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from GZigZag-announce: "GZigZag 0.6.2 has been released. This is an update to the 0.6 stable series. It supersedes the 0.6.1 release. We recommend that all users of GZigZag use a stable version...." Looks like lots of additions and bugfixes, and one of these days it might become obviously useful for something. In the meantime it's still fun to play with.
James Beta 3
as seen on xml4lib, many improvements include an error handler interface, UNIMARC support, a default handler, and several other changes including bugfixes. Go get it at Bas Peters'James site.
Mark wrote to jake-list: "I've been making incremental improvements to jake2marc over the last year or so and thought it time to announce these... [summarized:] You can now choose where jake2marc gets its data, there are warnings if title URLs are unavailable, there's more control over subfields and indicators (including nonfiling characters in 245), and there's support for prefixes in 856." Note the new url, too.
Kristina wrote to jake-list: "The JakeFilter package is designed to convert title lists from different vendors into jake format... It was written so that it would be easy to add filters for other title lists. Instructions for doing this are on the JakeFilter project page. If you write a filter using this package, and want to share it, please let me know and I will add it to our CVS repository."
James beta 1
as seen on diglib: "James is a free Java package that provides an event model for MARC records through Java callbacks. James is inspired by the Simple API for XML (SAX). Using James you can write programs that involve MARC records without knowing the details of the MARC record structure... James provides a sequential model to access a collection of MARC records in tape format. The goal of James is to provide a generic application interface to records that conform to the ISO-2709 exchange format."
MARC 1.13 released
Gregg writes: "New addition of the wonderful marc-record manipulation tool marc.pm. This one has the added feature of being able to name the HTML fields when using marc2html. Thanks MR. Summers!" Complete docs and a line-by-line tutorial example are available at marcpm.sourceforge.net.
Interview: Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer
I met Paul at LinuxWorld last month and was amazed at the depth at which he and other Digital Creations folks had considered metadata issues when planning the present and future of Zope. In particular, the level of commitment to standardized metadata is terrific; specifically, the new Content Management Framework supports Dublin Core in every manageable object (is this the first large scale cms that does so?). Paul and Ken graciously agreed to an email interview for oss4lib. They've answered oss4lib's questions, which cover a lot of metadata ground, among other issues, and the whole interview's available here.
An Interview with Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer of Digital Creations, publishers of Zope
An Interview with Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer of Digital Creations, publishers of Zope(c) March 2001 by Daniel Chudnov You may reproduce this article in any format and for any purpose, but only in its entirety, including this statement. One of the world's coolest free software applications is Zope, the web application server cum object database from Digital Creations. The story of Digital Creations, a consulting company for whom open sourcing the family jewels (Zope) and its development process marked the road to financial stability and continued growth, is well documented (see here and here for more on the corporate history). And the success of Zope itself is easily found all over the web, including in messages on varied lists with strangely over-the-top enthusiasts saying things like "oh my goodness, I get it now, I'm never doing this with anything but Zope again!" including maybe one or two from yours truly (btw, if you're never seen or used Zope, check out Paul Browning's Zope - a Swiss Army Knife for the Web? for a great intro for librarians or university types). But did you know that some of the key folks behind Zope admit, unabashedly, that they've "always wanted to be a librarian"? In fact, when I met Paul Everitt, CEO of Digital Creations, at LinuxWorld last month, that's exactly what he said. A quick tour of Zope, and especially many of its newest features, reveals that the folks behind Zope (Digital Creations staff and the many contributors to Zope's open source Fishbowl Process for development) think very deeply about many of the same information issues fundamental to librarianship... especially metadata, and the creation, management, and leveraging thereof. Paul and Ken Manheimer, developer on many Zope projects at Digital Creations (and noted as "Mailman's Savior" in the acknowledgements of everybody's favorite list manager, among other accomplishments and contributions), graciously agreed to be interviewed about recent developments in Zope for oss4lib. [Note: Our interview took place over a few rounds of mail exchanges/responses, so some reordering and very minor rewording of a few of the questions has been done for flow. None of the text of responses has been altered, and Paul and Ken both reviewed the text before it was posted. Any mistakes or misrepresentations this refactoring might have caused are the author's fault.] oss4lib: You and Ken both confess to being "closet librarians." Tell us about that. (It's okay to come out of the closet on oss4lib. We understand, we've all been through it. :) Paul Everitt: Well, I'd put it like this. We both think about information and content in abstract, rich ways. We then obsess over valuable ways to leverage the relationships and organizations within content. Ken and I have been fond of saying lately that metadata and the relationships in the "space in between" content is itself content. In Zope, everything is a dynamic object in the database, including metadata and indices. Since content is just marketspeak for object, we actually have a platform to do something about these ideas. Ken Manheimer: Yes! Computers enable profound increases in the scale of communications, over space and time. Without sufficient measures for organizing all this stuff being cast around, we inundate people as much - or more - than we help them get the answers they're seeking, when they need them. Establishing the "spaces between" the information - the context, the relationships - as explicit content, the system can take the context into account, and we can develop strategies and mechanisms that help fit answers into context. We can help fit collections of answers into stories. oss4lib: Traditionally, libraries gather metadata and information about content relationships in reference sources (in holdings catalogs as well as acquired encyclopedias, directories, indexes, atlases, union catalogs, etc.), enshrine these in a reference section, and put reference librarians in the "space between" this section and library visitors. Your approach, very cognizant of this traditional model, creates and organizes as much of this information as possible automatically, and allows users to fill in many of the gaps themselves if they choose to behave certain ways. Manheimer: I think that's the gist of it. The idea is to organize the process and interface so that whatever metadata can naturally fall in place does fall in place. (Note that this is different from doing complex inferencing, eg ai or iterative collaborative filtering. Using collaborative feedback will have a big place, I think, but I shy from elaborate inferencing, at least until we've milked the overt stuff that can be gathered in process...) oss4lib: In the recent Zope Directions Roadmap, you're making another push to simplify how people approach Zope (e.g. moving away from DTML), and to target your audience further (e.g. restated focus on developers). There must be a difficult balance to maintain when making things better and easier runs the risk of introducing change for some of Zope's most loyal fans. This issue faces libraries every day, especially with longtime users unfamiliar with new interfaces. We usually struggle with such decisions and end up trying to please everybody. How do you make these decisions? Everitt: In the "fishbowl". That is, we make fairly formal proposals and put them up for a review process. We've struck a nice balance between the power of global collaboration and the coherence of benevolent dictatorship. People have found the Zope learning curve too steep. In retracing the cause of this problem, we found that Zope tried to be all things to all people. Not knowing your primary audience leads to usability prolems. Thus, order number one was to pick an audience for Zope, and then allow Zope extensions to go after other audiences. This leads to the Zope Directions document you mentioned. Zope is for developers who create useful things for other audiences. Note that our idea of developer, thanks to Python, differs dramatically from other systems which use low-level systems programming languages like C++ or Java for extension. oss4lib: Clearly, you pay close attention to what your consulting customers want from you, and to what active members of Zope's open source development want from Zope. As each community grows, how do you manage to keep listening closely to both? In what ways do the ideas you hear overlap? Everitt: There's a value cycle in our strategy. We tell customers, "We have this Open Source platform with great value being added from developers and companies worldwide that you can tap into." We then have to execute on having a strong, attractive platform for developers to create interesting things like Squishdot, Metapublisher, etc. Then we turn it back around and explain back to the community how customer engagements are driving things that are clearly important to the platform's viability, such as enterprise scale. It's worked out very well, although there are times where the choice has to be made, and this almost always means the consulting customer wins. As we've learned from these situations, we've adapted our organizational model to better leverage the synergy. How we're now structuring ourselves is becoming as exciting as the software itself. oss4lib: The new Content Management Framework (CMF) should appeal to many libraries, especially those wanting to empower patrons to manage their own content and allow customized content views. One of the most interesting things about the CMF is its deep support for Dublin Core (DC), with every object supporting DC descriptions. What led you in this direction? Everitt: Believe it or not, Mozilla! I've been doing this information resource and discovery thing for a while, with Harvest in 1993 and CNIDR and the like. I had followed Dublin Core for a while, plus related initiatives such as IAFA. However, Mozilla was the first time I had seen DC built into a platform. Being tied to RDF nearly made it out of reach for people. But the value of having every object or resource in Mozilla support a standard set of properties was apparent, even for a knucklehead like me. :^) I'm surprised Dublin Core hasn't become universal amongst CMS vendors. Nah, I take it back, I'm not surprised. :^) oss4lib: A common frustration with Dublin Core is that it would be all the more powerful in the aggregate if more applications and sites implemented it. Everitt: Alas indeed! But it's not hard to see why it hasn't taken off. It's hard to get authors to participate in metadata. And when there's nearly no payoff or visible benefit, the incentive is even lower. RDF has suffered from this same chicken-and-egg problem. It's needed a killer app that simultaneously sparks both supply and demand. oss4lib: Seeing DC in the CMF gives us hope. :) A likely upside is that if more applications and sites use DC, everyone will clamor for more robust metadata. In what ways are you planning for that next level? Everitt: I believe Ken would agree that the next area of interest for us over the next six months is the "space in between" content. Manheimer: Yes! There's a lot of metadata that can be inferred on the basis of process and content. For instance, we can identify the "lineage" of a document according to the document from which it was created. We can harvest the actions of visitors, like site-bookmarking, commenting, and rating documents, to glean orientation info for subsequent visitors. We can infer key concepts from the content, eg, common names (in the wiki, WikiNames). Overall, we can reduce the burden on the content author and editors to fill in metadata when it can be inferred from process and content. Everitt: To illustrate, I'll go back to one of the eureka moments that Ken and I had several months ago. We've been pretty big consumers and contributers to the Wiki movement, which on the surface is the unapologetic antithesis of librarianship. That is, Wiki really tries to say, "We'll lower the bar so far, you'll always jump over it." At one point, though, I became concerned that we were building an alternative CMS with our WikiNG efforts, so Ken and I sat down and tried to plan ways to converge Wiki and CMF. We listed the things we liked about Wiki, what were the real innovations, and discussed ways to converge these innovations into the CMF. We found out that one of the most attractive areas of Wiki was the way it assembled relationships and meaning from a corpus of slightly-structured information. For instance, Wikiwords (the automatic hyperlinks generated from CamelCase words) not only give a system for regular web hyperlinks, they also give a system for the reverse (what pages are pointed to by this page). In fact, the Wikiword system is a self-generating glossary that distills out important concepts in a corpus. And in Zope, these Wikiwords could become objects themselves. That is, they could become content.
This applied equally to the "backlinks" idea (or lineage) that Ken added to our Wiki software. [Manheimer: A small correction - lineage is actually different than "backlinks", the latter are common to all wikis. Read on.] If you edit Page A and put in a Wikiword that leads to the creation of Page B, then you have a relationship: Page A -> Page B. If you then edit Page B to create Page C: Page A -> Page B -> Page C. The backlink information itself could become content, thanks to the relationships.
Manheimer: The idea is proposed here: zwiki.org/WikiStructuringIdeas. You can see it in action in the wikis on zope.org and on joyful.com, the home of zwiki. See dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/WikiForNow/RegulatingYourPages for one interesting exploitation of lineage, and see its parent, WikiForNowDevelopments (linked in the header bar lineage display), for an overview of our wiki development features...
Everitt: Neither the Wikiword nor the lineage are part of the content. They exist in between the content. But they are as powerful as the content, and in fact, they can be treated with the some of the same services you would apply to content in a CMS.
oss4lib: At Yale we used Wiki very successfully for documenting several project discussions, but we also experienced many of the common problems with wiki (e.g. who wrote what, how do you track changes, how do you preserve ideas, etc.). What are some other important improvements we should look for from the WikiForNow effort, and what else should we look for from WikiNG?
Everitt: WikiForNow, thanks almost exclusively to Ken's perserverance, illustrates how a smarter system can address the common problems. Without, hopefully, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Each of the three things that you mentioned are in WikiForNow.
However, they get there in WikiForNow by tapping into infrastructure that is shared amongst all content in Zope or in the CMF. For me, WikiNG is more about devolution rather than evolution. That is, take the zen of Wiki and the features of Wiki and make them pervasive beyond Wiki. That means that all content gains Wiki Zen.
Manheimer: Classic wiki shows many things well worth doing - eg, WikiWord vocabulary, backlinks, recent changes, etc. It also manifests an outstanding *way* of doing them - low impedence/low complication operation and authoring - that we will only be able to achieve in the general realm if we use a smart, discerning framework. From my viewpoint, having recently joined the CMF effort, i think it is becoming just such a framework. I think we will be able to generalize the classic wiki features, and our organizational strategies/extensions, more globally and across a richer, comprehensive range of content. I'm excited about it!
Everitt: It remains to be seen whether this model can achieve its goal without losing the simplicity that makes Wiki so pervasive. But let me describe a thought scenario and see if it makes sense to you...
Email and news. Lots of content blows by, a continuous flow of wisdom left almost completely untapped. Email isn't content.
However, let's say that some smart mailing list management software (such as Mailman) did a little bit more than relay mail and archive a copy on disk. Let's say it also shoved a copy of the message into a content management system, which converted relevant RFC822 headers into Dublin Core, indexed the contents, etc. Just for fun, let's call that CMS, well, the CMF. :^)
So in real time people could do full-text and parametized searches. Big deal.
However, let's say the CMF also applied some of the ideas above to email. For instance, threading relationships in email could translate to backlinks/lineage, from which you could make inferences.
But let's take it a *huge* step further. Let's say that a small portion, perhaps 1%, of the people on the mailing list committed themselves to being Knowledge Base Contributors. That is, before sending their email, they observed a couple of small conventions:
a. Using RFC822-style headers at the top, as is done in CMF's structured text, they add targetted cataloging data.
b. In the text of their message they use Wikiwords.
For instance, an email message in response to a bug report might look like this:
Subject: apache, mod_proxy, timeout, bug report
Description: A bug report on using Zope behind Apache 2.0a9 and its new
mod_proxy code causes the previously-reported ZopeProxyDownstreamError.
Rating: useful
I heard Ken describing the other day at his ZopeProxyDownstreamError
page that others had experienced this error. There's a fix available at
ZopeHotFixes page.
Joe User wrote:
> Hello Zope mailing list. I am using Zope behind the latest Apache 2
> alpha and am getting proxy server errors. Has anyone else seen this?
Observe that a Wikiword was used in the headers as well as the body. There was also an extra header (rating) that isn't part of Dublin Core.
So all we ask is that a very small percentage of people use this system, and the smart mailing list server will munch the headers at the top of the email message before relaying them. Not a very high bar to jump over.
Thanks to the threading response relationships, nearly every email message in the corpus will be within one or two relations from something manually annotated.
You could then provide tools that treated the relations and the concepts as content, allowing reparenting and cleaning up the vocabulary.
oss4lib: Implicit in this is knowing that in a given community a small subset of folks will self-select into a group of detail-obsessives working to help the others find and manage context-relevant information. In libraries, it's the catalogers; in the general public it's folks adding to IMDB or moderating MusicBrainz; in the hacker community, it's folks writing How-Tos, guiding free software projects, moderating slashdot, and so on.
Manheimer: Truly, the power of our species is collaboration. That's why computer communications are making so many fundamental waves - they enable quantum leaps in collaboration scale, immediacy, and intricacy. We're all only gradually learning to harness that potential. I think the librarian sensibilities are key because they're about systematizing the advancements so they scale...
oss4lib: A wiki "feature" that made a few librarian colleagues cringe was that its mutable, dynamic nature was the only possible state. It was agreed by all that a great function would be to enable offloading a static snapshot of a wiki as a set of properly hyperlinked html pages. Is it possible now to preserve a Wiki this way?
Everitt: Sure, if that's what people want. wget will easily snarf down a copy of a site.
But that's only one solution to the problem. A better solution is a better system, one in which access control is possible and access to previous versions (history) is there.
Manheimer: RegulatingYourPages, mentioned above, details this.
oss4lib: It sounds like the future of Wiki overlaps in many ways with your plans for robust metadata support.
Everitt: As hinted above, we already have RFC822-style headers in Wiki. For instance, if you edit a Wiki page from an FTP client like Emacs/ange-ftp, you'll see the Wiki seatbelt inserted at the top of the page.
More important, the CMF will converge with our Wiki efforts. A Wiki page will have all the web-based and text-based authoring benefits and metadata of a CMF document. And hopefully, a CMF document will have all the sublime interconnecting that you see in Wiki.
oss4lib: The no-longer-active connection with Fourthought and 4Suite was very promising in this area; while we can always build tools that use 4Suite's 4RDF in conjunction with Zope, a few of us were hoping for deeper integration. What's the outlook for general support for RDF in Zope?
Everitt: Hmm, good question. We have an ongoing dialog with Rael Dornfest from O'Reilly. I'd be interested as well in some of your thoughts on the subject.
oss4lib: Btw, we found some old postings from you at your old .mil address, in the context of GILS. So it's clear that you've been thinking about metadata on the web for a long time.
Everitt: Wow, you librarians have a long memory. :^) I'm embarassed to think what I said back then. Well, you know, I was younger then, it was a crazy time, I didn't know it was a felony...oh, wrong embarassment. :^)]
What's your assessment, in early 2001, of how much we've progressed overall in the metadata area? What are the most important priorities, and is there a holy grail?
Everitt: I don't think we've made an inch of progress in the mainstream, meaning outside of the library science displine of the already converted.
Nearly everyone I meet (besides programmers) uses Word. They use Word even when they shouldn't. But almost none of them know that File->Properties exists.
Metadata, through <meta> tags, has been built into the Web since at least HTML2. So what percentage of web pages have anything other than the "generator" metatag spewed automatically and unknowingly by FrontPage? Essentially zero.
I have hope for incremental breakthroughs like the CMF, which brings a "Wow, that's the way _everything_ should be done" response to CMS cynics. However, it's still trying to transform a mature, continuous market.
I think this takes a discontinuity, a disruptive breakthrough. Lately Rael has been talking about doing P2P for syndication. P2P could be the kind of transformative breakthrough for DC and RDF. Without a standard vocabularly across verticals (music, etc.), P2P will be another thousand islands, which dramatically lowers the utility. Unlike web pages, which generally wants content to be broadcast and rendered, P2P wants to content to be exchanged. This model demands interoperable content.
oss4lib: What more can librarians do to contribute our experience and insight to the broader software community regarding metadata issues?
Everitt: Uhh, prevent knuckleheads like me from repeating historical mistakes. It's doubtful that a disruptive technology for metadata will come out of the ranks of librarians. However, if librarians keep an open mind and don't fall prey to sacrificing the larger victory by clinging to a narrow agenda, then they can spot a winner and help guide it to adulthood.
Many thanks go to Paul and Ken for their willingness, patience, and responsiveness during the interview process.
as seen on the Koha list: "Lots of changes in this version, hence the jump to 1.1.0. The biggest changes are to do with circulation. There is now a comprehensive circulation API which makes building
circulation modules to use your chosen interface much much easier. There is also now a web based circulation section that uses this module."
It's great to see this keep moving forward.
freedb howto v1.00
As seen on fdb-apps, the most excellent freedb project now has a thorough and useful how-to available: "The howto covers freedb access, submit, disc ID generation, freedb file format, server protocol and much more." A sample algorithm for disc IDs is even included. Terrific documentation for a great project.


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Mariah Carey Officially American Idol's New Judge!
It's official! Mariah Carey will be joining American Idol as a judge for the upcoming twelfth season of the hit singing competition.
"I am so excited to be joining Idol," Mariah shared in a phone call with Fox boss Kevin Reilly (via TV Line). "I wanted to be there today and I wish I could have been there myself to tell you. I can't wait to get started in a couple months."
The news was announced during Fox's panel at the 2012 Summer TCA Tour on Monday (July 23) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
"I would like to see the judges change every year. It's horrible to be in this position where you guys [in the press] are asking, 'Who's it going to be?' and there are thousands of names being thrown out," executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said. "And it's unfair on negotiations. You can't negotiate with somebody in a public marketplace."
WILL YOU WATCH Mariah Carey as a judge on American Idol?

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Copy of Grant telegraph on Lee surrender, 1865Item 76625 info
Maine Historical Society
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent a telegraph on April 9, 1865 from Headquarters Army of the U.S. to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Washington that read: "General Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on terms proposed by myself the accompaning additional correspondence will show the conditiions fully."
Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley, who had become military governor of Richmond, which had fallen less than a week earlier, kept this copy of the telegram among his papers.
He left the Army several months after Lee's surrender.


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Orange cane - pealed
- New
Ideal for my miniature food creations.
You can slice these adorable small canes to create miniature cakes, earrings, beads,etc.
You can cut them into thin pieces and use them for the creation of miniature cakes or cut them into thicker pieces, pierce them with a needle, and use them as beads.
A cane has a diameter of approx. 5 mm, is 5 cm long, and can be cut into 70-80 slices.
The canes are pre-baked which makes it easier to cut them with a cutter or a blade.
You can then bake your slices with your Fimo clay at 110 °C for 30 minutes.
Length: 5 cm
diameter: 5 mm
No customer questions for the moment.
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The silly season has arrived earlier than usual in college football.
Lane Kiffin and Paul Pasqualoni didn't make it through September before being fired, and now Southern California and Connecticut have to start searching for new coaches — and dealing with the speculation that comes with the hunt.
Firing coaches during a season is rare in college football and even rarer this early.
From 2002-2012, only three FBS programs changed coaches after five or fewer games.
Mike Locksley was let go by New Mexico after an 0-4 start in 2011. John Mackovic resigned at Arizona in 2003 with the Wildcats 1-4. Bobby Keasler resigned as Louisiana-Monroe coach in 2002 after an 0-3 start.
In the cases of UConn and USC, already tenuous situations quickly became toxic. Fans who came into the season skeptical of their respective head coach's ability to get the programs headed in the right direction were already bailing. Facing the prospect of half-full stadiums and constant questions about the status of the coach, USC athletic director Pat Haden and his counterpart at UConn, Warde Manuel, put an end to all the speculation.
But do they gain anything by getting a head start in the search process?
Agents Russ Campbell and Patrick Strong of Balch Sports in Birmingham, Ala., represent dozens of coaches. They said an early move lets an AD hire a search firm and gather financial resources without having to hide their intentions.
It can also be a way to change the subject at a time when there's little positive news.
"By being one of the first openings, universities also potentially reverse field on negative media discussion," Campbell and Strong said in an email. "Instead of discussing how far the team has fallen, the weekly gameday discussion now focuses on what a great opportunity it is for the next head coach."
Chuck Neinas, the former Big 12 interim commissioner who has been working as headhunter for schools looking for new coaches since 1997, said he tells athletic directors to try to get the pulse of the players before making a coaching change in season.
"On one hand if the team is under pressure because the coach is on the brink it may be better to relieve him because that could release the pressure and the players might play better," Neinas said in a phone interview. "If the feeling is the team is close to the coach, then they may let down.
"I have told the AD you need to subtly talk to the captains. Don't tip your hand but try to gauge the current atmosphere within the football team."
Any potential candidate to fill either the USC or UConn opening most likely already has a job. And most coaches don't want to deal with the possibility of another job during the season.
Already on Monday, Washington coach Steve Sarkisian and Vanderbilt's James Franklin were asked about USC.
"I'm kind of glad you asked. We can get the giant elephant out of the room," Sarkisian joked.
Both coaches quickly steered the conversation to their own teams. Generally, coaches aren't fielding phone calls from athletic directors about jobs. That's why they have agents.
"Depending on the situation, a coach might be willing to listen at the right time and in the right way but not at the risk of jeopardizing his current position," Campbell and Strong wrote. "We advise coaches that you can't ride two horses with one rear-end, those that try risk falling off both. There is a right way — and a right time — to navigate this process."
Often the first step for a search firm is to gauge a potential candidate's willingness to leave his current job, even before a specific job opens. In other words, it would be the search firm's job to let Haden and Manuel know who on their candidate wish list is even worth going after.
"Most search firms are proactive, relying on many years of due diligence and relationships," Campbell and Strong wrote. "They do not wait for a sudden change in the market to signal there is work to be done. Done the right way, any dialogue between a search firm and agents during a season is high-level, designed to avoid interrupting a coach's focus and respects his current situation and contract."
ROGER THE DODGER ON JOHNNY FOOTBALL: Count Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach among the fans of Johnny Manziel.
Staubach won the Heisman for Navy in 1963 and went on to become a star with the Dallas Cowboys as a dual-threat quarterback. He's now working with USAA, which provides financial services and insurance to military veterans, to promote the company's programs to honor veterans at NFL games.
Staubach marvels at the development and skills of young quarterbacks these days, and said he can't wait to see Manziel hit the NFL.
"Johnny's a good kid. He's definitely going to have to mature," Staubach said. "He's got this ability and these instincts, it doesn't seem like this negative publicity or his lifestyle is affecting how he plays football.
"I just really like watching him play."
— Groups representing eight sites have submitted bids to host the second and third College Football Playoff Championship Games. Expect Tampa, Fla., to get one of them, likely the one to be played following the 2015 season. Raymond James Stadium was a stronger runner-up to host the first title game in the new postseason system that starts next year, but lost out to the lavish AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. With the first game being played in Texas, and Tampa a leading contender for the next one, California seems like a logical next stop. A group from Northern California's Bay Area has bid to host the title game for the 2016 season at the 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
— With Marqise Lee struggling to get going for USC and Amari Cooper off to a slow start for Alabama, the title of best receiver in the country is up for grabs. Texas A&M's Mike Evans has made a good case, but nobody beats Oregon State's Brandin Cook so far. The junior leads the nation in catches per game (10.2), is a close second behind Colorado's Paul Richardson in yards per game (161.4) and leads with nine TD catches.
— Southern Mississippi's losing streak hit 16 in a 60-7 loss at Boise State on Saturday, but there is hope that the nation's longest skid could end this week. The Golden Eagles host FIU (0-4), which has been outscored 187-13, including a loss to FCS Bethune-Cookman.
OFF-THE-RADAR GAME OF THE WEEK: Illinois at Nebraska. Penciled in as an easy win for the Huskers before the season, the Illini have an offense that could push a Cornhuskers' defense that ranks 107th in the nation in yards per game at 464. Another stumble by the Huskers, and Bo Pelini can take Lane Kiffin's place on the hot seat.
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Split Pea Soup for a Winter's Day
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Author Notes: This is a straight up, classic, green split pea soup with a good, meaty smoked ham hock I got at the farmers market. It is one of the first things I remember learning to cook as a child. I crave it every winter. My grandfather was known for his soups, and made a great one, and so did my mom. I bet yours did too.
Photo of finished soup courtesy of 101 Cookbooks. All other photos are mine. - Burnt Offerings —Burnt Offerings
Food52 Review: WHO: Burnt Offerings is a healthcare consultant living in Baltimore.
WHAT: A rich, smoky soup to scare away the coldest of days.
HOW: Sauté your onions, carrots, and celery; add your aromatics, peas, and ham hocks; simmer it all with stock; garnish with pepper and smoked paprika.
WHY WE LOVE IT: Burnt Offerings' attention to detail is what makes this soup really shine; the onions, carrots, and celery have time to caramelize, giving it a rich depth that many soups lack. We love the addition of smoked paprika at the end, which amplifies the smoky ham hocks without overwhelming the bowl. We'll be making this for many winters to come. —The Editors
Serves: 6 to 8
tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
large onion, chopped
3 to 4
large carrots, peeled and diced
ribs celery, diced
cloves of garlic, minced
bay leaves
sprig each of fresh: rosemary, sage, thyme, marjoram
whole black peppercorns
pound dried, green split peas, rinsed and picked over for stones.
2-pound smoked ham hock
quarts homemade chicken stock
teaspoons salt, plus more to taste
Freshly ground pepper and smoked paprika to taste
- Heat the olive oil in a deep stock pot and add the onions, carrots, and celery. Sauté until soft, about 12 minutes.
- Add the garlic and bay leaves and cook for 2 minutes.
- Make a bouquet garni using the fresh herbs and peppercorns. Tie tightly and place into pot.
- Pour the peas into the pot, and nestle the ham hock on top.
- Pour in the stock, add salt, and bring it to boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer, cover and gently simmer for 2 1/2 hours, skimming foam from the top and stirring occasionally.
- After simmering, remove ham hock from soup and cool. Remove bouquet garni and discard.
- Chop up the ham hock and return to pot.
- Season soup with more salt and plenty of freshly ground pepper and some smoked paprika to taste.
- Serve piping hot with crusty bread or oyster crackers. Garnish with a drizzle of your best olive oil and some crumbled bacon.
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Two nominations were put forth by city council to fill vacancies in two of the city's boards and commissions.
Two nominations were put forth Wednesday by city council to fill vacancies in two of the city's boards and commissions.
There are currently two vacant positions in each of the Construction Appeals Board, Personnel Commission, and Handicap Access Appeals Board
Vice Mayor Chip Holloway nominated former city manager Mike Avery for a seat on the city's Construction Appeals Board.
Councilman Jim Sanders nominated Ryan Hunter to the Handicap Access Appeals Board. Hunter currently serves on the Personnel Commission.
Mayor Dan Clark closed the nomination process after no further names were put forth, with the decision to confirm appointments at the Feb. 6 city council meeting.
Clark also indicated that the city organization committee would meet Feb. 19 at 5 p.m. at City Hall with the intent to discuss Measure L funding.
"We've kinda taken a look at a presentation on finance and Measure L as a constant," Clark said. Sanders and Clark serve on that committee.
Ridgecrest business owner Tom Wiknich asked if it would be possible to have a briefing at a future city council meeting on road projects being planned for and where the city was headed with that.
Clark pointed out the information would be one of the subjects at the City Org committee meeting.
Some committees would not meet until necessary. Councilman Jason Patin pointed out staff had not brought any items for Community Development Committee to sink its teeth into. Clark pointed out the same with the Infrastructure Committee.
"We decided as a council that we wouldn't be having those meetings unless two council members and/or a department head called it to save time and effort from our skeleton crew that is trying to keep the community afloat at this point," Clark pointed out as clarification.
During the city manager's briefing, Interim City Manager Dennis Speer announced the city had been awarded a Transportation Development Act funding to close out the Bowman bicycle path. The funding would take the path from Richmond Road to Highway 178.
Speer said it would be a combination of a bicycle path and bicycle lane. Bicycle paths are split up into categories.
The city's 2009 General Plan called for improved bicycle routes, noting gaps when connecting the existing routes.
The plan defined class one bicycle paths — such as the Bowman — is separated from the street. Class two paths, like the one on College Heights Boulevard, are road lanes designated for bicycle use only. Class three bicycle paths are shared between motorists and bicyclists, providing the least amount of use.
"It sort of completes the loop of the Bowman bike path, but it drops off down Richmond Road and takes it all the way to State Route 178," he said. "This will complete the final leg in that loop so to speak."


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Tip Top House
Route 302
Sargent's Purchase, NH
Ph: 603-466-3347
Tip Top House is the last of the original structures built at the summit of Mount Washington that still exists today.
The stone hotel was built in the summer of 1853, a decade before the civil war, by Samuel F. Spaulding & Co., at a cost of $7000. The orginal Tip-Top House was a simple stone building with a wooden extension. Later, a fancy wooden hotel was built, directly connected to the Railroad. It burned down and a new simpler hotel was built in the early 1900s.
Now a state historic site, Tip Top House is once again open to summit guests. As a result of the most recent restoration which was completed in 1987, the building now resembles the original house as it was when it was first built with a flat roof. As the sole summit survivor, it provides a link between the mountain's past and present and affords a window to its rich history. The Tip Top House is believed to be the oldest mountain-top hostelry still in existence in the world.
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Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?
DNA testing makes them easy to trace.
When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of paper: that he had a BA in theater; that his mother was a nurse and his father was in the Baseball Hall of Fame; that his birthday was Sept. 18, 1968. He made it clear that he didn't want to be found by signing a waiver of anonymity.
The sperm bank protected his anonymity, just as it promised. But that did not mean he couldn't be found. In an age of sophisticated genetic testing, the concept of anonymity is rapidly fading. With some clever sleuthing—tests that can track down ancestral origins, donor numbers, and bits of biographical information—parents and offspring can find out the donors. "With DNA testing and Google, there's no such thing as anonymity anymore," says Wendy Kramer, the founder of the Donor Sibling Registry. "Donors are choosing anonymity because they're not educated. If they were properly educated on the consequences, then many would choose not to donate."
Donor 3066 was being sought out by Michelle Jorgenson, a 39-year-old waitress from Sacramento, Calif., whose daughter, Cheyenne, was born in 1998. * When her daughter turned 5, Jorgenson joined the Donor Sibling Registry and began searching for other mothers and donor offspring who used Donor 3066. She was concerned because her daughter was sensitive to sounds and walked on her toes, and she wanted to know if other half-siblings were displaying similar behavior. Through the registry, she met a number of other mothers and half-siblings. She discovered that two had autism and two others showed similar signs of sensory disorder. Over the years, the group, which grew to 13 families, formed a bond around this anonymous man who was their biological link. They had unions and reunions and exchanged holiday cards, but none of this socializing answered any of Michelle's questions about the donor's identity. Because he signed a waiver, the California Cryobank would not release his identity. And because genetic testing is not part of their protocol or an FDA requirement, they could not offer any clues to his genetic history that might have caused these traits.
Jorgenson began talking to Wendy Kramer, the founder of the Donor Sibling Registry. Kramer suggested that she try to find her donor through an ancestry company such as Family Tree DNA, which helps people trace their ancestral heritage through cheek-swab cell scrapings. Her son had recently found his sperm donor this way. Because we get half of our DNA from our mothers and half from our fathers, almost all DNA gets shuffled and remixed every generation, making it impossible to trace what comes from whom. There are, however, two bits of DNA that are more pure and therefore easier to read. Mitochondrial DNA is located in the cytoplasm of the cell and is passed from a mother to their children, without recombining with anything else, but only the daughters pass it on to the next generation. * The other, the Y chromosome, passes directly from father to son. Just like a condensed computer file, scientists unzip the cells to obtain the DNA, which tells a story about a person's ancestors and their migration roots and can lead to discoveries about personal identity and family history.
Jorgenson began her search by approaching a mother in her group with a son named Joshua and suggested he do a cheek swab so she could explore his paternal roots through a Y chromosome test. The mother agreed. Through the test, Michelle learned about some of Joshua's genetic markers. A few weeks of searching on the Family Tree DNA Web site using these markers led to two families with matching DNA. Through one of the families, she met a woman who mentioned that she found the obit of a relative who was a former baseball manager, and three children were listed. Michelle suspected that this might be her donor's father, so she looked up the phone number of his listed son. When Michelle called the number, the deceased man's son answered the phone. She began to ask him questions: Was your father in the Baseball Hall of Fame? Were you born in Illinois? Did you ever donate sperm? When the man said yes, she asked him if his birthday was Sept. 18, 1968. When he answered yes, she burst into tears. "You're the biological father of my daughter," she said. He was shocked but agreed to talk to Cheyenne on the phone—and eventually allowed the two to come visit him in Los Angeles.
"I e-mailed the group when I found him and said I thought you would want to know," she said. "Once they found out, everyone wanted to know who he was, and now he knows about all the kids. I talk to him a few times a year, but I'm the only mom who he's agreed to talk to, and we're the only family he's met."
Stories like Jorgenson's are profound on several levels. Sperm banks are not bound by the FDA to do genetic testing of donors, but if they were, these new tests could offer a way for donor offspring to learn not only about their ancestry but about origins of specific genetic traits that could be linked to disease.
They also challenge the long-cherished idea of donor privacy. Most sperm banks now offer identity-release sperm, which means that donors have agreed to let their offspring contact their donor when they turn 18. But the great majority of donors still prefer anonymity, and profits hinge on ensuring it. College students are lured by the promise of easy money for doing what they would do for free. Few banks advertise—or even counsel their donors—that one day this easy money could result in dozens of children who might be curious about their genetics and ancestral routes, and a genetic family that could rival the size of one on Big Love.
"Donors are choosing anonymity because they're not educated," says Kramer. "If they were properly educated on the consequences, then many would choose not to donate."
This new science is now forcing sperm banks to reconsider their policies and the education of their donors. "At this point, it's hard to know how much it means, since the science is changing so quickly and we don't know how many are actually looking for their donor," says Alice Ruby, the director of the Sperm Bank of California, the only not-for-profit sperm bank in Berkeley, Calif. The Sperm Bank of California was the first sperm bank to spearhead the idea of the identity-release donor in 1983. Ruby says that the bank's research of adolescent donor conceived children has shown that more than 80 percent of them are interested in finding their donors in the future. Ruby also said that only about 30 percent of families in their first class of identity-release donors have come looking for their donors. "We now tell donors that we'll protect their identity, but that we cannot promise that future medical or technological advances will not make it possible for someone to identify who they are," she adds. *
Some sperm banks are changing their policies for fear that anonymous donors might withdraw from the program and hurt their bottom line. Cryos International, a sperm bank based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that claims to be the largest bank in the world, has started to offer a new program that it's dubbing "Invisible Donors." It's a system where donors can offer very few registered characteristics so they will be more difficult to track, and the bank keeps track of them by fingerprints instead of donor number.
"I'm fully aware of the future child's needs, and I fully understand and support children who will search for their donor [and] half-siblings, but the fact is that it is wrong to search for a donor who claimed anonymity," says Ole Schou, the director of Cryos International.
She may be right that it will become increasingly difficult for a donor to hide, which means the moral decision of whether to trace him and ignore his request for anonymity will rest less on the banks and more on the parents and offspring. If DNA testing does become more ubiquitous, it may be that even a very few traits will make the men traceable. What will they do then? wonders Kramer. "Create men without DNA?"Become a fan of DoubleX on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
Correction, March 1, 2010: The article originally said Michelle Jorgensen lived in Nederland, Colo. She lives in Sacramento, Calif. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)
Correction, March 2, 2010: This article originally implied that mothers pass their mitochondrial DNA only to daughters. They pass it to both children. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
Correction, March 3, 2010: The article stated that Alice Ruby spearheaded the idea of identity-release donors. It was the Sperm Bank of California that spearheaded the idea in 1983. Ruby joined the bank in 2002. Also, the article stated that most families are not interested in finding their donors. Bank research shows that 80 percent of donor conceived children are interested in finding donors, although only 30 percent of families have come looking for them. (Return to the corrected paragraph.)


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Just like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Bachelorette couple Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum can't wait to have kids!
The engaged pair invited In Touch into their new Princeton, N.J., home for an exclusive photo shoot re-creating the actors' iconic W cover.
"It's one of the most memorable spreads I've ever seen," Ashley tells In Touch. "I remember thinking, 'Wow, I hope they have this big family together' — and then they had all their kids!"
And J.P., 35, and Ashley, 28, are so excited to have children of their own, they don't even care about getting married first! "The order doesn't matter," says J.P. "She'll be the best mom ever. She's very maternal. And I know she'll be the softy; I'll have to be the bad guy!"
However, unlike the Jolie-Pitts, the couple has no interest in being outnumbered by their brood: J.P. wants two, and Ashley wants one, although she jokingly offers to split the difference: "Maybe we'll have one and a half!"
For more exclusive details on Ashley & J.P's plans for the future, pick up this week's issue of In Touch, on stands now.


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What: "The Siddhartha Project," presented by Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance
Where: Naropa Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302
When: 10/11-13; 10/18-20; 10/27-28
Cost: General/$15; Non-Naropa students (w/ID)/$10; Naropa faculty/staff/students/seniors: $7.
Info: For tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/275029
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BOULDER, Colo. (August 29, 2012) -- Naropa University MFA: Contemporary Performance Program presents "The Siddhartha Project," a 21st century rendering of the classic story as originally told by Hermann Hesse and reinterpreted by one of the country's most innovative MFA programs. "The Siddhartha Project" is directed by Wendell Beavers, the founding director of the MFA program.
"The Siddhartha Project" will take place at Naropa University's Performing Arts Center (PAC), 2130 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, October 11, Friday, October 12, Saturday, October 13; Thursday October 18, Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20 and Saturday, October 27, Sunday October 28. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. The production will feature original songs and score by Gary Grundei, well known for his work with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, as well as a number of Naropa productions including last year's MFA indie rock production of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Japanese master woodworker, Takayuki Kida, will collaborate on design elements for the Siddhartha Project. Mr. Kida's public commissioned work in the Front Range includes the Buddhist Chapel at the Air Force Academy's Hall of Worship in Colorado Springs and the Moon Gates and contributions to the Japanese Garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Gary Grundei is an award-winning composer, pianist, sound designer, and teacher whose music has been heard at the Kennedy Center, Denver Center, Boettcher Concert Hall, New York Stage and Film, Boulder's Chautauqua Community House, Naropa University, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Occidental College, the Ohio State University, and various modern dance performances. He has worked with Bill Pullman, Meredith Monk, and Barbara Dilley among others. He is the director of the Golden Lotus studio in Lafayette.
Wendell Beavers, a post-modern choreographer and well-known educator in the field of physical theater and new dance, has been closely associated with some of the most provocative and innovative developments in contemporary performance art. These have included the co-founding of Movement Research Inc. in New York, 25 years of teaching and directing NYU's Experimental Theater Wing, and founding Naropa's MFA Theater; Contemporary Performance program in 2004. "To have the opportunity to re-tell the Siddhartha story at Naropa University was irresistible, and more than a little risky, I must admit," Beavers says. "This is probably the only ensemble cast I will ever work with who all have been introduced to meditation themselves giving them a personal, experiential relationship to the teachings referred to in Hermann Hesse's story--that changes everything."
The Naropa University MFA Program. The Naropa MFA program, with over 100 extremely active alumni, has developed a new paradigm in performance training based on new somatic techniques, contemplative practice and view, and world theater and dance forms. The program has attracted both emerging theater artists and seasoned mid-career performers and has accumulated an impressive record of innovative and professional/off-Broadway level productions. These have included original productions such as the 2008 SITI Company's collaboration with the MFA program, 23 Seconds About John Cage; a musical version of The Trojan Women; a Butoh treatment of several Samuel Beckett Plays with guest artist Katsura Kan, Luminous Emptiness (2009); a multimedia adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Celebration Service composed and Directed by Meredith Monk, Carol Churchill's Mad Forest, performed in a North Boulder warehouse; and most recently, the Fall 2011 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Directed by Stephen Wangh, author of An Acrobat of The Heart, a widely used primer on psychophysical acting.
The MFA Program at Naropa aspires to train multidisciplinary performers capable of creating original work or reinterpreting classics; the department has been recognized nationally and internationally as a leading innovator in contemporary theater training.
Naropa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Naropa University is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education. This approach to learning integrates the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage constructively with others. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies.


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Lockyer Valley communities cut off from civilisation
MORE than 250 people living in the tiny hamlets of My Sylvia and Junction View in the Lockyer Valley have been completely cut off from civilisation for nearly a week.
The level of destruction caused by floodwater which tore though the region earlier this week is unprecedented.
The damage bill is expected to exceed $100 million.
Kilometres of roads, bridges, electricity and communication infrastructure, prime farming land and landmarks no longer exist.
A stretch of about 20 kilometres of Mt Sylvia Road from the intersection of Junction View and Lefthand Branch Roads has been completely washed away.
The road is the main link to Gatton.
Tenthill Creek which runs through the region has cut a chasm measuring about 500 metres wide and about 20 metres deep.
The area is only accessible by helicopter.
The Chronicle was the first media outlet to visit the region after chartering a helicopter through Heliwest Toowoomba.
We talked exclusively with affected residents.
Mt Sylvia disaster co-ordinator Julia Crust said the level of destruction caused by the floodwater was simply staggering.
"The level of devastation is totally unbelievable," Mrs Crust said.
"It has to be seen to be actually believed. The area is simply unrecognisable.
"The level of destruction caused by this flood is 10 times worse than which occurred in 2011," she said.
Mrs Crust said residents had been communicating with each other via hand-held walkie-talkies.
"The area has not had electricity or telephones lines for about a week," she said.
"They, along with all the power poles, have been washed away.
"We have been told we will be without any electricity or communication lines for at least six weeks."
Mrs Crust said the Lockyer Valley Regional Council was in the process of airlifting generators into the area.
"We have asked people to go from property to property to drain petrol from anything they can to power them," she said.
"That is how dire the situation is.
"There have also been regular daily airdrops of medication, food and supplies from Gatton.
Mrs Crust said authorities do not know where to begin on the path to recovery given the total devastation of the area.
"Everyone is very anxious to say the least," she said.
"The old timers living in the area have said they have never seen anything like this before.
"We do not know where to begin as we are in unchartered territory."
Residents told The Chronicle that more than 1400 mm was recorded during the rain event.


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International Student Group
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 @ 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM in LAC 343
Join us for International Student Group meetings on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in LAC 343. At our meetings we discuss current events, various topics dealing with education around the world, issues, and concerns that affect students, faculty, and staff on and around the Lyndon Community. We also plan events and trips. Stop by and bring a friend. Meetings are open to all students, faculty, and staff on campus.
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Two new destinations in China, Chongqing and Changsa, more flight frequency, and now THAI Smiles flies to Vientiane and Colombo.
Traveling from Bangkok to Europe in Royal Silk Class you can now preorder your in-flight meal from an extensive menu.
If your mobile phone has a web browser THAI flight information moves with you.
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Mohegan: Earnings 'dismal'; Etess optimistic
Mohegan - Though downward trends dominated a discussion Thursday of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority's quarterly earnings, there also was some talk of future growth and ongoing improvements at the authority's casinos.
The authority, which hosted a conference call for investors and industry analysts, reported that its net income, or profit, for the three months that ended Sept. 30 totaled $14.8 million, a 68 percent decline over the same period the previous year. By another measure, one authority officials consider a better barometer of performance, the decline was not so steep. Adjusted EBITDA - earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization - was down 10.5 percent.
"Generally, I'm an optimist, and as dismal as many things seem, I feel very positive about a lot of the things happening here," Mitchell Etess, the authority's chief executive officer, said in an interview after the conference call.
Etess pointed to pending changes in the restaurant lineup at Mohegan Sun, the authority's flagship casino in Uncasville; the performance of Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where adjusted EBITDA was up 5.2 percent and where a hotel is under construction; and the authority's deal to manage Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, where major changes are taking place.
Mario Kontomerkos, the authority's chief financial officer, said during the call that he expected Mohegan Sun to break ground within the next three to six months on a hotel, a project that's been in the works for years.
July, August and September were indeed dismal. Overall, net revenues for the authority were $351.8 million, down 5.8 percent over the same quarter in fiscal 2011. Gaming revenues of $313.8 million were down 6.9 percent and nongaming revenues of $63.3 million were down 5.6 percent.
Hotel revenues bucked the trend, climbing 10.8 percent at Mohegan Sun, reflecting a shift in occupancy to higher-paying transient guests.
At Mohegan Sun, the quarter ended with an announcement that the casino was laying off about 330 employees and replacing its chief executive officer, incurring $12.5 million in severance charges. The layoffs and other moves, including changes in the mix of slot machines, changes in employee health benefits and the replacement of certain casino-owned food and beverage outlets with those owned by third-party operators, will save the casino at least $20 million in fiscal 2013, the authority said.
While competition from Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct racetrack in New York City has hurt Mohegan Sun's business, "the economy, particularly in Connecticut, continues to be a major issue." Etess said. "Clearly, it's the economy."
Etess said the loss of nongaming revenue resulted in part from weaker entertainment offerings. Fewer top acts meant fewer tickets sold and lower ticket prices. He said Mohegan Sun plans to close off part of its arena at times in the future, a move that will enable it to attract acts that typically play 4,000-seat venues as well as those that play 8,000-seat halls.
"Having said that, I think between now and April, we'll have maybe the most high-profile acts we've ever had," Etess said.
The authority reported that distributions to the Mohegan Tribe totaled $12.5 million for the quarter, compared to $23.4 million in the same quarter of fiscal 2011. The distributions are expected to total $50 million in fiscal 2013.
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Cornell Law School has an informal exchange arrangement with the law faculty at the University of Heidelberg, although we have not sent students there in recent years.
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Heidelberg University is the oldest in Germany, founded in 1386. The city of Heidelberg is one of the most charming university towns in the world. Nestled along the banks of the Neckar River and overlooked by a beautiful castle, the narrow streets and charming old buildings are a welcoming environment for students and tourists alike.
Academic Calendar:
Winter semester: early-Oct. - Late-Mar. (classes are held from mid-October to mid-February)
Summer semester: early-Apr. - lateSept. (classes are held from mid- April to mid-July)
Please note that special arrangements would have to be made to complete course requirements if it were necessary to leave before the end of the semester.
Sample Courses:
Not available at this time.
Further Information:
Visit the Heidelberg University website or the website (in German) for law faculty.


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Eli did NOT hold onto the ball too long in Philly. The O-line got beat time after time before Eli made his drop. If anything, he did a good job at avoiding 10+ sacks for crying out loud.
And he has actually been fairly consistent in his first 4 games, often ending with similar stats when it comes to completion percentage and QB rating. And the main reason for the .500 start is mainly attributed to the schedule (14-5 combined record of oppenents already played).


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Vanessa's Teddy Bear Business
Vanessa Hudgens leaves her home in Los Angeles carrying a stuffed animal teddy bear and her iPhone on Friday. The 19-year-old High School Musical star was a little shy but at long last, flashed waiting photographers a peace sign.
After running a few errands, including a stop at her boyfriend Zac Efron's house, Vanessa and her mom Gina drove to Anaheim to meet up with her dad Greg and litter sister Stella.
The Hudgens family then spent the evening at the Disneyland theme park, where several young fans recognized the young star as she snacked on a bag of cotton candy. Did anyone spot Vanessa at Disneyland yesterday??
UPDATE: Vanessa's carrying around the same teddy bear that she did when she was in Argentina while wearing Zac's shirt.
25+ pictures inside of Vanessa Hudgens's teddy bear business…


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The European Commission and OECD have joined forces to produce "Policy Brief on Senior Entrepreneurship", a brochure which emphasises the importance of a shift in entrepreneurship policy to encourage older people to become more active.
The publication examines a range of different initiatives and schemes that could be implemented to promote business start-ups by older people. Among other key messages, the report recommends implementing policies to:
As the population in the EU continues to age, counteracting the resulting demographic forces is becoming increasingly important. Helping older people remain economically active has the potential to have important economic and social benefits for society on the whole.
"Policy Brief on Senior Entrepreneurship" may be downloaded here.


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Just got the elektron newsletter and there's a new OT OS out which adds two new reverbs; a dark reverb and a spring. My only dislike with the sound of it before this was the sound of the original verb, I'm looking forward to getting home and updating it to try them out. Good timing too, I've got two shows this weekend so I can try them out on a nice big PA.
Anyone else looking forward to upgrading theirs?


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International 20 2014
By Daniel Roberts
With endorsement king of the world David Beckham now retired, Cristiano Ronaldo takes the top spot—but not by much. Lionel Messi, whose salary was just increased to exceed Ronaldo's, is close on his heels despite having far less in endorsement money. Soccer salaries are up, up, up, all across the board, which is why tennis stars Caroline Wozniacki and Victoria Azarenka missed the cut.
As with the U.S. list, the salaries we list are pre-tax, which is particularly important to note when looking at the soccer numbers (depending on where they live, many players get hit hard by income tax). Our soccer salaries refer to the player's current annual salary. F1 driver earnings come from Formula Money and refer to the 2013 calendar year. Golf tournament winnings are from May 5, 2013 (the Wells Fargo Championship) through April 20, 2014 (the RBC Heritage). Boxing purses are from the 2014 calendar year (and include projected money from bouts that will happen this year).
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Mushrooms, Salsas, Dips,Gift Boxes
A Message from Shrooms Kitchen
Dear Friends of the Farm,
I want to take this opportunity to say thank you. For almost thirty years now, it has been you, our friends and customers, that have helped keep the dream and vision of my father, Bill Rose, alive. That vision to grow the very finest quality fresh mushrooms continues to be the guiding principle for the Shrooms Kitchen as well. Producing the finest quality specialty foods in small batches, by our own hands, is truly a labor of love.
Our licensed kitchen has been in operation for over eight years and we aim to continue to provide excellent, healthy, and delicious foods and to always bring a taste of the goodness from Wisconsin to your table. Your appreciation and enjoyment of our products allows us to continue, and for that, I am truly grateful.
From all of us at the farm, our sincerest thanks,
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Her latest book, Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Emotional and Physical (Bantam 2005) explores the mother-daughter bond. She is also the host of a PBS special on the same topic (airing in March 2005). She has also hosted four previous public television specials and authors a popular monthly e-letter on her website, www.drnorthrup.com, and a print newsletter, The Dr. Christiane Northrup Newsletter: Women's Wisdom for Optimal Health and Healing. Her work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, The View, and Good Morning America. She and her family live in Maine.
In his interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Northup describes ways to use the physical and emotional changes of the female life cycle as tools for growth and transformation, discusses the symbolic and emotional aspects of illness, and offers suggestions for attaining optimum health at all stages of life.
DANIEL REDWOOD: What first led you to venture beyond conventional medical approaches to women's health care?
CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, MD: I was brought up that way. My parents were into Robert Rodale, organic gardening, composting, taking vitamins, whole foods, all of that. So it was kind of a natural transition, though I must say that when I got into medical school, I was temporarily very enamored with the medical model. So it took a while to actually combine the two worlds of natural medical approaches and the techno-medical model. I met Michio Kushi, who was the founder of the American macrobiotic movement, right at the end of my OB-GYN residency. I sat in with him as he did consultations and watched people change their health after being on a macrobiotic diet for a number of months. Because he had all of their medical records in front of him, I was able to review the charts and then see how people's health dramatically improved with a change of diet. Because that came right at the end of my standard residency training, it was a perfect segue into private practice and I began to put the two things together.
REDWOOD: What's your view at this point as to what comprises a healthy diet?
NORTHRUP: It has changed over the years. I believe that the healthy diet generally is anything that fully nourishes the cells with antioxidants and provides enough fiber. Most people do not eat as many vegetables as they should. Most eat too many grain products, but it's devitalized grain products, the white foods and so on. So a healthy diet to me contains some animal protein or fish, enough omega-3 fats, plenty of fruits and vegetables, and that's it. I don't think everyone needs dairy food. In fact, for some people that's contraindicated. The same thing goes with wheat products and some grains.
REDWOOD: Following the release of your first book, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, you were the only woman and the only OB/GYN among the several leading physician-authors in complementary medicine. What was that like? Was it exhilarating? Stressful? How has it changed you?
NORTHRUP: It was terrifying, initially. When I first went into my hospital grand rounds after that book came out, I had never really talked with any of my colleagues about these ideas in an open forum. I had been president of the American Holistic Medical Association, so I certainly had my complementary-minded colleagues. But my OB-GYN colleagues were pretty much in the conventional realm. When the book came out, those two worlds, which I had kept separate, needed to come together. So I was very afraid but also extremely gratified with the response from the readers. Women said to me, "you have put into words feelings and thoughts that I've always had, but which I've never heard a doctor say." So I touched a nerve which many women, and some men, have felt for a long time. And that was extraordinarily gratifying.


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Arvicola amphibius
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Linnaeus' amphibius and terrestris, both proposed in 1758 on the same page, are now considered conspecific by most researchers. As shown by Corbet (1978), amphibius has a priority over terrestris, based on Blasius (1857) as the first reviser. Recently, this species was split into A. amphibius and A. scherman (Panteleyev 2001, Wilson and Reeder 2005). Arvicola amphibius is larger, with shaggy pelage and ortodont incisors, and is associated with aquatic environment; A. scherman is smaller, with softer pelage, more reduced plantar and palmar tubercles, and the upper incisors strongly projecting forwards and has fossorial habits (Panteleyev 2001). Mitochondrial phylogeny based on sequences of 800 to 1,200 BP of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene suggests taxonomy of A. amphibius group to be more complex: three main groups were distinguished within A. amphibius: (1) strictly fossorial water voles from the mountain regions of Europe, (2) aquatic and transitional populations living south of the Alps, and (3) a heterogeneous group of the remaining aquatic populations (Wust Saucy 1998).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Batsaikhan, N., Henttonen, H., Meinig, H., Shenbrot, G., Bukhnikashvili, A., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. & Palomo, L.
|Amori, G.
This species has a wide distribution, and is considered a pest in parts of its range. The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population size criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. less than 10,000 mature individuals in conjunction with appropriate decline rates and subpopulation qualifiers). Although there are ongoing declines in some range states (such as Britain, Italy, and the Netherlands), the overall population trend is believed to be stable at the global level. For these reasons, it is evaluated as Least Concern.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|There is much confusion between Arvicola amphibius and A. scherman and the distribution of both taxa should be considered tentative. Arvicola amphibius, as understood here, has a large range extending from France and the United Kingdom in the west, through much of continental Europe and Russia, as far as the Lena Basin and Lake Baikal in Siberia (Russia). Its range extends north of the Arctic circle and south into Iran and the Near East (Shenbrot and Krasnov 2005).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Kazakhstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom
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|Population declines are evident in some European countries (e.g., United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy) (Saucy 1999, Battersby 2005). However, in many areas it is common and stable (in northern continental Europe it is considered a pest species). Even in optimal habitat, aquatic forms seldom occur at densities greater than 100 individuals per hectare (roughly equivalent to 15 individuals per 100 m of river bank)(Saucy 1999). In Fennoscandia and the Baltic area the aquatic form also shows population cycles in synchrony with other vole species. At high population densities, large scale damages on rice fields have been reported in Macedonia (B. Kryštufek pers. comm. 2007). The water vole is thought to have been a common species in the Hula swamps of Israel until the area was drained in 1957 (Qumsiyeh 1996). In Azerbaijan, considered to be common in semi deserts, lowland and riparian forests, mountain forests and mountain grasslands and numerous in foothill and mountain steppes. The species is locally abundant in lush banks.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This large vole is adaptable and survives in a range of habitats around rivers, streams and marshes in the lowlands and the mountains (Harrison and Bates 1991). It is a strong swimmer and climber (Harrison and Bates 1991). It occurs around streams and irrigation ditches. In Fennoscandia and locally in the Balkans, they live fossorial life during winter months. Steep riverbanks with lush grass and vegetation are preferred. May be active at any time, but are most active at dawn and dusk. Mainly vegetarian, feeding primarily on succulent vegetation, but also consumes some insects, mollusks, and small fish; roots, bulbs and tubers in the winter (Reichstein 1982, Harrison and Bates 1991). Reproduction occurs during the warmer months of the year and may begin as early as February in mild years. Gestation period is 21 days. Females produce 2-4 litters per year. Average litter size between 4-6 young.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Generation Length (years):
|Major Threat(s):
|Declines in aquatic populations in parts of western Europe have been attributed to habitat loss, water pollution, predation by introduced American mink Neovison vison and competition by the introduced muskrat Ondatra zibethicus. Population fragmentation is more pronounced in Mediterranean populations due to increased aridity. In Israel it was a common species in the Hula swamps until the area was drained in 1957; a very limited area of the original swamp habitat remains (Qumsiyeh 1996). In Anatolia and Iran, pressure on aquatic habitat for water resources and localized competition with Rattus norvegicus (i.e., Georgia). Local population extinctions and reductions have occurred in Turkey, Georgia and other parts of this range due to drainage of swamp habitat (Qumsiyeh 1996). It is considered an agricultural pest and extensive control measures in rice fields were carried out in Macedonia in the 1980s.
|Conservation Actions:
|The species occurs in protected areas but is frequently considered a pest species.
|Errata reason:
|This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.
|Batsaikhan, N., Henttonen, H., Meinig, H., Shenbrot, G., Bukhnikashvili, A., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsain, G. & Palomo, L. 2016. Arvicola amphibius (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T2149A115060819. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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If you're looking for a fun way to countdown the days until BlackBerry 10 arrives, Jerome Carty from Kisai Labs has just what you're looking for. BB10 Countdown is now available for download and offers some cool options built into it.
When you install it, you'll have the option of connecting it to your BBM profile wherein, each day the app will update your BBM avatar with the amount of days left. In addition to that, you also get a optional status bar icon notification with the amount of days remaining. Finally, opening up the app by clicking on the icon will reveal a fun countdown timer with an animated background of falling snowflakes. The amount of snowflakes is adjustable in the settings menu, should you decide you want to see more on your screen.
BB10 Countdown is available for BlackBerry smartphones OS 5.0 and up which are running BBM 6 and up. It'll soon arrive in BlackBerry App World but if you can't wait -- you can grab the download from the link below. If you dig the app, be sure to say thanks to @jcarty! :)


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Team Days bring kids together
ILLIOPOLIS, -- Like nearly all other school districts in the state, Sangamon Valley is feeling the pinch of shortfalls in funding, so when the art teacher at Illiopolis Elementary School moved on, the position wasn't filled.
Core subjects like reading and math are important, but so is art, said Principal Debby Hawkins.
"We wanted a way to have a better school climate and build a team," Hawkins said. "We noticed that sometimes we were isolating the older kids from the younger kids. We wanted the younger kids to have some role models and the older kids to have a chance to practice their leadership skills."
Once a month, on school improvement days when students are dismissed early, the morning is devoted to art. Students learn about the life of the month's artist -- this month it's Andy Warhol. They learn about that artist's style. Warhol's is pop art, but they've also studied impressionism, baroque and Fauvism. They learn a concept that is basic to that style and that artist, and then they make a creation of their own.
Warhol's work is very much about bright colors, said fifth-grader Mikayla Jackson, which suits her. She hopes to be an artist herself when she grows up.
"I want to write a book and make the illustrations for it," she said. Her brother, she added, creates his own comic books. "We're an arty family."
Some of the past projects have included printmaking for impressionisms and monochromatic paintings to practice baroque, and to celebrate Warhol's style, the youngsters drew pictures of commercial products, made four copies on card stock and colored each copy different complementary colors. Younger students had templates to use, with the help of older students, while the older kids could make their own if they liked.
Lily Livingston, a fifth-grader who likes painting landscapes on her own, said working with the younger students is a good opportunity.
"They want us to be role models," she said.
The idea for making Team Days about art started with Ashley Koniak, who teaches third grade.
"We had already been doing Team Days and we did themes, the holidays or the weather," she said. "We were trying to think of how we could do art and keep our Team Days going. So once a month our kids are learning about art, but they're also learning about artists, and learning about styles and learning about time periods and getting to apply that to their work."


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Rise up swinging
Northern Cheyenne boxer Duran "Junior" Caferro takes on challenges inside the ring and out
Name Duran "Junior" Caferro
Age 20
Hometown Helena, Mont.
Experience as a fighter 12 years
Deadliest weapon Left hook to the body
Boxing match that most influenced him The "Rumble in the Jungle": George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974
The cigarette smoke drifting down the stairs from the Eagles Lodge bar in Helena, Mont., gives way to the smell of sweat and old shoes at the end of a long basement corridor. Through a set of double doors is a small "gym" equipped with a clutter of recycled bathroom and bedroom mirrors, a row of duct-taped boxing bags, and three padded ropes strung between the walls in a cramped imitation of a boxing ring. A tattered handwritten sign hangs above it: Your next opponent is training harder than you.
This is the room where amateur boxer Duran "Junior" Caferro, a Northern Cheyenne Indian, has trained for eight national championships, including four top finishes at the World Ringside Tournament and one Junior Golden Gloves title belt. Here, on a cold March afternoon, he and his girlfriend, Chrissy Wong, play patiently with their 18-month-old son, also named Duran, and Caferro's 5-year-old niece, Alena. At a skinny 5-foot-11-inches and 132 lbs, the 20-year-old Caferro looks about as much like a fighter with 144 wins as the scrappy boxing club resembles a professional gym.
Caferro was raised by his father and boxing coach, Duran Sr., and this club has been his second home ever since he was 3 years old. As an 8-year-old — the legal minimum age for boxing — he was so small that there was only one young boxer in the state light enough to fight him. Worse than that, his father says, Caferro had no natural talent: "Trust me, he has my genes." He had to learn everything the hard way — in the ring.
In those early years, father and son would drive 24 hours at a stretch on a shoestring budget, just to find a fight and, more often than not, to lose it. But Caferro was always back in the gym on Monday afternoon. "Losing fuels my fire," he explains, watching his son toddle past with a pair of boxing gloves pulled up to his armpits. "When I'm on the mitts, I'm thinking about Michael Perez, who beat me at the Golden Gloves, and Eric Fowler, who's number one." He punctuates each name with a quick jab.
Altogether, Caferro has collected 41 losses — more than the number of matches most fighters his age have had. Yet he sent U.S. Marine Edgar Ramirez, a top-10 boxer, out of the ring on a stretcher last October. "We ran into his coach after the fight," Caferro says. He squints his eyes, relishing the memory. "He told us that after the first round, Ramirez asked him, 'How does that skinny kid hit so hard?' "
This same desire to beat the odds drives Caferro outside the ring. After Chrissy became pregnant two and a half years ago, he dropped out of college to prepare for fatherhood. At five months old, baby Duran suffered his first febrile seizure. When a $700 ambulance bill arrived, Caferro was shocked: "That was my first experience with the broken (healthcare) system." But it wasn't his last. Caferro recently became a temporary guardian for Alena after diabetes-related healthcare costs left his sister homeless. These challenges have spurred him to start fighting outside the ring, as a spokesman for the low-income advocacy group, Working for Equality and Economic Liberation. Montana Sen. Max Baucus was among those who heard his story, and last year retold it on the Senate floor to make the case for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Still, Caferro says, boxing remains his greatest challenge. A number of his adversaries have already turned professional. After he competes in the USA Amateur Boxing Tournament in Denver this June, he'll decide whether to join them.
His hopes are high but justified, observers say. In the main hall of the Eagles Lodge two weeks earlier, Caferro left a talented boxer from Boise sitting on an 8-count, clutching his stomach and wondering whether he could stand up again, just one minute into the second round.
"I'm outsmarting these guys. Their punches are easier to see," Caferro shrugs, as he kneels down to pick up and comfort his crying son. "That's what I love about boxing: The underdog can be a champion."
Gabriel Furshong writes from Helena, Montana, where he works as a community organizer on environmental issues in north-central Montana.


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With the hiring of Steve Fairchild as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on Wednesday, Virginia wasted no time in finding a replacement for Bill Lazor.
A day after Lazor left U.Va. to take a position on the Philadelphia Eagles' coaching staff, U.Va. announced Fairchild will fill the roles vacated by Lazor. Fairchild, 54, comes to U.Va. after serving as the senior offensive assistant this season for the San Diego Chargers.
"I can't wait to get started," Fairchild said in a release from U.Va.'s athletic department. "I'm excited about the type of football team we can have and anxious to get to Charlottesville and get to work."
Fairchild will earn $450,000 in total annual compensation, according to U.Va.'s athletic department. His initial contract is for two years.
In addition to his experience with the Chargers, Fairchild was the coach at Colorado State from 2008 to '11. He led the Rams to a 7-6 mark and a win in the New Mexico Bowl in '08 against Fresno State, before having three consecutive 3-9 seasons.
Larry Lewis, who was hired this month to be U.Va.'s special-teams coordinator and running backs coach, was on Fairchild's staff for all four seasons at Colorado State. Lewis was Colorado State's associate head coach, running backs and fullbacks coach, and special teams coordinator in 2011 under Fairchild.
Earlier this month, U.Va. also hired Tom O'Brien to be its associate head coach for offense and tight ends coach, Jon Tenuta to be its associate head coach for defense, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, promoted Hampton High graduate Marques Hagans from graduate assistant to wide receivers coach and added recruiting coordinator to the job description of cornerbacks coach Chip West. O'Brien, Fairchild and Lewis all have college head coaching experience.
"We are in the process of implementing new systems on both sides of the ball," U.Va. executive associate athletic director Jon Oliver said in the release. "These types of changes take time and we will need to be patient as we seek to improve this football program."
Fairchild has 31 seasons of experience as a college or NFL coach, including 16 seasons as an offensive coordinator. He was the offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills in the '06 and '07 seasons, and for the St. Louis Rams from '03 through '05.
Fairchild, a native of Decatur, Ill., who played quarterback at Colorado State from 1978-80, also held offensive coordinator roles at Colorado State from 1997-2000, New Mexico from '87-89, Ferris State in '84 and '85 and San Diego Mesa Community College in '82 and '83. His long-standing relationship with Colorado State also included a stint from '93 through '96 as quarterbacks coach.
"Steve Fairchild brings a wealth of experience to Virginia, and when you look at the offenses of the teams he has coached, you see high achievement," U.Va. coach Mike London said in the release. "Throughout his career you find Steve was a part of coaching staffs that have had tremendous offensive success and we are really fortunate to have him join our staff. Larry Lewis spoke very highly of Steve as they worked together at Colorado State."
Lazor left U.Va. after filling the Cavaliers' offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach role for the last three seasons. He was also U.Va.'s wide receivers coach this past season.
In Fairchild's college coaching career, he has worked with several high profile players. As the quarterbacks coach from '90 through '92 at San Diego State, he worked with running back Marshall Faulk and quarterback Dan McGwire, a duo that helped lead the Aztecs to NCAA top-10 finishes in the nation for three straight seasons in scoring and total offense.
During his three-year stint as the St. Louis Rams offensive coordinator, Fairchild linked up with Faulk again. Fairchild also had Pro Bowl running backs Larry Centers and Travis Henry under his tutelage when he was the Bills' offensive coordinator.
"Steve Fairchild is a coach that has been at a number of places and has had a great deal of success," Oliver said in the release. "He has been a head coach, he has worked in the NFL and he has been a coordinator at the collegiate and professional levels. He is known as a solid recruiter, and when he was at Colorado State, they had the highest-ranked recruiting class in that institution's history. We are excited to have Steve join the program and it is one more step to help us move forward."


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Poteau freshmen pass Sallisaw test with road win Thursday; PKMS teams split
SALLISAW — The Poteau Pirates freshmen football team jumped on the Sallisaw Black Diamonds early, and appeared to be in cruise control. Sallisaw got to within two points of the Pirates, but then the Pirates got great plays on the defensive side of the ball to set up Austin Archey on a 70-yard romp for a touchdown as they posted a 21-12 win over the Black Diamonds Thursday night at Perry F. Lattimore Stadium.The evening of football began with a split of games between the Pansy Kidd Middle School teams and host Sallisaw. The seventh-grade Raiders crushed the Black Diamonds 24-8, while the Black Diamonds blanked the eighth-grade Raiders 16-0.


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With more and more players testing positive for Adderall lately we have to wonder if the drug is being taken to make the player more alert or is it being used as a masking agent for steroids?
If it's being taken to mask 'roids, is testing positive the lesser of the two evils? Not sure about NFL drug policy for testing but isn't a positive test for 'roids a bigger fine and longer suspension????
I also suspect we will start to see some independent investigations by the sports media on Adderall usage in the NFL and pro sports. Possibly, news stories at the high school and college level as well. Kids are dumb and will be more likely to talk and spill the beans.
Adderall= The New hot topic in sports.
My only knowledge of Adderall is from the Sunny in Philidephia episode where Dennis and Frank try to relive their college frat days. Thinking they're snorting coke, they're snorting Adderall. Hilarity ensues!!! Gawd I love that show.