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For all his accomplishments as Carolina's head coach - including two NCAA championships, three Final Fours and more than 200 wins in just eight seasons - the 2010-11 season may have been Roy Williams' finest body of work. The Asheville, N.C., native led the Tar Heels to a 29-8 record, the ACC regular-season championship, a No. 2 seed in the NCAA East Regional and a spot in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
UNC accomplished that despite having lost 13 players in the previous two years, including the team's leading returning scorer a week before practice began in October and another starter midway through the conference schedule. The Tar Heels went 14-2 in ACC play, but did not have a single player make the All-ACC first-team or earn ACC Player of the Week honors even one time. Carolina started two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior for much of the season, and only one player who started a game in the 2010 NIT started in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
The Tar Heels began the season ranked eighth in the Associated Press poll, fell out of the Top 25 completely for nine weeks at mid-season, but climbed back into the rankings in late January and finished No. 7 in the final poll.
Williams was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second time and also won district coach of the year honors by the USBWA. The Tar Heels finished atop the ACC standings for the fifth time in the last seven years - Williams' teams have finished first in the Big 8/12 or ACC 14 times in his 23 seasons as a head coach.
A member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame, Williams has led Carolina to national championships in 2005 and 2009, another Final Four in 2008, additional Elite Eights in 2007 and 2011, four NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds, six Associated Press Top 10 final rankings, five ACC regular-season titles, two ACC Tournament crowns, four 30-win seasons and developed nine first-round NBA draft picks.
ESPN, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and Fox Sports named him the Coach of the Decade for 2000-2009. Williams led Kansas and Carolina to 33 NCAA Tournament wins in the 2000s, eight more than any other coach.
Over the last 10 years, Williams has won 288 games, second-most in the country, and coached four National Players of the Year. He's won 33 NCAA Tournament games and led Kansas and UNC to the Final Four five times. That's more NCAA Tournament victories and more Final Fours than any coach in the nation in those 10 years.
His teams at Kansas and UNC have a record of 643-163 and his winning percentage of .798 is the fourth highest in the history of college basketball and No. 1 among active coaches. No other coach in NCAA history has won 600 or more games in fewer than 24 seasons, a mark he hit in his 22nd season.
On April 6, 2009, the Tar Heels beat Michigan State to capture UNC's second NCAA Tournament title in five years. In 2005, Carolina beat top-ranked Illinois to win Williams' first national title. He is one of 13 coaches to win multiple national championships, joining an illustrious list that includes only two other ACC coaches - Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski.
In 2010, The Sporting News surveyed a panel of 50 former ACC standout players and asked them which current ACC coach they would want to play for other than their alma mater's - Williams received 19 votes. No other coach received more than 8.5 votes. His Tar Heel teams are 225-62 (.784) and he's set UNC records for most wins for one year (36 in 2007-08), two years (70 in 2008-09), three years (101 from 2007-09), four years (124 from 2006-09), five years (157 from 2005-09), six years (176 from 2004-09), seven years (206 from 2005-11) and is tied for the most in any eight-year span (225, tied with 1991-98).
At Carolina, Williams has coached two National Players of the Year (Sean May in 2005, Tyler Hansbrough in 2008), two Bob Cousy Award recipients as the best point guard in the country (Raymond Felton in 2005, Ty Lawson in 2009), two ACC Players of the Year (Hansbrough in 2008, Lawson in 2009), two ACC Athletes of the Year (May in 2005, Hansbrough in 2008), four ACC Rookies of the Year (Marvin Williams in 2005, Hansbrough in 2006, Brandan Wright in 2007, Harrison Barnes in 2011), two Final Four MOPs (May in 2005, Wayne Ellington in 2009) and 12 NBA Draft picks.
Hansbrough set the all-time ACC scoring record and became the first player in league history to earn first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC honors in each of his four seasons. He also became Carolina's all-time leading rebounder and set the NCAA record for made free throws.
Williams is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the NCAA Tournament. His teams are 58-19 in 21 seasons and he has the third-highest winning percentage in NCAA Tournament history (.753) for coaches with at least 30 games. Carolina is 24-5 in the NCAA Tournament under Williams, a winning percentage of .828 that is the highest for any coach with at least 25 NCAA Tournament games at one school. In the last seven years, the Tar Heels have advanced to at least the regional final five times - no other school has more than three appearances in the Final 8 in that same span.
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Dan Wetzel, national columnist for Yahoo! Sports, wrote in April 2009: "There isn't a more perfect union in college basketball than Roy and Carolina; the ideal combination of style and substance, recruiting might and coaching acumen, of championships won and won and, most certainly, won again."
In February 2009, Forbes named Williams the best basketball coach in the country, choosing him by analyzing win-loss percentages, NCAA Tournament appearances, Final Fours, national championships and recruiting.
Forbes wrote: "A top-notch recruiter and motivator, Williams coaches with an unflappable cool, a trait reflected in his players' calm on the court."
Williams' ability to relate to players and their families, both in the recruiting process and throughout their careers, is something his players speak of when they account for his success.
On March 8, 2009, Senior Day at Carolina, an emotional Hansbrough thanked Williams for living up to a promise Williams made during his recruitment that the coach would always be honest with him.
"He always tells you the straight up truth about what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear," says Hansbrough. "That helped me not only as a player but also as a person."
Williams is one of nine Tar Heels to be enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, joining a group that includes Dean Smith, Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham, James Worthy and Bob McAdoo. Twenty-three of his former players from Carolina and Kansas joined him in Springfield, Mass., for the induction ceremony in 2007.
From 2007-2009 Carolina went 101-14, winning 21 more games than any other ACC school. Over the last six seasons, Carolina went 33-15 in ACC road games.
The 2009 Tar Heels won their fourth ACC regular-season title in the last five years, won their fourth straight game at Duke and landed a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive year. In the NCAA Tournament, Carolina put on a stunning display, winning six games by an average of 20.2 points, the highest margin in 13 years. UNC became the first team to win all six games by a dozen or more points.
UNC led the nation in winning percentage (89.5) and scoring margin (+17.8) and was second in scoring (89.9 ppg). That was the seventh time in eight years his teams had finished in the top four nationally in scoring (first in 2002 and 2005, second in 2007, 2008 and 2009, third in 2003 and fourth in 2004). His teams have averaged 84.3 points at UNC with the Tar Heels reaching 100 or more points 36 times.
His teams have finished in the Top 10 nationally in scoring 10 times, in scoring margin 15 times, in field goal percentage 12 times, in win-loss percentage 10 times and in field goal defense four times. Also, his squads have finished in the top seven nationally in assists per game in seven of the last 10 years and in the top eight nationally in rebounding margin in 10 of the last 15 years.
In 2008, Williams led the Tar Heels to a school-record 36 wins, ACC regular-season and Tournament titles and a berth in the Final Four with a win over Louisville in the regional final. Hansbrough won every major National Player of the Year award. He is the fourth to play for Williams - along with Jayhawks Drew Gooden and Nick Collison and UNC's Sean May - to win National Player of the Year honors since 2002. The 2005 national championship capped a season in which the Tar Heels went 33-4, including a 14-2 mark in the ACC. Carolina led the nation in scoring average, scoring margin and assists and became the third team in history to lead the nation in scoring and win the NCAA championship.
In 2006, Carolina faced the loss of its top seven scorers, which was unprecedented in ACC history. Sports Illustrated predicted Carolina would miss the NCAA Tournament and the Tar Heels were picked by the media to finish sixth in the ACC. However, Williams earned National and ACC Coach of the Year honors by leading the youngest team in Carolina history to a second-place ACC finish, a win at top-ranked Duke and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Williams became the UNC head coach on April 14, 2003, 10 days after leading Kansas to the NCAA championship game against Syracuse.
Williams was assistant coach at Carolina from 1978-88. Working for Dean Smith, he helped coach such standouts as Mike O'Koren, Al Wood, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty, Michael Jordan, Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf, Steve Hale, Jeff Lebo, J.R. Reid and Scott Williams.
Carolina won the NCAA title in 1982, finished second in 1981 and won or shared six ACC regular-season titles and three ACC Tournament championships.
Kansas hired Williams on July 8, 1988, replacing another UNC Hall of Famer, Larry Brown. Williams coached a number of the finest Kansas players in history, including Mark Randall, Adonis Jordan, Rex Walters, Greg Ostertag, Scot Pollard, Jacque Vaughn, Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, Drew Gooden, Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich.
The Jayhawks averaged 27.9 wins per season with a high of 35 in 1997-98. He also won 30 in 1989-90, 34 in 1996-97, 33 in 2001-02 and 30 in 2002-03. The Jayhawks reached the Sweet 16 nine times and the Final Eight on five occasions.
In seven years of Big 12 Conference play, his teams went 94-18, capturing the regular-season title in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2003 and the postseason tournament crown in 1997, 1998 and 1999. In 2001-02, KU became the first Big 12 team to go 16-0 in league play. From 1995-98, Kansas was a combined 123-17 - an average of 30.8 wins per season. The Jayhawks went 201-17 (92.2) in Allen Fieldhouse, and won 62 consecutive games in Allen from February 1994 to December 1998.
Williams has coached players to 25 first-team all-conference honors, including eight UNC selections. Seven players - five Jayhawks, Hansbrough and Lawson - have won conference player of the year honors.
Hansbrough and Lawson earned first-team All-America honors in 2009. That marked the 12th and 13th first-team All-America seasons by Williams's players.
Gooden (2002), Collison (2003), May (2005) and Hansbrough (2008) won National Player of the Year honors and LaFrentz (1997 and 1998), Pierce (1998), Gooden (2002), Collison (2003) and Hansbrough (2007, 2008 and 2009) have earned consensus first-team All-America honors.
The NBA has selected 20 of his players in the first round, including Hansbrough (13th), Lawson (18th) and Ellington (28th) in 2009 and Ed Davis (13th) in 2010. In 2005, UNC became the first program to have four players chosen in the NBA Lottery. Williams emphasizes academic development, as well. Every Carolina senior in his tenure has either received his degree or is on track to do so. Sean May, the 2005 Final Four MVP, entered the NBA Draft after his junior year but later earned his degree. Marvin Williams, who went to the NBA in 2005 after just one season, has taken summer classes in Chapel Hill since and is a junior in academic standing.
Four players have earned first-team Academic All-America honors - Jayhawks Vaughn (twice), Haase and Ryan Robertson and Tar Heel Tyler Zeller - and 36 have earned first-team academic all-conference honors, including Zeller, a three-time recipient. Williams grew up in the Biltmore area of south Asheville. He attended T.C. Roberson High, where he played for Coach Buddy Baldwin. He played on Carolina's freshman team in 1968-69 and earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1972 and a master's in teaching in 1973.
He began his coaching career in 1973 at Owen High School in Swannanoa, N.C., and was inducted into Owen's Hall of Fame in 2010. He coached for USA Basketball teams in the 1991 World University Games, the 1992 U.S. Olympic Development Team, a U-22 tournament in Argentina in 1993, and the 2004 Olympics in Greece.
Several of his staff and players have gone on to head coaching positions, including Matt Doherty, the late Neil Dougherty, Jerry Green, Steve Robinson, Kevin Stallings, Mark Turgeon and Rex Walters.
Born August 1, 1950, he and his wife, Wanda, a 1972 Carolina graduate, have a son, Scott, and a daughter, Kimberly. Scott earned a business degree from UNC and played point guard on the basketball team in 1997-98 and 1998-99. He and his wife, Katie (Wolford), live in Charlotte, with their sons, Aiden (born in Jan., 2010) and Court (born Aug. 2011). Katie is a 2001 Carolina graduate and former cheerleader. She earned a doctorate in physical therapy from Boston University. Kimberly, who also lives in Charlotte, is a 2002 Carolina graduate with a degree in English and a former member of the UNC dance team.
The Williams family has contributed more than $400,000 to the Carolina Covenant, an initiative at UNC that allows low-income students to attend the University debt free. Roy and Wanda serve as honorary chairs of a $10 million campaign to endow the program. Coach Williams hosts an annual Coaches vs. Cancer breakfast that has raised more than $1.3 million and directs the autographed basketball program that has contributed more than $650,000 to local charities.
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With a stay at Best Western Hotel Mercedes, you'll be centrally located in Paris, convenient to Parc Monceau and Arc de Triomphe. This 4-star hotel is close to Galeries Lafayette and Eiffel Tower.
Make yourself at home in one of the 37 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services.
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Featured amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
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Caravanning in UK, flyfishing and motorcycle racing, outdoors pursuits like walking and mountain biking, and hillwalking. Enjoying time with old friends and meeting new ones.
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GAME PLAN: The Broncos' 363 yards per game is eighth in the NFL but the team is just 24th in points per game. That points to Denver's red-zone failures, which includes just a 41.4 percent TD conversion rate. Denver has both examined its play-calling and scheme inside the 20 on its bye and is expected to unveil some changes in approach. Still, it comes down to playmakers in confined spaces. A shift to the long and strong Demaryius Thomas as a red-zone weapon or continuing to work RB Knowshon Moreno on swing passes and screens could be two options.
MATCHUPS TO WATCH: Chiefs C Casey Wiegmann vs. Broncos NT Jamal Williams. Wiegmann has found a measure of redemption with the Chiefs. Described as too old, slow and weak to play the pivot in Denver, Wiegmann was let go, where he quickly latched on to his former team in Kansas City. Wiegmann and Williams have been through the wars many times, dating back to the defender's Chargers days and as it usually is with big-small discrepancies it will be up to Wiegmann to be technique-sound to prevent Williams to get fully locked into a power game. Kansas City is No. 1 in rush offense; Denver is 31st stopping the run. It all starts here in the trenches.
Chiefs CB Brandon Flowers vs. Broncos WR Brandon Lloyd. Flowers has developed into one of the best young cornerbacks in the NFL but Lloyd has used his combination of speed and savvy to break down nearly everyone he's faced this season. Lloyd's ability to get downfield -- already with catches covering 71,46, 44, 42, 61, 48 and 41 yards -- not only adds the big-play element to Denver's offense but the attention he merits has allowed Jabar Gaffney to work the underneath routes effectively. Gaffney had a career game the last time he faced Kansas City with 214 yards.
Denver vs. its fragile psyche. Poor starts have been a regular part of the Broncos' pattern this season with only seven total points scored in the first quarter. Denver also is just 1-3 at home, having long ago lost what used to be a commanding edge playing in the Mile-High altitude. The Broncos need to get off to a decent start to get the fans on their side, build momentum and allow them to attain a balanced mixture on offense. One long Jamaal Charles run and the boo-birds will quickly be heard.
INJURY IMPACT: Two players already have been ruled out Sunday -- OLB Robert Ayers (foot) and CB Andre Goodman (quadriceps). Ayers was seen working out with the team's strength coach earlier this week and has not only shed his corrective boot but appears to be walking normally. McDaniels already has ruled out Ayers for this week, adding, "He'll play. It's just a matter of when the right time is."
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Web APIs are Transforming Enterprise Communications and Collaboration
Case Studies
We'll now examine a few case studies of enterprises successfully consuming APIs for communications and collaboration.
Hulu: Build Your Own Call Center with Voice APIs
Hulu helps people find and enjoy premium video content when, where and how they want it. They offer content from over 260 content companies, including ABC, Comedy Central, Fox, NBC Universal, MTV, Miramax, and VH-1. While preparing to launch Hulu Plus, a premium subscription service, the customer support team needed a contact center solution that could scale reliably with the tremendous growth they were expecting in the Hulu Plus service. Hulu decided to build their own call center using communication APIs provided by Twilio.
When customers call Hulu's toll free support number, provisioned through Twilio, they are routed to an available customer support person. Hulu implemented Twilio's APIs in its internal systems so customer support is able to immediately see all relevant customer information in their browser, allowing them to provide an efficient and personalized customer experience.
If all customer support agents are busy, estimated wait times and queue positions are communicated to the caller, again using APIs. Music from popular shows on Hulu is played while callers wait, providing a unique experience. Callers have the option to press "1" at any time to schedule a call back. In this scenario, Hulu's internal systems will detect when an agent becomes available, and then automatically dial back the caller.
Being able to dial the caller back is an important feature. Long queue times result in a high rate of abandoned calls, repeat call attempts, customer dissatisfaction and increased telecom costs. The system of placing callers "on hold" is an unfortunate remnant of the way the phone system was designed decades ago. It is a very poor use of resources: the caller pays for his phone time while the company pays to keep a line open.
Virtual queuing is the concept of getting the company to call the customer back when the next agent is available. Despite its obvious appeal, virtual queuing is uncommon. There have been solutions on the market for years but their deployment has been hampered by the fact that they require integration with the call center, which is costly and time consuming. Using APIs, Hulu was able to implement virtual queuing in a few lines of code.
All of these workflows were created with the Twilio API by Hulu's development team. From the PLAY object, which enables custom audio to be played for users, to the DIAL object, which enables Hulu to programmatically dial back users when needed, Hulu was able to leverage their existing Web skills to build the solution. Also, because Twilio tracks rich metadata for each call that flows through the system, Hulu is able to track all the critical metrics for their customer support team, from total calls, average call time, and distribution of calls.
"The succinct REST-based API was familiar territory for our web developers, which helped up us get our prototype launched in one day, and into full production shortly thereafter", stated Scott Post, Hulu Software Developer.
Home Retail Group: Improve Customer Contact Efficiency with SMS APIs
Home Retail Group is a leading UK home and general merchandise retailer whose brands include Argos, Homebase and Habitat. The Group's Customer and Financial Services organization handles 10 million inbound calls a year and 2 million order and delivery e-mail inquiries. It employs 1,800 staff across three contact centers. They implemented interactive voice messaging and text (SMS) messaging from VoiceSage. This technology enables the Home Retail Group to pre-empt routine customer order and delivery queries with proactive outbound messages.
The Home Retail Group deployed interactive voice messaging and SMS text messaging technology in its telebooking facility using APIs. Traditionally, agents would call customers to confirm order delivery dates and times. Using a dialer, agents were typically achieving only a 30-40% success rate in getting through to people.
Within four weeks of using VoiceSage's solutions to automate its customer contact communications by sending a combination of text messages and pre-recorded voice messages, Home Retail Group was achieving the same number of customer contacts per hour as they did through their dialer system. Now, they have a significantly higher hit rate and have reduced the amount of their agents' time that is tied up in delivery contact activities. Telephony costs have significantly decreased too, as 60% of contacts are now being made via SMS.
Intuit Prevents Fraud with Voice and SMS APIs
Intuit provides payroll services for over 1 million small businesses. As a payroll provider, Intuit stores sensitive information. They wanted to implement an additional layer of security to protect their customers' sensitive data. To address this need, Intuit used Twilio's phone call and text messaging APIs to provide another layer of protection.
When an online user attempts to change sensitive data, Intuit sends a verification code to the user's phone, via phone call or SMS, to provide out-of-band identity verification. By proving that the online user is in possession of their phone, Intuit thwarts would-be identity thieves, with minimal inconvenience to legitimate customers.
For Intuit, Twilio proved to be the fastest way to move their new security feature to the cloud. "Using Twilio, we built both phone call and text-messaging features with just one API and one vendor, which saves time and money. Twilio was the most cost-efficient option, moving from idea to production with no up-front capital expenses," stated Ariege Misherghi, Product Manager at Intuit Online Payroll.
Knowing that onerous security features can be a stumbling block for users, the experience for Intuit's customers was paramount. Intuit built the initial proof-of-concept in one afternoon. They then rapidly moved to usability testing and deployment to an initial set of pilot users. "Given the urgency around changing payroll information for employees before a payroll run, it was very important to find a low-impact solution. We got great feedback from initial customers," Misherghi said. With that feedback, Intuit made the decision to deploy the solution to their entire Intuit Online Payroll user-base.


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My mother always made these wonderful chicken legs for family picnics! They are delicious and fun to eat and you can be creative with spices if you wish.
2 cups cornflake crumbs
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground ceyanne pepper (optional)
3 eggs
24 chicken drumsticks (about 4 ounces each)
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Rich people. That's who!
Okay, maybe not just rich people, but you may be surprised to learn that people who make major bank ($100k+ annual salary) are the heaviest users of daily groupon email alerts.
Then again, it should be no surprise at all that young people who make a lot of money want to keep as much of it as they can. So when they see a good bargain, either from a coupon/groupon or they've developed a preference for secondhand merchandise, they the pounce on it to avoid paying retail prices.
After all, folks like these didn't pull all nighters in college to get a killer GPA or work 60+ hours a week at their small business to just give away their disposable income. These days, they want the most bang for the buck as possible.
What is surprising, at least to me, is that nearly half (48%) of all Groupons are being used by more affluent consumers ($70,000+). That's several percentage points higher than traditional coupon super users, where 39% of affluent consumers ($70,000+) cut coupons the old fashioned way.
I guess frugality really is the "new black".
A lot of the Groupons I see are tailored to those with higher incomes in my opinion. Most of the ones I see are half off at a salon, spa, teeth whitening, more upscale restaurants, etc. For someone who might use these services anyway, it's great, but I would expect that to be someone with more disposable income. I wonder if the numbers by income vary when it's more of an "Everyman" Groupon, such as a $10 for $25 deal to an inexpensive restaurant, which is one of the Groupons I signed up for recently.
That's an excellent observation. Going back and looking at a few recent emails, I see something of a trend developing there.
Perhaps it's because those disposable income dependent businesses were hit hardest by the Great Recession or "new frugality" movement.
Laura, great point. I think you hit it on the head with that one.
A lot of special offers on stuff you don't need.
Matt, how's life? Hokies going anywhere in the March Madness tourney?
Yeah, most of the Groupons rank pretty high in the disposable income department.
Hokies are still trying to get into the tournament! Nothing set in stone yet, although, I suspect they'll squeak in based on ACC reputation.


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When the four pieces of jade meet, one man's game will be at an end....
Age old rivals turned deadly enemies..
Exotic, erotic beauty and ruthless, murderous violence..
In Japan, in China, in Hong Kong - lethal pursuit and devious power struggles..
All parts of one vast battle..
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Interesting thread. Makes me wonder what the real power of the 2.0 GDi is?
In North America it is rated as 160hp and here in South Africa it's 125kw yet the Focus is a global car. Only difference I can think of is that we only have 93 octane and 95 octane available.
I would love to get my hands on a 2.0 GDi and do some dyno testing for you guys but here are just no models available and the few owners out here are so scarce and in hiding
Technically if your fuel is sold based on the RON number 93 octance RON (research octane number) is about 4-5 points higher than the Antiknock index which is an average between the research octane number and the motor octane number, the two competing test methodologies for comparing the anti knock properties of the fuel. Ergo 93 RON is the same as 87-88 octane fuel sold in the U.S. and the 95 octane is equalivent to 90-91 AKI octane fuel sold in the U.S.
So the fuel is not better or worse, but the headline octane number sounds better there than it really is. Most countries use the RON number as the headline figure on the pump where as the U.S. uses an average of the two methods.
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[COLLEGE MEN: Weekend] After No. 1 Connecticut on Saturday, No. 2 Creighton lost on Sunday, dropping a 3-2 decision in overtime to William & Mary at the Stihl Classic.
Jeff Bombelles scored the golden goal in the 107th minute to complete the comeback for the Tribe, which had tied the match at 2-2 in the
82nd minute on a goal by Chris Albiston.
Josh West had put W&M ahead in the fourth minute before the
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Connecticut had suffered its first loss of the season as the Huskies dropped a 1-0 decision to visiting Bradley on Zach Kovacevic's penalty kick 150 seconds
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put a shot on goal until the 68th minute. Bradley goalkeeper Brian Billings made five saves to record his third shutout of the season and 16th of his career.
Unbeaten and untied ...
Cal State Northridge (6-0-0)
Army (5-0-0)
Clemson (5-0-0)
Dayton (5-0-0)
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game-winning goal for Northwestern in its 2-0 win over No. 10 Butler to help the Wildcats capture the NIU Tournament Title.
Calistri, who scored in the first goal in the 11th minute, has
scored six goals in Northwestern's last three games. Junior defender Nikko Boxall added his first goal of the season as the Wildcats improved to 4-1-0.
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-- No. 8 UAB suffered its first setback of the season when it dropped a 1-0 loss to East Tennessee State on own goal in the
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-- Behind two goals from Pedro Ribeiro along with a goal each from Agust Arnarson and Ricky Garbanzo, Coastal Carolina handed 15th-ranked UNC Greensboro a 4-2 loss.
-- Memphis rallied for goals by Kenneth Kauker and Shane Keely in the 81st and 86th minutes to beat No.
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Omar Holness goal from 50 yards for UNC.
-- No. 5 Notre Dame got goals from Evan Panken, Andrew O'Malley and Patrick Hodan and went on to beat No. 25 Syracuse, 3-0, in a battle of ACC newcomers.
-- No. 16 Wake Forest scored three goals in the first 55 minutes and held off a Virginia comeback attempt in the final 10 minutes for a 3-2 win at Spry Stadium. Luca
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-- No. 11 VCU beat No. 13 Akron, 1-0, on
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Top of the draft looks very likely to be -
Ottawa - Konecny
Erie - Strome
Peterborough - Spencer
So Windsor will miss out of Sean Day. And for what Warren? I think it's time Rychel and the Spits spell out what they did and who the two players were. Why do they get to go unnamed when they took part in the shady deals? Because they were underage? Well it's their parents/advisers making the deals on their behalf - if Windsor is named and shamed and penalized, why not name the players involved and spell out exactly what the illegal offense was?
To be penalized a top pick like this - it should be pretty damn close to a capital offense. And it it turns out it wasn't than releasing the info will expose Branch further for the joke he is.
I've also heard a (conspiracy?) theory that London/Hunters were involved in blowing the whistle for Mem Cup hosting purposes.
I am definitely in the minority and I said it earlier I see no reason why Warren should see this through. He's never going to have another chance at an exceptional status guy unless the team stinks for the 3rd straight year. This organization is all about having some cloak of secrecy where they will say nothing publically. Everything this organization has done recently involves secrecy and I don't believe for one moment we need to know everything but if what they are doing is hurting the on ice product questions need to be asked and answered. There's nothing Rychel can do falling short of getting Barber, Schmaltz, Allen, Butcher, and Friedman to sign this offseason that can make up for losing out on an exceptional talent like Day.
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GLENDALE, Ariz.—As a former professional wrestler known as "The Demon," Dale Torborg didn't need much effort to persuade Chris Beck to reshape his tight, muscular body.
"He's probably one of the most intimidating weight training coaches you can have," Beck said of Torborg, who is in his 10th season as Chicago's minor league conditioning coordinator. "Especially with the job he had before."
Torborg helped Beck lose some of the bulkiness that restricted his flexibility and contributed to a dip in velocity after signing with the Sox as a second-round pick in the 2012 draft. They hope that a leaner frame will translate in helping the righthander regain the success he had during his sophomore season at Georgia Southern, when he went 9-5, 3.23.
"I'm very grateful they took me where they took me," said Beck, who fell to 6-7, 3.91 as a junior last spring. "They took a chance despite the weight gain and drop in velocity. They looked at what I did beforehand, and that was the mindset they had. They gave me plenty of reassurance and faith from their coaching staff and the managers to get me back on track."
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Beck realizes there's plenty of work ahead, but Torborg praised how he addressed his weight issue.
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December 27, 2007: Day of the Week
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The Twins will be among those in attendance but there will be plenty for Webb to prove after multiple shoulder injuries.
In the middle of September, Webb did a web chat with some fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks. At that point, he hadn't thrown a baseball in awhile but he made sure to let them know that he wasn't officially retired. The man that finished first, second, and second in the NL Cy Young balloting from 2006-08 has been trying to get back to that form. Shoulder injuries can be devastating and it has clearly taken away a big chunk of Webb's career.
Why are the Twins interested in Webb? Most of the word out of the Twin Cities this offseason has been that the Twins are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to finding starting pitching. This means looking at options with some risk but with the chance of bringing the team some reward. Webb has been a front of the rotation starter in the past and the Twins haven't had anyone fit this mold in multiple seasons. If Webb can produce at a level anywhere close to before his injuries, there will be plenty of teams interested in his services.
A pitcher with Webb's track record could be a valuable addition to a club if the price was right. Webb would most likely be looking for a minor league deal with an invite to spring training. This type of contract can offer less risk for the club signing him and there could be other incentives in the deal if he made the big league roster. Offering Webb a contract is still a long ways off so the first step will be trying to figure out what version of Webb is on the mound after the holidays.
What kind of Webb will teams be getting? Before his shoulder started acting up, Webb was a workhorse in Arizona's starting rotation. In his last four full seasons, he averaged 232 innings pitched with a 3.23 ERA and 182 strikeouts per season. He led the NL in innings pitched in 2007 and he led the league in wins in 2006 and 2008. After leading the NL with 119 walks in 2004, Webb gained control and he has averaged 62 walks per season since that point. This is the version of Webb that any team would love to sign.
The other version of Webb is one that teams wouldn't want to get near. During his last comeback attempt with the Rangers in 2011, Webb showed diminished velocity while struggling in the minor leagues. Texas sent him to their Double-A affiliate and he started four games with a 9.75 ERA and a 2.25 WHIP. His shoulder issues would flare up again and he went under the knife last August for a rotator cuff issue. If a team signs Webb, he might have to prove himself in the minor leagues before getting another shot at the big league level.
Is Webb just this year's version of Joel Zumaya? Last season, the Twins went after a player similar to Webb in the fact that he had been dealing with his own injury prone past. Joel Zumaya was brought in to try and add a spark to the Twins' bullpen but that spark was more of a flicker. He would injury his elbow in his first throwing session of spring training and he was forced to have his sixth arm surgery. At age 27, Zumaya's once promising career is most likely finished and he left the Twins wondering what could have been in 2012.
Fans of the Twins can probably foresee a similar situation playing out with Webb if he were to sign with the club. There would be talk of Webb helping the team in 2013 before his shoulder would most likely begin to act up again. Webb could end up playing great but it seems much more plausible for it to go the other direction. Gambling on players can pay off but the Twins might not want to take that risk. Minnesota was willing to take a chance in 2012 so maybe they want to stay away from this kind of deal in 2013.
From Webb's point of view, the Twins could offer him one of the best chances of cracking into a starting rotation for next season. Minnesota has Scott Diamond, Vance Worley, Kevin Correia, and Mike Pelfrey ready to prove themselves in the rotation Recently signed Pelfrey might not be ready for the start of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last year. If Webb showed enough to the team in spring training, there is a chance that he could break camp with the club.
There is a better chance that he would need to start the season in the minor leagues and work his way back to the major leagues. The Twins might not want an aging pitcher tying up innings in their farm system. Minnesota could always make room for him to fit into one of their minor league starting rotations. If he had to start at the Double-A level like he did in Texas, it seems like those innings might be better suited for a younger arm that has some upside.
Webb could be worth the risk but there is a lot riding on how he looks in his upcoming throwing session.


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It's not often I have to run to catch a musical bandwagon, but for this one I really had to sprint. I've been championing CLLCT a LOT in the last few months, but this guy and his music is a single-handed shining example why this little DIY goldmine is already outsinging corporate giants like MySpace and LastFM. It would seem that most people over at CLLCT know, and have known how great a songsmith and soundsmith FailedSitcom is for quite some time. But try googling "Failed Sitcom music" and you'll be scrolling through page after page of homages to something involving Kelsey Grammar.
Trundling murmurs of quiet approval with occasional claps of genuine mind-blown wonderment have been steadily rolling in since CLLCT resurrected. The acclaim for the two existing EP's, 'Of Life's Declivity' and 'Her Blameless Mystery' may in part be to do with the fact that the guy behind them (Sam Durkin) tries to take in as much new music appearing on the site as he can. I must confess I took the slightly cynical view when I twiddled my thumbs as the bandwagon rolled by with a grin. I instantly bought the philosophy – attempting to fuse folk-pop with experimental hip-hop beats – but time was short and I couldn't help but wonder if much of the hype was to do with Sam's presence. I had a couple of minutes and played a song. It sounded great and I grinned back, putting my head down as the trundling passed. It took for Simon Piler to ask me while we were putting together Daydream Generation 8, 'Obviously you've invited FailedSitcom?'
And obviously I hadn't. I lifted my head, muttered under my breath 'Ah shit Smally', and ran. I caught another couple of songs and they were as great as the first one I'd heard months previous. I emailed Sam and thankfully he was as interesting and diggable as the music he'd been making. I downloaded both the records and was totally blown away. Take one song, any song from either EP and I guarantee you'll think it's good. Take more than one song and listen to them back to back and I guarantee that it will click in your brain. Take a whole EP and you'll be hopping into your finest running shoes to catch up with the rest of us.
The philosophy is that of sound collage – seriously cool electronic beats underpinning the sparkling organic sounds of glocks and ukuleles, guitars and mad percussion. Add to this the softest of voices singing shimmering little stanzas about things someone loves and you've got yourself a recipe for something that will someday undoubtedly knock Kelsey Grammar off the front page of a Google search for all the right reasons.
I started with 'Of Life's Declivity'. Clocking in at a surprisingly short thirteen minutes, these eleven songs are a bright-eyed trip through an autumnal dream, ringing melodies over complex supercool beats, zips and zings of sound, all topped off with the murmur of soft poetics. An obvious comparison would be Animal Collective, a band I am frequently told I should listen to. But having downloaded one record and not been overly impressed, for now at least I'm happy to stick with this little EP. 'Of Life's Declivity' is so together that it feels wrong to single out tracks like 'To The Bowsprit', 'Mushrooms', 'Horse Chestnuts', or 'Locus Amoenus' as my favourites. When I first heard this record and obsessively played and replayed it for the next 48 hours, I found myself wondering 'Where can FailedSitcom possibly go from here?' The only answer I could come up with was 'More of the same please'.
Surprisingly and fortunately I was pretty wrong. The much loved 'Her Blameless Mystery' is still very much FailedSitcom, but compared to its brief, deliberate, and concisely beautiful counterpart, this 12-track EP is a glorious sonic avalanche of adventurous sound. At the time of hearing it, I didn't realise that it was a collection of songs recorded over the course of two years, but that just makes it an accidental great record, the shifting of styles being one of its biggest strengths. Whereas 'Declivity' is a shooting star that melts in the sky, 'Mystery' is a piebald nebula of ideas engulfing your ears. Here, the robotic charm of 'Data-Byte, Sound-Byte' sits happily alongside the catchy 'Matthew', and the familiar folk-electronica fusion of the lovely 'You Should Revise' is not out of place on the same record as the eerily infectious closing 'Much Like A Gherkin Creepy'. After one listen I was convinced that 'Of Life's Declivity' was THE record to download. After two listens, I started to feel like 'Her Blameless Mystery' was more adventurous and perhaps the real accidental masterpiece of the two. From three listens onwards I have reached the only conclusion possible that both records are little classics in their own right and well worth a chance of your precious time.
So there you have it. Kelsey Grammar, if you're reading this then feel free to quake in your google-boots. My ears are ringing and my heart is singing with the sounds of two cracking EPs as I catch my breath from the sprint. The Quixodelic Commune is one genuine and seriously talented songsmith better off. It is a privilege to have FailedSitcom on board to please take the time to download one, and inevitably both of these records. After all, bandwagons are always more exciting when you get on at the very beginning.


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The Twenty-Nine Hand - Poem by Darlene Perry
Whaling city, corner of Brownell and Court,
a screened in porch masks a red maple card table,
A worn deck of Bicycles neatly stacked atop a
Scrimshaw-laden cribbage board,
straddled by two glasses of bittersweet lemonade.
The game begins with Ned Martin's pregnant pauses
as Yaz slams one over the Green Monster,
and grandpa grins and gives me a wink.
His fisherman hands expertly riffle the cards.
Little ears perk to chants of ' Louie, Louie, Louie'
He pitched three fives, two threes and a Jack of Hearts.
Threes to the crib, an eight cut and double skunked again.
Another tragic season, the Red Sox get nineteen.
Quiet corner, Watson Road
old red brick farmhouse, sony TV with surround sound
atop a well-aged red maple card table.
'Gwenivere, the Green Monster is the wall in left field.'
I grin and give her a wink as the Red Sox
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