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after seeing indiana run 8+ times in a row on drives in the 4th quarter last night, i'm sure you're right and barkley breaks a few. that having been said, i think people are assuming that michigan's run defense is now atrocious. i don't think it was as good as advertised, getting its stats inflated against weak teams. still, taking care of business is taking care of business. they played about as poorly as they possibly could have last night and luckily the offense bailed them out. i think in reality michigan's rush D and front seven are somewhere in the top 30-40 in the country, but not top 2. howard is also more of a load to bring down than barkley. i have no doubt penn state will show up to play, but i think michigan can pull out the win.
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3-4 weeks ago, i would tell you that i wasn't worried about michigan playing penn state. after seeing how bad michigan's run defense looked without glasgow (who is officially out the rest of the year with a torn pec) i'm a bit more nervous. still, everyone thought the sky was falling when mone was revealed to have a broken leg and done for the year. glasgow filled in admirably. hopefully for michigan's sake they can be competitive and tighten up their run D. if not, zeke will run right through them. still have my doubts about barkley.
nobody wants to give indiana's offense much credit. a healthy howard and sudfeld put up points on ANYONE imo. not to mention, while their OL might not have the studs other teams do, there were very, very few holds and false starts called against them, and they got consistent push. i do not see PSU's OL doing the same thing. this is the same group of guys that let a 2 man rush sack hackenberg against temple after a 3 step drop.
or 'offensive juggernauts' like maryland?
tough way for that streak to come to an end for him. hope he recovers quickly
those on michigan's side of things have said that there's no interest on michigan's end. not that he couldn't be a good player, but he obviously has some issues to work through. needs to figure out where his priorities lie. hope he can get things sorted and has a good future, whether that be in the academic and then working world or as a student athlete
he played pretty well, and people will obviously remember the highlight plays. but it took him awhile to get settled and it didn't look like the ND OC had a good idea of how he wanted to use him until his 3rd or 4th drive. i think they'll develop a good strategy with him and he'll play pretty well, but at the end of the day they lose a couple games when they play someone better than UVA, who looked awful last week against UCLA
wouldn't worry about it too much, and as said above, is probably click bait. i'm ecstatic he chose michigan, but that was really the only choice here. it's the same thing as when anybody that commits to osu is shown as committing 'over michigan and others' when michigan may have not even been recruiting them for a period of time. don't need to waste resources on a fight you don't think you can win, and that doesn't stop media types from describing an epic slugfest that a team won over another, regardless of what actually happened. much sexier than saying that one of his finalists didn't see him as a plan A guy.
i'm just curious as to a potential scenario where meyer whiffs on craig-myers, corley, and victor. does he make a late push for mitchell? how easy is the flip? i believe i read somewhere that he was going to try and enroll early, which could help michigan hold onto him. consolation prize or no, they'll be happy to have him. for a guy his size, he brings an interesting skill set in his ability/willingness to go across the middle and pick up YAC like it's his job, albeit against less than stellar NJ competition. with room to refine his route running, he could be an exciting players down the line.
at the end of the day, both teams are going to get their share of great players. and if harbaugh enjoys success season 1 (not a given, but i think it's arrogant to assume he won't eventually given his track record and coaching staff), then recruiting could take off for michigan, as he won't be such a question mark at UM. i think 8-4 sounds about right. if you don't think he's worth 3 more games than hoke with a more experienced defense, significantly improved special teams coaching, and a less turnover prone QB protected by an OL that has received actual coaching, that's crazy. hoke, almost in spite of his incompetence, lost close games to rutgers and maryland that offensive ineptitude would have prevented. throw in competent play against minnesota (who i think will be pretty good this year) and that could be a toss up as well. the 4-8's, 5-7's, 6-6's that some are gleefully predicting aren't giving credit where credit is due
i agree in part with what you're saying. i think the situation at michigan's a little better than the one at florida right now. and the situation's better at osu than almost anywhere in the country. it's obvious most osu fans couldn't even fathom someone not being interested in osu to that extent. that's bias for you. every school and fanbase has it. but to say that harbaugh and the coaching staff he has assembled isn't a good place to develop talent? come on. they haven't proven anything on the field, but most of their coaching staff has had success in many different situations at different schools. and harbaugh may seem like a nutcase (he does to an extent to michigan fans as well), his eccentricities are tolerated because he can coach.
the other thing people jump on is the whole andrew luck thing. yes, luck is a once in a generation talent. potentially poised to be the next payton manning, etc. in 2008, he was the #3 ranked pro style QB recruit. ranked ahead of him were blaine gabbert and dayne crist. in the 2009 class, tajh boyd, garrett gilbert, and matt barkley held higher 247 composite rankings. in 2010, phillip sims. in 2012, gunner kiel. in 2013, max browne and christian hackenberg. and looking before him to see some in the NFL, the 2007 class had jimmy clausen, ryan mallet, aaron corp, and john brantley. 2006 had matt stafford and mitch mustain. that's not including any potential dual threat QB's ranked higher. some are too young to make conclusions on, but could it be possible that harbaugh is part of the reason andrew luck became andrew luck?
all are good schools, all have historically good football teams, with osu being great currently and expected to be going forward. it seems silly, though, to think that neither michigan nor florida will deviate more towards their norm, that being competitive at a national level. with meyer at the helm for osu, there isn't cause for worry, because he'll keep winning and getting good recruits, but to completely dismiss harbaugh is a little premature
most here look through scarlet colored lenses, which is fine. mine aren't, but i try to keep any mega-homerish comments elsewhere. they don't really tend to do any good here. didn't get a chance to see the press conference live, but watching it right now on michigan's website. jim's always been described as extremely confident, and certainly cocky to an extent. and sure, he was confident today. i think any perceived disinterest probably has to do with the fact that he's had an extremely busy 24-48 hours, during which he's been sick. but i think he's a great fit for the university, and enthusiastic about the job. i could care less what he decides to drink at his press conferences. he's exactly what michigan needs to get back to delivering a quality product on the field. i don't think he's perceived as being any more arrogant than urban meyer is by michigan fans and the sports nation in general.
The press also said he'd never leave the NFL (and now it turns out not only did he leave the NFL, but for less money than Oakland was prepared to offer him). They also said he was using Michigan as leverage. The national media had almost no clue what they were talking about in this case, and from what I've read on Mgoblog, lots of people are lining up to troll tools like Cowherd, Schefter, etc.
I've heard about his dipping as well, but no way in hell he goes into a recruit's home and asks for a spittoon. It's not the same era as when Howard Schnellenberger used to leave his pipe in recruit's homes as an excuse to come back.
i think it's definitely a home run hire. people called hackett an idiot at the beginning, but the more i've been reading about the search, the more i was impressed with him. he really went out of his way to make sure the harbaughs would be comfortable in every way (for $8 million/year, that wouldn't take much), and knew exactly who he wanted.
people are unimpressed by his recruiting at stanford, but if you put that effort and prowess into a team like michigan, those national rankings are easily 30-40 points improved. not to mention, stanford recruited really well immediately after he left too, which was due to his elevation and changing the perception of the entire program. think the same level of immediate impact urban's hiring had. and he can develop talent. sure, he had andrew luck, which certainly helps. he also had a great rushing attack and defense towards the end of his time at stanford. not to mention, luck wasn't anything THAT spectacular in high school, so does anyone think his transformation from pretty good to the next peyton manning (certainly debatable) had something to do with harbaugh? i would guess it does.
i think that's reasonable. i expect him to stabilize michigan quickly and make them very competitive in 2 years. if half of michigan's roster had actual coaching, they could do quite well. i would be happy with a successful 5 year tenure, leaving some key assistants in place to either take over when he leaves (as shaw did at stanford), or at least to keep the school an attractive option for a new head coach. i think hackett has done a good job with the way he went about the search and will get the full time AD gig.
also, be more creative with the name-calling! you can do better than that
both schools will continue to get top recruits. they always have, and they always will. the big difference for michigan is they now have a coach that can develop that talent. michigan will get recruits ohio state wants in the midwest and nationally, and vice versa. i expect michigan to pull much more of their weight going forward, which will help the B1G in recruiting and national perception.
to say that urban will own harbaugh is homerish. take off the rose colored glasses and see that if hoke could recruit top classes, a guy like harbaugh should have no problem doing that. looking forward to some great football between these two schools in the future.
correct. and looking back at video now, michigan had 2 timeouts left at that point. the game was far out of reach at that point (and probably was since the beginning) so it's not like the timeouts needed saving for a game tying/winning drive. absolutely pathetic. and i'm not sure that he wants to be fired, i think he really is that clueless. embarrassing to see as a fan. here's hoping michigan can get a hire right this time (i think that first involves canning dave brandon, but that's for another thread) and get a coach to bring some relevance back to the program. i'd be happy with showing signs of talent development and smart/modern football in all phases of the ball.
not that michigan is the end all be all of the B1G, nor do i think it ever was by itself, but the national view of the conference is much better when we can throw osu, msu, michigan, penn state, wisconsin, and nebraska into the top 25.
agreed. one of the few things i still supported about hoke was that he seemed to have the players best interest at heart and seemed like a genuinely good guy who cared about them. now, that wasn't enough in my eyes to give him another year, but this was inexcusable. and to make matters worse, bellomy couldn't even find his helmet when gardner lost his and had to come out. i don't remember the specifics of the series, but if they had a timeout left, they need to use it. morris has at least a moderately injured leg, and probably a concussion to boot. hoke saying he wasn't aware is just pathetic. what the hell else could he have been watching when all this was happening?
interesting that you put school in quotes. despite the dumpster fire of a football program, which will certainly lose hoke and brandon before the end of the season, the school's academic reputation is still fantastic. shit on the team all you want, but the degree is one of the more respected in the country.
and if a situation where lane kiffin became head coach at michigan, i would stop watching. no respect for him at all. i think mattison gets the interim head coach job while brandon tries to poach the usual targets: miles and the harbaugh's. none of them bite, because of said dumpster fire, and michigan looks for an up and comer coach with an actual winning record, or tries to grab a national top assistant. either way, not looking good for michigan.
never apologize for that
at one point, UCF's best CB left the game with a leg issue. i did not watch enough to see if he returned, but his replacement was victimized almost immediately for a 60+ yard TD. not sure how he fared the rest of the game. agree about the OL though, saw a few sacks and a lot of pressure
agreed! hackenberg was forcing throws all day, and while i root for B1G teams not playing michigan, they were very lucky to beat UCF
it'll definitely be close, but i'm not sure notre dame pulls it off. from what i saw of notre dame's game against rice, they didn't move the ball consistently or effectively. gohlston scrambled around and bought time, or improvised and used his legs. he is missing their only proven returning WR, and you can hate them if you want, but gohlston will be pressured more by michigan's front 4, and return lots of talent and experience at LB and DB. they will (hopefully) be able to minimize the damage he commits. he's talented for sure, so gohlston will get his. on the other side of the ball, their academic suspensions will hurt notre dame. they have a bunch of new starters up front, and doug nussmeier seems like he'll put the players in positions to make good plays. unlike borges, who only called a few great games in his career (last year's version of The Game being one of them, with far more duds). i think michigan will move the ball just enough on the ground to be able to pass, and will move the ball through the air well between funchess, darboh, chesson, and norfleet. outside of jaylon smith and sheldon day, they aren't starting anyone to write home about. i'm not saying it won't be close, especially in touchdown jesus' shadow, but i think michigan has the talent on both sides of the ball to get it done.
michigan fan checking in, and i agree with you (except for wanting to see another loss). they could win by 200 points, and it wouldn't erase the fact that they lost in 2007, with what was a much more complete, albeit obviously unprepared team not taking app state seriously. it's a lose-lose to even put on the schedule, imo. just like florida could kick the crap out of georgia southern, and it still wouldn't erase the fact that they got beat without their opponent completing a single pass. love underdog stories usually, but obviously not in the case of "The Horror"
i expect ohio state, michigan state, and michigan to take care of business tomorrow. thank god for college football
as a michigan fan that visits this site regularly, i can tell you the general consensus around mgoblog, 247, etc is the same. there is absolutely no defending those actions. the kid had his hands in his pockets. i don't care what he may or may not have said to york's group, you don't do that. i hope he learns from this and becomes a better person, but it won't be at michigan, and it won't be without a criminal record
i'm a michigan fan, and that was pretty good, albeit depressing at the same time
i don't think it's as much that michigan didn't recruit well in the RR years, because they were okay. schematically, they were probably not ideal. that's still workable. the biggest issue was the attrition suffered during the RR years and into the early Hoke years. gardner's recruiting class (true players graduated last year, redshirt seniors this year) took a huge hit. very, very few even made it to their upperclassmen years on the team. those players you look to for leadership, accountability, etc were nowhere to be found.
how would osu have fared if players like hyde, smith, spencer, heuerman, bryant, roby, grant, mewhort, etc did not develop or stick around? just as an example. osu definitely weathered the change they endured really well, and landed an absolute home run for their JT successor. but i think (if hoke can manage to get through this year) that 2015 and 2016 will show a very, very competitive michigan team. that will probably be towards the end of nussmeier's tenure there, but his system should be well installed, and the zone blocking scheme that nussmeier wants is actually the one that their OL coach funk (who i think probably should have been fired last year too) prefers...so we'll see if he can earn his salary. the defense should be top 25 year in and year out by that point
i think they actually have a great chance to get KLS out of california, considering they've been consistently in his top 2 basically his entire recruitment, without the benefit of a visit. i think UCLA is his top school now because of comfort level, but if/when he visits michigan for an official, he will be blown away. there are certainly prospects that don't come away loving ann arbor, but generally with the type of kids michigan goes for, they definitely impress during visits. if KLS were to get out to michigan for a second, unofficial visit as well, i think they win by a long shot. i also think they land rosenboro over NC state, as he visited for almost 4 days earlier this year and seemed to really, really enjoy his time there.
still think it's dumb backing off on cornell, even if they didn't think they had a good shot. he is elite, and i would have liked them to get one interior linemen in the class. i thought that was going to be hjalte frohold before he committed to bert and the razorbacks, seemingly out of nowhere. and the fact that cornell has ohio state and michigan state so highly ranked means that losing out on him could directly cost michigan in the future.


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Rice Pudding
Skim milk gives a whole lot of flavor without whole milk's fat and calories.
- 1 1/2 cup(s) water
- 2 cinnamon sticks
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- 3 cup(s) milk, lowfat (1%)
- 2/3 cup(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
1. Put water and cinnamon sticks in medium saucepan. Bring to boil.
2. Stir in rice. Cook on low heat for 30 minutes until rice is soft and water has evaporated.
3. Add skim milk, sugar, and salt. Cook for another 15 minutes until mixture thickens.
Nutrition Detailsper serving
Calories 372, Fat 1g, Cholesterol 3mg, Sodium 366mg, Saturated Fat 0.5g, Protein 10g, Fiber 1g, Carbohydrates 81g

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Tallmadge -- The Summit County Fair will welcome visitors of all ages to the fairgrounds this year from July 22 to 27.
The gates will open at 8 a.m. and close at 11 p.m. July 22 through 24; open at 8 a.m. and close at midnight July 25 and 26; and open at 9 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. July 27.
Visitors can access the fairgrounds from North Avenue or East Howe Road.
Fair offers traditional, new attractions, entertainment
The organizers of the fair invite visitors to participate in a new agriculture education and promotion program called "Ag-venture." Participants visit eight stations, including those for the Summit County Farm Bureau, Summit County Beekeepers Association and Ohio Pork Producers, throughout the fairgrounds to learn about agriculture, and at each station they present a fair program to be stamped.
After obtaining all of the stamps, participants enter their programs into a drawing July 27, for which participants don't have to be present to claim their prizes. Prizes include a 42-inch flat screen TV and Akron Rubber Ducks tickets.
Pig races and a petting zoo will be part of the new entertainment offered July 25 to 27.
"We just try to do new things and educate people on agriculture. It's the No. 1 industry in Ohio, so our purpose is to help educate people on that ... ," said Theresa Call, vice president of the Summit County Agricultural Society.
"We feel it's a pretty great place for families to come together and just have a good time and ride some rides, learn about agriculture and have some good food," she said.
Call said she expects about 45,000 people to attend the fair this year.
In conjunction with Family Day on July 24, the fair will also have Safety Day, during which police cruisers, helicopters and ambulances from police stations around the county will be on display for visitors to check out and learn about the jobs of safety personnel. Parents also have the option to have their children's fingerprints taken.
For the second annual Country Day, the fair will feature four acts instead of one like last year, Call said. Will Hoge will be the headliner, David Fanning, Brynn Marie and Akron artist Mark Leach will perform.
The fair has added another class to its Rough Truck show called "Side by Side."
"It's kind of a cross between a ramped-up golf cart and an all-terrain vehicle. So that's something kind of new and different," Call said. "It's actually a timed race, and they compete individually. It's kind of like an obstacle course, where there's bumps, jumps that they have to make, and they have to stay within cones."
Another event of the Rough Truck class is the "Longest Jump" that has contestants competing to see who can jump the farthest off a tall hill.
"Rough Truck is something that's growing in popularity in the state of Ohio. It started down in Knox County and Carroll County area and has just kind of grown from there," Call said.
A minihorse pull, similar to draft horse pulls done in the past, also is debuting. The object is to see which minihorse can pull the most weight the farthest.
For more information on any event, visit www.summitfair.com or call the fairgrounds at 330-633-6200.
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People with schizoid personality disorder rarely feel there is anything wrong with them. Symptoms include an indifference to social relationships and a limited range of emotional expression.
The word personality describes deeply ingrained behavior patterns and the way individuals perceive, relate to, and think about themselves and the world. Personality traits are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts. A personality disorder has the characteristics of an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, inflexibility and pervasiveness, an onset in adolescence or early adulthood stability over time and causing significant impairment in functioning or internal distress. Personality disorders are not isolated, atypical episodes of maladaptive behavior.
Schizoid personality disorder is a pattern of indifference to social relationships, with a limited range of emotional expression and experience. The disorder manifests itself by early adulthood through social and emotional detachments that prevent people from having close relationships. People with it are able to function in everyday life, but will not develop meaningful relationships with others. They are typically loners and may be prone to excessive daydreaming as well as forming attachments to animals. They may do well at solitary jobs others would find intolerable. There is evidence indicating the disorder may be the start of schizophrenia, or just a very mild form of it. People with schizoid personality disorder are in touch with reality unless they develop schizophrenia.
People with schizoid personality disorder maintain contact with reality. Also, men may be more likely to have this disorder than women.
Though the cause of personality disorders isn't known, both genetics and environment are suspected to play a part in its development. Some mental health professionals speculate that a bleak childhood where warmth and emotion were absent contributes to the development of the disorder. A higher risk for schizoid personality disorder in families of schizophrenics suggests that there is genetic susceptibility to developing this disorder.
Those with schizoid personality disorder do not have schizophrenia, but it is thought that many of the same risk factors in schizophrenia may cause schizoid personality disorder.
Diagnostic Evaluation
A psychological evaluation may be performed, and questionnaires and personality tests aid in the diagnosis. Symptoms must not occur solely during an episode for schizoid personality disorder to be diagnosed.
Little research has been done on the treatment of schizoid personality disorder. This is partly because people with this diagnosis typically do not experience loneliness or compete with or envy people who enjoy close relationships.
People with this disorder rarely seek treatment, and little is known about which treatments work. Talk therapy may not be effective, because people with schizoid personality disorder have difficulty relating well to others. Therefore, treatment can be difficult because of initial reduced capacity or desire to form a relationship with a health professional. A non-intrusive support group can alleviate feelings of solitude, and fears of social interactions and close relationships. Individual therapy, in most cases, has proven relatively ineffective and often temporarily addresses immediate conditions instead of seeking to eliminate the disorder entirely.
Medications are not usually recommended for schizoid personality disorder. However, they are sometimes used for short-term treatment of extreme anxiety states associated with the disorder. The presence of anxiety, usually caused by fear of other people, may mean that a diagnosis of the related schizotypal personality disorder is more appropriate.
Individual therapy that successfully attains a long-term level of trust may be useful in certain cases of schizoid personality disorder by giving patients an outlet to transform their false perceptions of friendships into authentic relationships. As a therapist-client relationship develops, a patient can start to reveal imaginary friendships and terrors of dependency. Individual psychotherapy can gradually affect the formation of a true relationship between the patient and therapist.
Long-term psychotherapy should not be pursued because of its poor treatment outcomes and the costs inherent in lengthy therapy. Instead, therapy should focus on simple treatment goals to alleviate current pressing concerns or stressors within the individual's life. Cognitive-restructuring may be proper to address certain types of clear, irrational thoughts that are negatively influencing the patient's behaviors. This therapeutic plan should be clearly defined at the onset of treatment. Stability and support are the keys to good treatment with someone who suffers from schizoid personality disorder. Care should be taken not to "smother" the person with schizoid personality disorder and be able to tolerate possible "acting-out" behaviors.
Group therapy is another potentially effective form of treatment but it generally is not a good initial treatment. Although patients may initially withdraw from the therapy group, they often grow participatory as the level of comfort is gradually established. Protected by the therapist, who must safeguard people with this diagnosis from criticism by others in the group, patients have the chance to conquer fears of intimacy by making social contact in a supportive environment.
Social consequences of serious mental disorders—family disruption, loss of employment and housing—are sometimes calamitous. Comprehensive treatment, including services existing beyond the formal treatment system, is crucial to ameliorate symptoms, assist recovery, and redress stigma. Self-help programs, family self-help, advocacy and services for housing and vocational assistance complement and supplement the formal treatment system.
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The Dunkelberger
This burger recipe is inspired by my wife's favorite wine, Sutter Home's Chenin Blanc. Being my last name is Dunkelberger is is fairly easy to name my creation "The Dunkelberger".The fruitiness of the wine matches the ingredients of the burger perfectly. We have cooked this particular burger so many times, that I know when I execute it properly it is always a crowd favorite. Thank you for such a beautiful wine and a chance to showcase it in a burger recipe contest.
Kaiser Roll
Ground Sirloin
Sutter Home Chenin Blanc
Vidalia Onion
Applewood Bacon
Cheddar Cheese
Worcerstershire Sauce
Balsamic vinegar
Brown sugar
Dijon Mustard
Garlic Powder
Salt Pepper
Start by cooking bacon in stainless steel saute pan.When bacon is crisp,remove and reserve.Cut Vidalia onion into thin slices and saute until carmelized in bacon drippings, remove and reserve.Patty up burgers to desired thickness,season with Garlic powder,salt, and pepper and saute in pan.Melt Cheddar cheese on top and cook to medium rare and remove.Deglaze saute pan with 6 oz. Sutter Home Chenin Blanc. Add 2 oz.Worcestershire sauce,2oz balsamic vinegar, 1oz.Ketchup,1oz. Dijon mustard, and 1 Tbsp.brown sugar until sauce reduces to half original volume.Toast Kaiser rolls,add burger,carmelized Vidilia onion, crispy bacon,coat with Chenin Blanc reduction, and top with lettuce and tomato. Enjoy!
It would be an honor to showcase such a good wine with a quality burger. With so many people enjoying gourmet food, we must realize that a simple hamburger can be transformed into a culinary explosion of flavor.If the general public were to taste a gourmet burger, they would probably give up fast food and treat themselves to a quality burger made at home, to their specifications.


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New system connects job seekers with employers statewide
The state has a new system that aims to connect job seekers with employers in Louisiana.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) launched an improved web-based services system this week that empowers unemployed workers to go back to work faster in jobs with strong longer-term outlooks. HiRE, which stands for Helping Individuals Reach Employment, provides al of the employment assistance services formerly available in the Louisiana Virtual One Stop. Additionally, users can receive unemployment insurance services such as filing an unemployment insurance claim and filing for weekly benefits.
With a single login and password, individuals who file for unemployment insurance benefits will be simultaneously registered for work, receive immediate access to job opportunities in their area and get connected to employment services and training.
"HiRE makes it easier to go from unemployed to re-employed," said LWC
Executive Director Curt Eysink. "We're bringing job seekers, employers and training providers closer together than ever."
One of the new tools available within HiRE is Louisiana Star Jobs, which allows users to search for jobs and careers using a five star rating system that ranks jobs based on pay as well as current and long-term demand. Users can apply for jobs online or connect to training providers in their area.
HiRE is fully web-based and will replace a mainframe system that was developed in the 1970s.
"Today is a giant step forward in providing seamless service for our customers," said Dayne Freeman, director of the LWC's Office of Unemployment Insurance Administration. "HiRE means individuals will find work faster and spend less time collecting unemployment benefits, and businesses will enjoy lower operating costs."
The launch is the first of three phases, according to LWC. The next step, scheduled for completion in January 2014, will add unemployment appeals and benefits processing features to the HiRE system. The third phase, scheduled for early 2015, will enable employers to post job openings, recruit talent, schedule job fairs, pay unemployment taxes, file appeals and submit required forms and compliance reports.
Anyone who has been unemployed in the last several years knows just how hard it is to find a job. The HiRE system closes the gap between job seekers and employers in Louisiana and stands to benefit the unemployed who will find work faster, as well as cut down costs for both the state and businesses.
To learn more about HiRE, including viewing an online tutorial, visit the website http://www.laworks.net.
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April Fools!
Of course!
Reading is GREAT for kids before age five. The BEST.
Plenty of reports show it, like these:
- Reading is Fundamental (RIF): Reading Aloud
- Reading Rockets: Reading Aloud (Scroll down for Research Reports)
And lots of fun to be had:
- Infoplease Almanac: April Fool's Day Origin and History
- Spoonful: April Fool's Day
- Parenting: 15 April Fool's Day Pranks (Librarian's choice: safety pin all of their undies together side by side. When one is pulled out, they all come out. You'll get a serious laugh for that one. Underwear always does it. Try Froggy Gets Dressed or Bear in Underwear or Aliens Love Underpants or Dirty Joe, the Pirate: a True Story. You'll see.)
- Food.com: Top April Fools' Day Prank Recipes
Books Recommended by: Janet Spaulding, Selection Services


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Lady Of The Sunshine is a solo-project by Australian singer/songwriter Angus Stone, known for his work with his sister in the duo "Angus and Julia Stone." The general sound of this record comes as quite a surprise to fans of the mellow, acoustic music known to the Stone duo. In the hills of Coolangatta in the home studio of Stone's producer, the album was recorded in an emptied concrete water tank, complete with floorboards. The opening tracks, "Silver Revolver" and "Home Sweet Home" begin in a rather mellow, laid back style. "Jack Nimble", "Anna" and "Big Jet Plane" are a few tracks that follow this style. However, tracks such as "White Rose Parade", "Smoking Gun", "The Wolf" and "Kings Black Magic" take on a very different feel. The acoustic guitar gives way to a distortioned electric guitars. These tracks take on a rocky, dark feel compared to the rest of the album and to Angus's old work.
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The lyrics are very simple, much the same as Angus and Julia Stone's. Angus really spreads his wings with this record, displaying the true capability of his voice, from a quiet, chilled, folk voice, to a full-on rock scream. Some people may think the lyrics become rather repetitive in some songs, but they certainly follow the idea of each track and the album as a whole.
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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 07:44 AM
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Cyprus jobless turn to illegal songbird trapping
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of chirping emanates from inside a massive carob - a trick sent from speakers to attract tiny songbirds. By mid-morning, the man disentangles about a half-dozen blackcaps, snaps their necks with his teeth and drops them in a bucket.
For centuries, the migratory songbirds have been a prized delicacy among Cypriots. They are also an illegal one, as entry into the European Union forced Cyprus to ban the tradition of catching the creatures, some endangered, in nets or on sticks slathered with a glue-like substance.
Now economic crisis is luring many out-of-work Cypriots back into the centuries-old trade. They risk stiff fines and even jail time by supplying an underground market for the tiny songbirds illicitly served up in the country's tavernas - but they say it's their only way to make ends meet.
Served whole either boiled or pickled, the fatty birds are such an ugly sight on a plate that outsiders find it hard to fathom how there could be any profit to be made from them. For many Cypriots, however, the tangy-sweet taste of the birds is pure bliss.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130131/DA452R7O2.html
In this Nov. 3, 2012 photo, a man tries to free a bird caught on a sticky lime stick that poachers in Cyprus use to trap songbirds in his orchard in the Larnaca district of Cyprus. The small birds, called ambelopoulia in Greek, are considered a delicacy in Cyprus and poachers supply a lucrative market. Amid an economic crisis that has seen unemployment hit record levels on the east Mediterranean island, jobless people are turning to poaching to help them make ends meet. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Thu Jan 31, 2013, 08:15 AM
XemaSab (60,212 posts)
1. It's a huge problem there
And it's another area where the US has better wildlife protection laws than most other countries do.
Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
Thu Jan 31, 2013, 09:20 AM
dipsydoodle (42,239 posts)
2. That's horrible
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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 09:43 AM
Nihil (13,508 posts)
3. Bastards.
I can't believe the scum that I'm reading about these last couple of days.
Response to Nihil (Reply #3)
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:37 PM
birdsrtasty (1 post)
5. BBQ BIRDS taste awesome
Please remember that peasants are eating these birds they are not killing them for sport. Anyone who keeps cats or dogs as pets has more to answer for than a peasants catching a couple of birds to make some soup or to get some protein. Cats were responsible for 800 billion bird deaths in a year. Cat and Dog food is a huge waste of resources. Raising livestock for meat to feed to dogs and cats to me is insanity.
Response to birdsrtasty (Reply #5)
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:05 PM
arcane1 (38,613 posts)
6. To be fair, peasants aren't the ones who eat something called "a prized delicacy"
That term is usually associated to something upper class people eat, no matter how nasty it tastes, because it's rare and expensive. The article specifically mentions the poaching aspect of this.
These peasants are selling these birds because they need money to buy food.
Response to birdsrtasty (Reply #5)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 05:01 AM
Nihil (13,508 posts)
7. Fuck you, troll.
Those "peasants" aren't eating the birds, they are catching them, killing them and *selling* them.
As for the mentality of a troll who signs up with a deliberately inflammatory name just to post on
this topic, just Fuck You.
Response to birdsrtasty (Reply #5)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:32 AM
Democracyinkind (4,015 posts)
8. You don't seem to know much about Cyprus.
It ain't hungry farmers that's the story here.
Signing up on DU with your username just to make this comment - very, very lame. What kind of person gets motivated to sign on here and write down the praises of Bird-BBQ when confronted with a story about poverty forcing people into poaching? Is this your pet cause?
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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 12:24 PM
L0oniX (31,493 posts)
4. ...until they are all gone. Then it's back to selling crack. n/t


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Furst Returns With 'Spies of the Balkans'
Best book yet from master of World War II novels
Long may he prosper. There may be no more sincere
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improves, since so often that is not the case. I have read the last six of
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future novel. We can only hope.
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On what tablet applications should provide learners, & what that means for 'learning designers':
We need to be able to allow our content agility. We need to be able to have a way that when things change they're updated almost instantly and the other thing we need to do is to be able to add deeper and deeper context to content.
We're going to see some really amazingly different blends. That's why it's a game changer for blended learning because some of this content is going to be used blended into a classroom – some of this content's going to be used with a coach or as part of performance review or as part of new higher orientation but perhaps delivered in a distributed fashion.
We are going to be able to make a shift from being an instructional developer to being a learning designer and I always say to my colleagues, "Be a learning designer. You're not just designing content but you're designing an environment in where learners can then sculpture their own learning experience or organizations can do that."
On how organizations need to move to a mobile first development strategy instead of elearning:
As we make a shift [from elearning to mobile] we are going to see a broader spectrum around learning. […] You ought to be thinking about content that's built once, used many. It might be used in a traditional elearning format. It might be used as part of a blended classroom course. It might be used as a follow on to a performance review. [And] it might be used as a just in time element.
On moving away from being elearning centric:
We have to move away from being overly elearning centric to rather thinking about building content, building assessment, building interaction, collaboration, and other apps that's for performance.
I'm enormously excited about the shifts that we can make and I will tell you, I sit on corporate boards, I work with CEOs for major corporations. This is something they're not going to oppose. There's an innate sense that our learners are capable of bearing more responsibility around their learning and they see the tablets and mobile devices may be part of the mix as we try to meet that greater potential from learners.
We were thrilled to have Elliott Masie join us for the "iPad, a Game Changer for Blended Learning" webinar event – to shed some light on how the iPad is transforming learning in the workplace – whilst Xyleme's CEO Mark Hellinger explored how to effectively offer training on the iPad with Xyleme's new product Pastiche™, a tool for developing interactive learning iPad apps. What also made this webinar particularly memorable were our attendees, who, with their insightful questions drove the event. (So, a shout out to all our webinar attendees!)
If you couldn't make the webinar you can now view it here and if anyone has an "iPad-ism" to add to the above list we'd love to hear from you!
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Struggling after releasing news of an earnings plunge, Supervalu Inc. is considering selling stores and has suspended its quarterly dividend.
During a July 11 investors conference call, Craig Herkert, chief executive officer of the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based supermarket operator, said the company's earnings fell 45% during the last quarter to $2.88 a share on July 12.
Herkert said bankruptcy is not a part of the company's strategic review, which includes plans to better compete with other grocery discounters, according to media reports.
Supervalu, which operates stores including Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Save-a-Lot and Shaw's, plans to institute aggressive price cuts.
According to Bloomberg.com, the company's shares fell 35% to-date this year and put it on a course for its fifth consecutive yearly decline. Analysts say Supervalu hasn't earned an annual profit since 2010.
In June, Supervalu publicized layoffs in its Albertsons California and Nevada stores. In a July statement, the company announced it would cut costs by an additional $250 million over two years.
The company is retaining the services of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greenhill & Co. to review its options, according to news reports.


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Please come to a Laborfest event, sponsored by the BCC Global Studies Program, and hear about the Paris Commune of 1871 — the original government of the 99% and a presentation on the situation in France today.
Flier attached to give out in your classes or to friends. The event is free and open to the public.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Cozy corners
Mix and match, color combos and an everyday living to get you inspired..
Being overloaded by work (and happy to be so- such harsh days..) I actually found some moments to redesign my header. I wanted to opt for something lighter and simpler. What do you think?
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1.Hans Blomquist, 2.Ashe+Leandro, 3.Teri Lyn Fisher
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lovely cozy corners, but i keep looking at that blue plate...ReplyDelete
καλο σαββατοκυριακο Ελενη : )
Τόσο όμορφα... όπου βλέπω λευκό και ξανθό ξύλο... περνάω κι εγώ την "άσπρη" φάση μου!ReplyDelete
so lovely and light filled.ReplyDelete
Η δεύτερη φωτο μαρέσει πολυυυύReplyDelete
Καλό σ/κ Ελένη!
Beautiful shelves filled with gorgeous accessories. I love you new header. It looks great!ReplyDelete
What a great room the first one is, looks Scandinavian!ReplyDelete
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The MR9, PX13 and PX625 is is a discontinued Mercuric Oxide coin type cell that was commonly used in cameras and is now banned because of toxicity and environmental fears.
The original PX625 mercury cell produced 1.35V.
There are three possible mercury free replacements for this PX625, PX13 or MR9 cell:
* genuine Mercury cell, the PX625, PX13 or MR9 - but they are rare and hard to find.
* the equivalent alkaline cell, the LR9 or V625U.
* the equivalent silver oxide cell, the S625PX.
* the equivalent zinc air cell, the WeinCELL MRB625.
* a voltage reducing adapter, the MR-9 adapter and a silver oxide 386 cell
The least expensive PX625 replacement is the alkaline cell, the LR9 or V625U. They fit perfectly but, as with all alkaline cells the voltage is not stable, it drifts down from 1.5V towards 1.35V (the voltage of the original Mercury cell) and then lower still. If you use the cell in a camera that needs a steady reference voltage, as the voltage is not steady throughout the useful life of the cells, you need to constantly adjust how you compensate.
Because the S625PX silver oxide cell produces a steady 1.55V, you are able to compensate for the higher voltage by a fixed number of stops or by adjusting the ASA setting. There may be as many as two f-stops underexposure by a camera that uses 1.55v instead of the original 1.35v, but the compensation you require is constant.
Another PX625 replacement is a zinc air battery. The WeinCELL MRB625 is a custom zinc/air battery designed to replace banned mercury batteries. WeinCELLs deliver the same 1.35 V voltage and stability of output as did the mercury PX625 batteries so there is no need to adjust your exposure. The WeinCELL MRB625 batteries last much longer than hearing aid batteries, some times up to a year. To achieve this longer life, the MRB625 used a proprietary electrolyte and has only two small air holes, instead of the 7 larger holes found in standard hearing aid batteries.
Possibly the 'Rolls Royce' of replacements is the MR-9 adapter fitted with a silver oxide 386 cell. The MR-9 adapter is the shape and size of a PX625 cell, has a recess into which a 1.55V silver oxide 386 cell can be dropped and and contains voltage regulating electronics to drop the voltage to match the 1.35V of the original mercury cell. The MR-9 adapter is expensive, but it can be reused time and time again with inexpensive silver oxide 386 cells. Over time you may find the MR-9 adapter will actually save you money over the other options.
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GAMP® Recognized as 2011 Committee of the Year
ISPE's GAMP® Community of Practice was recognized as the 2011 ISPE Committee of the Year recently during the Membership Luncheon of the Annual Meeting. Twenty years ago the GAMP COP created ISPE's most widely distributed guidance document of all time and they are still producing important guidance today. In 2011 the GAMP COP was the first to develop a curriculum for ISPE's new Professional Development Program. They planned a new format that will be followed for ISPE conferences in 2012 and delivered conferences in New Jersey in September and in Brussels in November. ISPE's GAMP COP also published the Good Practice Guide: A Risk-Based Approach to GxP Process Control Systems (Second Edition).


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Roadrunner Transportation (RRTS) fell 13.2% to $22.32 Thursday follow an earnings report that failed to meet analyst expectations for earnings.
For the fourth quarter Roadrunner posted earnings of 29 cents a share. Capital IQ Consensus Estimate called for earnings of 32 cents a share for the quarter, which the company missed by 3 cents. Roadrunner reported earnings of $337 million for the quarter that ended in December. Analysts estimated revenue of $110.4 million for the quarter.
Looking to the first quarter, Roadrunner expects earnings between 27 cents and 30 cents a share, compared to analyst estimates of 33 cents a share.
Following the earnings report analyst firm Raymond James downgraded Roadrunner to "market perform" from its previous "strong buy."
Must read: Oversold Conditions For Roadrunner Transportation Systems (RRTS)
TheStreet Ratings team rates ROADRUNNER TRANS SVCS HLDGS as a Buy with a ratings score of A. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate ROADRUNNER TRANS SVCS HLDGS (RRTS) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, growth in earnings per share, compelling growth in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity."


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Connecting to your personal (mysite.du.edu) website
Personal websites on the DU mysite server
Every current student, faculty and staff member is eligible for space on the mysite.du.edu web server. Personal Web sites are used for various non-commercial content — everything from class projects to galleries. If you are current student, faculty, or staff, you can request personal web space on mysite.du.edu.
Please note: Mysite is not configured for server side scripting. If you attempt to install WordPress, Drupal, or any other enterprise platform, it will not run on mysite.du.edu. DU Mysite is intended for HTML, CSS, XML/XSLT, and JavaScript based content.
Login and passwords for the DU mysite server
Your user name/login on the du.edu web server is a unique alpaha-numeric identifier that has up to 8 characters
- If your DU email address is in the firstname.lastname@example.com format, your user name on the mysite server is the same as the first part of your email address before the @ sign.
- If your email address is in the firstname.lastname@example.com format, the firstname.lastname part of your email address will NOT work as your user name.
Your password for personal sites is the same password you use to log into PioneerWeb. Please verify you can successfully login to PioneerWeb before you attempt to connect to your mysite.
If you do not know your mysite user name or mysite password, call the IT Help Desk (303.871.4700) between 8am and 5pm Monday - Friday.
Accessing your personal web space
Access to update mysite.du.edu accounts is only available to on-campus, DU network users.
In order to access your personal web space from off campus or from a non-DU network, a VPN Client is required. The recommended VPN Client for DU users is Cisco AnyConnect. For more information, visit IT Online How-Tos: Cisco VPN - External Access.
You must login to the DU network via VPN before your FTP client will connect to your mysite.du.edu account. If you are attempting to connect to your mysite.du.edu account on a DU wired or wireless connection, a VPN should not be necessary.
You will need to use a file FTP client of your choosing. Your options include, but are not limited to, such clients as FileZilla, SmartFTP, DreamWeaver, etc. Please note that you will need to use a client that supports SFTP. FTP is no longer a supported protocol for file transfer to the mysite.du.edu webserver.
URLs for personal websites always take the following form:
To create a personal site, the pages must be published to the public_html folder that was automatically created in your personal directory (path) on the server. However, as you can see above, the public_html folder is not part of the URL of your site. The server has instructions to look in this folder for index.html or index.htm and deliver it as your home page.
SFTP setting for personal sites typically take the following form:
- Protocol
- Host or server
- mysite.du.edu
- Directory (Path)
- /mysite/username/public_html/
- User name/login
- username
- Password
- DU password (same as used to log into PioneerWeb)
FileZilla clients: use sftp://mysite.du.edu in your Host connection setting.
All other clients: please consult the documentation for your SFTP client to find out where you may enter in this information.
*Note that Secure FTP (SFTP) is file transfer over SSH (Secure Shell). FTP is no longer a supported protocol for file transfer to the mysite.du.edu web server.
Frequent Issues
- DO NOT DELETE YOUR PUBLIC_HTML FOLDER - this is your home directory for your website.
- "Forbidden" error - Create an index.html page and upload it your public_html folder
If you do not have a public_html folder at your /mysite/{your user name}/ directory, you MUST create one.
Until you see a listing for /public_html/index.html file when viewing your remote site files through your FTP client, you will get a "Forbidden" error.
After successfully connecting to your site via your client, in order to see anything when you visit your mysite address you MUST publish an index.html file to the root public_html directory in your site. This will be the page you see when you visit http://mysite.du.edu/~username/index.html; this allows you to view http://mysite.du.edu/~username.
When viewing the server files in your FTP client, you need to see the following:
/mysite/{your user name}/public_html/index.html
Your public_html directory is what the public sees when visiting your mysite.du.edu/~username address. The /mysite/username/public_html/ directory is the FTP root of your http://mysite.du.edu/~username address. Whatever you upload to this folder is then available at your mysite address.
If you upload a folder (eg a folder called "site") that contains your index.html page to your public_html directory that you intend to be your home page, you will still get an error message when you visit http://mysite.du.edu/~username. This is because the index page is within the folder you just uploaded to your public_html directory on the server. If your index.html is in a folder called "site" and your index.html page is in that folder, you can view this page by going to http://mysite.du.edu/~username/site/index.html.
- Knowing what your URL is: Alternatively, when you upload a file to your public_html folder, it will become publicly available at your mysite.du.edu/~username/ address (eg uploading document.pdf or home.html to your public_html directory will become available at mysite.du.edu/~username/document.pdf and mysite.du.edu/~username/home.html, respectively). If you upload a folder of files to your /mysite/username/public_html/ directory, it will then be available at mysite.du.edu/~username/foldername.
- Can't upload additional files or modify existing ones - Quota restrictions will cause FTP errors: You can put up to 50MB in your mysite web directory. Once you reach this limit, you will no longer be able to FTP files. You can check your quota by going to PioneerWeb, logging in and clicking "My Account" in the top right side of the page. From there you can view your quota on the "Web" tab.
- Increasing Quota: If your site requires more space, you can request to increase your quota. Please make sure you don't have any assets you don't need for your website on the server as this takes up unnecessary space.
Password Protection
If you wish to password protect any portion of your mysite.du.edu site, please follow the "Password protecting your mysite.du.edu site" instructions.
Please review and follow the Acceptable Use Policy. And remember, no commercial activities are allowed on the mysite.du.edu server.


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Roger Saunders & Associates are the producers of the fantastic Hornet and Wolf lines of unpainted resin and metal scale military figures, historical figures, head sets, and accessories. They're primarily known for their Hornet line of military figure replacement head sets, but Roger and the boys have created an incredibly wide range of figures and accessories, all with excellent sculpting, natural posing, and fine casting. Be sure to explore the entire range of Hornet and Wolf products!
This is a set of five oval-shaped metal bases in the patterns shown here, ready to be trodden upon by your latest figure project!


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Like a cross between Denis Johnson's Already Dead and David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Reap draws us into the hot, still air of a summer backwoods at whose fringes lurk danger and epiphany.
Jessup Burke, a lonely, naïve 16-year-old, has grown up without a father in a jobless, indifferent logging town. Out of high school a year early, he now bikes through the woods with his fishing gear, daydreaming of his sweetheart and their secret "home" in an abandoned farmhouse. When Reg, an embittered, paranoid recluse fresh out of jail for growing marijuana, encounters Jessup hitchhiking, he is at first drawn to the boy's easily manipulated naïveté, but the two soon become irreversibly bound.
As Jessup unknowingly participates in Reg's perilous criminal behavior, he also endangers himself when his relationship with Marigold, Reg's married younger sister, goes beyond friendship. Jessup's rude awakening into adulthood is rendered in sure and supple prose in this dramatic, action-packed novel.
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"[P]eople and situations twist inexorably in unpredictable, dangerous directions." (Publishers Weekly)
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A memorial service for Zona Knight-Turner, 84, of Lodi, who died Aug. 11, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Church of Christ, 600 S. Ham Lane, Lodi, with Kevin Percival officiating. Committal will be private. Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at Lodi Funeral Home, 725 S. Fairmont Ave.
Memorial contributions may be made to any charitable organization that serves children.
Guest books may be signed at www.lodinews.com/guestbook and www.lodifuneralhome.com.
A funeral for Max M. Carroll, 72, of Stockton, who died Aug. 9, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Central United Methodist Church, 3700 Pacific Ave., Stockton, with Rev. David Bennett, Rev. Gary Putnam, Rev. Bill Johnson and Morning Star Lodge officiating. Private entombment will be in the Sierra View Mausoleum at Cherokee Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Children's Hospital, 2425 Stockton, Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95817; or to the Stockton Kiwanis Club Foundation, in care of Brian Swanson, 414 W. Longview Ave., Stockton, CA 95207.
Guest books may be signed at www.lodinews.com/guestbook and www.cherokeememorial.com.
A memorial service for Brent Edward Crabill, 50, of Woodbridge, who died July 25, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bethel Open Bible Church, 760 S. Ham Lane, Lodi.
Memorial contributions may be made to The First Church of Christ Scientist, 322 W. Elm St., Lodi, CA 95240; or The California FFA Foundation, P.O. Box 834, Elk Grove, CA 95759.
A memorial service for Doris Tomoye (Yuke) Yamada, 86, who died Aug. 5, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2343 Country Club Blvd., Stockton.
Guest books may be signed at www.lodinews.com/guestbook and www.cherokeememorial.com.
A celebration of life for Charles Otto Kundert, 59, of Lodi, who died Aug. 13, will be held on Aug. 27. For more information about the service, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call and leave a message at 369-6911.
Please sign the guest book at www.lodinews.com/guestbook.
A memorial service for Jerry Ellis Gregg, 74, of Lodi, who died July 22, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at Rocha's Mortuary, 215 South School Street, Lodi. A celebration of life will follow at the Elks Lodge, 19071 N. Lower Sacramento Road, Woodbridge.
Guest books may be signed at www.lodinews.com/guestbook and www.lodifs.com.


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The Elk River-Rogers-Zimmerman girls lacrosse team absorbed its first loss on Wednesday evening, against Champlin Park 22-11 at home.
Kayla Mills had four goals and an assist for ERZ (2-1). Morgan Pierson three goals, and Emily Antony and Mackenzie Perma two goals each. Defensive leaders were Kim Scott, Marissa Scoppeland and Rose Fredell.
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Business growth, financing options covered at Connellsville mixer
Taking the next step in the economic development of the Connellsville area, the Downtown Connellsville semiannual mixer brought together potential business owners with the information and tools needed to start up and fund their ventures by welcoming a program presented by the Small Business Administration.
The mixer, titled "Meet the Lenders," welcomed representatives from several area lending institutions who provided information on funding and helping entrepreneurs and business owners.
The program, presented as the annual fall mixer of Downtown Connellsville, was held in partnership with the Connellsville Redevelopment Authority.
"The Downtown Connellsville committees host the events to give an update on the progress being made in the community through this initiative," said Michael Edwards, executive director of the authority. "We are coming to the end of the initial four years that we had said that we would be operating the program. But our plan is to seek out support from the community once again to continue for another four years of 2014 through 2017."
Edwards spoke about the growth of the city and the positive direction that Connellsville is taking. He also addressed the beautification of existing structures.
"14 businesses have opened in the past four years, and another seven have relocated within the district," Edwards said. "We have run a matching façade and sign program and have been able to leverage $35,000 in additional grants for beautification projects — benches, planters, trash receptacles and an informational kiosk. We have started two festivals — the Mum Festival and It's a Connellsville Christmas. This time we partnered with the Small Business Administration in order to provide some resources for our local businesses."
The event featured informational displays and booths, offering interested parties the opportunity to locate needed information, and included several brief informational programs that touched on various subjects concerning investing, operating and funding a business.
Carl Knoblock, the SBA district director, spoke about ways to fund projects and avenues that can be explored for potential growth including crowd funding, a unique concept when seeking financial backing.
"It's great to see what is happening in Connellsville," Knoblock said.
He said that when seeking investors, the best route is to keep things straightforward.
"Keep things simple," Knoblock said. "People who try to make it too complicated get no buyers."
Melanie Ansell, an independent contractor for the E-Magnify Program, explained the importance of credit scores, honesty and research in her presentation, "Getting the Bank to Say Yes."
"It's tough to get approved," Ansell said of seeking loans. "You have to have a good plan, and you have to have good credit. If you are a customer seeking a loan, you get a lot more done quick — if you are honest about your credit and history."
Government loans also were discussed.
David Miller, senior vice president and relationship manager for Enterprise Bank, told of the flip side of borrowing — from the lenders' perspective.
"One of the things that we are always asked is: 'Why do you need all this paperwork?' and 'Why do you need all this information?' " Miller said. "You need to create a story, a file, that justifies why you need a loan."
Miller said that when a potential small business owner is seeking initial financing, everyone has to be flexible.
David Kahley, president and CEO of the Progress Fund, talked about businesses along the Great Allegheny Passage that were financed through the group and that have proved successful, while stressing the opportunity for even more growth.
"We gave 30 loans to businesses that are along the Allegheny Passage, and not one has failed, and several are expanding," Kahley said. "I see so much more opportunity up and down the trail."