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Fishing for Hair Compliments
I feel like this girl I see everyday is silently fishing for compliments from me for her hair.
The female I work with is getting to be pretty strange about her actions with her hair when around me. There are a few places I have seen her do it, but tonight was just downright irritating because I couldn't make sense of it. Sometimes I wonder if there is a code between black females that I just don't understand.
Tonight it was like this girl was waiting for me to see her toss her hair all over her head... She had used the bathroom and washed her hands and just stood there while I was talking to a friend on the other side about hair. She basically just stood there through our conversation while we were getting dressed. Wasn't doing anything.
Because the mirrors were facing eachother, I could see her around the corner, but I'm not sure if she realized this :confused3:. Tonight I was actually talking to a friend in the bathroom and she came in on the other side i guess to pee. I am sure she heard us talking about hair (an acquaintance wanted some crotchet braids and we laughed about how that went out of style in 1995). It was comedy! However through the mirrors I saw this girl just standing at the sink, she had looked up at us and just stood there :confused3:. Well I got dressed and was carrying on with the conversation as I walked out, and as I'm leaving, just as I pass this girl looks at me through the mirror (no joke, I don't think this girl realized I saw her the whole time, waiting) and starts tossing her hair and watching me as I leave! If she had come into the bathroom to "fix" her hair, why did she need to wait until I passed her? She turned her head to watch and everything. Who does that???
Now, mind you she has pretty decent hair. It's not damaged or anything. It's just some medium/long type 3 hair that she puts up and takes down and puts up and takes down all day... I can tell she likes her hair a lot. I like my hair too. I don't wear it out because I'm in a uniform everyday, but I don't care if people don't see it out either. When I used to brush my hair she would see me in the bathroom, and there was one night that she stood there and watched from a distance while I brushed my hair. When I felt her watching me, I looked over, immediately she stopped what she was doing and tossed her hair. Unfortunately it's like everytime I see this girl she is doing the "LOOK AT ME! I HAVE GOOD HAIR! IT'S LONG! I'M TOSSING IT!" thing. I really don't care about her hair, but I am a little concerned that she tries to get me to see it all the time. I wonder if she expects me to be jealous, or if my ignoring her makes her think that I am. I wonder if she thinks I am supposed to hate my hair and melt everytime I see her touch hers... Maybe she wants me to strike up a conversation in response or compliment her. I have no idea what she wants, but it's like every day or so she has to be standing right in front of me, or waiting for me to walk by so she can do the exaggerated hair toss.
Sometimes I want to just ask, "Do you want a cookie? A gold star, maybe?"
Lol she sounds like a kook!
I would suggest that you compliment her hair...just to see what happens, but I'm afraid it'll get worse if you do that lol!!
Oddly enough, to me it sounds like she is flirting with you, trying to get your attention. Don't know what I would do in your situation. It seems weird to me, too.
I guess its in the realm of possibility that she's flirting. I've definitely made it clear I'm straight though. She does this thing where she has a snotty look on her face all day, but if I speak to her, the demeanor changes. So it is possible she just wants my attention for those reasons..
I know I'm responding to this a bit late, but bear with me.
Her actions sound weird but maybe it has very little (if anything) to do with you. Maybe she does this in front of other people as well. Or she could simply be vain about her hair and she likes to play with it. Unless she actually says something rude/offensive to you, I wouldn't worry about it.
It sounds fairly innocent to me. She might be the type to play with her hair a lot. Or like others have said, she might be bisexual and she could be flirting with you in what she hopes is a subtle way. ;-)
You said: "Sometimes I wonder if there is a code between black females that I just don't understand". I will be blunt...a lot of this stems from catty, competitive behavior between women in general. But with Black women there is the added dimension of skin color and hair length/texture. I believe that many of us still judge one another based on these things, whether we admit it or not, because of social conditioning. As a very light-skinned woman with 3c hair down to the middle of my back, I have experienced stares and jealousy, especially when I wear my hair down and it looks nice.
I hope that doesn't sound conceited or anything, but it's true. I had a Black psychology professor in college who was very insecure about students in class with long hair. She seemed to be annoyed by girls twirling their hair or flipping it. She had very short, brittle hair in a brassy blonde color. This woman actually had a rule that female students with hair below shoulder length needed to wear it up in a bun or braids in her class at all times. I've also heard similar comments from other Black women and most of the ones who complained had fairly short hair (not saying this is you, Wumi...it's just something I've noticed).
There is even a debate online whether Black women perceive hair-flipping to be a sign of disrespect! :-? Some of the comments were quite interesting. I wish I could link to it, but I can't.
I think that some of the women with long hair are very proud of it and they like to show it off, especially if they feel that it makes them prettier than women who don't have long or luxurious hair. They feel better about themselves because they fit into a certain beauty standard. So in that case, I would say yes, they are trying to be annoying.
But in other instances, I think some people just play with their hair out of habit. I do it sometimes and it's not to make others feel bad...but there have been times when I will catch another woman staring at me or giving me the evil eye while I'm combing/playing with my hair. And sadly, most of the time it is another Black woman giving these hateful looks but they will rarely compliment or say anything at all. I love to compliment others. I don't throw shade at people based on what they look like, but it happens to me often.
I'm not the type to fish for compliments on my hair or anything else. If somebody decides to pay me a sincere compliment, cool. If not, that's fine too. I guess my point is that while her actions might be annoying (sounds that way) you really don't know why she is tossing her hair or playing in it. Why not have a friendly conversation with her? She might be nicer than she seems to be. Some people have thought I was stuck-up or mean but when they decided to give me a chance, they were pleasantly surprised.
It sounds like she is trying to get your attention somehow, but I wouldn't assume that she is trying to make you feel bad about your own hair. Just continue to be confident in your own beauty...it doesn't matter what she does.
I hope I didn't offend, but that's just my perspective. Please forgive me if what I said made no sense.
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We have observed the paradoxical ability of sustained activation of the RAS-regulated RAF→MEK→ERK MAP kinase pathway to elicit arrest of the cell division cycle in primary, immortalized or even in cancer-derived cell lines, the last an example of "oncogene overdose" (4). Indeed, RAF activation in primary mouse or human fibroblasts leads to an irreversible cell cycle arrest that has been dubbed oncogene-induced senescence (OIS). Invariably, RAF-induced cell cycle arrest was accompanied by sustained elevation of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs) of the INK4 or CIP/KIP family (e.g. p16INK4A or p21CIP1) that are required for cell cycle arrest. Experiments in cultured cells have been complemented using GEM models in which mutated BRAFV600E can be induced in cells of adult mice at normal physiological levels of expression and subject to normal patterns of splicing (1). Indeed, expression of mutated BRAFV600E in melanocytes or the pancreatic or lung epithelium led to an initial phase of cell proliferation leading to the formation of benign melanocytic nevi, pancreatic intra-epithelial neoplasias (PanIN) or benign lung adenomas (1-3). These benign lesions expressed markers of senescence, displayed signs of cell cycle arrest and rarely progressed to cancer, consistent with the notion that OIS can prevent progression of initiated benign tumor cells to frank malignancy. More recently, we have noted that the engagement of cell cycle arrest in benign BRAFV600E-induced adenomas is mediated by an insufficiency of WNT→β-catenin→c-MYC signaling (7). We are currently interested in mechanisms of OIS induction with an emphasis on the role of cell cycle regulators, alterations in WNT signaling and secretion of inflammatory cytokines as triggers for cell cycle arrest and senescence.
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Expression of mutated BRAFV600E cooperates with mutationally activated PIK3CAH1047R β-catenin or c-MYC or with silencing of tumor suppressors such as TP53, CDKN2A or PTEN for cancer development (2, 3, 5-8). Using our various models we are investigating mechanisms by which such genetic alterations cooperate for cancer progression. We suspect that cooperating genetic damage undermines the ability of oncogenic BRAFV600E to induce cell cycle arrest and senescence. However, it is also likely that there are multiple modes of cooperation involving suppression of programmed cell death, promotion of tumor angiogenesis. Recently, we generated BRafFA mice, carrying a Flp recombinase-activated allele of BRaf (9). These mice allow us to temporally dissociate BRAFV600E expression from Cre-mediated tumor suppressor gene silencing in a manner that more closely models the stepwise progression of human cancer. In addition, using BRafCAT mice, in which expression of oncogenic BRAFV600E is linked to expression of the fluorescent protein tdTomato, we can identify and isolate the earliest oncogene expressing initiated tumor cells and characterize their biochemistry and biology.
What are the mechanisms of response of tumors to pharmacologic agents targeted against RAS-regulated signaling pathways?
Since mutated RAS proteins have proven refractory to pharmacological targeting, considerable interest has focused on the protein and lipid kinases that transmit signals from activated RAS.GTP throughout the cell (10). Using pharmacological agents that target RAF, MEK, ERK, PI3'-kinase or AKT and are testing their ability to either prevent the onset of cancer, promote regression of established tumors or prevent the onset of drug resistance (2, 5, 8, 11). Such agents provide two advantages. First, they allow us to design pre-clinical trials in which the anti-cancer utility of such agents can readily be assessed either as single agents or in combination with conventional chemotherapy, other pathway-targeted agents or biologics and immunotherapies. Such studies will provide information useful for the design and evaluation of clinical trials in diseases such as melanoma and lung cancer, where there is evidence that these pathways are required for cancer maintenance. The other advantage is that such agents provide specific and selective research tools for the exploration of mechanisms of cancer maintenance by RAS-regulated signaling pathways. Furthermore, the complementary use of mouse models and cultured cells allow us to unravel both tumor cell autonomous and non-autonomous mechanisms of drug action.


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Randman: Did you find the pods on SubieGal's site? Ludecrous had the correct link above. Jamie is a clubWRX.net member, but she isn't on here a lot.
Ludecrous: Thanks for pointing the link out. I was at work, so can't get online. As for the install, it is just sitting there for the photo. I didn't have time over the weekend.
I made a T-fitting today at work. I took a T with three 1/4" barbed legs, and screwed a threaded 1/8" barbed fitting inside one leg. If this doesn't work, I have a spare 1/4" brass T-fitting, and I'll cut the 1/8" leg off of the Omori fitting and epoxy it inside one leg.
As to how I wired it? I haven't yet. Probably tie into the fusebox somewhere.
Ryan: Nope, didn't have it at the last meet. Just got the parts this last week.
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After analysing nearly 2 million tweets in relation to The X Factor since October the Hit Search Brand Monitor has spoken!
The Hit Search Brand Monitor captures any brand's "buzz" and segments opinions into positive and negative. By searching billions of information sources, such as blogs, message boards, forums, news sites, (as well as social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Google+) this services provides up to minute information about brands and public opinion.
They have been working on The X Factor for the last two months and today revealed that the majority of viewers like to tweet about Tulisa….however they aren't saying good things.
37 % of tweets have been about the N Dubz star – in comparison to 26% about Gary Barlow, 23% about Nicole Scherzinger and only 14% for Louis Walsh – however most messages have been negative, especially we would imagine after her live performance on last Sunday's show.
Despite the fact that more than eight million people saw Contostavlos perform her latest single at the weekend, it hasn't helped her sales and after receiving poor reviews it was confirmed yesterday that she had sold less than eight thousand copies and was only number 17 in the midweek charts.
Speaking of Sundays, it seems that this is also the most popular day to tweet about the ITV show, with almost 40% of all Twitter messages about the series being posted on this day.
The X Factor returns to our screens this weekend for the finale and Tulisa won't have any acts in the show. Neither will Louis Walsh and instead they will watch as impartial observers, as Nicole Scherzinger tries to push either Jahmene Douglas or James Arthur to win and Gary Barlow champions Christopher Maloney.
Gaz has to perform his own show tonight first and his solo tour moves into Manchester this evening. He tweeted:
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I need a way to tell if an mp3 fails to load in Actionscript 2. Knowing if it loads successfully is easy, but I need to know when it FAILS to load. Please help!
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("song1.mp3", true);
mySound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
// Sound Loaded
} else {
// Sound not Loaded (Failed to Load)
I tried that already, but it doesn't tell me if the song FAILS to load, because essentially what it's saying is, "when then song has loaded, tell me whether or not it has loaded" due to the "onLoad" statement. It will not indicate if it failed to load, it only indicates that it has loaded. Thank you though!
Well it works for me..
Using a URL to a non existent mp3 file
That's weird, I used the same exact code, verbatim, but it won't return anything when it fails. I used trace( "Failed" ) under "else", but it didn't trace it.
I should elaborate. I want it to tell me it failed when it tries to load an mp3 that does not exist.
mySound = new Sound() ;
mySound.loadSound(song + ".mp3", true) ;
mySound.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if(success) {
trace("Loaded" ) ;
} else {
trace("Failed" ) ;
Ah I see the problem. I don't think it works locally with AS2 sadly.
I tried test.mp3 and it didn't return 'failed' but with http://www.randomsitename.com/test.mp3 it did return 'failed'
Hope this helps
Cool… thanks for your help! I'll see what I can sort out with it.


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I'm looking at buying a Kindle for my daughter who devours books, but I wonder how expensive it is compared to just buying the books. She won't get rid of all her books because she re-reads them, so needless to say we are bursting at the seams with books.
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Herbie Teope of the "Chiefs Spin" blog wrote Saturday that he wouldn't be surprised if Chiefs running back Knile Davis sees more action than the 70 carries he received as a rookie. He backs this up with a couple of telling quotes from head coach Andy Reid earlier this year.
"Knile was a rookie and he was learning every week and getting better every week," Reid said while at the NFL Scouting Combine in February. "As the season went on, we were able to give him the ball a little bit more. I think coming into this season, we'll be able to mix it up a little bit better than what we did early in the season last year."
The following month, Reid said, "I think Knile is a big part of [the offense], and he ended up being a big part of it. I was able to actually give Jamaal (Charles) a blow because of Knile's progress. I thought Knile picked it up quite a bit, too."
Chiefs running backs coach Eric Bieniemy also commended Davis during OTAs, saying that he has "taken a tremendous jump mentally" and "has a better awareness of what's going on with the game."
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Now, should these quotes force you to jump back from drafting Charles with the No. 1 pick, if you are so inclined? I don't think so. It's just an indication that Davis might see 5-8 carries per game this year, certainly more than the scant activity he saw before December 2013.
Davis was stellar when he filled in for Charles late in the regular season and during Kansas City's playoff game -- 54 touches for 186 yards and four touchdowns in those two games -- but this is not going to suddenly turn into a timeshare. Charles is in his physical prime and nearly produced a 2,000-yard season last year. His draft stock does not change.
Davis is a prime handcuff and would be a terrific add if Charles goes down due to the Chiefs' run-heavy offense, and Davis' power-speed combo. He is healthy after fracturing his left leg during the playoffs.


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As a VA professional, your opportunities are endless. With many openings in the multiple functions of VA, you will have a wide range of opportunities and leadership positions at your fingertips. Not only is it the largest, most technologically advanced integrated health care system in the Nation, but we also provide many other services to Veterans through the Benefits Administration and National Cemeteries. VA professionals feel good about their careers and their ability to balance work and home life. VA offers generous paid time off and a variety of predictable and flexible scheduling opportunities. For more information on the Department of Veterans Affairs, go to http://www.vacareers.va.gov/.
The VA has adopted Core Values and Characteristics that apply universally across the Department. The five Core Values define who we are, our culture, and how we care for Veterans, their families and other beneficiaries. The Values are Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence (I CARE).Note: The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-11 to GS-13. The Professional Standards Board (a peer-review group) will review the selected candidates education and experience and recommend the grade and step at which the candidate will be placed. The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.
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Local Support Group Helps Latino Gay Youth
'Sabores' Already Making Impact On Local Youth
INDIO, Calif. - Alex Aldana is 24 years old and he's gay. He was raised in a traditional Mexican family and lived in Guadalajara, Mexico until the age of 15.
"I grew up in a private school in Mexico, and it was Catholic and it was always if you don't do something right there's a punishment and God forbid if I was gay," said Aldana.
As a teen, he approached the Gay-Straight Alliance of his high school.
"I met people through the GSA network meetings in high school. That has always been a useful tool but after high school I was like 'OK, I have nobody else to meet'," said Aldana.
Our country has different racial backgrounds and kids and young adults often face situations of harassment and discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation. Aldana said that's why getting involved now is so important.
"When he came he brought "Sabores" with him from east L.A. which was a great thing for the kids, for the youth, because we didn't have that," said Aldana.
Joanna Alfaro works for "Bienestar" which means well-being in Spanish. It provides services for those living with HIV in the Coachella Valley. "Sabores" means flavors in Spanish and is part of "Bienestar" here in the desert.
"It's a place where they can feel safe and comfortable. They can talk about anything," said Alfaro.
Gianna Chavez is 17 years old and is involved with "Sabores." She says she loves helping people and looks to continue with the group for a long time.
"Volunteering with this organization has influenced me a lot. I've actually had the chance to run the support group sometimes, and I'm the president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Indio High so, I love doing this. I love helping people," said Chavez.
Aldana said that although there's still a lot of ground to cover "Sabores" is a good start.
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South Omaha Home Heavily Damaged By Fire
Omaha firefighters had their hands full when they responded to a house fire near 21st and N Street late Thursday morning.
Acting Assistant Fire Chief Dan Olsen says there was heavy smoke coming from the house when they arrived.
Olsen says they were initially told someone may be trapped inside the burning house. It was later determined that the family of four was not home at the time.
Olsen says the weather conditions made getting to the scene a little more difficult. There was also concern with firefighters slipping and falling while battling the smoke and flames.
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Turtle Cheesecake
A finalist in the Nestlé Toll House "Share the Very Best" recipe contest, this Turtle Cheesecake dessert was submitted by Audra Burtch of Chandler, Arizona. This family favorite is a marbled cheesecake topped with a decadent combination of pecans, chocolate morsels and caramel and chocolate syrups.
- 1 3/4 cups chocolate graham cracker crumbs
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 3 pkgs. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 can (14 oz.) NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups (9 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 2 tablespoons NESTLÉ NESQUIK Chocolate Flavor Syrup
- 2 tablespoons caramel syrup or ice cream topping
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels
Directions, Reviews, Nutrition
COMBINE crumbs and butter in medium bowl. Press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of prepared pan.
BEAT cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk in large mixer bowl until smooth. Add sugar, eggs, lime juice and vanilla extract; beat until combined.
MICROWAVE 1 1/2 cups morsels in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 minute; STIR. The morsels may retain some of their shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until morsels are melted. Stir 2 cups of cheesecake batter into melted morsels; mix well. Alternately spoon batters into crust, beginning and ending with yellow batter.
BAKE for 70 to 75 minutes or until edge is set and center moves slightly. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes; run knife around edge of cheesecake. Cool completely. Drizzle Nesquik and caramel syrup over cheesecake. Sprinkle with nuts and mini morsels. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Remove side of pan.
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Made this tonight- it was incredible!! Everyone loved it. Very rich. Will definitely make again.
I work at a hospital and in my spare time I do alot of baking. This recipe is one of my Dr's favorites! I use this one as my bribe to get my kids in for appointments sooner! Works every time! It's delicious ..Thank you!
sooooo good
I made this a few times last year and we LOVED IT. I saw some cheesecake at the store the other day and it reminded me of this recipe. I came in to specifically look for it again. I haven't found anyone who doesn't like this delicious treat!
Awesome Cheesecake!
This was my first ever homemade cheesecake and it turned out great! I have been asked to make it again and I may have to make several this time! Amazing Cheesecake!! :)
MY FAMILY AND I LOVE THIS CHEESE CAKE!!!! I make it every year for Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Whenever the holidays are coming my family ALWAYS starts asking me "your gonna make the cheese cake right?" I change it up too, instead of the caramel, I use rasberry syrup. IT'S SO DELICIOUS!!!
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Serving Size: 1/14 of Recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 14
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 570
- Calories from Fat: 320
- Total Fat: 36g (55% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 20g (99% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 120mg (40% of DV)
- Sodium: 300mg (12% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 53g (18% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: 2g (8% of DV)
- Sugars: 43g
- Protein: 10g
- Vitamin A: 20% of DV
- Vitamin C: 2% of DV
- Calcium: 15% of DV
- Iron: 8% of DV
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.


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Whistling Toilet?
Hello all,
Do you have any idea why we suddenly have "whistling toilets?" My husband changed the flapper months ago and two things have happened since then, #1 we seem to have less water in the bowl as it fills up again than we did before, and #2, the toilets recently (within the last week) started "whistling" right after the tank fills back up again. We've changed the flappers before without this happening. What do you think it could be?
There is a little screw at the end of the float arm when set, determines the amount of water that goes into the tank after you flush. If you dont have the usual amount of water in the bowl, the water supply is trying to shut off too soon. This could be the problem. The "whistling" I would take a guess at the float arm isn't closing the water supply completely when the tank is filled and is supplying a slow flow of water to the tank. This causes a slow trickle into the toilet bowl and is nothing to be concerned about apart from your water bill and the God awful noise in the middle of the night. Been there and fixed it!
For fast and very inexpensive peace-of-mind, just replace the toilet tank fill valve with a 400A Fluidmaster fill valve (about $6 bucks at a big box).
Just follow the simple illustrated directions that come with it. EASY!
Good Luck!
Thanks Andy, I appreciate your response. What a great forum this is!
It is great that you appreciate the advice!, but what did you do?? I hope you took the advice of Mike and replaced you're fill valve.
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Some body armor can be a real pain. Because of poor design, it can be hot and clunky, hindering movement and pinching uncomfortably. Alpinestars has been designing body armor long enough to avoid these pitfalls. Its Comp Pro Shorts are designed with breathable four-way stretch mesh fabric and three different types of impact foam, strategically placed to offer maximum protection without getting in your way or binding up.
Alpinestars started the Comp Pro Shorts with a four-way stretch mesh body. The mesh allows air to flow freely through the short to keep you cool. This synthetic material also pulls sweat away from your body to keep you dry and eliminate the clammy feeling that some materials can give you. Four-way stretch allows the fabric to move in any direction, so the shorts won't bind while you move. This stretch property also makes the short more durable, because it stretches instead of tearing, and (with a little help from silicone grippers at the waist and thighs), keeps the short from sliding around on your body while you ride. The main body of fabric was designed with a relaxed fit that feels natural in the normal riding position. This relaxed fit is less intrusive than a compression short, which can be comfortable, but isn't necessary for DH and freeriding.
Three different types of impact foam, including high-absorption and EVA Memory Foam, were used to provide protection. These were strategically placed to provide protection in the most vulnerable and the most frequently injured areas of the body while allowing a full range of motion. Protection is focused at the hips, the thighs, and the tailbone areas.
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Kofi over Miz?
Guys can anyone explain me, how this could happen?
Why Miz is depushed so much and jobs to all, even to kofi?
I dont get it at all. Miz is a total package. He has mic skills, can wresle good, can speak good, he is great worker. He can be main eventer and he showed us during his US reign, WWE title reign. Im not saying he is best or anything, he is not, but it is very strange, how vince was so much in to him, and now miz have nothing.
I remember his US title run, the only time in years, then midcard title meant something again. He was greatest us champ in years. And i dont think lot of you could deny that.
Why they decided to push Kofi? He is good wrestler, can speak, has looks. But he has no passion, he is not hungry, u cant see it in his eyes. Person who has no gimmick, crappy theme and is not popular at all. He is not a star. And the main fact is, he is unsave worker, we saw that multiple times.
Im not a mark or a hater or something else, but it is realy strange why WWE downpushed miz so much. Why did this happen?
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Lost it at Miz is the total package
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It doesn't matter. According to some dirtsheets, Miz will get a renewed push again soon while Kofi stays in the midcard forever.
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What the first two posters said. Miz is anything but a total package. Kofi is more talented than Miz.
Miz is an ok ring worker, though he has a boring ring style that really doesn't belong in main event. His personality/mic skills suit reality TV not WWE, he comes off as an annoying kid, not a main eventer. I mean Zack Ryder and Santino both have admirable mic skills, but mic skills that belong in mid-card not main event. As for his look, he could pin The Rock and Steve Austin in one night and still wouldn't look credible, his look screams mid-card. Yeah, so i'm really not seeing anything bad with him losing to Kofi. Kofi has the ability to be a decent top face, he knows how to drive the fans and his 'intense' (wild-cat) personality is fresh and something people can easily get behind. His ring work is obviously great. Much rather see Kofi in main event as a face for at-least a few months, rather than The Miz again.
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OP, Miz will be fine. According to dirtsheets, Miz is set to turn face and join the Survivor Series team (team Foley). He should be in the world title picture in 2013 if things go well for him.
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My sister has just moved to the North Shore and wants to host Christmas this year. I have a long standing Christmas salt marsh duck hunt tradition.
Two questions:
(1) What do I need as a non-resident to possess and travel with a shotgun and ammo? Am I ok with just a non-resident license?
(2) Other than being too close to houses, do I need to worry about no-discharge rules applying to salt marsh areas? Here in Maine, the few town ordinances allow me to hunt tidal waters. (I'd love to go out to Parker River refuge, but that's too far.)
And finally, would it be worth it to haul a canoe, a few decoys and my shotgun down for a quick afternoon hunt?
I'm kind of relishing the idea of making her live with a camo canoe in the driveway . . . . . but wouldn't do it unless there was a decent chance to find some birds.


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The wife and I decided to switch to the Blu E-Cigs. Not the single use crap sticks from the gas station but the entire starter kit rechargeable swappable cartridge ones.
Pretty cool design they have going on here. The sampler pack came with two normal tobacco flavor cartridges and vanilla, menthol and cherry cartridges. Each cartridge is the equivalent of 2.5 packs of real cigarettes. Each refill pack comes with five cartridges for $12. That's 12.5 packs of cigarettes for $12 vs $60+ for 10 packs of real cigarettes.
Ingredients in the cartridge: Distilled water, Nicotine, FCC Grade Vegetable Glycerin, Natural and Artificial Flavors and Citric Acid. The only harmful chemical in this is the nicotine itself. Made in the USA. Only byproduct is water vapor.
The pack it comes with is actually an on the go storage case/battery charger too. It's small and carries three spare cartridges, has a battery charger slot (the body of the e-cig) and a slot to hold a fully assembled e-cig. Also came with a USB cord for charging and a car charger adapter.
All of this was $38 to start. Still less than a carton of cigarettes.
We both really wanted something that looked a lot more "normal" than the crazy contraptions you guys have been getting. I'll let ya guys know how this works out. I like the compact design and the pack that doubles as a charging station too.
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Key Takeaways
- It takes sustained focus, effort, and time to create the foundation of trust that underlies all viable collaborations.
- While IT collaborations usually encounter challenges and entail some element of risk, the combined brainpower at the table can prove highly efficient and effective at finding solutions.
- An enterprise-scale virtualization initiative at Indiana University pulled 15 members from central IT and more than 100 from edge IT staff in a large but effective committee that collaborated to realize multiple benefits.
After two decades of provisioning campus desktops via a high-touch, distributed model, Indiana University (IU) sought a more efficient mechanism that would scale to meet demand, provide agility and flexibility, and free IT staff from the repetitive maintenance and update cycle to focus on innovation. IUanyWare serves software to desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, at any time, to IU users wherever they are. IUanyWare is the first part of a virtualization solution on an enterprise scale. The second part will address special-use cases.
The virtualization initiative ignored most conventions in IT development at IU. A collaboration of some 118 IT staff comprised the project team. Of those 118, only 15 represented the central IT organization, and the project leads were "edge" staff from departments across the university. The gains go far beyond the solution they found, including:
- Professional development opportunities for committee participants
- Creation of strong support networks across departments, schools, and campuses
- A more unified IT team, feeding into the One IU IT initiative
- A conviction that virtualization technology can effectively serve the university's mission of teaching and research
The IT environment at IU was conceived, structured, developed, and delivered by University Information Technology Services (UITS), IU's central IT organization. UITS served the university top-down, as the central and sole provider of enterprise IT resources and solutions. In the 1990s UITS also seeded a program that encouraged schools and departments to hire their own IT staff to augment UITS resources and provide on-site, hands-on help to their own end users by loading software, handling security, and providing training. In this distributed computing model these "edge" IT staff were a culture separate from UITS, with minimal interaction. A couple of decades later, these duties, duplicated across departments and campuses, signaled a new role for technology and an area ripe for innovation. The time was right to investigate an enterprise system for provisioning desktops and applications across the university.
In 2009 IU's IT strategic plan, Empowering People, proposed collaboration as an efficient and economical way to provide IT resources. A culture of collaboration took shape in IT with the formation of the IT Managers Council, an advisory committee of IT leaders from all campuses, various schools and departments, and a few ex-officio members from UITS. The council was created to help operationalize the values of partnership and edge, leverage, and trust (ELT).1 (See the sidebar "Selected Readings on Edge, Leverage, and Trust.") Trust, the least tangible and most fragile element in ELT, is a prerequisite to introducing change in an organization or a culture. The concept of One IU IT, launched by the IT Managers Council, helped IT staff across IU view themselves as one community with shared goals, and over time, build relationships of trust.
Sue Workman, IU associate vice president, Support, discusses the importance of trust in collaboration:
Key Points from Sue Workman Video
In the concept of edge and leverage there was a third component called trust. To get leverage from the IT resources at IU, we had to build trust. That meant asking people to change, to move from silos to a strategic environment.
To build trust we created a relationship map to view all levels from executives to administrative staff. We invested time in lunches, meetings, discussions…
It took time for people to understand edge, leverage, and trust.
We worked on relationships for a couple of years to create the right cultural environment. We formed the Community Partnerships team as a liaison group to learn the needs of IU's campuses and to take services to them. We established an IT Managers Council of people from each campus and the major schools and leaders in the IT professional community at IU as an advisory body.
Initially there wasn't a lot of trust. It took time and working together. The edge has to trust central IT and central IT must trust the edge. Now we're all one university.
The need for a new desktop management solution at IU came up in meetings of the IT Managers Council. Some edge IT staff had created successful single-use virtualization solutions for their departments. A couple of edge staff on the council suggested evaluating virtualization technologies as a desktop management solution.
A group then formed the Client Endpoint Virtualization (CEV) committee to evaluate virtualization as a possible enterprise solution. A call for membership was issued, and 118 IT staff replied, all but 15 from the edge. With edge staff in the majority, and with their experience in virtualization, edge staff were the natural choice to lead the project.
Collaboration Is Risky
There is no playbook for collaboration. Each initiative comes with its own challenges and risks. The larger the collaboration and the more valuable the outcome, the greater the risk.2 Evaluating virtualization technologies for use across the enterprise was high stakes and high risk:
- A project of this significance, led by edge staff, was unprecedented and overturned the typical UITS top-down development model.
- The edge and UITS had never collaborated at this scale.
- The committee combined two different cultures: the structured center and the independent edge.
- Virtualization was uncharted, so the long-familiar development model with its clear-cut roles and responsibilities did not apply.
- The committee had to create both itself and the solution it hoped to pioneer from the ground up.
Then there was the problem of basic terminology. What exactly does "virtualization" mean? The concept has different meanings to different people, even among techies. What can be virtualized? Why doesn't the current reality match our expectations? What can we promise various audiences given different security requirements like HIPAA and FERPA?
Even the activities typical in most collaborations involved obstacles. The first and biggest was that committee members were spread across campuses. Given logistics and workload, rarely could everyone make meetings and discussions. It took uncommon focus and dedication for edge staff to meet their commitments to the schools and departments who paid them and still have time to evaluate new enterprise tools.
What Made It Work?
How did the committee evolve from a relatively unstructured, primarily volunteer group into a productive collaboration?
The committee's loose internal structure looked nothing like the traditional bureaucratic development process, where each role is defined and assigned. The project lead was a persuasive virtualization advocate who recruited many of the 118 committee members and built support beyond the committee. Three subcommittees — software, product evaluation, and licensing — were each led by an edge staff member with expertise in the area. The project lead and two other edge staff, also strong personalities and known technical experts who believed virtualization could effectively serve the university's mission, led the subcommittees.
The fact that only a few staff were assigned full-time to the project could have hindered progress, but the committee's size became an advantage. As some staff dropped back, others came forward. When new skills or roles were needed, motivated staff eager to learn or assume more responsibility found opportunities for professional development.
Mark Niswander, enterprise operations planner, UITS, talks about his opportunities for professional advancement:
Key Points from Mark Niswander Video
I was initially administrative assistant to the director implementing virtualization technologies for Indiana University. In this project I provided 100 different IT leaders with tools for quick decision-making — project reports, executive summaries, timelines, Gantt charts. I flourished because of the collaborative nature of the project. The IT leaders mentored me on what it takes to have a successful IT enterprise project.
I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. Central IT saw the need for operations planning between the edge and UITS and in central enterprise projects. I was able to change my position into a more structured role around operations planning.
As often happens, there emerged that special class of IT staff always willing to make time for the next challenge. A dedicated 14-person core of leaders from the edge and UITS made decisions, wrote summaries, and gave progress reports, while the three subcommittee leaders provided momentum and inspiration.
To compensate for distance, the group leveraged multiple technologies. Teleconferencing supported meetings, and a video bridge remained open on engineers' meeting days. Documentation and discussions were supported by Oncourse and SharePoint, and a collaborative website served as a communications hub for news, directions, and decisions. The website also collected input, which was welcomed at every stage of the project.
To manage decision making, the committee adapted a successful model from the collaborative process used in developing Empowering People:
- Parameters were set for discussion.
- Open channels were established for input and feedback from the 118 committee members and other interested IT staff.
- Decisions were in the hands of the few — the project lead and the chairs of the other two subcommittees.
Making Progress Toward a Solution
One of the first decisions the committee faced was determining whether a solution based on virtualization was feasible. Here again the committee's size proved beneficial. The range and depth of technical knowledge and variety of perspectives at the table helped the committee declare that the time was right to investigate a solution involving virtualization:
- Virtualization technology was now viable.
- IU's IT infrastructure of networks, supercomputers, storage, and support was aligned.
- Edge staff had been successful in single-use instances of virtualization.
- Early adopters of virtualization were enthusiastic, and other departments were waiting in line.
- The idea addressed three strategic action items in Empowering People, so would likely gain the backing of university and IT leadership.
- IT center and edge staff had built sufficient trust that IU could now consider a unified technology for managing personal computing.
- Economic realities supported a leveraged environment across IU.
To move from theory to practice, the committee needed to test virtualization at an enterprise scale. The single-use cases the edge had created didn't prepare IT to architect, install, and configure an enterprise prototype. The CEV turned to consulting source Gartner, Inc. for help defining the basic criteria for an RFP seeking vendors who would build prototypes on-site. Committee members tested and compared three vendor prototypes in actual use cases to find the best fit for IU's needs, fiscal reality, and IT infrastructure.
The chosen vendor, Citrix Systems, Inc., then spent an initial 12 weeks on-site developing the prototype we planned to install. Engineers from IU sat alongside vendor engineers as they designed and rolled out the prototype, observing and recording the steps and the decisions behind them. Today IU engineers can handle much of the engineering and architecting themselves. Learning from the experts, hands-on, in IU's own environment presented a rare professional development opportunity. For example, Stephen Jeffers, originally UITS senior support advisor, developed sufficient skills to serve as the project's principal enterprise systems engineer and is now considered IU's expert.
Scott Hemmerlein, senior systems engineer, IU School of Medicine, and Stephen Jeffers, principal enterprise systems engineer, UITS, discuss their experience and gains from collaboration:
Key Points from Scott Hemmerlein and Stephen Jeffers Video
Jeffers: As a former help desk advisor, the virtualization project has provided me with the opportunity for professional development.
Hemmerlein: My role as sole virtualization engineer at the School of Medicine and juggling other work was challenging.
Jeffers: Now, with a virtualization team of engineers and collaborators across the university, things are going much better.
We were skeptical about a collaboration of this size, but the additional strengths, points of view, and perspectives sped the project up.
Hemmerlein: Bringing people from across campus is a great way to run an enterprise project. Collaborators feel like they have a say in what's going on and are part of the overall, large project team for the whole university.
Jeffers: Agreed.
Meeting Varied Users' Needs
IU's virtualization solution needed to accommodate two distinct types of uses:
- The largest population, with the most pressing need, encompassed faculty, staff, and students, whose desktops, laptops, and mobile devices required software fundamental to their university life and work.
- The second use group comprised the known special-use cases, plus unknown others to come.
The edge staff knew that some larger units had already begun investing in their own virtualization solutions. If this trend continued, IU would have separate vertical stacks of technology unable to integrate and too costly to sustain over time. Such information cued the committee to create a unified solution based on an architecture generic enough to meet the needs of 80 percent of the population and sufficiently agile to be adaptable for each special-use case (the other 20 percent).
Rollout of the enterprise solution is planned over two phases, beginning in fall 2011. The first phase, IUanyWare, will allow the IU community to access from their desktops, laptops, tablets, or smartphones, at any time, from any location, more than 200 software titles, including some formerly available only in certain computing labs.
The second phase focuses on creating special-use solutions for such entities as the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, each differently configured to accommodate individual privacy and security requirements including HIPAA and FERPA regulations. Other use cases tagged for deployment include the IU Libraries, IUPUI administration, and regional campuses.
Duane Schau, director, Leveraged Support, UITS; Marc Wilson, IU School of Medicine; and Pete Bucklin, director of Teaching and Learning Technologies, IU School of Informatics and Computing, explain aspects of the technical solution chosen:
Key Points from Duane Schau, Marc Wilson, and Pete Bucklin Video
Schau: We consulted the Burton Group [Gartner] to define core criteria for the project.
The RFP process for the prototype included:
- Enterprise virtual desktop.
- Enterprise virtual application.
- Enterprise store allowing students, staff, and faculty on-demand access to 200 to 240 applications for use anytime, anywhere, on just about any device.
- The core components had to meet the needs of schools and departments across seven IU campuses.
- Inside this, each department and school will have special use cases tailored around virtualization that need to tie into the enterprise product for client virtualization.
Wilson: For the School of Medicine, we needed a standardized product flexible enough to meet the needs of the edge. We followed the 80/20 rule, standardizing most, with enough flexibility to modify it to our needs:
- In medicine, clinical information with lots of sensitive data must remain safe.
- Downtime must be kept to a minimum.
- Mobility: Doctors moving between clinics and hospitals need ubiquitous access.
- The vertical software for medical clinics often lags behind technology.
- We have to support software that may be two or three versions ahead of our vertical software.
Bucklin: For Informatics, we do a lot of research and teaching in security. For our security graduate program we need the flexibility to drop virtual operating systems into virtual networks, to conduct research and execute on labs.
We need access across multiple campuses, and many locations
Schau: The enterprise providing core components for client virtualization will reduce overall cost and allow schools and departments to tailor use to their missions.
Anticipated Gains
Even at this stage of the initiative, the university expects many benefits. For the user, IUanyWare:
- Provides on-demand, ubiquitous access to the most-used applications, including Microsoft Office and Adobe, and hundreds of other software packages including statistical and mathematical software
- Equalizes opportunity for all IU populations: overseas study programs, nontraditional students, mobile users, and those on sabbatical
- Solves the problem of crowded technology labs and of students having to go to certain labs to use specialized software
- Delivers freedom to adjust study schedules around individual preferences instead of open lab times
- Makes the cycles of upgrades, patches, and security updates transparent, freeing users from having to keep current and from the dislocation caused by upgrades
- Democratizes software regardless of budget, since all schools, departments, campuses, and their populations have the same access to the same resources
- Lightens the cost burden on students by giving them access to optimum IT resources, even using older, less-powerful systems with smaller hard drives
Financially, IUanyWare creates efficiencies by:
- Providing a timely, sustainable, and efficient solution for IU's strategic goal of supplying software in abundance
- Allowing for concatenating, tailoring, and managing spending on software licenses
- Requiring less-powerful desktop devices, thus extending IU's lifecycle dollars
- Allowing staff to focus on innovation — key in sustaining a competitive, forward-looking IT environment that attracts partnerships and supports grant seekers
Collaboration Succeeds
It took the large-systems expertise of central IT combined with the local knowledge and perspective of the edge to create a solution agile enough to serve both the broad needs and the multiple, specific needs across IU. It took the many trust relationships of both groups to successfully work through the countless challenges on the way to that solution.
One of the most difficult parts of IT change is selling it to users. Rolling out a new technology can entail hosting focus groups and town halls and developing communications plans, announcements, and other publicity, all in service of preparing the audience. Thanks to the edge, the solution is selling itself via the peer network of early adopters who vouch for virtualization. In the words of one edge staff member, "Instead of asking ourselves how we can build interest, we're now wondering how we can slow demand."
From this experience CEV members have learned the advantages of collaboration. Between edge and center lies a deeper understanding of each other's priorities, audiences, and challenges. In tackling technical challenges, people made connections and formed networks of expertise to leverage in the future. Many gained a new appreciation for the caliber of professionals across IT and pride in the IT community. This enlarged collective perspective blurs the boundaries between center and edge.
Stephen Jeffers, virtualization engineer, UITS; Charles McClary, director of IT, IU Division of Campus Recreational Sports; Mark Lynch, manager, Support Systems and Licensing, UITS; and Tom Zeller, senior technical analyst, UITS, talk about the benefits of collaborating on the virtualization project:
Key Points from Stephen Jeffers, Charles McClary, Mark Lynch, and Tom Zeller Video
Zeller: In the past central IT designed the service and announced it. Here we widened the group involved in thinking through the design.
McClary: This gave departmental support a great opportunity to be involved. We worked with virtualization, collaborated on solutions, got feedback, and created relationships I leverage to this day.
Jeffers: It was a great opportunity to get exposure to big projects like this, get out in front of the technology, and get feedback from collaborators. We considered a lot of opinions and technical perspectives. The solution benefits everyone as whole — not just central IT.
Lynch: This expanded my view of software licenses. So many were involved from different areas, I got a new perspective on priorities. It's no longer about the number of licenses and dollar amounts. Now we see the benefits of a centralized service in a virtualized environment.
Zeller: The project evolved over multiple years. It started as thin clients with a limited niche application and questionable return on investment. As we widened the scope of thinkers, we saw new ways to deploy the technologies, virtualized applications, and number of use cases. The ROI improved.
McClary: We view resources as a commodity tool, meeting needs more quickly than before. UITS staff and edge units now see the caliber of IT staff across IU. We are blurring lines among IT groups.
Lynch: A project with this many collaborators may be a first for IU. Usually you're simply busy with your own job. The old model of central IT simply building something no longer works.
Zeller: Up to 130 people were involved while a core group handled the design. That balanced well.
McClary: We've set a new expectation for the future. People outside central IT see opportunities to be motivated and lead.
Zeller: Many younger technologists had an opportunity to grow their skills. In the past more senior IT leaders would have architected this solution. This collaboration helped nurture our younger talent.
Lynch: This is a paradigm shift. It's a new beginning, technically and as a partnership. The benefits of teamwork show.
Zeller: This is an opportunity for departments to value their support providers more highly, and for those IT staff to learn new skills and advance to higher-value-added functions.
With this collaboration, One IU IT has reached a milestone. Staff have a new expectation for the work of the future: not as silos, but as one community. The gains from this experience extend beyond the virtualization solution to include abundant opportunities for professional development, the creation of strong support networks, and a more unified IT community.
Sue Workman, associate vice president, Support, IU Office of the Vice President for IT; and Duane Schau, director, Leveraged Support, UITS, talk about collaboration in IT and a new era for One IU IT:
Key Points from Sue Workman and Duane Schau Video
Workman: Initially some people thought we were crazy [when we launched this project].
Technology and innovation are where they were 20 years ago, moving quickly. 20 years ago, we distributed computing at the university. Now 20 years later, we're making ELT [edge, leverage, and trust] work.
Schau: Working with IT staff across the university we can provide skills and abilities we couldn't provide individually. This is a great exercise in co-laboring and takes it to the people with great results.
Workman: One IU IT sells itself.
Buckminster Fuller said, "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."3 The new model at IU is collaboration.
Jan Holloway directed and produced the videos included in this article, working with videographer Yvonne L. McCann.
- Brad Wheeler, "Accelerating the Journey into the Third Era," Keynote, Indiana University 13th Annual Statewide IT Conference 2008, Bloomington, September 17, 2008.
- Brad Wheeler video, "Thriving in the Era of Rabid Collaboration."
- R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted on Creating Minds.org, Creative Quotes and Quotations, On Change.
© 2011 Sue Workman. Jan Holloway, and Duane Schau. The text of this EQ article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.


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NBC Sports Network to broadcast 2012 AT&T National Diving Championship
Aug. 28, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The NBC Sports Network will broadcast the 2012 AT&T National Diving Championship Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. from the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, N.C. Several University of Kentucky divers participated in this event with multiple top-five finishes at the meet.
Christ Cabot and Lindsay Keahey finished fourth in the women's 10m platform synchronized finals for the Wildcats. Kentucky's Zack Peterson and Corey Cowger finished sixth in the men's 3m synchronized finals.
Cabot and Keahey took home some hardware with a bronze medal finish in the women's synchronized springboard with a final score of 266.04. And in the men's 3m springboard finals, junior Greg Ferrucci placed third in the preliminary and semifinal rounds before a 13th place finish in the finals.
Head coach Ted Hautau delivered a fourth place finish overall with the women grabbing bronze and the men taking home a fifth-place finish.
Make sure to check out the broadcast of the 2012 AT&T National Diving Championship on the NBC Sports Network Wednesday evening to see the Wildcats on the national stage.
For complete broadcast info, visit USADiving.org.