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Jordan Semple scored a team-high 15 points for the Chico State men's basketball team, but the Wildcats fell to San Francisco State 63-59 Friday in San Francisco.
Semple made a jumper to give the Wildcats (10-9, 7-8 California Collegiate Athletic Association) a two-point edge with 6:47 remaining, but the Gators (12-7, 10-5) quickly regained the lead and never trailed again.
Amir Carraway added 11 points for Chico State, and Rashad Parker had eight points and eight rebounds.
Chico State 54, San Francisco State 53
The No. 11 Wildcats (17-2, 13-2 California Collegiate Athletic Association) trailed by eight points at halftime but stormed back to edge the Gators (9-10, 6-9) in San Francisco.
Jazmine Miller scored 16 points for Chico State, and Hannah Womack added 14, with both hitting three 3-pointers each.
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Eric Angerer hit a three-run home run and a sacrifice fly, Cody Slader added a three-run triple and scored three runs, and the No. 7 Wildcats won their nonconference season opener in Oakland.
Ryan O'Shea (1-0) allowed two runs — one earned — on six hits with six strikeouts and one walk, and Luke Barker and Chris Rodriguez combined for five scoreless innings of relief.
Ben Manlove hit a two-run homer and also doubled and scored two runs for the Wildcats.
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Braxton Phillips went 2 for 4 with a two-run home run for the Roadrunners (2-2) in a nonconference home loss, but Napa Valley hit three homers, including a grand slam.
Hamilton 50, East Nicolaus 42
Shea Shull scored 15 points to lead Hamilton (15-14, 7-4 Sacramento Valley League) to a win on the road.
Central Valley 44, Corning 42
Michael Shoemaker scored 19 points in a rare loss for Corning (22-2, 6-1 Northern Athletic League).
Orland 59 Sutter 44
Jud Sailsbery scored 21 points as Orland clinched its third straight Butte View League title. Kavi Ram added 14 points for Orland (20-4, 6-0 BVL).
Liberty Christian 75, Mercy 43
Malachi Jones led Mercy (5-18, 2-8 Five Star League) with 29 points in the loss.
Durham 64, Willows 37
Summer Vercruyssen had 21 points, 12 rebounds and seven steals as the Trojans won on the road. Bailey Larson added 17 points and Stephanie Husa scored 10 for Durham (17-6, 10-0 Sacramento Valley League).
Megan Hughes scored 18 points for Willows.
Sutter 51, Orland 35
Demi Velasquez scored 13 points as the Trojans suffered a loss at home. Destiny Thompson grabbed 10 rebounds for Orland (6-18, 1-5 Butte View League).
East Nicolaus 40, Hamilton 37
Audra Jones scored 15 points in a close loss for Hamilton (12-12, 7-4 Sacramento Valley League).
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Chico's Grant Poliquin finished first and the Chico boys snowboard team won a slalom race at Boreal Ridge. Pleasant Valley came in second with Dylan Schimmel placing third.
PV won the girls snowboard title with Malori Wagner taking first. Chico finished second with Anabel Davis placing second and Luna Retzer placing third.
In boys ski, Chico took second and Aiden Wallace placed third. Chico also placed second in girls ski with Delanie Smith placing second. PV placed third.
Orland 9, Wheatland 0
Marcos Martinez scored three goals, John Macedonio added a goal and three assists, Mirsha Rosas had a goal and two assists, and the Trojans won at home.
Diago Mercado added a goal and one assist for Orland (17-0-1, 12-0 Butte View League), and Erick Ruiz, Julio Vallejo and Bryan Perez each scored a goal. Israel Zintzun and Alexis Lira each had an assist.
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Copeland was one of my favorite signings this offseason. Where is he? Is he getting the pine because of defense?
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Copeland was one of my favorite signings this offseason. Where is he? Is he getting the pine because of defense?
He's riding the pine because of Scola. When he was signed, we didn't have a great backup PF. Now we do. My guess is Copeland's minutes go up as the season goes on.
I'm guessing he gets used depending on situations. Now that we have Scola, that's going to cut down what Copeland's minutes would have been. Ian has been playing some pretty solid defense, so there's not much need to go small with our 4/5 combo. I was fairly surprised to see that he didn't get any minutes against Orlando because they aren't a particularly big team.
In the bench were he deserves to be.
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We intended to sign Copeland to be our back-up PF. The team has made it clear that they see him as a PF when they said that he will spend 90% of his minutes at PF.
However, the opportunity to get Scola appeared and Bird jumped on it. Therefore, Scola became our back-up PF and Copeland was relegated to 3rd PF. It's obvious that neither Copeland nor Scola are going to spend minutes at Center and rightfully so.
In general, Copeland will play. When the team needs someone that can shoot the 3, he will play. When Scola has an off game, he will play. When the circumstances force us to play someone that can stretch the floor, he will play.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
We signed Cope and then Scola became available. It is what it is.
Well, his defense is why he can't be the backup SF, yes.
But the coaches mainly see him as a PF in any case, so the problem is he's the third string PF here. I believe when they signed him the plan was for him to be the backup PF, but then they realized they could get Scola and decided to go for it, leaving Cope to be this year's Jeff Pendergraph.
I am hoping they can turn him over for a young cheap player, or an expiring before the trade deadline.
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I think he will get some run as the season progresses--especially against small ball lineups. I likewise suspect we will have a few guys miss games in our frontcourt rotation so he will get his chance.
I dunno, I always thought Cope would be a good SF. I don't know why he doesn't get some run with the second unit at that position. CJ, OJ, Cope, Scola, Mahinmi. Just have him do nuthin but shoot 3s. He'd be the one guy on the team I'd be okay doing that with.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
I suspect it's defensive related.
I don't know, but Mahinmi's got his hands full defensively when we go with a bench combo up front.
And what it is is it's awesome to have depth!
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
Scola and Cope are both new... But Scola has probably been slightly better on that end to date (or rather he's the less smelly turd)... And Scola's offense has been night and day better so far... Not surprised to see Cope ride the pine hard at the start of his time here...
At some point though we're gonna need him and hopefully he'll be ready...
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Neither one of them are particularly good defenders, but Scola being the vastly superior offensive player will get the nod at PF, naturally. I was responding to your comment about him playing SF--I don't think his perimeter defense is up to snuff from what I've surmised from Vogel's comments and the commentary from Knicks insiders when we signed him.
I don't care if Copeland doesn't make a shot all regular season. At Chicago/Miami/Brooklyn ECF Game 7 down two with ten seconds left, I want Copeland standing in the corner pulling on the defense. That alone is worth $3 million. Vogel called him a weapon and that's how I see him too. Maybe that's an expensive weapon but I'd rather pay for it now than be caught without it later.
And who are you planning in sitting while this great weapon is opening the floor?
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Probably have West out there for the pick and roll versatility he has.
Yeah I rather see anybody on the court with 10 seconds to go than Copeland, if anything Vogel not playing him tell us what we need to know, that the guy is just not that good.
10 seconds to go I want to see the starting unit on the floor and maybe DG for Roy that's it, all those guys can hit a big shot and we have seen that before.
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@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Still, I love the shooting and options Copeland brings. You hate him, for god knows what reason, so I'm not gonna run around in circles with you for 3 pages on the subject. There's plenty of people on this board who will do that for you.
I don't hate him I just don't like his game, he is a horrible defender, he doesn't know what a bad shot is, he is as bad a Gerald Green and trust me I don't want to run around circles either.
Note that I also got to see him in NY and I didn't like him there either.
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In light of the recent hurricane that has taken its toll on the East Coast, the CU-Boulder Volunteer Resource Center is hoping to step in as a voice to raise awareness about helping those impacted to get back on their feet.
However, in many cases we find ourselves jumping in to help before we know what the affected communities really need assistance with. We at the Volunteer Resource Center are appreciative of our ability to listen to impacted communities' attempts to reach out, and figure out ways we can become active volunteers during a time when many people are without homes, power and heat.
The CU Alternative Breaks program has organized a service trip during spring break 2013 to the East Coast. Led by two CU-Boulder students, the trip will focus on working alongside the community to help rebuild. Students, faculty and staff who wish to apply should visit http://volunteer.colorado.edu/node/67/spring-break-trips to learn more about this trip as well as other Alternative Break trips. Applications are due by Nov. 26.
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Claire Danes and her husband Hugh Dancy are celebrating the birth of their firstborn child.
People magazine reports that the 33-year-old Homeland star and her actor spouse welcomed son Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy on Monday, December 17.
Throughout Danes's term, the couple kept the details of the pregnancy close to their chests.
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Fairfax County Government developed an Influenza Response Plan in July 2007 in case of a worldwide influenza outbreak – a flu pandemic. This plan details what the county will do to contain an outbreak within our community and preserve health care and critical community services to the extent possible.
On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic in response to the widespread respiratory illnesses caused by a novel swineflu origin Influenza A H1N1 virus. Influenza pandemics tend to occur in two to three waves of disease outbreaks in communities over a period of 12-18 months. The full impact of a flu pandemic on our community cannot be predicted. However, being prepared may help reduce the impact. Fairfax County Government has engaged all county agencies and surrounding cities and towns, the private sector, local hospitals, the medical community and faith-based organizations in its preparedness efforts.
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Hand washing is the most important – and easiest – action we can take to prevent the spread of many illnesses, including influenza. Page 14 of this guide stresses hand washing and provides instructions on how and when to wash hands. My hope is that everyone learns to wash their hands properly and frequently. Please read this guide carefully and keep it for future reference in case anyone in your household becomes ill with influenza.
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After going hitless in his first 10 Cactus League at-bats, Tanaka has recorded a hit in each of his last three games, including a 2-for-5 day Saturday in the Giants' 9-7 split-squad win over the Cubs at Scottsdale Stadium.
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Fairfax County's County's Wastewater Management Program received state certification today as an Extraordinary Environmental Enterprise or E4 facility. Only two other such programs in the state have received this certification to date.
As a result of the designation, the county will receive a 20 percent discount on its state discharge permit. This discount will contribute to the more than $100,000 in annual savings the Wastewater Program generates because of its environmentally friendly practices.
Officials from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality presented the certification during todays Board of Supervisors meeting.
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The Noman M. Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant consistently meets federal pollution control standards 100 percent of the time and removes more than 99 percent of pollutants from 45 million gallons of wastewater daily. This helps protect the water quality of the county's streams and watersheds, as well as the Chesapeake Bay. The plant's lab has almost completely eliminated the use of mercury, which is harmful even in very small amounts.
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The plant reduced its water use by almost 50,000 gallons per year, saving taxpayers approximately $90,800 last year. It also fuels its incinerator with methane gas from the county's I-95 landfill, preventing the need to buy 300,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day. The plant also conserves energy because it cuts power consumption during peak demand, as well as uses solar power for some of its operations. Each year, employees also recycle 30 tons of asphalt that's dug up when repairing sewer lines and keeps it waste from going to a landfill. This also saves approximately $1,600 a year.
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The Sewer Science Program educates students about pollution and how to prevent itfrom entering local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay. Since 2005, 8,309 students from 21 high schools have participated. To demonstrate how wastewater is treated, the plant conducts an average of 25 tours to about 800 people per year, including students, civic groups and scouts.
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The county's Wastewater Management Program maintains approximately 3,300 miles of sanitary sewer lines; 59 permanent sewage flow meters; 10 temporary sewage flow meters; 65 pumping stations; and 299 sewage grinder pumps in an approved sewer service area that covers nearly 234 square miles. More than 85 percent of the 325,000 households and virtually all businesses in the county are connected to public sewers. New developments or existing homes with septic tanks in the county's approved sanitary sewer service area can connect to public sewers.
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Architect Jonathan Pearlman is scheduled to discuss "The Evolution of the Modern American Home" 6-8 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road.
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text: Feb. 22, 2013: Jack Daley family; guns; WVSDB; Romney February 21, 2013 Story Share Looking for family of Jack DaleyEditor:My grandfather, Jack Daley, was born in St. Albans in February 1914. He had two siblings, a sister named Melba and a younger brother.As far as I know, he was an orphan and a runaway. He attended Parkersburg High School from 1923-1928. He lived with Blanche (Farrier) and Edward Schneider while he attended school.He headed westward and lived in Illinois and Iowa before coming to California during World War II. If there are living family members in the area, I would very much like to hear from them at email@example.com you so much.Pamela Stutrud GrothPetaluma, Calif. Politicians don't care about childrenEditor:After the Sandy Hook shootings, did we hear any senator or congressman say something like, "I will do anything I can, work with anyone who will help, oppose whomever resists, never caring who gets credit to assure that a tragedy like this never happens again!"Instead, our elected leaders reacted with the expected deference to the NRA and Wayne LaPierre, with statements like: "...the bad guys are still going to get weapons." (McKinley); "They [the media] will, one by one, put up pictures of dead children. They will show the carnage." (Manchin)By contrast, teachers at the school went toward the shooter without armor, weapons or backup, and several were killed. I believe there are teachers in every school in America who would risk their lives to protect children, but it seems our politicians won't even risk their chances at re-election. Gerald Wedemeyer Bridgeport WVSDB family has been torn apartEditor:As I returned to school following our respected Pierre Sevigny's funeral on Friday, it finally came together in my head why all these changes and rumors and plans have been so upsetting for many on our campus.The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind have been family for 140 years. Perhaps we have not been so to the community, but to the students and staff who have existed together in this microcosm in Romney, we have supported each other, loved each other, fought at times like brothers and sisters, but we have always been the WVSDB family. We have raised the children of West Virginia who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and blind or low vision when they were not with their own parents. In the funeral home, there were current students, former students/alumni, staff present and past, and friends. All packed in there together were members from the School for the Blind, School for the Deaf and the Multisensory Unit. They talked (signing is talking, too,) visited, comforted and held each other as only family members do.This feeling was palpable, because we are, or were, the WV Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. This is something that outsiders who see us only as a commodity for economic or political use will never understand. Our hurt and mistrust comes from the breaking up of our family as we have known it.I realize times change, and things change, but to tear apart the family unit that has always been WVSDB is something that must not be taken lightly by the powers who be. Many of us will be in mourning, and we may be that way for a very long time. Because, you see, we held our students "Always Child First" long before you paid any attention to us.Robin Dohrman AyersFamily and Consumer Sciences, Daily Living Skills and ProStart teacherRomney Response to Kahn letter on gunsEditor:In response to Mr. Jamal H. Kahn's question: "Is unlimited gun access worth a child's life?" How many lives is freedom worth?The framers didn't put "the right to bear arms" in the 2nd Amendment to ensure us the right to squirrel hunt; it's there so we can protect our freedom.How many lives were lost stopping Hitler? Was it worth it? How many lives were lost because Hitler disarmed the Germans? Or Mao the Chinese, or Stalin the Soviets, or Fidel the Cubans?Thorney LiebermanCharleston Putin needs Romney for Winter OlympicsEditor:Russia's Putin fired the comrade in charge of building the facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the small resort city of Sochi, cost overrun and delays were cited for dismissal.Mr. Putin can get things going in a hurry if he would call Mitt Romney. Mr. Romney did wonders in Salt Lake a few years back. That was one of his major campaign ads.Ted HarmonYawkey Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 3 Rod Run and Doo Wop brings classic cars, music to Boulevard for 12th year 4 Parole hearing set for Putnam man who claims wrongful sex assault conviction 5 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet Civic Center: Boost Charleston Previous Story Sara Bird: Stop jailing nonviolent offenders Next Story


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Photo Gallery: Modern Country Interiors
Be inspired by this pared-back look.
A DIY display rack adds character and storage.
A rustic branch, pink wall and striped flat weave rug offer country style, while the metal bistro chair and simple Ikea shoe cabinet keep the look fresh and not overly feminine. To make this do-it-yourself branch rack, look for a thick, fairly straight fallen tree branch with a few knots in the wood for interest. Make sure a hanger will fit around it and then hang it with chain or rope on either end from eye hooks in the ceiling.
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Lynda Reeves used industrial elements and dark-grey kitchen cabinets to update country style.
The kitchen of the 2009 Princess Margaret Welcome Home Sweepstakes Showhome in Oakville was inspired by Lynda's travels and the farmhouses of Belgium and France. "They're fascinating because they have the warmth associated with our farmhouses, but with a sparer, architectural discipline," she says. The stunning, unfitted kitchen includes traditional country elements like an apron sink and open storage, mixed with modern charcoal grey cabinets, stainless steel accents and honed CaesarStone countertops.
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Simplicity and restraint are key elements of modern country decorating.
Classic country features such as granite floors, a limestone countertop and lantern sconces have a modern effect when used sparingly. Horizontal white-painted board and batten walls are another trend-setting twist on typical cottage design.
A stainless-steel countertop gives this country kitchen a contemporary vibe.
Vintage wood signs, exposed black iron hinges, old metal buckets as vases and a ticking-striped fabric Roman shade all read as country. Paired with white walls, a sleek countertop and drop sink with on-trend painted grey cabinets, however, the look is clean and fresh.
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Add sophistication to a cottage kitchen with superb finishes and detailed millwork.
Dark bamboo blinds, wood floors and stools balance the bright white Shaker style cabinets in this summer home. A Carrara marble-topped island with a second sink for food prep creates a great space for hosting parties, too. Schoolhouse pendant lights in green ceramic add to the country feeling while modern accessories prevent it from looking too fussy.
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Minimal furniture and a strict palette of white accents and dark wood offer a new take on a European country look.
The architecture is the focal point in this large bedroom retreat. A fireplace, white beadboard walls, paneled doors with exposed hinges and reclaimed wood ceiling beams set a country tone, while shuttered windows add an edge of colonial style. A large Empire bed gets a modern boutique hotel treatment with crisp white sheets, creating a clean, airy look.
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Mix light and dark woods for a clean, contemporary twist on country style.
The principal bathroom vanity in the 2009 Princess Margaret Welcome Home Sweepstakes Showhome in Oakville features custom built-ins with wood grain detail. The limestone counter also references French and Belgian farmhouses, designer Lynda Reeves' style inspiration for the stunning home. Double sinks and lots of storage space makes the room practical as well. Chunky dark wood framed mirrors, black accessories and Thomas O'Brien wall sconces ground the space and add sophistication.
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A green cottage design makes the most of surrounding nature.
White walls with large windows on both sides let in lots of sunlight and ambient heat and provide a fantastic view of the trees around the property. Country style exposed brick, stacks of logs and a simple wood table offer contrast to the polished concrete floors, Dash & Albert rug and red pendant light, which inject modern energy and colour into the space. Clear acrylic dining chairs from Ikea keep the room airy and sophisticated.
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Mix white painted paneling with a dark ceiling and trim for a fresh, nautical look in an entrance.
A brass ship's lantern and vintage cane-backed settee provide balance to the staircase's crisp palette, while a woven runner and David Hicks' graphic patterned door mat add texture and softness. The dark wood and white palette looks modern, but still nods to Colonial style.
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Mix traditional accessories with a cool grey palette for an urban country look.
A mostly black, white and grey colour scheme creates a serene retreat. Mixing in vintage country pieces such as the white chipped wood nightstand and old suitcases add warmth and character, as well as providing extra room to store bed linens.
An awkward nook is converted into a stylish and convenient bathroom.
This bathroom renovation features a wood-slatted farm door that slides shut to separate the ensuite from the rest of the open-concept bedroom, plus another door on the side, allowing guests to enter from the hallway. Paired with white hex tiles and a natural wood stool from Gus Design Group, the look is warm, not sterile. Radiant heating, a worthy splurge concealed under the floor tiles, is balanced by a budget vanity from Ikea. Neutral, patterned bath linens and a sheepskin rug add a rustic, Scandinavian look.
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Let good architectural bones, like a dark wood railing and white sloped walls, inspire your decorating.
A coach lantern light adds a touch of country to the colonial dark wood floors and staircase railing, contrasting with the crisp white walls. A black radiator serves as another decorative element, balanced by a large floral art print casually leaning against the wall.
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Light tiles and a single plant create a sense of calm.
The principal bathroom in Vancouver architect Clinton Cuddington's completely green home features a Japanese soaker tub encased in off-white 1″ square tile. Fritted glass provides privacy for the tub and steam shower and maintains the room's clean, simple style. Minimal, desert and country-inspired accessories like a raw wood stool and aloe plants contribute to the calm, zen-like atmosphere.
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A chic white hutch with drinks and glassware allows guests to easily serve themselves.
A primarily-white palette with simple glasses and homespun baskets creates a welcoming and elegant backdrop for entertaining. Mod touches such as the sculptural pendant lamp and vintage modern chairs balance the country charm of the harvest table.


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TALK about bad timing. I couldn't believe it when I saw Sam Vokes getting treatment so early in the game on Saturday.
His terrible, season-ending injury has left us down to the bare bones for two big away games at Watford and Barnsley.
But it is up to the fit and available lads to pull together and make sure the Clarets achieve their promotion goal.
Hopefully in the next week or two we will be able to welcome back both Kieran Trippier and Danny Ings from injury, and that will be a massive boost to the squad at a time when we can no longer supplement it with signings after the loan window closed last week.
Dean Marney will be back for the midweek trip to Oakwell after suspension, and it would be an ideal time to break our hoodoo.
We hardly ever win there, it's our bogey ground.
But the main thing is being able to get something from the next two games and try to maintain as big a cushion in second place as possible.
It's going to be a tough one as Sean Dyche goes back to his old club, Watford, tomorrow.
Results have improved since their change of manager, and they have been particularly strong at home of late.
We will have to make do and mend with key players missing, but Dyche will have them all well drilled and aware of their jobs if it means one or two playing out of their usual position.
His mantra of 'one game at time' is all the more meaningful now.
In the circumstances we can't look too far ahead.
While mathematics are in our favour we cannot take a still healthy position for granted and rely on that to get us up.
We have to keep working hard and getting results.
There is perhaps a bit more awareness of what other teams are doing too.
Our old manager Eddie Howe could do us a favour with Bournemouth at home to QPR tomorrow.
But we have to look after ourselves too and stay in control of our own destiny, so that when Sam does return, it will be as a Premier League footballer.


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We recently told you about the Pac-Man Collectors' Shot Glass set, and now we've found this item. As any Simpsons fan knows, Homer enjoys the occasional Duff beer at Moe's Tavern. So it makes sense there's now a 6-piece stainless steel drinking set with hip flask, funnel, and four shot glasses. Each is decorated with a picture of Homey and one of his many catchphrases. It even comes in a gift box for that special someone…we just wish it came with a recipe for a ''Flaming Moe." Available for $30 USD.
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Specialist games retailers cannot survive without second-hand, says Blockbuster.
The firm's UK commercial director Gerry Butler has hit back at trade-in critics, and told MCV that the current new release business model is broken and in need of a radical overhaul.
"If you're a specialist you need certain margins to run your business," he said. "When you are in a commoditised industry, those margins evaporate.
"And supermarkets use games as potential loss-leaders, so specialists can't survive. That's why there are less games shops than there were three years ago. Without pre-owned, those companies cannot survive.
"When the market was growing, nobody spoke about trade-in. It didn't matter. Everyone was hitting their numbers. But as soon as someone starts missing the numbers, they are like: 'Well this trade-in is killing us. How do we stop it?'"
Butler says the key to hitting the numbers again is by changing how video games are sold into stores.
"I think the distribution strategy employed by the publishing world is broken and needs to be fixed," he added.
"It is the whole way the industry is structured. Just think about consumer brands like Coca-Cola and how they are built. You create huge pre-awareness and then make sure you have full availability in the marketplace.
"In video games, the publisher has to pay substantial royalty payments to the platform holder upfront, which makes the cost of games high. Then they go to the retailer, and the retailer has to guess the number of units it is likely to sell. Then the marketing begins, and it might turn out we don't have any stock left.
"It's not a good situation if the TV ads are running and you've no stock.
"Let's come up with a model that is fair and equitable and long-term and sustainable. This current model is not long-term and sustainable."


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SAN FRANCISCO — Giants right-hander Matt Cain plans to treat Monday's monumental start as if it's a youth league game in Germantown, Tenn.
Never mind that victory would mean a trip to the World Series, not postgame pizza. Cain still vowed to embrace Game 7 of the National League Championship Series as a reminder of more innocent days.
"You almost have to revert back to when you were in Little League because the game is about having fun," Cain said before the Giants' 6-1 victory Sunday in Game 6.
"Sometimes when you put too much on it, it kind of ruins the moment for you."
Since Cain wants to dip into the fountain of youth, the Giants would love for him to revert to the form that once made him a tee-ball legend. (Not making this up: The media guide notes that Cain, at age 5, turned three unassisted triple plays over the course of a seven-game tee-ball season.)
Then again, the Giants are just as pleased with the 28-year-old version. Cain got a hefty allowance — $127 million over six years — in hopes that he would come through in situations just like this.
Cain (1-2, 4.67 ERA this postseason) will face the St. Louis Cardinals' Kyle Lohse (2-0, 1.96) in a rematch of Game 3.
"He's one of the elite pitchers in the game," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "You know when he goes out there he's going to give you all he has. … That's all you can ask."
Cain saved the Giants' season once already this October. He was the winning pitcher in Game 5 of the Division Series against the Cincinnati Reds when he allowed three runs in 52/3 innings.
Before that game, Cain unearthed his turn-back-the-clock approach. He took the mound after reflecting on a start he made as a senior at Houston High in Germantown, when he lost in his bid to pitch his team to the state championship.
"That didn't end so well for me," Cain said of the 2002 start. "But in Cincinnati, I thought back to that game in high school. I know it's a long time in between. But I tried to use that: Go out there and still have fun. Enjoy it."
In that Game 3 meeting in St. Louis, Lohse had the upper-hand in a 3-1 Cardinals victory. The right-hander allowed one run in 52/3 innings in a game tormented by rain.
There's a similarly gloomy forecast for Monday, which is fine with Lohse. He's a mudder.
"We have a joke in the clubhouse because it seems like 60 percent of my games have rain in the forecast," said Lohse, a native Californian who went to Hamilton City High and Butte College. "I'm not going to change anything."
Cain's biggest challenge in St. Louis wasn't Lohse. It was Matt Carpenter, who jumped into the lineup for an injured Carlos Beltran and promptly smacked a two-run homer.
Carpenter is now 5 for 6 in his career against Cain.
This time, the right-hander needs to solve that mystery if the Giants are to win an elimination game for a sixth consecutive time. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only other team to win six elimination games in a single postseason was the 1985 Kansas City Royals.
Sounds like fun to Cain.
"I wouldn't say we like it," he said. "But it seems like guys are playing really well when we get in this situation."


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SANFORD, Fla. - A recent search of the home of George Zimmerman's girlfriend uncovered five weapons, including an AR-15, and more than 100 rounds of ammunition, court documents filed Monday show.
[MORE INFO: Search warrant in Zimmerman case]
Zimmerman, acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin this year, was arrested last week at the home, which he shares with his girlfriend, on suspicion of his having pointed a shotgun at her.
He was released on bail and has entered a plea of not guilty.
A search of the home turned up three handguns, a 12-gauge shotgun, a rifle and 106 rounds of ammunition, including two AR-15 magazines, according to a search warrant.
Three handgun holsters, a pack of gum, a religious pendant, a flashlight, a pocket knife, sanitizing wipe, a soft-sided gun case and a combination lock were also recovered during the search.
At the time of his arrest, Zimmerman had two cell phones. An affidavit, filed Monday, says he told authorities he recorded the altercation with his girlfriend on his cell phone.
The Florida judge that set his bail put numerous conditions on it:
- Zimmerman cannot go to two Florida addresses.
- He cannot have contact with the accuser, Samantha Scheibe.
- He cannot possess weapons.
- He must wear a monitoring device.
- He cannot travel outside Florida.
Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the Sanford neighborhood where Zimmerman and Martin's father lived in February 2012.
Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, had a confrontation with the unarmed African-American teen after calling police to report a suspicious person and he said he shot Martin, 17, in self-defense.
Zimmerman was acquitted by a six-person jury in July on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
The high-profile case sparked a heated nationwide discussion of race as well as debate over Florida's "stand your ground" law.
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Nicolas Claris Photography
by Nicolas Claris
About the Book
30x30 cm - 12'x12' - 120 pages - Hard cover
Sailboats, Motor-Yachts, houses, villas, buildings… Interiors and exteriors…
An overview representing the past 7 years photographing the most elite breed of boats in the yachting , luxury boats and architecture scenes by Nicolas Claris..
A book that is an enjoyable window into a rare world of excellence.
A tour in the world of luxury
Features & Details
- Category Architecture
Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
120 Pages
- Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781320222914
- Publish Date Feb 28, 2011
- Language English
- Tags Sailboats, Motor-Yachts, houses, villas, buildings, Interiors, exteriors, voiliers, yachts, maisons, demeures, bateaux à moteur
About the Creator
In 2000 digital pictures came out. And the evidence, too. Then Nicolas Claris went out to take a few pictures. Without groping, without pretension, without hesitation, without fear, without vanity, without a doubt. With talent, with knowledge, with pleasure, with creativity, with seriousness, with jubilation too. Perfectionists amaze me or get on my nerves. With Nicolas Claris, I found out one could eventually like them! On his pictures, one can read a true concentration toward the subject, a real will to embellish it, an unquestionable envy to approach it. The sharpness, the brightness, the balance, all show an immense love. In the originality, in the unexpected, in the points of views, lie a raising pleasure. But the work never shows; that is all the force of his photos, that are never violent, always alive, where from emanates the serenity of those artists who know. He is a perfectionist. But un unpredictable perfectionist makes it all different! Bruno Belmont, Bénéteau Group
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Listen, I've not been super "chatty" about some things in my life, although I'm feeling like I want to start sharing things with you. I have suffered with depression off and on for most of my life. It's a "side" to my anxiety diagnosis, but it's there, and it's real, and it isn't fun. It isn't a picnic. Anyone who has lived with depression or loved someone with it can understand what a rocky road depression is to travel down.
Right now, my depression isn't in the forefront, but as with many things of the mind, it fluctuates. I know that some of you have struggled and lived with depression, in whatever form and for however long, and that is why I'm sharing this study about depression – because many times for me depression hit when finances were not great, and the thought of possibly helping someone else and getting paid would have been a good thing for me!
If you do suffer from depression, please call your doctor. Please. Don't go that route alone. There are ways to get help.0


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NOT enough nurses are working on many wards at Colchester General Hospital, new figures reveal.
A new directive by NHS England has forced hospital trusts to disclose nursing levels on every hospital ward.
Colchester Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has revealed there are so many unfilled vacancies on eight wards, the situation had been added to the management's "risk register".
At Birch Ward, where elderly patients are treated, the matron has been trying to leave beds empty because there are ten unfilled nursing vacancies, plus staff on long-term sick leave.
The emergency assessment unit has eight vacancies, two nurses and one healthcare assistant on long-term sick leave and three more staff undertaking only light duties.
On the Wivenhoe surgical ward, the number of beds have been reduced from 34 to 28 after a series of resignations which will leave more than 11 full-time posts vacant.
Although 120 nurses were recruited fromSpain last year, 35 have left. Some have returned home, while many are now working in London.
The trust says overall there is an 8.2 per cent vacancy rate among its 1,500-strong nursing workforce.
A spokesman said the number of nurses increased by 85 between April and December last year.
He added: "It is proving more difficult to recruit to some specialties than others, including care of the elderly, stroke and the emergency department.
"In the interim, we are using bank and agency staff."
Newly-qualified nurses are being offered "rotational" posts where they spend six months on different wards to increase their experience. In total, 80 per cent of hospital trusts missed their nurse staffing targets.


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May 16, 2014 at 4:43 am
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is rolling out a new system for managing water use permits as part of its continued effort to assure the sustainability of precious groundwater.
The DNR has created an Internet-based system for people to apply for permits or seek changes in what they already have. The system will also be used for reporting compliance data.
The agency says the change will be much more efficient than the existing paper approach. The DNR says it gets more than 10,000 permit applications or related transactions a year.
The growing use of groundwater for irrigation or other purposes has prompted concern in some areas of Minnesota about ensuring a continued supply.
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State of the Union: Hype and reality
The Beltway media is brimming with breathless stories about tonight's State of the Union speech. They basically fall into two categories: (1) What Obama Will Say, and (2) What Obama Should Say. What the stories don't say is that, by week's end, few of us will be able to remember anything Obama did say.
Sorry to pour cold water on the hype, but there's no escaping the truth: Your basic State of the Union speech is a forgettable policy wish list studded with rote appeals to bipartisanship (never more rote than now), and capped by the rote assertion that the state of our union is strong. Only two recent sentences have resonated through the years - Bill Clinton's 1996 declaration that "the era of big government is over" (we'll be debating the veracity of that one forever), and George W. Bush's 2002 announcement that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" (a sloppy lie that we'll be disdaining forever). If anyone out there can quote a single Obama SOTU sentence from memory, I would be shocked and awed.
Which brings us to the impending event, and the reality that trumps the hype. I'll keep it simple: Obama will talk about how he wants to create jobs and spur a faster economic recovery. This will require new spending on infrastructure, housing, education, research - you know, stimulus stuff. But 234 listeners will be sitting on their hands. I refer, of course, to the House Republicans, who, in all likelihood, will continue to maintain a death grip on the nation's progress.
Politically speaking, most of them are safely cocooned. Thanks to gerrymandering, they still constitute a majority of the chamber - even though they lost the aggregate national House tally last November by more than one million votes. They mostly represent safe conservative districts (only 16 represent districts that went for Obama in the presidential voting), so rest assured that they'll heatedly resist Obama's call for new revenues to prime the economic pump. They're entirely focused on forcing new spending cuts, and it doesn't matter a whit that their economic vision ( I use that word advisedly) was decisively repudiated at the '12 ballot box. Mainstream public opinion is not their prime concern. They know that if they fail to block Obama's economic initiatives, they will be primaried back home in 2014 by challengers who are even more absolutist.
So what can Obama do to boost the economy, in the absence of House cooperation? Tonight, he'll probably say something like this: "The most urgent challenge that we face right now is getting our economy to grow faster and to create more jobs....We can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won't act, I will." That's what he said on Oct. 24, 2011, when he announced that he would bypass Congress by taking executive action. Fine, as far as it goes. But if you check the list of actions (collectively known as his "We Can't Wait" initiatives), you quickly realize that he had minimal room to maneuver. Executive actions can create jobs, but only at the margins. To make big economic gains, he'll need the Republican House.
Good luck with that. His only hope - a slim one, but theoretically doable - is that he can occasionally peel away those aforementioned 16 Republicans who hail from Obama-friendly districts, and perhaps 20 more Republicans who represent suburban districts where middle-class voters might be receptive to his pitch for greater public investment (when it's framed as a way to boost middle-class economic security). Combine all those GOPers with the 201 House Democrats, and presto...OK, I said the odds were slim.
But Obama is not without some political leverage. Buoyed by his re-election, and backed by a minimally divided Democratic party, he faces an opposition at war with itself. For evidence, take a look at the GOP's plans to rebut tonight's State of the Union speech. The party address will be delivered by the great Hispanic hope, Sen. Marco Rubio, but the more extreme tea-party faction insists on featuring one of its own alleged stars, Sen. Rand Paul. So the public will hear a mixed message. (When Paul inevitably rails about how Obama wants to perpetuate Big Guvmint, I do hope he highlights his own principled opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that ended segregation in public accommodations.)
And that's not all, folks. The GOP's sizable nutcase faction is also weighing in tonight. Texas congressman Steve Stockman, who last week warned that if Obama tries to tighten gun laws via executive action, he'll retaliate by launching impeachment proceedings, announced that his guest at the State of the Union will be...Ted Nugent. Last April, the washed-up rocker declared that if Obama won re-election, "I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year." (I suppose we'll find out in eight weeks.) This is the kind of discourse that animates the nutcase faction and complicates Republican attempts to persuade the nation that the party is mature enough to co-govern.
Which is why, despite all the obstacles in Obama's policy path, there is no escaping this truth: The state of Republican disunion is strong.
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Are manufactured homes safer these days?
No longer the little tin trailers you can hitch to your car and pull from place to place, manufactured homes are dramatically safer since Congress passed legislation authorizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development to regulate their design and construction. If a manufactured home has been built since June 15, 1976, it must meet the specifications of the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. These standards are designed to improve the overall quality of manufactured homes and to reduce personal injuries and property damages. They require, among other things, that the homes be built of fire-resistant materials and be capable of withstanding certain wind speeds.
Like any homeowners insurance, policies for manufactured homes address three areas of risk: damage to your home, damage to or theft of your personal property, and your legal liability for injuries to others or damage to their property. Unfortunately, though manufactured homes are much safer than they used to be, they're still less safe than conventional dwellings. This heightened risk is reflected in the cost of homeowners insurance for these homes.
Though manufactured homes are not more likely to catch fire than conventional dwellings, they often suffer more extensive damage when they do. In addition, because the walls in manufactured homes are often not as well insulated as those in conventional homes, water pipes may be more likely to freeze. Manufactured homes are also more vulnerable to storm damage, because they are lighter than site-built homes and more likely to tip over in high winds. For this reason, many states and insurance companies require manufactured homes to have a permanent foundation or to be secured with ground anchors to reduce the risk of damage during a tornado or other severe storm.
These factors, among others, make the homeowners premium for manufactured homes more expensive than for conventional homes. When purchasing your coverage, shop around and look for a reputable company that specializes in these policies.


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"The 17-foot island makes a big statement as soon as you walk into the room," Tyler Florence says. He added a baking station at one end and beefed up the Belgian Moon Caesarstone on top with a four-inch edge. Madigan stools by Hickory Chair. Caliper series subway tiles in Warm Candle by Ann Sacks. Hanging pot rack from Urban Archaeology. Mauviel cookware. Shaw Grand Canyon flooring in Bright Angel.
Grothouse Lumber's butcher-block cart, attached to the island by magnets, can be rolled over to the table if you want to carve a turkey in front of guests. "The patron saint of chefs was grilled to death," Florence says. "I had his last words carved on the front: 'Turn me over. I'm done on this side.'"
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Forget Paris? Perhaps that would be LSU coach Les Miles' advice to other schools after his Tigers received their biggest commitment to date for the Class of 2014.
Ed Paris, a five-star cornerback from Mansfield (Texas) Timberview, near Arlington, announced his commitment to LSU on Monday evening, cutting short a plan to wait until his birthday (March 29) to announce his college choice.
Instead, the New Orleans native, who moved out of the city after Hurricane Katrina, said he plans to be in Baton Rouge on that day playing a 7-on-7 football game.
Conflicting media reports had Paris committing to the Tigers earlier in the day Monday.
But shortly after 6 p.m., he announced his decision to the world via his Twitter account.
Paris changed his profile picture from one of him in a high school jersey to one of the "win" crossbar displayed inside the LSU football locker room. "LSU fans turn up!!" Paris tweeted after he changed the photo.
A 6-foot-2, 195-pound defensive back, Paris said on WNXX-FM, 104.5 in Baton Rouge on Monday night that Miles has recruited him as a cornerback.
He tweeted his excitement about a chance to play in the same defensive backfield as sophomore corner Jalen Mills, who hails from nearby DeSoto, Texas.
Paris said in the radio interview that LSU's ability to turn out quality defensive backs like former All-America corner Patrick Peterson — "he's by far the best in the (NFL)," Paris said — and the atmosphere of playing in Tiger Stadium were huge factors for him.
"As far as coming to the game, there's nothing like Death Valley," he said.
Paris picked LSU over Texas and Florida but had at least two dozen scholarship offers from schools that included Texas A&M, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Clemson and Michigan.
Paris said he plans to enroll at LSU in January 2014 so he can take part in spring practice.
According to 24/7 Sports, Paris is a five-star prospect (No. 9 overall nationally) for 2014 and the top player in Texas. Rivals rates Paris as a four star, No. 38 nationally and No. 6 in Texas.
Scout also rates Paris a four-star prospect, while ESPN has him on its 2014 Watch List.
The Paris accord gives LSU six commitments for 2014 and its second from Texas. The Tigers got a commitment last July from Houston Alief Taylor cornerback Chris Hardeman (5-9, 180).
LSU didn't sign any players from Texas in its consensus top-10 class for 2013.
It's expected that Paris' pledge to LSU will improve the Tigers' chances with Beaumont Ozen cornerback Tony Brown (6-0, 179). Brown, whose sister has committed to run track at LSU, is rated as the No. 1 prospect in Texas and No. 13 in the country by Rivals, while 24/7 Sports pegs him No. 2 in Texas behind Paris and No. 15 overall.
Paris' commitment is the second for LSU in two days. Sunday, the Tigers received a pledge from Edna Karr outside linebacker Donnie Alexander (6-1, 196).
Bama woos U-High's Moses
Alabama has joined LSU in offering a scholarship University High eighth-grader Dylan Moses, al.com reported.
Moses visited Alabama for one of its recent Junior Day weekends with his father and received a scholarship offer during a meeting with coach Nick Saban. According to the website, Edward Moses Jr., Dylan's father, said Saban told them the Alabama staff believes he can be the nation's top prospect for 2017.
Moses said LSU and Alabama are his son's two favorite schools right now but that Dylan has no plans to commit any time soon.
Moses (6-1, 215) made news last summer when LSU offered him before his eighth-grade season began.


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On Monday, he had sent out a news release about the death. He told reporters the man who died had developed a mild case of West Nile virus, which killed him because he was in very poor health, suffering from chronic illnesses.
On Tuesday, Gruendl said he was mistaken about that.
When the man's family members learned what news outlets said about his health, they were surprised, and they called Gruendl.
They said the man was in good health, rode his bicycle, and had no chronic illnesses, according to Gruendl.
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Recycling and trash containers have been seen together for decades in schools and other public places.
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Nobody said recycling and trash containers have to look ordinary just because garbage isn't fun to look at. In today's time, a stylish recycling container can even bring a reminder to students about the importance of going green, no matter where you are.


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With the exception of a third-set hiccup, the North Platte High School volleyball team closed its home season Tuesday night by playing its best volleyball of the year, defeating Grand Island.
The two teams battled for the first 10 points of the match but the Lady Bulldogs (16-10) took control midway through the first set. Alex Neff served for three straight points to give North Platte a 17-12 lead. The first of the three points came on an ace by Neff and the last two came on kills by Anna Allberry and Allexis Menghini.
Grand Island (15-17) never really got back in it and the Lady Dawgs took the early advantage.
"We're a slow starting team," said Miller. "So it was good to see us get off to a good start. This is probably the best we've played all year."
In the second set, NPHS reached out to a 9-5 lead after Jackie Paloucek and Allison Kuenle made blocks on consecutive plays.
From there, the Bulldogs kept a steady lead in the 4-6 point range before closing it out by winning the last three points. GI was never able to get a run going as North Platte neutralized its attack with good passing in the back row from libero Madalynn Doughty, who had 37 digs on the night.
"We passed really well and passing well equates into great offense," Miller said. "We distributed the ball pretty well and that just makes it difficult for our opponents."
But the Lady Dawgs fell apart in the third. The Islanders scored the first four points with Mackenzie Fyfe serving and from there, the tables turned on NPHS.
On her next run in service, Fyfe served for seven straight to give GI a commanding 20-7 lead before Kylie Wroot finally ended it with a kill that got the biggest cheer of the night from the Bulldog faithful.
"You figure that out, because I still don't know what happened in that third set," said Miller. "I think we just took a deep breath and it was too deep of a breath and we relaxed too much."
The great thing about volleyball, as this year's Lady Bulldog team has proven, is that if you get blown out in a set, you get a clean slate and start over in the next.
North Platte never really had the same rhythm it had in the first and second sets, but it battled the Islanders for momentum to start the fourth.
The Lady Dawgs then made a five-point run with Neff serving to take a 15-10 lead. The closest Grand Island got after that was 19-16 before NPHS put it away to finish undefeated at home for the first time since 2004.
Miller says her team just went back to what was working in the first two sets to beat GI for the second time in four days.
"In the first and second sets, we accomplished our game plan," she said. "So after the third set, our girls knew what they had to do."
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Cervelli aiming to make most of current opportunity
TAMPA, Fla. -- Francisco Cervelli knows how quickly things can change in baseball.
Two years ago, the catcher appeared to be on his way to making the Opening Day roster. Then the Yankees traded for veteran Chris Stewart. Cervelli opened the season at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and wasn't called up until September. Last year, he started out splitting time with Stewart and was off to a good start before suffering a fractured right hand when struck by a foul tip on April 26. Over the winter, the Yankees gave free-agent catcher Brian McCann a five-year, $85 million contract.
Cervelli hit two home runs to center field at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Wednesday's 7-7 Grapefruit League tie against the Tigers. For the spring, he's batting .500 (8-for-16) with three homers, four RBIs and six runs scored.
"I think I'm going to sleep well tonight," he said with a laugh.
But Cervelli is 28 years old, and he isn't sure what the future holds for him. "I don't know. I'm just going to do what they ask me to do and help the pitchers. Play my role. That's it," he said.
Manager Joe Girardi, a former catcher, said Cervelli has the ability to be a regular receiver somewhere.
"I definitely think he's become a much better player," Girardi said. "Defensively. Offensively. He's matured. He's played a lot more baseball."
As long as McCann is healthy, though, that opportunity won't present itself with the Yankees. Cervelli shook his head when asked if he thinks about being traded or would like to go somewhere he can start.
"I don't know. I've been here forever. I don't have that answer, because I feel right now like this is my house," he said. "But if somebody wants me to go over there, I've got to make the adjustment, you know? I've said many times my dream is to be a starting catcher. Right now my role is a backup. That's what I'm playing for.
"That's something I can't control. I'm here. I don't know what will happen tomorrow, but I come here, I hit, I catch, I do whatever they say."
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Vadim Gluzman comes to town with a Stradivarius in tow to lend his talents to the Philadelphia Orchestra's annual Tchaikovsky Celebration.
Vadim Gluzman spends a lot of time with his ex — nights, weekends, on trips to the world's great cities, sometimes for weeks at a time.
His wife tends to be understanding about the situation, though. That's because the ex in question is the Stradivarius violin known as "Ex-Leopold Auer," which Gluzman has been playing for the past 16 years with orchestras like the Israel Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.
The 40-year-old Ukrainian-born Israeli violinist will be making his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra on Jan. 23 and 24, as part of the final week of its annual Tchaikovsky Celebration. Gluzman says that the reason he is just now getting around to playing in Philadelphia is simply a matter of "my schedule opening and the stars aligning."
If the orchestra was going to bring in someone to play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, Gluzman is a logical choice. After all, he is playing the instrument that once belonged to the man for Auer, whom the great Russian composer wrote the 1879 piece, which is considered to be one of the best-known and most technically difficult of all violin concertos.
Tchaikovsky had already written one piece, the Sérénade Mélancolique, for Auer in 1875. He wrote the concerto as a further homage to the Hungarian violinist, who was widely acknowledged to be one of the late 19th and early 20th century's greatest performers and teachers in Europe as well as in the United States, where he joined the faculty at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Some of Auer's more prominent students included Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist.
Auer acquired a legendary sort of notoriety for his refusal to play the concerto written for him, citing its technical limitations that would have required him to make some alterations. Ever since, his violin became known as the Ex-Auer. When asked about the history of the music, the violin and the man, Gluzman takes pains to point out that Auer did eventually play the piece, "after making some minor adjustments, and he made all of his students learn it and play it."
Gluzman has been playing the violin since age 7, when he was selected by a committee in the Soviet Union to do so. As the child of a conductor father and a musicologist mother, his selection was as much bashert as Soviet planning. "I am not a fan of the Soviet Union — that is a real understatement — but the system of education in many areas was quite special," he says.
Not special enough to keep the Gluzman family behind a fallen Iron Curtain, though. In 1990, when Gluzman was 16, they made aliyah, where, two weeks after their arrival, destiny once again took him by the hand.
Soon after settling into their new housing outside of Jerusalem, Gluzman heard that Isaac Stern would be auditioning young violinists for instruction at the Jerusalem Music Center. Sensing an opportunity, Gluzman went to play for the man he had been listening to for most of his life. "Without knowing proper procedures, that things like this have to be arranged years in advance, I made my way to the center," he recalls with a laugh.
"I told the lady at the front desk I wanted to play for Isaac Stern. She spoke Russian to me" — at that point, Gluzman, who now splits his time between residences in Tel Aviv and Chicago, spoke only Russian — "and said, 'Welcome to the club, but you can't really do this — you should have arranged this years ago!' "
But as he stood talking to the receptionist, Stern himself walked through the door. When the receptionist explained that the young immigrant was there to audition for him without an appointment, "he said for me to go and warm up for five minutes" and then the maestro would grant him an impromptu audition. "Three hours later, I had a new violin, a scholarship and I knew that everything I knew about music was three times nothing."
Thus began Gluzman's instruction by some of the best teachers in the world, including Yair Kless in Jerusalem and the late Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School in New York.
Gluzman is aware that it seems like some powerful force has been at work in his career. "I do not believe in coincidences. Everything has happened for a reason," he says. "I am very wary of putting labels on something that no language can be proficient enough to explain, but I don't believe in blind fate — fate is an endless tree with an endless amount of branches and leaves. The tree is predetermined, but it is up to us to determine which branch we are going to take."
One of those branches took him to his beloved 1690 Stradivarius. In 1998, Gluzman was playing in Chicago, where the Stradivari Society, which provides long-term loans of the rare violins, is headquartered. He was living in New York at the time, and desperate to upgrade his instrument. By chance, he says, "they heard me play in Chicago, and they knew I was in need of an instrument. A month later, I came back to New York after a tour, and there was a message on my machine: 'Come to Chicago if you want a fiddle.' " When he went to pick it up, he remembers having "the distinct feeling that someone was watching my back. I turned around, and behind me on the wall was a huge portrait of Auer looking at me. And it looks at me each and every time I come to Chicago."
Even after so many years with his Ex, Gluzman still waxes rhapsodic about playing it. "You realize that there is no limit to your expression, to your imagination — you can no longer say that you cannot dare because my violin won't do it for me. Anything I can dream up, it will give me."


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Hats and FeathersProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
You have five boxes with five hats in each and each hat has five feathers with five colored dots. Now the hats are in a rainbow of color and so are the feathers but the dots are all various random combinations of red, yellow, and blue-green.
What is the probability of getting a hat with only red dots?
HintThere are only 3 colors, blue-green is a single color.
AnswerONE CHANCE in 33,891,544,377.72
How did I get that answer?
The first thing we have to do is figure out how many different combinations of dots there are on a single feather. Since there are three colors possible for any given dot and five dots on a feather, you would multiply 3 to the fifth power. 3x3x3x3x3=243
So, you have a 1 in 243 possibility of a feather having solid red dots. You have 5 feathers on one hat, so you must take 1/243 to the 5th power.
1/243 x 1/243 x 1/243 x 1/243 x 1/243 = 1/847,288,609,443.
Now, working with the fact that you have 25 hats to work with (five boxes with five hats each), you must divide the 847+ billion chances by 25, or 847,288,609,443/25, which leaves you with one chance in 33,891,544,377.72.
In other words, not very likely.
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Ever wonder what happens to the leftover food at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival?
Before wine lovers and foodies with fat wallets can even clear out from under the tents, volunteers from Feeding South Florida are collecting uneaten delicacies to donate to those less fortunate.
After the Q, a high-dollar barbecue on Thursday, uneaten fruit and unopened bottles of water and cans of soda were collected behind the main event tents. Feeding South Florida makes sure no tenderloin steak bite or hamburger slider goes uneaten; perishable food is wrapped and delivered in refrigerated trucks.
Last year, Feeding South Florida donated more than 30,000 pounds of food to ten soup kitchens in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area.
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TRENTON, Mich. - A man walked away from a community raffle with $154, 902.30 Tuesday night in Trenton.
The Buster's Place drawing jackpot had grown to the lofty amount after weeks of no-winner draws.
Tuesday night's winner is Dwayne Childers of Gibraltar. He is married with five children.
The bar's next pot will start Sept. 18.
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