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2014-15 (Sophomore): Played in 28 games, starting 16 in her sophomore season ... one of six Spartans to average 20 or more minutes ... third on the team in scoring at 8.0 points per game ... has set career highs in minutes played (719), field goals made (80), three-pointers made (13), free throws made (52), rebounds (108), assists (44) and steals (35) ... scored in double figures 10 times, including a career-high 20 points against Livingstone (Dec. 20) off 7-of-12 from the field with six rebounds ... grabbed a career-high eight boards against LSU (Dec. 28) at the Miami Holiday Tournament ... started 12 games in a row from Nov. 20-Dec. 29 ... went 7-of-8 from the free throw line at Western Carolina (Jan. 24) ... has played in 13 of the 14 Southern Conference games, starting four at guard ... played a season-high 39 minutes in a overtime victory against Livingstone.
2013-14 (Freshman): Played in all 30 games and made 20 starts … One of 10 Spartans to average double figures in minutes played … Started nine-straight contests to end the season … Scored in double figures four times, including a career-high 15 in UNCG's victory over Georgia Southern (Feb. 10) that snapped a four-game skid against the Eagles … Netted 10 points in contests vs. Davidson (Feb. 8) and Georgia Southern as well as the Spartans' first round affair against Western Carolina (March 7) in the 2014 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Championship … Tallied season highs in rebounds (seven/five offensive) and assists (three) vs. the Eagles in Greensboro … Played a season-high 31 minutes at Appalachian State (Feb. 15).
High School: Racked up 345 points her senior season to become Western Branch High School's all-time leading scorer (boys or girls) with 1,700 ... Led the Bruins to a 23-4 overall record, 17-1 league mark last season and a No. 10 ranking in the state of Virginia ... Tallied 15.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, 3.4 steals and 2.6 assists per game her junior campaign and was named to the all-district first team ... Followed that performance up with an equally as good senior season, averaging 12.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per contest .. As a sophomore, she turned in even better numbers with 20.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, 4.9 steals and 3.8 assists per contest ... As a result, earned second-team all-state, first-team all-region, first-team All-Tidewater and District MVP honors ... Played her AAU basketball with the TYO Lady Neptunes and the program is coached by her high school coach TroyTerry.
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Oakland charter school for poor kids a spectacular success teaching hard work, discipline, capitalism
posted at 5:27 pm on May 30, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Ace, the L.A. Times explains why everything you thought you knew about education is
wrong absolutely correct.
Seriously, this must be one of the top five reddest red-meat items we've ever posted.
Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. . . . Multi-cultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots, and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply."…
School administrators take pride in their record of frequently firing teachers they consider to be underperforming. Unions are embraced with the same warmth accorded "self-esteem experts, panhandlers, drug dealers and those snapping turtles who refuse to put forth their best effort," to quote the school's website…
Among the thousands of public schools in California, only four middle schools and three high schools score higher. None of them serve mostly underprivileged children.
At American Indian, the largest ethnic group is Asian, followed by Latinos and African Americans. Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the high test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well — in fact, better on some tests…
The short answer is that American Indian attracts academically motivated students, relentlessly (and unapologetically) teaches to the test, wrings more seat time out of every school day, hires smart young teachers, demands near-perfect attendance, piles on the homework, refuses to promote struggling students to the next grade, and keeps discipline so tight that there are no distractions or disruptions. Summer school is required.
Follow the link for a compulsively readable report on their methods, replete with the principal disciplining a student for stealing by shaving his head in front of the student body. It's unclear how many kids are naturally gifted versus how many are being turned into academic powerhouses by the school's approach, but given how stratospheric their scores are, they'd have to be enrolling the creme de la creme of brainy Californians to be coasting on talent alone. Obama is, of course, a lost cause when it comes to national reform along these lines — if he's so subservient to unions that he'd kill the D.C. vouchers program, imagine his reaction to demanding rigorous performance standards for teachers — but why the GOP isn't all over this, I have no idea. Not only would it give them traction on a key domestic issue, the fact that the school's run by and for minorities would give them a shot of credibility with black and Latino voters. How about it, boys?
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Blue laws,
for and against
Regarding "Blue laws suspended in Paramus, elsewhere, but for how long?" (Business, Page L-8, Nov. 6):
Kudos to Governor Christie, Mahwah Mayor William C. Laforet and Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan for recognizing the advantage of rescinding Bergen County's archaic blue laws.
Now, more than ever, the officials are listening to the idea that it is unfair to the residents to black out shopping on one day a week when shops in other parts of the region are open.
Why are we the only county left in New Jersey to uphold the archaic blue laws? The mantra seems to be: Stick to upholding ancient laws and ignore public opinion of today. Just maybe our population and attitudes have changed, and the Bergen County taxpayers do not want to spend the extra gas money and time to be forced farther afield to shop conveniently on a Sunday.
To truly uphold our democratic ideals of freedom, it's time for another vote on continuing the blue laws. Even a local option should be seriously considered.
Ruby Kaplan
Teaneck, Nov. 5
Regarding "Back off in Paramus" (Editorials, Nov. 9):
The editorial soothingly suggests that the suspension is only temporary. As a veteran of the 1990s battles to save Bergen's blue laws, this is ironic, since The Record was at the forefront of those opposing them back then.
I'm very much afraid that Governor Christie's suspension of the Bergen blue laws is a backdoor effort to get them repealed altogether. To those who may have forgotten, one of his first moves on being elected was to try to repeal them. But a general outcry by Bergen residents and special efforts by state Sens. Robert Gordon, D-Fair Lawn, and Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, among others, forced him to back down.
Now, he seems to have enlisted his associate, Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan, in his scheme to get them permanently removed. He isn't fooling anybody.
For those of us who have to suffer through eternal weekday tie-ups of Routes 4 and 17, here's hoping his trick will fail.
It's a shame that Donovan, as chief executive of the county, isn't in the people's corner. Tuesday's election outcome, with the county Democrats winning big, should have been enough of a warning to her and her supporters.
Walter Weglein
Fair Lawn, Nov. 9
Regarding "Break in blue laws sparks legal fight" (Page A-1, Nov. 9) and "Back off in Paramus" (Editorial, Nov. 9):
How dare the Paramus residents make a stir about the blue laws at a time like this? If I am not mistaken, aren't their taxes so low because of these very stores they are against? Businesses are fighting to exist. Give me a break.


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In his latest offering, Globe metro columnist Kevin Cullen uses the death of Dom DiMaggio and the probable steroid use of Manny Ramirez to argue, basically, that America is on the skids, dammit!
Baseball is more than our national pastime. It is a reflection of what we are as a people. And right now the reflection isn't very pretty.


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Movie Review: Undefeated
Stephen Rebello reviews the Oscar nominated documentary Undefeated.
Director: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin MPAA Rating: PG-13 Studio: Five Smooth Stones Productions
The elements might sound all too familiar. A team of beaten-down, disenfranchised African-American ball players caught up in challenging personal lives face seemingly impossible odds with the help and guidance of a tough-love, ultra-dedicated, unconventional coach. We've seen the underdog story recycled again and again in real-life and fictionalized TV and movie offerings like Go Tigers!, Hoop Dreams, The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights on and on. Now comes Undefeated, a documentary from Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin about the players and coach of the poorly-funded and equipped Manassas High School football team, which in the school's 110-year history, has yet to win one single play-off game.
The players, from a disadvantaged community include, Chavis Daniels, a fresh out of jail linebacker struggling with serious anger management issues, O.C. Brown, a mammoth, good-natured tackle with a promising pro future but failing grades, and Montrail "Money" Brown, an undersized right tackle with a heart and will that could transcend his limitations.
Their sixth-year volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, is a funny, folksy, can-do bear of a guy, a lumber yard owner and family man who gives every ounce of himself to guys on whom so many others have given up. Their goal? The dream of playing and winning their first play-off game. Haven't we seen this all before? Sure we have. But not so fast! The unsentimental, painfully honest and powerfully moving Undefeated grabs us from the first few minutes and doesn't let up. The inspiring, simple movie – chronological, no narration, straight ahead – speaks directly to all of those who are suffering worst from the failed economic policies, the outsourcing and the financial manipulations of the past decade.
We come to care deeply about the Manassas team on and off the field when some players go off the rails and others succeed against the odds. With no magical happy ending promised, by the time of the play-off game and its aftermath, there won't be a dry eye in the house. Suspenseful, beautifully shot and featuring a terrific musical score by Michael Brook, Miles Nielsen and Dan MacMahon, Undefeated isn't a movie just for those with a love of the game. It's also a movie for anyone attuned to the vast, largely untapped potential we all have to touch and transform each other's lives.
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Born Vivien Mary Hartley in India, Vivien Leigh won Academy Awards for her roles as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). From 1935 she had a successful career on stage, frequently opposite Laurence Olivier, to whom she was married from 1940 to 1961. At the time of this portrait Vivien Leigh was at the height of her career and was touring Australia and New Zealand with Olivier and the Old Vic Theatre Company.


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BATON ROUGE (AP) — A state judge has set a June 24 trial date for two Baton Rouge men accused in the 2007 killing of two LSU graduate students from India after an attorney for one of the defendants requested a speedy trial.
Beau Brock, who represents Casey Jermaine Gathers, told The Advocate he had been prevented from filing such a motion in the more than 5-year-old case until all outstanding motions were resolved.
"Casey and his family have been frustrated by the delays. We were compelled to file a motion for speedy trial so he can have his day in court," Brock said outside state District Judge Chip Moore's courtroom. "We don't intend just to rest on not guilty as our position. We are going to show Casey Gathers is the innocent man that he is."
East Baton Rouge Parish Assistant District Attorney Steve Danielson said during a brief hearing in the case that he intends to try Gathers, 24, and Michael Jermaine Lewis, 23, together in the slaying of Kiran Kumar Allam, 33, and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma, 31.
The two were shot to death at Allam's Edward Gay apartment on the edge of LSU's campus. Their bodies were found Dec. 13, 2007. Both men were shot in the head and one was bound.
Gathers, who is the alleged triggerman, and Lewis each are charged with two counts of second-degree murder. A second-degree murder conviction would carry an automatic sentence of life in prison.
Devin Jamell Parker, 23, also of Baton Rouge, pleaded guilty in 2011 to armed robbery and accessory charges in the case and agreed to testify in any future legal proceedings. He has not been sentenced.
Moore on Wednesday denied Brock's request that the judge instruct the jury that former LSU graduate student Anatol Litoshka could have had a motive to kill. Brock contends Litoshka threatened Allam before Litoshka was booted from graduate school at LSU in mid-2006.


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Below the surface of the soil lies a complex soil food web we will likely never see. Without it, much of the plant life we enjoy would not be able to exist. The soil food web consists of many organisms that are beneficial to the health of the soil. This beneficial web is plentiful in an undisturbed forest setting, but can be diminished or lacking in some of the soils we have around our homes where our trees are trying to exist.
Many practices done to soils can disturb this fragile soil food web. Things like compacting the soil, overwatering, lawn treatments, removal of leaves and small branches, etc. can have major impacts on this fragile web. A healthy soil will need organisms like nematodes, beneficial fungi, bacteria, protozoa, arthropods, and certain other animals in order to maintain a favorable growing environment. These organisms play a critical role in nutrient cycling. Nutrient cycling is the process whereby plant materials are broken down into usable nutrients for plants to carry on life.
The soil food web also creates beneficial soil structures for trees. Soils are much more complex than just a mixture of sand, silt and clay. It is also made up of soil spaces and many other physical structures that allow root growth and expansion.
What does this all mean? It means that we need to do what we can to maintain this diversity of life underground in order to help our trees. Culturally we can do things like mulching (with no weed barrier!) to introduce organic matter, which is a building block for the life underground. If mulching is not preferred, other options exist like composting. Topdressing with composted organic matter under the crown of a tree is a good way to introduce organic matter into the soil. Using soil injected compost teas is another great way to help enrich the soil environment.
Other soil enhancements will benefit soil health as well. Mycorrhizae treatments will help to reintroduce beneficial soil fungi that trees use to increase their water and nutrient uptake. This mutual relationship can be the difference between a tree surviving a major drought, like we experienced recently, or not. Root biostimulants and fertilizer will also help a tree recover from stresses like drought.
The soil is a complex living structure that cycles the nutrients that trees need to grow strong and healthy. Doing whatever we can to enhance this soil food web will improve the health and beauty of the trees in our landscapes. If you feel that your trees are in need of a little extra tender loving care, please be sure to get in touch with your Certified Arborists at Wachtel Tree Science.
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PREDICTION Clean Air Cool Planet's map projects the extent of a 3.3-foot sea-level rise with a 2.6-foot storm surge.
By the turn of the next century, most of the areas of Portland that were filled in during the 1800s to create more land downtown will be either underwater or regularly flooded during storms. We need to figure out what to do about that.
It doesn't matter whether you think humans are or aren't causing climate change. It doesn't even matter if you are unsure whether climate change is happening at all. What counts is this: "We're all going to get wet."
That's the frank assessment from Sam Merrill, who until last week was a professor at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service. The same conclusion is clear from a wide range of reports over many years, including the latest update from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Monday, which predicts sea levels will rise somewhere between 10 and 32 inches by 2100. And don't forget about storm surges.
Merrill has worked for several years in partnership with private companies and federal research support, learning how best to help people adapt to the changing environment they find themselves in. That included a preliminary look at how much flooding Portland's Back Cove might see in the future, which led to various meetings among Bayside residents, property owners, and businesspeople to discuss what might be done in response.
His company, Catalysis Adaptation Partners, puts that research into practice, and will present a report next month on what Portlanders can expect on the Commercial Street side of the peninsula in 2050 and 2100, to kickstart a Portland Society for Architecture community-wide conversation about what actions public and private entities might take to avert, avoid, or at least minimize disaster.
Merrill has left the university to devote himself to doing similar work worldwide, combining science with what might be called "civic psychotherapy," supporting local communities as they develop solutions to the problems they face as a result of rising sea levels and increasingly powerful storms.
He's already helping planners at Boston's Logan Airport and in Florida, and even in Minnesota, which is struggling with extreme weather events that wash out bridges along the shore of Lake Superior. The local governments in London and in Santos, Brazil (just outside Sao Paulo)*, have brought Catalysis in to help them develop plans to avoid getting so wet in the future.
Big changes, bigger questionsIn 2007, Merrill realized that the debate around climate change had been subsumed by two excesses: data and fear. We knew a whole lot about how bad things are likely to get, but had very little idea what would be the best approach to minimize the harm and damage.
The prospects are pretty terrifying. If all the ice on the planet melted, sea level would rise 216 feet, according to the US Geological Survey, as quoted in National Geographic magazine's September issue. In Portland, that would leave about six feet of the very top of the Portland Observatory above the water.
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If you choose to pursue this avenue of planning software development, make sure you do it on a huge project. I've just given up trying it on a small one -- it feels like it's turning the small project into a huge project. I could have coded and released the darn thing in the time it's taken me to specify half of it accurately.
That being said, I will be going back to my old ways with the Inukshuk CLI Utilities -- and those who are interested will see results much more quickly.


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The White Devil (Hardcover)
Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in London, a chilling gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child . . .
A fierce and jealous ghost . . .
A young man's fight for his life . . .
The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States.
But trouble and danger seem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an outcast, spurned by nearly all his peers. And there is the pale, strange boy who begins to visit him at night. Either Andrew is losing his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being haunted is true.
When the school's poet-in-residence, Piers Fawkes, is commissioned to write a play about Byron, one of Harrow's most famous alumni, he casts Andrew in the title role. Andrew begins to discover uncanny links between himself and the renowned poet. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a literary genius and infamous seducer but as a student at the very different Harrow of two centuries prior a place rife with violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and tormented love affairs.
When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start to recur in Harrow's present, and when the dark and deadly specter by whom Andrew's been haunted seems to be all too real, Andrew is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery that threatens the lives of his friends and his teachers and, most terrifyingly, his own.
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"Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? [The White Devil] gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler's grip with its escalating horrors."
-Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly (2011 Pop Culture Favorites)
"Demonic possession, the provocative topic of Justin Evans's first novel, A Good and Happy Child, takes on a literary twist and a sexual jolt in The White Devil. . . . Evans heaps an assortment of gothic embellishments onto this coming-of-age narrative."
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"Chilling-to-the-bone. . . . Deliciously frightening, The White Devil is a literary scare story in an earlier tradition before vampires ruled the day, or at least the genre."
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"[An] ingenious and creepy supernatural thriller, will give you chills even in the summer heat. Evans has fused a literary mystery, sinister ghost story and Gothic romance with the story of a boy's intellectual and sexual awakening."
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"Evans ratchets up the suspense at an expert pace. . . . The White Devil [is] an authentic page-turner that may well be devoured in one sitting."
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"The White Devil is an intelligent, bristling ghost story with a stunning sense of place, a uniquely frightful spirit, and a band of absolutely charming heroes—Byronic and otherwise. You'll dread reaching the end-while flipping the pages furiously."
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EDISON, N.J., September 10, 2007 – Deforestation, pollution, global warming and industrialization are just some of the many important themes in Eco Creatures: Save the Forest, a unique real-time strategy (RTS) game for the Nintendo DS being published by Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games and digital entertainment products for the mass market. Co-developed by Lightweight Co. Ltd. and Headlock Corporation, Eco Creatures is the only game of its kind that promotes awareness of environmental perils while tasking players with defending the Mana Woods against them.
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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by Buckeyes#1, Apr 8, 2009.
In fact, he only gave one team (the Packers) in the entire NFC a higher grade.
Lions always get high grades. We'be had above average drafts according to the pundits this whole decade.
Well that same guy did give us a D last year.
I totally agree with you. That is fact. This whole draft thing is a TOTAL crapshoot. That's why I wouldn't have hedged so much money on Stafford. Millen is about the unluckiest guy I have ever met. I mean when you roll a dice 120 times, the odds are you will get about 20 of each number. He had so many draft picks that were "nobrainers" that let him down. He drafted so smart many times, yet they all basically failed. Unbelievable. Unlucky or not, he had to go. I think Millens #1 mistake was he bailed on Mariucchi a little too soon. Mariucchi was a guy who vets loved to play for. With the Lions, Mariucchi was trying to coach a bunch of young junior highers, that needed alot of structure. Mariucchi would have gotten it right if given a little more time I believe. At least 500 level anyways.
AND Andre Ware.........oh wait.
No Mike Utley??? No thumbs up for you!
Here are a bunch of draft grades on the Lions. ESPN: Consensus Grades: NFL Draft - SportsNation
I like this Stafford kid. He looks like a less goober version of Stan Humphries. I liked Stan Humphries. He had a cannon, he was tough, and his head was so big, his helmet had to be specially made.
Were you serious or are you joking? You don't get "unlucky" 120 straight times. Plain and simple, the guy just couldn't do his job correctly. Matt Millen rankings: TV analyst: good NFL GM: bad
I have three points I am trying to make. #1. Millen deserves to be fired. #2. Millen is about the unluckiest GM I have ever seen in my life. I can't think of one who was more unlucky. All the experts were hootin and hollarin about a number of our draft picks, which ended up to be total busts. Joey Harrington, Charles Rodgers, Mike Williams, the lists goes on. On and on and on and on. #3. Don't think about #2 so much that you forget my #1.
The tackle who played on the line with him...Eric Andolsyk was a monster. He's the one who should be honored...He was headed for all-pro when he was killed in an off season freak accident.
Was that an infinite loop? :nerd2:
From ESPN.com: These players might not have been drafted, but they still could find their way onto an NFL roster. Here's a look at the top 20 undrafted players: 1. Michael Bennett, DE, Texas A&M Bennett is our highest-ranked free agent still available at this point. His ability to hold up against the run makes him a solid value as a five-technique in 3-4 defensive front. 2. Gerald Cadogan, OT, Penn State Although Cadogan isn't dominant in any one area, he does possess the size and strength to come into camp and compete for a backup role. 3. C.J. Spillman, DS, Marshall Spillman's lack of fluidity brings up concerns about his overall range. However, he possesses strong football intelligence and is a reliable open-field tackler. 4. Augustus Parrish, OT, Kent State A lack of overall athleticism may make Parrish more suited for the guard position. We feel he plays with adequate leverage and has the toughness to potentially add depth to the offensive line. 5. Emanuel Cook, DS, South Carolina There are concerns about Cook's ability to hold up in man coverage and in center field. Still, his overall range in run support makes a case for him to potentially develop into a sub-package run-defender and special teams contributor. 6. Darry Beckwith, ILB, LSU Beckwith brings strong overall instincts and a physical attitude when defending the run on the interior. At the very least, he should get a chance to compete for a backup role. 7. Jonathan Casillas, OLB, Wisconsin Casillas is undersized at 228 pounds, but he has a great blend of instincts, fluidity and range. In addition, he can bring added value as a special teams contributor. 8. Brian Hoyer, QB, Michigan State Hoyer admittedly needs to take better care of the ball at times. Still, we believe he is underrated thanks in large part to a mediocre receiving corps. Teams willing to take the time could make him into a valuable backup. 9. Mitch King, DT, Iowa King is a bit of a tweener who is going to have problems finding a true niche in the NFL. That said, he may have the potential to develop into a versatile reserve. 10. Cornelius Lewis, OT, Tennessee State Lewis has excellent size, but one of the reasons he may not have been drafted is due to his lack of agility. That said, we believe he can develop into an effective guard, if he doesn't work out at the tackle position. 11. Jeremiah Johnson, RB, Oregon Johnson did not play a huge role in Oregon's passing game and there are concerns about his ability to do so at the NFL level. On the other hand, he is a determined runner who reads his blocks well and flashes ability to make defenders miss in the open field. 12. Derek Pegues, DS, Mississippi State Pegues doesn't have great size for a safety, and he lacks the fluidity in his hips to move to corner. However, he is fast enough to play the center-field type role and he possesses above-average ball skills. In addition, he has the potential to contribute on special teams. 13. Jason Watkins, OT, Florida Watkins had an underwhelming performance at the Senior Bowl, which may have been the difference between him being a late-round selection and signing as a free agent. Although he isn't an elite pass-blocker, he has the size and toughness to potentially add depth at the right tackle position. 14. Alex Boone, OT, Ohio State Boone is a three-year starter at one of the nation's most prestigious programs. Much like Watkins, he could emerge as an effective backup at the right tackle position. The reasons he fell out of the draft are concerns about his pass blocking and off-the-field baggage. 15. Ashlee Palmer, OLB, Mississippi Palmer is undersized and struggles to anchor against the run. This may be the reason teams opted to shy away from spending a draft pick on him. However, Palmer is fluid in coverage and may develop into a situational third-down linebacker. He also has the ability to be an effective special teams contributor. 16. Kory Sheets, RB, Purdue Sheets is inconsistent and more effective running outside than he is between the tackles, but he has the speed, hands and elusiveness to give a team a quality third-down back. 17. Joel Bell, OT, Furman Bell is a small-school prospect who only played two years of high school football and he is still raw at this point. However, he has the favorable frame, weight and agility to develop into an adequate No. 3 swing-tackle. 18. Dannell Ellerbe, OLB, Georgia Ellerbe lacks ideal fluidity for an outside linebacker and size for an interior linebacker. On the other hand, he's capable of developing into an adequate reserve strongside linebacker or middle linebacker for a team that can protect him with size up front. 19. Greg Isdaner*, OG, West Virginia The 325-pound Isdaner could stand to shed a few pounds in an effort to improve quickness and agility, and he needs to get stronger. On the flip side, he has the frame, awareness and tenacity to develop into an adequate reserve guard. 20. Arian Foster, RB, Tennessee A disappointing senior season and durability concerns inevitably prevented teams from pulling the trigger on Foster in the later rounds. However, the 226-pound back has the vision and size to develop into an effective short-yardage back.
Can we just trade our team with these guys?
Maybe the Lions should sign this Foote guy: Pittsburgh Steelers release veteran starting inside linebacker Larry Foote - ESPN
It depends. Is he willing to talk about his parent's divorce?
Apparently he actually WANTS to play for the Lions. Was Larry Foote in the Lions' plans all along? - Detroit Lions: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats - MLive.com
We just need to coach the guys we got.
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Which would you choose if you had to pick one of the two in the first round and why. I am curious because I do not think Rhodes will be there and Milliner will not be there unless something absolutely insane happened... Banks was considered a top 10 pick at times of the pre draft process. After the combine he is now graded as a late 1st early 2nd. He has great size and can make plays on the ball. He is a little bit slower than I would prefer but he is definitely a good CB. Trufant is a fast CB who is rising up the boards quickly as of late for his Senior Bowl performance and the numbers he threw up at the combine.
I actually find this to be a pretty tough decision but I think that Banks could be a potential lock down CB in the league if he can get his press down good and be able to use his size to his advantage. I really do like Trufant but he doesnt have that great of stats coming out of college. That also is partly because of the fact that teams pretty much avoided his side the entire game because the rest of his team was not great on the defensive end..
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Yes, I Can Support Israel and Be Liberal
Richard Marceau | Posted 06.27.2012 | Canada
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Those self-styled liberals who accuse right-wingers of having "taken possession" of the word "Zionism" are trying to equate Liberalism with a one-sided criticism of Israel. As if to be a true liberal, one must basically put the blame solely on the Jewish State for the current situation in the Middle East. I refuse.


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In 2007, a video on YouTube of a little dancing robot that looked kind of like a yellow snowman with the consistency of a marshmallow went viral, drawing to date more than 2.7 million views. The robot's name was Keepon, and it was a research project with a price tag of about $30,000. Later this month, you'll be able to buy your very own home version, My Keepon, for around $50. I'm not normally the type of person who squees, but the imminent arrival of My Keepon – plus the chance to talk to Keepon developer Marek Michalowski last week — has made me a happy robot fan.
The original Keepon Pro was the invention of Hideki Kozima, a Japanese researcher looking into ways to use robots to interact with autistic children. Kozima's Keepon was basically a puppet. While kids prodded and studied the robot in one room, a therapist watching the children through Keepon's camera eyes in another room guided its movements. According to Michalowski, the theory is not that autistic kids don't want to interact with other people, but that they experience an information overload, a flood of information. Researchers wanted to see if they expressing the therapist's intentions through the robot would help kids to engage with it.
While this work was going on in Japan, Michalowski was working on his Ph.D. in robotics at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Born in Poland and raised in New York City, he had come to robotics after studying psychology and artificial intelligence at Yale, where "the professor told me intelligence only matters if it is embodied in the world." He decided to study social intelligence in robots because "it is the most complicated and challenging field of study right now."
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this is my first experience with beekeeping, i moved two warre hives I had purchased about 130 miles to home, had hive blocked, ratchet strap circumventing and plastic pallet wrap around them.Of course some bees escaped but stayed in the truck topper but on one hive many were between the hive and plastic wrap. The move was three boxes high because they were making comb that low. When I separated the bottom to add the fourth box I found that the comb had let loose and was on the screened bottom. Well of course this is a bit of a dilemma for an amateur. So I removed the comb, set the hive, shook the comb into a box for fear of loosing the queen, set the box up on ramp, most went inside, still had thousands of bees on outside of hive in a large cluster. I observed for a long time and noticed some were crawling down and back inside. Left them for an hour, most went in but several large groups remained. I felt these bees maybe had never been out of hive before and the cooler weather in the 50's they seemed stuck, brushed them onto cardboard, dumped them on landing board and they scrambled in. Things settled down after that.
1 Is there such thing as the wrong time to move a hive? the folks i got the hives from needed to sell due to city ordinance
2. what could I have done different ? because i know other can learn from this
3. what should I do with the comb that fell, it look as if they were putting stuff in it? do i put it out for the bees or discard?
I am new to this and maybe what I did may seem foolish, but I have learned a lot from this site, and know i have a lot more to learn. Thank you for the help. Sorry this got long.


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I had a small swarm move into one of my old outbuildings this morning, and I'd like to go the trap out route instead of doing a cut out.
I have two hives built from packages which were installed just four weeks ago on foundation. I have no drawn comb to use in my trap out box except what may be available from my two hives. My main question is whether a couple of frames with brood and nurse bees , one from each of my hives, with the remaining frames being foundation, and a new caged queen will likely work.
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By Rob Kelly
Johan Djourou says the FA Cup represents the perfect opportunity for Arsenal to make up for last season's Carling Cup heartbreak.
Arsène Wenger's side face a fifth-round tie at Sunderland on Saturday, and with both Manchester clubs already knocked out a path through to the final is starting to clear.
Djourou is wary of looking beyond the trip to the Stadium of Light but admits the Gunners are desperate to make up for their last-gasp defeat to Birmingham at Wembley.
"It is [a big opportunity] for us. The FA Cup is one of the main targets and we have to go for it," he told Arsenal Player.
"[The League Cup final defeat] is very motivating because we were very disappointed about what happened last time at Wembley and we want to put that right.
"I think it is something still in our heads, and it is difficult to swallow. We know if we can get to the final we can lift the trophy."
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To makeout and fingerblast a girl, when suddenly things turn sour and she begins to throw up on herself as well as you.
James: Bro, so I was hooking up with this one girl and while I was finger pounding her pussy, she started to throw up ALL OVER ME.
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Food Stamp Recipient Kids Being Fattened Up with Tax Payer Money?
Original post made by Anti Government Waste, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Aug 16, 2013
"Percentage change since 1996 in the number of U.S. children living in poverty: +12"
"Percentage change since 1996 in the number receiving cash aid from the U.S. government: –60"
Prominent right-wing intellectual, Mark Levin, urged Congress to further cut the federal government's food stamp program (SNAP). "Instead of fattening up our impoverished children, let them grow up lean and mean. Then maybe they'll go out and find a job instead of sitting in front of the television eating potato chips and drinking cherry colas all day long," Levin said.
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a resident of Dublin
on Aug 17, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Janna is a registered user.
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a resident of Downtown
on Aug 18, 2013 at 6:38 pm
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 18, 2013 at 7:54 pm
The poster who calls himself Right, having his ignorant viewpoints thoroughly trounced on the sites that matter, now unleashes a flurry of churlish, hate-filled comments. Such is, after all, what he does best.
a resident of Dublin
on Aug 18, 2013 at 9:32 pm
Janna is a registered user.
Travesty? I'd like to know how many meals you or your children have had to miss over the years.That's rhetorical btw. "Right" please keep it to yourself until you can speak from experience or at least from a place of empathy.
I'm just fine with my liberalness, thanks. Your opinion of me is wholly irrelevant in the scheme of things.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 19, 2013 at 9:09 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Janna, it's obvious you are an unapologetic liberal, but there's still hope since the first step to recovery is admitting you have this problem.
As far as SNAP goes, even your messiah admits that it is wasting millions of taxpayers funds through the fraud that is rampant amongst it's recipients. There's no refuting this waste, you just don't like that someone to the right of Saul Alinsky is bringing it up. Open your mind and get over your petty hatred.
From the Washington Post:
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'With more Americans relying on the program, the Obama administration on Tuesday plans to announce new steps to crack down on SNAP fraud amid estimates suggesting as much as $753 million in federal food aid is spent fraudulently each year.'
a resident of Dublin
on Aug 19, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Janna is a registered user.
Oh geez. Please tell me where I said there was no fraud or even mentioned the word? It is obvious to me that you see all users of SNAP as using it fraudulently. You are so defensive, it's clear you've never had to wonder how you would feed your kids or yourself. Don't feel guilty, just have empathy for those who struggle.
I can see you are the "throw the baby out with the bathwater type." Sad.
I will never apologize for caring about what happens to others. It's easy to judge but not really know what other people are going through.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 20, 2013 at 9:58 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Yes, Janna, my heart bleeds for thsoe that truly need the help. I donate regularly to the Alameda County Food Bank because I know that my donations go directly to those that need help, instead of being consumed by bloated administration, overhead, fraud and waste. Govt just can't spend money any more effectively than those of us who choose to channel our resources directly to where they are needed.
The govt has made it so easy to keep people dependent because it serves their purpose...to keep people beholden to their masters and fearful the gravy train will end should they not vote democrat.
They are also fearful that without govt handouts, they may actually have to support themselves, by doing whatever work they can to support themselves....assuming they have any personal pride left.
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on Aug 21, 2013 at 8:41 pm
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Ah, yes the old relying on the kindness of strangers bit. Too bad most people wouldn't lift a finger to help someone in need without first judging them on their own value system. I'm sure it makes you feel like you're helping though. Unfortunately, your post seethes disgust for the poor getting something you think they may not deserve. Thank goodness you're not in charge of such things
You think the government makes it easy? It is obvious you have never had to ask for help from them. Your ignorance is stunning.
Shocking that you think people are living the high life on assistance. Really. (rolls eyes)
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Tony Scott (1944–2012)
Yesterday morning brought the new of the tragic suicide of Director Tony Scott. His motivations are still being speculated upon, but one thing is for certain, it's a sad and unfortunate event.
Scott had his share of lesser works, and with them, his share of detractors. "The Taking of Pelham 123" wasn't very well received, and "Unstoppable", though serviceable, wasn't quelling the derision.
But I prefer to reflect on all the very good movies he gave us, along with a couple of greats.
Whether it was cheesy action flicks such as "Top Gun", "Days of Thunder" or "The Last Boy Scout", or thrillers such as "Crimson Tide" and "Enemy of the State", Scott had a flair for creating entertaining films. "Revenge" is a solid revenge movie, and "Man on Fire" may as well be about one of the horseman of the Apocalypse. "Beverly Hills Cop II" is a decent, worthy sequel, considering the original was so classic.
And of course, the Quentin Tarantino scripted, supercharged "True Romance". A titan in the "Low Level Crime Drama" genre.
Which was your favorite movie of his? Were you a fan of his work? I thought, out of respect, that his movies should be our topic of conversation today…


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I went to my first Giant game in 56 they were great more in the trenches and down and dirty no astoturf half the time is was mud.It was a different game then different rules I think for pure football skills the 86 Giants were the best I have everseen.
The first game i ever watched the Jints play was at the Polo Grounds in 1953. I've seen some of the best and some of the worst Giant years including the teams of the 70's when fans huddled together in the parking lots and burned their tickets to make a statement about the Giants horrible play. The best Giant team I've ever had the pleasure of seeing play was the 1986 Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. They went 17-2 had arguably the best LB corp to ever play the game, Simms threw for 22-25 in the Super Bowl ( still a record today) and in a game that is usually a close contest between 2 excellently paired teams, the Giants throttled the Denver Broncos 39-20. Now that was a game and a fabulous year for Giant football
No doubt about it, the 86 Giants by far! That defense would beat teams up and still want more. I wish we still had players like that now....
2011 cause the best team is the team with the best qb and eli is the best qb in giants history by far.
We were 14-2 in the reg. season and then stormed through the playoffs to the championship.
The 86 Giants dominated the league year. 2007 and 2011 we came together and got hot and lucky at the right time.
sigh you roosevelt Eli is the best simms doesn't have anything on eli, simms was v good but eli is elite.


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Burglary, property crimes remain low in Lake Shore
Police chief Steve Sundstrom told the Lake Shore City Council on Monday, Jan. 28, that burglary and property crimes continued to remain low in 2012, and the city had no fatalities or serious injuries on city roads.
Lake Shore police recorded 1,672 incidents in 2012, which is a slight decrease from 2011's 1,747 incidents. Activity in 2012 included 94 alarms, 89 disorderly and disturbance type complaints and 115 public assists.
There were no structure fires and three vehicle fires.
Police arrested nine drivers for DWI and issued 217 traffic citations. Officers responded to 38 vehicle crashes and 45 medicals, issued 95 speed citations and warned 260 speeders.
The department issued 15 citations for underage alcohol consumption, and made a combined total of 23 arrests for various offenses.
The department participated with Cass County in Toward Zero Deaths enforcement throughout 2012.
Sundstrom said property crimes remain low and that's what the department strives for.
The number of incidents for police has remained constant since 2006: 1,101 in 2004; 1,185 in 2005; 1,453 in 2006; 1,498 in 2007; 1,469 in 2008; 1,453 in 2009; and 1,538 in 2010.
Sundstrom told the council the Nisswa-Lake Shore First Responders dissolved and the Nisswa Fire Department took over those duties. He said this has worked well and firefighters have showed up on the scene of accidents.
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My point was that receivers have a hard time learning the system, as do RBs for that matter. This leads to players not playing a lot in the first and sometimes second year. Once the coaches do have confidence your susceptible to problems if the receiver and QB aren't reading the same things during the play. Don't believe that? Watch the game again, how many times do you see Eli make what looks like a bonehead throw with no receiver even close? Those are when Eli thought the receiver was going to do one thing, and the receiver did something else. The danger here is turnovers. It's a high risk high reward type system. Which is why you see one of the best offenses earlier in the year and arguably the worst in the past 3-4 games... and they are using the same personnel.
Hixon, Randall, Barden and Bennet have all had great games earlier in the season... so much so that they were being praised by even the most critical Giants fans. It's not all on Eli, and it isn't all on the receivers. Some of this is on the coaches who haven't made adjustments to address what defenses are doing, or to take advantage of the talent they have available to them. Your offense doesn't go from best to worst this quickly simply because of one thing... it's a lot of things.


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just spent the morning playing with a little application called Nipper (http://www.titania.co.uk/nipper.php) so I thought I'd share my experiences.
From the site:
Nipper performs security audits of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. Nipper has a large number of configuration options which are described on this page.
The current version is 0.11.5, whilst I was initially put off by the low (0.) version number it seems to be stable and feature rich. From the changelog the project has been active for over a year and appears to be quite actively developed.
From an external testing viewpoint it isn't going to be much use as it requires a copy of the relevant devices configuration to run. However it could speed up a second stage infiltration if this can be obtained via other methods, such as SolarWinds configuration retrieval tool for cisco devices if an SNMP community with read/write privileges can be obtained. Obviously, those auditing their own networks shouldn't have this problem.
Nipper appears to be a useful tool from an auditing perspective, it investigates the device from a number of different aspects, producing a nicely written and readable report for output (HTML format by default). From the configurations I've run through it so far seem to indicate that I may spend the rest of the day researching the findings whilst completing weakness report forms and change requests
So far I've only been able to test Nipper's abilities with Cisco IOS switch and router devices. Nipper boasts abilities to function with a broad range of Cisco devices along with most major firewall manuacturers (Juniper, Checkpoint, Nortel and SonicWall). If anyone has used Nipper for other devices I would be interested to know how the functionality compares, especially as the site states "Please note that the level of support for each type of device varies."
Overall seems like I nice tool that I'm going to keep around in my bag of tricks for the time being.


text: Did a search but couldn't find anything. Yesterday I split one of my hives, putting the queen in a nuc. Anyways, at the original (now queenless) hive there are several workerbees being carrried out alive and dropped in front of the hive. All of these seem to be young bees. There are dozens crawling around on the ground in front of the hive. I checked several of their wings and no hint of DWV. All of these bees are trying to get off the ground but cant seem to fly. Are newly-emerged bees unable to fly? Maybe these new bees are being blamed for the loss of their queen??


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Only 193 of our nation's 3,143 counties accounted for 75 percent of all milk production. Put another way, 10,000 farms produced 80 percent of the U.S. milk.
by Corey Geiger, Hoard's Dairyman Managing Editor
Like many others production sectors, dairy farming continues to evolve into a highly focused segment. In May 2012, there were 1,767 counties that sold milk within the Federal Milk Marketing Order system (FFMO) or in California's statewide milk order. While that may seem like a high number, a much smaller subset accounted for the lion's share of our nation's milk flow.
As a group, 777 of those counties represented growth areas shipping an additional 2.86 billion pounds of milk when comparing data from May 2012 to the same point five year's ago. Meanwhile, 1,157 counties produced less milk than in May 2007. That total reduction was 0.7 billion pounds of milk.
Drilling a little deeper into the data, it took only 11 counties to produce 25 percent of the nation's milk. Of that group, all but one can be found west of the Missouri River in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Washington. The lone East Coast representative was Lancaster County, Pa.
When expanding the list slightly, it took 57 counties to produce half of the nation's milk. Those counties were listed in the five before-mentioned states as well as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. If you are doing the math, those 57 counties are found in 17 states.
To reach the 75 percent threshold, 193 counties in 26 states met that goal. While these are some solid statistics compiled from the Federal Milk Market Administrator's office in Kansas City, they do not contain all the milk produced in Idaho. At one time, Idaho belonged to a FMMO which made tabulating national milk data much easier. Idaho is now the nation's third-largest dairy state based on milk production.
While county data sheds light onto the consolidating dairy industry, so does a review of farm and production data. "We have reached the 80/20 rule in U.S. milk production," Elanco's Roger Cady told attendees at the International Dairy Foods Association's Dairy Forum on January 29 in Orlando, Fla. "Eighty percent of the milk comes from the 10,000 largest farms," he explained. "Also, 50 percent of the production comes from the 2,500 largest U.S. dairy farms," noted Cady.
While that insight gives us a look at the entire U.S. dairy industry, it does not break out the small but growing organic sector. In 2011, the U.S. had 51,481 dairy farms with permits to sell milk. Those farms had 9.2 million dairy cows. Of the nation's dairy farms, USDA estimates 1,823 of them are organic operations with nearly 200,000 cows. That is 3.5 percent of the operations and 2.2 percent of the cows.
If the organic dairy category was pulled out of the conventional farms, the 80/20 rule discussed by Cady wouldn't be quite as dramatic, but it would still be very close. And based on industry trend lines, these ratios should continue to get tighter as more dairy farms exit our industry.
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