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The new year brings new hope for thousands of families across Britain who are desperately wondering where their missing loved ones are.
Having endured the pain of Christmas without them, the families are hoping 2013 will bring the news they most long for.
With around 250,000 people running away or going missing every year, the charity Missing People works around the clock to give support to families and help bring those missing back home.
To try to help the cause, Mirror.co.uk has teamed up with the charity to bring you pictures of some of those whose disappearance remains a mystery.
From the age-processed images of a British woman who went missing in Germany at the age of two and would now be 31, to the photo of Steven Clarke who vanished 20 years ago while walking with his family at Marske-by-the-Sea in Cleveland, we need your help.
Jo Youle, chief executive of Missing People, said: "The new year brings fresh hope and allows most people to reflect on days gone by, but many families must continue to live in limbo, with no clear knowledge of what has happened to one of their loved ones. Missing People is open every day of the year to be there for families.
"There is pressure to start afresh and continue life as normal, even when the hope of finding their loved one is overwhelming and difficult to cope with. The variety of services provided by the charity Missing People can help families through these traumatic times, and our Helpline 116 000 can be called by families or missing people themselves, for confidential support and advice.
"Our search for missing people has received incredible support from players of People's Postcode Lottery, many of whom play specifically to help charities like us make an impact and improve people's lives. So far, players have raised over £1.8m for Missing People and the impact of this ongoing donation enables the charity to continue to be a lifeline when someone disappears."
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The Handbook of Electoral System Choice
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November 2004
BeschreibungThe topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demand for advice on the choice of electoral rules; at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks new formulae favouring both more representative institutions and more accountable rulers. The Handbook of Electoral System Choice addresses the theoretical and comparative issues of electoral reform in relation to democratization, political strategies in established democracies and the relative performance of different electoral systems. Case studies on virtually every major democracy or democratizing country in the world are included.
InhaltsverzeichnisForeword; B.Grofman INTRODUCTION The Strategy and History of Electoral System Choice; J.M.Colomer THE AMERICAS The Americas: General Overview; J.M.Colomer Argentina: Compromising on a Qualified-Plurality System; G.L.Negretto Brazil: Democratizing with Majority-Runoff; J.M.Nicolau Costa Rica: Modifying Majoritarianism with 40 Percent Threshold; F.Lehoucq Mexico: Designing Electoral Rules by a Dominant Party;
A.Diaz-Cayeros &
B.Magaloni United States: The Past: Moving from Diversity to Unified Single Member Districts; E.Engstrom United States: The Future: Reconsidering Single-Member Districts and the Electoral College; R.L.Engstrom WESTERN EUROPE Western Europe: General Overview; J.M.Colomer France: Reform-mongering Between Majority-Runoff and Proportionality; G.Alexander Germany: Partisan Engineering of Personalized Proportional Representation; M.Kreuzer Italy: Lofty Ambitions and Unintended Consequences; D.Gambetta & S.Warner Spain: From Civil War to Proportional Representation; J.M.Colomer Sweden: Introducing Proportional Representation From Above; L.Lewin Switzerland: Introducing Proportional Representation From Below; G.Lutz United Kingdom: Reforming the Westminster Model; P.Dunleavy & H.Margetts EASTERN EUROPE Eastern Europe: General Overview;
C.Flores Juberías The Baltics: Independence with Divergent Electoral Systems; E.Mikkel & V.Pettai Czech Republic: Entrenching Proportional Representation; P.Kopecký Hungary: Compromising Mid-way on a Mixed System; J.W.Schiemann Poland: Learning to Manipulate Electoral Rules; M.Kaminski Russia: Compromising a Long Lasting Transitional Formula; O.Shvetsova AFRICA Africa: Dictatorial and Democratic Electoral Systems since 1946; M.Golder & L.Wantchekon Africa: Electoral Systems in Emerging Democracies; S.Mozaffar South Africa: Proportional Representation in the Puzzle to Stabilize Democracy; A.Reynolds ASIA AND PACIFIC Asia and Pacific: General Overview; A.Hicken Australia: Replacing Plurality Rule with Majority-Preferential Voting; M.Sawer India: Majoritarian Democracy from Above; S.K.Mitra Indonesia: Transition and Change, but Electoral System Continuity; A.Ellis Japan: Manipulating Multi-member Districts: From SNTV to a Mixed System; J.Wada New Zealand: Reform by (Nearly) Immaculate Design; J.H.Nagel Glossary and Index; J.M.Colomer
PortraitEdited By Josep M. Colomer
Pressestimmen'Electoral studies have long focused more on the effects than the causes of electoral rules. As Josep Colomer notes in his introduction to this volume,
however, the very strength of the effects leads to a natural line of theorizing about causes: Parties introduce new rules in anticipation of their effects on
those parties' future electoral fortunes. The individual essays in this volume
show that this simple notion plays out in many and sometimes subtle ways in
particular cases. Cumulatively, they provide the most extensive collection we
possess to date. Moreover, Colomer's synoptic overview shows that there is an important general trend visible in the historical record, toward greater
proportionality. Every serious student of electoral systems will want this
handbook on their shelf.' - Gary W. Cox, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
'This volume goes a long way in providing the necessary detailed historical evidence about the roots of electoral system change for a large and diverse set of democratic nations throughout recent history. Professor Colomer offers a new and highly original theory of electoral change which lays the groundwork for a radical revision of what has become the common wisdom about the effects of electoral laws. The chapters provide us a wealth of new information and new theoretical insights.' - From the Foreword by Bernard Grofman, Professor of Political Science and Mathematical Behavioral Science, University of California, Irvine
Untertitel: 2004. Auflage. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH
Erscheinungsdatum: November 2004
Seitenanzahl: 555 Seiten
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At the end of the training program or to conclude each module or unit of the course content, split participants into teams of two and challenge each team to come up with a summary of the content covered in only 140 characters.
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As a quick energizer, challenge participants to read the next two slides.
Show slide with "He said that that that that that woman said should have been which." After struggling for a while, someone is sure to deduce that the sentence is really:
"He said that that 'that' that that woman said should have been 'which.'"
After discovering the pattern, the second one becomes easier.
Show slide with "It was and I said not but."
The punctuation that helps this reading is: "It was 'and' I said, not 'but.'"
Five Words:
Challenge your class to list the five words in the English language that ends in "cion" The five words are: Suspicion, coercion, epinicion, scion, internecion.
Sports That Take You Backwards:
Challenge your class to list three sports which the winning player goes backward They are Rowing, backstroke, swimming and tug-of-war.
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The amount of information we give others while communicating with them, can really have an impact on the result of the communication. This quick fun energizer can make that point crystal clear.
Tell your class that you will tell them a short story and then ask them one question to see how good they were paying attention.
Start off your story by telling your class participants "Imagine you are a taxi driver" This is crucial to make this icebreaker work.
Continue the story as follows:
You are driving downtown and suddenly you get a call to go pick up a customer from one of the big hotels in the middle of the city. You were only two blocks away so you get there very quickly and picked up the customer who was standing in front of the hotel. You ask the customer where he wants to go and he tells you that he is a foreigner, he is attending a conference here in town and it's his first time to visit your country. He wants to do some sightseeing today and asks you to recommend places he can go to. You recommend a few places and recommended to start with the museum downtown first and he asked you to take him there. He also asked if you were available to show him around town for the rest of the day.
On the way to the museum, your customer receives a call on his cell phone. It's one of his colleagues attending the convention with him and is staying at the same hotel and he wants to join, so you go back to the hotel to pick up his colleague and drove them both to the museum. After the museum, your two passengers asked you to recommend a place where they can try the local food. You recommended a great local food restaurant that's famous for local authentic cuisine. They loved the food and after the meal they said they actually ate too much and both agreed that they were too tired now and would prefer to go back to the hotel and probably continue sightseeing tomorrow. You took them back to the hotel and gave them your direct cell phone number to call you directly tomorrow if they decide to continue with the sightseeing tour.
When you have finished the story ask participants this one question: what was the name of the taxi driver?
Did any of your participants get the right answer? Probably not
Why didn't they know the answer, even though you told them what it was at the very beginning? (The first thing you said was "Imagine you are a taxi driver" so whatever your name is, that's the name of the taxi driver)
They didn't know the answer because the story overloaded them with information. If we give out too much irrelevant information, the real message gets buried and our colleague/customer/boss/Friend or whoever we are communicating with will probably miss the point. To ensure your message is communicated clearly, stick to the essential facts.
Spell Energizer
"You may not belief that there are six errers in this short paragraph. Studi the paragraph carefuly. You can reed it as many times as necessary. Don't give up too easily. See if you can find all of them."
Write the previous paragraph on a slide or a flip chart and challenge participants to find all 6. Most participants will find five but few will ever find the sixth. The sixth is simply that there are only five errors (so it's an error to say there are six). The exercise points out how we often think inflexibly and fail to consider all the options when problem solving.
45 second countdown - A snappy review exercise
Two teams/two flipcharts, one participant form each team goes to one flip chart. The teams compete by remembering words/key concepts that were discussed in class today. The team that comes up with the longer list in 45 seconds wins.
Questions Bucket
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Add all questions to a bucket or box and Throughout the session, pass around the questions bucket and ask participants to pull out a random question and answer it. Since they don't know what kind of question they will be getting, this is one way to ensure they're paying attention and also provides a way for you to review the content and test their information retention.
Snowball fight evaluations
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Tell participants that it's time for evaluations, but rather than filling the old style evaluation sheets, we will do it in a much more fun way. Also confirm that input from all participants will remain anonymous so they can write whatever they wish.
Ask each participant to list two columns on a sheet of paper one represents the positive things about the training and the other for things that need improvement. Participants are given 3 minutes to do this, then after they finish, instruct everyone to wad their papers into balls and start a "snowball fight." Wait a couple of minutes till the papers are thoroughly randomized then ask each participant to pick up one paper and read it out to the group.
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The RAD Service Assured Access solution includes the award winning ETX, a powerful Layer 2/Layer 3 Network Termination Unit (NTU), equipped with a D-NFV module, an x86 server that serves as a virtualization engine at the customer edge.
"We are especially proud of this award, given that this is a first-to-market NFV solution," states RAD President and CEO Dror Bin. "RAD is an industry leader in virtualization and is an active participant in relevant standardization bodies. Our commitment is symbolized by a $32 million investment in a new R&D center that we have now opened to focus on these technologies as the world of communications rapidly migrates to NFV and SDN."
D-NFV is a centerless approach that requires a minimum of upfront investment and risk while providing service agility. RAD designed its solution as an ideal first phase towards full-scale NFV deployment, which may combine virtualized network functions (VNFs) at the customer edge, the network nodes and at the data center. The company has been running D-NFV PoC (proof of concept) testing with major carriers since mid-2013, and in a few weeks will publicly demonstrate a Multi-Vendor Distributed NFV PoC within the ETSI NFV ISG framework.
The Network Virtualization Industry Awards celebrate excellence in the telecoms industry and recognize the outstanding technologies developed for the NFV and SDN community. The panel of judges included Mark Winther, Group Vice President and Consulting Partner at Worldwide Telecommunications IDC, Peter Willis, Chief Data Networks Strategist at BT, Dimitris Mavrakis, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, and Caroline Chappell, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading.
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There are always articles being written (and who knows, even read) about how the office is changing and how soon everybody will be hot-desking and short-term contracting and building career portfolios and retraining every third minute.
"Trend predictors" (or "fortune tellers" to give them their original job title, which they ditched so they could have more opportunity to wear directional glasses and work in open-plan offices in trendy parts of London) never get sick of telling us about how, in a few years, we'll all be working part-time from a hammock in the Caribbean and video-conferencing with the lunar colony, and we had just better be ready for that.
And it sounds really great. But let's not forget that the brave new world of work will mean being able to do new things. This might be called "acquiring a differentiated skills set" and if I knew what that meant I could tell you for sure. But you'll need to learn how to balance your laptop and a mid-afternoon cocktail in your Caribbean hammock while keeping sand out of both, just for a start. And I bet that's not as easy as it looks.
Many of the necessary abilities have already been indentified. These days, it's so much less about being nifty with an inkwell and quill pen, and so much more about communication and flexibility, and enabling individual proactivity within a dynamic group setting. And I can get on board with all of that, since basically what it boils down to is being able to have a nice chat with people in the office.
However, the jewel in the crown of any self-respecting modern worker is the ability to multitask. For years, I just accepted this, figured that the people who invented the concept knew what they were talking about. Recently, though, I have concluded that we're all being taken for a multitasking ride.
Does multitasking make you a more effective worker? Not in my experience. I'm doing a bit of multitasking while I write this, in actual fact. OK, the other task is listening to the radio, but let's not dwell on that. The point is: does it sharpen my mental faculties? Is it helping ideas crystallise before my eyes like frost on windowpanes? Is it allowing words to gush from my mind like a rushing stream after the thaw? Or have I just wasted 10 minutes wondering exactly what this infernal noise is and why anyone could possibly describe it as music?
How to work out that multitasking might not be a great key to success in the modern workplace? Nobody wants you to do it until you get a job. Your parents don't drag you down from your nice, quiet bedroom and insist you do your homework in front of the television while interrupting you every 10 minutes to ask your opinion on next week's shopping list. Librarians at your university didn't institute a "No Silence" rule in their book-bound halls and wander around asking random people if they'd like to sit in on their staff meeting.
Of course, women are supposed to be excellent multitaskers - presumably because we have spent so many millennia juggling 13 children and some chickens, while working out how to create a Yuletide feast from one turnip and a sprig of wild garlic that the ability to do so many things at once is now second nature.
Let me tell you what multitasking means: it's people being allowed to distract you whenever they like; it's suddenly having to be expert in things you're not interested in; it is, essentially, doing more work. No wonder the powers that be are keen to give it the hard sell.
So, for me, it's the end of multitasking. I am going to do one thing after the other and that is it. And this will not put me at a disadvantage. For I have one skill that will shortly be in big demand. I am great at balancing things in a hammock.


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A look at what the Washington Redskins have done already this offseason -- and what they are waiting to do once free agency hits at 4 p.m. Tuesday. There are differing reports about salary-cap space. ESPN's Stats & information had the Redskins with about $23 million in cap space before the Perry Riley deal Tuesday. But NFLPA records showed them at a little over $20 million. NFL.com had them at just under $19 million, but it was unclear if that included the Rule of 51 (only the top 51 players count toward the cap; the Redskins now have 58 players under contract after Riley's deal).
Done Deals
Signed a four-year deal worth $17 million, with $4.25 million guaranteed. His cap number is only $2.1 million this season, but jumps to $4.8 million in 2015 and $5.1 in 2016. Those are hefty sums for a 30-plus cornerback. If Hall regresses this season, the Redskins could always cut him next year and save $2.4 million of cap space. They would be wise to find another good young cornerback to groom just to be ready. Hall could always move to safety in a couple of years, but the safety position is a problem they must solve this year. If it's still an issue in, say, two years? That's a failure.
DL Chris Baker
Signed a three-year, $12-million deal with $4 million guaranteed. That sounds like starter-type money (albeit not a high level one), but it's certainly not guaranteed starter money. He has $1 million in incentives that are not likely to be earned each of the three years -- based on play time, sack totals and Pro Bowl appearances -- and his cap number is only $2 million this year and tops out at $4 million in the final year of the contract. The deal averages $3 million per season. It allows the Redskins to keep a young, improving lineman who can help them at multiple spots: end, nose tackle and nickel rusher. Even if he doesn't start he will play a lot.
LB Perry Riley
Riley signed a three-year deal worth $13 million. I don't yet have the breakdown or the cap hits, but this comes across as a fair deal for Riley, a starter since midway through the 2011 season. The Redskins did not want to be in a position where they needed two inside linebackers in free agency. Riley had a stronger year in 2012, but the coaches know him and he knows the system. He's not a leader, so he won't replace London Fletcher, but he does know the defense well, which will help anyone who comes in next to him. Riley is better in man coverage than zone, but the latter gives him fits.
Likely back
LB Brian Orakpo
The Redskins placed a non-exclusive franchise tag on him last week for a price of $11.45 million next season, unless they work out a long-term deal. Orakpo still had not signed the tender, but he does count against the salary cap. Another team could sign him, but it would need to then surrender two first-round picks. It's highly doubtful anyone would pay big money and give up two picks. Orakpo's sack totals have been consistent since he entered the NFL in 2010, always between 8.5 and 11. But if he has a bigger season, while playing under the franchise tag, he could really cash in a year from now. The offseason message is that he and Ryan Kerrigan will be turned loose more. If that really results in more sacks, it'll be interesting to see what happens next offseason.
Waiting word
Despite reports that he has agreed to terms, an NFL source says that this situation remains a work in progress and said he was not a lock. That doesn't mean the Redskins won' t sign a contract with him once free agency hits at 4 p.m. At this point, I would expect him to sign the four-year offer. But what if another team comes along and makes a stronger offer? That is what happened with Eddie Royal a couple years ago. Roberts would help. He's a tough receiver with good hands who can play in the slot. He was Arizona's No. 3 receiver this past season.


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Thirty seconds later I found myself in the cold white cell of the public toilets I knew to be on this road. God, what was I doing here…?
I heard the shaking sounds of sobs echoing eerily on the chilly tiles. My eyes cleared, and I saw that Shani was standing at the sink, tears leaking through her fingers, her shoulders hunched and her straight figure seeming to have collapsed in on itself.
What had I done? What had she done? What had her cousin done?
Committed suicide.
Once, I…
Not now, then? No; not since Shani was here.
When Deanna was there, then? Did she depress me?
Perhaps she did. But at least she understood.
Now, did I indulge in my own depression, or attempt to comfort Shani, in a public toilet I guessed to be the women's half? What kind of a hole was I in now? What if anyone came in? Could I be jailed? Surely it wasn't legal for me to be here.
And how legal was the murder of my sister, or the suicide of my friend's cousin?
I made a mental decision. No more selfishness. You're going to church in a few minutes, if you ever get there. And Shani needs you.
So I stepped towards her and let my arms slip round her small body. She turned in to cry into my chest, and I felt how slender and broken she seemed. Sorrow shrivelled her. Clouds had passed over sunny Shani, and the rain was pouring down.
But for all her comfort, I felt awkward. I just felt as if I wasn't meant to be there. Which I wasn't. But I wasn't meant to be hugging her. Somehow, instinctively. Or was that just the memory of Deanna Macpherson, haunting me, distorting my judgements, like a dark phantom of Satan?
I refused to think of it. Deanna had been my saviour the first time.
Or had she? Since when did she actually persuade me to go to church at all? She bade me look up at a cross upon a green hill, where a man was killed so that we could be forgiven. But I didn't believe her. Why should I? I still don't.
Wishing I could rub the sleep from my eyes, I let my neck droop. My nose was in her hair, intoxicated with her shampoo, and we were just standing there, Shani and I, in the girls' loos, alone and cold and grieving.
Then she was at the sink, splashing cool water on her tear-smudged face. I watched in wonder, never having seen the face of a girl who wears make-up without it. It can only be described as a horrifically fascinating revelation.
"See here?" she whispered, beckoning, and I obeyed. She was staring into the mirror.
"The instant anyone, whoever it is, mentioned the word 'acne', I wince. I can't help myself. I can't hear that word."
I winced myself. I had never heard her speak with such feeling before this. Her sunshiney exterior had been cold, despite its warm rays. It had been shallow, skin-deep. Now, her words went to the core, and they stayed there.
"Come closer," she said.
I peered into the mirror as closely as I dared, and I saw that her face was not pale and flawless. It was blotchy, holey.
"Scars," she said. "I don't suppose you remember me that well when you first met me."
"I do a bit," I said.
"I was recovering at that time," she said. "I'd had it since I was ten."
Another nasty jolt to the system.
"You will never know how much I hated myself. How much I had to get through. How I had to beat myself up, reason with myself, just to go out and show my face to the sunlight every day."
I felt a lump in my throat. "I do know," I said.
She looked at me through the mirror, unsmiling, but I could feel her warmth coming through once again. Yet this was not shallow warmth. This was Shani's soul. And for a moment, I thought I couldn't possibly disappoint her.
"I…when I was ten…my parents left me alone for a few nights. No, not alone."
She waited. No curiosity; no prying enthusiasm. Something a little allied to Deanna's powers of understanding. Just a little.
"There were two of us, you see. And then there was just me…"
I was interrupted mid-explanation by a fantasia of church bells somewhere in the distance, and I felt an overwhelming rush of queer relief. The moment had passed.
"Let's go," I said. "We'll be late."
She just smiled, and drew a tiny plastic case from her pocket. I watched her apply her make-up, a peculiarly disappointed feeling welling in my heart. Why should I be disappointed? I thought, fascinated as her cheeks were tinted with so much skill, becoming round and healthy and alluring. I found myself wondering if Vere or Deanna Macpherson had ever worn make-up, and I found that I had no idea as to the answer. It had never seemed to matter before. But now, it mattered very much. If Deanna wore make-up, or if she didn't, everything would change, something told me.
Moving to the door, she poked her head outdoors with unnecessary abnormality, although she looked quite childishly comfortable in the action – I suppose she thought I'd tell her my story later sometime. No passer-by would think there was anything out of the ordinary if she'd strolled out as nonchalantly as ever.
Turning back swiftly, she winked, and closed was the window to her soul.
I slipped from the ladies' toilets and we continued down the road. Nothing that could in any way be described as exceptional or extraordinary had taken place, and Den O'Derron was on his way to church.


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Volleyball recap: Rams win fourth consecutive Mountain West title
Nov. 23, 2012
By Craig Buchanan
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Colorado State's volleyball team has a lengthy history of success in its storied program. On Friday night, the Rams added to that success with its fourth consecutive Mountain West regular-season title.
The championship is the Rams' fourth consecutive and 10th overall in the league's 14-year history. With the win, CSU earned the league's automatic bid, and will advance to the NCAA tournament for the 18th consecutive season.
On a night that honored CSU's four seniors in front of a lively crowd at Moby Arena, the Rams made sure to send their leaders out on a high note.
CSU (21-7, 13-3 MW) avenged its loss from earlier in the season, and defeated New Mexico (20-13, 7-9 MW) in a four-set match (19-25, 25-8, 25-19, 25-21) to close out the regular season.
"I was pleased with our team tonight," Head Coach Tom Hilbert said. "We had a lot of little great things happen tonight. It was a great match; it was a great match for the seniors."
In the first set, the visiting Lobos looked to play spoiler to what the Rams had in mind for the night, and jumped out in control of the match from the opening serve. While CSU battled tough with New Mexico, the Lobos maintained their grasp on a slim lead. After the Rams took the lead at 16-15, New Mexico quickly responded by taking five of the next six points to gain a three-point advantage late in the set. The Lobos extended that lead, and won the set, 25-19.
Just like it has so often this year, CSU showed its resilience in Set 2.
"Since San Diego State (Oct 27), we've known that we have to win," senior outside hitter Dana Cranston said. "Tonight was one of those games, but it was easier in that sense because we had already been in those situations that were tough, on the road even; never mind here. This night seriously could not have gotten any better."
Led by 12 consecutive serves from sophomore Deedra Foss, the Rams grabbed a commanding 17-2 lead in the set. CSU combined terrific defense and efficient offense to take the second set easily, 25-8. Cranston had eight kills on .727 hitting in the set, and the Rams finished the set with 16 kills on .577 hitting. On defense, Colorado State contained the Lobos' attack to only four kills and forced them into seven attack errors, three of which came from blocks.
The third set began with both teams looking to seize control of the match. Down 10-8, the Rams used a 6-1 run to do just that. CSU never relinquished its lead in the set en route to a 25-19 victory that featured tough defense played from both sides. The two teams combined for 14 attack errors as both teams were held to less than .160 hitting in the set.
In Set 4, the Rams proved once again that they would not cave amidst adversity. The Lobos held a 12-8 lead and forced a CSU timeout. After New Mexico scored on the next point to extend its lead to five points, the Rams came roaring back. CSU responded with an 11-3 run to take a 19-16 lead late in the set. The run featured back-to-back service aces from freshman Kaitlind Bestgen that energized the crowd and the team.
With the lead, the Rams refused to look back, taking the final set, 25-21. The match came to a fitting end with seniors Brieon Paige and Cranston combining for a block on the final point to clinch the Mountain West title.
Freshman outside hitter Adianna Culbert set a career high with 10.5 points, while also posting eight kills on .467 hitting and registering 13 digs.
This night was all about the seniors, though. Cranston paced the Rams' offense with 17 kills while Paige added eight kills of her own. Megan Plourde was effective on both ends with 11 kills and a team-high seven blocks, while Izzy Gaulia finished the match with 14 digs. With 1,153 career digs, Gaulia now stands in fourth place in CSU history.
"To give this group of kids four rings, four championships in a row, that is pretty darn special," Hilbert said of his senior class. "There are athletes in a lot of sports at all levels who don't have the level of excellence that these four kids do. I am privileged to have had them come here and play for me. Tonight, it was an honor to be able to see them win this championship in front of a great crowd."
The foursome join just three other CSU players to win four conference championships throughout their careers.
The Rams will be anxiously watching on Sunday to find out who they will be taking on in the NCAA tournament when the brackets are released. Coverage for the selection show will begin at 2 p.m. MT on ESPNU. CSU is hosting a watch party at CB & Potts from 1-3:30 p.m., and will include comments from Hilbert both before and after the announcement.
"We're way better than we were eight weeks ago when we lost to New Mexico at their place," Hilbert said. "We're a way better volleyball team right now, and I'm excited for the NCAA tournament."


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"..And these are some more restrooms, and this is the manager- Mr. Carter's son Samson's office. Hm.. I think that that's about it. Any questions?" Aaron finished, flashing a bright white smile towards Nien. She couldn't bring herself to speak to the beautiful boy, so she just shook her head. Aaron laughed. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" Nien gave Aaron a confused look. He shook his head. "Anyways, I'll bring you back to the secretary's desk, and then Lisa will hand you your work schedule and anything else you might need."
Aaron turned around, leading the way back to the secretary's desk. Nien's heart was pounding in her chest, but she ignored it as best she could. Love isn't worth it- love isn't real. If it was, you would be living with your family in a nice home with lots of friends like any other normal human being. She tried to shake the thought of her family out of her mind, but it was there to stay. Of course she thought about them all the time- who they are, where they are, who she could've been.. The thoughts were lifted from her mind as a burden may be lifted from one's shoulders as Aaron spoke to Nien.
"'Kay, Nien, this is it. I'll see you around." Aaron smiled and waved, but Nien only nodded- she still was to nervous. She watched him walk away, staring in awe. "Hon', close your mouth- you're gonna catch flies. Nien?" Liza spoke behind her, her slight southern twang reminding Nien of Madge. Which reminded her of Joe. Stop it, Nien. Those faggots don't deserve to have you even thinking about them. Nien sucked in what felt like the first breath she'd taken since she had gotten the job, and turned to look at Liza. "Yes, ma'am?"
"Here's your schedule. You start tomorrow at about nine thirty in the morning. See ya then, sweetie." She smiled at Nien, revealing her aging teeth. Nien smiled back at her awkwardly, took the schedule and left. She went back to the building where her friends awaited her return. She entered the room, slouching, head hung low. She could hear her friends give her, "Aw"'s and "Shit, now what are we gonna do?"'s. She then held her head up along with the schedule.
"I got the job. It pays almost nothing, but almost nothing's a lot more than what we got now. Which is exactly nothing. Am I right?" Her friends now crowded around her, reaching for her papers and asking her questions. She ignored them and went to sit in an old, rotting chair in the corner. She pulled her backpack into her lap, and took her laptop out of it. She turned it on, then began to delete most of the 'x' files. She didn't need them anymore, but some of her plans were extremely brilliant, and she wanted to keep them so that she could have them there to remind her of how all her ideas didn't always suck.
"Oh, the 'x' files. I remember those. Why are you deleting them?" Kyle peered over her shoulder. Nien sighed. "Because I don't need them anymore." After she had finished the deletion, she slammed the laptop shut and threw her head in her hands. She was filled with a sudden frustration, but she didn't know why. She could feel Luce's arm wrapped around her.
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Abroad Chester uses mostly national firms rather than the offices of global law firms.
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Although Chester spends a great deal of time working and monitoring the company's external lawyers, he estimates that in the UK the in-house department handles 70 to 80 per cent of all the legal work.
"We don't have some specialist skills and so for certain jobs we have to contract work out and in the past it was the bulk of work that we couldn't cope with.
"In the past we used to give out the quality work and kept the quantity work. We got drowned in the volume," he says.
But now Chester has boosted the department with a new lawyer arriving in June and has changed the company strategy to keep more of the interesting work in-house.
He says: "This is done for cost purposes firstly, but also we have to motivate people within the department. We have heavy duty lawyers who want to be doing heavy duty work."
In the department, three of the lawyers have been with the Hilton Group for around 10 years while the other two arrived within the last two years.
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Another deal in the pipeline is the construction of a £100m hotel in Sao Paulo which is being handled in-house with the help of Baker & McKenzie on the ground.
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Good luck finding a significantly more talented or deeper roster than what the Chargers have in San Diego. The Bolts had nine players selected to the Pro Bowl, and you could make an argument that there should have been even more than nine who could have earned a trip to Hawaii. Year after year, the Chargers have had guys step in when called upon and perform at a high level. That's a testament to the front office's ability to evaluate talent and find players who can fit the scheme:
Marcus McNeill started as a rookie last season for an injured Roman Oben. McNeill played his way to the top of the heap among AFC left tackles. Marcus should continue to dominate for the next decade and will be selected to many more Pro Bowls.
Shaun Phillips had been itching for more playing time, and when tragedy struck Steve Foley, Phillips was given and opportunity to start at Outside Linebacker. He showed his ability to stop the run (a question mark that has since been erased) and displayed pass-rushing prowess that brought him recognition league-wide as a force off the edge. Phillips was tied for second (DeMarcus Ware) among linebackers in sacks behind Shawne Merriman.
Phillip Rivers started his first NFL season last year and made the Pro Bowl in addition to leading his team to a 14-2 record and into the playoffs. The Chargers allowed Drew Brees (an All-Pro QB, mind you) to leave as a free agent and the team did not miss a beat. Rivers is now the face of the franchise and will win many playoff games before his career is over.
Now those are just three examples of how players have come off the bench and became starters; only to find themselves arguably better than the player they replaced in the lineup. Other examples include guys like Mike Scifres, Shawne Merriman, and possibly Stephen Cooper (replacing Randell Godfrey). The Chargers are stacked, and if Rivers or Tomlinson go down, I'm confident that Billy Volek and Michael Turner could adequately replace them for an extended period of time. If Marcus McNeil went down with an injury, its a good feeling knowing you can bring in a seasoned vet like Roman Oben to hold the fort.
But there are some players that the team would be less prepared to lose for an extended period of time. If any of these players went down, the team's fortunes could make a turn for the worse:
1. Jamal Williams - There is no doubt that the defense starts up front, and its cornerstone is Jamal Williams and his All-Pro Nose Tackle abilities. Its not a simple thing to plug in a 330+ pound monster who can consistently fight double teams and still get a push into the backfield. Few players like Williams exist in the league, and even fewer are as good as making plays behind the line of scrimmage and almost single-handily shutting down running games. The Chargers have players behind Williams, but none of them are proven at this level.
2. Quentin Jammer - I don't even want to think about losing Jam. Losing the team's best corner and the secondary's leading tackler would be a huge blow to the defense. Drayton Florence and Antonio Cromartie are talented and athletic players, but Jammer is just about the complete package. He is among the NFL's best corners against the run, and has invaluable experience. He has played against many number one receivers around the league and knows what these players do. Moving Florence to the number one and Cromartie to number two means that they will face challenges that they never had to before.
3. Shawne Merriman - Look at points the defense allowed during the four game stretch that Shawne Merriman was serving his suspension. Shaun Phillips now faces the double-team and that means that our pass rush suffers as a result. Just having Merriman on the field is disruptive to opposing offenses. His intensity and aggressive nature is energy that his team feeds off of. Losing the league's most dominant defensive player puts added pressure on the D across the board - from the defensive line and linebackers, to the secondary.
4. Kris Dielman - The attitude and presence of Kris reverberates across the entire offensive line. They feed off of his aggressive nature and rely on his 'enforcer' mentality. The favorite blocker of LaDainian Tomlinson, losing Dielman means McNeill and Hardwick must step their game up. Unproven backups along the line also present the possibility that the blocking unit suffers in their ability to pass protect and run block. This effects the offense's ability to control the ball and score points, and thats a bad thing.
5. Marlon McCree - As a coach on the field and the quarterback of the secondary, Marlon McCree's role on the defense goes beyond his coverage assignments. He mentors and corrects the young players and provides veteran leadership to the defense. While he certainly has playmaking ability, it's his intangibles that are most valuable. I have my doubts that the backup safeties like Hart and Jue can bring those intangibles to the table. Because the defense asks so much from it's safeties, with McCree on the sidelines, the defense becomes more vanilla if the reserves are lacking in abilities, knowledge, and experience.
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I saw Em walk in, I was surprised because I told her Penny would take me home. I couldn't tell in her blank expression if they won the case, which in my mind would probably influence her decision about diner.
"Hey how was court?" I asked when she reached the hostess stand. " Can I get table I would like some coffee," she asked with no expression still.
This didn't look good, I had a feeling the case was lost. I nodded for her to follow me, and I put her in my section.
"We lost the case," she finally said when I returned with her coffee.
I knew it, great now I would feel bad about leaving her alone for the weekend. Then a smile spread across her face like she had been purposely hiding it.
"I'm going to diner Friday," she said still smiling. "I didn't even have to invite him, Tyler already called him. He actually invited me in a way."
" Oh yay!" I cried hugging her like a lost puppy
She finished up her coffee while she waited for me to finish my shift, I was so happy Em was going. It was going to be a great weekend. I had one last thing to deal with, the will reading tomorrow after work.
On the car ride home Em told me all about her day in court. I noticed she had got her nails done, but I was still going to treat her to a full spa day.
" I get my first paycheck Friday," I said proudly as we pulled into the driveway. We spent the rest of the day together talking, watching movies, and cooking.
Tyler never called me, but I would see him in a few days anyway. I decided to take a nice candle light bubble bath and retire early.
My shift flew by Thursday and before I knew it we were on our way to the reading of the will. They were going to ley Jim attend with a police escort of course. Since this was his third strike, he was sentenced to ten years.
The reading didn't take long, Norma had left all her personal belonging's to me, which were boxed up in a stowage shed at . I had to two weeks to go through them before they got auctioned off. She rented an apartment, so no land or house was left to me. Her life insurance was split 50/50, I guess because she felt bad for abandoning Jim.
I would take a few weeks to go through all the channels until I got my half. Jim's would sit in his bank frozen until his parole. What am I going to do with half a million dollars? I couldn't even think, I guess the shock of having money made it hard to think.
When we got home I saw that Tyler was helping Helen pack up the car, I guess she decided to leave tonight instead. As much as I wanted to see him, I knew tomorrow he would be all mine.
Em and I were grateful to finally be drama free. Things were looking up for both of us, at least I thought so. I did know we both needed this weekend. I wasn't sure what Tyler had planned for him and I. After all, kissing is all that has ever happened between us. I was praying to get some alone time with him.
I was glad I only had to work half day tomorrow, and I was getting my first paycheck tomorrow. I wanted to buy Em something nice until I could get my money for the spa day. Em was off the rest of the week from school, so I'm not sure how she had been spending her time while I was at work. She didn't really talk about David unless I asked, so I wasn't sure what her feelings were.
I was exhausted, it had been a long week. Em was still watching television when I headed upstairs for bed.
"Hey Em," I called
"Yes?" she asked
I responded with great feeling," Thank you for everything, not just this week but my whole life. "
She smiled at me," Sisters for life that was the promise we made in eighth grade."
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Formation of nickel carbide in the course of deformation treatment of Ni-C mixtures
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Nonequilibrium Ni(C) solid solutions supersaturated with carbon to 10.2 at % were synthesized by mechanochemical method. An analysis of diffraction patterns showed that the formation of Ni(C) solid solutions is accompanied by an increase in the probability of appearance of deformation stacking faults. When the carbon content in the initial Ni-C mixtures is above 20 at %, the fcc Ni(C) solid solution resulting from the mechanical synthesis transforms into the metastable Ni3C nickel carbide with a hexagonal structure. The thermal stability of nonequilibrium Ni(C) solid solutions was determined. The solid solutions formed from the mixtures with carbon contents from 7 to 15 at % undergo partial decomposition accompanied by the carbide precipitation upon heating to 300°C. The decomposition of the metastable Ni3C carbide starts at a temperature Ts ~ 464.8°C; the thermal effect is —ΔH=10–13 kJ/mol. The effective radius of carbon atoms in the Ni(C) solid solutions was determined; it is equal to Rceff=0.061 nm.


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