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Middle Tennessee 42, Florida Atlantic 35 (OT): Logan Kilgore connected with Kyle Griswould on a 19-yard touchdown pass in overtime as the visiting Blue Raiders defeated the Owls in a battle of former Sun Belt Conference foes.
After Griswould reeled in the go-ahead catch, Middle Tennessee (3-1, 1-1 Conference USA) made a defensive stand as Dearco Nolan sacked Jaquez Johnson on the Blue Raiders' 9 to seal its eighth win in eleven meetings against Florida Atlantic (1-3, 0-2).
Reggie Whatley gave Middle Tennessee a 35-28 lead with 1:32 remaining in the fourth quarter after he raced 64 yards for his third touchdown. The junior, who rushed for 154 yards, also scored from 15 and 19 yards out while Jordan Parker carried the ball 28 times for 115 yards and a touchdown.
Whatley's final touchdown looked like it would stand before Lucky Whitehead reeled in a 21-yard scoring pass from Johnson with three seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.
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Mobile police stations set up in village stores, garden centres, car parks, libraries and even lay-bys have flopped – after an average of just 0.5 people visited every hour.
Some pop-up police stations did not attract a single visitor to call in for a chat about "policing concerns".
PCSOs who manned the 1,555 police contact point sessions in 180 rural locations across Kent since July have been told to go on "visible patrol" if no one turns up.
But Sharon Barclay, 43, of Canterbury, said: "I feel sorry for the poor PCSOs who are asked to sit around in a village store waiting to speak to Mrs Miggins about her lost cat."
She said residents wanted "cops on the streets, not PCSOs sitting around drinking tea in the middle of nowhere".
Police and Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes said the success of the 90-minute sessions could not be measured "by statistics alone".
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The Delta: On the Sacramento River, striper trollers are working from Sandy Beach to Collinsville on the West Bank. Most fish run from keeper size to 8 pounds, with an occasional fish in the teens. Anglers are using the usual striper lures; Rebels, Bombers, Yozuris, Angry Eyes and Predators.
Bait fishermen are working areas from the Rio Vista Bridge all the way down to Sherman Island. Best baits are shad and sardines.
Sturgeon fishermen are working the Liberty Island area down to the Ferry at Cache Slough, the Power Lines, light 5 and 33, Montezuma and the Mothball Fleet. Best baits are shad, shrimp baits and eel. Some anglers are using roe and doing well.
On the San Joaquin River, Striper trollers are fishing in the areas of the Mokelumne, Sounding Board, San Andreas and Santa Clara Shoals down to Eddos. Most fish are running from keeper size to about 7 pounds, using Rebels, P-Line Predator, Yozuris with 6-inch worm trailers.
Bait fishermen are working the Sounding Board area, mouth of Big Potato Slough, both shoals and the Eddos area, using shad and sardines. Some anglers are drifting jumbo minnows. Most fish are running keeper size to 9 pounds, with an occasional fish in the teens.
Lake Amador: Trollers are pulling Rapalas in orange and gold, hot steel, black and silver, F5s and F7s. Other anglers are trolling small flashers with a nightcrawler.
Bank fishermen are casting small jigs, Kastmasters, and Wooley Buggers. Top baits have been PowerBait, and colors reported this week are rainbow, chartreuse, salmon peach, salmon egg red, Berkeley Trout Worms, Mice Tails and nightcrawlers.
Lake Pardee: Pardee is usually good on the weekends due to the planting on Fridays and Saturdays. Most fish come off of Berkeley Trout Worms, Power Eggs and PowerBaits in Hatchery Brown in garlic scent. Berkeley Power Eggs in brown colors working best. Also, try casting Wooley Buggers, Kastmasters and Rooster Tails.
Trollers are pulling Needlefish, Triple Teasers, as well as small spinners and small Hoochies picking up both trout and kokanee. Best areas have been trolling up the river. Fish are in the top 15 feet of the water.
Lake Camanche: Trollers are working the river channel, Big Hat and the dam area. Some anglers are starting to use their downriggers, but still running their lines back 150-200 feet. Best depths are 5-30 feet, using Rapalas, Needlefish, R-Lures, Kastmasters and Excels.
Bait fishermen are fishing in areas of the spillway area, Rabbit Creek and up into the coves.
Bank fishermen are fishing the north shore boat ramp, and the day-use area, as well as Chevron Point on the south shore, and the low water boat ramp by the narrows. Best baits are garlic-scented Berkeley PowerBait and Berkeley Mice Tails.
In the south shore pond, best lures are Berkeley PowerBait, Berkeley Mice Tails and Kastmasters.
New Melones: Trout are planted weekly. Trollers are fishing the main part of the lake and Angel's Cove. Some trollers are starting to work all the way south to Peoria Cove and Bear Cove areas pulling small Flashers with nightcrawlers and any lure that resembles a shad pattern.
Bank fishermen are working Glory Hole Point, Angel's Cove, Tuttle Town Ramp and the Highway 49 Bridge, using Berkeley PowerBait in salmon peach, chartreuse and Power Eggs and nightcrawlers. Some anglers are casting Kastmasters, Rooster Tails and small crank baits.
Ocean: Fishermen are still getting some nice crab and sand dabs.
Local fisherman Mike Faught is the owner of Fisherman's Friend in Lodi. To view the Fisherman's Friend website go to www.mrkokanee.com.


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Flu Tips for Students in Residence Hall
Living in a Residence Hall in close proximity with roommates and housemates will be difficult if you or they have the flu. Here are some tips to help you get through the flu:
- Remember the basics of flu prevention: stay home when sick, wash hands frequently with soap and water when possible, cover your mouth and nose with your elbow, shoulder or a tissue when coughing or sneezing.
- "Social Distancing" can help prevent the spread of flu. Social distancing is about staying away from crowds and maintaining a six foot space away from others when you have to interact with them. Not easy, but it may help prevent you or others from getting sick.
- Those with flu-like illness should stay away from classes and limit interactions with other people (called "self-isolation") as much as possible, except to seek medical care, if needed, for at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever (a fever is defined as having a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 37.8 degrees Celsius or greater) or signs of a fever, without the use of fever-reducing medicines. Some people with influenza will not have fever; therefore, absence of fever does not mean absence of infection. They should stay away from others during this time period even if they are taking antiviral drugs for treatment of the flu.
- If your roommate, or someone with whom you are in close contact has influenza, please try to minimize direct, face-to-face contact with the ill individual and request that the ill individual wear a mask around you. Wash your hands frequently with hand sanitizer or warm water and soap. Get plenty of sleep and maintain healthy eating habits to help your immune system. You may want to consider temporarily relocating to your family`s home if this option is available to you.
- If close contact with others cannot be avoided, and you are ill, you should wear a surgical mask during the period of contact. Examples of close contact include being cared for by a "flu buddy" or family member, or having any other contact between persons likely to result in exposure to respiratory droplets. Kissing and sharing eating or drinking utensils should be avoided.
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Copenhagen 's Globe at City Hall Square has now received 1.813.828 climate-concerned text messages from around the world.
Are you a citizen of Hopenhagen yet?
Show your concern for the climate and take part in the world's virtual demonstration by texting "globe" to +45 2762 2222 (1231 if you are in Denmark) or go to Hopenhagen to see what gives people all around the world hope.
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I went there, it functions with difficulty with my system.
Those which invented this action cannot think simply!
The website's partially built in flash, but it's very intuitive and simple, maybe it's been an issue with your connection.
One of those completely-useless but nice-to-see things.
I partly agree, Federico.
I didn't even want to write about this at all, but I recieved 27 DMs from different people on twitter about this. So I thought it's not for me to decide.
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The graduation pictures of Korean beauty stars have become an issue once again.
Pictures were posted on an online community site on the 18th titled, "The Graduation pictures of Korea's best beauties".
In the pictures were actresses Ko So-young, Lee Min-jung, Kim Sa-rang, Moon Chae-won, Son Ye-jin, Song Hye-kyo, Jo Yeo-jung, Jeon Ji-hyeon, Ha Ji-won, Han Ji-min's high school graduation pictures.
Those who have seen the picture say, "I was dumbfounded at Kim Tae-hee", "Their pictures are outstanding as much as them", "They are all so pretty" and more.
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Mumbai: England spearhead James Anderson may have asked teammates not to treat Sachin Tendulkar with "too much respect" out in the middle, but batting coach Graham Gooch saluted The Master on Thursday evening.
Very publicly, at that.
At the Cricket Club of India (CCI)'s Brabourne Stadium, which has turned 75, Gooch said: "Sachin has not only inspired a nation, but has been such a wonderful ambassador for the game... He's a true hero... He has the desire, the discipline, and has made the sacrifices... I salute him."
Gooch was the England captain when Sachin scored his first International hundred, at Old Trafford, 22 years ago. He now has 99 more.
[Later, Gooch told The Telegraph: "I remember we talked about Sachin on that 1990 tour by India... We continue to talk about him. Absolutely amazing."]
Himself an outstanding opener, Gooch was speaking after being made an honorary life member of the elite CCI. Sachin, a Member of Parliament, was felicitated.
Raj Singh Dungarpur is no more, but the tradition of conferring honorary life memberships continues. Board president Narayanswamy Srinivasan, England captain Alastair Cook (who preferred to fine-tune strategy for the second Test), England coach Andy Flower and Duncan Fletcher, India's coach, also got the "honour."
Fletcher remarked that he was "surprised." Actually, many in the gathering felt the same way! Fletcher, after all, has done little to take Indian cricket forward.
In fact, Fletcher's tenure has been marked by humiliation in England and in Australia, between July 2011 and March this year. We also failed in the Asia Cup and didn't make even the semi-final of the recent World Twenty20.
Sachin, who spoke before Gooch, was eloquent and thanked the CCI for having made an exception back in the mid 1980s, which allowed him to play for the institution.
Had the rules been followed, Sachin couldn't have come anywhere close to the dressing rooms, strictly out of bounds for the U-18s.
Sachin got a tad emotional. "Whatever I say won't be enough, for the CCI is a fantastic club... I can't say try and get better, for you're already the best."
The exclusive gathering, which included Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men and a few of the England cricketers, gave an ovation.
Significantly, Srinivasan assured the CCI that a request to again become a regular venue for international cricket would be considered. He'd personally make a "strong recommendation" to colleagues in the Board.
The CCI has been losing out, to the Wankhede, for almost 40 years. It has been having its moments, but they have been very few, like the historic Test against Sri Lanka three years ago.


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But the darkness that enveloped Don at the end of the season may not have dissipated just yet.
"This actually really surpassed my expectations," Lawrence told us later on, well after the crowd had dissipated.
This dissipated as the anticipated quick revolt turned into an astonishingly brutal and prolonged war.
Now, the pressure to be "the cool guy" or "the drug guy" has dissipated.
Pat Robertson turns 80 next week, and his influence has dissipated.
This modification occurring in individuals is dissipated rather rapidly, especially when the chain of experimenters is broken.
He is not dissipated, and has no bad habits; but he does not amount to anything.
Her eyes, which had already lost much of the dissipated look, were alight with exaltation.
They laughed together, and all disappointment was dissipated in the laugh.
Some years ago a moustache was looked upon by serious English people as decidedly reckless and dissipated.
early 15c., from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare "to spread abroad, scatter, disperse; squander, disintegrate," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + supare "to throw, scatter," from PIE *swep- "to throw, sling, cast" (cf. Lithuanian supu "to swing, rock," Old Church Slavonic supo "to strew"). Related: Dissipated; dissipates; dissipating.


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As an industry, we need to do everything they can to make the dream of homeownership a reality. It is increasingly important that builders offer affordability to their customers—a BUILT GREEN® home saves the homeowner money in the short-term and the long-term. Nothing speaks more than the bottom line to your customer and to you as a builder. And as for the affordability of our programs, often new builder members are surprised at just how many of the requirements for a BUILT GREEN® certification they're already doing: affordability for the builder and affordability for the customer.
Consumers who purchase a BUILT GREEN® certified home will benefit from an increase in market and resale value. Canadian Home Builders Association's recent research has shown homes with green certification sell for close to 10% more on average than homes without green certification. It's always good to sell a home that requires little or no renovation. A prospective buyer may reduce the asking price of your home by more than the cost of a needed renovation, just to be sure. Energy efficiency is always in fashion, and your potential buyers will appreciate the utility savings your home offers. Further, there are many jurisdictions in Canada where an energy assessment is necessary before a home is sold—saving the homeowner approximately $300 - $500, depending on location.
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A builder can spend the same money, be code compliant, and affordably participate in our program. As builders increase their green building requirements, costs to build a home will escalate. Homebuilders will now have a choice as to how they achieve the requirement: prescriptive (do this/do that) or performance (EnerGuide). For builders participating in the BUILT GREEN® program, using the performance path, they know how to take those same dollars that would be used on the prescriptive path and get a better result for the home buyer. The energy efficiency in the BUILT GREEN® program is what requires some investment; many of the rest of the program's measures are cost neutral or even save money.
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Using a similar approach as she took with Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling has plans to write up to seven novels in her Cormoran Strike series, according to The Sunday Times. Rowling, writing under the name Robert Galbraith, has already had solid success with the detective genre. Her first book, The Cuckoo's Calling, was published last April and has sold 600,000 hardback copies and 1 million ebooks. As we announced last week, the sequel The Silkworm is coming out in June 2014.
The series centers on Cormoran Strike, an Afghanistan war veteran turned private investigator, and his assistant. a young secretary named Robin. Galbraith's website describes the characters:
Apart from being an ex-military policeman, my hero is the illegitimate son of a very famous man whom he has only met twice. Strike gives me a way to talk in an objective, de-personalised way about the oddities that come with fame. While in the army, Strike had the anonymity he craved; now that he has left, he runs into people who make a lot of assumptions about him based purely on his parentage. The character's surname came from a real (but deceased) man mentioned in a slim book about Cornwall. His Christian name, which was a gift from his flaky groupie of a mother, is unusual and a recurring irritation to him as people normally get it wrong; we sense that he would much rather be called Bob. Strike is a brilliant but damaged man who is still clinging tight to one or two principles that he holds sacred. He is trying to scrape a living while tolerating physical hardships that to many civilians would seem unbearable, and by maintaining a discipline that many might dispense with in his situation.
Strike's assistant in this case, Robin, is a temporary secretary who arrives due to an oversight (he was under the impression that he had cancelled his contract with the temping agency, having no funds to pay). Robin has hidden her lifelong ambition to engage in detective work from everyone around her, including her fiancé. She's thrilled to find herself working with a private detective, but their relationship is not, initially, promising.
I love Robin quite as much as I love Strike, which is saying something. She grew largely out of my own experiences as a temp, long ago in London where I could always make rent between jobs because I could type 100 words a minute due to writing fiction in my spare time.
Robin initially finds Strike rather unattractive and unsympathetic, between his surliness and his 'pube-like' hair, but soon starts to admire his work ethic and intelligence. Meanwhile Strike, aware of his susceptibility as a newly single and isolated man, is determined not to become over-fond or reliant on this helpful and undeniably sexy girl. The resulting relationship, with its many awkwardnesses and a slowly emerging friendship, was a lot of fun to write."


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Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily…
Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private worlds…and desires.
The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart…
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Providence is calling an on call Social Worker to our Hospice Access Team in Portland, OR.
Are you an experienced social worker with a passion for hospice and excellent end-of-life care?
We are looking for an on call Social Worker that will work closely with the hospice interdisciplinary team to provide clinical counseling, assessment, crisis intervention, and psycho-education to multi-stressed patients and families relevant to the dying process, end of life care planning and bereavement. Our team understands and provides community-based care across varied residential settings while assessing for patient, caregiver, and staff safety in the home environment.
Our on call social workers are primarily scheduled in advance but may also receive some short notice requests for coverage but are not obligated to provide coverage. Hospice Access has social workers that work a variety of schedules that include days, evenings and weekends. Availability to provide support on evenings and weekends is preferred.
In this position, you will:
Required qualifications for this position include:
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About Providence in Oregon
As the largest healthcare system and largest private employer in Oregon, Providence offers exceptional work environments and unparalleled career opportunities.
The Providence Experience begins each time our patients or their families have an encounter with a Providence team member and continues throughout their visit or stay. Whether you provide direct or indirect patient care, we want our patients to feel that they are in a welcoming place where they can be comfortable and free from anxiety. Our employees create the Providence Experience through simple, caring behaviors such as acknowledging and welcoming each visitor, introducing ourselves and Providence, addressing people by name, providing the duration of estimated wait times and updating frequently if timelines change, explaining situations in a way that puts patients at ease, carefully listening to their concerns, and always thanking people for trusting Providence for their healthcare needs. At Providence, our quality vision is simple,
"Providence will provide the best care and service to every person, every time."
Providence is consistently ranked among the top 100 companies to work for in Oregon. It is also home to two of our award-winning Magnet medical centers. Providence hospitals and clinics are located in numerous areas, ranging from the Columbia Gorge to the wine country to sunny southern Oregon to charming coastal communities to the urban setting of Portland. If you want a vibrant lifestyle while working with a team highly committed to the art of healing, choose from our many options in Oregon.
We offer a full comprehensive range of benefits - see our website for details
Our Mission
As people of Providence, we reveal God's love for all, especially the poor and vulnerable, through our compassionate service.
About Us
Providence Health & Services is the third largest not-for-profit health system in the United States. Providence employs more than 82,000 caregivers (employees) across a five-state area; AK, WA, MT, OR, and CA. Our facilities include 34 hospitals, 600 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and other health and educational services. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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Job Category: Social Work / Care Management / Counseling
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Timasion, the Dardanian, pledged Seuthes, and presented a silver bowl and a carpet worth ten minae.
Let thirty minae be the penalty; for which sum they will be ample security to you.
Let that be the penalty, or, if his friends wish, thirty minae; for which they will be excellent securities.
We can't all afford necklaces and rugs and two minae presents.
Why really, this is nothing at all—thirty minae, in comparison with the other expenses he has incurred in good living.
What reason is there, then, that if he doesn't return, you should not pay me twenty minae for him?
Has he given forty minae, too, to this person, to be as a deposit?
Do you say that a mistress was purchased for Philolaches for thirty minae?
Forty-four minae are due to him, both principal and interest.
You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
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Abyss Odyssey's unique combat mechanics and randomized world are worth a look, but just barely.
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Atlus announces Zeno Clash II for XBLA, PSN, PC
First person face bashing fun is headed back to Xbox Live Arcade and PC, and fir the first time the PS3 via PSN, with ACE Team and Atlus' Zeno Clash II. Check out the first media and details for the first person melee brawling sequel.


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Roch. Builders to sell 'stuff' @ Sat. garage sale
Here's a note for all of the garage sale fans out there.
One of the big Rochester sales of the year -the Annual Remodelers Council Garage Sale sponsored by the Rochester Area Builders is happening this weekend.
If you've never been to this one before, you need to check this out.
It runs from 8 a.m. to noon in the RAB parking lot at 108 Elton Hills Lane N.W. That's tucked behind Bruegger's Bagels, across from the Rec Center.
Kevin Reckinger, the RAB member of charge of this year's sale, says, "There's a lot of …stuff. Come out and buy some…stuff."
With the items all donated from people related with construction industry, you'll find lots of stuff to help finish up those annoying household projects. One year, I got a small batch of tile to create a cool back splash in the kitchen. I never did it, but I got a great deal on the tile. Heh.
AND there will be all the typical garage sale stuff …knicks AND knacks as well as a kitchen sink.
Some of that stuff includes:
• Appliances, furniture
• Countertops, doors
• Cabinets, toys
• Lighting, books
• Windows, household items
• Flooring, plumbing fixtures
Items not sold will be donated to Habitat ReStore and Goodwill.


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After 6 months...
I'm Louise. I've been living semi-sedentarily for 18 years. I speak English, Tagalog, Chavacano and a little French. I know no talent to brag, play no active sport, and cook nothing but noodles and "cancer food." I'm OC on dental hygiene 'cause I might kiss Prince Charming one day and unclean mouth is just not cool. I'm super short but am the tallest in the family second to Papa.
I received the English Proficiency Award in high school - 'cause that's the only thing brag-able. Currently studying Nursing on a half-hearted basis but I dream of becoming an Intensivist one day. I think information is as important as life, itself. BOOKS are, like, the coolest things to ever own. I personally think they should be gifted to kids and appreciated as early as 3 years old. Nobody can ever graduate nor succeed in life without once opening a book. BOOKS should be respected as much as one respects his parents.
I have the Middle-Child Syndrome (no shit). I often reminisce and regret the past which turns enduring a trying present futile at most. I love writing but am often plagued by writer's block. I'm no fighter so I get bullied a lot. People see me as a happy-go-lucky attention-seeker, but nobody really understands that part. I don't do vices; I don't find reasons to end life before the apocalypse.
No, I'm not emo. I'm just random and borderline.
At the moment, I have finished 3rd year college and is continuing my French lessons online while teaching English to anyone willing to learn. I plan on finishing all my unread YA books and probably do some advanced studying for 4th year – but maybe not.


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Roark, Chiefs shut out IronPigs, 11-0
Starter's six no-hit innings aid Syracuse rout
By Syracuse Chiefs | April 5, 2013 5:46 PM ET
The Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, scored 11 runs for the second straight day with an 11-0 shutout of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on Friday night. Starting pitcher Tanner Roark tossed six no-hit innings in his season debut, with a 13-hit attack providing more than enough offense. The win improved the Chiefs to 2-0 for the first time since 2010; they've now outscored the IronPigs 22-2 in the series' first two games.
Syracuse (2-0) scored a first-inning run without the benefit of a hit thanks to some sharp baserunning and some Lehigh Valley (0-2) defensive miscues. Center fielder Eury Perez reached first base to start the game on a fielding error by second baseman Cesar Hernandez before stealing second base on the next pitch. Jeff Kobernus - making his first professional start in left field - then sacrificed Perez over to third and reached first base himself on an error by starting pitcher Jonathan Pettibone. With Corey Brown at the plate, Kobernus then took off for second base, and catcher Tommy Joseph's throw sailed into center field. Perez crossed home for the game's first run.
In the second inning, the Chiefs' bats awakened for four runs. Shortstop Zach Walters began the frame with a soaring home run down the right field line - his second long ball in as many days. Four batters later, Perez laced a triple into the right-center field gap, scoring Jhonatan Solano and Will Rhymes for a 4-0 lead. Kobernus tacked on the inning's final tally with a sacrifice fly to plate Perez.
Syracuse added a third-inning run on a bizarre play involving a pair of IronPigs errors. After Mike Costanzo's single, Walters smashed a double off the wall in right-center field. Costanzo then headed for the plate when right fielder Jermaine Mitchell's throw into the infield ran all the way into foul ground. Pettibone scooped up the ball and threw home, but his throw ran wide of Joseph, allowing Costanzo to score and Walters to take third base. That gave the Chiefs a 6-0 lead.
The Chiefs added some superfluous insurance in the sixth inning with a five-run explosion. Chris Marrero's bases-loaded walk plated the first run, with Costanzo providing the fireworks just four pitches later. The third baseman slammed a Justin Friend offering over the 17-foot wall in right field for a grand slam, completing the score line.
Those runs were far more than Roark and a trio of relievers would need. Roark allowed just two walks in his six no-hit innings, striking out seven of the 20 batters he faced. He tossed 56 strikes in 89 pitches to earn the win in his first start of the season.
Lehigh Valley finally picked up a hit in the seventh inning when Cody Asche singled off of Jeff Mandel, but Mandel, Fernando Abad and Erik Davis would shut the door with a scoreless inning apiece. The IronPigs ended the game with just four hits in total.
Syracuse looks to clinch a series win on Saturday night at 6:35 in the third game of a four-game series. Right-hander Yunesky Maya will begin his fourth year with the Chiefs in a start against Lehigh Valley left-hander Adam Morgan.
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- 2 pints fresh rasberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
- Fresh mint sprigs, for garnish
In a blender or food processor, puree the raspberries with the sugar. Pass the puree though a fine sieve.
In a bowl, whisk the yogurt until smooth and stir in the raspberry puree. Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. Transfer the frozen yogurt to a container and freeze until firm. Spoon the yogurt into tall glasses, garnish with mint sprigs and serve.


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Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
YUM!!! This is an excellent frosting which incorporates two of my favorite things...peanut butter and cream cheese and it's also easy to make. I used it to frost a banana cake I made (Taqueria Victoria's Banana Cake-which is an excellent cake recipe) and it was soooo good! I found this recipe on another recipe website. I'm thinking it would also be great on chocolate cake.
Top Review by Tricia Foley
I liked this recipe a lot. It has a very nice texture. I had interesting results subbing maple syrup for the vanilla (realized I was out too late). It ended up tasting just like Bit-O-Honey candy.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 cup creamy peanut butter (would also be good with crunchy peanut butter)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 -3 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk or 2 tablespoons cream
Directions See How It's Made
- Mix together cream cheese and peanut butter with mixer until smooth.
- Add vanilla and powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, along with the milk or cream and beat until spreading consistency.
- (I used only 3 cups powdered sugar and 2-3 tbsp. of milk).
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Dan Mullen is good at winning football games and eating chicken wings.
The Mississippi State head coach has his team ranked 19th and off to their first 4-0 start since 1999.
The Mississippi State head coach is also dominating wing-eating contests.
Mullen ate 24 wings in 5 minutes at a Buffalo Wild Wings on Thursday, The Clarion-Ledger's Brandon Marcello tweeted. That's one wing every 12.5 seconds. Impressive.
The second-placed eater finished 21 wings and the third-placed eater downed 15.
"It's not really a Man vs. Food type challenge to where you get to the point of it being painful," said Mullen after his victory. He then explained that he had room for a few more.
He's looking at you, Kobayashi.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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It's that time of the year where parents and students are putting the final touches on plans that have been years in the making. Part of the planning ahead of move-in day should include creating a comfortable, livable dorm room atmosphere to ease the transition into college life. What qualities can you look for in lighting when decorating a dorm room?
USA Today is featuring one of our lamps in their Life section article entitled Here's How to Ace Dorm Room Design.
The lamp above is ideal because it's bright enough to provide proper reading light but also doubles as broadly diffused conversational lighting.
It takes two 60 watt bulbs so it channels plenty of light onto a desktop while comfortably radiating light throughout the whole room. Students beginning a new year need good reading light, especially if they are moving into a dorm room. Dorm rooms often provide only overhead flourescent lighting which, while energy-efficient, is too dim for late-night study sessions.
Purchasing the lighting online and having it shipped to the students new home gives you more variety to choose from and saves you the headache of transporting the lighting on move-in day. Torchieres and table lamps can be placed almost anywhere and can quickly brighten a dreary room.
Good for students dorm room you can see your children stress free through this light.
Love this sleek fashion forward lamp. Must for dynamic dorm. Add this to creative bedding and accessoires for dorms www.decor-2-ur-door.com
Robin - thanks! What kinds of lights do you find teens and tweens asking for? Do they want a simple reading light or a desk lamp with a bit more bling and style? Thanks again for reading.
College is an amazing experience, I never want to leave! The freedom is unprecedented, however no dorm room is an accurate depiction of any college students vivacious spirit. Sign up for the room renovation contest at www.delluniversity.com/residencerenovation to potentially have Dell redo your room with $10,000!


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Rob Cooper: Spirits Inventor
Photo courtesy of Cooper Spirits / Eisenhut and Mayer Wien.
A third-generation distiller, the 33-year-old Rob Cooper is one of the most influential spirits makers in the country. His deliciously subtle St-Germain elderflower liqueurmade with petals picked by hand each spring in the French Alpspermanently altered the cocktail menus at bars everywhere. He aims to repeat the feat with Crème Yvette, a violet liqueur based on a long-lost Cooper family recipe.
Plus Go to the Cooper Spirits website
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Last date for receipt of completed OMR Application Form is December 08, 2011
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FREE: Tidels brings you this series for free. If you like this series please download the Aesop series 2,3 and 4 or the complete series of Aesop Fables
Aesop's Fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece. The stories are short and sweet with morals. Tidels presents these famous stories in e-book form. These beautifully illustrated stories use animals, great story lines, and a sweet voice to inspire children and adults to learn respect, good values, ethics, morals, and good behavior.
Click on "Read to me" to let the application read the book with page turns automatically. To read it manually click on "I will read". User can turn page by page by swiping the picture left or right.
Please note some stories have mild animal violence that happens in nature.
The stories included in this collection are:
1. Androcles and the Lion
2. Avaricious and Envious
3. The One-eyed Doe
4. The Father And His two Daughters
5. The Fox and the Lion
6. The Young Thief and His Mother
7. The Horse and the Groom
8. Fox in the Cart
9. Foxy Rooster
10. The Foolish Donkey
11. Plane Truth
12. Monkey Business
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When you want the best traditions of jazz incorporated into your special event, a jazz orchestra is unquestionably the right choice. Upbeat and lively, you'll enjoy classics from legends such as Benny Goodman and Miles Davis as well as more contemporary numbers. Search GigMasters today to find jazz orchestras available in your area.


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Topic: Call me scooter girl
Hey, everyone. I want to post this in good news, but it's unrelated to cc. Well, mostly anyway.
Most of you know I'm a motorcycle mama, and many of you know I haven't ridden since last fall because I have a really really big motorcycle and I'm now afraid of the weight.
So yesterday I bought a used scooter. The price was right. The look, not quite but that's okay. It has a few too many scratches: was down on the right side. But it's a LOT lighter than my motorcycle and I'll be able to ride it with the neuropathy.
So I'm now a "scooter girl"!!! For those who are friends on FB, I posted a pic.
I'm gonna have some fun this spring/early summer before I have the resection!
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
Any opinions I give are based on personal experiences, and are not based on medical knowledge. I strongly suggest receiving medical care and opinions.


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It's more than your job or profession. There is inner success and outer success. Where you have inner success, your life reflects outer success. And vice versa.
You were born to succeed, no matter what. You set yourself up for success before you were born by designing your perfect life plan. You don't have to be a high-powered sales genius, billionaire, an entrepreneur, or live a fast-paced, over-the-top, public life to be a success. You just need to be true to yourself.
If your life is somehow out of balance, not going well for you, if you are feeling empty inside, tired all the time, or unfulfilled it's because you are running your life by someone else's standards. It's not your fault, and it's not their fault. It's part of cultural programming, and you can learn to change it.
You were meant to be the sole judge of whether you are a success or not. Only you know whether you are being true to yourself. Your feelings will tell you.
Start noticing what is happening in your body as you go about your day. When you walk out the door on your way to work, how is your stomach feeling? Is it tight or relaxed? How about your shoulders – relaxed or tight? Are you looking forward to your day or just hoping to cope?
How about the people in your life? What is happening in your body when you are with your spouse, your children, your friends and associates?
Suddenly becoming aware of your feelings can be overwhelming. But you don't have to do anything about the feelings you notice. At first, just notice the feelings and sensations and whether they are negative or positive.
Obviously, the negative feelings are telling you that you need to make some changes. And the changes need to be made within you before appropriate outer changes can show up.
For example, perhaps you hate your job. An inappropriate outer change might be to immediately quit. However, quitting immediately could be appropriate if your working conditions are unsafe. You get the picture.
The same is true when resolving situations with people in your life. First, look within. What is your part in the situation? Again, it's not your fault, it's misunderstanding. Conflict means it's time to learn.
In extreme cases, you'll need to take immediate action. For example, if you are an abuser, get help now. Your life is precious. Don't waste another minute of it abusing. If you are the abused, get out now. Then get help to clear abuse from your life.
For most of us, the circumstances are not so extreme. The key to resolving conflict in relationships is to first ask yourself what you have to learn from it. You are playing a role in the conflict even if you perceive yourself as the victim. Be kind to yourself and suspend judgment as you seek the answers you already have within.
Pay attention to the positive feelings you have, as well. Pat yourself on the back for all the joyful and fulfilling feelings in your life. You have created the circumstances that bring them to you.
You can make room for more good feelings in your life. For example, you may not like your job, but there are other things you enjoy doing or that you're good at. You could take the time to pursue them. By honoring your good feelings, you are creating more possibilities.
Maybe you have a yearning to do something you haven't even considered because it seems impossible. If you are yearning for something it's a good indication that it has something to do with your life purpose.
You are in charge of your life. You can take control of it by taking responsibility for it. You have the power to change your life by changing yourself. Seek help when you need it. Help is everywhere.
I just read this over, and I think it might sound glib – like it's the easiest thing in the world to be yourself. It's not, and you have to work at it. Believe, me, I know. I'm sharing with you some things I've learned, and I'm still learning.
It's part of everyone's purpose to learn to live according to their own values and standards and to follow their own path. The rewards are beyond anything I could describe to you. So I hope you try it. You will like it.
Live your purpose every day.
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By 30 she is getting "old"; before 45 the women are old, with flat, pendent folds of skin where the breasts were.
The pendent ornament called a tassel is a diminutive of Mid.
The flowers are produced on the naked shoots in April, and are rendered conspicuous by reason of the pendent yellow stamens.
To this was sometimes suspended a pomander-box, tablets, or a pendent reliquary.
His eyes were bloodshot, his lips livid and pendent, his cheeks swollen by the cauterization he had undergone.
A pendent & Ensigne of the same colors the flagg is off under wch they are put.
Crescent-shaped earrings are formed of pendent parts hung with double pearls.
Fig. 472 shows this type in the adult with pendent appendix.
I felt a desire "to be imprisoned in the viewless winds, and blown with restless violence about the pendent world."
It has the straight ears, the pendent tail; it does not bark; it is wild.
c.1600 respelling of Middle English pendaunt "hanging, overhanging" (late 14c., from Old French pendant; see pendant) on model of its Latin original, pendentem.


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Pittsburgh-Seton Hall: Can Panthers Rebound After First Conference Loss?January 24, 2010
Who: Pittsburgh Panthers @ Seton Hall Pirates
When: Sunday, January 24th, 2 pm. ESPN360.
Skinny: Panthers are coming in with an overall record of 15-3, 5-1 in the Big East, and 4-0 on the road.
This is Pitt's first game since January 20th, when they suffered their first conference loss at the hands of a very tough Georgetown team. Prior to the loss, Pitt had won eight straight, five of which were in conference, including road wins against Syracuse, UConn, and Cincinnati.
Seton Hall enters this game with an overall record of 11-6, 2-4 in the BE, and 9-3 at home.
The Pirates, who began the season 8-0, have been inconsistent of late, losing five of their last seven. However, they are coming off an impressive home win against Louisville.
In terms of Big East standing, this game is important for both teams.
Pitt needs to win this game to keep some separation between themselves and the middle of the pack. If Pitt loses, they fall from third in the conference to fifth, and would be only one game up on four teams who have three conference losses.
Seton Hall, with a win against Pitt, would get back into the think of things. A loss for the Pirates, and they fall into the bottom three of the BE.
After Seton Hall, Pitt's next two games are against St. Johns and South Florida, who have a combined three conference wins. So, as much as Pitt would love to have this game, it is not a must win.
If the Pirates expect to upset the Panthers, they will need a big same from junior star Jeremy Hazell. Hazell comes into this game averaging 23 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 2.1 steals per game. He is also coming off of an excellent performance against the Cardinals where he scored 25 points on 9-12 shooting and played in all but one minute of the game.
In my opinion, Pitt will be able to contain Hazell. At 6'5" and a lean 188 pounds, a physical specimen he is not. Pitt's tough, hard nosed guards should be able to keep him in check.
I think this game is going to come down to how this young Panther team responds, coming off an emotional home loss to the Hoyas. Have they gotten over the loss? Will they still be reeling? These are the questions I have.
Pitt is going to go down early after a very sluggish start. Once they wake up, around midway through the first half, they will make this a game. From the second half and on, I fully expect this game to be back and forth.
Ultimately, I think Pitt will win this game. They have shown they can prevail down the stretch of close games with both clutch play and free throw shooting. Pitt 66 Seton Hall 61.


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About the performer
Benjamin Bliss
Tenor BENJAMIN BLISS, a second-year member of Los Angeles Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program, made his LA Opera debut under the baton of Placido Domingo as Benvolio in 2011's Roméo et Juliette. In 2012, he returned as Barbarigo in Verdi's I due Foscari, Parpignol in La Bohème, as well as Daniel in LA Opera's Cathedral production of The Festival Play of Daniel. He also performed the Guard/Revolutionary in Krenek's The Secret Kingdom and Harlekin in Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis with the Colburn Orchestra. He has been the tenor soloist for Bach's Magnificat with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and for Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the La Jolla Symphony. He also made a singing guest appearance on NBC's Whitney. Most recently Bliss placed 2nd the the Metropolitan Opera's Western regional finals. His next engagements will be singing the role of Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia with the Colburn Orchestra under Maestro James Conlon, followed by Alfredo in La Traviata at Wolf Trap Opera.


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District college football preview: W&J visits undefeated Grove City
Game of the week: Washington & Jefferson at Grove City
• When: 7 p.m. Saturday
• Records: WJ: 1-1, 0-0; GC: 2-0, 0-0
What stands between Grove City and its first 3-0 start since 1994 is W&J, the Presidents' Athletic Conference preseason favorite and a team that has beaten the Wolverines in 13 of their past 14 meetings.
Grove City comes into the contest with a stingy defense that's allowing 310 yards and five points per game — both marks are second-best in the PAC. The Wolverines, using a multiple ground attack, also lead the conference in rushing at 238.5 yards per game. Running back Steve Maskrey is the team's top rusher at 84 yards per game. Quarterback Brian Pell follows at 70 per game, and three other ballcarriers average at least 20 per game.
Perhaps more than their predecessors, the current Wolverines know they're a few key plays away from a better record against Presidents. Grove City topped W&J, 24-21, in 2011. And the teams' last three meetings were decided by a combined 17 points.
The Presidents, however, seem prepared to answer Grove City's power-oriented football with their own attack. They average more than 500 yards and 39 points per game. Their defense plans to improve after struggling to slow No. 18 St. John Fisher during a 42-21 loss last week.
Expect W&J to answer Grove City's one-two punch of Maskrey and Pell with running back Dion Wiegand, who averages 93.5 yards per game. And then there's do-it-all Alex Baroffio, a wide receiver and return specialist who ranks second in Division III in all-purpose yards per game (281.0).
Grove City and W&J are tied for first in sacks in the PAC, as each has seven.
Saturday's other games to watch
• Edinboro at California (Pa.), 3:30 p.m.
Close to cracking the Division II Top 25, Cal (2-0, 0-0) opens PSAC West play against a team it has beaten in its past eight meetings. The Vulcans allow a PSAC-best 50 yards per game on the ground, but Edinboro (1-1, 0-0) will test their secondary with All-PSAC West second-team quarterback Cody Harris and wide receiver Marcus Johnson. Harris averages 333 yards per game. Johnson, also a threat as a kick returner, averages 206 all-purpose yards.
• Mercyhurst at Clarion, 6 p.m.
Clarion (2-0, 0-0) has a perfect record through two weeks for the first time since 1996, but it's 1-4 in five games against Mercyhurst (1-1, 0-0). Also, Golden Eagles quarterback Ben Fiscus, the 2012 All-PSAC West first-team selection, suffered a leg injury last week. His playing status is unknown.
• Duquesne at Youngstown State, 4 p.m.
The Dukes (1-1) play perennial Division I FCS power Youngstown State (2-1) for the first time. The Penguins dominated two FCS opponents to start the season but fell from the top 25 after a 55-17 loss at Michigan State.
• Washington & Jefferson senior wide receiver Alex Baroffio became the Presidents' all-time leader in receptions during last week's loss to St. John Fisher. His 13 catches gave him 200 for his career, which bettered the 192 accumulated by David Ravida, who last played in 2008. Baroffio was one catch shy of matching W&J's single-game record.
• Two PSAC West quarterbacks rank in Division II's top 10 in passing yards per game. Slippery Rock's Nigel Barksdale and Gannon's Liam Nadler are tied for sixth, each averaging 384.5 yards. Barksdale also ranks second in passing TDs with 10.
• Thiel sophomore Tim Canady leads Division III in kickoff return average at 53.3 yards. Last week, he returned a kickoff 94 yards — but didn't score. He was 5 yards short. Thiel reached the end zone two plays later.
• Slippery Rock senior punter James McCombie ranks No. 1 in Division II in average punt distance at 48.8 yards.
• Indiana (Pa.) has scored a touchdown on all nine of its trips to the red zone this season.
• Youngsters are Duquesne's tackle leaders as they head to Youngstown State. Redshirt freshman linebacker Aaron Reed, a Montour grad, has a team-high 19 tackles. Sophomore linebacker Christian Kuntz, a Chartiers Valley alum, follows with 17.


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Television's Seven Best Holiday Specials Ever
The old CBS Special Presentation bumper from back in the day, the sign that a good holiday special was about to air.
The holidays are all about engaging in traditions, whether its your mom's penchant for goofy sweaters or the always-awkward yearly Christmas party at the office. One of the more enjoyable customs associated with X-Mas is the annual onslaught of holiday specials that dominate the tube over the next few weeks.
Most of these 30-minute-long throwbacks, which typically preempted regular programming, can be a bit heavy on the schmaltz and saccharine (and often have a lesson to be learned at the end), but such things are a staple of the "most wonderful time of the year."
We've been watching these Christmas-themed cartoons and television programming since we were wee tykes and have compiled a list of some of the best and most memorable holiday specials. Read on for a rundown of our favorites, which includes a few surprises.
7. The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
The Plot: Han Solo and Chewbacca must evade the Galactic Empire and return home for the annual Wookie celebration of "Life Day" and reunite with Luke, Princess Leia, and their droid companions.
The Lowdown: While it's admittedly an unusual choice to include this 60-minute-long fiasco (which aired during Thanksgiving weekend in 1978), it's arguably one of most famous specials of all time. It's also a pop cultural curiosity that's features a variety of late-'70s celebrities (Art Carney, Bea Arthur, Jefferson Starship) and is worth watching at least once in your lifetime. Plus, it features the first ever appearance of Boba Fett.
6. Mr. Hanky's Christmas Classics (1999)
The Plot: South Park's Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo hosts a half-hour special featuring satirical and comedic versions of holiday carols as sung by the cast of the Comedy Central show.
The Lowdown: Although it isn't as well-known as the previous South Park Christmas episode, which featured the birth of Mr. Hankey, "Christmas Classics" is a longtime favorite of ours that pokes major fun at other holiday specials. Unlike other Christmas-time cartoons, it also doesn't hide the fact it was basically a 30-minute-long commercial for a Christmas product (in this case, the album of the same name).
5. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1992)
The Plot: Mickey Mouse, Scrooge McDuck, and a host of other Disney characters star in this animated update of this Charles Dickens classic.
The Lowdown: There have been literally hundreds of adaptations of the Dickensian redemption of Ebeneezer Scrooge since the story was first published in 1843. While not every interpretation has been good, however (ever see 1995's Ebbie starring Susan Lucci?) this version starring Mickey and Company is one of the better one's ever made. The animation is lavish, the dialogue is witty, and the casting choices for the characters are quite clever.
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By David Woods, The Indianapolis Star
A book about a former Northern State basketball coach, How Lucky You Can Be, chronicled how Don Meyer endured a car accident that resulted in a leg amputation and later cancer.
The coach, who retired in 2010 with a record 923 victories, would have reveled in the Wolves' moment Wednesday night at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. And there was no luck involved.
Northern State closed on a 12-0 run and defeated Butler 53-50 when Alex Thomas sank a 3-pointer as time expired in an exhibition game before a crowd of 5,544.
It will make the Wolves' 17-hour bus ride to Aberdeen, S.D., seem much shorter.
It was a humbling defeat for the Bulldogs, who are coming off back-to-back appearances in the NCAA championship game. They lost six players from last season's team and have six new ones.
"It's going to take me some time to adjust to this team," Butler coach Brad Stevens said. "I told them in the locker room this is my fault."
Andrew Smith scored 19 points and Khyle Marshall 14, combining for 20 of the Bulldogs' 25 second-half points. But after freshman Roosevelt Jones scored inside to expand the Bulldogs' lead to 50-41 with 4:35 left, they never scored again.
With 38 seconds left and the score tied, Smith missed the front end of a one-and-one. Errant shooting doomed Butler, which was 3-of-18 on 3-pointers (17 percent) and 11-of-21 on free throws (52 percent).
"It kind of stinks it ended that way," said senior guard Ronald Nored, who had six assists but shot 1-of-7. "Exhibitions are for learning. We've got a lot to learn."
The game was the third in four days for Northern State, which lost at Northern Iowa 71-53 Sunday and at Purdue 78-46 Tuesday.
Coach Paul Sather said the Wolves benefited from having played two games. There are multiple examples in recent seasons of national powers losing exhibitions to Division II opponents.
Stevens wasn't excusing the Bulldogs, saying they must improve in every area.
"I guess we've got nowhere to go but up," he said.
Collin Pryor scored 18 points for Northern State, including two field goals in the closing three minutes to tie the score.
The Bulldogs play their final home exhibition at 7 p.m. Saturday against Franklin.
Sophomore guard Chrishawn Hopkins was sidelined because of a concussion and is likely out of Saturday's game, too.
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The 32-year-old will join up with the rest of the squad for pre-season training at the end of next week.
Dods signed a pre-contract agreement to join United from fellow SPL club Inverness in January.
Dundee United manager Craig Levein said: "His leadership qualities are well known and will benefit the team as a whole."
Levein continued: "Darren will bring further experience and solidity to the defence.
"Looking to the future, we have a number of very young players in the team and experience is not only required to help them develop, but is vital to the success of any side.
"Darren will bring exactly the type of experience we require."
Dods had previously played for Hibs and St Johnstone, and joined Inverness in July 2004.
He was made captain of the club at the start of the following season and has been a consistent performer at the heart of the Inverness defence, making 39 appearances last season.


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Leadership Primer
Emotional Intelligence
Leaders help us to learn to make our own meanings in our lives. Leaders, through their relationships and influence, teach us that we can control our lives and that we are capable of creating meaning through our actions but more importantly through who we are.
At the end of the first installment, we spoke of self-mastery as a key to leader development. Today's installment will extend that theme further.
Many leadership theories focus on a number of elements: 1) the organizational context of leadership, 2), a certain set of behaviors or skills and 3) personal characteristics of leaders. This month we will deal with personal characteristics of leaders as well as certain behaviors or skill sets that enhance one's leadership abilities.
Much of what we will cover this month has to do with "emotional intelligence" and will be based on the popular works of Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and his latest work Social Intelligence. (Please see below under bibliography for further references).
Many of you will be familiar with this topic, for some it will be new material.
In the Wizard and the Warrior, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal make the following reference: "Peter Drucker once said, everything you learned is wrong. At best, it is misleading and insufficient. You typically learn in school, workshops, and seminars, that if you can manage the work and serve the people, you have what it takes. It's not true. Maybe you have enough stuff to be a pretty good manager, but it takes a lot more to be a good leader."
Again, this reflects back on Kotter's HBR discussion of "What Leaders Really Do": the difference between a manager and a leader. It's not that you can't learn to be a leader it is just that pedagogically how you approach self-directed learning about being a leader is different.
As a physician, it is taken for granted that you have enough technical ability as well as intellectual ability to do your job. These issues are threshold competencies and you wouldn't have been accepted to medical school or be where you are now if you didn't posses these skills.
But the rules of work are changing. People will look at you, and quite likely you will judge yourself, not by how smart you are (i.e., your IQ) but rather how you deal with people. It is not your "book knowledge" or your training that defines how successful you are as a physician. What matters most is your emotional intelligence. What matters most is your personal qualities such as initiative, empathy, adaptability, and persuasiveness. What matters most is how we handle ourselves as well as each other.
Neuroscience tells us that the emotional part of the brain, the more ancient parts of the brain, such as the amygdala, learn differently from the thinking brain. These areas harbor the skills needed for managing ourselves effectively and our social adeptness.
Conceptually, emotional intelligence comes from a psychological construct of multiple intelligences first proposed by Salovey and Mayer and later expanded upon by Howard Gardner. It is important to realize that emotional intelligence does not mean merely being nice (it actually may entail bluntly confronting an individual about a difficult situation), nor does it mean giving free rein to feelings but rather managing feelings so that they are expressed appropriately and effectively. Emotional intelligence skills allow people to work together toward common goals.
As opposed to IQ, which changes little after your preteen years, emotional intelligence is not fixed genetically nor does it only develop in childhood. Emotional intelligence is largely learned and continues to develop as you go through life. As you learn from your experiences, you continue to grow in emotional intelligence competencies. As you live life, you become more skilled at honing your empathy and social adroitness.
There is an old-fashioned word for this growth in emotional intelligence: maturity.
Although people today view their careers, jobs, and personal development differently, people can plateau in their position or derail their lives because of crucial gaps in emotional intelligence.
Goleman speaks of the following necessary skills:
- Listening and oral communication
- Adaptability and creative responses to setbacks and obstacles
- Personal management, confidence, motivation to work toward principled
goals, a sense of wanting to develop oneself and take pride in one's
- Group and interpersonal effectiveness, cooperativeness and teamwork,
skills at negotiating disagreements
- Effectiveness in your relationships, your group or organization, wanting to make a contribution, leadership potential
Goleman goes on to indicate that of seven desired traits, just one was academic: competence in reading, writing, and math. It is unfortunate that our education system and admission tests put so much emphasis on IQ because IQ alone explains surprisingly little of achievement at work or in life. Goleman discusses studies that show that IQ accounts for about 25% of the difference in people's lives; most studies he quotes put the value at no more that 10% and perhaps as low as 4%.
In other words, IQ does not determine who succeeds or who fails.
A Harvard study in the fields of law, medicine, teaching, and business found that scores on entrance exams, essentially a surrogate for IQ, had zero or negative correlation with an individual's eventual career success. Paradoxically, emotional intelligence has greater value for success the higher the intelligence barriers for entry into the field, such as medicine.
Interestingly, the difference between those at the high and low ends
of the emotional intelligence scale is very large. "Soft"
skills matter more for success than "hard" skills.
To quote Goleman: "Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic with cognitive ones: top performers have both. The more complex the job (such as medicine, italics mine), the more emotional intelligence matters---if only because a deficiency in these abilities can hinder the use of whatever technical expertise or intellect a person may have."
Emotional competence is a learned capability based on emotional intelligence
that can lead to outstanding relationships that will have a positive
influence on those around you.
Empathy, which involves accurately reading the feelings of other, and social skills, which allows for the artful handling of those feelings, is at the heart of emotional competence.
Our emotional intelligence is key to our potential skills as physicians. Being good at serving one's patients is an emotional competence based on empathy. Trustworthiness is a competence that is based on self-regulation. Both of these competencies are critical in helping to make one an outstanding physician.
However, being strong in emotional intelligence does not mean that you have learned the emotional competencies that matter for becoming a physician; it means only that they have excellent potential to learn them.
Goleman lays out a framework by explaining: "Emotional competencies cluster into groups, each based on a common underlying emotional intelligence capacity. The underlying emotional capacities are vital if people are to successfully learn the competencies necessary to succeed (as a physician, italics mine)."
Goleman continues: "These emotional intelligence capacities are:
Independent: Each makes a unique contribution to job performance
Interdependent: Each draws to some extent on certain others, with many strong interactions
Hierarchical: The emotional intelligence capacities build upon one another. Self awareness is crucial for self-regulation and empathy.
Necessary, but not sufficient: Having an underlying emotional intelligence ability does not guarantee people will develop or display the associated competencies such as collaboration or leadership…factors such as the climate of the organization or a person's interest in his or her job will also determine whether the competence manifest itself
Generic: The general list is to some extent applicable to all jobs."
In Goleman's emotional competence framework (as laid out below, from his Working with Emotional Intelligence), there are two main competencies, personal competence (those competencies that determine how we manage ourselves) and social competence (those competencies that determine how we handle our relationships).
Personal competence lends itself to three main areas: 1) self-awareness, 2) self-regulation, and 3) motivation.
1) Self awareness refers to knowing one's own states, preferences, resources, and intuitions. In essence it is emotional awareness; recognizing one's emotions and their effects.
2) Self regulation refers to managing one's internal states, impulses and resources with the following elements:
- Self-control: Keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check
- Trustworthiness: Maintaining standards of honesty and integrity
- Conscientiousness: Taking personal responsibility for personal performance
- Adaptability: Flexibility in handling change
- Innovation: Being comfortable with new ideas, approaches, and new information
3) Motivation refers to those emotional tendencies that
guide or facilitate reaching one's
goals, no matter how you define them. This has the following elements:
- Drive: Striving to meet a standard of excellence (this may be personal or professional)
- Commitment: Aligning with the goals of a group or organization (this group may be a small as your rounding team or an organization as large as Kaiser Permanente)
- Initiative: Willingness to act on opportunities
- Optimism: Persistence in pursuing personal goals despite obstacles and setbacks
As to social competence, so critical in being an outstanding physician, those competencies that determine how we handle our relationships, there are two broad areas that we will explore: 1) empathy, and 2) social skills.
1) Empathy is that critical awareness of others' feelings, needs and concerns. The important elements fall under these categories:
- Understanding others: Sensing others' feelings and perspectives, and taking an active interest in their concerns
- Developing others: Sensing others' development needs and bolstering their abilities
- Service orientation: Anticipating, recognizing, and meeting patients' or colleagues' needs
- Leveraging diversity: Cultivating opportunities through different kinds of people
- Political awareness: Reading a group's emotional currents and power relationships
2) Social skills refers to adeptness in developing relationships and includes these important elements:
- Influence: Wielding effective skills for persuasion
- Communication: Listening openly and sending convincing messages (this element, specifically active listening, is perhaps the most important social skill to develop)
- Conflict management: Negotiating and resolving disagreements
- Leadership: Inspiring and guiding groups and individuals
- Change catalyst: Understanding, embracing, and facilitating change
- Building bonds: Nurturing instrumental relationships
- Collaboration: Working with others toward shared goals
- Team capabilities: Creating group synergy in pursuing collective goals
In the field of academic medicine, high IQ, where you went to undergraduate, medical school, as well as post graduate training and technical competence (such as research ability, size of grants that one has accomplished) seem to be highly valued. Often these "valued" individuals, because of their technical skills, which is why they were promoted into higher management positions in the first place, have problems. Once they reach higher positions, their technical strength becomes a liability.
The Peter Principle is at work here---people being promoted to their level of incompetence---and their arrogance may lead them to offend their peers (remember the challenges we discussed re: primus inter pares, first among equals) or to micromanage their subordinates (even those with better technical expertise!). These individuals who are promoted because of this expertise find themselves at a completely different level where most of their duties revolve around people, developing relationships and influencing people, not their technical expertise.
To quote Goleman's book further: "In an unusual study began at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1950's, eighty Ph.D. students in science went through an intensive battery of IQ and personality tests, as well as extensive interviews with psychologists who evaluated them on such qualities as emotional balance and maturity, integrity, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Forty year later, when the former students were in their early seventies, researches tracked them down again. In the 1994 follow-up, estimates were made of each person's career success on the basis of resumes, evaluations by experts in their own field, and sources like American Men and Women of Science. The result: Emotional intelligence abilities were about four times more important than IQ in determining professional success and prestige---even for these scientists."
What makes the difference is not your grade point average, but rather personal qualities, how you deal with people, how well you listen, and qualities such as perseverance, finding a mentor, and hard work.
This month, there are two areas that we will end with and briefly touch upon now but will return to explore in greater depth over the next few months.
Servant leadership, which we will explore next month in depth through the works of Robert Greenleaf, begins with empathy. This topic (empathy) is absolutely critical to becoming the best possible physician that you can become. Sensing what others feel without the other individual verbalizing these feelings, sensing their emotions in their tone of voice, facial expression, or other non-verbal ways, is the essence of empathy.
This skill, the ability to sense this subtle communication, is a remarkable part of being an expert physician. Those who lack empathy, those who are emotionally tone deaf, are socially awkward and lack sensitivity. People who lack empathy tend to respond to people as stereotypes rather than the unique people that they are.
In Working with Emotional Intelligence, Goleman states: "At the very least, empathy requires being able to read another's emotions; at a higher level, it entails sensing and responding to a person's unspoken concerns or feelings. At the highest levels, empathy is understanding the issues or concerns that lie behind another's feelings....The key to knowing others' emotional terrain is an intimate familiarity with our own."
"Partners adept at empathizing do something quite extraordinary physiologically: Their own body mimics their partner's while they empathize. If the heart rate of the partner in the videotape goes up, so does the heart rate of the partner who is empathizing; if the heart rate slows downs, so does that of the empathic spouse. This mimicry involves a biologic phenomenon called entrainment, a sort of intimate emotional tango."
"Such highly attuned rapport demands we put aside our own emotional agenda for the time being so that we can clearly receive the other person's signals. When we are caught up in our own strong emotions, we are off on a different physiological vector, impervious to the more subtle cues that allow rapport."
Empathy is a subtle and intimate dance that we are hard wired to engage in (again, the amygdala plays a key role in this attunement), but how well we use this capacity is largely a learned ability that depends on one's motivation. As part of this degree of empathy, active listening, namely going beyond what is said by asking questions, means listening well and deeply; this is "active listening." The extent to which we master this degree of empathy as well as active listening determines our social competence and often is the first step in leadership.
Goleman updates and explores these concepts in greater detail in his latest book: Social Intelligence.
This ability, empathy, is at the heart of the concept of servant leadership.
Finally, transformational leadership, which we will explore in more depth in two months, is very much based on emotional intelligence. As we explore the works of George MacGregor Burns and others on this topic, we will learn that transformational leaders don't order or direct, they inspire. In articulating their vision or direction, they are not only intellectually stimulating, but they reach us at an emotional level; they develop relationships and influence people in unique ways.
Drucker, Peter F., The Essential Drucker, New
York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001.
A one volume work with twenty six selections on management and the organization, the individual, and society. Although a potpourri (and therefore not as smooth flowing as one of his complete works), this book serves as a superb single volume introduction to Drucker's sixty years of writing.
Drucker, Peter F., Adventures of a Bystander,
(Trailblazer, Rediscovering the Pioneers of Business), New York:
John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
A re-issue of an earlier published book, an autobiographical classic considered the best of his nearly three dozen books by readers and Drucker himself. For the last 60 years, Peter Drucker has been writing about everything from management and economics to philosophy and politics with an unorthodox perspective on society. This personal and informal work portrays Drucker as a leader and thinker of infinite curiosity; imaginative, sympathetic, and enormously interested in people, ideas, and the forces behind them.
Drucker, Peter F., Post-Capitalist Society, New
York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993.
Peter Drucker truly is a one of a kind thinker. He has amazing insight regarding modern history as well as future trends. This book can clearly help a leader know where he or she is leading (or should be leading) and can help one anticipate the future climate that will affect individuals and organizations.
Drucker, Peter F., Managing for the Future, New
York: Truman Talley Books / Plume Printing, 1992.
More insights from the master.
Gardner, Howard, Changing Minds, Boston: Harvard
Business School Press, 2004.
With the thoroughness of a research psychologist, Gardner provides insights into the complex human behavior of how we change our minds and those of others. Although well written for the popular audience and very useful from a leadership standpoint, it does lean towards the academic in terms of its target audience.
Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence, New York:
Bantam Books, 1995.
An excellent book that highlights the importance of emotional intelligence as opposed to cognitive aspects of intelligence in the pursuit of self-awareness, motivation, conflict management, and team-building.
Goleman, Daniel, Working with Emotional Intelligence,
New York: Bantam
Books, 1998.
This volume helps to focus the issue of emotional intelligence in the setting of leadership. The new standard takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do the job; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.
Goleman, Daniel, Boyatzis, Richard, and McKee, Annie, Primal
Leadership, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
An excellent addition to Goleman's above two works. Extends the concept of emotional intelligence and leadership further with a reworking of some of the principles outlined in Goleman's 1998 book. Also, adds more insight into emotional intelligence and groups. The authors state that the primal job of leadership is essentially emotional and that the fundamental task of a leader is to create resonance, a term they use to describe a reservoir of positivity that frees the best in people.
Goleman, Daniel, Social Intelligence, New York:
Bantam Books, 2006.
A further development from Goleman's writings on emotional intelligence spanning the 1990s, but updated with a new focus, namely social intelligence. The field of social neuroscience has expanded dramatically in the last 15 years with new insights into the nuances of social behavior with implications for all our relationships. Goleman's work is for the layman and reads easily but is extensively referenced. For a more scientific summary of social neuroscience see: Thomas Insel and Russell Fernald, "How the Brain Processes Social Information: Searching for the Social Brain," Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27 (2004), pp. 697-722.


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FREN3427 - African Tales
In this course, you will discover the universe of the African Tale. Tales are one of the main pedagogical tools in the African culture which is characterized by its oral tradition. Tales develop your imagination, enable you to master the language and help you understand the aesthetic and moral values that regulate the functioning of the society.
It has been passed down from the great traditional storytellers (the elderly and the griots). This course will be dedicated to the studying of the particular framework of the African tales. Moreover you will be taught how to read and write tales through the analysis of some classics.
Here is the list of the books that will be studied in the program:
-Kaydara de Hampâthé Bâ
-Petit Bodiel de hampâthé Bâ
- Les contes d'Amadou Koumba de Birago Diop
-Leuk- le lièvre de Senghor et Sadji
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Today, on Planet 100, the United Nations announces that the scale of devastation caused by floods in Pakistan has eclipsed that of the 2004 tsunami, Damien Somerset takes the X Racer for a spin, and a gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo plays Nintendo.Flooding Tops Tsunami
On Monday, the UN said that scale of devastation caused by the Pakistani floods have eclipsed that of the 2004 tsunami.
A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the 13.8 million affected outstripped the more than three million hit by the 2005 Pakistani earthquake, five million in the 2004 tsunami and the three million affected by the Haiti earthquake in January this year.
The United Nations estimates that 1,600 people have died in Pakistan's floods that up to 500,000 people are homeless.
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Gorilla Nintendo
Nintendo received some priceless publicity thanks to a curious gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo. Bawang quickly snatched up a device after a boy dropped it in her cage last week. While the gorilla was amused by the machine, she eventually traded it in for an apple.
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