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The Arktic is one of our most popular chalets and has received several press accolades as one of Tignes elite chalets. Its light and modern lounge is designed and furnished in a funky contemporary style, and the view from the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, out over the sun-terrace to the lake and the whole Tignes bowl, are simply sensational.
The Arktic is home to a superb indoor pool and leisure facilities, including a sauna and outdoor hot tub, from where guests can enjoy more stunning views.
The location is ideal, with the Chardonnet lift and piste just 150m away, and the restaurants, shops and bars of Le Lac just another 100m further on. Heading the other way, the main Aeroski gondola connecting to Val d'Isère is only approx. 5-6 minutes walk. Approximate Transfer time to resort: Chambery 2 hours, Geneva 2 ¾ hours
GROUND FLOOR:Room 1
FIRST FLOOR:Kitchen, living/dining room with fireplace, sun-terrace.
SECOND FLOOR:Entrance, ski and boot-room with heated boot-racks. Home cinema room with large-screen TV and DVD. Connecting door to swimming-pool, sauna and hot-tub area
We set very high standards for our cuisine, and train our staff extensively before the season starts, to ensure that you will thoroughly enjoy every meal on your own holiday with us. We also take our Health and Safety responsibilities extremely seriously, so all our chalet and Chalet Hotel staff during the pre-season training course are trained to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health's Level 2 in Food Safety*. For six days of the week our staff prepare all your meals, as described below.
A good breakfast is essential on a ski holiday, so we provide both a cooked breakfast including your choice of bacon, eggs, sausages and beans, as well as a continental selection with a choice of cereals or porridge, fruit juices, plentiful tea, coffee and bread (and croissants in France), cold meats, cheese and preserves, which is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. On our staff's one day off a week, only the continental breakfast will be provided.
Afternoon Tea
The traditional 'welcome home' after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you in your chalet or Chalet Hotel, ready for your return, every day except on the staff's one day off per week. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of freshly home-baked cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready. As an added benefit for guests in our Chalet Hotels, our chefs prepare a selection of cakes for afternoon tea.
Children's High Tea
In Chalets and Chalet Hotels with family guests, High Tea provides children under 13 years with a healthy menu, tailored more towards children's tastes and puréed food is available for infants on request. High Tea is at 5.30pm, and children do not join the main adult-only dinner.
Dinner in Chalets
A tasty and innovative, freshly cooked dinner will be prepared for you six nights per week by your Chalet Host – or by an experienced and professional chef in our larger chalets – and served with a choice of wines. Our four-course adult-only chalet dinners start with canapés and an apéritif, followed by an appetiser, main course and dessert, and completed by coffee with chocolates to round off your evening. Your choice of complimentary quality wines is unlimited during the meal service, and freshly chilled water is also of course always available.
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Brevard, N.C. - Brooke Seaman becomes the first Brevard College volleyball player to be named to the South Atlantic Conference Preseason All-SAC team as she was recognized as a 1st team selection after being named to 2008 postseason 2nd team last year in the Tornados first season in the South Atlantic Conference.
Seaman, a senior from Spring Hill, Fla. is listed among the Tornados all-time leaders in kills and total blocks, and finished last season leading the South Atlantic Conference in blocks per game with 0.96 and hitting percentage with 34.0% and third in the conference in kills with 405. She returns with fellow seniors Megan Street, Cori Emory, Christin Johnston and Chelsey Trojan to lead a Tornados squad who earned a berth in the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference volleyball tournament in their first season of eligibility.
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The Bulldogs placed four on the preseason All-Conference volleyball team, which was also announced. Stormi Gale, the most valuable player in the 2008 Food Lion SAC Tournament, was named to the first team, along with Liz Willis, the 2009 SAC Freshman of the Year and Maggie Malone at the Libero position. Lauren Billo was named to the second team. Willis led the SAC in assists last season.
Carson-Newman College is picked to finish second with 64 points. The Lady Eagles placed three on the preseason All-Conference team. Carly Mozgai and Katie Troyer were both named to the first team, while Stephanie Cutter was named to the second team. Troyer had a .317 hitting percentage last season, which ranked fourth in the conference, while Mozgai averaged 2.71 kills per set.
Lincoln Memorial University, which advanced to the tournament finals last season, is picked to finish third, just one point behind Carson-Newman. The Lady Railsplitters received 63 total points.
LMU also placed three on the preseason All-Conference team. Amanda Horenkamp was named to the first team, while Kodi Cartwright and Alicia MacIntyre were named to the second team. Horenkamp averaged 3.06 kills per set last season, while MacIntyre, a Libero, led the conference in digs at 4.46 per set.
Catawba College is fourth in the poll with 53 points. The Catawba Indians advanced to the Southeast Region championship of the NCAA Tournament last season and return preseason All-Conference second team member Mai Zoua Lo. She was third in the conference in digs last season at 3.98 per set.
Newberry College is the pick to finish fourth with 42 total points. Newberry also received one first-place vote. Newberry is represented on the preseason All-Conference team by first-team selection Lorena Maia, who led the conference in service aces, and second-team selection Frenanda Frey.
Sixth place in the poll is a tie between Lenoir-Rhyne University and Tusculum College, each with 36 points. Each placed one on the preseason All-Conference team.
Kassi Henry is a second-team selection for the Bears. She averaged 2.25 kills per set last season.
Peyton Colclough is a second-team selection for the Pioneers. She was second in the conference in assists last season at 9.37 per set.
Mars Hill College is picked to finish eighth with 16 points, while Brevard College was close behind with 15 points.
Brevard's Brooke Seaman, a first-team selection, rounds out the preseason All-Conference team. Seaman led the conference with a .340 hitting percentage last season.
The 2009 volleyball season begins Thursday, August 27 with Lenoir-Rhyne hosting King. The rest of the league is in action on Friday, August 28, including tournaments at Carson-Newman, Lenoir-Rhyne and Tusculum.
The Food Lion SAC Tournament will be held at Tusculum, with quarterfinal play on Friday, November 13. The semifinals are Saturday, November 14, with the championship set for Sunday, November 15 at 2 p.m. The winner of the tournament receives an automatic bid into the NCAA Division II Tournament.
1. Wingate (8) 80
2. Carson-Newman 64
3. Lincoln Memorial 63
4. Catawba 53
5. Newberry (1) 42
6. Lenoir-Rhyne 36
6. (tie) Tusculum 36
8. Mars Hill 16
9. Brevard 15
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Brooke Seaman, Brevard
Carly Mozgai, Carson-Newman
Katie Troyer, Carson-Newman
Amanda Horenkamp, Lincoln Memorial
Lorena Maia, Newberry
Stormi Gale, Wingate
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Stephanie Cutter, Carson-Newman
Mai Zoua Lo, Catawba
Kassi Henry, Lenoir-Rhyne
Kodi Cartwright, Lincoln Memorial
Fernanda Frey, Newberry
Peyton Colclough, Tusculum
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Like Dorner did?
Then they'll just take their time about it.
Time is on their side.
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yeah, right. millions of gun owners are going to cower in their homes like some turd in Mongolia? Doubt it.
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Millions of gun owners are going to do exactly what they are told to do when push comes to shove. That is a fact that you will just have to accept. Just because someone is a gun owner does not keep them from also being a sheeple. If you can't see it, you are delusional.
Maybe thousands will not comply. Those will be your heros. You will see them on TV in the news, just like Dorner.
Many of those people in this video were smiling, laughing, cheering and having a good time. They really have no clue what they are getting themselves into. The clueless will scatter like cockroaches when TSHTF in their faces. I doubt you'll be able to truly count on many of those people at that rally when the body count skyrockets, unless they get a mortality clue real fast. Take a look as some Syria videos from Liveleak if you need a lesson on how nasty war looks. Will they still be smiling when their little daughter's brains are splattered all over their faces?
The real operators know better than to show up and put their faces in the DHS facial recognition database that everyone there did.
But some people have to make a show of support for the cause, right? Those will become the first martyrs. Say a prayer for their families.
Good luck, keyboard hero.
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Musch of what you say is sadly true. But do not underestimate the speed of the awakening that we see. When an idea reaches critical mass it seeps in everywhere.
But maybe all this talk about guns is a diversion? What do TPTB have to fear from people with handguns and semi-automatic weapons? They own the american people anyway, they control the economy completely and the military with its superior weaponry. What you really should focus on is all the other unconstitutional bills that are being signed. I bet Obama will back down on this gun grab and the majority will go back to sleep. And wake up in a police state. Where their AR15s are as effective as kitchen cutlery.
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Here's my understanding of the motive for gun control now: TPTB are getting ready to crash the US economy. They are going to bleed it dry first, then pull the plug. They understand there will be chaos and riots everywhere. That's why they are going to head for their guarded bunkers, to stay safely underground for awhile so nobody can get to them easily.
They learned from Israel, Afghanistan & Iraq that isolated above-ground compounds are vulnerable to attack from their enemies by indirect actions such as impr0vised m0rtars, impr0vised r0ckets, and home-made UAVs, etc. But they are virtually untouchable in underground guarded bunkers with self-contained air supplies to guard from forest fires, ch3m attacks, etc. They can get military or merc units to guard them up above their lairs.
But they are not so afraid of criminals with guns, because those types will run around looting and murdering usually only locally. What they do fear however are smart patriots who are armed and organized. They fear them the most, that they will come after them in vengence or for regime change. So it is a self-preservation move of desperation to disarm the law-abiding citizens before they pull the plug on the economy and the nation. But it will be done.
They know that they will not achieve all their gun right's violations by legislation and EO's alone, so they want chaos, riots and general rebellion to break out in order to institute a defacto Marshall law throughout the nation. Then they will have the excuse they need to completely trash what's left of the US Constitution and go grab the guns directly with the US & UN militaries as well as Blackwater mercs.
They can funnel as many foreign militaries (incl. the Chinese and Russians) as they want into the country to fight the "d0mestic terr0rist patri0ts" as long as they just give them baby blue helmets to wear. This War of Federal Aggression could go on for 10 or more years if they need it to. No other nation is going to come to the aid of the patri0ts. They will be on their own, until they are wiped out or surrender.
It's sad, but how can a bunch of disorganized patri0ts go up against the combined militaries of at least half of the US military, half of the US police forces, most of DHS and the other alphabets, plus several other militaries coming in from all around the world hiding under blue helmets? I'm sure those armies will be promised lots of worthless money and other goodies for their "humanitarian aid" to TPTB here. And the Lame-stream media will dutifully broadcast their scripts as instructed to keep everyone around the world turned against the "d0mestic terr0rists."
Once the nation is disarmed and the "rebellion" is purged, the Corporate slavery will begin and the NWO can begin consolidating nations in earnest. Canada and Mexico will be next, along with maybe Cerntral and South America, unless Brazil gets brave and somehow gets Russia and China to help it intervene and stall progress in South America. Then the American Union will merge with the EU and the NWO will be finally realized.
And it all hinges on America's guns.
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- Overall Length: 16.5" (42 cm)
- Handle Material: Beech Wood
- Sheath Material: Cordura
- Weight: 24 oz. (680 g)
- Hand made in Sheffield, England
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- -> Pre-select user: Specified: Choose primary user
- This ought to be combined with a password-protected screensaver.
Autostart a program at bootup
Any program (or script) can be made to Autostart at bootup by creating a symbolic link to that program (or script) in the ~/.kde/Autostart folder.
For example, to start Firefox at bootup, create a symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox ~/.kde/Autostart
Programs and scripts can also be added to the Autostart menu using System Settings:
- K menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Advanced -> Autostart -> Add Script... or Add Program
Choose Bootup/Startup services
Run a script from a menu item
It is possible to place a short script in a menu item / shortcut to answer an interactive query (such as a password query). Here is an example that is used to enter a password during an SSH negotiation. First, install the utility expect:
sudo apt-get install expect
The use a command in the Menu Item / Shortcut similar to:
expect -c 'spawn ssh -l sshuser -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 remoteserver.remotedomain.org -p 22 ; expect assword ; send "sshpassword\n" ; interact'
In this example the password sshpassword is returned when the ssh program requires a password. Expect waits for some text to be displayed in the command-line terminal then returns text in return. The Menu Item must be "Run in terminal", therefore.
KDialog (User interface for scripts)
KDialog allows user input to scripts. This allows the automation of tasks with the option of user input during those scripts.
SHC (Encrypt scripts)
SHC is a simple script compiler that will convert a script into a binary, obscuring the code (and passwords, etc.). Usage instructions are here. Install by adding the Debian Etch repository:
sudo add-apt-repository 'http://archive.debian.org/debian etch main'
then install the shc package:
sudo apt-get install shc
Run Command
You can run any application in your path using the Run Command. Right-click on the Plasma Icon in the upper right of your desktop to find the command. You can also use Alt+F2.
Add Menu items to Desktop or Panel
To copy a program icon to the desktop or panel bar, you must first unlock widgets:
- Widget icon (upper right corner of desktop) -> Unlock Widgets
then right-click on any menu item in the K menu and select "Add to Desktop" or "Add to Panel". You can move the icon anywhere you desire and then re-lock the widgets.
For example, I like to have the icon for Konsole (the command-line interface terminal) in my Panel bar (since I like to work in the command-line interface frequently). I therefore right-click on K menu -> System -> Konsole then choose "Add to Panel".
Restore the Task Manager bar
It is easy to remove the Task Manager bar accidentally and find yourself with an empty desktop. Here's how to restore it to its default state at installation:
- If you have accidentally erased your Task Manager bar completely, add it again from the Plasma icon in the upper right corner of your desktop. You can drag your Task Manager bar anywhere you want using the "handle" on the edge of the bar (which pops up unless you have the widgets locked).
- Right-click on the Task Manager bar -> Panel Settings to configure it. You will notice a configuration bar that will pop up. While this is displayed you can drag things around the Task Manger bar how you like them. You can also change the dimensions of the Task manager bar using the arrows, and can choose the centering options for the Task Manager bar.
- You can also (re-)add widgets to the Task Manager bar using the Add Widget option on this configuration bar as well. (Note: This is different from the Add widgets option found in the Plasma icon in the upper right corner of your desktop, which adds widgets to your desktop, not to the task manager bar).
- The original default task manager bar at installation included the "Applications Launcher (traditional menu based)" widget, the "Digital Clock" widget, the "Pager" widget, the "Task Manager" widget, the "System Tray" widget, and the "Trashcan" widget. Add whichever ones you have accidentally removed, then drag them around the Task Manager bar into desired positions.
- Close the configuration bar when you are done by clicking on the red X.
Restore Konqueror as Default File Manager
- K-menu -> Run (or use the "Run command..." option from the Plasma Icon in the upper right corner of your desktop).
- Open KDE components -> File Associations -> inode
- Choose directory. In the right part of the window, change the application preference order so that Konqueror would be the first app in the list.
- Do the same with system_directory.
Remove Konqueror temporary thumbnail files
When browsing files locally, Konqueror builds up thumbnails of the images viewed. To remove these thumbnails, from the command line terminal Konsole:
cd ~/.thumbnails/normal rm -rf *.png cd ~/.thumbnails/large rm -rf *.png
- Note: You can substitute /home/user for ~, if you choose, where user is your username.
Screen snapshot
- Ksnapshot is normally used.
Turn off Hot Keys
This is the most evil option on any operating system, in my opinion. A mis-stroke enables any number of random events. Unfortunately, this problem is pervasive in operating systems and is difficult to turn off.
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Advanced -> Input Actions -> General Settings -> check "Disable KHotKeys daemon"
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Advanced -> Input Actions -> Gestures Settings -> check "Disable mouse gestures globally"
If you wish to be selective about it (this doesn't often work, however), start by disabling unnecessary desktop hotkeys.
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Also, you may want to deactivate linking gestures to sticky and slow keys:
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Accessibility -> Activation Gestures -> uncheck "Use gestures for activating sticky keys and slow keys"
Note: You probably will have to disable hotkeys in many applications, as well.
- Hotkeys from the Synaptics Touchpad can be selectively turned off using this information from the Ubuntu documentation.
Activate Suspend or Hibernate
Right-click on the Guidance Power Manager icon in the toolbar (looks like a battery icon).
Associate default applications
- To assign the default DVD player (make sure you have enabled DVD playback capability first:
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Advanced -> File Associations -> x-content -> video-dvd -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. There are similar options for Blu-Ray (video-bluray) and HD DVD (video-hddvd). Set each individually.
- To assign the default player for playing mpegs (or other video formats):
- K menu -> System -> System Settings -> Advanced -> File Associations -> video -> mpeg -> Applications Preference order -> Add...
- then choose your favourite media player. You can do this for a host of video file formats, including .wmv (x-ms-wmv, or Microsoft WMV format), .flv (x-flv, or Flash video), quicktime, and so on.
- To assign .pls audio streams to play through Audacious:
- K Menu -> System -> System Settings -> Advanced -> File Associations -> audio -> x-scpls -> Applications Preference order -> Move Audacious to the top (or Add... it).
- Make sure *.pls appears in the Filename Patterns section.
Associate files using Dolphin file manager
- You can also associate files using the Dolphin file manager:
- Right-click on a file -> Open with ... -> Known Applications ->
- choose the application to associate with the file
- -> Click: "Remember application association for this type of file"
- Right-click on a file -> Open with ... -> Known Applications ->
- Example:
- From Dolphin, right-click on musicfile.mp3 -> Open with... -> Known Applications ->
- choose Audacious
- -> Click: "Remember application association for this type of file"
- From Dolphin, right-click on musicfile.mp3 -> Open with... -> Known Applications ->
- Now all .mp3 files will be associated with Audacious.
How to use network options in Dolphin file manager
- Open the "Network" icon in Dolphin.
- A network folder can also be mounted in the left navigation pane for repeated quick access. For example, a Samba (Windows-type) network folder located at a LAN IP address of 192.168.0.177 can be added:
- Dolphin -> <right-click> on the left panel -> Add entry...
- -> Label: Network folder -> Location: smb://192.168.0.177
How to mount a camera in Dolphin file manager
- See this section.
Use Windows-appearing fonts
Users who switch to Kubuntu from Windows may notice subtle differences between the default fonts in Kubuntu and those in Windows. The Microsoft Core Fonts can be installed as part of the kubuntu-restricted-extras package, or separately:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Most default fonts in Windows are Times New Roman. You can select the Times New Roman fonts in applications like Firefox to make them appear like Windows. However, the Deja Vu font in Kubuntu mimics the Times New Roman font closely, and has been found to be desirable for most users.
Run a Gnome desktop from Kubuntu
It is possible to install the GTK-based Gnome desktop (the default in Ubuntu) in Kubuntu.
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
There is a risk of software bloat and some incompatibilities between modules when doing this. At login, you can choose (as an option) whether to start the KDE (Kubuntu) desktop or the Gnome (Ubuntu) desktop. Nevertheless, when there are two modules trying to perform the same function (one from each desktop), it is possible to have conflicts.
Random password generator
- Pwgen is a command line utility to generate a block of random passwords. Run it from Konsole (in Kubuntu) or Terminal (in Ubuntu). Install:
sudo apt-get install pwgen
- Run pwgen:
- UUIDgen is a default utility to generate a random UUID. Run:
The random UUID can also be used as a password, if desired.
Password checker and enforcement
John the Ripper is a free open source password cracker that uses a dictionary of over 4 million commonly used passwords in many languages. Because this tool is widely available, it is useful for scanning and securing your own LAN and computers for password strength. Install:
sudo apt-get install john
- Passwdqc is a module to enforce password strength. Install:
sudo apt-get install passwdqc
To check the MD5 sum of a file, use this command in the command line:
md5sum filename
Filenames with spaces
- Filenames or folder names with spaces in them should be enclosed with quotation marks (" "). For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir", use the command:
cd "This Dir"
- or
cd /home/"This Dir"
- Alternatively, a space in a filename or folder name can be preceded with a backslash. For example, to change to a directory named "This Dir" or "/home/This Dir":
cd This\ Dir
- or
cd /home/This\ Dir
Root user tasks
- Many tasks in (K)Ubuntu must be accomplished with root user (superuser) privileges. For many simple tasks, temporary root superuser are achieved using the "kdesudo" command (or the "sudo" command for command-line functions). A user must be in the "sudo" group to use kdesudo or sudo. See this section about adding/changing user groups.
- A user may open a file manager (such as Dolphin) with root user (superuser) privileges. See this section.
- A service menu may be installed in Dolphin that allows many tasks to be accomplished with root user (superuser) privileges. See this section regarding the "Root Actions Servicemenu."
- A user in the "sudo" group may become the root user. To do so, a password for the root user must already have been set. See this section. This is not recommended for routine usage.
- For some tasks (such as installing packages from the Muon package manager) the system will present a list of users in the "sudo" group. Any user in the list can be chosen and the password for that user entered in order to complete the task.
Software Troubleshooting
Manually edit menus
The Kmenuedit program has quirks and may create a menu that has extraneous entries. To manually edit the KDE menu:
kate ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
where ~ refers to /home/user
(K)Ubuntu Lucid has Python2.6, yet many apps (including GoogleApps) require Python2.5. To install Python2.5 from a PPA repository, see the instructions at the PPA repository.
Amarok Troubleshooting
Amarok permissions error on Amarok startup
If you get a permissions error when launching Amarok, try the following:
sudo chown -R user /home/user
- Note: Replace user with the actual username. This command changes the owner of the folder /home/user to user. -R means "recursively", i.e. including all subfolders.


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Pop-Culture | Posted by Talia on 04/28/2011
Some Feminist Musings on Hop
I recently saw the movie Hop (free advanced preview tickets!), which was fun, considering the last time I was at the movies was to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (I know, it's pathetic.) Before I say anything else, I want to say that Hop was adorable, full of fuzzy bunnies and fluffy cotton tails, and I genuinely enjoyed it.
(SPOILER ALERT) The movie is about E.B. (Russell Brand), a teenaged rabbit that wants to be a drummer but has to become the next Easter Bunny. He runs from Easter Island to Hollywood, where he meets Fred O'Hare (James Marsden) and moves in with him as he pursues a career. On Easter Island, Carlos (Hank Azaria), the Easter Bunny's second-in-command, wants to take E.B.'s place as the next Easter …


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Brevard at Mars Hill Game Day InformationNovember 9, 2010
Driving Directions, Game Notes and Radio Links posted below
Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Tornados football team closes out the 2010 regular season this weekend as they make the trip to nearby Mars Hill, N.C. as they travel to take on SAC foe and regionally-ranked Mars Hill College on Saturday, November 13th.
Brevard (3-7, 0-6 SAC) takes to the road for the final time of the season, coming off of a loss this past weekend against Newbery College, 31-3. Kelvin Jeter broke the 1,000 rushing mark for the season, becoming the first Tornado running back to eclipse the mark in a single season in modern program history, picking up 90 yards on 18 carries, while Neville Bryce recorded 44 yards on eight carries. Defensively, Trey Jenkins had a BC season-high 17 tackles in the game, but the Tornados were unable to overcome the visiting Wolves as Parker Hite led Newberry through the air, going 11 of 14 for 107 yards and two scores as the Tornados fell to 0-6 in conference play on the season.
Luis Cruz and P.J. Gore set new school records last week for Mars Hill (5-5, 3-3 SAC) as Cruz set a new school single season passing record, while Gore broke the 1,000 receiving yard mark on the season. Jonas Randolph rushed 23 times for 140 yards and a pair of scores, but Wingate's Cody Haffly threw for 321 yards and five touchdowns as the Bulldogs defeated the Lions, 48-29.
This will be the 18th meeting all-time between the two teams, with Mars Hill holding the 10-5-2 advantage, including wins in all four meetings since the Tornados reinstated their football program back in 2006. Last season, the Lions handed the Tornados their first home loss of the season, defeating Brevard 28-13 in Brevard Memorial Stadium as Cruz and Jon Richt combined for 258 yards and three touchdowns in the victory.
Brevard comes into this weekend's contest as the NCAA's fourth-best rushing attack, averaging 289.2 yards per game on the ground, let by the Jeter, as the freshman slot leads the Tornados with 1,020 rushing yards on the season, averaging 8.3 yards per carry, as well as picking up six rushing touchdowns on the season. Bryce is second on the team with 566 rushing yards on the season to go with eight rushing touchdowns, and currently is second in the BC career rushing yards record book, sitting 45 yards behind John Taylor's career total of 1,209. Michael Crumbaker, Thadus Benton III and Derek Church have also combined for 1,080 rushing yards on the season, as well as 16 rushing touchdowns to help pace Coach Paul Hamilton's offense.
Crumbaker has led the Brevard passing offense on the season, completing 31 of 84 passing attempts for 516 yards and five touchdowns. Eric Watts has been the recipient of the majority of the passes, with 17 catches for 227 yards and three touchdowns, while Derek Church has four catches for 91 yards. Benton has added two touchdown receptions on the season to round out the BC passing game.
Trey Jenkins leads the Brevard defensive efforts on the year, sitting fifth overall in the South Atlantic Conference with 84 tackles on the season, averaging 8.4 per game. Prince Simunyu is also among the SAC leaders with 66 tackles on the season, while recording five tackles behind the line of scrimmage. Salonik Amos leads the BC defensive backs with 59 tackles and is among the SAC leaders with 12 passes defensed, including two interceptions on the year, while Rufus Jenkins is the team leader with 6.5 tackles for loss and Ryan Wannamaker is the team leader with three sacks on the season.
Randolph headlines the Lions offense and leads both Mars Hill and the South Atlantic Conference on the season with 1,264 rushing yards on the year, averaging 126.4 yards per game and 13 rushing touchdowns. Randolph is also ninth in the NCAA Division II in rushing yards per game in leading the Mars Hill offense on the season.
Richt has taken the majority of the snaps behind center for Mars Hill this season, completing 123 of 246 passes for 2,125 yards and 19 touchdowns on the season, while Cruz is 27 of 45 for 435 yards and three scores. Gore is the team's receiving leader and is among the SAC leaders with 1,014 yards on the season, catching 44 passes, with nine going for touchdowns. Allen Woerner and Alex Rose had also caught at least 20 passes apiece on the season, combining for 542 yards, with Woerner contributing six touchdown receptions to the team totals.
Rudy Cabral leads the Lions defense and the SAC in tackles per game on the season, with 95 tackles overall, averaging 9.5 tackles per game on the year. Josh Baker is also in the top ten in the SAC in tackles, averaging 7.4 per game, while Marzarius Samon and Maurice Harris are both among the team and SAC leaders in tackles for loss and sacks, as Harris leads the SAC in both categories with 15 tackles behind the line of scrimmage and 11 sacks on the season.
Kickoff for the game between the Tornados and the Lions at Meares Stadium is set for Saturday, November 13th, at 1:30 p.m.
You can catch the game via live broadcast brought to you by the "Voice of the Tornados" Dwayne Summers over the radio at WSQL 1240 AM or over the Internet at www.wsqlradio.com. You may also visit the Brevard College Athletics website at www.BCTornados.com.
Brevard Football Game Information
Brevard College vs Mars Hill Game Notes
Brevard College vs Mars Hill LiveStats
Brevard College vs Mars Hill Radio Broadcast
Driving Directions to Mars Hill College
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Post subject: 3 Round Mock ATL-Lion (No Trades) 11/01
2014 NFL Draft
1st Round
1. Jacksonville Jaguars
Teddy Bridgewater QB Louisville
2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Jadeveon Clowney DE South Carolina
3. Minnesota Vikings
Marcus Mariota QB Oregon
4. New York Giants
Anthony Barr DE/OLB UCLA
5. Houston Texans
Louis Nix NT Notre Dame
6. St. Louis Rams (via Washington Redskins)
Jake Matthews OT Texas A&M
7. Pittsburgh Steelers
Taylor Lewan LT Michigan
8. Atlanta Falcons
Vic Beasley DE/OLB Clemson
9. Buffalo Bills
Loucheiz Purifoy CB Florida
10. Philadelphia Eagles
Mike Evans WR Texas A&M
11. Cleveland Browns
Sammy Watkins WR Clemson
12. St. Louis Rams
Ifo Ekpre-Olomu CB Oregon
13. Oakland Raiders
RaShede Hageman DT Minnesota
14. Miami Dolphins
Antonio Richardson LT Tennessee
15. Tennessee Titans
Roby Bradley CB Ohio St
16. Baltimore Ravens
Marqise Lee WR USC
17. New York Jets
Khalil Mack OLB Buffalo
18. Arizona Cardinals
Cameron Erving LT Florida St
19. Dallas Cowboys
Cyril Richardson OG Baylor
20. Chicago Bears
Zach Mettenberger QB LSU
21. San Diego Chargers
Marcus Roberson CB Florida
22. Carolina Panthers
Cyrus Kouandjio OT Alabama
23. Detroit Lions
Allen Robinson WR Penn St
24. Green Bay Packers
HaSean Clinton-Dix S Alabama
25. Cleveland Browns (via Indianapolis Colts)
Tajh Boyd QB Clemson
26. New England Patriots
Eric Ebron TE North Carolina
27. Cincinnati Bengals
CJ Mosley OLB Alabama
28. San Francisco 49ers
Jordan Matthews WR Vanderbilt
29. Seattle Seahawks
Anthony Johnson DT LSU
30. Denver Broncos
Kyle Van Noy OLB BYU
31. New Orleans Saints
Jason Verrett CB TCU
32. Kansas City Chiefs
Austin Seferian-Jenkins TE Washington
2nd Round
33. Jacksonville Jaguars
Bishop Sankey RB Washington
34. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
D Anthony Thomas RB/WR Oregon
35. Minnesota Vikings
Ryan Shazier ILB Ohio St
36. New York Giants
Kyle Fuller CB Virginia Tech
37. Houston Texans
Derek Carr QB Fresno St
38. Washington Redskins
Craig Loston S LSU
39. Pittsburgh Steelers
Adrian Hubbard OLB Alabama
40. Atlanta Falcons
James Hurst OT North Carolina
41. Buffalo Bills
Will Sutton DT Arizona St
42. Philadelphia Eagles
Daniel McCullers NT Tennessee
43. Cleveland Browns
Lamarcus Joyner CB/S Florida St
44. St. Louis Rams
Odell Beckham WR LSU
45. Oakland Raiders
Gabe Jackson OG Mississippi St
46. Miami Dolphins
Dominique Easley DT Florida
47. Tennessee Titans
Paul Richardson WR Colorado
48. Baltimore Ravens
Antone Exum CB Virginia Tech
49. New York Jets
Lache Seastrunk RB Baylor
50. Arizona Cardinals
Stephen Morris QB Miami
51. Dallas Cowboys
Scott Crichton DE Oregon St
52. Chicago Bears
Chris Smith DE Arkansas
53. San Diego Chargers
Trent Murphy OLB Stanford
54. Carolina Panthers
Brandon Coleman WR Rutgers
55. Detroit Lions
Denzel Perryman OLB Miami
56. Green Bay Packers
Christian Jones ILB Florida St
57. Indianapolis Colts
Darqueze Dennard CB Michigan St
58. New England Patriots
Bryan Stork C Florida State
59. Cincinnati Bengals
Zack Martin OG Notre Dame
60. San Francisco 49ers
Aaron Lynch OLB South Florida
61. Seattle Seahawks
Corey Robinson OT South Carolina
62. Denver Broncos
Justin Gilbert CB Oklahoma St
63. New Orleans Saints
DaQuan Jones DT Penn State
64. San Francisco 49ers (via Kansas City Chiefs)
Ed Stinson DE Alabama
3rd Round
65. Jacksonville Jaguars
Michael Sam DE Missouri
66. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Jace Amaro TE Texas Tech
67. Minnesota Vikings
Josh Huff WR Oregon
68. New York Giants
Travis Swanson C Arkansas
69. Houston Texans
AJ Johnson ILB Tennessee
70. Washington Redskins
Aaron Colvin CB Oklahoma
71. Cleveland Browns (via Pittsburgh Steelers)
Shayne Skov ILB Stanford
72. Atlanta Falcons
Deandre Coleman DE California
73. Buffalo Bills
Jarvis Landry WR LSU
74. Philadelphia Eagles
Johnny Manziel QB Texas A&M
75. Cleveland Browns
Anthony Steen OG Alabama
76. St. Louis Rams
Deone Bucannon S Washington St
77. Oakland Raiders
Kareem Martin DE North Carolina
78. Miami Dolphins
Bene Benwikere CB San Jose St
79. San Francisco 49ers (via Tennessee Titans)
Damian Swann CB Georgia
80. Baltimore Ravens
La'el Collins OT LSU
81. New York Jets
Ka'Deem Carey RB Arizona
82. Arizona Cardinals
Taylor Hart DE Oregon
83. Dallas Cowboys
Timmy Jernigan DT Florida St
84. Chicago Bears
Dion Bailey S USC
85. San Diego Chargers
Jared Abbrederis WR Wisconsin
86. Carolina Panthers
Corey Moore S Georgia
87. Detroit Lions
Tyler Larsen OC Utah St
88. Green Bay Packers
Morgan Breslin OLB USC
89. Indianapolis Colts
Jeremiah Attaochu OLB Georgia Tech
90. New England Patriots
Ryan Groy OG Wisconsin
91. Cincinnati Bengals
A.J. McCarron QB Alabama
92. San Francisco 49ers
Seantrel Henderson OT Miami
93. Minnesota Vikings (via Seattle Seahawks)
Carl Bradford OLB Arizona St
94. Denver Broncos
Demarcus Lawrence DE Boise St
95. New Orleans Saints
Jackson Jeffcoat OLB Texas
96. Kansas City Chiefs
Brandin Cooks WR Oregon St
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Not a fan. Rather go with Roby in the 1st and Perryman in the 2nd,
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Post subject: hmmm
Love the Browns draft... #1 WR, a potential franchise QB and a new RB in the 2nd. Although I might be tempted to wait on the RB and take Carlo Hyde in the 3rd and draft a #2 CB with our 2nd. We have Dion Lewis coming back next year. He had great speed and Hyde would be a good power back to have.
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13. Oakland Raiders RaShede Hageman DT Minnesota
Raiders have a top 10 D now and Hageman could take this D to the next level. Excellent pick.
45. Oakland Raiders AJ Johnson ILB Tennessee
Raiders have zero need for a ILB or pretty much any LB in that case aside. It's one position that were stacked at.
Would go Michael Sam to feel the void at pass rush end.
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:32 pm
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As much as I love Mosley, Evans would be a much better pick there. And we don't need a RB. Give us your top guard or corner.
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Beasley has no business going in the top-8. Give us Richardson or Mack if we can't trade down.
Good second, though.
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Post subject: Re: hmmm
Mastercheddaar wrote:
Love the Browns draft... #1 WR, a potential franchise QB and a new RB in the 2nd. Although I might be tempted to wait on the RB and take Carlo Hyde in the 3rd and draft a #2 CB with our 2nd. We have Dion Lewis coming back next year. He had great speed and Hyde would be a good power back to have.
that is all
I have no idea why. I think Mettenberger is being severaly overdraftedn and I also think he's not the type of QB that the Browns will be looking for. De Anthony while interesting is so small that I can't see the Browns going that way. He definitely doesn't look like an every down back. Lee is slight as well. I do think that the Browns want speed but this is just too small for anything other than specialists.
Overall, I think it sucks. There's potential, but there's a boatload of risk in every pick.
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Really like the Cardinals draft. Easley could be the perfect replacement for Dockett if he gets cut this offseason. Although Easley's knees do scare me.
I have a hard time seeing the Cards not taking a QB in the first 2 rounds but who knows what they actually end up doing.
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That's a nice Panthers draft. Hits 2 needs for us.
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Works for me.
2017 Draft Needs: Interior O-line, Pass Rushing DE, Linebacker, Kicker, Overall Team Speed.
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I can't disagree with the positions the Vikings draft there.
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Love The Bucs Picks
But Bessley is not a top 10 draft pick
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I'd go with Shazier in rd 1 for the Bengals. They are extremely thin at LB, and I think Kirkpatrick is starting to get his feet under him at CB.
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Pretty good. You targeted two positions the Steelers need to look at. I wouldn't mind Coleman either in the second round. I would like Watkins or Evans in the first but with the way your mocked went there was no OTs worth taking in the second.
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I'd go with Shazier in rd 1 for the Bengals. They are extremely thin at LB, and I think Kirkpatrick is starting to get his feet under him at CB.
They get Lamur back next year, and he and Burfict are our nickel LBs. I like Shazier, but would he play enough, and/or is he better enough than Lamur, to warrant a first round pick?
Dre may be getting better, but keep in mind Newman is 35, Adam is 30, and Hall is coming off a second torn Achilles.
If we draft a LB, I think SLB is more important.
2017 Draft Needs: Interior O-line, Pass Rushing DE, Linebacker, Kicker, Overall Team Speed.
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text: The fatal finale to DEATH OF A GOBLIN! This is it, the gut-wrenching conclusion to Spider-Man's battle against both the Green Goblin - and his son, the Hobgoblin! It's been building for years - now the tragic tale of Peter Parker, Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn comes to a shattering conclusion!


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Peach State Summer Theatre
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Peach State Summer Theatre (PSST!) is a professional summer theater located on the campus of Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga.
PSST! presents quality musical theater in an intimate 220-seat theater. Each season consists of three musicals presented in rotating repertory. In 2014, the productions will be "Mary Poppins", "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and "42nd Street". Performances are scheduled each week, Tuesday through Sunday.
Performances, in full rotation, are Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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U.S. home prices could rise 4% a year, forecast says
Average U.S. home prices — down by a third since 2006 and still falling — will rise almost 4% a year for the next five years, according to a new forecast.
Market watcher Fiserv sees prices stabilizing by summer's end and then climbing, quickly in some places until gains taper off. The forecast is based on an analysis of leading home price indexes.
Investors will drive much of the momentum, as they are now in cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.
First-time and trade-up buyers will eventually follow.
By the time home prices stop falling, they'll be almost 35% below their 2006 peak, Fiserv says.
National Mortgage Rates
Separately, market researcher CoreLogic said Tuesday that U.S. home prices rose 0.6% in March from February, the first month-over-month increase since July.
Good affordability and declining inventories are key factors.
Conventional mortgage payments now account for just 12% of median family incomes vs. a historical norm of 20%, says Fiserv economist David Stiff.
The Fiserv forecast, done with Moody's Analytics, assumes steady economic growth with no major shocks. Markets hardest hit by foreclosures will show the biggest five-year increases in home appreciation, it adds.
Six of the 10 markets where annualized prices are expected to rise most over the next five years had price drops of more than 50% from their peaks.
Las Vegas, for instance, is 61% off its 2006 peak.
Meanwhile, Realtor.com says Florida has more cities than any other state that show the strongest signs of a housing recovery.
Each quarter, the real estate website assesses housing data, including changes in list prices, inventories of homes for sale and local economies.
Phoenix, Miami and Orlando are the top turnaround cities in its study, based on those markets' improvements in the first quarter compared with a year earlier.
Asking prices are up more than 20% in Phoenix and Miami, says Realtor.com. Inventories are down more than 40%.
Naples, Fla., and Boise are also climbing in the rankings.
New to the list of top 25 markets are Oakland and San Jose, which are benefiting from growth in the tech industry.
The continued performance of local markets will depend a lot on the economy as well as on how quickly lenders dispose of distressed homes, says Realtor.com CEO Steve Berkowitz.
Realtor.com is owned by Move, which operates a network of real estate websites.
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Translation by Stephen M. Cohen, Ph.D. , February 4, 2004
I was born in the month of Kislev, in the year 5648 (December 1888). I was the third son. The two children before me (boys) did not survive their third birthday, and before I entered the world, my mother, as she used to say, remained with empty hands. The cause of their early death was the crowdedness, poverty, and want, and, above all, the epidemic childhood diseases that rampaged wildly and untamed in those days. They therefore could say, eyn beys, asher eyn sham meys [no house without death therein]. Very rarely were there parents who raised all their children to adulthood.
When my mother came to the time to bring me into the world, she decided to change residence and tried to give birth in Lakhva, whence she originated, and where she had her whole family. And actually in Lakhva, on a frosty night, my mother (upon her be peace), at her uncle's home, behind the oven, brought me into the world. And there, behind the oven, I noticed for the first time the bright shine ofan oil lamp .
Thereafter, they brought me into the covenant of Avraham Avinu [Abraham our Ancestor], gave me the name Avrohom Yitskhok, and blessed me, zeh hakotn godol yihyeh [This little one will be great], and I was already a youth of 4 weeks old, when my mother had to return home to Lenin. Burdened with fear for the life of her child, she took me to the old Lakhva rabbi, the esteemed sage R' Dov Ber Ztsl, who blessed me, that I should extend my days and my parents should live to see me raised to Torah, to the marriage canopy, and to good deeds. Because of this, the rabbi laid upon me a third name, Alter [the old one]. So I still call myself Alter Avrohom Yitskhok. If all the attempted methods caused me to be able to write this in my sixty-fourth yearI don't know, perhaps yes .Because in the house into which my mother brought me and where her elder two children died, it is really a great miracle that I survived. Even greater is the miracle and wonder that after me were born five more children in that alleged house, of which only one, a boy aged three, died of diphtheria. That is amshteygns said was no house, but a grave. A little room with one window, without a bit of sunshine. And so in the house, a family of seven souls crammed itself in. Until today, when I think of that time, I get a chill, that grave with many other similar living corpses are gone with the fire in the great conflagration that came about in the year 1904.
After the four semesters of studying in Lakhva, I could already read a page of Gemara with Tosafot. To my good head for learning I added a good little voice, and I sang for four years with the old cantor, R' Yisroel Khayim (upon him be peace), and used to gain pleasure from my singing the prayers in synagogue. And certainly, with all my abilities, I was no rabbi, as many have suggested, but also no famous cantor. I was a tradesmana carpenter. In the conditions and circumstances in which I found myself, it was impossibleregardless of my will and diligencethat I could reach something higher. Being a fourteen-year-old youth, I came to Avner Golub in Kantor to learn carpentry. Also, the arrival in Avner's in Kantor was a big thing, to which not all of my equals could attain. In the Kantor carpentry-shop, one worked according to one's own hours, with a two-hour break for lunch. In the other town workshops, they slaved the whole day, including Saturday night. At age 18, I went away to Ekaterinoslav. There, in the big city, I opened up a new world for myself. I joined a reading group, read and learned a lot, and acquired a certain amount of knowledge in Yiddish and Russian literature. I also learned to play a musical instrument (guitar). Politically, I belonged to the S.S. (Zionist-Socialists), today's Po'alei-Tsiyon. In general, my three years in Ekaterinoslav were the best years of my life. Attaining 21 years of age, I came home to military conscription. That was at the end of 1909, I was freed from service as a first legotnik, i.e., provider for the family. Six months later, in March 1910, I married my cousin Khave, the daughter of my mother's sister, and in October of the same year we left for America.
Hard, very hard it was for me to separate from my poor, unlucky parents, whose only consolation in their dark life I was. Very dear also were my relatives and friends, and also my dear pals. In America, in the golden land, at the beginning we were just like all greenhorns, going not birdlike. In March of 1911, towards the anniversary of our marriage, my wife gave birth to our first and only son (after him came our three daughters), and life began to flow its normal course.
The first week after coming to America, I was immediately attached to my brother landslayt. I came to their get-together, and that was the initiation of my lifelong activities in America. I provided my whole energy, all my abilities for my brother and sister landslayt in all domains, both in joy, and, God forbid, in sorrow. In brief, I took part in all activities of our landslayt organization: philanthropic activities, communal and national ones, such as the United Jewish Appeal, etc.
Our landsmanshaft has nothing to be ashamed of, with its work in all domains. Just the opposite, in fact: it brings itself closer to the moment when our landsmanshaft will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. We will have much to explain, as a small bunch of immigrants showed so much accomplishment.
I am proud that I and my wife Khave have a big share in all the good deeds.
[N.B.: Lakhva and Mikashevitsh are nearby shtetls; Kantor is a town whose non-Yiddish name I have not researched. All words and names are transliterated according to YIVO conventions. The abbreviation R' stands for Reb, a respectful honorific for Jews similar to Mr., and is left untranslated.]
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The more than 90 yachts, boats, kayaks and canoes that will grace Newport Harbor's channels for the 105th annual Christmas Boat Parade need a theme, and in what has become a tradition itself, parade organizers are asking the public for some help.
"We had theme ideas come and go, but for the past several years, we've just had the community come up with their best ideas, and we use one of those," said Jeff Parker, vice president at the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Last year, more than 150 theme submissions were sent in, and Parker said 120 have already reached his mailbox this year.
Previous themes used for the parade include last year's "Surf, Sand and Santa," 2007's "Twas the Lights before Christmas," and 2002's patriotic theme, "Celebrating America with Lights."
Boat owners signed up for the parade cater their boat decorations to the theme, with some spending upwards of $50,000 to catch the judges' eyes and spread Christmas cheer.
With the harbor's $10 million Lower Bay dredging project complete, Parker hopes some of the larger, deep-draft boats that might have been concerned with shallow spots along the 14.7-mile parade route will return to participate in the parade.
"Other harbors have parades, but we have boats from all over Southern California come down to be a part Newport's," Park said.
Submissions for this year's parade theme can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com, or dropped off at the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce offices at 1470 Jamboree Road, Newport Beach. Entries are due Wednesday, and the winning entry will win a free VIP excursion for two on the official Santa boat for an evening during the parade.
This year's show is scheduled for five nights from Dec. 18 through Dec. 22, starting at 6:30 each night.
Organizers for the 105th annual Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade want the public to come up with the theme of this year's parade. The Current staff thought of a few themselves:
•The Auld Man and the Sea (New Year's and Hemingway collide)
Christmas Chic: Fashionable Santa and his Elves.
How the Wench Stole Christmas
The Grinch that Stole My Dock
Email your own submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com, or drop them off at the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce offices at 1470 Jamboree Road, Newport Beach.
Contact the writer: email@example.com or 714-796-2468


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In War Against Iran, U.S. Firepower Would Vie With Guerrilla Tactics (WSJ) WALL STREET JOURNAL) By NATHAN HODGE 04/14/12)
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577314444082569820.html
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Adm. Jonathan Greenert made an important observation last fall from the tower of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while in the Strait of Hormuz on the southern coast of Iran, the world´s busiest oil-shipping lane.
The chief of naval operations was sailing in a flotilla that showed off the Navy´s overwhelming power to strike at long distances: F-18 fighter jets, Tomahawk cruise missiles and deck guns able to fire a shell 15 miles.
Yet in the claustrophobic waters of the strait, which narrows to just 24 miles, Adm. Greenert noted that all that long-range firepower could potentially be countered by the Iranian patrol boats that came out to track the U.S. warships. Faced with a fight in close quarters, Adm. Greenert told a Senate panel recently, "You also may need a sawed-off shotgun."
As the U.S. and other Western powers prepare to meet Saturday in Istanbul with Iran to resume negotiations over its nuclear program, the U.S. military is sharpening its contingency planning. Advocates of peaceful engagement say economic sanctions against the Islamic regime are starting to bite, and are hopeful that Tehran will give up its uranium-enrichment program. Iran says the program is for use in electricity generation, but intelligence services say the regime is close to developing the capability of building a nuclear weapon. The Obama administration plays down the chances of a breakthrough at this meeting, the first face-to-face encounter between US. and Iranian diplomats in more than a year, saying the best outcome may be agreement for a second round.
Should all else fail and the U.S. or Israel decide to attack Iran, say analysts, they would face a miniature version of the U.S. military, circa 1975sustained, barely, by a world-wide spare-parts bazaar. Experts say the Islamic Republic´s claims of advanced weaponrysuch as armed, Predator-style dronesare mere boasts.
Military officers and defense analysts say the U.S. could quickly overwhelm Iran´s air defenses, leaving evenly spaced bomb craters, for example, on runways to disable Iranian air bases. Pinpoint airstrikes would attempt to destroy all Iran´s known nuclear facilitiesa goal complicated by the fact that the regime has buried some of its production sites. The Pentagon is rushing to upgrade its largest conventional bomb to better penetrate fortified underground facilities.
Naval officers believe Iran would retaliate by waging the naval equivalent of guerrilla warfare in the Persian Gulf by mining the Strait of Hormuz or swarming U.S. naval vessels with small boats.
Such threats, so-called asymmetric warfare, could prove as dangerous and unpredictable as roadside bombs in Afghanistan or Iraq, with an low-cost mine potentially crippling or sinking a billion-dollar warship.
In such a scenario, the U.S. military would face a time-consuming and often perilous effort to reopen shipping lanes to international oil traffic.
"They have stayed true to their stripes," said a senior military officer in the Middle East. "They have always taken an asymmetric approach, going back to the ´80s."
Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran had among the most formidable conventional arsenals in the region, equipped with modern weaponry sold to the Shah by U.S. defense firms.
Iran´s military was later battered during eight years of war with Iraq in the 1980s. Iran has since cobbled together an array of weaponssome homegrown but much acquired from China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union.
Iran has already threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to tighter international sanctions. Military analysts now estimate Iran has amassed as many as 5,000 naval mines, ranging from rudimentary devices that explode on contact, to high-tech mines that, tethered to the sea floor, can identify the acoustic signature of specific types of ships and explode only under the richest targets.
Scott Truver, a mine warfare analyst, said finding and clearing Iranian mines would be a cat-and-mouse game for the Navy. Mine warfare, he said "is as tough and dangerous as the IEDs on land were. Mines are equally hard to detect, if not harder."
The U.S. Navy knows firsthand. In April 1988, the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine, which blew a hole the size of a pickup truck in the hull, and nearly sank the ship. The U.S. retaliated by attacking two Iranian oil platforms and sinking several Iranian vessels.
Among the newest threats are sophisticated torpedoes Iran acquired from Russia that can home in on the turbulence of a ship´s wake and aren´t easily fooled by the decoys commonly used by warships.
Military planners worry about torpedoes launched from Iran´s three Russian-built Kilo submarines, as well as approximately four North Korean Yono-class mini-submarines, the class of vessel that sank a South Korean warship in 2010, killing 46 sailors.
Iran´s mini-subs cannot range far or stay long under water. But in the close quarters of the Strait of Hormuz, they could be easily positioned for attacks.
Iran also is known for its fleet of hundreds of small speedboats that can carry everything from machine guns to large antiship missiles. While a single speedboat may not imperil a warship, a swarm of small boats could overwhelm a larger ship´s defenses. In early 2008, a cluster of Iranian patrol boats sailed close to a convoy of U.S. warships. No shots were fired, but the provocation underscored potential dangers.
Conventional naval vessels aren´t the only concern. Iran can deploy mines or even missiles from merchant vessels, or dhows. Such threats would be nearly impossible to spot in the crowded shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf.
Ten years ago, the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon held a top-secret war game to test a Persian Gulf scenario. A maverick Marine Corps general, Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, led the "Red Team," the fictional Iranian adversary. Gen. Van Riper relayed orders to his front-line troops by motorcycle messenger, so the U.S. could not hack into his networks; he sent out speedboats armed with missiles and explosives to swarm U.S. warships. After the fictional smoke cleared, more than a dozen U.S. warships were at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
That exercise, known as Millennium Challenge, was a wake-up call about the potential of asymmetric warfare. The Navy has since unveiled plans to boost the defenses of its ships in the Gulf.
Adm. Greenert said the Navy is interested in new robotic underwater vehicles that can search for mines and submarines and improved Gatling guns to counter Iranian small-boat attacks. The Navy has rushed to test and field a new anti-torpedo torpedoa weapon that would potentially counter Iran´s more sophisticated torpedoes.
The Navy recently announced plans to double its fleet of Avenger- class minesweeping ships in the Persian Gulf.
The U.S. military is taking other steps. Earlier this year, the Pentagon unveiled plans to refit a transport ship as a staging platform for different kinds of missions, from countering mines to launching remotely piloted aircraft. It also could be used as a platform for launching commando operations with small patrol boats to intercept Iranian vessels, escort ships or protect oil platforms.
Beyond the waters of the Persian Gulf, military planners worry about Iran´s expanding arsenal of ballistic missiles, built with North Korean cooperation and know-how. The Defense Department estimates Iran has around 1,000 short- and long-range missiles that can travel from 90 to 1,200 miles, the largest inventory in the Middle East.
The longer-range Shahab-3, which could reach Israel, has received the most attention. But Iran´s shorter-range Scuds are on mobile platforms, allowing them to more easily evade detection.
Within striking distance of Iranian missiles are U.S. Army installations in Kuwait, a command post in Qatar, and the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
While relatively inaccurate, those missiles may have the potential to strike panic or provoke a wider war if they hit U.S. allies in the region. A retired Navy officer said the missiles don´t have sophisticated targeting but could score a blind hit on a Saudi oil field, a Qatari gas production facility or a city in the United Arab Emirates. "Face it, how accurate does it need to be?" he said.
Officials with Iran´s elite Revolutionary Guards threaten reprisals against any country used as a launch pad for strikes against Iran. A conflict with Iran, then, could be a real-world test for U.S. missile- defense plans. As part of a shift from Bush-era missile defense, which focused on defending U.S. territory from a long-range missile attack, the Obama administration has sought defenses against shorter- range Iranian missiles targeting U.S. troops overseas, as well as allies.
There is also a presumed terror threat. Iran´s Ministry of Intelligence and Security could activate so-called sleeper agents for acts of sabotage or terror attacks, according to U.S. officials. Militants sponsored or trained by Iran might attack U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq or bases in the Middle East.
"The assumption is that there are sleeper cells all around that would be activated in some way," said retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, the former head of U.S. Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters that oversees the region.
Military professionals generally agree that U.S. forces would quickly overwhelm Iran´s air defenses. Former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley, an architect of the shock-and-awe air campaign against Saddam Hussein in 2003, said a U.S. air campaign could inflict "a sense of strategic paralysis" on Iran´s air defenses by targeting command-and-control facilities, early warning radars and airfields.
But, Gen. Moseley said, Iran´s air-defense systemcomprised of mostly older U.S. Hawk missiles and some surface-to-air missiles of Soviet designwas "not a trivial" threat to U.S. aircraft. "Anything that shoots at you merits some respect," he said.
Military officials said Iran´s forces shouldn´t be entirely discounted. In the late 1970s, the Iranians "had all the latest and greatest stuff" from the U.S., said Richard Brown, a Navy fighter pilot who helped train Iranian aviators in Isfahan.
Iran maintains a fleet of Vietnam-era F-4 and F-5 jets, according to defense analysts; its helicopter fleet, which includes versions of the Chinook, the Cobra and the Huey, would look familiar to a U.S. military veteran.
It still flies the F-14 Tomcat, made popular in the movie "Top Gun." Iran was the only foreign military customer for the F-14, once a high- end U.S. fighter.
Today, many of these aircraft are close to the end of their service life. Aviation experts say Iran keeps them airworthy by cannibalizing and reverse-engineering spare parts. Iran bought nearly 80 of the F- 14s. Analysts believe around 25 can still fly. By comparison, Saudi Arabia´s fleet of U.S.-made F-15 fighters outnumbers Iran´s F-14s by about six to one.
Veterans of the 1970s training programs in Iran doubt the Iranians have maintained enough parts to keep its U.S.-made aircraft in flying condition. Ric Morrow, a naval aviator who worked on the Iranian F-14 training program, said what remained of the Iranian air force would be "no contest" for the U.S.
The air-to-air weapons built for Iran´s aircraft also may have outlived their shelf life. Steve Zaloga, a missile expert at the Teal Group, a defense consultancy, said the solid rocket motors and batteries go bad over time.
Some evidence suggests, however, that Iran operates a global procurement network to buy spare U.S. military parts. Since 2007, the U.S. Justice Department has handled more than two dozen export and embargo-related criminal prosecutions related to military spare parts destined for Iran.
Clif Burns, an export attorney at the law firm Bryan Cave in Washington, D.C., tracks such cases. He said Iran appeared to give shopping lists to independent contractors who buy parts in the world´s aviation market. "The procurement effort is pretty large and enforcement alone isn´t able to stop the flow of aircraft parts into Iran," he said.
Jay Solomon contributed to this article. (Copyright © Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) 04/14/12)
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The hills were alive with the sound of ETF launches last week. Six new products came to launch, and — brace yourself — half were dedicated to investors with a thirst for yield.
Of course, if you've been perusing the site, you're actually familiar with the income-based funds. We tackled these three last week, so a quick summary:
- Global X SuperIncome Preferred ETF (NYSE:SPFF): This exchange-traded fund from Global X bundles about 50 of the highest-yielding preferred stocks out there. Here's a look at my recap of SPFF.
- Market Vectors Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (NYSE:PFXF): Market Vectors launched this fund the same day SPFF came out. Exactly what it sounds like, PFXF targets preferred securities, but it actually poo-poos financials' preferreds — typically the most common series found in other funds.
- ETRACS Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSE:AMU): This exchange-traded note essentially is a stand-in for the now capped JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSE:AMJ), tracking an index dedicated to popular yield-wielders, master limited partnerships. Aaron Levitt dug into AMU.
So what else came through?
Invesco added to its line of technical funds with the launch of the PowerShares DWA SmallCap Technical Leaders Portfolio (NYSE:DWAS). This puppy invests at least 90% of assets into about 200 small-cap stocks that are deemed by Dorsey, Wright & Associates to have strong relative technical characteristics, and charges 0.6% in fees. PowerShares also offers a general Technical Leaders fund (NYSE:PDP), as well as emerging markets (NYSE:PIE) and developed markets (NYSE:PIZ) funds.
Also coming to life were a pair of leveraged currency funds: the ProShares Ultra Australian Dollar (NYSE:GDAY) and ProShares UltraShort Australian Dollar (NYSE:CROC) ETFs.
I'll try not to roll my eyes at the tickers (oops, I failed), but they're pretty much how they sound — double-leveraged funds tracking the Australian dollar. ProShares also offers leveraged funds for the euro and yen; considering the increased popularity in the Australian dollar thanks to the nation's close ties with China's growth, CROC and GDAY are logical additions.
Of course, should you not want to tangle with something so speculative — in addition to multiplied gains and losses, CROC and GDAY are rebalanced daily, so their long-term movements likely won't reflect the Aussie dollar too accurately — you also can get exposure to the Australian dollar through CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust (NYSE:FXA).
Including last week's launches, nine new exchange-traded products have come to market in July. The previous week saw new funds aimed at alpha & beta, as well as financials.
In all, 131 new funds have come out so far in 2012, according to XTF.com.
Kyle Woodley is the assistant editor of InvestorPlace.com. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Follow him on Twitter at @KyleWoodley.


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Photo gallery: Jake Davidson takes Danish supermodel Nina Agdal to his prom
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With just about two hours of sleep, Jake Davidson felt like he was still in a dream state on Friday.
The night before, the Sherman Oaks teen had pulled up to his high school prom in Santa Monica and stepped out of the limo with Danish supermodel Nina Agdal on his arm.
"I never thought it was going to happen, but it was quite the twist -- one of the most awesome twists," Davidson said the next day. "I'll definitely tell stories about for this for the rest of my life."
Davidson managed to land the date after his first attempt - using YouTube to ask out the more famed American supermodel Kate Upton -- didn't quite work out. When Upton said her schedule wouldn't allow her to make it, Davidson soon heard from Agdal's reps that she'd be glad to go. Agdal, 21, was the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition's 2012 Rookie of the Year and is the bikini-clad beach girl in Carl's Jr. television ads.
So there he found himself at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica just before sunset on Thursday, arriving to his prom with a world-renowned model as news cameras were rolling.
Davidson said Agdal was easy to talk with and the two got to know each other pretty well during their more than one-hour-long limo ride in Los Angeles traffic. Among the things they had in common was that they both play basketball and lack skills on the dance floor.
"I don't really dance and neither does she," Davidson said. "So we bonded over the inability to slow dance."
Agdal arrived to Davidson's house around 3 p.m. Thursday in a limo with a flowing sage-green gown. In heels she towered over him by several inches. There the couple conducted several prom traditions from taking photos in the yard to pinning on the boutonniere and putting on the corsage. Davidson's friend Talia Myers, an aspiring filmmaker who helped him make the original Upton video, was there to capture it all in film and photographs.
"She seemed genuinely excited to be there," Myers said. "I mean, she hung out with us for like six hours, which is above and beyond what we expected. She just made it really special for him."
Myers even got some pointers from Adgal that allowed for her to capture "unique footage," she said.
Agdal seemed to enjoy herself as well, and afterward tweeted out: "Had such a great prom night. Thank you jakedavidson23 for being an awesome date!"
Davidson's mother, Cheryl, was happy for her son, but sought to calm the hype.
"I think people need to keep this in perspective. It's a 17-year-old boy asking a cute girl to the prom. That's it," Cheryl Davidson said on Thursday as her son and Agdal headed to a pre-prom party near Beverly Hills. "Nina's totally thrilled to be doing this. No one has twisted her arm."
Their night was cut short -- the couple only stayed at prom for about an hour due to issues with cameras filming other prom attendees who were minors -- and ended with "a nice hug."
"I kind of jokingly invited her to lunch, and I'm still waiting for that," Davidson said Friday morning. "But I definitely said that next time she's in L.A. she's welcome to hit me up."
Davidson's prom adventure all started when he and Myers posted the video on YouTube in March, featuring him reading the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition with Upton on the cover, and then shaving, doing push ups and showering all while listing reasons she should go with him. It concluded with Davidson on one knee asking Upton out.
The video has since gotten 2.6 million hits. Upton later said on national TV that she was thinking about it and would check her schedule. But when the schedule didn't work out, he quite happily ended up with Agdal instead.
"I had a great prom. It was shorter than I expected, but it was still an awesome day," Davidson said. "It was a once in a lifetime opportunity."
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