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Need Ideas for a SuperHero Party!
DS5 is a SuperHero fanatic. So, he's asked for a SuperHero themed party. He only invited 5 little friends and we're having it at home, so I don't need to go nuts, but I have 5 5-year old boys coming over for an hour and a half. I plan on doing "pin the mask on Batman" and we're getting a SpiderMan pinata. I'll probably also do a "Hot Potato" game where they pass around his Spider Man doll (everyone who gets out gets a prize). However, if it's nice, I'd love to get them outside. I was thinking of some kind of obstacle course with the hula hoops and baseball bases or something. I need more games, but am drawing a complete blank. Anyone???
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Super Hero Party - Birthday Party Ideas
Here's a great list of ideas.
Superhero Party Games: Superhero Birthday Party - Kaboose.com
Here's a bunch of party games
Enjoy the party Amy!05-12-2011, 09:00 PM #3
This is over the top, but some fun ideas...
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Superhero Party — Tip Junkie Party Ideas
Tip Junkie has all kinds of themed DIY party ideas. I just looked and she has a Superhero one linked up-- looks really cute!05-17-2011, 11:02 PM #5
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My daughter wants a SuperHero party as well. We are going to do a create-your-own superhero with stuff we have around the house including towels, gloves, random pieces of material, cloaks and capes and dress-up dresses.
She is inviting girls and boys, I think (up to 6 other kids). I will have everyone create a costume, then we will have everyone draw a picture of their new creation and the super power associated with it.
The rest of the games will just be normal stuff except I want to do a blind folded create a face. Same idea as pin the tail on the donkey. Just have a huge face outlined and use blank stickers to draw features on - hair, eyes, ears, mouth, mustache, bow tie, etc. then have the kids try sticking them on in the "right" place. That way, everyone participates in creating a funny face.
Cake and ice cream and everyone goes home with their picture.05-18-2011, 09:02 AM #6
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If you do party favors, check the Target dollar spot. They always have super hero stuff (crayons, stickers, cups, plates, socks, etc.)
Do you guys have Nerf Guns? If so, you can make targets out of the villians and have a shooting range.
This website suggests a 'hero and villian game' out of silly string. Super Hero Squad Birthday Party | ThePartyAnimal-Blog
Have the kids come dressed up as their favorite super hero!
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What is wisdom? It is not just one thing and there is no universal definition for this notion. It is the complete chain of more-than-ordinary ways of being and existing. It is an interconnection with the whole world. There are different characteristics of wisdom and it can be expressed in different forms and at different degrees, so brief answer will only underestimate all the meanings of this concept.
It is possible to identify wisdom in short statements but they will just depict a part of truth, as wisdom in the concept very dual. So, wisdom involves seeing things as they are, seeing the essence not through the frame of reference; seeing and understanding deeply human and cosmic situation; knowing when and where to act and where not to act- perfect adjustment to the situation; ability to see and foresee different problems and avoid them.
In people's minds wisdom in usually connected with age. But it is more about common standards that are linked to each age and one can call a child of 6-7 years old wise, if he/she knows and understands, that is even more important, more that other children of that age. It is generally believed that wise people are very old, so wisdom comes with life experience and wisdom is age-related topic.
Wisdom needs solitude and privacy, as it comes from the inside of the person and in order to get it, wise people tend to be more detached than ordinary from the dictates and expectations of their culture and society. If a man doesn't keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. This is a perfect and bright illustration from Thoreau's Walden what wisdom can look like. It is living in your own world, listening to your heart, not being in-stream and following your own path.
Abraham Maslow referred exactly to self-directedness as a key factor of wisdom. Partially that comes from getting new information. Nowadays people's minds are overfilled with different information, and from this stream it is very difficult to differentiate answers that we seek, as all the knowledge that we get, we get already in interpreted, not primary way. So, wisdom results not only in absorbing information in different forms, but in putting of significant facts into appropriate contexts and viewing them from more helpful perspectives. Wisdom foresees such traits in the personality of a person: perfection, completion, wholeness, simplicity, justice, honesty, reality, self-sufficiency.
A person that strives to wisdom realizes that acquired knowledge is just revealing of something a person already knows for a long time. That person understands his divine nature; he understands his importance and accepts the fact that he is the energetical center of the whole universe.
There is an impression that wisdom is a kind of perfect thing, and wise person never makes mistakes and never has any problems. It is just an illusion. A person in called wise actually for that he assumes that there is no any problem in which a gift in not posted; and a person calls for them as he really needs those gifts for further development.
Going back to ancient times- Socrates in worth mentioned and Plato's Apology where he defends himself in court against his accusers. We are familiar with his personality only through the writings of his contemporaries (to be more accurate two apologies written nearly at time after his death by his two younger associates- Plato and Xenophon). No one was said to be wiser than he was, and his intellectual excellence was greatly stressed. But his moral excellence was also glorified.
He was the first philosopher to see the human's soul as a moral essence, improved by virtue and ruined by its opposite. He view was quite opposite to the previously believed one about a morally neutral life principle. His impact is very valuable as he stated that knowledge is a virtue. And the wisdom is to use it adequately.
So, the relationship between self and wisdom is unbreakable, as wisdom comes from definite understanding and perceiving of self; it depends solely on the person and not on some external factors.
1.Plato's Apology, http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/apology.htm
2.Thoreau's Walden, http://www.stevencscheer.com/thoreau.htm
3. Phaedo, http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/phaedo.htm

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Today wasn't the best time for Sony to trumpet a new accessory designed for one of its electronics products. As the company's stock price plunged in Tokyo trading, thanks in part to falling sales of PCs and other electronics, Sony's PR agency unintentionally highlighted the problem confronting the company that introduced the Walkman and the PlayStation.
Following in that proud tradition, Sony announced a new first: a memory card for PCs. The company says the world's first backup SD card "automatically performs real-time backup copies of files for Windows-based PCs and notebooks, ensuring a peace of mind for any important files that might go missing if the computer crashes."
What if it's not the computer that's crashing? In the world of Japanese electronics companies, Sony isn't the worst of the lot—looking at you, Sharp—but that's not enough to make investors happy. They fled from Sony shares following the company's surprise announcement on Thursday that earnings for the year ending next March will likely be 30 billion yen ($305 million), 40 percent lower than its earlier forecast. On Friday, the first day of trading following the bad news, Sony's stock price dropped 11 percent.
Investors likely paid no attention to the underwhelming announcement about the SD card, but the timing of the two events neatly illustrates the dilemma Sony President Kazuo Hirai faces. Japan's premier gizmo maker continues to focus on PCs, phones, and TVs even as it struggles to compete against nimbler rivals from South Korea and China. "Major reforms are due" at Sony's electronics business, Fitch Ratings said in a report published today.
For now, Hirai is sticking with its old hardware businesses even as Sony's largest Japanese rival, Panasonic, has taken a different path. Panasonic is shifting away from former strengths like flat-screen TVs to focus on higher-growth products like renewable energy. Panasonic will be selling 2 billion lithium ion battery cells for Tesla's electronic cars, those companies announced on Wednesday.
Yesterday, Panasonic said its earnings for the fiscal year would be 100 billion yen, double its earlier forecast, and today the company's stock price jumped more than 6 percent, hitting a 52-week high. Panasonic is benefiting from "structural reforms, including eliminating unprofitable businesses and workforce rationalization in the TV, semiconductor, and mobile phone businesses," Fitch said today in a report.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo.--Colorado State volleyball Head Coach Tom Hilbert and his staff held its annual media & booster dinner Wednesday evening in Moby Arena, addressing the upcoming season.
After opening up practice to the media and Hilbert's group of NETwork boosters, the veteran coach talked with the crowd of about 80 about the upcoming season, the senior class, expectations, incoming freshmen and much more. A full transcript of the event can be found below.
CSU will begin the 2012 season in just over a week—on Aug. 24—vs. Virginia at Moby Arena. It's been a busy week for the Rams, who on Monday were ranked No. 25 in the AVCA Division I Coaches Preseason Poll, and on Tuesday were predicted to win their fourth straight Mountain West title. Hilbert's squad will be led by five returning starters, including four seniors who were each named to the preseason All-Mountain West team. The Rams concluded the 2011 season ranked No. 25 in the nation and won the conference's regular-season and tournament championships. They advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the fifth year in a row. In all, CSU has played in 17 straight NCAA tourneys.
HEAD COACH Tom Hilbert
(opening statement)
"We are now in Day 8 of our preseason training camp. We reported on the 7th, our first practice was on Aug. 8. As expected, our four seniors look very good. We are starting to have some emerging players move into some other roles who are starting to make some of those decisions, although I do believe we still have a lot of competition going on among our players for a couple of vacant positions. We have to be ready to play by next Friday, so that's eight days away, I guess. Hopefully by then we'll know who's going to be playing where, or at least what our options are, and will have an idea of how we'll run things system-wise. I think our team, this next year, will be similar to last year, in that our strength will probably be blocking. We are moving Dana Cranston to what we call our 'O2' position, which means she's going to be playing in the three-hitter rotations, and then in the two-hitter rotations she's generally in the back row, except for one of them. You should see her getting a lot more swings. She's going to have more of a role like Katelyn Steffan had last year. The starting setter right now is most likely Deedra Foss. Our two starting middles are most likely going to be Megan Plourde and Brieon Paige; Megan in the M1 and Brieon in the M2. Other than that, I think a lot of things are wide open."
(on his new coaching staff)
"I want to introduce my new coaching staff. They're really all new. We have Matthew Botsford, who joined us in May right before we went to Europe, and he had just come back from Europe. He spent last year coaching in Sweden, so he didn't go back over the Pond with us; he stayed here. But Matt coached last year in Sweden, and his team actually won the national championship in the Swedish volleyball top division. Prior to that he was an assistant coach at Notre Dame, and prior to his stint at Notre Dame, he was an assistant coach at the University of Miami. He played at a school called Tri-State, and he also worked at IUPUI. He's had a good coaching career, and we're happy to have him here.
And then my associate head coach, Brook Coulter, as many of you know and did some good press on her, she grew up here and went to Rocky Mountain High School. Then, she left and went to play at Cal, and then after Cal had about a seven-year career playing overseas in a number of countries and different capacities. Then, she came back and coached at the University of Denver, then moved on and coached at the University of Georgia for one season, and we were lucky enough to bring her back to her hometown. Our director of operations is a familiar face, and that's Bri Frech, and we now want to call her Bri Olmstead. She's there in the back with the newest member of her family: her daughter. She is our director of operations. This is a new, full-time position for us. We're very excited to get that. We've needed that for a long time, and Bri is the perfect person for that job."
(introducing the seniors)
"Our four seniors, we have Megan Plourde and Brieon Paige—both returning all-conference players—and Brieon spent a couple weeks this summer training and playing with the A2 national team and did a great job. And then Izzy Gaulia, was just picked for conference preseason libero of the year. Then there's, Dana Cranston, who was just selected as preseason Mountain West Co-Player of the Year with Wyoming's Jodi Purdy. Brieon and Meg were both selected as preseason all-conference, as well. That's a great honor, now let's go out and prove that you're good enough to be that."
(introducing the rest of the team)
"Our setter returning is Deedra Foss. We now have a new setter in the program, as well, Dri Culbert. Dri comes from Michigan.
Kelsey Snider has been playing a lot in our O1 position, as has Marlee Reynolds and Kaila Thomas. Those three kids are all battling for some open positions to play left and right, as well as Sam Peters, who is probably our third middle on this team, but is also battling to play a right-side position. Sam has made a lot of improvements not only as an attacker, but also she's done a nice job as a ball handler, an attacker and defensive player. As attackers, we also have Anastassia Koutchouk, from Calais, France, and then Acacia Andrews, from Norman, Okla.
Then, we have our defensive specialist core; I already introduced Izzy, but we also have Michelle Smith, who is a junior this year, and then Kaitlind Bestgen, who is a freshman but she's in her second year. Then, our newest member is Jaime Colaizzi, who is our newest member this year. Jaime's from Windsor; she's a Windsor Wizard."
(on the team's health)
"Our roster size right now is at 15. We have the normal bumps and bruises you have at the beginning of the season; we have some sore shoulders, some sore knees—those kinds of things—but nothing is keeping anyone out of playing, and we feel really good about where we're at health wise, too."
(on the schedule)
"As I mentioned, we open our season vs. the University of Virginia right here next Friday night at 7 o'clock. That'll be a good match; that team has a new coach, and they'll have new energy in that program, and will be very good. That same tournament, we'll also have the University of Denver, with my former assistant, Jesse Mahoney, as the new coach, and Rhode Island. It's a good group to start out with. Then we go to Wichita State to play in a very difficult tournament. Wichita State is a great team, as you saw when they came here last year and they beat us at home, and then we also have Tennessee, who's preseason ranked No. 15 in the country, and BYU, who is getting votes. BYU is a very good volleyball team right now; they didn't lose very much after last year, and they are very big and physical.
Then we come back home for another tournament. We play Pepperdine, who I believe is preseason No. 11 in the country, New Mexico State—who is a very good team; they gave us everything we could handle last year at Las Cruces—and then Florida International.
Then, we have a few days off, and that next Saturday, we have a single match against this team called the UCLA Bruins, who won the national championship last year and is preseason No. 1 in the nation. That will be a fun match to watch.
When we head into our Mountain West conference season, we have two new teams in the Mountain West—Fresno State and the University of Nevada. It looks like Fresno State will be the better of those two teams. They return a player who statistically will lead our conference in kills per game if she maintains what she did last year. She looks like a very good player. Then, of the other teams that you guys are familiar with, I believe that Wyoming is the best team in the conference, besides us. They didn't lose any players; they were very hot in the second half of conference last year, and they'll be very competitive, and I expect our matches with them to be some of the best that we will play in the Mountain West. San Diego State is also getting a lot of respect; they return a lot of players, and are a very athletic program. We lost TCU out of the league, New Mexico lost a lot of players to graduation from last year to this year. Then you also have Boise State, Air Force and UNLV."
(on how his approaching will change with two new coaches)
"No. 1, both of these guys were given a lot of autonomy, and Matt is given a lot of what Jesse was given last year. Brook has really taken over a lot of what we call first-contact coaching. She coaches players on serve-receive and basic ball handling, and really is handling a lot of practice; I'll give her 30-45 minutes a day to really develop things that she wants to work on. When it comes to in-game coaching, I think you're going to see similar things to what you saw last year. I'll defer to these guys a lot on defense and blocking; I'll be managing a lot of our sideout offense and handling Deedra."
(on when he expects position battles to be decided)
"We'll have some decisions made by Virginia, but I think that's going to be an ongoing thing. There's a lot of talent in that tier of players on this team. They're all doing good things, and the other thing about them is that they all have strengths in different areas. One's really good at blocking, one's good at attacking the ball, one's better as a back-row player . . . It's just hard to say. It may be what we need for that particular match. I predict you will see a lot of those people playing in that opening-weekend tournament."
(on why he decided to schedule such a challenging non-conference slate)
"Because I believe in them. I think we have a great group of players here. We have four great seniors, and really, the schedule is a reward to them. They want to play these teams. That's why they came to Colorado State: to be nationally competitive and play some of the best teams in the country. If you ask them, they're not going to shy away from it; they're going to want to play some of these teams. I think it's a testament to how good they are, and that I believed, when I made this schedule, that we needed this type of competition in non-conference. This is the kind of schedule that we could walk out of 6-4 and still feel real good about who we are and where we're going. The object of that is to prepare us for A) the NCAA tournament, and B) the Mountain West conference championship.
Above all else, we want to win the Mountain West again, and the teams that we're playing will help us prepare for that. It will also help us if we get some key wins; it'll help us in terms of RPI and NCAA seeding. It also helps prepare us, because those are the types of teams you have to play when it comes down to NCAA tournament time."
(on playing some of the nation's best teams)
"Those players have seen it before. They've gotten to experience some big matches against some good opponents. I can promise you that Brieon, Meg, Dana and Izzy are not intimidated by anybody on our schedule. That confidence will help the players around them feel the same way. They're good players, and they'll have no problem preparing for those opponents, and they'll have no problem physically matching up with those opponents."
(on the incoming freshman class, and how the players fit in)
"It's my belief right now that Acacia Andrews—and I've talked to her about this—will most likely redshirt. She has a lot to learn. She is a very, very physical kid with a great upside, but the likelihood of her beating out Meg or Brieon is slim at this point because she doesn't have the experience. But she will be that kind of player. I think she's a developmental player, and one to watch for in the future. The other three have a chance to play. Nastia is a very skilled player who's played a lot of volleyball over a long period of time. She needs to get used to the physicality of our gym, she needs to get used to practice tempos and those types of things. Yesterday afternoon and today were the first times she has gotten to practice for us [she was cleared to play Tuesday after passing her English fluency test], so she has a lot to learn in terms of just getting acclimated to what we're doing, but she's a very good volleyball player with a great base of skills.
As for the other two, Dri is very well rounded. She can not only set, but she's a good attacker, she's a good serve-receiver and she does those things at a pretty high level with a great deal of confidence. We're trying her in a lot of places, and I think she'll probably contribute at some point this year. Jaime Colaizzi is very good, and you guys saw her out here practicing. This year, they've added three additional subs in Division I volleyball—we went from 12 to 15. That means players like Jaime have the chance to play. We can sub for a lot of our front-row players if we feel like we have better people to go in for them. She's a very competent player who's serve-receiving at a high level of defense, so she has a chance to get in the mix for us."
(on the team's foreign tour to Europe in May)
"We had a nice trip to Europe. We went to Italy for nine days and two days in Paris. We didn't play a match in Paris; we originally were scheduled to play one and it got cancelled. We played three matches in southern Italy, and then a match up near Rome in a place called Trevi. Then we played two matches in Milan, and those were the two best matches; we played the Italian Junior National Team. Those were two very good matches played at a very high level. We won all six matches. We won against the Italian Junior National Team the first time a little easier than I expected. The second time we played them we lost the first two games and came back and beat them in five. It was a really good, competitive experience for our team, against a very talented team.
Overall, our team got together, bonded and had a good time. Italy's a great country, and this is the first time I've done one of these tours where we've focused on mostly just one country; usually we go to three or four. I think the players had a good time." [To read more about the team's trip to Europe, please visit the team's blog—which contains photos and daily posts written by the players—at www.csuramsvolleyball.blogspot.com]
(on new NCAA rule changes this year)
"The main one is the substitution rule, where they now allow 15 instead of 12. We'll be more freely substituting in different situations, and that will mean you'll see more people out on the court. Other than that, that was the only thing significant."
(on if he'd like to see the Mountain West tournament return in the future)
"We will not have a Mountain West tournament this year. We had a conference call today about scheduling, and I'll explain to you why that is. The teams in the Mountain West want a lot of weekends to play outside of conference, because they feel that's important in the development of our conference and in helping teams getting chances to play in the NCAA tournament. San Diego State can play great competition right within two hours of them, so they want those weekends.
Right now, with nine teams in the conference, it takes you 10 weeks to complete that schedule if you play double round robin. With eight teams in the conference, it only takes you eight weeks, so when we were at eight teams, we played a Mountain West tournament, because we needed an extra weekend of competition. With nine, we don't need that. Now, we're back to where we were, with four weekends of non-conference, and then we play conference and the regular season conference ends on Thanksgiving weekend.
There was discussion today on our conference call, and there are a couple of coaches who want to revisit having a tournament anyway. When we meet again in February that will be put on the docket, and it remains to be seen whether we want to do it or not. I like it, in a way, because I liked getting good TV exposure. If it's not televised, then I don't think we should do it; I think we should play non-conference competition instead."
(on if any matches will be televised this season)
"Only one up to this point. As you know, The Mtn. network no longer exists. There are three Mountain West volleyball matches on the CBS Sports Network; we're involved in one of them, and that's at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 14. There's the possibility of CET covering one of our home games—CET is Comcast Entertainment Television, and they broadcast it in the Denver market. It won't be live, but they're looking at some of our matches.
KCSU is still doing every home match and some road matches. [All home matches and select road matches can be heard locally on 90.5 FM, KCSU. Fans worldwide can stream the matches on www.KCSUFM.com. Additionally, fans looking to view home matches can do so through CSU's All Access subscription (www.CSURams.com/AllAccess). Matches can be viewed over a computer screen, and are synced to the audio of the radio broadcast.]
(on engaging with the community to promote matches)
"Tomorrow night, our team will be at the Ram Welcome carnival, promoting our opening match vs. Virginia to all of the students. They're doing a free student pizza night to the first 500 students at the Virginia match.
Friday night, we did this last year and we're going to continue to do what we call Rams Volleyball Storms Old Town. We're taking our entire team down to Old Town on Friday night; we've gotten permission to do this, and we'll be going into 20 to 30 establishments in Old Town and passing out schedule cards and talking to people and getting people excited about the upcoming season. It's a fun event; last year we did it and it was very, very well received.
It's just a good way for us to tie into the community. That's been a big part of what CSU volleyball has done over the past 15 years. We really have gotten out and done some grassroots development and cultivation of our fan base, because I think there is no other way to do it with a sport like volleyball. You've got to get people to meet the players and go, 'You know, I don't know much about volleyball, but I like that person and I'm going to go watch her play.' Then, when they do, they see what an incredibly athletic and entertaining event it is. We do this type of stuff every year, and we're going to continue to do it."
FRESHMAN Kaitlind Bestgen
(on what she learned as a redshirt last year)
"I think I learned a lot about volleyball, obviously, playing with a bunch of players as good as the girls I'm around right now. But I also learned about how to be a good competitor and how to win and how to do the right things all the time. It's not only volleyball-related. I learned a lot about how to be a good student and how to have good time-management skills."
FRESHMAN Jaime Colaizzi
(on the possibility of playing as a freshman)
"It was actually [former associate head coach Jesse Mahoney] Jesse who told me. We were talking on the phone one day, and it was within the timeframe that they gave me to decide if I wanted to commit or not. Jesse told me I would see the court as a freshman so long as I see put in the necessary work. That was the first inclination that I got."
(on feeling like the team is a family)
"The first time that I actually felt that was on my recruiting visit. I went to visit here and UNC within the same week, and there was a huge difference with the attitude of the girls. Immediately, all the girls at CSU made me feel so comfortable and at ease; that made my decision to come here, honestly. The girls are just amazing."
(on learning from a veteran like senior libero Izzy Gaulia)
"Izzy pushes me to work that much harder and run that much faster to get the ball. I look to her for support and feedback, whatever she has to give me that might help me get better. She's a great player to watch and learn from observation. I really enjoy working with her."
SENIOR Dana Cranston
(on being named the preseason Mountain West Co-Player of the Year)
"It's awesome; I'm so glad that we as a team got recognized. It speaks to the tradition we have here and how hard we work, but now we have to go do the work. I'm glad that the school got recognized, and that we got acknowledged for the work we've put in and the tradition we have and the conference championships we've won, but now we have to do it again."
(on what helps them overcome the high expectations)
"It's just getting everybody in the rotation, and every day not being satisfied with where we were yesterday. Keep pushing and getting better and holding ourselves to the standard we want to be held to, which is a high level of play. We go through practice and make standards for what we expect of each other, things like always working hard, never letting the ball hit the floor, stuff like that. It's like going through those things every single day. [Associate head coach Brook Coulter] Brook always says, 'You can either get better or you can get worse,' so we need to always make sure we're getting better.
(on being an all-around player, and what aspect of the game she enjoys most)
"There's cool things to all of them. I think the thing I like most is serving, because it's so much different than any other part of the game."
(on who influenced her as a younger player)
"Tessa nelson was a big one. I was really homesick when I first got here, and she left a note on my locker, which I still have today. It said, 'I know that you feel homesick. I felt like that, too, when I first got here. I promise you'll get over it. We all love you and are here for you if you need anything.'
Katelin Batten is definitely another one of them. She completely changed my life and is still one of my best friends."
(on the team being like a family)
"That's totally what we are and why I chose to come here."
FRESHMAN Adrianna Culbert
(on being intimidated coming into a program with such tradition)
"I was a little nervous, like any freshman would be, but I wouldn't say it's intimidating; I think it's exciting. It's a whole new atmosphere. The fact that we have such high standards and get to play all these amazing teams, and the fact that I get to be a part of it . . . Even if I don't get to play, I get to be on the sidelines going crazy with my team. The girls are great. They've been so welcoming. It's been great so far. I can't wait to get going."
(on getting reassurance from Coach Hilbert and receiving more early playing time than she expected)
"It's really exciting. It doesn't change the fact that I'm still a freshman, though. All of these girls have so much more experience, so I just have to come in and work hard every day, but so does everyone else. The excitement is fun."
(on coming in as a setter, but spending time as a hitter during the first week)
"He [Head Coach Tom Hilbert] always said that over the long term I would focus on setting, but he never was really sure at the beginning. I was a little bit surprised that I'm hitting more than I thought I was going to be, but it's great, and I love it."
(on what has made her first week such a success)
"My teammates made me feel so welcome. Dana and Izzy, I stayed with them, and they were like, 'If you need anything, if you need to go to the store . . . I know what it's like to be a freshman and not have a car. We are always there for you guys.' It was great to know it was like an instant family."
SOPHOMORE Deedra Foss
(on the improvement she's seen in the relationship between herself and the hitters since the beginning of last season)
"We're so much more in tune. From the beginning of last year to now, we've improved so much more as a team, and for me with the hitters."
(on reading defenses and the experience she learned last year)
"I definitely have my go-to hitters with the seniors—Meg and Brie and Dana are going to be really good. As for other teams, I've learned to read their blockers better, which helps me with who to set, and gives my hitters one-on-ones."
SENIOR Brieon Paige
(on going to Europe with the team and playing with USA Volleyball's A2 program over the summer)
"They were both once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Playing in Europe made me realize that it's maybe something I want to do after college; it's up in the air right now. Then, playing for A2, it was such a blessing playing with all of those girls. Competing with them and them pushing me and working with new coaches is great to bring back here to CSU."
SENIOR Megan Plourde
(on Dana Cranston being named the conference's preseason co-player of the year, an honor she earned in 2011)
"It's a great honor to get, but you can't really take that in and have it on your chest all season. Dana is a great leader and an amazing person, and I think she can handle it. She knows how to handle different situations, and she won't be too stressed out by the pressure by it. She's a good all-around player, and she's going to do what she needs to do."
(on being picked to win a fourth consecutive Mountain West title)
"Those are great honors to get, but it doesn't really matter. You have to go out there and prove it. As long as we're going out to the gym doing what we need to do every day, everything else will play out. Our chemistry is really good. We're giving 100 percent every day."
(on being a leader to the younger players)
"We just had a meeting the other day about giving back to the team. I'm going into my fifth year here, and I feel like I've learned so much and have gained a lot of knowledge from the older players through the years. I really want to pass that on to the younger players. We know that with four strong seniors leaving after this year, we need to develop the younger girls. We know that, and I think we make progress every day in that area."
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I have been lurking around here for a bit and I am currently looking at an 05 wrx with only 21,000 miles. I had a few questions regarding it that I am hoping you can answer.
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*New OS tune on a Mustang Dyno.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The man sentenced to 198 years in prison for the 1973 killing of country comic David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, asked on Wednesday to be paroled.
John A. Brown told the Tennessee Board of Parole that he is a changed man after spending 40 years in prison.
"I'm truly sorry," said Brown, who is now 63. "I can't undo anything to change my past. I've committed the last 40 years to changing my life."
Brown presented his case to two of seven parole board members from a special needs facility that houses prisoners in Nashville. The board could make a decision in one to two weeks after other board members review the case. He needs four votes in favor of parole to be released.
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My cat (Edward) keeps scratching itself nonstop! (pics included)
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My cat Edward has been scratching himself frequently for months and bleeds frequently. He has many wounds on the back of his neck, face, top of his head, back, neck, and the begining of his tail. I fed him holistic blend dry food but switched to raw beef but he was still extremely itchy, so now he eats raw ground =chicken or turkey. It's not working. We switched his litter to worlds best cat litter and saw a little improvement but now he still as itchy as before! He had flea treatment last month by Advantage but was and is still very itchy. One thing puzzles me though. In Edwards fur there are black stuff that may be flea dirt but it also may just be his skin that has been ripped off.
Do you know what problem Edward has? Is there a cure without bringing him to the vet?
Additional info: Edward is 2 years old, 11 pounds, very cute.
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Sounds like fleas to me, and some cats have allergies to fleas as well, which can cause scabs and additional irritation. (Flea dirt looks like little specs, BTW, and it turns reddish and dissolves when you get it wet since it's basically blood.) I've heard recently from a couple of people who used flea treatment and it didn't work. Here in SoCal, my vet tells me, this has been a really bad year for fleas. You can try flea-combing him to see if there are any fleas, which may shed some light. It might also be an allergy to something else. Most of all, though, it sounds as if you need to bite the bullet and get him to the vet. He's suffering if he's that itchy.
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Suneel Sajnani '85 and Calli Planakis-Sajnani '88
Suneel Sajnani '85 and Calli Planakis-Sajnani '89 have Pace to thank for their 28 years of marriage. The two met for the first time in the Birnbaum library in fall 1983 at the NYC campus while pursuing their MBAs. They were taking the same finance courses and had to share library books for upcoming exams. Beyond sharing books, they ended up sharing their lives together.
Suneel is currently Senior Vice President, Enterprise Technology at Hearst Corporation. A seasoned executive with 27 years experience running complex technical infrastructure organizations across multiple industries including Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Retail and Banking. Suneel has responsibility and full accountability in working closely with the Hearst leadership teams at both the corporate and divisional levels to create an IT Infrastructure shared services organization and to provide technology solutions across the organization's diverse businesses. This transformational initiative has allowed Hearst to decrease complexity and increase the overall flexibility of its enterprise technology customers and its associated services, allowing its focus to remain on the development of new products and services as well as other revenue generating opportunities. The need for innovation and technological advancement are key forces that drive Suneel and his department to provide business aligned technical solutions that are fiscally responsible.
Prior to Hearst Corporation Suneel worked at News Corporation (20th Century Fox and News America Marketing) managing their global infrastructure services in a shared services model.
Suneel is also a member of the advisory board at the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, which recently honored Hearst's CTO, Phil R, Wiser, at the 2014 Leadership and Service in Technology Award Reception (LST).
"It was an honor for Hearst Corporation and me to host the 2014 LST event," says Suneel. "It brought together technology executives and leaders in the NY region, vendor partners, and Pace University faculty and administration to leverage the existing and build new relationships and partnerships. The event also provided a forum for Pace to exhibit the latest programs and forays made in the field of Technology."
Suneel, who received his MBA (Information Systems & Financial Management) and MS (Computer Science) at Pace, served as Adjunct faculty, teaching undergraduate/graduate Information Systems Courses for almost 12 years.
"Due to the in-depth & practical knowledge imparted by Pace, both Calli and I started our careers on Wall Street in Insurance & Banking industries respectively after we completed our MBA," recalls Suneel. "The rich classroom discussions with real world, experienced faculty allowed us to complement the theoretical learning with practical knowledge to land careers in our respective fields."
Suneel and Calli both progressed in their respective careers due to the strong foundation they obtained at Pace. Calli, being a first-generation American, was the first member from both sides of her family to go to college and graduate school. Her time at Pace University helped her to map out an education/ career strategy, learn practical and theoretical skills which were easily transferable on a professional level, and lastly, obtain a first-hand exposure to global diversity. She attributes her time at Pace as being instrumental in helping her forge a roadmap for her career. "I had the dreams and the ambition but I was unsure as to how the real world operated," Calli notes. "The faculty and administrators helped me tremendously to map out a strategy for successful career advancement. My internship at The New York City Office of Management and Budget as a budget analyst provided me not only with practical analysis experience, it also gave me my first taste of what public administration involved."
"The impact of that experience stayed with me through the years," she continues. "As a result, I chose to pursue a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration with a specialization in Health policy." Calli expects to finish her dissertation in 2015 and pursue teaching and consulting opportunities across the globe.
Suneel and Calli remember their experience at Pace as a window on the world. Suneel reflects, "Our classmates and friends included students from around the world representing many countries. We had the opportunity to witness a diversity the likes of which we had never experienced in any other academic setting."
"Calli and I have achieved much professional success from the theoretical and practical knowledge we gained from our Pace University education. What makes this success sweeter is that we found each other at the same time," he continues.
The duo plans to continue to make their mark in the world. "We have always been very involved with our communities and served on various non-profit boards through the years. There is much more work that we need to do," says Suneel. "Thanks to the strong educational foundation we received at Pace, we have a platform from which to expand not only our professional achievements but also our personal ones, too. Our goal is to seek out opportunities and to continue to give back to society. Our family lives by the credo that to those whom much is given, much is expected," he continues.
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I've had my new 2010 GTI for about 2 months now and my right leg and knee are killing me. This is my first automatic in over 15 years, a decision I made so the wife could drive on long trips. For some reason, the location or position of the pedals is hurting my right knee and leg. I have tried every seating position, adding pillows, towels, but nothing works.
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Cholesterol is a fat (also called a lipid) that your body needs to work properly. Too much bad cholesterol can increase your chance of getting heart disease, stroke, and other problems.
The medical term for high blood cholesterol is lipid disorder, hyperlipidemia, or hypercholesterolemia.
Recent findings and perspectives on medical research.
Dozens of measures, individually or together, can help to lower cholesterol. See what worked for one Times reporter.
Lipid disorders; Hyperlipoproteinemia; Hyperlipidemia; Dyslipidemia; Hypercholesterolemia
There are many types of cholesterol. The ones talked about most are:
For many people, abnormal cholesterol levels are partly due to an unhealthy lifestyle. This often includes eating a diet that is high in fat. Other lifestyle factors are:
Some health conditions can also lead to abnormal cholesterol, including:
Medicines such as certain birth control pills, diuretics (water pills), beta-blockers, and some medicines used to treat depression may also raise cholesterol levels. Several disorders that are passed down through families lead to abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels. They include:
Smoking does not cause higher cholesterol levels, but it can reduce your HDL ("good") cholesterol.
Steps you can take to improve their cholesterol levels, and help prevent heart disease and a heart attack include:
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Daniels SR, Greer FR; Committee on Nutrition. Lipid screening and cardiovascular health in childhood. Pediatrics . 2008;122198-208.
Genest J, Libby P. Lipoprotein disorders and cardiovascular disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine . 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 47.
Semenkovich, CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine . 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 213.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for lipid disorders in adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ);2008 Jun.
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By Richard Clarke in Kiev
Arsenal should be afraid of no-one in world football, according to Arsène Wenger.
The Frenchman was speaking in Kiev ahead of his side's Champions League Group G opener against Dynamo. This is Arsenal's 11th successive season in Europe's top competition and since 2000 they have always reached the Knockout Stages. Three seasons ago they were within 13 minutes of winning the trophy for the first time.
Perhaps that recent record explained Wenger's bullish mood at his pre-match press conference. However, despite his global confidence, the Arsenal manager was wary of the threat the local side could pose this evening.
"We are happy to play our football," he said. "We are afraid of nobody in the world.
"But we do respect Dynamo Kyiv. I feel their strength mainly is that they are very efficient as a team.
"They are very hard-working with good discipline, and up front they can score goals with Artem Milevsky and Ismael Bangoura.
"To knock Spartak Moscow out [in the qualifiers] and score eight goals has one advantage for us - it will keep us on our toes and prepare us mentally because that is a remarkable performance."
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This week, California regulators ruled that farmers must restrict their use of chloropicrin, a toxic pesticide widely used to prepare soil for planting. The state's use of it increased 650 percent from 1991 to 2012.
Since our investigation of dangerous pesticides used to grow California strawberries, we've heard from people who say we've ruined the fruit for them. Here are a few reasons not to give up on strawberries quite yet.
Strawberries grown on both conventional and organic farms get their start in nurseries with the help of fumigants, a class of pesticides that have been linked to health problems and the hole in the ozone layer.
When the state's top pesticide regulators step down, their influence over important public health and environmental issues continues. From overseeing water issues to representing a chemical giant, here's what several ex-chiefs are doing now.
California keeps detailed data on every commercial pesticide applied across the state. Here are a few of the interesting nuggets we pulled out of our analysis of that information.
California strawberries are grown using some of the riskiest pesticides in agriculture. While the chemicals don't end up on the fruit you eat, they are potentially dangerous for farmworkers, nearby residents and the environment.
Farmers apply more than 100 million pounds of pesticides to crops in California each year. Check out our map to see what pesticides were most commonly applied near you from 2003 through 2012.
California's strawberry growers rely on heavy amounts of dangerous pesticides to deliver fruit year-round at an affordable price. But the health and environmental problems that come with those chemicals have threatened the foundation of a $2.6 billion industry.
This short stop-motion animation explains how clever advertising tactics and certain pesticides helped make the strawberry cheaply and widely available in the U.S.
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I love my dogs
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From which I hope
They'll never roam.
They're faithful friends
I love them best
This is their home
You are a guest.
If dogs to you
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Feel free to leave!!!
Bet You Can't Own Just One!
Why own a dog? There's danger you know
You can't own just one, the craving will grow
There's no doubt they're addictive, wherein lies the danger
While living with lots, you'll grow poorer and stranger.
One dog is so funny, and two are no trouble
The third one is easy, the fourth one's a honey
The fifth's delightful, the sixth one's a breeze,
You find you can live with a house full with ease.
So how 'bout another? Would you really dare?
They're really quite easy, but Lord, the hair.
With dogs on the sofa, and dogs on the bed,
And crates in the kitchen, It's no bother, you've said,
They're really no trouble, their manners are great,
What's just one more dog, and one more crate?
The sofa is hairy, the windows are crusty,
The floor is all footprints, the furniture is dusty,
The housekeeping suffers, but what do you care?
Who minds a few nose prints, and a little more hair?
So let's keep a puppy, you can always find room,
And a little more time for the dust cloth and broom,
There's hardly a limit to the dogs you can add,
The thought of a cutback sure makes you sad.
Each one is so special, so useful, so funny,
The vet, the food bills grow larger, you owe money,
Your folks never visit, few friends come to stay,
Except other dog folks, who live the same way.
Your lawn has now died, and your shrubs are dead too,
But your weekends are busy, you're off with your crew,
There's dog food and vitamins, and training and shots,
And entries and motels which cost lots.
Is it worth it you wonder? Are you caught in a trap?
Then your favorite dog comes and climbs in your lap,
His look says your special, and you know that you will
Keep all of the critters, in spite of the bill.
A Fall Song
by Ellen Robena Field
Golden and red trees
Nod to the soft breeze,
As it whispers, "Winter is near;"
And the brown nuts fall
At the wind's loud call,
For this is the Fall of the year.
Good-by, sweet flowers!
Through bright Summer hours
You have filled our hearts with cheer
We shall miss you so,
And yet you must go,
For this is the Fall of the year.
Now the days grow cold,
As the year grows old,
And the meadows are brown and sere;
Brave robin redbreast
Has gone from his nest,
For this is the Fall of the year.
I do softly pray
At the close of day,
That the little children, so dear,
May as purely grow
As the fleecy snow
That follows the Fall of the year
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Hi fellow mums!
My second baby is very different from my first baby. My second baby girl cries a lot more than my first baby. I was wondering if you could give me tips or ways in soothing her or make her stop crying? After I've checked her nappies, checked if she was hungry or not, checked if she was comfortable with the temperature and her clothes, see if something is hurting her, everything seems okay but she still cries. What are some ways to help soothe her and make her stop crying?


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[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] A hat trick from Oscar gave Brazil a 3-2 overtime win over Brazil for its fifth Under-20 World Cup
title, matching its haul in the World Cup and giving it only one less than the record six U-20 championships won by archrival Argentina.
Oscar's winner in Bogota came in the 111th minute when his shot from the right was tipped by Portugal keeper Mika off the woodwork before going in.
"This really makes us happy," Brazil coach Ney Franco said, "because now we have matched the record of the senior team."
Oscar's teammate, Henrique, won the adidas Golden Ball as the tournament's top player and adidas Golden Boot as the leading scorer (five goals and three assists).
Nelson Oliveira, who set up Alex with Portugal's first goal and scored the second one in the final himself, took the Silver Ball.
Mexico followed up on its Under-17 World Cup title with third place at the Under-20 World Cup, beating France, 3-1, in Saturday's consolation match.
Ulises Davila, Bronze Ball winner Jorge Enriquez and Edson Rivera scored for Mexico.
The final day of play drew 36,058 fans at Bogota's El Campin, another strong turnout for a tournament was a popular success even after the elimination of the host country in the quarterfinals.


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December 20, 2012
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Somerset, NJ (rushPRnews) 12/20/12 — A group of 5th through 8th graders at Rutgers Preparatory School are coming together to adopt six families who suffered losses from Hurricane Sandy.
"Our goal is not to have a holiday toy drive, but to collect the materials that are necessary for them to get back in their homes and get their lives back," according to the iVideo produced by the 8th grade Student Council and released on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38AM0-AoniE
Each family is providing a "wish list" of items they said they needed to get through this tough time. The students have partnered with the Hurricane Sandy Adopt-A-Family charity, Spring Lake Heights, NJ, to identify the families in need. https://www.facebook.com/AdoptAFamilyHurricaneSandy?fref=ts
"The Rutgers Prep community is focused on doing all we can to helping ease the burden of rebuilding after the storm," says Principal John Miller, "so when our students expressed their interest in adopting these families, we put our total support behind them."
Peter Renzulli, President/CEO of Perform Account, a NJ based financial services company and one of the businesses that donated their services added, "It's been inspiring to see the community come together and contribute in so many ways in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. We're proud to offer our services to help an affected family and business get on their feet again and to ensure they don't fall behind on important tax and reporting requirements.
The six adopted families selected are scattered through devastated areas in Union Beach, NJ and Staten Island. The collection ends on December 21st so all families will receive their items before Christmas.
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Chaos and Climate
By James Annan and William Connolley
In this post, we will try to explain a little about chaos theory, and its relevance to our attempts to understand and forecast the climate system. The chaotic nature of atmospheric solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow has great impact on weather forecasting (which we discuss first), but the evidence suggests that it has much less importance for climate prediction.
Chaos is usually associated with the sensitivity of a deterministic system to infinitesimal pertubations in initial conditions (the full definition is a bit more difficult: see technical bit at the end). The identification of chaos in atmospheric systems is due to an accidental discovery by Lorenz in 1961. Using a greatly simplified model of the atmosphere, he restarted a computation from part-way though a previously-completed run. However, for the initial conditions, he used a printout that only had 3 figures of precision, compared to the 6 used internally by the computer. The outputs of the two runs initially appeared indistinguishable, but then diverged and became wholly decorrellated. So it was an atmospheric model which provided some of the first insight into the 'chaos effect', thus teaching us something quite profound about nature
In fact, this type of behaviour had already been identified and studied more than 60 years earlier by Poincare, in the form of the "3-body problem" of celestial dynamics. 2 stars (or planets etc) in orbit around each other will each follow a regular ellipsoidal trajectory around their joint centre of mass. However, when a 3rd (or more) body is thown into the mix, their future trajectories may be highly sensitive to the precise initial conditions. One extremely useful result of chaos theory is the design of complex orbits that enable spacecraft to travel great distances in a fuel-efficient manner, by analysing the Earth, Sun and spacecraft as a 3-body system (eg see the articles here and here).
Back in atmospheric physics, chaotic behaviour is a highly-studied and well-understood phenomenon of all realistic global models, arising directly from the nonlinearity of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow. So any uncertainty in the current atmospheric state, however, small, will ultimately grow and prevent accurate weather forecasts in the long term. This is the sort of thing that is easy to show with numerical models of the atmosphere. Simply perturb a reference run, and see what happens. So long as the perturbation is not rounded out by the limited numerical precision of the model, it will invariably grow.
Here is an example using the HADAM3 model. One standard run was performed, and then another run was started where the pressure in a single grid box was changed by 10-10 (one part in 1015 of the model value) For a bit more about this experiment, see here. The first graph shows how the RMS difference in sea level pressure increases over time, and the second graph shows the evolution of the spatial pattern of differences. The perturbation rapidly saturates the highly local convective mode in the tropics, before more slowly spreading to the much larger mesoscale differences that matter to weather forecasters (note the scale changes). If this model resolved hurricanes, then their appearance and paths would be completely uncorrelated in the two runs – a classic example of the "Butterfly effect".
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May 4, 2009
Longtime Tennessee football legend George Cafego was one of six individuals named over the weekend to the 2009 class of the West Virginia Coaches Association North-South Hall of Fame.
All six native West Virginians played in the state's North-South All-Star Game and went on to gain football distinction at higher levels.
The six, George Cafego, William Russell Craft, Alex Hawkins, Leon McCoy, Bobby Moss and Floyd (Ben) Schwartzwalder, will be inducted June 20 at the North-South Game at Charleston's Laidley Field.
Not long after George Cafego's death in 1998, sportscaster Keith Jackson offered a tribute on national television. "Nobody's name rests higher in Tennessee football than George Cafego,'' Jackson said.
Cafego, a Scarbro, W.Va., native and Oak Hill High School graduate, played in the 1936 North-South Game and began his college career at Georgia. But after one year, he transferred to Tennessee, where he twice earned All-America and All-Southeastern Conference honors as a 5-foot-10, 169-pound quarterback. He also punted and returned kicks.
He played in the 1939 Orange Bowl in which the Volunteers defeated Oklahoma 17-0 and helped the Vols earn a berth in the 1940 Rose Bowl. UT lost that one to Southern California 14-0, but Cafego did not play in the game because of injuries.
In voting for the Heisman Trophy, he finished seventh in 1938 and fourth in 1939. He was selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940 NFL draft and played one season before beginning service in the Army. He resumed his NFL career in 1943 and played five games with the Washington Redskins and concluded his playing career as a member of the Boston Yanks in 1944 and '45.
After working as an assistant coach at Wyoming, Furman and Arkansas, he returned to his alma mater in 1955 and spent 30 years as an assistant.
He was elected to the Tennessee Hall of Fame in 1966, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969, the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 1973 and the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame in 1985.
Cafego died Feb. 9, 1998, in Knoxville, at age 82.
-- Story courtesy The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette.


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South edge past Maccabi in cricket clash
South Manchester defeated Manchester Maccabi by five wickets at Gatley in the Greater Manchester Amateur league.
Jonathan Lieberman, South's winning captain in Steven Glicher's absence, said: "It was a good win for us because we had a lot of players missing and we always like to do our best, especially when playing our old friends. We were very pleased to win that game."
"We've held our own in our first season in this league, we've had good wins and are pleased with our progress."
Lieberman also praised the returning David Glick, making his comeback just four months after suffering a heart attack and taking three wickets to cap an impressive performance.
"We're absolutely delighted to welcome him back. The fact he could play at all was brilliant, he did exceptionally and we are all delighted he is well and fit enough to play."
Having won the toss, South decided to bowl first, with the Lieberman brothers Huddy and Akiva giving the Maccabi batsmen a tough opening, with their captain Ray Tammam registering an innings of 31.
Stuart Simpson matched Tammam's score as Maccabi looked to place their opponents under pressure, but Akiva Lieberman opted to swap roles with David Cohen after the first drinks break. It proved an inspired swap as Cohen's medium fast deliveries ensured that the wickets started to come thick and fast.
Glick took three for 24 from 10 overs, and Huddy Lieberman added two from 23, as Maccabi finished on 140 for 8.
When South went in to bat, they were confronted by the pacey bowling of left arm bowler Steven Allweiss, which caused the South batsmen problems.
It took the intervention of Akiva Lieberman, together with David Schonfield, to register 59 and get South back into the contest.
Lieberman and David Tussie were then caught out by Simpson, leaving South on 88 for 5 and struggling to reach the target. But a superb partnership from Huddy Lieberman, who took 35 not out, and Feldman, adding another 17, saw South ease home with five wickets to spare, leaving them sixth in the table.
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What do I bake Rye bread in? New
Ok, I am new to baking bread and I know this is probably a stupid question, but what do I bake Rye Bread in? My recipe says a baking sheet, now to me that is a cookie sheet. Do I use the normal bread pans, round pan or the cookie sheet? Is a baking sheet the same is a cookie sheet?


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A.C.S.O. Accused
Approximately 30 black residents met with representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to discuss racial profiling in Archer Monday. The issue gained attention during the June 26, 2007 Alachua County Commission meeting, but Archer resident Sophia Robinson said things have not gotten any better.
"I am a prisoner in Archer, Fla.," Robinson said. "I'm not ashamed to say it. That's what it feels like."
Over the last two months, Robinson said she and her family have been victimized by deputies eight times.
"Once a month, you get a gun in your face or the police cars just pull-up and they come in your house or when they stop you, they search your vehicle for no good reason," Robinson explained. "It's got to stop."
So she started calling the Sheriff's Office to complain, but when those calls were not returned, she called the Alachua County N.A.A.C.P.
"I did not expect to hear these things in 2007," Alachua County N.A.A.C.P. President Michael Bowie said.
Residents however claimed the allegations are true, and Bowie said their stories were compelling.
"You don't get 30 individuals to a meeting to discuss all of the issues that they're having out here without there being some truth to those situations," he said.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office said the department was not informed of the meeting, therefore no deputies were present to answer the charges made against them. After the June 26th County Commission meeting where Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut said racial profiling was a serious problem, deputies did start and internal investigation.
Bowie said he hopes a meeting with Sheriff Sadie Darnell can be arranged as soon as possible to discuss the situation. According to Robinson, she still respects the Sheriff's Office but deputies need to be held accountable for their actions.
"I hope that the Sheriff's department can come in here and perform, not harass the citizens," she said. "That's all we want. That's all we want."
By Ted Latiak, WCJB TV20 News.
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Audi Exclusive Sighting: Imola Yellow RS 5 Coupe for Sale in UK
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Introduced during the B5 S4 era, Imola Yellow has long been the color for those Audi owners looking to get noticed. For the 2012 model year, this gold hue has finally been pulled from the S4 palette but that won't stop fans of Imola to continue to order it via Audi Exclusive. Case in point is this RS 5 found by quattroholic for sale in the UK via Ebay.
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Mandela, a natural charmer with the measure of those he met
By Luke Baker
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Thousands upon thousands of people, great and small, met Nelson Mandela, and as a correspondent in South Africa from 1997-2000, I was fortunate to be among them.
During his presidency and in the early years of his retirement from office, Mandela made a point of meeting as many of the people who beat a path to his door as possible.
He loved the gatherings which, while often stage-managed and to a certain extent set up for the media, were also perfect opportunities to observe Madiba at close range.
Two meetings are crystallized in the memory, not so much for their political importance but for what they showed of his personality and almost child-like enjoyment of the moment, not to mention the intense impact he had on people.
The first was an encounter with the Spice Girls in 1997, when the British band was taking the world by storm. They were performing at a concert in Johannesburg to help raise money for the Prince's Trust, a charity overseen by Prince Charles.
As he was hugged and kissed by each of the women in turn, including Ginger Spice wearing bright-red, six-inch (15-cm) platform shoes and a super-short Japanese-style dress, Mandela beamed and declared it to be the "greatest day of my life".
It was a phrase he often used when meeting high-profile visitors, an easy way of flattering them since it was nearly always the greatest day of their lives rather than of his.
But he always managed to say it with a ring of truth, and perhaps at some level meeting five excitable 20-something women in skimpy clothes really was a great day - certainly not the sort of thing that happens in prison. Continued...


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In an auto pistol, Double Action (DA) means the pull of the trigger both cocks and releases the hammer, or striker. This necessitates a longer, often heavier pull. (Anything with DAO in the name, Glocks, and M&Ps to name a few) Like a Double Action Revolver.
In a Single Action (SA) automatic, the rearward movement of the slide either from loading (XD) or firing (1911), completely cocks the hammer or striker. Pulling the trigger only releases the sear, releasing the hammer or striker. (XDs, 1911's) Like a SA revolver, but rearward movement of the slide cocks the "hammer", not your thumb.
SA/DA designs, like most Sigs, HK, and Walther are a combination Single Action/Double Action. The gun is carried hammer-down, in double action. The first trigger pull (long and heavy) cocks the hammer, and the gun fires in single action for the remaining shots.
Advantages??? All subjective. DA is considered "safer" since the trigger pull is heavier, and longer, but if you don't intend to kill something, your finger shouldn't be on the trigger anyway. SA is considered "more accurate" since the lighter/shorter trigger pull is "less likely" to disrupt your sight picture.
SA's are most often carried "Cocked and Locked" (Already in SA mode with thesafety on). DA's are all carried "Hammer Down".
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The Racket We're Making on Clinical Psychiatry News
Are "med checks" as the mainstay of psychiatric care just a racket? I wrote about this on our column over on Clinical Psychiatry News. While I think that brief med checks are fine for some patients, and even all they might want, as a standard paradigm for psychiatric treatment in a one-appointment-length-for-everyone, I think this is destroying psychiatry. What do you think?
And speaking of rackets, Roy had a article up there last week on Insurance Networks and mental health parity. Does your insurance network list psychiatrists who aren't taking new patients, who don't see outpatients, who only do research, or who are dead?
And just in case you missed it, Clink had yet another article about maximum security prisons, federal lawsuits, and the treatment of prisoners.


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I know I'm looking for a black GSD from working lines, but even a good companion dog would suit us just fine.
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Last night, Irving Plaza was once again enveloped in shades of black and grey (and a touch of red) as it hosted "Painted Black, Act II," the second installment of the ongoing concert series presented by NYC MATTE Projects. Although several concertgoers had gathered to see Brooklyn's indie rock poster-childen, DIIV, perform for the umpteenth time in NYC, the crowd at this DIIV show was treated to the band alongside the works of visual artists, stage builders and sculptors, resulting in an incredible, sensory-soaked performance.
Before DIIV took the stage, the crowd enjoyed a transition to a room full of reverb via New York's Guards. Although somewhat timid and awkward in demeanor, Guards nevertheless won the audience over with their smooth take on indie rock. Frontman/guitarist Richie Follin's long, flowing locks were all over the place as he laid down distortion-loaded guitar chops alongside his crooning vocals, followed by the contrasting ambient psychedelic rock melodies featured on their debut LP. The set was a perfect mixture of both ends of Guards' musical spectrum, and never did the band seem to stay at one end for too long. However, for those audience members looking for some visual stimulation—if they weren't already entranced by Follin's guitar-gun movement and the rest of the band's intense instrument-thrashing performance—the visual artists' pairing were certain to catch the eye. The band's performances of tracks like Silver Lining and Ready To Go were complemented with TVs offering loops of black and white TV static and X-Ray-esque pictures, befitting of the "black" theme.
As Zachary Cole Smith walked onstage and tuned up the guitar, clad in an oversized sweater, he cheekily greeted the audience with "Hi, we're Dave," smirking as he then corrected himself with, "Hi, we're DIIV." The band plunged immediately into their debut album's opening tracks Druun and Past Lives. Although the band's movement seemed a bit lifeless, compared to Guards at least, several audience members found themselves jumping around feverishly, eyes closed as they rocked their bodies back and forth to the band's signature oceanic sounds.
Just like Guards, DIIV found themselves partaking in the realm of visual artistry as their songs were paired with various sets of visual works on the stage's TV monitors. The newer tracks, like Dust and a handful of untitled songs that notably contained poppier melodies, served as the soundtrack to the visuals of rolling, bloody red clouds against a matte black background. On the other hand, "oldies" like Air Conditioning and How Long Have You Known (which, as per usual, brought out the awkward DIIV mosh-ish pit) were played alongside a black and white video of taxi lights and several pairs of pen-inked eyes. The metallic harshness of the song went alongside the eerie monochromatic gaze of the eyes perfectly.
Having been paranoid about time—evident by Smith asking over and over when the band would be cut off—DIIV shortened the setlist slightly. After performing Wait, Smith said goodnight to the crowd and dove straight into the staple, punked-up closer, Doused. Amongst the thudding bass riff, Smith's hollowing vocals simply enveloped around the crowd members' heads, getting them amped one last time. As the stage lights flickered all around the venue, saturating the room in a scheme of black and white just like the taxi video playing on screen, and while the members of DIIV threw their bodies all around the stage, one could only feel caught inside this perfect maelstrom of DIIV and Painted Black's visual-auditory bliss.
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