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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 19, 2014) – ETSU men's basketball head coach Murry Bartow announced Thursday that assistant coach Jason Slay has been added to the Buccaneers' staff.
Slay, who spent last season as an assistant at Tennessee State University, was also the Director of Basketball Operations for Georgia Southern University during the 2012-13 season. Prior to his college coaching experience, Slay was the top assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia, one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country.
"I am thrilled to have Jason on our basketball staff," Bartow said. "Jason had an outstanding career as a college basketball player, and he has a very bright future ahead of him as a coach. He will be involved with all aspects of our program, but his primary responsibilities will be with recruiting and the skill development of our players. He will be a tremendous role model for our players."
Slay said the opportunity to join Bartow's staff was something he couldn't pass up.
"I am blessed and extremely excited about the opportunity Coach Bartow and the ETSU family has given me," said Slay, who is originally from Beckley, W.Va. "It was an opportunity I had to take. After meeting with Coach Bartow on a couple of different occasions, I knew he was a guy that I could work for. He is a well-established coach and a proven winner. Everything checked out and it was a no-brainer when I was officially offered the job."
Slay joins a coaching staff that includes two other West Virginia natives, assistant coach Bob Bolen and Director of Basketball Operations Mark Richmond. Slay said those connections also played a huge role in his decision to come to Johnson City.
"Knowing the coaches on staff was an important factor," Slay said. "Coach Bolen and I are from the same hometown and he has been a family friend my whole life. He even coached my brother Brian at Mountain State. Coach Richmond and I have known each other since high school and we coached against each other on the Division II level, so the ties are there. I plan to come in, work extremely hard, and do my part to help this program continue to build on its strong tradition."
At Hargrave, Slay coached 10 players that signed national letters of intent to Division I programs. He also served as the team's director of individual development and summer training. The Tigers finished with a 38-8 record and made the National Prep Showcase Elite 8 in 2012-13.
Slay also spent four years from 2008-2012 at West Virginia State as the squad's associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. During that time, the Yellow Jackets won two West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships.
As a player at West Virginia State, Slay was a four-time captain and two-year starter. Playing guard, he guided his team to the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 three times (2004, 2006 and 2007) and the Yellow Jackets won back-to-back WVIAC Tournament Championships in 2006 and 2007. He received his undergraduate degree in General Education in 2008.
Basketball talent runs deep in the Slay family. His brother, Tamar, played at Marshall from 1998 to 2002 and was drafted by the New Jersey Nets in the second round of the 2002 NBA Draft. He played for the Nets in the 2003 NBA Finals. Meanwhile, his cousin Ron Slay played for some extremely successful teams at Tennessee and made a trip to the Sweet 16 as a freshman in 2000.
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TBC: Hi! Juliana, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. Is there anything I can get for you? Some coffee? A biscuit? Yankee bean soup?
TBC: Were you already a fan of the Muppets yourself?
Juliana: Not really. Other than Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, I wasn't familiar with any of the other characters. That of course changed with the job and entering the wonderful world of Jim Henson; what a genius that man was.
TBC: Tell us what you remember about the audition. Was it different from anything you'd done before? Did you have to test your chemistry working with Puppets as part of the process?
Juliana: Apparently, they were trying to cast a star in the part and had been back and forth and all over the world looking for someone. I was told that the problem they were having was finding someone who looked like they were really talking to the Muppets, not talking "at" them. By the time I went in they had thrown up their hands and agreed to meet anyone and everyone that was remotely close to what they were looking for. I came into the audition about one week before they were starting. So, I think part of getting hired had to do with timing and part had to do with my audition with Jim Henson and Frank Oz. They said I was believable talking to Kermit.
TBC: Were there any particular challenges in working with Puppets rather than normal human actors?
TBC: Before being involved with the movie, did you ever imagine your first major role would be as a waitress with a rat as a co-worker?
Juliana: Absolutely not. But, I come from Virginia and always had many pets growing up that I spoke to so it wasn't that much of a stretch for me to talk to a rat.
TBC: This film was directed by Frank Oz. Was it strange to have Frank Oz directing when he was performing Miss Piggy at the same time?
Juliana: Not at all because he had someone holding up Miss Piggy, a stand-in, while he was directing the humans and the other parts of the scene. When it is his turn to take over Miss Piggy everything was totally set up so it was kind of seamless at that point.
TBC: Do you have any particular memories of Jim Henson?
Juliana: There are so many we would be here for days if I tried to list them all but a few that come to mind are:
TBC: There were subtle hints of a romance between Jenny and Ronnie (played by Lonny Price). Was this ever discussed as a plot point?
Juliana: Yes, it was discussed at one point prior to filming but they decided it might take away too much from the Kermit and Miss Piggy plot, which is why it was finally just a good friendship.
TBC: Jenny can be described as the first human lead in a Muppet film that wasn't cast as the bad guy. I would imagine that it is a challenge to work with such colourful, furred and feathered co-stars without feeling a little over-shadowed. Was it difficult to act alongside them while also trying to find the proper balance of sanity and insanity?
Juliana: You know that's a really good point that you are making about balancing the make-believe with reality (or as you put it, the sanity with the insanity), which could be a challenge for sure. But, the puppeteers were so amazing and solid in their characters that, even though you were looking at felt covered puppets, they seemed real. Hopefully, that makes sense.
Juliana: I can totally see both sides of the argument. Is it better to keep things consistent where all the characters are the same? Or, blend both worlds together? Personally, I think blending the two lends credibility to the characters and a reality that might not be there otherwise. For example, if humans can interact with Kermit the Frog then Kermit the Frog must be real. It kind of demystifies and humanizes the Muppet characters, which is really wonderful.
TBC: Have you been able to stay in contact with anyone involved with the film? Do you ever get postcards from Gonzo and Scooter and the gang?
Juliana: I got Christmas cards every year after until Jim passed away. I bumped into Jim's son and some others from the Muppet family on a sound stage out here which was really nice but, unfortunately I haven't really been in contact with any of them for quite a while.
TBC: The character Jenny was studying fashion. Are you interested in fashion yourself?
Juliana: Yes, as a matter of fact that is the line of work I am in now so, it's interesting how life imitates art.
TBC: Since working with the Muppets, have you kept up with their new projects?
Juliana: Not really, unfortunately. Grad school is pretty crazy with the amount of studying one has to do. So crazy that it was rare that I had time to even go to the movies.
TBC: Did you ever see Muppets From Space? Do you have an opinion on whether Gonzo is really an alien or not?
Juliana: Yes, Gonzo is definitely from another planet. If he's not an official alien yet he will be soon.
TBC: Have you seen the Muppets perform Bohemian Rhapsody on YouTube?
Juliana: No, but I will definitely check it out.
TBC: Are you aware of the new movie they have in production at the moment?
Juliana: No, like I said, my head has kind of been stuck in books so I haven't followed things.
Juliana: Probably NYPD Blue because I loved working with Dennis Franz so much. He is really a wonderful person and was a pleasure to work with. The Star Trek jobs were really fun but I was sitting in makeup for over six hours a day for both so they were challenging in that way.
TBC: Are you working on anything at the moment? What are your future plans?
Juliana: I'm working on getting my business off the ground. Things are really busy for me at the moment.
TBC: Once again, so much for chatting with us! We wish you all the luck in the world with your new business! Before we go, though, we have to ask. What was it like getting a kiss from Kermit the Frog?

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ODST is all about mindset.
Are you hoping for more Halo 3? Are you looking forward to another adventure in that game%26rsquo;s grandly exaggerated yet comfortingly familiar universe? Are you excited to wield the same crazy weapons and vehicles in brand new battles, to encounter the same smart enemies in unexpected new situations and to witness the same epic war from an entirely new perspective? Are more missions and more multiplayer enough? If so, then ODST is the answer. You will definitely not be disappointed.
But what if you got carried away by the hype? What if that amazing live-action trailer, or that significant September release date, have you convinced that ODST is the next major milestone in the Halo phenomenon? What if the talk about detective characters, film noir settings and gritty close-quarters combat have you anticipating a bold departure from the Bungie formula? Then yeah, you might be in for a bit of a letdown. Like we said at the start, though, all you need is the right mindset. So here%26rsquo;s what you should expect from Halo 3: ODST%26hellip;
For pure escapism, Master Chief is the perfect hero. He stands seven feet tall, he wears nearly invulnerable armor, he hangs out with naked computer chicks and, best of all, he%26rsquo;s a blank slate on which players can project themselves. For narrative impact and emotional resonance, however, he sucks%26hellip; no one can really relate to, or truly empathize with, a faceless genetic supermachine.
His controversial absence in ODST, therefore, is actually a big plus. Halo%26rsquo;s developers have finally been freed to create new heroes, and this time, they%26rsquo;ve written them to be much more realistic, much more believable and much more human. %26ldquo;Orbital Drop Shock Trooper%26rdquo; may sound like a fancy title, and does indicate special training, but these men are still simple soldiers with a limited knowledge of the overall conflict. They follow orders, even if they don%26rsquo;t agree with them. They bicker. They crack jokes. They compare war stories and watch each other%26rsquo;s backs. They make lewd comments about the opposite sex, or reveal long-simmering romances. In other words, they have real personalities.
Above: Look ma, no masks!
The game%26rsquo;s story is structured differently, too, enabling these characters%26rsquo; differences to shine. When an ODST mission to Earth goes disastrously wrong, the squad is scattered across the futuristic city of New Mombasa, Africa %26ndash; visited briefly in Halo 2 %26ndash; and the team%26rsquo;s rookie member is forced to wander the urban landscape at night, piecing together what happened during the six hours he was unconscious in his drop pod.
Sadly, the Rookie is as silent and empty a vessel as Master Chief. Each time he discovers a clue to his friends%26rsquo; location, though, you%26rsquo;ll jump into their unique and colorful shoes for a flashback mission. One is a trigger-happy explosives expert who gets his hands on a tank. One is the gruff and grumbly cowboy type who must protect a critical government facility. One%26rsquo;s got a cocky attitude, but the sniper skills to match. One%26rsquo;s the leader (voiced by Firefly%26rsquo;s Nathan Fillion), trying desperately to rescue his female superior (voiced by Battlestar Galactica%26rsquo;s Tricia Helfer) and discover her secret reasons for sending them on this failed operation to begin with.
Compared to the sweeping galactic saga that is the original Halo trilogy, ODST%26rsquo;s plot is decidedly small-scale. Intimate. You won%26rsquo;t experience any earth-shattering revelations, or be blown away by too many breathtaking setpieces. You certainly won%26rsquo;t feel like you%26rsquo;re saving the universe. Some players will undoubtedly be bored, but after eight years of increasingly convoluted story threads that often required the help of novelizations and comic books to unravel, we felt refreshed.


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Submitted to: International Journal of Acarology
Publication Type: Research Notes
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/2/2003
Publication Date: 5/2/2003
Citation: Pettis, J.S., Ochoa, R., Orr, J. 2003. Interception of a live varroa mite on imported cut flowers in the united states. International Journal of Acarology. 29:291-292
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Technical Abstract: Worldwide trade is a major reason for the increase in accidental exotic pest introductions. A prime example of this is spread of the parasitic bee mite Varroa destructor Anderson. Originally from South East Asia, this mite has become a worldwide beekeeping problem. Human's legally and illegally moving live bees with Varroa to various parts of the world have accelerated the dispersal of this pest. However, other means of dispersal of this mite are possible. Varroa mites have been reported from other species of Hymenoptera and their survival on flowers has been explored. Here we report on the port-of-entry interception in the United States of a live Varroa mite on internationally transported cut flowers as a new mode of dispersal of this pest. A live mite, Varroa sp., was found during routine inspection by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Plant Protection and Quarantine (APHIS-PPQ) of cut flowers arriving at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia on June 6, 2000. This find is important because, recent research has shown that numerous Varroa haplotypes exist worldwide that do not all exist in the United States. Also, this same research has shown that some of the differences in the damage or lack of damage this pest inflicts on honey bees worldwide may now be explained by the fact that different areas of the world contain different Varroa haplotypes.


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Rock the Dream
I took these two shots on my cell phone last Monday in Hualien (花蓮), Taiwan at the the 2007 Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival. One pic is a work in the making, the other a winner from a previous year.
The festival "Rock the Dream" is held every two years at the Hualien County Cultural Affairs Bureau Campus. This year it lasts from October 1 to November 4, involving 12 artists from nine different countries, which are the States, U.K., Philippines, Japan, China, France, Italy, Spain and Taiwan. The artists are given slabs of stone which they go to work on in little outdoor booths that are yellow and have flags to identify their nationalities (see above shot). At the end of the competition, the sculptures will be carted off to different locations around the city (the Bureau provides a map to the locations of previous works).
The Cultural Affairs Bureau Campus is near the ocean, so it's a nice place to sit for an afternoon, watching the artists. If they, in their grinding and chipping away at jagged stone, become too intense, there is always the long stretching deep blue to balance your thoughts.


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
The beef between Cassidy and Meek Mill reached its apex last week, when Mill matched a diss track from Cass ("Me, Myself and iPhone") with one of his own ("Repo"). But despite the rivalry's increased pitch, Cassidy says that, at least from his perspective, the beef isn't personal.
"It's not personal beef. I don't wanna see anything happen to him or anybody around him," he said in an interview with MTV News. "I'm just competitive and I take my music seriously. At first I was gonna leave it alone. I thought he wanted to battle me, like he was calling me out, but when I found out he wasn't, I left it alone — until he started tweeting certain things about me and being disrespectful."
The two Philadelphia rappers have traded barbs on Twitter for month, following a dispute over who would have the higher standing in a proposed rap battle. Mill has assailed Cassidy's street cred in Philadelphia, while Cass has pointed out that, at this point, he has had the longer and more successful career.
Cassidy had agreed to a rap battle, supported by fans, with Mill but the MMG rapper scoffed at the idea.
"I got a phone call saying that Meek Mill wanted to battle me, and I thought with me being on the level I'm on and Meek Mill having a certain type of fanbase, it'd be good for hip-hop," Cassidy said. "I feel like hip hop is not focused on bars and being competitive anymore, but it's slowly going back to where it originated, so I wanted to play a large part in bringing it back where it needed to be. I thought it'd be a big battle for hip hop, so I agreed to do it."
Known for having built his name on his prowess as a battle rapper, Cassidy believes that a battle would have been the ideal way for the two men to resolve their issues.
"I felt like if we had anything to say to each other, we could put it in a rap battle and prove to the streets who's really the best, who really run the city that we're both from and who's qualified to be talking crazy," he said. "That's all it was about."
As for a musical reconciliation between himself and Meek, Cassidy said fans shouldn't hold their breath.
"I don't think I'll do a song [with him] again unless he really apologized for the things that he did, the things that he said," he added. "He dropped 'Repo' being real disrespectful, spreading a lot of lies about me, so unless he apologized and I feel as though it's a sincere apology, I don't think I'll do a song with him."
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Earlier this month soccer great Lionel Messi of Argentina and FC Barcelona broke German Gerd Müller's mark of 85 goals scored in a calendar year, a feat Müller accomplished in 1972.
Messi scored his 85th and 86th goal of 2012 in a December 9 match against Real Betis. He has since added four goals to his total, establishing a mark that will be as hard to surpass as Müller's was.
(The Zambian Football Association has presented evidence that Godfrey Chitalu, who played for Kabwe Warriors F.C., scored 107 goals in 1972, but his feat was not globally recognized. For what it's worth, FIFA does not keep official counts of most goals in a calendar year.)
Meanwhile in American football, Adrian Peterson and Calvin Johnson are threatening to break, respectively, Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record (2,105 yards) and Jerry Rice's single-season receiving yards record (1,848 yards). Dickerson's record has stood since 1984; Rice set his record in 1995.
Some records in sports seem unbreakable, either because they have stood for so long (such as Hack Wilson's single-season RBI record of 191, which was set in 1930), are holdovers from a previous era in which a sport was drastically different than it is today (such as Cy Young's 511 wins), or are so ridiculous that it's hard to believe they were set in the first place (such as Wilt's 100 points in a single game).
But, as Leo has shown and as All Day and Megatron are showing, even records that appear to be untouchable may eventually be touched.
And few things are as exciting for a sports fan as watching an age-old record go down (even if the new record holder is later connected to performance-enhancing drugs).
Adults today have seen plenty of big records go down.
In 1995, we saw Cal Ripken, Jr. surpass Lou Gehrig's consecutive games record; a few years later Mark McGwire bested Roger Maris' longstanding single-season home run record, and Barry Bonds passed Hank Aaron's career home run total a few years after that (yeah, I know); Emmitt Smith became the NFL's all-time leading rusher in 2002, surpassing Walter Payton, who set the record in 1984; and last year Drew Brees broke Dan Marino's 27-year-old NFL single-season passing record.
Here are a few more major records that could be broken in our lifetimes:
NBA all-time scoring record
Current record holder: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38,387 points
Potential record breaker: Kobe Bryant LeBron James
While Leo was busy overtaking Gerd Müller, Kobe Bryant was becoming only the fifth player in NBA history to score more than 30,000 career points. Kobe, who is 34 years old, now has 30,252 points—8,135 points short of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's career mark of 38,387.
In seasons not shortened by a lockout and in which Kobe has been healthy, he's been a lock to score more than 2,000 points. This year he's on pace to score between 2,300 and 2,400. Barring injury, he'll finish this season with around 31,800 points and will need around 6,600 more to pass Kareem.
Playing at his current level, Kobe could do that in three seasons. Even if he drops off a bit (and he probably will), he'll still only need four (as long as he stays healthy).
Kobe will be 38 years old in four years. Considering recent advances in medicine, strength and conditioning, and diet, there's no reason a player with Kobe Bryant's talent and work ethic can't be an All-Star-caliber player at 38.
(And even if injuries set him back, if Kobe decides he's going to break the record, even if it means playing until he's 40; then he'll break the record.)
The all-time scoring record is Kobe's if he wants it. (And he may not. He might decide that retirement is more attractive. But I don't see him making this decision without a sixth ring.) But even if he gets the record he might not keep it very long.
LeBron James, who is six years younger than Kobe, will hit 20,000 points later this year. Unlike Kobe, who came off the bench during his first two seasons and didn't score more than 20 points per game until his fourth, LeBron was a starter on day one and averaged 20.9 points as a rookie and 27.2 as a sophomore. That gave him a big head start. (Kobe also played through two lockout-shortened seasons to LeBron's one and had another season shortened by legal issues.)
Averaging 2,100 points per year over the next 8 seasons (and, with the exception of the abbreviated 2011 season, LeBron has scored more than 2,100 every year since he was a rookie), LeBron will hit Kareem's mark when he is 36. We don't know how long it would take him to beat Kobe's new record, but it probably wouldn't take more than one or two seasons.
All this depends on LeBron staying healthy, but LeBron's durability may be his most underrated asset. He's never played fewer than 75 games in an 82-game season. Don't be surprised if LBJ is still an elite player when he's in his mid-thirties. (And don't be surprised if, in a few years, we're crossing out LeBron's name and replacing it with Kevin Durant's.)
Most all-time Olympic medals
Current record holder: Michael Phelps, 22 medals
Potential record breaker: Missy Franklin
When it comes to winning Olympic medals, American swimmers who can earn their way onto relay teams have a big advantage.
If an American Olympic swimmer is among the world's best in, say, the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly, he or she can count on winning three medals in relays—the 4 x 100 freestyle, 4 x 200 freestyle, and 4 x 100 medley. Because the United States always wins medals in relays.
To get the relay trifecta, a swimmer needs to be one of Team USA's eight best swimmers in the 100 and 200 free and one of the team's two best swimmers in the 100 free, backstroke, breaststroke, or butterfly. (Though only four swimmers compete in a relay, it's not unusual for a team to use as many as eight: four in the prelims and a totally different four in the final. All eight swimmers, whether they competed in the prelims or finals, win a medal.)
These relay medals, coupled with the fact that we're unlikely ever again to see a gymnast who can be dominant for three or four consecutive Olympic games, are the reason why six of the nine Olympians to win eleven or more medals since 1980 have been American swimmers: Michael Phelps (22), Jenny Thompson (12), Dara Torres (12), Natalie Coughlin (12), Matt Biondi (11), and Ryan Lochte (11).
(The other three were German kayaker Birgit Fischer, who won twelve medals in seven Olympics; Norwegian cross-country skiier Bjørn Dæhlie, who won twelve medals in three Olympics; and Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov, who won twelve medals in two Olympics.)
So if anyone is going to break Michael Phelps's record of 22 Olympic medals (nine of which came in relays), it will probably be an American who can get a spot on all three relay teams.
Of course, you'll notice that Phelps has earned 10 more medals than any other Olympian since 1980. There's a good chance that Ryan Lochte will become history's second-most decorated Olympic swimmer in 2016 in Rio. But he'll top out at 14 or 15 medals, still well short of Phelps.
But there is one American swimmer who has a chance to win a couple dozen medals. She only has 5 right now. But she's only 17.
Missy Franklin won gold medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke, the 4 x 200 freestyle relay, and the 4 x 100 medley relay. She won bronze in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay. Franklin also finished fourth and fifth in the 200 freestyle and 100 freestyle, respectively.
Don't be surprised if, in 2016 Rio, Franklin cracks the top three in her two freestyle events, winning a total of seven medals. She'll only be 25 in 2020 and could conceivably win another seven.
Seven medals in both 2016 and 2020 would give her 19 medals total. Four medals—say, three relay and one individual—in 2024 (at age 29) would give Franklin the record. If she can earn her way onto a couple relay teams as a 33-year-old in 2028, Franklin could get away with winning only six medals in 2020 and no individual medal in 2024.
At any rate, there are several ways for Missy Franklin to get to 23. None will be easy. But she's already the best female swimmer in the world, and she's only 17.
Most NFL passing touchdowns
Current record holder: Brett Favre, 508 touchdowns
Potential record breaker: Peyton Manning
Not long ago, it appeared as though Peyton Manning would eventually break all of the NFL's career passing records. Then he had four neck surgeries and missed an entire season.
Those neck procedures certainly had an effect on Peyton's game, but they haven't kept him from putting up big numbers. For his career, Manning has thrown about 31 touchdowns per season. This year, with two games remaining, he's already at his average.
Let's say Manning throws five more touchdowns this year. That would bring is career total to 435, 83 short of Favre. He would need to throw 28 touchdowns per season for three seasons to break the record.
If Manning can stay healthy and motivated, there's no way he doesn't break the record. But there's no guarantee that he'll stay healthy and motivated.
Most Major League Baseball Hits
Current record holder: Pete Rose, 4,256 hits
Potential record breaker: Derek Jeter
I don't care for gambling, but you can count me among those who find it tragic that baseball's all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, isn't in the game's Hall of Fame. Fifteen years from now this may no longer be the case. Not because Bud Selig's successor decides to lift Charlie Hustle's lifetime ban, but because there is a new all-time hits leader.
(I still remember one night in September 1985 when a man from our church busted into our house unannounced. He was in the neighborhood and needed to get to a television set before Pete's next at bat. Rose had 4,191 hits, tying him with Ty Cobb. If memory serves me well, Rose broke the record the following evening.)
Derek Jeter is sitting on 3,304 hits and is coming off a 216-hit season, the second best of his career. The Captain is still a long way from 4,256, but when you chart Rose and Jeter's hit totals by age, you will see that they've accumulated hits at a nearly identical pace.
Rose and Jeter both became full-time Major League players when they were 22. At 38 (Jeter's age right now), Rose had 3,372 hits, 68 more than Jeter has right now.
Rose's number dropped off substantially when he was 42. If Jeter—through advances in strength and conditioning, nutrition, etc.—can get 170–180 hits per season throughout his early 40s, he can break the record when he's 44.
Jeter only has one year left on his current deal. But if he wants to stick around and pass Pete Rose, I'm sure the Yankees will accommodate him.
Most Grand Slam Singles Titles, Women's Tennis
Current record holder: Margaret Smith Court, 24
Potential record breaker: Serena Williams
This one's a stretch.
Serena Williams only has 15 Grand Slam singles titles, 9 short of Margaret Smith Court's record. And she's already 31, which is like 60 in women's tennis years. It's possible that the younger Williams won't even pass Chris and Martina (18 titles), let alone Helen Wills Moody (19), Steffi Graf (22), or Court.
Age isn't the only factor working against Serena. She's also struggled with injury and inconsistency throughout her career. At one point, from 2003 to 2008, she went five years without winning a slam.
But right now, at 31, Serena is playing the best tennis of her life. She might be playing the best tennis of any woman's life. (I'd love to see a match between 2012 Serena and 1988 Graf for the title of greatest of all time.)
At the London Olympics Serena made Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, the world's top two players according to the rankings, look like junior varsity high school players. Her gold medal in London was sandwiched between impressive Grand Slam wins and Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
To break Court's record, Serena will have to play near her current level for two more years, winning three slams each in 2013 and 2014. This would put her at 21. One slam per year over the next four years would put her past Court's 24.
Can Serena still win a Grand Slam at 36? I wouldn't put it past her. After what I saw from Serena this summer, I wouldn't be shocked to see her win two slams at 35 or even to win one at 38.


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To help you experiment with type-sets we briefly note the following utility functions.
(type-set-quote x) will return the type-set of the object
x. For
(type-set-quote "test") is
2048 and
(type-set-quote '(a b c)) is
(type-set 'term nil nil nil nil (ens state) (w state) nil nil nil) will
return the type-set of
term. For example,
(type-set '(integerp x) nil nil nil nil (ens state) (w state) nil nil nil)will return (mv 192 nil). 192, otherwise known as
is the type-set containing
t and
nil. The second result may
be ignored in these experiments.
Term must be in the
translated, internal form shown by
trans. See trans
and see term.
(type-set-implied-by-term 'x nil 'term (ens state)(w state) nil)
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x assuming
translated term,
term, true. The second result may be ignored
in these experiments. For example,
(type-set-implied-by-term 'v nil '(integerp v) (ens state) (w state) nil)returns
(convert-type-set-to-term 'x ts (ens state) (w state) nil) will
return a term whose truth is equivalent to the assertion that the
x has type-set
ts. The second result may be ignored in these
experiments. For example
(convert-type-set-to-term 'v 523 (ens state) (w state) nil)returns a term expressing the claim that
v is either an integer
or a non-
nil true-list.
523 is the
logical-or of
11 (which
denotes the integers) with
512 (which denotes the non-
The ``actual primitive types'' of ACL2 are listed in
*actual-primitive-types*, whose elements are shown below. Each
actual primitive type denotes a set -- sometimes finite and
sometimes not -- of ACL2 objects and these sets are pairwise
disjoint. For example,
*ts-zero* denotes the set containing 0 while
*ts-positive-integer* denotes the set containing all of the positive
*TS-ZERO* ;;; {0} *TS-POSITIVE-INTEGER* ;;; positive integers *TS-POSITIVE-RATIO* ;;; positive non-integer rationals *TS-NEGATIVE-INTEGER* ;;; negative integers *TS-NEGATIVE-RATIO* ;;; negative non-integer rationals *TS-COMPLEX-RATIONAL* ;;; complex rationals *TS-NIL* ;;; {nil} *TS-T* ;;; {t} *TS-NON-T-NON-NIL-SYMBOL* ;;; symbols other than nil, t *TS-PROPER-CONS* ;;; null-terminated non-empty lists *TS-IMPROPER-CONS* ;;; conses that are not proper *TS-STRING* ;;; strings *TS-CHARACTER* ;;; characters
The actual primitive types were chosen by us to make theorem proving
convenient. Thus, for example, the actual primitive type
contains just
nil so that we can encode the hypothesis ``
x is
by saying ``
x has type
*ts-nil*'' and the hypothesis ``
x is
nil'' by saying ``
x has type complement of
*ts-nil*.'' We
similarly devote a primitive type to
*ts-t*, and to a third type,
*ts-non-t-non-nil-symbol*, to contain all the other ACL2 symbols.
*ts-other* denote the set of all Common Lisp objects other than
those in the actual primitive types. Thus,
*ts-other* includes such
things as floating point numbers and CLTL array objects. The actual
primitive types together with
*ts-other* constitute what we call
*universe*. Note that
*universe* is a finite set containing one
more object than there are actual primitive types; that is, here we
are using
*universe* to mean the finite set of primitive types, not
the infinite set of all objects in all of those primitive types.
*Universe* is a partitioning of the set of all Common Lisp objects:
every object belongs to exactly one of the sets in
Abstractly, a ``type-set'' is a subset of
*universe*. To say that a
x, ``has type-set
ts'' means that under all possible
assignments to the variables in
x, the value of
x is a member of
some member of
ts. Thus,
(cons x y) has type-set
{*ts-proper-cons* *ts-improper-cons*}. A term can have more than
one type-set. For example,
(cons x y) also has the type-set
{*ts-proper-cons* *ts-improper-cons* *ts-nil*}. Extraneous types
can be added to a type-set without invalidating the claim that a
term ``has'' that type-set. Generally we are interested in the
smallest type-set a term has, but because the entire theorem-proving
problem for ACL2 can be encoded as a type-set question, namely,
p have type-set complement of
*ts-nil*?,'' finding the
smallest type-set for a term is an undecidable problem. When we
speak informally of ``the'' type-set we generally mean ``the
type-set found by our heuristics'' or ``the type-set assumed in the
current context.''
Note that if a type-set,
ts, does not contain
*ts-other* as an
element then it is just a subset of the actual primitive types. If
it does contain
*ts-other* it can be obtained by subtracting from
*universe* the complement of
ts. Thus, every type-set can be
written as a (possibly complemented) subset of the actual primitive
By assigning a unique bit position to each actual primitive type we
can encode every subset,
s, of the actual primitive types by the
nonnegative integer whose ith bit is on precisely if
s contains the
ith actual primitive type. The type-sets written as the complement
s are encoded as the
twos-complement of the encoding of
s. Those
type-sets are thus negative integers. The bit positions assigned to
the actual primitive types are enumerated from
0 in the same order
as the types are listed in
*actual-primitive-types*. At the
concrete level, a type-set is an integer between
*min-type-set* and
*max-type-set*, inclusive.
For example,
*ts-nil* has bit position
6. The type-set containing
*ts-nil* is thus represented by
64. If a term has type-set
then the term is always equal to
nil. The type-set containing
everything but
*ts-nil* is the twos-complement of
64, which is
If a term has type-set
-65, it is never equal to
nil. By ``always''
and ``never'' we mean under all, or under no, assignments to the
variables, respectively.
Here is a more complicated example. Let
s be the type-set
containing all of the symbols and the natural numbers. The relevant
actual primitive types, their bit positions and their encodings are:
actual primitive type bit valueThus, the type-set
*ts-zero* 0 1 *ts-positive-integer* 1 2 *ts-nil* 6 64 *ts-t* 7 128 *ts-non-t-non-nil-symbol* 8 256
s is represented by
(+ 1 2 64 128 256) =
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s, i.e., the set of all objects other than the
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However, in 2013, when his bishop asked him to audition for the first Mormon British Pageant — a production at the Preston England Temple similar to the Nauvoo Pageant or Hill Cumorah Pageant in the United States — Hunter realized he could pursue a career in musical theater while maintaining LDS standards.
"I think I've been blessed to figure out that the things that I love in life can also have something to do with the gospel," Hunter said.
While performing in the British Pageant, Hunter was introduced to representatives from the Priesthood Department and Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, who invited him to be part of the "Savior of the World" production at the Conference Center. Hunter was cast in two roles for the production later that fall.
After performing in "Savior of the World," Hunter stayed in Utah and worked at the Church Office Building for three months. While in Utah, he performed in the Boy Scouts of America production "A Century of Honor" at the Conference Center and did a show at the Tuacahn Amphitheater in St. George.
Hunter said the highlight of his stay in Utah was singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during its Christmas concert. "That trumped everything. It was unbelievable," Hunter said.
"Honestly, I was only expecting to come out for this production at the Conference Center Theater, and then all of these amazing things happened," Hunter said. "I met amazing people, so it was really just a blessing, more than anything else."
The three-month trip, as well as his own personal scripture study, inspired Hunter to record his first full album of music. The indie-folk album "Secret Prayer" was recently released for digital download through most major music distributors, including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.
"Being involved in the British Pageant and all of those productions in Salt Lake and St. George, I kind of came to feel that I had a responsibility and a calling to share my faith through music," Hunter said.
Hunter recited from memory part of 2 Nephi 33:1 in the Book of Mormon: "When a man speaketh by the power of the Holy Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of the children of men."
"I was so touched by that," he said, mentioning that he often thought, "How can I do that with my music? What am I going to do now to keep this missionary work going?"
One Sunday, he read a verse in Doctrine and Covenants that stood out to him. Section 25, verse 12, says, in part, that "the song of the righteous is a prayer." That same morning, the opening hymn in Hunter's sacrament meeting was "Secret Prayer." Hunter said that experience was an answer to his prayer about how he could continue to be a member missionary. He would go on to write his own arrangement of "Secret Prayer" and also produce several other songs about faith.
"For me," Hunter said, "it's important to write songs and perform albums about my faith because I feel that's how I can best be an instrument in the Lord's hands and to hasten the work like we've been asked to do."
Hunter is working on his mission papers and anticipates receiving his mission call in June.
For more information about Hunter and his new album, "Secret Prayer," follow him on Twitter at benhunter01 or on his Facebook fan page at facebook.com/BenjaminHunterMusic.
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This isn't the first time I've had a baby in the office. Three years ago, we had an office baby for almost six months.
It's not because I'm gaga over babies. Of course, I like babies, but they're not really my first choice in office companions.
But the baby's mother is a valued and critical employee, I don't want to lose her, and a lack of high-quality child care hits close to home.
The lack of child care in this country is a crisis, and it's not just hurting parents and children — it's hurting businesses, especially small businesses.
President Barack Obama shined a light on this issue in his recent State of the Union address.
"Today, fewer than 3 in 10 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program," the president said. "Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.
"Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than $7 later on — by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime."
The president saw the problem of a lack of high-quality preschool in terms of what it means for America for the next 20 years. But for entrepreneurs and small-business owners, the problem is immediate.
Let's face some facts:
— Women work. About 72.6 million women worked outside the home in 2012.
— Women with pre-school age children work. In 2011, about 64 percent of mothers with children younger than 6 were in the labor force, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
— Women with pre-school age children work for small businesses. About half of all private business employees work for small companies, according to the Small Business Administration. So it's a reasonable assumption that about half of all working women with preschool children work for small businesses.
(Yes, I know that men also take care of their preschool children. But even in this day and age, women still overwhelmingly are responsible for their young children.)
The lack of child care is a huge challenge for big corporations too.
Years ago, when speaking with Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, I inquired why one of the major initiatives of his charitable foundation was child care. He explained that a lack of child care was the No. 1 reason his valued female employees could not show up for work at Kinko's.
We, as small business owners, have a vested interest in seeing that America helps provide child care and preschool education that is:
— Affordable. The median income for a woman working full time is $37,118.
With deductions, this means monthly take-home pay is around $2,700. In my community, the least expensive decent day care is $1,100 a month — and you're lucky to find that.
If a woman has two children in day care, it begins to make little sense for her to work considering the cost of commuting, work clothes, etc.
— Reliable. Most working parents must patch together two or more child-care or preschool arrangements to cover a full-time work schedule.
If a child gets sick? Well, you can count on that mother not being able to come to work. That means your business gets disrupted.
— High quality. It's not only that America needs high-quality preschool for our future generations, but without such day care and preschool, even mothers who can afford to go to work often choose not to.
I'm old enough to remember when the issue of providing affordable, high-quality child care was discussed as a national and economic imperative, not relegated solely to be a problem for working moms.
But right-wing politicians objected to such initiatives, and they never were instituted.
Small businesses all over the country lose terrific workers every day because of the lack of good child-care options, and some of the best and brightest women have dropped out of the workforce.
We as small business owners can't afford to let this initiative fail again.
Rhonda Abrams is president of The Planning Shop and publisher of books for entrepreneurs. Her most recent book is "Entrepreneurship: A Real-World Approach." Register for Rhonda's free newsletter at PlanningShop.com. Twitter: @RhondaAbrams. Facebook: facebook.com/RhondaAbramsSmallBusiness.
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A typically innocuous task of making hospital board appointments last month ended up providing further evidence of an ongoing financial dispute between Gaston County and its chief health care provider.
A typically innocuous task of making hospital board appointments last month ended up providing further evidence of an ongoing financial dispute between Gaston County and its chief health care provider.
Rather than reappointing two sitting members of Gaston Memorial Hospital�s board of directors, Gaston County commissioners appointed two new members. The makeshift coup was carried out in part because of a dispute about how much the public, nonprofit hospital should be paying the county in lieu of taxes.
Gaston County owns the land and the building where the hospital operates and leases 88 acres to Gaston Memorial � the flagship of CaroMont Health � for $1 per year. But it feels the prosperous hospital, which receives major tax breaks, should be doing more to provide money that can be put toward public education and other critical services here.
County commissioners also appoint 13 of the 14 positions on the hospital board. And since hospital board members have not been receptive to the county�s monetary requests, commissioners have decided to appoint new people who will be.
Holding pattern
Another appointment was scheduled to be made Thursday night, to fill a third expiring term on the hospital board. But newly elected Commissioner Jason Williams said he needs more time to decide who he would like to nominate.
�At this point, I�m just not prepared to make it, so we�ll put it off until after the first of the year,� he said before the county commission meeting. �It�s nothing more than wanting to make the right decision.�
The seat in question is currently held by Richard Craig, president of A.B. Carter Corp. in Gastonia. Williams said Craig has expressed in interest in being reappointed, but that he would understand if Williams chose to go in a different direction.
Williams� nominee will have to be approved by the full county commission. Craig will continue serving in the meantime.
Williams himself will begin serving on the hospital board next month as the county commission�s liaison. He will replace Commission Chairman Mickey Price, who is stepping down from that role after 12 years.
Price said he was simply ready to allow someone else to serve in that capacity.
Ongoing disagreement
The dispute between Gaston County and CaroMont Health has escalated within the last year, and has emerged as somewhat of a standoff.
County leaders have become accustomed to dealing with budget shortfalls and say they are struggling to scrape together money for education, public safety, emergency medical services and other needs. Meanwhile, they have watched CaroMont Health � one of the county�s largest employers � flourish in part because it is a nonprofit entity that pays only minimal taxes.
The $1-a-year lease was renewed in 2005 and will not expire until 2035. County commissioners want to renegotiate that.
CaroMont leaders argue that they already support the community by contributing charity care and absorbing bad debt, to the tune of more than $100 million per year.
Hospital board members serve four-year, staggered terms. Three of the seats are coming open at the end of this month.
Rather than reappointing Dr. Bob Crouch, a Bessemer City dentist, and Dr. Kelvin Harris, a CaroMont-affiliated gynecologist, the commissioners turned to two new faces. Crouch was ousted in favor of Donnie Loftis, an outgoing county commissioner who did not run for re-election this year, but who is receptive to the county�s needs. Annette Carter, an outgoing Gaston County Board of Education member who has extensive experience in the medical field, was appointed to take Harris� place.
�A voice for the citizens�
In emails obtained by The Gazette, Crouch responded angrily and with surprise to not being reappointed. Commissioners Allen Fraley and Joe Carpenter justified the move by explaining that Crouch had not been a team player, and that ousting him and others was �the only way to get the job done.�
�I certainly feel our board is solid on this front and I don�t think you will see any let up until a new deal is reached,� Fraley wrote to Crouch. �From the outside looking in, it sure seems your board spent much more time trying to secure reappointments, (rather) than helping to complete a new contract!�
Williams said a number of �qualified people� have approached him recently about serving on the hospital board.
�As far as I�m concerned, I want the person I appoint to be an asset to the hospital, and at the same time look at the interests of the county,� he said. �I don�t think those are mutually exclusive things.�
Williams said he�s not looking to put someone in place to secure a sweetheart deal or �bring home the bacon� for Gaston County.
�But I do want someone who will be a voice for the citizens of the county,� he said. �I think that�s why the board is set up the way it is.�
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or on Twitter @GazetteMike.