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Kudos to Tom Nolan's 11/3 column, "Maybe it's me". Appearing in a later issue of your paper was a long-winded diatribe by a letter writer, deriding Mr. Nolan with such enthusiasm as to beg the alternate comparison, "Maybe it's he." On what planet is this fellow living? I didn't think there was anyone who could or would still attempt to seriously with a straight face, defend the Bush administration.
The mocking of Mr. Nolan with "likely to pull us out to "see" and drown us"; it seemed rather Mr. Nolan was pulling us out of any delusions in order to "see" the disaster we have witnessed during the past near eight years. That is the route from which we must depart and a CHANGE of course we so desperately need.
Then there is the suggestion by the writer that he or any number of those of a similar view, by voting twice have the right to restrict my freedom to vote for a candidate of my choice. That is absurd and puts a whole new spin on one's freedom to vote. If one does not like a candidate, don't vote for him or her. The person with the most votes wins. That's the less than complicated theory behind voting. Not incomprehensible at all.
Also, the self serving question asked by the writer, "why then is it that the Democrat-controlled Congress, …happens to be even less popular…" than George Bush? Is that a serious question? In the 110th Congress there is a mere 51-49 majority for the democrats, drastically less than the 60 needed for a filibuster proof Congress. That meager proportion allowed a congressional record of 104 filibusters led by chief obstructionist Mitch McConnell added to the veto of Bush, to quash most any legislation presented by the Democrats. That is the simple reason. In the 109 congress with the Democrat in the minority there were 54 filibusters.
Finally, the question of what Bush policies are not very popular. Crimes against our Constitution is a good start. There is also the Bush Doctrine (just ask Sarah Palin about it), suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus (It was unconstitutional for Lincoln as well), torture (Cheney entertainment); it would take a letter equally as verbose as the one to which I am responding to detail each and every one of the unpopular Bush policies, some of which I feel are worthy of his impeachment as well as his Vice President, the operative word being vice. This, despite the fact that some may feel they are not as threatening to our civil rights as is a peccadillo with a 21 year old woman.
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By Neha Alawadhi
(Reuters) - Symantec Corp reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly profit, but the maker of the Norton anti-virus software forecast first-quarter results well below analysts' estimates due to a weak Japanese yen.
Symantec shares, which were trading flat after the company reported results, fell 6 percent in extended trading after it gave a weak outlook on a conference call with analysts.
"The weak yen is driving a projected foreign currency headwind of $15 million," Chief Financial Officer James Beer said.
The yen has depreciated sharply against the dollar since the Bank of Japan unleashed an intense burst of monetary stimulus last month.
IBM Corp reported a rare quarterly earnings miss last month, hurt partly by the sliding yen.
Symantec expects an adjusted first-quarter profit of 35 cents to 36 cents per share and revenue of $1.61 billion to $1.65 billion.
Analysts on average expect an adjusted profit of 44 cents per share on revenue of $1.70 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"This is a softer outlook than investors were hoping for and speaks to the transition Symantec is going through as an organization," FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives said.
"It is still a rebuilding story."
The company, however, reported a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit - the third time in a row that it beat analysts' estimates under new Chief Executive Steve Bennett, who has been trying to turn the company around.
Bennett said on the call that fiscal 2014 would be a transition year for the company and he expected Symantec's restructuring to show results after fiscal 2015.
Investors were disappointed with Symantec's performance since former CEO John Thompson bought storage software maker Veritas for $13.5 billion in 2004, as the deal failed to generate the expected growth.
Symantec reported mixed results in the years that followed, repeatedly disappointing Wall Street.
The company competes with Intel Corp's McAfee division in security and EMC Corp, Oracle Corp and CommVault Systems Inc in the storage business.
The company reported an adjusted profit of 44 cents per share in the fourth quarter. Analysts were expecting a profit of 38 cents per share.
"These are commendable results in a tough IT spending environment, especially on the consumer business, given a tough PC environment," FBR analyst Ives said.
Security software makers are doing well despite weak IT spending as rising cyber attacks boost demand for their products.
Spending on computer security is expected to rise to about $86 billion in 2016 from about $55 billion in 2011, market research firm Gartner said in a recent report.
The company also paid out its first-ever quarterly cash dividend of 15 cents per common share.
"The new CEO has talked the talk and walked the walk in terms of numbers," Ives said.
Net income attributable to the company fell to $188 million, or 26 cents per share, from $559 million, or 76 cents per share, a year earlier.
The company had recorded a one-time gain of $530 million in the year-ago quarter after it sold off its stake in a venture with China's Huawei. (http://r.reuters.com/meq87t)
Revenue rose 4 percent to $1.75 billion, while analysts expected revenue of $1.73 billion.
(Additional reporting by Supantha Mukherjee and Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila, Roshni Menon)

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Have you been missing Robb Stark since his Red Wedding? Richard Madden won't be back on "Game of Thrones," but you only have a few more months to wait before the Scottish actor, bearded and in a different pelt, headlines the Discovery miniseries "Klondike."
Discovery on Friday released the official trailer for its first scripted miniseries in which Madden stars as ambitious adventurer Bill Haskell. Based on Charlotte Gray's book "Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike," the mini follows Haskell and his best friend, Byron Epstein, as they leave New York City for the dangerous frontier town Dawson City in the Yukon Territory--the center of the late 1890s Gold Rush.
In their search for wealth, Haskell and Epstein face horrible weather and deadly country, not to mention greedy gold diggers, opportunistic businessmen, thieves and native tribes desperate to stop the destruction of their land and lifestyles.
"The seocnd we staked our claim we were marked men," Haskell says in the trailer.
Augustus Prew, who starred as Prince Alfonso in "The Borgias," plays Epstein. Other cast members include Abbie Cornish as Belinda Mulrooney, owner of Dawson City's best hotel, restaurant and sawmill; Tim Roth as The Count, who tries to muscle in on Belinda's territory; Sam Shepard as Father Judge, a preacher hoping to save souls; Johnny Simmons as writer Jack London; Tim Blake Nelson as gold miner Joe Meeker; Ian Hart as shady businessman Soapy Smith, and Conor Leslie as the courtesan Sabine.
"Klondike" goes hand-in-hand with Discovery's reality series, "Gold Rush," which follows modern-day fortune seekers. "Klondike" premieres in January 2014 on Discovery. Check out Discovery's very cool interactive feature "The Golden Stairs: History of the Klondike Gold Rush" on the Discovery web site.
Paul Scheuring ("Prison Break," "A Man Apart") was the primary writer and serves as executive producer along with Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, Eileen O'Neill and Dolores Gavin.
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Mary L. Merritt, 94
Mary L. (Lopes) Merritt, 94, of Titusville, Fla., and formerly of Jamestown, died Aug. 21, 2007 at the Titusville Rehab and Nursing center. She was the wife of the late Louis B. Merritt.
Born in Middletown, she was a daughter of the late Manuel P. and Julia (Martin) Merritt.
She was the mother of Elizabeth J. Mills of Florida, Joseph R. Brazil of Wisconsin, Benjamin Merritt of Texas. She was the sister of Joseph P. Lopes and Rose Amaral of Florida, the grandmother of eleven and the greatgrandmother of eleven. She was the mother of the late Mary S. Mischeli.
Relatives and friends are invited to a graveside service to be held, Friday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. in St. Mark Cemetery, in Jamestown.
Arrangements are by Cranston Murphy Funeral Home of Wickford.


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Weeknight Suppers from Italy: 20 Dinner Recipes Inspired by Italy
I married into an Italian-American family, where a loaded casserole dish of lasagna is practically indistinguishable from maternal love. In my in-laws' family, the first ripe tomato of the season is an occasion to celebrate with ceremony, and grandparents' sausage bread and homemade wine are spoken of reverently. I've seen firsthand that, when it comes to food, Italy is a generous nation. Italy gave us pizza and pasta, and we never looked back. Italian cooking prizes the fresh, the local, the readily available — it taught me the arts of cucina povera, making do with what you have.
In weeknight cooking, fresh, simple Italian food is perhaps one of the greatest gifts and the simplest cuisine to enjoy. Today, we present you with 20 of our own personal favorite recipes inspired by Italy. Pasta with squash, with fennel, with velvety red wine meatballs. A simple pizza. Calzones to make (and freeze) for later lunches, and Tuscan vegetable stew rich with tomatoes. If you're thinking ahead to weeknight meals for fall, start here. You'll have all the pasta you need, and more!
• 1 Classic Margherita Pizza
• 2 Veal Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce
• 3 Marcella Hazan's Famous Tomato Sauce
• 4 Sausage & Fennel Ragù
• 5 Easy Sausage And Peppers
• 6 Heirloom Tomato and Burrata Salad
• 7 Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)
• 8 Homemade Piadinas
• 9 How to Make Calzones (And Freeze Them for Later!)
• 10 Spaghetti alla Carbonara
• 11 Baked Mushroom Risotto with Caramelized Onions
• 12 Tuscan Bread & Tomato Soup (Ribollita)
• 13 Hearty Chicken Minestrone
• 14 Italian Wedding Soup
• 15 How to Make Fettuccine Alfredo
• 16 Lighter Stuffed Pasta Shells
• 17 One-Pot Pasta e Fagioli
• 18 Pasta with Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts
• 19 Pork Ragu with Semolina Gnocchi
• 20 Vegetable Lasagna with Butternut Béchamel
What is your favorite weeknight Italian supper? Do share!
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Whether it be for prank calling purposes or simply our own personal amusement, those Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboards exist for a reason. The Austrian actor has a distinctive accent and a vast catalog of great movie lines. And while many of us probably think we do a pretty great Schwarzenegger impersonation, none are quite as spot-on as the man himself. Via EW, Schwarzenegger took to Reddit to share a series of videos of himself quoting some of his most beloved movie lines.
Schwarzenegger got fans warmed up with a line and a plug for his latest movie Escape Plan with a line that's featured in the trailer for the film:
Then he takes it back to 1996 with a quote from Jingle All the Way, a classic holiday film… in some circles. (Ok, maybe in my circle…):
That's followed with another funny line, this one from Kindergarden Cop:


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LAKE WALES | Nationally renowned doctor turned public speaker Ben Carson shared his story of resilience and success with an audience of students of all ages at Lake Wales High School on Tuesday morning.
LAKE WALES | Nationally-renowned doctor turned public speaker Ben Carson shared his story of resilience and success with an audience of students of all ages at Lake Wales High School on Tuesday morning.
Carson encouraged students to "Think Big" to achieve their goals, reciting the theme from his 2006 book of the same name about his philosophy on success.
The title is an acronym for Talent, Honesty, Insight, Nice, Knowledge, Books, In-depth learning and God, which were central themes to Carson's message to the students.
He urged the crowd to not let naysayers and negative circumstance stop them from achieving great things, using his own life as an example.
"Look around. There's lots of division. My generation has fallen for it. The hope of the nation lies in your generation," he said.
The event was hosted by Polk State College, which partnered with Lake Wales High School to host Carson's appearance in the high school gym as part of the college's Artists in Residence series.
"We want to continue bringing the world here and bring world class people in to give students access to people they don't normally have contact with here," said Osubi Craig, director of the Lake Wales Arts Center for Polk State College.
Students from Polk State's J.D. Alexander Center in Lake Wales, Chain of Lakes Collegiate High School in Winter Haven, and the Polk State branches in Winter Haven and Lakeland were invited as well as select students from other schools in the Lake Wales community.
Carson was raised in Detroit by his third-grade educated mother and went from being a poor student early on to a celebrated neurosurgeon in his 30s.
He credits his mother, who he said never made excuses and refused to go on welfare, with much of his success.
" 'Do you have a brain? Then think your way out of it,' " he said she would tell him and his older brother, Curtis, never accepting their excuses.
With Carson struggling in school, his mother limited the boys' TV time and made a house rule that both boys were to read and give a report on two books a week, he said.
While he resented the rule initially, and his mother gained many critics for making her boys work so hard, he eventually began to enjoy reading and enjoyed knowing answers that other kids struggled with in school, he said.
All his life, Carson said, he wanted to become a doctor. Despite his impoverished past, he eventually made it to Yale University, then medical school at the University of Michigan, and finally became a resident at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He went on become director of Pediatric Neurosurgery there at age 33.
Carson is most famous for his successful surgery on 7-month-old twins from Germany who were joined at the back of the head, the first of its kind.
He went on to perform numerous other surgeries on conjoined twins, including separating adult conjoined twins in 2003, which had never been done before, according to his biography on biography.com.
Carson has written three books, including his autobiography, "Gifted Hands," which became a TNT production starring Cuba Gooding Jr. in 2009.
He is now retired from surgery and speaks to groups around the country in an attempt to "get people to wake up," he said.
Earlier this year, Carson spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., about health care, tax policy and the national debt, and conservative pundits have since strongly suggested Carson run for president.
When asked by a student Tuesday after his speech if he planned on running, Carson said, "It's not something I desire to do."
Right now, Carson is going state to state to "wake the American people up" and convince them to get involved with their country's direction, he said.
"You can't be the land of the free without being the home of the brave," he said.
He also created controversy this year after comparing marriage equality advocates to supporters of pedophilia and bestiality in an appearance on the Fox News Network, and was later asked to step down as a commencement speaker at John's Hopkins in April, according to mediamatters.org.
But that was not on organizers' minds at Tuesday's event, and Donna Dunson, principal of Lake Wales High School, said she had wanted Carson as a speaker for some time.
Carson's message "really resonates with what we are trying to do here at Lake Wales High School," she told the audience after Carson's speech.
Greg Parlier can be reached at 863-401-6969 or email@example.com.


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In the fall of 1956, a young editor at Fortune magazine published a worrywart prospectus of corporate culture and its corrosive effects on American genius. The man was William Whyte, once a traveling salesman for Vick's VapoRub and later a mentor to Jane Jacobs, and the book was called The Organization Man.
It was a peculiar little book—a jeremiad in a gray flannel suit—and it made for a peculiar bestseller, but a telling one. In that decade and the one that followed, dozens, if not hundreds, of popular works of speculative sociology were published—The Lonely Crowd, The Power Elite, The Triumph of the Therapeutic—as postwar America found its imperial footing through ever more elaborate feats of self-scrutiny. But The Organization Man distinguished itself through its emphasis on the fate of science, and the plight of the scientist, in an era of company men and corporate ketman that Whyte believed was "not only repelling talent but smothering it." "Management has tried to adjust the scientist to The Organization rather than The Organization to the scientist," he wrote. "It can do this with the mediocre and still have a harmonious group. It cannot do this with the brilliant; only freedom will make them harmonious." "The first-rate man has a prior intellectual commitment," he warned; "in no field, except the arts, does the elevation of administrative values hold more dangers."
This central anxiety of The Organization Man, that scientific inquiry demands insulation against corporatism, was echoed by many leaders of the sociologist caste—Thomas Kuhn, Talcott Parsons, Michael Polanyi and, most pusillanimous, Robert Merton, long credited with initiating the sociological study of science, and now largely known for coining the terms "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "unintended consequence." "The substantive findings of science are a product of social collaboration and are assigned to the community," Merton noted. "They constitute a common heritage in which the equity of the individual producer is severely limited." This was not by accident: "By the rationale of the scientific ethic," Merton wrote, "property rights in science are whittled down to a bare minimum." Communism, "in the nontechnical and extended sense," he said, was an "integral element" of that ethic, and an element that demanded protection: "The communism of the scientific ethos is incompatible with the definition of technology as 'private property' in a capitalistic society."
But the experience of cold war scientists, captured in what the historian Steven Shapin calls the "shop-floor" literature of trade journals and testimonials, memoirs and memorandums, suggests that this perceived conflict between corporate values and scientific inquiry might be a "total illegitimacy." "With vanishingly few exceptions—exceptions that may dissolve on further investigation—unhappy industrial scientists," Shapin writes, of the kind forewarned by Whyte, "just do not exist." This phenomenon was in part a credit to the ingenuity of corporations in assimilating and accommodating the values of free inquiry in the supervisory age of industrial psychology. As Shapin points out, the governing aphorism "When you lock the laboratory door, you lock out more than you lock in" comes not from Merton or Whyte but from Charles "Boss" Kettering of General Motors, who also insisted, famously, "You can't keep books on research."


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Does your situation feel hopeless?
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5 stories you may have missed this weekend
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Cute and prickly: Hedgehogs finding homes as pets
06/02/2014 7:41amThey are tiny animals with cute faces. They're covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet?
'Brady Bunch' actress Ann B. Davis dies in Texas
06/02/2014 9:17amEmmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country's favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of "The Brady Bunch," died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88.
Tool can plug gunshot wounds in seconds
06/02/2014 10:51amThe U.S. military has asked RevMedx to come up with a solution for stopping gunshot and shrapnel wounds from bleeding out. The working idea was a medical version of Fix-a-Flat, the foam you squirt in punctured tires to plug up a hole.
Wrong-way driver of stolen car attacks officer during stop, police say
06/02/2014 11:19amA woman driving the wrong way on a one-way street in downtown Salt Lake City was arrested after attacking an officer who pulled her over early Monday morning.
Why you should hike the Fernwood-Adams Canyon trail
06/02/2014 11:46amUtah has a variety of beautiful mountain ranges and hills that make for a great pastime. If hiking is your thing, check KSL.com each Monday morning for the "Hike of the Week" to get new ideas of where you can go exploring.
5 acts of kindness that made someone's day
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Home tweet home: How social media is giving the homeless a hand up
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For teens: Being friedly is something to strive for
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Have You Seen This? 'Billie Jean' via bottles
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FBI issues nationwide alert for San Francisco man
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BYU researchers create 'waterproof material on steroids'
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Police: Ex-cop killed wife, spent days with body
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Provo enters top 8 in 'best place to live' contest
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Great movies headed to Netflix in June
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RSL midfielder Sebastian Velasquez charged with DUI
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Police confiscate $3M worth of shoes from Ky. home
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2 Arizona men dead in Utah crash; DUI suspected
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Former Park City fire captain pays back $33K, avoids jail time
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Questions swirl after Bowe Bergdahl's release
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Man hides from police in home after car chase, crash
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Former student with cancer walks with Westminster grads
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Teen's quick thinking saves life of classmate at Utah Lake
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Man killed in Ogden motorcycle accident
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Wife bought gun day before attempted homicide, police say
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Gary Swaby of TheKoalition.com writes:
Recently our editor in chief Richard Bailey wrote an awesome article 13 Games that will be revealed in 2013. But after his article went live rumours started circulating that Fallout 4 would be revealed by Bethesda this year. I for one am extremely excited at the possibility of a new Fallout game developed by Bethesda. Fallout: New Vegas was cool but we all know that Fallout is rightfully Bethesda territory, and nobody can nail the post-apocalyptic intensity like them.
Fallout 3 was one of my favourite games this generation, and it did a lot of things right. So I don't have a typical list of 5 things I want from Fallout 4, but I do have 3. Let us know if you agree with this wishlist below.
If you're a Fallout fan, you should check out this article and see if you agree or disagree with the theories brought up.
More Unique Weapons.....I love the challenge of finding those things, especially if your a low level. I used to try and get the Vengeance in Death Claw Sanctuary when I just came out of the vault, I used to go to the tec museum to get some Stealth boys then go....it was tense.
Shame they don't offer that kind of challenge in Elder Scrolls.....mostly everything is just randomly generated weapons wise.
Oh and I know this might sound harsh but don't add children if we can't kill them...look at Mayor Mcreedy in the last game, he was a little prick and I couldn't even blow his smug head off.
i want one of these 2 things:
1: take away enemies that fire on you from afar because the player can't shoot at long range without a sniper rifle but the enemies can.
2: give the player the ability to fire far away accurately.
more than often i would lose a ton of health from enemies firing at me from a mile away with SMG's and Pistols.
I highly disagree with the artcle's #2 point:
#2 - Make loot more meaningful. The author says that theres tons of loot but all he needs is ammo and health?? Whaaaat!? I found every piece of loot in the Fallout universe to be worth something, even if nothing more than a handful of bottle caps at a vendor - especially when you have recipies/blueprints to make weapons and potions.. you'll wind up looking for coveted and abstract things like railroad spikes, steam guages and toy cars.. And remember the "Rock-IT launcher" from Fallout 3??? Once you build that thing, every peice of loot became valuble ammo. Shooting a teddy bear and bowling pins at enemies at high velocity ftw!!
If there's one thing I want from the next Fallout, its a higher level cap. I could play that game all day!


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The Maine Department of Education supports educators across the state in our shared mission to help all students reach their potential and prepare for the rigors of college, careers and civic life.
That commitment doesn't stop when a student exits high school. Learning, after all, is a lifelong pursuit.
- Adult Education. Helping adult learners discover their passions, improve their career prospects and use education to get ahead in life.
- High School Equivalency Exam & Adult Diplomas. High school completion options for adults.
- College & Careers. Options for continuing your education and finding the career you love.
- Scholarships & Loans. Paying for one of life's most significant investments.
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Connecting with Wesleyan: The Academic Experience
The Academic Advising System
Within the context of liberal education at Wesleyan, advising is a teaching and learning experience, and faculty play a central role in the advising system. Faculty advisors teach students how to explore the curriculum and develop coherent academic plans that expand their intellectual, academic, and artistic perspectives. They also help students select courses that stress capabilities that have been identified as essential for a life of learning. These "key capabilities" are writing, speaking, quantitative reasoning, ethical reasoning, and critical and creative thinking.
Faculty efforts are supported and enhanced by many other resources available at Wesleyan, including class deans, orientation staff, career resources, and staff members in various administrative offices. The advising process is designed to provide opportunities for students to reflect on how to utilize the curriculum and other University resources to achieve their educational and personal goals. Other important elements of the advising system include student use of WESMaps, WesPortal, and online registration activities.
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Bravo is currently filming the 5th season of The Real Housewives of Orange County with a new housewife in tow. Alexis Bellino, 32, is the latest Bravo housewife. Alexis is described as being a friend of Gretchen Rossi.
Alexis who is from Newport Coast is described as a stay-at-home mother of three. There are conflicting stories on wether or not Alexis is replacing OC veteran, Jeana Keough. The OC Register is reporting Jeana will not be back, while other reports have stated Jeana will be returning.
The one thing we are certain of is that Alexis will be on the show. Alexis's husband is Jim Bellino, 47. Jim is described as an entrepreneur who use to own a pool table business that was an $8 million-a-year-profit company.
In a new interview with the OC register, Alexis describes filming with the other women – "It has been amazing. I already knew Gretchen. Lynne (Curtin)'s a sweetheart. She doesn't have a mean bone in body. Vicki (Gunvalson) and I joked and laughed and had a good time. But there's drama anytime you get five women together."
Unlike Kelly Bensimon of the NY Housewives, Alexis describes herself as an addict of the show and has seen every single episode.
This should make for an interesting new season. I love the fact that she just happens to be a friend of Gretchen. Alexis is obviously easy on the eyes as is Gretchen. So it might be safe to say Tamra Barney will spend the entire season on trying to "out" her on something, or accuse Alexis of trying to be like her.


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First it was Miley Cyrus, now Keke Palmer is the latest teen star to launch a Walmart fashion line…or rather her alter ego, True Jackson is. Inspired by the hit Nickelodeon show, True Jackson VP, Mad Style by True Jackson consists of jumpers, knit tops, leggings, T-shirts, modern dresses, Mary Janes and more for young girls — all for under $14. Designer Jane Siskin (who has collaborated with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on their Elizabeth and James collection), described the collection as "self-styled pieces that can be mixed and matched, neon colors, leggings, and layers," at the Fall 2009 presentation Monday evening in New York City. And while Siskin and her design team did all the work, Palmer still got to have a say. "They showed me the first samples and I was able to say what I liked and what I didn't like," the soon-to-be 16 year old told PEOPLE. "I pretty much loved everything." In the show, Palmer plays a teen who gets a dream job running a youth apparel division of a fashion company — and life may be starting to imitate art as Palmer discovers her own inner-fashionista. "I've definitely become one because of the show – before then I was just wearing that stuff that was nice but I wasn't like 'I love this [designer],' I really didn't pay attention to the tags on the back of the clothes," confesses Palmer. "Now I'm like 'oh, I know about all these different people and now I can go their websites!' The wardrobe stylists, they've definitely broadened the horizons for me." Mad Style by True Jackson is available in Walmart stores and on walmart.com. –Shruti Dhalwala


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With nine fighting majors this season, Tanner Glass leads the Vancouver Canucks in that department.
The Canucks as a team possess a modest 27 fighting majors.
But Glass still likes to be prepared when he takes on a team like the Bruins, who enter tonight tied for third with 56 fights in their 60 games. The Dartmouth product told The Vancouver Sun about his preparation for a game like tonight's 10 p.m. EST start:
I go on hockeyfights.com and I try to know what everyone does. Just in case, you know. Not that I'm thinking I'm definitely going to fight this guy or that guy tonight, it's just smart to know what a guy's going to do.
After Thornton on the Bruins' leader board, Adam McQuaid has 11 and Gregory Campbell eight. While Milan Lucic has just three fighting majors this season, Glass says the Bruins power forward's fighting is still part of the scouting report. Maybe Lucic will want to make a bigger bang in his return to his hometown.
"Well, (Milan) Lucic first and foremost. He's tough," Glass told The Sun. "Shawn Thornton, also real tough, can take a punch, throws both. And then they've got that Adam McQuaid, rookie on defense. Tall kid, mostly rights, long reach. Those three."
So Glass is ready for any extracurricular activity that takes place. This battle of division leaders should get heated, and the physical play might require some policing along the way.


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The Schedule
Game No. 26
Thursday, March 3, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at UC Irvine Anteaters
at UCI's Bren Events Center
Radio: KIST 1340 AM
Game No. 27
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 5:05 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Long Beach State 49ers
at LBSU's Pyramid
Radio: KIST 1340 AM
Game No. 28 - Big West Tournament First Round
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at TBA
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. TBA
at The Anaheim Convention Center
Radio: KIST 1340 AM
The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters the final weekend of the Big West season with an overall record of 10-15 and a league mark of 7-9. Since losing six of seven games, UCSB has won two of its last three contests. On Saturday, the Gauchos completed their home schedule with a narrow 58-54 win over visiting UC Riverside. Santa Barbara split its games over the weekend. Prior to the win over Riverside, UCSB dropped a 66-57 decision to Cal State Fullerton.
The Week To Come
UCSB will complete the regular season with road games at UC Irvine and Long Beach State. The Gauchos have already played both the Anteaters and 49ers this year, winning both games at the Thunderdome. On December 28, UCSB defeated Long Beach State by a score of 54-47, and then on December 30, the Gauchos topped UC Irvine, 62-45. Saturday's game at Long Beach State will tip-off at 5:05 p.m. to accommodate the school's homecoming festivities.
The Week That Was
Santa Barbara split its games on the final home weekend of the season. On Thursday night, Cal State Fullerton had four players score in double-figures en route to a 66-57 win over the Gauchos. UCSB struggled with its shooting in defeat, making just 36.4% of its shots overall, 21.7% from three-point range and 57.1% from the free throw line. Freshman swingman Derek Rasp led the Gauchos with a career-high 15 points, while Chrismen Oliver and Joe See each added 10. Saturday was Senior Day for UCSB, as the team bid farewell to its two graduating players, Oliver and Casey Cook, who has not played since fracturing a bone in his right foot in a game at Cal State Northridge on January 2. While the seniors were celebrated on Saturday, it was several non-seniors who carried the load in a 58-54 win over UC Riverside. Rasp made a career-high five three-point baskets and tied his career-high with 15 points, freshman forward Chris Moore had a career-high 10 points and four rebounds, and junior Josh Davis had 10 points, including two key baskets down the stretch, in the victory. Once again, the Gauchos struggled with their shooting, making just 41.7% overall and 55.6% from the free throw line. In the first half, UCSB was on fire, making 13-of-24 shots overall, 54.2%, and 7-of-12 from three-point range, 58.3%. On a major positive note, the Gauchos had just seven turnovers in the game, their second-lowest mark of the season.
The Active Roster Remains In Flux
Alright, let's get right to it. The following players are definitely out for this weekend and any postseason games UCSB will play. Junior guard Cecil Brown, senior forward Casey Cook, freshman forward Chris Devine and freshman forward Todd Follmer. Brown has not played this season. He missed the first six games of the year with a partially torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee, and he has missed the rest of the games with a stress fracture in his lower right ankle. Cook played in the first ten games of the season, but in game 11, on January 2 at Cal State Northridge, he fractured a bone in his right foot. Initially, it was believed that he would possibly return for the final week of the regular season and the Big West Tournament, but the injury has not sufficiently healed so Cook will spend his final games as a Gaucho sitting on the bench with a walking boot on his foot. Devine had knee surgery prior the start of practice in October. It was originally thought that he too would return at some point, but the injury has not healed sufficiently to allow his return, and he will not make his UCSB debut until the 2005-06 campaign. Although he is not injured, Follmer will redshirt the 2004-05 season. The biggest question mark entering the stretch run of the season is junior forward Cameron Goettsche. Goettsche missed four games earlier in the year with a severely strained groin, and then on February 10, in the first half of a game at UC Davis, he strained his lower back. He missed the second half of that game, and he has missed all of the last four games. Goettsche the Gauchos' leading rebounder at 6.9 per game, is very doubtful for this weekend and his status for the Big West Tournament is also in doubt. Sophomore forward David Kennedy, who missed 14 of the first 15 games of the season with a stress fracture in his leg, injured a toe on his right foot in practice last week and did not play against Cal State Fullerton. He did, however, return to play eight minutes against UC Riverside and he is expected to play this weekend. Sophomore forward Glenn Turner fractured the middle finger on his right hand in a game at Pacific on February 16, but he has continued to play with the middle finger taped to the ring finger. He is expected to continue playing. Freshman forward Chris Moore missed two games after suffering a concussion against Utah State on February 5, but he has played in the last three games.
Possible Starters - Notes
G - Chrismen Oliver - Has eight assists and no turnovers in the last two games.
G - Alex Harris - Led the team in rebounds with five against UC Riverside.
G - Josh Davis - Leads all active players in scoring average 10.3 points per game.
F - Derek Rasp - Scored a career-high 15 points in each of the last two games.
F - Glenn Turner - Has not attempted a shot in the last three games.
Possible Reserves - Notes
G - Joe See - Attempted a season-low two shots against UC Riverside.
G - Michael Chambers - Has averaged 5.4 points in the last five games.
F - David Kennedy - Tied his career-high with three rebounds vs. UC Riverside.
F - Chris Moore - Had career-highs of 10 points and four rebounds vs. UC Riverside.
F - Derek Wheeler - Had a career-high five rebounds vs. CSUF.
The Sideline - Notes
G - Cecil Brown - Stress fracture in lower left leg has sidelined him for the season.
F - Cameron Goettsche - Back strain sidelined him for the last four games. Doubtful this weekend.
F - Casey Cook - Injured tendon in right foot has sidelined him for remainder of season.
F - Chris Devine - Knee injury has not healed enough. Will miss remainder of year.
F - Todd Follmer - Freshman is redshirting the season.
The Bob Williams File
Bob Williams is in his seventh season as the head coach at UC Santa Barbara. On December 30, when the Gauchos defeated UC Irvine, he became the fifth UCSB coach to record 100 wins. Last year, he guided the Gauchos to a 16-12 overall record and a 10-8 mark in Big West Conference play. He has also guided UCSB to three straight winning seasons, the first time the program has accomplished the feat since 1987-88 through 1989-90. In 2002-03, Williams' Gauchos went 18-14 overall and 14-4 in league. The 2002-03 Big West mark earned Santa Barbara its first-ever Big West regular season championship along with a postseason trip to the National Invitation Tournament. In addition, the success earned Williams his second Big West Coach of the Year award, his first coming after an impressive 1999 campaign. In 2001-02, Williams guided UCSB to its first Big West Conference Tournament Championship ever and first NCAA Tournament appearance in 12 years. Including this season, Williams' UCSB teams have posted a 105-94 (.526) overall record and a 72-45 (.615) record in Big West games. Prior to his arrival at UCSB, he spent eight years at UC Davis and in those eight years, his teams recorded 20 or more wins five times and a 158-76 record. In Williams' final season, the Aggies went 31-2, won the NCAA Division II National Championship and he was named NABC Division II Coach of the Year. Including two seasons at Menlo College, Williams has a record of 294-194 (.603) at four-year schools.
The Opponents
The Gauchos and UC Irvine have played 60 times in a series that dates back to 1968. UCSB holds a decisive 38-22 edge in the all-time series. The Gauchos have won the last six consecutive games against the Anteaters, including a 62-45 win at the Thunderdome on December 30. UCSB has also won the last two meetings played at the Bren Center, including an 84-77 win last season. The Gauchos and Long Beach State have played 95 times in a series that dates back to 1952. The 49ers hold a 49-46 lead in the series, but UCSB won the first meeting between the schools this year, winning on December 28 in Santa Barbara, 54-47. The Gauchos have not had much luck playing at the Pyramid in recent years. Last season, the 49ers came back from a 20 point second half deficit to beat UCSB on a buzzer-beating three-pointer, 63-62. In 2002-03, Long Beach made a pair of free throws with two seconds left to escape with a 68-67 win. In 2001-02, a three-pointer with just seconds remaining gave the 49ers a 77-74 win. The last time UCSB won at the Pyramid was during the 2000-01 campaign, when it posted a 78-71 win.
The Gauchos On The Road
UCSB is 2-11 in road games this season. On the bright side, in their last road game, the Gauchos ended an 11-game losing streak in road games. On February 19, Santa Barbara recorded a 78-66 win at Cal Poly. UCSB's only other road with this season came on November 19 in the season opener at San Diego State. In the game against the Aztecs, the Gauchos won an 80-72 overtime affair. Following the game at SDSU, UCSB dropped games at Wisconsin, San Francisco, Pepperdine, the University of San Diego, Cal State Northridge, Utah State, Idaho, UC Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, UC Davis and Pacific. UCSB is 1-6, in Big West Conference road games. Last season, the Gauchos went 6-10 in road games overall, and just 3-6 in Big West Conference road games.
A Fresh Outlook
Freshman guard Derek Rasp has led the team in scoring in each of the last two games, going for a career-high 15 in a loss to Cal State Fullerton and in a win over UC Riverside. In the last two games, the trio of UCSB freshmen who are playing on a regular basis have accounted for a pretty good chunk of the scoring load. In Thursday's game against Cal State Fullerton, Rasp, along with guard Alex Harris and forward Chris Moore, combined for 25 of the teams 57 points, 43.9%. On Saturday, the threesome assumed even more of the scoring burden when it combined for 32 of the Gauchos' 58 points, 55.2% of the total. The 32 points scored against the Highlanders was the highest total that UCSB's freshmen have contributed this year. Previously, Harris and Rasp combined for 27 of the team's 76 points (31.6%) in a 76-56 win over visiting Cal Poly on January 13. Moore was not available for that game. Finally, Moore's 10 point outing against UCR marked the first time a Gaucho frontcourt player has scored in double-figures since February 3.
Shooting Blanks
UCSB's 55.0% field goal percentage in the February 19 win at Cal Poly seems like a dream now. The 55.0% mark against the Mustangs was just the second time this season that the Gauchos made half or better of their shots this year, and it snapped a streak of 21 straight games under the 50.0% mark. In the two games since the win over Cal Poly, UCSB has seen a return of its shooting woes. In the loss to Cal State Fullerton, the Gauchos made just 36.4% of their shots, and then in the win over UC Riverside, they made 41.7%, including just 29.2% in the second half. Overall, Santa Barbara is shooting just 40.8% from the field this season, and the Gauchos have been under 50.0% 23 times in 25 games and under 40.0% 12 times. In fact, when the Gauchos shoot 45.0% or better, they have posted a solid 6-1 record with the only loss coming on the road at nationally-ranked Wisconsin.
Free? I Beg To Differ
Not only has UCSB been struggling with its shooting from the field, it has also had its problems at the free throw line in recent games. The Gauchos have made fewer than 70.0% of their free throws in nine straight games and 12 times in the last 13 games. In fact, the team has been under the 60.0% mark in three of the last four games. In the last 13 games, Santa Barbara has made just 147-of-253 from the free throw line, 58.1%. UCSB is now shooting a season-low 63.8% from the charity stripe. The team has made 70.0% or better in a game 10 times this season, nine of which came during the first 12 games. In 2003-04, the Gauchos shot 66.0% from the free throw line.
A Nice Turnabout
UCSB had just seven turnovers in Saturday's game against UC Riverside. The total of seven tied for the second fewest turnovers that the Gauchos have had this season. It marked the ninth time this season that UCSB had committed 10 or fewer turnovers in a game, and all 10 of those games have come within the last 18 games. In fact, in the first seven games this year, the Gauchos averaged 15.4 turnovers per game, and in the last 18, they have averaged just 9.2 per game.
Consecutive Road Wins Rare
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that UCSB has not won consecutive road games this season. The last time the Gauchos put together back-to-back road victories was during the early stages of the 2003-04 Big West season when they won games at UC Irvine (84-77), and then a couple weeks later at Cal Poly (78-59).
Few Close Encounters For UCSB
UCSB has had few close encounters this season. Of the Gauchos 25 games, 14 have been decided by 10 points or more. The closest games that UCSB has played this season, with the exception of an 80-72 overtime win in the season-opener against San Diego State, were both against UC Riverside. In each of the games against the Highlanders, the margin was four points. UCSB topped UCR in Santa Barbara 58-54, and lost in Riverside, 54-50. The Gauchos' largest margin of victory this season came on January 13 when they defeated Cal Poly by a 76-56 score. The largest margin of defeat was their 80-50 loss to Utah State on February 6. The 30 point loss to the Aggies was, in fact, the second-largest margin of defeat ever suffered by a Bob Williams-coached Gaucho team.
Take Me To Your Leader(s)
If you include the injured Casey Cook, UCSB has three players averaging 10.0 per game or more. For better or worse, the Gauchos have spread the scoring around this season and each of their top seven scorers have led the way at least one time. Chrismen Oliver has led the team in scoring more than anyone else, doing so on eight occasions. Also, eight different players have led the team in rebounding with Glenn Turner leading the way eight times.
Just Joshing
Junior guard Josh Davis was has been one of UCSB's brightest spots this season. He is leading the active players on the team in scoring at 10.3 points per game, but in the last 10 games, he has averaged 12.0 points per outing and he has scored in double-figures six times. He had 10 points in Saturday's win over UC Riverside, including the Gauchos' final two field goals in the closing seconds when the game was on the line. The 10 point game marked Davis' 12th double-figure scoring effort of the season. In Thursday's game against Cal State Fullerton, he had nine points, but he tied for team-high honors in rebounding with five. On February 19 at Cal Poly, Davis had 15 points and a game-high eight rebounds. In the game against the Mustangs, Davis attempted a career-high 17 free throws, by far the most by a Gaucho player this season. Interestingly, in the two games since then, he has attempted a total of just one free throw. Also in the game against UCR on Saturday, Davis made 5-of-10 shots from the field, 50.0%. In the four games prior to Saturday, he had made just 12-of-37 shots from the field, 32.4%. With Gaucho players dropping like flies this season, Davis has been the one automatic in the lineup every game. He is the only player on the team to start every game this season, and he leads the team in minutes played with 805. While his minutes total is just 41 more than Chrismen Oliver, it is 141 more than Alex Harris, who ranks third on the team. Davis has logged 24 or more minutes in all 25 Gaucho games this season, and he has played 30 or more 18 times, including 12 times in the last 15 games. While Davis has scored 10 or more points 12 times in 25 games, he has also become one of the team's top rebounders. He is averaging 4.9 boards per game and he has had five or more rebounds 15 times this season, including 10 of the last 12 games. In the last 12, Davis has averaged 6.1 rebounds, the top mark on the team over that span. In UCSB's January 22 home loss to Pacific, Davis scored a career-high 21 points, making a career-high 5-of-7 shots from three-point range, and 7-of-13 overall. It marked the second time this season and in his career that he had scored 20 or more points. His previous high of 20 came on November 27 at San Francisco. He opened the season on an offensive roll, scoring in double-figures in each of the first four games, including 18 in a season-opening overtime win over San Diego State. His performance against SDSU earned Davis his first Big West Player of the Week honor ever. Last year, Davis had 18 steals in 27 games, and his two-year total entering the 2004-05 campaign was 40 steals in 59 games. This season, Davis has 38 steals in 25 games and he has had a career-high four steals three times this season, most recently in the January 13 win over Cal Poly. Davis' total of 24 three-point baskets are 11 more than he had in his first two seasons combined.
Oliver's Story
Senior guard Chrismen Oliver played in his final home game on Saturday, and although he only scored seven points on 3-of-11 shooting, he had four assists, three steals and no turnovers. Oliver is now averaging 10.0 points per game, third on the team overall and second among active players. Although he made just 3-of-11 shots against UC Riverside, Oliver has averaged 11.0 points in the last three games, going 13-of-31, 42.0%, over that span. While the numbers are modest, they are a major improvement over the previous three games when he scored a total of just 10 points, 3.3 per game, and made just 1-of-18 shots from the field. Oliver has scored in double-figures 14 times this season, more than any player on the team. The Gauchos have gone 8-6 when he scores 10 or more points. When Oliver scores fewer than 10 points in a game, UCSB has gone 2-9. In fact, the win over UC Riverside was the second win. With the exception of the three-games prior to the game at Cal Poly, Oliver has had an outstanding season. He not only ranks second among active players in scoring, he leads the Gauchos in assists with 75 (3.0 per game) and steals with 46 (1.8 per game), tying him for ninth on UCSB's all-time single season list. He is second on the team with 35 three-point baskets and he has made two or more 12 times this season. Oliver has led or tied for the team-lead in scoring eight times this season, the most of any player on the team. In the Gauchos January 20 win over Cal State Northridge, he scored a career-high 21 points. His previous career-high of 19 points had been set in the previous game, a win over UC Davis. He has made a career-high three three-point baskets three times this year, including a perfect 3-for-3 performance on January 15 against UC Davis. During his three-game slump, Oliver did not make a three-point basket, his first three-game streak this season. Prior to that, however, he had made at least one three-point bucket in nine straight games and now he has made at least one in the last three games. He has had four assists in each of the last two games and he has had four or more nine times this year. In fact, in the last two games, he has had eight total assists and no turnovers. Oliver is averaging 30.6 minutes per game, second on the team, and he has played 30 or more 14 times. In his first three seasons, Oliver totaled 71 games, 595 minutes and 168 points. This year, he has scored 251 points in 25 games and 764 minutes. He has also made 35 three-pointers this season after entering the year with a career total of 27, and his 46 steals are 15 more than his total for the previous three seasons combined.
Junior guard Joe See entered Saturday's game against UC Riverside having scored 10 or more points in a season-high four games. Over that span he averaged 13.0 points per game and he made 16-of-31, 51.6%. Also, over those four games, See averaged 23 minutes per game. On Saturday against Riverside, he tied his season-low with just 14 minutes played, he attempted a season-low two field goals, and for the first time this year, he did not even attempt a three-pointer. In the end, See finished with one point, making 1-of-2 shots from the free throw line. Despite Saturday's game, See has emerged from the slump that haunted him early in the year. While he is averaging 7.9 points per game overall, he has scored an average of 9.0 per game in the last 21 games, and 10.6 per game in the last five games. Also, since opening the year by making just 2-of-20 shots overall and going 0-for-16 from three-point range, See has gone 61-of-154 overall, 39.6%, and 38-of-100 from three-point range, 38.0%. While See has scored 10 or more points seven times this season, five of those outings have come in the last eight games. In the first 17 games this season, See averaged 7.1 points per game and scored in double-figures just two times. He has also taken over the team-lead in three-pointers with 38. When he went without a three-pointer in the last game, it snapped a streak of seven straight games in which he had at least one. See now has 82 three-point baskets in his career, the 10th most in school history. On January 6, in a game at Utah State, See made a career-high eight three-point baskets, the second-highest single-game total in school history, and the most by a Gaucho player since Mark Hull made eight against Arizona in the first round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament. See, who almost single-handedly kept UCSB in the game at Logan, scored a career-high 26 points against the Aggies, the highest total by a Gaucho this season.
The Harris Poll
Freshman guard Alex Harris has struggled on the offensive end of the floor in the last two games. In Saturday's win over UC Riverside, he had seven points, making 2-of-6 shots overall and 1-of-3 from three-point range. Last Thursday, against Cal State Fullerton, he had four points on 1-of-7 shooting. Still, with his seven points against the Highlanders, Harris now has 203 points on the season and he needs just three more to move into UCSB's all-time freshman top-ten. As you will note, if you look to the box on the right, he is moving up on several freshman top-10 lists. In the last two games combined, Harris made just 3-of-13 shots overall, 23.1%, 1-of-6 from three-point range, 16.7%, and 4-of-9 from the free throw line, 44.4%. The last two games come on the heels of back-to-back 16 point games against Cal Poly and Pacific. The 16 points tied Harris' career-high, set previously on November 29 at Cal State Fullerton. Harris has scored in double-figures nine times this season, including four of the last six games and five times in the last eight games. In the last eight, he has averaged 11.5 points per game, making 28-of-62 shots overall, 45.1%, and 12-of-26 from three-point range, 46.2%. He is now averaging 8.1 points per game, third among active players. His all-around game is also starting to pickup. In Saturday's game, Harris tied his career-high with five assists, a total he also recorded in a January 13 win over Cal Poly. He also had a team-high five rebounds and he is now averaging a season-high 3.0 boards per game. In fact, in the last three games he has averaged 4.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game. He has made two or more three-point baskets six times this year, including three times in the last six games. He had a career-high of eight rebounds on February 10 at UC Davis. Finally, when Harris tallied 15 points in the season-opener at San Diego State, it was the most points ever scored by a UCSB freshman in a season-opener and the most ever scored by a freshman in his Gaucho debut.
Cam I Am
Junior forward Cameron Goettsche suffered a strained lower back in UCSB's February 10 game at UC Davis and he has missed the last four games as a result. His status for this week remains very doubtful, and it is possible he has played his final minutes this season. Goettsche had struggled in his last two games of activity, at Davis and at home against Utah State. In 46 total minutes, he scored a total of six points and had six rebounds, an average of 3.0 per game. In addition, while he is shooting 47.5% from the field overall, he went just 3-of-10 in last two games, 30.0%. Although he remains the team-leader in rebounding at 6.9 per game, Goettsche has averaged just 5.0 per game in his last five appearances. At one point this season, in consecutive games at San Diego, and at home against Long Beach State and UC Irvine, he recorded double-figures in rebounds. In the December 30 game against UC Irvine, he had a career-high 14 rebounds, the most by a UCSB player since the 2001-02 season. His season-high of 15 points came on January 15 against UC Davis. In a six game stretch, beginning with the first game against UC Davis, and ending with the February 3 game against Idaho, Goettsche had his best offensive run of the season, scoring in double-figures four times and averaging 11.3 points per game. On December 22 at San Diego, he had the third double-double of his career with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Goettsche also has 24 blocked shots this season. Last year, he had just 14.
As The World Turners
Sophomore forward Glenn Turner has been hobbled all year by a bad ankle. In the February 16 game at Pacific, he fractured the middle finger on his right hand when he hit the backboard on an attempted blocked shot. He has had the middle finger taped to the ring finger for the last three games and he will continue to do so. In the three games since suffering the finger injury, Turner has played 40 minutes and he has not attempted a shot, scoring just two points on a pair of free throws against UC Riverside. He has had eight rebounds and one blocked shot over that span. He scored a career-high 12 points on January 13 against Cal Poly. Turner is now averaging 3.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. Also, despite having blocked just four shots in the last seven games, he leads the Gauchos and the Big West with 38 this season. He has had two or more blocked shots 11 times this year. In fact, over one stretch of six games, he had three or more five times, including six on January 8 at Idaho, tying UCSB's single-game record. In the game prior to that, he had five, giving him 11 over a two-game span, a school record. Turner now has 45 career blocked shots, ninth on UCSB's all-time list. With 38 this season, Turner has moved into 10th on the all-time single-season list. In addition to blocking shots, Turner has developed into one of the team's most dependable rebounders. He is not only averaging 4.5 per game, but he has led the team in rebounding nine times, more than anyone else.
Grasping His Opportunity
Freshman guard Derek Rasp has scored a career-high 15 points in each of the last two games, leading the team in each. On Saturday, in the win over UC Riverside, Rasp made 5-of-8 shots from beyond the three-point arc, the five three-pointers was one more than his previous career-high of four set on January 13 against Cal Poly. In his last two games, Rasp has averaged 15.0 points per game, making 8-of-17 three-point attempts, 47.1%. In a season full of bad breaks, Rasp has been a pleasant surprise. After redshirting last season, he was forced into a major role this season and he has taken advantage of that. Although he missed five games at one point with a lung contusion, he is averaging 5.4 points per game and his 23 three-point baskets rank fourth on the team. His 37.7% mark from three-point range leads all active players, and he has made three or more in a game four times. Rasp is also averaging 2.3 rebounds per game, but he is averaging 4.3 per game in the last seven.
The Moore The Better
Freshman forward Chris Moore has picked a good time to emerge. On Saturday, Moore scored a career-high 10 points, and tied his career-high with four rebounds. He also blocked a shot and had a steal. In scoring 10 points against UC Riverside, Moore became the first UCSB post player to score 10 or more in a game since February 3, a span of six games. In fact, in the last three games, he has averaged 7.3 points and 3.3 rebounds. In the last three, he made 9-of-12 shots from the field, 75.0%, and scored 22 points. In his first 10 appearances this year, Moore scored a total of nine points and was 4-of-10 from the field. Finally, in the last two games, he played a total of 43 minutes, averaging 21.5 per game. In his first ten outings, he never played more than 18.


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|2006-10-10, 13:34
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Anyways, episode two airs in less then 24 hours Can't wait to hear/see the OP and ED, I hope they are good :P
|2006-10-10, 13:45
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Okay. Then when you're done seeing ep. 1, go to the ep. 1 blog and read the blackboard stuff and play the video for 'Da Bomb!" reference . It really is funny.
|2006-10-10, 15:08
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I loved the episode...right down to the cliffhanger picture of eva hovering over negi...I noticed they were focusing on a braclet...wonder what thats about. but as long as i get to see kotaru and negi fight together ill be happy...hell as long as i get to see the kyoto arc ill be happy...anyway Gratz to mahora or a great first subbing <.< >.> later all ^.^
|2006-10-10, 16:41
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|2006-10-10, 20:33
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Re-imagining hardly covers it. Incredible that both series could have sprung from the same source material - could the treatments have been any more different? I don't dislike the Xebec version nearly as much as some - I sorta liked it, at least in parts. But this is another animal - edgy, offbeat, frenetic (in a good way). Can't wait to see more.
|2006-10-10, 21:32
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|2006-10-10, 21:44
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I've just watched the 22-26 episodes of the original and the first episode of the new Negima?!. Personally, I prefer the old one. The new one seems kinda lackluster in humor and when they attempt a joke, the timing is all off.
(you know, kinda like how two people can tell the same joke but one guy just kills it... Negima?! is that guy)
Although it is definately a lot less fan servicey (which I'd prefer) and the art is much better, everything seems so much... slower and darker. It's not nearly as vibrant and energetic as the previous series. I understand they were aiming for of a serious feel... but come on... its a mahou sensei... a gradeschool boy magician teaching in an all girls school... the topic matter does not prelude to serious epic battles.
I didn't laugh at all, snicker, or find anything slightly amusing in the first episode, I hope they pick up the pace and start making things funny cause... I'm totally dissapointed... :< kinda sad, but I'll watch it anyways. lol i've just been tooled
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but fire it off first and see what happens, eh?
|2006-10-11, 00:06
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Well, it's not like they can actually follow the manga straight since it isn't even done yet. Anime can catch up pretty fast with the manga and then they start doing countless fillers. And y'know how much fillers can ruin an anime T3T;
It's too early to really judge it. It's only the first episode, maybe a later episode will really shine.
|2006-10-11, 00:27
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As for butchering Akamatsu's work, well to put it simple Negima!? is not Akamatsu's work. Its Akiyuki Shinbo's work that is loosly based on Akamatsu's work. Even Akamatsu has expressed his initial approval of the new series and is interested in seeing where it goes. Those that expect this to stay faithful to Akamatsu's manga are only setting themselves up for disappointment.
|2006-10-11, 00:46
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Akamatsu has said he likes it... thats good enough for me to give it a chance. The first Negima series he tried to manage and it got away from him (though he was able to get the first team canned, by then the damage had been done). Shinbo is an outstanding director with his own quirks and I think the mixture is going to play well.
The animation of this first episode is mixed... some of it is very watercolor arty, some of it is almost oil painting. If we remember Tsukuyomi Moon Phase, the first two eps were extremely atmospheric.
I'd say give Negima!? five eps.... if you still can't stand it, head back to the manga... which has its own derails and sidetracks depending on what you like about the story. In the manga, some people like the action.... I enjoyed vol 11 (lots of Kaede and Mana) but I must admit I'm starting to miss the Yue and Nodoka thread - lots of stuff left to do there. I don't *dislike* Ken A.'s manga but he has a bad tendency to ramble around, leave threads dangling, lose focus, or go shooting around in his stories. There are a good 2 or 3 volumes worth of material in Love Hina that most folks would just label a complete waste of time or detracting to the story. Negima is in some danger of that... simply too many threads to weave if he isn't careful.
|2006-10-11, 00:59
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I hope he really did like it, but I never trust it when an original creator says that he loves something that deviates from his vision.
|2006-10-11, 01:10
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Agreed..... I must admit my tongue was sticking into my cheek when I wrote that.
The character styles I'm more sanguine about... much like fan art sometimes takes a character and renders them in that artist's style -- the good stuff you can still immediately tell who the character is.
|2006-10-11, 01:37
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Location: edge of my dream in the land of twilight...ZzzZzZ
Quick question, in episode 1 it showed Asuna in some fuedal lord costume. Is there a reason for her dressing like that or did she just messed up while putting her clothes on in a half awake state of mind.
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Our children will grow up never knowing the sheer junky joy of eating a Twinkie. The manufacturers of the creme-filled treat (plus Ho Ho's and Wonder bread), Hostess Brands, have been forced to shut down the entire company after a debilitating workers strike.
The Baker's Union (BCTGM), which represents 30% of the Hostess workforce, went on a nationwide strike which resulted in the permanent closure of three of the company's plants on November 12th. By the 14th, Hostess announced that, unless the BCTGM returned to work by 5pm on Thursday, the company would be forced to liquidate.
"I don't know if they thought that was a bluff or if they thought that there was some better outcome, but that's essentially why we are where we are today, and the company will be liquidated," CEO and chairman Gregory F. Rayburn told CNBC in an interview today. According to Rayburn, even if the workers decided to come back, it's just too late. "30% of our workforce put 18,500 people out of a job," he said.
Despite the company's attempts to overcome the strike, Hostess will sell its 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, and even their secret recipes for its delicious cakes, reports nbcnews.com.
"We deeply regret the necessity of today's decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike," Rayburn said in a statement to NBC News. Hostess will continue to sell already-baked products for the next several days. Get 'em while you can!


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New London voters approve $7.2m operating budgetBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
May 16. 2013 10:37PM
NEW LONDON — Voters approved a $7.2 million operating budget at Town Meeting Wednesday night, but did not pass a petitioned warrant article.
Failing passage was Article 3, which asked voters to put $25,000 in a previously established Conservation Land Acquisition Capital Reserve Fund.
The petitioned article was not recommended by the selectmen or the budget committee, and that may have been a determining factor in the vote, said Linda Hardy, the town clerk and tax collector.
The general operating budget, including transfers to capital reserves, has increased by a total of $182,065 or 3 percent from fiscal year 2013, town officials said.
That increase, before other major components of the tax rate are figured during the rest of the fiscal year, would add 17 cents to the tax rate for a 4 percent increase.
Voters approved Article 4, which appropriated $10,000 to be turned over to the Kearsarge Regional School District in return for an option to enter into a mutually agreeable long-term lease for the town's school building.
The option will allow the town the time necessary to explore the advisability of entering into a long-term lease.
Also approved were Article 12, which raised $165,500 — $30,500 for fire apparatus repair, $30,000 replace a town police cruiser, $85,000 to replace a transfer station tractor and $20,000 to replace sewer waste water equipment.
Article 14, which included $175,000 for road and sidewalk improvements, was approved with funding to come from capital reserve accounts.


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Sylvia Hazel Ostrom, 92 - January 16, 2008
Sylvia Hazel Ostrom, 92, of Lexington, formerly of Gothenburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008.
Services were held on Thursday, Jan. 10, at the First Baptist Church of Gothenburg with the Rev. Larry Viter and Ostrom's son, the Rev. Grant J. Ostrom officiating. Burial took place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Ostrom was born on Feb. 18, 1915, at Beaver Crossing to John and Josephine (Krasomil) Pettijohn. She graduated high school salutatorian in 1933 at Trenton.
She was united in marriage to Harry Ostrom on Oct. 15, 1936, at Denver. To this union, three children were born.
Ostrom and her husband moved back to his family's farm north of Gothenburg on the Tallin Table shortly after they were married. The couple farmed there until 1981 when they moved into Gothenburg. They lived in Gothenburg until 1998 then moved to Lexington.
?She put her faith and trust in the Lord Jesus as a child, and had a gift of studying God's Word and teaching Sunday School for over 50 years, according to family members.
?Ostrom was preceded in death by: her husband, Harry; daughters-in-law—Annette Ostrom and Connie Ostrom; a grandson, Kurt Ostrom; four sisters—Lucy Davis, Irene Egleston, Esther Davis and Gladys Fredrickson; two brothers—Fielding and Charles Pettijohn.
Survivors include: her three children—John Ostrom of Lexington, Grant (Anita) Ostrom of Tennessee and Cherry (Vern) Kuhlman of Colorado Springs, CO; nine grandchildren—Anne Eilers, Lars Ostrom, Leif Ostrom, David Ostrom, Kurt Ostrom, Timothy Ostrom, Trae Strube, Michael Kuhlman and Keith Kuhlman; 14 great-grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church Sunday School Fund, Gothenburg, NE 69138, and Spring Creek Baptist Church, 225 Manleyville Rd., Springville, TN 38256.
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A decade later, my wife and I spent the first couple years of our marriage living a few blocks from the restaurant in the Colonial Acres neighborhood. Being so good and so close, it was my automatic destination when I wanted barbecue back then, the same way the Tops on Jackson Avenue is now. And as much as I love my neighborhood Tops, its pulled pork can't compete with the Three Little Pigs'.
Back in the 90s, the restaurant had plate glass exterior walls surrounding the dining room. They were later replaced with solid walls to give the air conditioner a fighting chance in the summertime, since the building is surrounded by a giant blacktop parking lot. The brutal heat of Memphis in the summertime would also cause me to order the restaurant's excellent cheeseburgers instead of barbecue when temperatures reached the 90s and above. Eating a large pile of pulled pork loses some of its appeal when you know you're going back out in 100 degree weather to cut grass for several hours. I've been self-employed in the automotive field for the last seven years with a job that also keeps me outside for large portions of the day. So thinking back on those days, and knowing how much my appetite drops working in the extreme heat, has made me realize that I will probably be blogging a lot less during the worst of the summer.
The Three Little Pigs doesn't just serve great food. It serves it incredibly cheap. I got a jumbo pulled pork dinner with three sides for $6.79. The big double cheeseburgers I remember so fondly from my teenage years are only $4.99. If you come by for breakfast, that $4.99 gets you three eggs with three pieces of either bacon or sausage, grits or gravy, and biscuits or toast. And if you are you are having company and want to make sure no one goes hungry, a dinner pack with enough buns and meat for 16 sandwiches plus a quart each of beans and slaw is only $25.89.
The dinner usually comes with beans, slaw and fries. Since they don't offer potato salad, I subbed onion rings for the fries since I remembered how good they were. The lady who prepared my order messed up and gave me two orders of beans instead of beans and slaw. When I pointed it out she laughed, apologized and gave me a container of slaw to go with my double order of beans. I've been getting tired of baked beans, since I've encountered a lot of them straight from a can lately. But these reminded me of how good baked beans can be. The tasty house sauce had been simmered down to a nice, thick consistency and there was plenty of charred barbecue in them. In other words, I think they were actually baked.
The sauce at Three Little Pigs is a big part of what makes it so special. It's a mild sauce that is heavily infused with herb flavors and works perfectly with the smoky, delicious pork. The restaurant doesn't sell ribs. Pulled pork is the only barbecue on the menu, but I applaud that restraint since I'd much rather eat at a place that does one thing perfectly than somewhere offering multiple varieties of mediocre que. The slaw has a great combination of mustard and vinegary pickle relish flavors. I didn't eat the yeast roll included with the dinner, although my wife was always a big fan of them. I did eat all of the pork, slaw and onion rings and about three-fourths of the double order of beans. I checked my blood sugar an hour after the meal to see how bad of an effect the battered onion rings and giant portion of beans had. I was happy to see that it was only 129 despite the gluttonous meal. The restaurant's devotion to using real seasonings instead of just piling on sugar pays off in more ways than just flavor.
Nearly every available inch of wall space in the Three Little Pigs restaurant is devoted to pig images, statues and figurines. In an era when so many places try to avoid reminding people where meat comes from, and just treat it as a commercial product that shows up at the grocery store as individual cuts wrapped in plastic, it is fun to see a barbecue joint fully embrace the magical animal that drives its business.
NOTE: Since posting this review I've been having lunch at Three Little Pigs almost every Friday since the pulled pork plate there is such an incredible value. I recently discovered that they offer a spicy sauce, which is basically the regular sauce with crushed red pepper added to it. It makes the sauce I already loved even better.