victims for their strongmen 'grab squads' to seize) the tight rope game has you taking alternating steps to slowly shuffle forwards, while pausing to steady yourself when you begin to teeter.
There's also the matter of an anthropomorphic mantrap that needs bounding over with a sudden upwards tiptoe thrust. Quite simple to ace, but good fun nonetheless.
Gonna fly now! Flying high now! Yes, after an abandoned attempt to phonetically convey the Rocky theme tune, we resorted to its rather rubbish lyrics to help describe the joy of Wii Fit boxing.
Like step aerobics with added thumping, this time you step forwards off the board and thrust with the remote or nunchuk to replicate stepping into a powerful fist swing.
Nice to see a bit of remote and nunchuk action, but the game is just a bit shallow.
Candle Stare
After 11 games of intense bodily flip-flopping, you're going to want to rescue your brain from your right thigh.
As means of downtime, Nintendo offer this odd sitting challenge. Perched cross-legged on the board you simply have to sit as still as possible, watching a candle slowly burn down, listening to the soothing night-time ambiance.
Shuffle, and the candle will burn quicker, but it's probably for the best - we're certain we saw a butterfly get incinerated in its flame. Maybe this fitness is going to our heads. Need pie. New pie now!
Back in issue 14 we welcomed Wii Fit with these words: "It's a glorified tech demo." Having spent a good deal of time playing it - and simultaneously polishing our own horn ready for a spot of blowing - we think we were right.
As an exercise tool, it's tricky to judge, requiring more biological knowledge than we can muster.
We can tell you that yes, the Body Mass Index measuring seems to work well - it can, for example, identify that Matthew is bigger than Kim - and the ability to programme in weight goals to work towards is well judged. When it comes to reviewing it as a tool, we're a little stumped.
Sticking with the games is of greater benefit to us. These simple wobbling distractions are a sweat-tinged taste of things to come: a glorified tech demo.
However, what these slightly sneering terms fail to convey is just what a successful tech demo it is.
Entertainment value aside - although you can clearly see we've had a great time with it - not a single game falters technically: more than could be said for Wii Play's dubious Table Tennis and Fishing.
But more than this, they get you thinking. The obvious board-based gaming potential has been done to death by every games writer out there, but for good reason; the Skiing and Snowboarding are astonishingly accurate.
There's more still. The Tightrope Walking, with actual step-taking to move forward, has your synapses firing in a wild creative frenzy - could we one day be using real movement in an FPS ? Or could the 'stay as still as you can' portions could be put to great use in stealth games - where your avatar hides from guards as you struggle not to squirm on your uncomfortable white pedestal?
It's not about thinking outside the box, you see, but about how to best use the box.
When Wii Fit arrives, it's going to be big. You're going to see it all over the news stands, on the cover of Women's Weekly and Men's Fitness.
They'll be gabbing about it on This Morning and ol' Dermot and Natasha will be arsing around with virtual hula-hoops on the breakfast news. But despite all this, you'll have to ignore the 'fitness, fitness, fitness' message and think only of 'control, control, control'.
There's nothing quite like dictating digital actions with your whole body, and few things as much fun. Just think, all this is from a mere tech demo. Good work, Ninty.
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Originally Posted by Sumn0ob
Wow. The Wii Fit sounds pretty fun. I hope to get this as soon as it comes out. Thanks for the post CantGetAWii.
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Looks pretty cool. Dunno if id buy it though, dont really need it...lol, id like to try the skiing ones but thats about it.
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looking foward to this.. very different
Looks like an extremely fun product. I hope I get it for some occasion (not that I need it). Just looks like a hell of a time.
Anyone know the weight capacity of the Wii-Fit board thing you stand on?
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i hear it was around 300-350
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Well it is technically designed for people who are a bit overweight and is used for weight loss, so...WOOH PHAT PPL WONT LIEK KRUSH IT!!!!!!Originally Posted by metalfreak
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According to another thread, it's been increased for Americans.Originally Posted by 261311
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Ahhhhhhh. I really wish that the creators would give a date on when this is going to be released.
Heh, that's a lot. I still don't see how half of the games there will cause weight loss, but what do I know?Originally Posted by metalfreak
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HAMILTON — A joint investigation involving Mercer County and federal officials led to the arrest of a Trenton man and the seizure of $98,000 in cocaine in Hamilton, the prosecutor's office said today.
On Friday, an agent from the federal Department of Homeland Security intercepted a UPS parcel in Kentucky containing about one kilogram, about 2.2 pounds, of cocaine concealed by coffee grinds, the office said in a release. The package was addressed to the second floor of a Tuttle Avenue residence in Hamilton, the office said.
Homeland Security assigned an agent to deliver the package to the residence about 1:30 p.m. Monday, while other units prepared to arrest any individual that picked it up, the office said. No one answered the door and the package was left on the porch.
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July 24, 2013 at 6:15am
There no doughnuts even near a gym. Oh wait ther is one about a mile down from my gym. But jog right past it.
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I have been going to Crossfit workouts for about a month and a half now. Being a 50 year man very much out of shape and topping the scales a 300 plus it was time to do something. Since I have been going to the workout sessions only two times a week and a week off for vacation. I have lost 20 pounds and can see changes to my body and flexibility. If you morons would also listen to glenn on his radio show he has been dropping hints to get not only mentally fit but physically fit. Now as for me I have a other workout and exercise programs in the past. But with my condition and what I have seen from my local Crossfit gym nothing but positive. When you look around the gym and see bible versus painted on the walls. Well that can't be all bad. I really don't care if the founder is a libertarian it a hell of a lot better than a progressive. Well got to go to my workout session. Working a goal of 50 loss by December 2013.
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Twenty years ago you would not have the back talk you have now. The last time I checked he is the head coach and he is the leader. If you give him one lip you should be treated like a three year old. He problem is we are raising a bunch of babies that want to tell you what to do and that they have all the answers.
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I am getting where when I hear Geraldo speak I push the mute button. Lust like when the prez speaks. I just can't take it anymore. I have found myself watching less and less Fox News ever sense the election. They are going to have to be more focused and get in the face of the left or they will loose the battle let alone the war.
November 11, 2012 at 12:56pm
Bill you silly kid taxes are for everyone. Everyone that works that is. The American work force that did not vote for this man called Obama need to go on strike. We need to send a message loud and clear.
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Donald, Donald
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Fox news is starting to get on my nerves. Thank You Glenn for the Blaze The truth really does live here.
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I want to know why that post on here don't use real name. All I see are nick names or call names. WHAT are you afraid of?
Now as for this amazing speech from our next POTUS . I salute you and can't wait for next one. GREAT JOB !!!
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First of all I like the 9 9 9 idea. What is misrepresented is the idea that a farmer passes his taxes paid on the wheat. The farmer is and always will a price taker not a price setter. So if he is a price taker how the hell can he pass along the taxes he or she pays for the sell of wheat or anything that is raised or grown on the farm. Now as for the rest of the chain of production is is so true. Now that I got this off my chest I feel better. Stop with all these sluts saying that they either slept or was harassed by the next president. Cain 2012
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Earl Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with the Baltimore Orioles, has died, the team says. He was 82.
The Duke of Earl, as he was affectionately known in Baltimore, took the Orioles into the World Series four times over 17 seasons but won only one title, in 1970. His .583 winning percentage ranks fifth among managers who served 10 or more seasons in the 20th century.
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Watch a dancer get all bendy in Ed Sheeran's new video for 'Don't'
After Sia's "Chandelier," Ed Sheeran's new video for "Don't," may deliver the best dancing in a video this year.
The video plot doesn't really follow the same narrative as the song's lyrics, which are about Sheeran having a relationship with a fellow artist (reportedly Ellie Goulding) until she cheats on him. Instead, in the Emil Nava-directed clip, we watch a dancer move on up to the big time from the wrong side of the tracks to a mansion with a pool. His elastic contortions (a few aided by special effects) propel him from sleeping in a shanty to a progressively nicer homes. He pass through each house sometimes unnoticed, other times stopping for a little extracurricular activity and for the obligatory Beats headphones placement. He stops for good at the mansion, and after surveying his kingdom, he retires to the pool and the good life.
Sheeran only appears for a few seconds as a passenger in a car watching the dancer.
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VMW is a buy for the short term & midterm. The company still makes good profits even though they lowered the outlook. $22 drop in the PPS was too much and over reaction yesterday.
I am on the long side now.
Sentiment: Buy
Per VMW's own words, their business won't pick up until the second half of the year. I think it stalls for 6 months and then - hopefully - we see an upturn. Why would anyone buy now without near term catalysts. If I were taking on a new position, I would wait until May/Jun pre July earnings and a possible guidance upgrade. Why buy now, too, when the Dow is at the top? You have downside risk in the overall market. Believe me, I would like to see some movement, but I think we're stuck in the 70s, maybe low 80s till the spring. Even the potential of big earnings by other cloud companies --- which WOULD have normally boosted VMW's share price - won't help. The CEO made their bed with his gloomy guidance. Hold and Hope. Not a great feeling.
because if you wait till then, the good news will already be out
Wait n see- similar case we have seen with NFLX. See NFLX now from 2 digts to 3 :)
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Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop is scheduled speak Saturday at a Montclair memorial to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. school shootings.
The event, called "No More Silence," will be co-sponsored by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which formed the day after the Dec. 14, 2012 massacre, which left 20 schoolchildren and six staff members of Sandy Hook Elementary School dead.
"The tragedy at Sandy Hook was a wake-up call for many of us and we can no longer be silent about our nation's raging epidemic of gun violence," Mandi Perlmutter, leader of the group's New Jersey chapter, said in a statement. "New Jersey's towns and cities are no strangers to gun violence, and we must come together to say no more. It is time our voices are heard."
Fulop's predecessor, former Mayor Jerramiah Healy, was a vocal supporter of stricter gun-control measures. Fulop, elected in May, has praised Healy for that stance, and has said he will follow in the former mayor's footsteps on the issue.
The National Rifle Association has said there's no evidence that stricter gun control laws would have prevented the massacre.
This week's memorial, one of 50 scheduled nationwide, will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 67 Church St. in Montclair. It will culminate in a communal bell ringing to honor the 26 victims killed in the Newtown school, which has since been razed.
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I can't get 2.1 to work on my Onkyo. The manual says if you choose Stereo, you get left, right and sub. But it doesn't work. The only time my sub kicks in is if playing something in like PLIIx or another surround mode. I have a powered sub.
I would like to listen to music in 2.1 because my front speakers don't have a whole lot of bass.
I've tried CDs and MP3s from HTPC connected with Toslink. When I switch to Stereo, all I get is left and right. What am I doing wrong?
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Why do so many people feel that if anyone really knew them, no one would really like them?
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Do they have so many skeletons in their closet from their younger years that if one of them got out, it would even scare Frankenstein away? Are there so many deep dark secrets that they push people away because they don't want anybody to know?
The trouble is not what you did wrong but the real problem is your thinking that you are the only one who ever did anything that wrong. One man told me, 'Not even God could forgive me!' Now that man was in a jail worse than Alcatraz. The power of God to forgive reaches far beyond the bars of our sin but his confinement was he couldn't forgive himself.
What kind of things do you figure God won't forgive? There was another very religious man (a minister) who felt that divorce was from the devil. He let it be known that he had no time for anyone who had a divorce. His own thinking set a trap for him and when his wife left him, he fell in. Now he was faced with the hard cold question, is there life after divorce?
He told me how hurt he was by those that treated him just like he had treated others who had exposed their marriage problems. They wrote him off and told him that he was finished. He was also surprised by those who loved him and encouraged him to move forward no matter what.
With tears on his face his harsh opinion about divorce changed and he discovered that God's love, mercy, and forgiveness was far above and beyond his own. The message out of the mess was he found a much deeper relationship with the Lord but the bad news was he had to go through a divorce to find it.
Luke 6:37 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
It's too bad that some of our deep rooted negative feelings towards ourselves and others have to be changed by strong uprooting personal pain. I don't believe that God is the author of our hurts but I do believe that He can use them if we allow Him to make us better people.
Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."
When I invited Jesus into my heart, I gave Him access to every room in me including my closets. He found some scary skeletons, some teenage mistakes, some immature actions, and even some secrets but He never condemned me. He didn't just show me love but He is love and He forgave me and gave me a new life.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."
If I apply to others what God applied to me then I will have no problem with what others have done. Where personal hate, resentment, and revenge sticks on me is when I forget to forgive or I refused to forgive. The power of forgiving others opens a door to personal freedom and I can truly love again.
Find a church of your choice to attend and open your heart to be healed from the past. God bless you all.
Kevin Mattatall is the pastor of the Cape Breton Christian Fellowship Church. The Cape Breton Post welcomes comments on his column by email at email@example.com.


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WESTLAKE, Ohio – Residents of a sparsely populated neighborhood on the outskirts of Westlake said they were shocked that a shooting took place in such a quiet area of the city Saturday afternoon.
Police responded to a report of shots fired near a business at 30700 Center Ridge Road around noon. A report said a shot was fired at an officer after police arrived at the scene.
As officers searched for a suspect, they went door to door warning residents of the situation and asking them if they were going to stay in their homes. Many residents said police visited multiple times.
The area was not officially evacuated, police said, but many residents left anyway. By 6:30 p.m., it appeared that many had not returned to their homes. Doors had been left open on some houses.
Eric Feichtmeier, who lives roughly a block away from the site where the first shots were reported, said police visited him twice.
"At first they just said shots had been fired," he said. "The second time they came around, they asked me if I was going to leave my house."
He said when he told police he was going to leave, they told him that was probably the best thing to do. Feichtmeier said he never heard any shots, and didn't know what was happening until police knocked on his door.
Rather than worry or fear, he said he felt shock and surprise that a shooting would take place in an otherwise uneventful area of the small city.
Police announced the neighborhood was clear around 6 p.m., a press release said, but also said an arrest had not been made.
Several police cruisers were parked in the lot of Center Point West, a small building at 30700 Center Ridge Road after the search was called off. The building contains Elios Financial Group Inc., William E Pappas CPA Inc., and Premiere Payroll Services LLC.
The shooter's motive is unclear, police said. The shots were fired at the building from a nearby Metroparks reservation, police said, and the incident was first reported by someone working in the building that was hit.
"A woman who works at a business called at 12:05 p.m. to say she heard several shots fired and one hit the building," said Capt. Guy Turner of the Westlake police department. "When an officer arrived, another shot was fired."
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"Living Volga" Programme
UNESCO/Coca-Cola HBC Eurasia partnership programme "Living Volga" aims to foster better awareness and valuation of biodiversity resources of Volga water and wetlands ecosystems and understanding of the principles of sustainable development amongst local authorities and communities.
In Brief
The UNESCO Moscow Office and Coca-Cola HBC Eurasia joined efforts in 2006 to implement the "Living Volga" programme. The partners have since been empowering local communities within the Volga basin to plan and manage the river catchment area on a sustainable basis and to responsively consider water as a resource through an enhancement of environmental awareness. In this context, a series of activities to support the protection and sustainable use of the Volga River ecosystem is ongoing.
The programme matches one of the priorities of the UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector, namely promoting the sustainable management and conservation of freshwater, terrestrial resources and biodiversity. In addition it is of special importance within the International Decade for Action "Water for Life" (2005-2015) and the UN Decade "Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014).
The Ecosystem
The Volga River is the largest river system in Europe. It springs in the northwest of Moscow and flows for 3,700 km towards the Caspian Sea, into which the Volga alone is responsible for approximately 80% of total river discharge. It is navigable for about 2,600 km, and has more than 200 sizable tributaries, including the Oka, the Samara, the Kama and the Vetluga.
Essential problems for the conservation and sustainable use of the Volga wetlands include: the insufficient understanding of the relevance of the Volga wetlands; the lack of preservation efforts from governmental, private, and public organizations, but also from the local population; deficient training of professional environmentalists, teachers and educators; and the inexistence of joint action and coordination of the activities towards conservation among all these interest groups.
Fronts of action
Positive changes in attitudes towards water and perception of it as a highly valuable resource can be achieved through intensive environmental education and training activities. Three main fronts of action in order to foster such changes were thus identified in the framework of the "Living Volga" programme.
The first front of action involves fostering interactions with society, which is achieved through dissemination of knowledge of the value of the Lower Volga water and wetlands ecosystems for different population segments.
Furthermore, producing education and awareness materials and establishing effective dissemination mechanisms for them constituted the second identified front of action.
Finally, the third front of action consisted of engaging local authorities and industries so as to draw their attention to environmental problems of water and wetlands ecosystems and therefore increase their contribution to the sustainable development of the Volga basin area.
Main Project Outcomes
Volga Day
Within the "Living Volga" efforts 20 May was inscribed in the international ecological calendar as the annual Volga Day with the purpose to raise the public awareness on problems of conservation of the Volga River ecosystem and of sustainable use of its resources. It is a regional festival in honor of the great river and its vital role in providing water, food, power, recreation and life. The celebration also stresses the importance of joint action among different stakeholders in addressing the environmental challenges faced by this ecosystem.
The Volga Day, first commemorated in 2008 in Nizhny Novgorod, and expanded in 2009 to Astrakhan, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd. The tradition of celebrating 20 May as the Volga Day will go on. In 2010 the celebration will include both entertainment events and scientific seminars and meeting dedicated to ecohydrological issues and management of biosphere reserves, situated in the Volga basin.
Volga Materials
In the framework of the programme the group of experts developed informational and methodological materials intending to raise public awareness on the great value of the Volga wetlands. The first edition of such materials was devoted to the Lower Volga and included among others the brochures "Let's save the Lower Volga wetlands together!" and "Training strategy and programmes for raising awareness on the Lower Volga wetlands".
These outputs were used as a basis for the second generation of the Volga materials – the Volga Kits. Two types of Volga Kits were developed by specialists from environmental and nature protection organizations based on ecological and educational work experience of natural reserves and national parks.
The "Education" Kit targeted educational organizations, schoolchildren and youth, whereas the "Awareness" Kit was addressed to local private, non-governmental and governmental organizations, the general public and mass media.
The Volga Kits strongly promote the principles of sustainable development, and contain: strategies and plans for raising public awareness on the value of the Volga River, brochures on the ecological situation of the Volga basin; a press-kit; leaflets for various target groups; a map of its biosphere reserves and World Heritage sites; and sets of postcards and posters on local species of fauna and flora.
Meetings with and among decision-makers
To bring continuity to the programme, it is imperative to sensitize decision-makers by conducting meetings in which the socio-economic benefits of sustainable management of wetlands are clarified and discussed.
One of such meetings was the workshop on "Involvement of governmental, private and public organizations in addressing the issues of conservation of the Lower Volga wetlands", during which the working group "Union for Conservation of the Lower Volga Heritage" was established.
In addition, round tables dedicated to the issue of sustainable management of the Volga basin resources are held on a regular basis during the Volga Day.
By bringing together civil society, local authorities, educators, tourism and industry representatives, the "Living Volga" project fully achieves the goal of promoting an all-encompassing cooperation in order to make sustainable development a reality in the Volga basin.
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- Volga Day 2009
- Official launch of the Volga Kits
- Press conference dedicated to the Volga Day results held
- 20 May – Volga Day
- The first phase of the demonstration project in the frame of the UNESCO Moscow Office/Coca-Cola HBC Eurasia partnership for "Living Volga" completed
- Seminar and round-table on "Involvement of governmental, private and public organizations in solving problems on conservation of the lower Volga wetlands" held in Astrakhan
- Informational and methodological materials on conservation of the lower Volga wetlands
- Commencement of UNESCO/Coca-Cola project on raising ecological awareness in the Lower Volga basin
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Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb Pizza
We love pizza in our house and I probably make homemade pizza a few times a month. It's an easy dinner to make and it's always a favorite.
Recently I thought I'd branch out a little bit from our favorite recipe (we love our traditional homemade pizza sauce – yum!) and try this roasted garlic, chicken and herb pizza. And we loved it! It was such a nice change of pace from our traditional favorite, and felt a little more "grown-up" if that makes any sense.
The white sauce is nice and garlicky without being overly strong, and the chicken and herbs give the pizza lots of flavor. It was even good as leftovers the following day.
I don't think this version will replace our trusty tomato sauce and cheese version (Zeke was too apprehensive to even touch this new kind), but it's definitely a delicious alternative. You can never go wrong with roasted garlic, chicken and cheese!
Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb Pizza
1 pound pizza dough (I used half of my favorite pizza dough recipe)
1 Tbsp butter
1 garlic bulb
2 Tbsp all purpose flour
pepper, to taste
3/4 cup fat free evaporated milk
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated or shredded
1 cup cooked chicken, shredded
Red onion, diced, to taste
8 oz Mozzarella cheese
herbs of choice, to taste (parsley, oregano, bail, thyme, rosemary, etc.)
Roast the garlic: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut 1/4" of the head of the bulb off. Place the garlic bulb on a sheet of tin foil and drizzle 1 tsp. olive oil on the top cut off portion. Scrunch foil up around the garlic and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove from foil and allow to cool. Once cool,
squeeze the roasted cloves. Mince 8 cloves and set aside for this recipe. Store the rest in a ziploc bag in the refrigerator.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a small saucepan melt butter over medium heat. Add roasted garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add flour and mix until blended, cook for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the evaporated milk and pepper. Cook for 3 minutes, or until it thickens. Remove from heat and stir in Parmesan.
Transfer the dough to your shaping surface, lightly sprinkled with cornmeal. (a pizza peel or parchment paper) Shape the dough with lightly floured hands. Spread white sauce over dough. Top with chicken, onions, and cheese. Bake 17 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbly. Sprinkle with herbs. Serve immediately.
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Edgar Bell, 91, died Oct. 31 and his wife, Helen Bell, 89, died Nov. 3.
Edgar and Helen were 1940 graduates of Linden High School and were married on August 17, 1946 in Linden.
Edgar was a veteran of the United States Army Air Corp serving in World War II, where he was a Prisoner Of War in Romania. He retired from General Motors in 1986.
Helen worked on the Swartz Creek and Mundy Township Election Boards for many years and was an active member of the United Methodist Women.
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When American troops in Afghanistan burned copies of the Quran, President Obama immediately sent expressions of regret and apologies to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. However, when Christians in the Middle East and Africa are murdered by Islamic terrorists, our president hardly seems to notice.
His outrage at injustices seems selective.
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Cream cheese coupons are considered to be the best way to save money from purchasing your favorite cream cheese in the market. I too, have looked for coupons before I went to the market and shop for the cream cheese that I typically used for various recipes.
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Summer 2012
ACF/ANA Two Day Training
On June 1 and 4, 2012, ANA held a two-day training for all ACF staff titled "Working with Native Communities" in response to an employee-driven desire to learn more about the federal-tribal relationship, regional history, and strengths and challenges within native communities. Over 115 ACF and HHS staff attended the training.
The first day of training, themed "Laying the Context," included a presentation of cultural stories, a cross-regional historic timeline of Native American affairs, and a discussion of contemporary social issues faced by native people. The second day, themed "Application," provided strategies for cross-cultural communication, outlined native values and strengths that ACF programs can build upon, described the federal and tribal government-to-government relationship, and highlighted resources available to ACF program offices working with native communities.
Drawing on decades of experience living and working in native communities, ANA's Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) providers, Kesley Edmo, Robert Parisian, Candi Carmi, Anthony Caole, and Keone Nunes, provided a wealth of information on the federal government's evolving relationship with native people. The T/TA providers described how federal policy eras of treaty-making, removal, reservation establishment, allotment, reorganization, termination, and self-determination affected native people in the lower 48, Pacific Island, and Alaska regions differently. The social assets of native people were emphasized thereby illustrating areas that ACF programs may consider when creating policy and funding opportunities, such as strength, resiliency, the support system of extended families, and pride in cultural traditions.
ANA Commissioner, Lillian Sparks, presented on the government-to-government relationship, highlighting ACF's commitment to recognizing tribal sovereignty through established processes and infrastructure, such as: ACF Tribal Consultation, the Intradepartmental Council for Native American Affairs, ACF Tribal Initiatives, Tribal Resource Day and the Native American Affairs Advisory Committee.
Stacey Ecoffey, Principal Advisor for Tribal Affairs at the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Immediate Office of the Secretary at HHS, presented on the important work of the Secretary's Tribal Advisory Committee and elaborated further on the tribal consultation process. Kimberly Romine, Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist at ANA; Sheila Cooper, Senior Advisor for Tribal Affairs at SAMHSA; and Steve Henigson, Regional Administrator for ACF Region 10, also provided an overview of resources available to ACF program offices. Resources include the ACF Native Grantee Meeting, SAMHSA Culture Cards and the Go Learn Portal online training on "Working Effectively with Tribal Governments" (available at no cost at http://tribal.golearnportal.org).Training participants completed evaluations; respondents expressed appreciation for "the panel's wisdom, honesty and speaking from heart and head," "learning how to be more culturally competent," and learning communication "do's and dont's from the various speakers."


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The Warren County Freeholders sped through the approval of multiple resolutions at their meeting on Wednesday night. During Freeholders Comments, Freeholder Director Jason Sarnoski mentioned that he wanted to be more open with the public regarding the Freeholder Meetings.
Sarnoski commented that the only thing that the public sees prior to the Freeholders Meeting is the Meeting Agenda and that under the Freeholders Comments section on the agenda it is blank. He wanted to push for the three Freeholders, Sarnoski, Richard Gardner, and Edward Smith, to submit any comments they have regarding the agenda to the County Clerk prior to the meeting so they can be added to the agenda for public review.
"This allows us to be a little more open with the public and forewarn them of what is coming," commented Sarnoski.
Although Sarnoski is encouraging the Freeholders to submit any comments days prior to a meeting, he stated that this does not limit the comments that each Freeholder is allowed to make during the meeting. He also wanted to make it clear to the Freeholders, as well as the public present at the meeting, that this is not a mandate and that the Freeholders are not required to submit any comments to the County Clerk prior to the meeting.
"I welcome the opportunity to put things out for the public to be notified about," stated Smith.
This proposition is not only meant to benefit the public but also the Freeholders. If one of the Freeholders plans to bring a resolution to the Board, they can put it on the agenda days prior to the meeting and send all information to the other members so they can review it ahead of time.


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The main operations of UAS include the following services to the University community: financial support services, human resource management, contracts and grants administration, bookstore operation, campus food services and child care services.
UAS also manages the 103,000 square-foot Golden Eagle that opened in 2003. The building - two adjoining structures separated by a promenade - houses food services, including a food court with seating for approximately 750, kitchen and catering operations, a 600-seat banquet and conference center, the University Club restaurant, a 25,000 square-foot two-story University Bookstore (operated by Barnes and Noble), as well as UAS administrative offices, the University's Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSP), the Golden Eagle Service Center, classrooms and meeting spaces for the CSULA Extended Education Division and the Pat Brown Institute.
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From "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931) to "Inception" (2011), Hollywood always has been fascinated with what goes on in the human brain. But sci-fi doesn't do justice to the astounding three-pound supercomputer between your ears. It's got 100 billion neurons and 1,000 times that many connections. So it takes some TLC to keep it in tip-top shape. That's why it's so exciting that recent research reveals how to enhance your intellect, strengthen perception and protect your gray matter over the long haul.
Start with your 'tude, dude. When you think of yourself as "older" and associate aging with declining abilities, you're five times more likely to test positive for dementia than if you have a youthful sense of self. Luckily, you're never too old to renew your inner youthfulness. Three sure-fire ways: Touch and be touched -- hugs, intimate contact or massage stimulate feel-good hormones; learn one new thing a day, as it keeps the brain young; and meditate 10 minutes daily to build resilience and manage neuron-damaging stress.
Build neurons and muscles. Physical activity stimulates the growth of new neurons and new connections between them. That preserves your memory and overall cognitive function.
Get some fat-isfaction. Your brain reacts to the fats you eat, and a new study found saturated fats (in meats and dairy) KO brain function. But cognitive, verbal and memory skills are amped up by monounsaturated (olive oil) and polyunsaturated (canola and safflower oil) fats, omega-3s in walnuts (6x more than other nuts), and DHA in fish and omega-3 supplements.
Dr. Mehmet Oz is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Dr. Mike Roizen is chief medical officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www.RealAge.com.


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Los de Abajo
Mexico City's Los de Abajo is a good, old-fashioned, ideologically in-your-face punk band. Case in point: "Screw," in which the downtrodden come with a confrontational politics that exposes the death-squad/drug-dealer thug as the face of the government on the ground. All this is set to a rapid-fire, ska-flavored beat -- except upon closer inspection, the ska turns out to be a merengue. The album as a whole shows such enthusiasm for traditional rhythms, bouncing from cumbia to rocksteady to norteña, that it's hard to imagine Los de Abajo staying locked into one approach for long. The performances are so urgent and the richly layered arrangements so aggressive that this feels like the music of the moment and, perhaps, the future. In a phrase, salsa out of bounds.
What makes Los de Abajo even more appealing, though, is the personal nature of their songwriting, churning out one moving vocal after another. The human condition is captured as individual moments of heartbreak, loneliness, and even madness, but the hopeful moments shine all the brighter for it. On "That Place Does Exist," the singers' call-and-response vocals take on a Pentecostal ecstasy as the song's utopian vision takes shape. The norteña/ska of "Go On, Rise Up" is so frenzied, it's giddy and, if you take its advice, even liberating. Remember when those words used to describe punk?
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|By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 12:43 am: Edit
Which is more preferred or harder to obtain?
|By Phi2402 (Phi2402) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 01:01 am: Edit
Far less people attain this score than a 1600, due to a tougher curve - you can't miss as many questions as you could for a 1600.
|By Phi2402 (Phi2402) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 01:02 am: Edit
or atleast that is what I heard
|By Anijen21 (Anijen21) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 01:19 am: Edit
They're both awesome.
Just let it be at that.
|By Norseviking (Norseviking) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 01:21 am: Edit
Being an east-coast kid I'd rather have a 1600. Now having said that schools along the coasts prefer 1600. Princeton really hates the ACT. Schools in the Midwest and such would probably rather see the 36.
|By Crazylicious (Crazylicious) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 03:02 am: Edit
Norseviking: how do you know Princeton really hates the ACT?
|By Welshie (Welshie) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 03:35 am: Edit
Perhaps they don't accept it...?
|By Needhelp06 (Needhelp06) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 10:20 am: Edit
well you can miss two questions and still get a 36 on the ACT which is the same amoutn you can usually miss and get a 1600(as long as you dont miss a science question).
|By Qwert271 (Qwert271) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 11:44 am: Edit
I think overall the 36 is much rarer, but that reflects of fewer geniuses taking it than the SAT. Most people in the midwest who want to go to a great college will take the SAT, although most people in the northeast who want to go to a great college won't take the ACT.
|By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 01:51 pm: Edit
So why do colleges usually say that if you take the ACTs you don't need 3 SAT IIs, whereas for SATs you do? It seems cheaper to take ACTs, or do colleges really like SAT+3SATIIs but say ACT for people who can't afford it?
|By Drusba (Drusba) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 03:41 pm: Edit
Colleges that require SAT II's (a small minority-- about 50) may or may not accept the ACT in lieu of the II's depending on college, e.g., of the ivies Yale, Penn, and Brown accept ACT in lieu of both SAT and SAT II's but others require the II's even if you submit ACT. So whether you can do that with ACT depends on college to which you are applying.
As to Princeton's prejudice on the SAT: A Princeton professor, Carl Brigham, actually created the SAT in the mid-1920's (he was a white supremicist who wanted his test to be used by colleges because he believed it would keep all minority groups like blacks, hispanics, asians, jews, and others from qualifying for admission to college and would keep colleges pure and occupied by only white anglo-saxon males which he firmly believed was necessary to keep America from collapsing; Harvard was actually the first to adopt his test as a requirement for admission; Cooper Union and Princeton followed shortly thereafter). Princeton has always been a leading member of the College Board and its sister company ETS. In other words, Princeton has a financial interest in maintaining the SAT. Though all the other ivies long ago decided to accept the ACT, Princeton refused and instead created a weird rule -- you can submit the ACT in lieu of the SAT only if all the other colleges to which you apply require the ACT. As far as I know, schools that accept only the ACT are very few in number and may be only one (Brigham Young) so Princeton's rule effectively requires the SAT. Nevertheless, Princeton has been known to actually admit some who submitted the ACT and not the SAT as long as SAT II's are also submitted. In other words, for the truly outstanding student it will probably bend its own rule.
ACT and SAT publish figures for the number who actually score 36 and 1600. The numbers are published for a graduating class and include all tests taken by the class going back to sophomore year of high school. For the high school graduating class of 2003, 195 (.02%) out of 1.2 million test takers scored 36; for the SAT, 944 (.07%) out of 1.4 million scored 1600. Those are single sitting numbers. For admission purposes, it is actually easier to get a 1600 on the SAT than those numbers indicate. Most colleges (with notable exceptions like the UC's) for the SAT determine your score for admission purposes by adding your highest math and highest verbal even if the two are from different tests. Counting that way, the number who actually have 1600 for admission purposes gets well into the thousands. Most colleges will not add subscores from different tests for the ACT but instead take only your highest composite from any single test.
|By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 05:22 pm: Edit
wow, thanks Drusba for all the information
I had no idea the SAT was actually created with THAT purpose in mind :-(
|By Feuler (Feuler) on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 01:23 am: Edit
From what I understand, that is a slight (read: slight) exaggeration/misrepresentation of Carl Brigham, but it is true he was a eugenicist and all that.
One part I find humorous about it is that once he saw the SAT starting to spread, he realized it was a bad thing and actively spoke against it's use in admissions, but failed to stop it from spreading.
Neither a 36 nor a 1600 is impressive. People can debate about which is harder to obtain and whatnot, but the bottom line is that, while it may be hard to get them, those that can get them are able to because of some sort of knack for tests that is practically worthless in the real world. It does correlate to useful characteristics, such as reasoning skills, but not as strongly as people think. It correlates more strongly to things like being white, having rich parents, and the like.
And I'm not just saying that to justify a low score, because I did get a 1590. I know people with much lower scores whom I consider much smarter and more capable than myself.
|By Adnan88 (Adnan88) on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 10:56 am: Edit
The valedictorian of my school last year, in a class with 600 people, had a 1600 on his SAT and 780+ on every SAT II he took. He got rejected from Harvard and John Hopkins(for Bio). Its easy to see that test scores count less and less now towards admission. He didnt have any EC's. One of my mom's friends from Columbia said that they use SAT scores for elimination practically. A 1500 and a 1600 arent considerede much different. They just use the SATs to filter out the low scoring applications.
|By Justice (Justice) on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 06:06 pm: Edit
he was a white supremicist who wanted his test to be used by colleges because he believed it would keep all minority groups like blacks, hispanics, asians, jews, and others from qualifying for admission to college and would keep colleges pure and occupied by only white anglo-saxon males which he firmly believed was necessary to keep America from collapsing
Haha screwed up there didnt he...
|By Neom3x11 (Neom3x11) on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 06:52 pm: Edit
I wholeheartedly agree with Feuler. People in general pay too much attention to test scores. I got a 1560 and when another friend got the same score, she called me up just to tell me that we tied. Yippee...who cares? It was pretty annoying, to say the least.
I just wish everybody the best of luck on their paths to college, no matter what test scores they got.
|By Madd87 (Madd87) on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 08:25 pm: Edit
A 36 is harder. About the same number of people take the ACT as the SAT and there are like 4x more 1600s than 36s.
|By Pcrunner17 (Pcrunner17) on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 02:02 am: Edit
Does anyone have any figures as to how many ACTs are taken in comparison to the number of SATs that are taken?
|By Apemanttt (Apemanttt) on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 02:59 am: Edit
Here ya are:
"For the high school graduating class of 2003, 195 (.02%) out of 1.2 million test takers scored 36; for the SAT, 944 (.07%) out of 1.4 million scored 1600."
|By Drusba (Drusba) on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 10:49 am: Edit
As noted above both the ACT and SAT publish figures for how many students from a high school graduating class take the ACT or SAT. For 2003, that was about 1.2 million for the ACT and 1.4 million for the SAT. Those figures count heads and not number of tests taken and include tests taken from sophomore to senior year. Neither publishes the actual number of tests taken per year which would be significantly higher than those figures because juniors and seniors, and many sophomores and freshmen, take the test during any given year and many repeat taking the tests. Neither organization considers number of tests given in a year a useful figure for evaluating anything (except their own income). However, they mention numbers unofficially once in a while (which cannot necessarily be relied on) and actual tests given in any year (for last couple of years) are just under 2 million for the ACT and about 2.4 million for the SAT. The SAT has a higher "repeat" rate (it is also the only test available in some foreign countries from which students may apply).
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When we gaze back over our lives, whether through rose-colored or gray-tinted glasses, we see either sunlit halcyon afternoons or dark nights of the soul filled with "What if…?" and regret. This month, Carrie Iverson and Stephen Scott Smith turn their very different lenses on the machinations of memory and the relationship between the past and present. Iverson's Correspondence at Bullseye Gallery unflinchingly explores the memory loss experienced by the artist's father. When you walk into the sepulchral, windowless exhibition gallery, you enter a world of gray: mixed-media works in a grayscale palette that wash over you like a bank of fog. Here, all that was once distinct has blurred; all that was congealed has dispersed, like a web of neurons that has frayed and torn. The artist has taken objects associated with her father and transmogrified them into elegies in paper, kiln-formed glass and chalkboards on which all writing has been obscured into messy indecipherability. A milky glass plank called Redacted (which would have been a chilling title for the exhibition itself) evokes diary pages that have faded or been erased. Iverson conjures an atmosphere of sfumato and stone-washed memories, in which all concretes have eroded into ghostly traces of their erstwhile referents. This is a technically assured and courageous inquiry into the disappearance and endurance of memory.
SEE IT: Correspondence is at Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222, bullseyegallery.com. Closes Nov. 19. Burlap 2B is at Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., breezeblockgallery.com. Closes Oct. 1.


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The XRF Scanning Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers nondestructive, high-resolution elemental analysis, x-radiography and digital photos of split sediment cores using an ITRAX model XRF Corescanner built by Cox Analytical Systems, Sweden. The scanner provides unprecedented analytical resolution and speed, allowing for the determination of chemical composition of entire core sections within a matter of hours. With a flexible mounting system, the XRF scanner can easily accommodate split cores between 6-12 cm in diameter and up to 180 cm in length. The instrument is capable of scanning at a resolution as fine as 200 microns and performing radiography at a maximum resolution of 20 microns, ideal for analysis of laminated marine and lacustrine sediments. Other types of samples, such as tree ring sections, speleothems, and corals may be run through the machine as well.
Digital Photography
The scanner is equipped with a camera that collects digital photos of the sediment cores prior to the radiographic/XRF scan. The maximum resolution of these photos is 100 microns, allowing the user to digitally align visible features in the sediment core with changes in density and sediment chemistry.
Radiographic Imaging
Flat-beam optics focus X-rays into a 13 x 0.2 mm rectangular beam perpendicular to the sample surface. A slit system located below the sample further focuses the rays down to a maximum resolution of 20 microns. Exposure times are on the order of 400-800 milliseconds per point, so that very high-resolution images are collected within an hour or two per core.
X-ray Fluorescence Elemental Analysis
The scanner employs a Si-drift detector coupled with a digital multi-channel analyzer to handle high count rates and provide sensitivity at relatively low exposure times (10-30 seconds per point). To accommodate for uneven core surfaces and maintain a constant
sample-detector distance, a laser triangulation system is used to measure the surface of the core and adjust the motorized detector accordingly.
The WHOI scanner provides non-destructive records of elemental composition at resolutions and speeds difficult to achieve utilizing discrete sampling methods. The 200 micron resolution is appropriate for studying laminated sediments. Data produced by the scanner can be used for detecting sediment source area based on
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