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Utica Rome Unemployment Rate Down In April
The New York State Department of Labor has released local unemployment rates for April.
The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome area was 5.1 percent last month, down from 5.9 percent in April 2015.
The state's jobless rate was 4.9 percent in April.
The Labor Department says New York's private sector job count increased by 114,400 from April 2015 to April 2016.


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- Born by the need to bring the leadership discussion into a future-oriented perspective
- Leadership is disorganised and the world needs positive hope. Leaders are supposed to take decisions for the future, but these decisions are based on knowledge front the present and the past.
- Our mission is to understand the future for better decisions.
Maddalena Campioni
- Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors at Global Future
- Maddalena is a public health expert with extensive experience in supporting and informing policy development, strategies and planning in times of transition. She has 15 years of progressively senior position as high level senior adviser at UN, at Government level, working and partnering with NGOs, academia, the private sector and foundations.
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- Patrick is an international professional sharply focussed on the use of multi stakeholder scenario and foresight processes to improve decision making in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Over the past 15 years he has managed complex projects related to anticipating and understanding development, organisational management, and nuclear non-proliferation. Central features of past and current work are the multi stakeholder nature of the approach and the strategic focus of the methods and products.

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This week's big news: I finally got a haircut.
I should have heeded advice and had one immediately before leaving the US, but I didn't and have held off as they cost 400 – 500 NoK (approx $80!). Many men here have a 'haircut machine' (the type popular with armies) and I was contemplating taking the plunge, when one of my new friends gently told me I really needed to get me hair sorted and then offered to do it.
So, Tuesday evening I was treated to a new hair cut experience. On the way to my friends apartment he popped into the shop for some food. Then when we arrived, he very carefully cut my hair. After the hair cut came the surprise – he cooked a fantastic meal for me! Truly a man of many talents and not the kind of service I have ever received before.
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Boys lacrosse: Trumbull defeats St. Joseph Cadets
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Trumbull High's boys lacrosse team poured it on with nine goals in the first quarter and cruised to a 18-7 triumph over visiting St Joseph on Thursday night.
Jake Liebowitz scored four goals.
Luke Kammerman had three goals and three assists.
Peter Raverta scored three times.
Griffin Schutz scored a pair of net-finders and added a trio of assists.
Trevor Arganese tacked on two goals and an assist.
Andrew Tinnesz, Garrett Lapham, Max Bowen and Michael Nevins all added goals for the Eagles.
Joshua Vaughn made 11 saves.
St Joe's goaltender Kyle Burbank stopped six shots.
Jared Newell scored four goals and added an assist.
Jared Mallozzi, Matt Labash and Jack Carpenter also scored for the Cadets.
Trumbull's defense was led by Alec Neubauer, Zachary Lombardi and Harrison Bowen.


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Former Miss Acadiana hosts One Acadiana women's network
One-Acadiana's Women's Network today, hosted by Brittany Hebert, CEO of Sky High for Kids, a nonprofit that raises money to combat childhood cancer.
This article originally featured on KADN website and republished with permission.
Brittany, a former Miss Acadiana, started the nonprofit after visiting Saint Jude Children's research hospital in Memphis and has since raised more than seven million dollars for the facility.
"So my three P's as I call it is people, persistence and passion and of course finishing with faith, "says Brittany. "I think it's important that you lead with your core values, and that you learn from each other, and use all of that information to help one another and inspire.


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Simone Pianigiani of AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan had a unique formation as a coach. He grew up a gym rat at the PalaSport Mens Sana near his house in Siena, Italy, and by his teens started coaching younger kids there. At university age, he chose to coach over continuing to play, and ended up working at every level in Montepaschi Siena's program. His rise paralleled that of the club as they reached their first EuroLeague Final Four together, in 2004, with Pianigiani as an assistant who also coached in that year's junior tournament championship game. As the head coach, Pianigiani soon led Siena back to the Final Four and third-place finishes in 2008 and 2011. It wasn't until 2012, when he was 43, that Pianigiani left his boyhood club for the first time to coach another one, Fenerbahce Istanbul, followed by Hapoel Jerusalem, and now Milan.
Like every kid in Italy and probably Europe, I played both soccer and basketball together when I was young. But the basketball gym was very close to my house, so it was automatic for me to want to stay there more. It was comfortable, it was not outside. I would go to two basketball practices and stay there, studying, in between. The gym became my house. Then, it was easy to go during the weekend to see games. The youth teams played all day Saturday and Sundays you could see the pro teams.
My parents just asked me to have good results in school. I was a good student, and for me to be playing sports after school was good. My father followed sports all the time, so my parents were happy. By the time I was at university, I was already a professional.
It was very clear for me to become a coach. I was in high school and playing on the basketball team. As I stayed more and more around the gym, the other coaches asked me to help with the mini-basket teams, as an assistant for the kids. That's how I started coaching, as a volunteer, and later they gave me a little money. So this was fun for me. I was so young, and then I started to stay around the gym, not only to play but also to see the other coaches working with their teams.
"I understood that the world of basketball would do very well without me as a player."
After I finished school, I went to university. That's when I had to choose to keep playing or not. I was offered third- or fourth-division money to play, but I understood that the world of basketball would do very well without me as a player. So I made the choice at that time. Other coaches who were working then convinced me to keep coaching and to have a team that could be my team. I started with this, and from that moment, coaching at every level, it started to become my life. Three or four years later, they offered me a professional contract as a full-time coach, and that was most interesting for me.
I was lucky to have started early. When they understood that I liked to spend all my time in the gym, people started offering me more responsibility every year and eventually it meant a pro contract. At that time it was like a dream for me. It was a long process but always came with great motivation, because it got better and better. Soon I began to work closely with the pro team. By then, I had coached every category for young players. But now with the senior team, I started as the fourth assistant, and then the third, so it was step by step.
I stayed with the same club for many years, but at the same time, the club was changing and becoming more organized and bigger. First, it was a question of Siena's team staying in the first division. Then, it was fighting to get in the playoffs. Then it was qualifying for European competitions -- Korac Cup, Saporta Cup, SuproLeague and everything until we arrived to this modern era.
"It was an unbelievable experience to remain in the same place always and get all the experience I possibly could."
So, I stayed in the same place but was able to get all different kinds of experience. For many, many years, I was an assistant coach on the pro team but kept responsibility for the youth teams. So I always worked with very young kids, and then with the under-18 and under-20 teams at a high level in Europe. I all these categories, at the same time I was an assistant coach for the pro team.
I remember being at the Final Four in Tel Aviv, I was assistant coach of our men's team, and at the same time the head coach of our juniors, who played in the final over there of the new EuroLeague tournament for juniors. So, I had two jobs at the Final Four. It was an unbelievable experience to remain in the same place always and get all the experience I possibly could. I coached the top young players and at the same time was an assistant as we went through European competitions, won the Italian League title, played in the EuroLeague, and got all the way to the Final Four.
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NES Itch? Enter The Blaze Retrocon
January 13, 2006 1:07 AM | Simon Carless
Some enterprising IC forumites have spotted a new 'unofficial' cartridge-compatible NES clone, the Blaze RetroCon, which has been available on Success-HK's Asian website since before Christmas, and allows you to play all your favorite classic Nintendo Entertainment Games on newer, less dust-festooned hardware.
There haven't been any longform reviews of the console, which comes in three variant colors and apparently costs just $14.30, so it's not clear whether the 'NES-on-a-chip' technology is as yucky as the Generation Nex allegedly is, or whether the two included controllers are any cop.
Interestingly, the website also claims "PAL and NTSC compatible" for the Retrocon, but we'll just have to see what the 'experts' make of it. In the meantime, let's work out which color is the yummiest - black, blue, teal? [UPDATE: Thanks to commenters for pointing out that the four buttons on the controllers include variants of the A and B buttons with 'turbo' effect, effectively auto-fire versions. Cheeky!]
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As we've seen before, some of Hollywood's finest actors missed out on down roles that would eventually be regarded as some of cinema's finest performances - whether for scheduling, they weren't suited to the role or some more bizarre reasons.
We've picked out the more bizarre reasons why stars have turned down roles, those reasons include...
Eminem turned down the lead in Elysium because they wouldn't film it in Detroit
Detroit rapper Eminem impressed everyone when he played a rapper from Detroit in 8 Mile, and caught the eye of District 9 director Neil Blomkamp.
The South African filmmaker was thinking of the main star of his overblown dystopian space saga Elysium and Slim Shady popped into his mind.
When Eminem was approached, the rapper asked Blomkamp where filming would take place, when he was told it was "not in Detroit," Eminem turned the project down.
Elysium ended up with Matt Damon in the lead, and when it was released, he wished he hadn't gone to Mexico City for filming, because it was a big step down from District 9.
Brad Pitt is too attractive for About A Boy
Hugh Grant was on top 'British rom-com form' in About A Boy, in which he plays an immature man who is taught to act like a grown-up by a young Nicholas Hoult.
Before Hugh was on board, Brad Pitt was asked to be in the film, but when Brad found out that the character of Will Freeman goes to support groups for single parents, Pitt was confused and angered.
Brad and his stunning jawline simply couldn't believe that a man who looked like Brad Pitt would need to pretend to be a single father in order to pick up women.
Pitt labelled it completely implausible and (probably) left the building to immediately have every woman in the vicinity throw themselves at him.
Will Smith wanted to kill the baddie in Django Unchained
Actors are desperate to star in the films of iconic director Quentin Tarantino, and Will Smith was just the same when he was approached by Tarantino to star in the director's 2013 blood-soaked western Django Unchained.
When the pair was discussing Smith playing the former slave Django, the Fresh Prince revealed:
"Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead! I was like, "No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!" I thought it was brilliant. Just not for me."
So because Will Smith couldn't stick a bullet into the film's villain, he took himself off and starred in After Earth alongside his son Jaden, where presumably they were both the heroes and shot up bad guys as far as the eye could see.
Mark Wahlberg would only play Donnie Darko if he could have a lisp
When it came out in 2001, Donnie Darko blew audiences minds... well, they blew some peoples' minds, while others just went "huh? What was that all about?"
But before 19-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal was cast to play the troubled teenager, Mark Wahlberg was interested in playing the titular time-travelling teen.
Only Marky Mark wanted to play Donnie with a lisp, director Richard Kelly thought this was a really dumb idea and would detract from the complicated story he was trying to craft, so Wahlberg left the project.
Wahlberg has a bit of history when it comes to turning down classic roles, as J.J. Abrams asked if he wanted to be in the Star Trek reboot, but as Wahlberg explains: "I tried to read the script, and I didn't understand the words of the dialogue or anything."
Sean Connery turned down nearly half a billion dollars because he was confused
One of the biggest missed opportunities in history lands squarely at the feet of Sean Connery when the former 007 was offered the part of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
So keen on having Sean Connery playing the wizard, director Peter Jackson offered the Scot $6 million, plus a 15 per cent stake in the franchise's box office profits.
Connery foolishly turned down the role stating that he "never understood the script," adding "I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it."
For not being able to understand the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, that many teenagers enjoy, Sean Connery missed out on a potential $450 million payday... still, he'll always have The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Kirsten Dunst didn't want to kiss Kevin Spacey for American Beauty
When it came out in 1999, American Beauty was one of the biggest films of the year thanks to Kevin Spacey's incredible performance and the iconic scene of Mena Suvari lying on a bed of rose petals, with a few covering her most important parts.
Originally it would have been Kirsten Dunst that was lying on those petals, but she turned the role down because she didn't want to kiss her co-star Kevin Spacey.
To be fair, Dunst was around 16 when the film was being made, and the prospect of having to kiss a 40-year-old man - whether they were Kevin Spacey or not - wouldn't be all that appealing to most 16-year-old girls.
Dunst proclaimed: "I didn't want to be kissing Kevin Spacey. Come on! Lying there naked with rose petals!?"
Mena Suvari, who did the kissing and rose petal lying, didn't exactly see her career explode as a result, so Kirsten Dunst probably made the right choice.
Garth Brooks didn't want to be upstaged by a tornado in Twister
One of the biggest country music stars in the world, Garth Brooks was keen to break into the world of acting, because he'd written every song he could about all of country music's topics - women, pickup trucks, heartbreak and America.
Fortunately for him, he had friends in high places, Steven Spielberg places. The legendary director offered him a role in his upcoming war movie, Saving Private Ryan, but Brooks turned it down because he wanted to play a 'bad guy', but all of the film's villains were minor roles.
The charitable Spielberg then sent him a script that his Amblin production company were making called Twister, about a giant twister.
Brooks looked at the script, and his part Dusty Davis (which would go to Philip Seymour Hoffman) and turned it down because the Twister, in the film's title, was the star of the film and his acting would be overshadowed by the Twister.
It may not surprise you to learn that Garth Brooks has not featured in any films to date.
Ralph Macchio passed up Back to the Future because he wasn't paying attention
Everybody knows that Michael J. Fox wasn't the first pick to play Marty McFly, as Eric Stoltz filmed scenes as the time-travelling teenager before he was sacked and Fox was drafted in.
But before Stoltz's casting, a few actors were considered for Marty, including Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio.
After reading (probably only one or two pages of) the script Macchio assumed that the film was about "A kid, a car and plutonium pills."
While there are no plutonium pills in the film at all, but Macchio mustn't have got to the bit where the kid uses the car to travel through time... and narrowly avoids sleeping with his mother.


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Kick up your heels and enjoy this simply rich and decadent Caramel Mudslide Shot! Who would have known that combining your favorite Nestle Coffee Mate creamer with alcohol would make an amazing libation? Well, not me. You see, while walking through the aisles of my local Raley's grocery store, I was pursing the shelves to… Continue reading Caramel Mudslide Shot
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Celebrate the New Year in style with this sophisticated Amaretto Creme Brulee Fizz. I hope you enjoyed the holiday season as much as I did. You may have noticed that I took a little break from my blog over the last week or so, just to unwind from the stress of the season and spend some well… Continue reading Amaretto Creme Brulee Fizz
Homemade Amaretto
Hunker down during the winter storms with this warming and wonderful Homemade Amaretto! Yep, we are preparing for the worst storm since 2008. In California we defiantly need the rain, however treacherous storms are another thing. Last week we had a "mild" storm. Freeways were overrun with water, streets flooded, and creeks reached the tipping level. And the… Continue reading Homemade Amaretto


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Countless studies have been conducted for poker players from around the world, and hundreds of online poker reviews published by the most advanced poker players show that online poker tournaments such as Sit-N-Go are the most profitable in the world. at all. The main reason? You cannot lose ALL BANKROLL playing an online poker tournament. When you sit in a circular game, also known as a cash game, you risk losing all your winning pot in one hand. Let me give you a little scene.
You think your aces are good, you push everything preflop just to be called QQ, and they break you. Your grinding hours at the poker tables are 0.25 / 0.50, the poker tables are 0.50 / 1.00, and finally the 1.00 / 2.00 poker blinds will be exhausted. This happens all the time for many players, read poker news or poker bulletin boards. There are a lot of them. You'll see a lot of horror stories and even entire sections of some bandar poker forums! This happens seriously all the time, and the only way to prevent it from you is to manage your account and not pay TILT.
The simplest way to manage your bankroll is simple
Stay in Sit-N-Go, where you risk losing a fixed amount of money (participation in an online poker tournament) and NO MORE. Your losses are monitored, and if your hands in poker do not fight or are caught at night, take a break and get well tomorrow. Your bankroll can always be recreated if you lose everything you need to deposit again. Not only will you make a deposit once, but you will do it again and again, just to play online poker.
You only need to make a deposit once
Treat your bankroll like your son. He needs love, attention and care. Without these three elements, you will be broken QUICKLY. Know your poker rules before you post them for the first time. Play online poker for free before you open this wallet! I know it's a hurry to make money, but you won't succeed without the right thinking and learning.
You can train with fictitious money until you turn red, but you won't know how to play REAL poker until you start at the real money level. At the level of fictitious money, you will see the push of many players with complete rubbish, and in the world it doesn't matter if they lose by adding $ 1,000.00 to the jackpot, you better bet on your last dollar so that these players play differently. To get a real idea of online poker, if you start, try making $ 50.00 with Full Tilt Poker or Pokerstars and make sure this is the last time you make a deposit. Play online poker tournaments such as $ 2.00 Sit-N-Go to increase your funds. As soon as you reach more than 150-200 USD, spend about 5 dollars for Sit-N-Go.


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How to Join
Joining the Robotics Club is really easy!
- Join the general club mailing list, located here: osurcmembers.
- To actually become an official member you will need to stop by our lab in Graf 206. Stop by during officer hours which can be found on the calendar. You can also do this at our annual Kickoff event.
- The membership fee is $10 for fall, $8 for winter, and $5 for spring.
- Questions? Email us on the officers list.
Membership Info
Membership lasts until the beginning of fall term next school year. Hence, the price break for joining later in the year. Membership will give you access to all of the club's resources, which includes computers, electronics and hand tools, and a ton of other useful stuff for building robots! You can use the lab as you please at any time, just ask for the door code. If you are motivated and would like to join one of our project teams, contact one of the team leads below:
- Mars Rover Team Lead – Josh Tenenbaum (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Aerial Team Lead – Reed Reese-Steiner (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Underwater Team Lead – Eva Sala (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Drone Racing Team Lead – Pavel Shonka (email@example.com)
The Two Main Mailing Lists
OSURC has two general mailing lists for everyone in the club:
email@example.com — Join this list if you are or want to become a member. Only officers are authorized to post information to the member's list (in order to minimize unnecessary list traffic.)
firstname.lastname@example.com — Send an email to this list if you have a question about the club or want to get some information distributed to all members.
Each team has it's own mailing list that provides more specified information. These can be found on their own pages which can be located under the Teams tab.


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BIO4005 – Primate Behaviour and Ecology
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Course content
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the field of primatology and a comparative framework for understanding behavioural evolution of primates. It focuses on linking ecological influences to behaviour and understanding the diversity of adaptations in the Primate order. The first part of the course will be an introduction to primate taxonomy and evolution, the second part will analyse the behavioural ecology of representative species of the order, and the third part will focus on great apes including humans.
Learning outcome
The students will learn about animal behaviour, which is necessary for doing a master on this subject, with a focus on primate behaviour. The students will learn that behaviours once seen as exclusively human are actually present in living apes and in other primates and we will question the uniqueness of humans. The seminars will be based on critical evaluation of the required literature and active participation in discussions.
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Recommended previous knowledge
Previous knowledge in biology will be useful
The course will consist of lectures and seminars in week 34-39.
Lectures will be given by the instructor and students will discuss the required literature during seminars. First lecture is compulsory.
Students must attend at least 80% of the session
Final Written exam (3 hours) in week 39
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I'm not really sure if I've been quite maximising my few days off.
I've done a bit of pottering about, including wiping the data from two more ancient hard drives (now ready for the ewaste collectio) – one 10gb drive was dated 2001!
I've also been getting out the knitting and am now up to the spot on the scarf from which I had to unravel. One does forget how long a decent scarf needs to be.
I'm off work tomorrow too, so my intention is to go for a quick run and then drag out the patchwork quilt supplies – the plan is to sew a border around at least one square, then we'll see how it goes.
I'm finding these partially completed things laying about in drawers and such supremely frustrating. Time to address that where I can – perhaps a policy of not starting new things until something from the backlog is completed.


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State Cosmetology Requirements
Each state has different requirements for students in what must be accomplished to earn their cosmetology license. Avalon School of Cosmetology has four locations in Phoenix, Arizona; Mesa, Arizona; Alameda, California; and Layton, Utah. Take a look at the general overall requirements, as well as some of the specific requirements for each of these states to get a better idea of your cosmetology experience, and what will be expected of you.
The Basic Requirements
While there will be some variation from state to state in terms of hours, the basic requirements are essentially the same across the board. What needs to be accomplished beforehand will be determined by what you are looking for whether that is a cosmetology license, barber license, or esthetician license.
For those looking for a cosmetology license, education is the first step to success. Every state has a minimum number of hours that must be done before completion. These hours should be productive during your time. It is not enough to simply show up, but you must be actively participating in the classroom learning classes, as well as the practical time spent on the floor. There are some states, including California and Utah, that will allow for apprenticeship instead of school to obtain these training hours. Avalon School of Cosmetology offers the best all around training, and is one of the best options for students in these states.
Once you have obtained your cosmetology license, there is a process to keep it up to date. Some states will require you to take additional classes, while others require a simple renewal fee. Learn what is required by your state, and meet those requirements.
The States
California, Utah, and Arizona all have some fairly similar requirements, but others are unique to the state:
California – here a cosmetology license will require 1600 hours of school. Once the license is obtained it must be renewed every two years, the process will take six to eight weeks when done through the automated system. Renewing your license here will cost $50 with an additional $25 when late.
Arizona – it is also necessary to experience 1600 hours of school in Arizona before obtaining a license. Here the license must be renewed every year before the one year mark. This cost is $30 and does not require extra schooling to complete.
Utah – to obtain a cosmetology license in Utah, 1600 hours of school are required. The renewal here comes every two years, and will cost $52. This fee is across the board for cosmetologists, barber instructors, estheticians, and massage therapists.
Before you start your training in cosmetology, learn the requirements of your state. These standards may have an impact on your future career, and where your cosmetology license can take you.


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Check For These Ten Early Symptoms Indicating You Might Be Pregnant
Wondering if that slight twinge or cramping could be an early sign of pregnancy? Not sure of whether to take the test yet? Check this list of ten early symptoms indicating you might be pregnant.
If you're trying to conceive, every slight change in your body can send you into an anxious mess. Every twinge and cramp can leave you counting the days until you can take a pregnancy test. What are the first signs of early pregnancy? Every woman is different. Some women may experience all of these signs, and some may have just a few and others may have none at all.
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Ten Early Symptoms Indicating You Might Be Pregnant
Here is a list of the most common symptoms of early pregnancy.
Sore Breasts
Are your boobs really sore and tender? Do you flinch every time your arm barely sweeps across them? Sore boobs and nipples can be an early sign of pregnancy. PMS can also cause it, but if it doesn't go away after a few days, you could be pregnant. This is one of the most common of all the other ten early symptoms indicating you might be pregnant.
Darkening Nipples
This is how I knew I was pregnant every time — big, HUGE, dark nipples. You may also see lots of veins in your boobs and little bumps around your nipples.
Mild cramping can be one of the early signs of pregnancy. The cramping shouldn't be severe, though, so contact your healthcare provider if you're doubled over in pain, if you feel a sharp pain on one side, or if you're experiencing bleeding.
Some light brown or pink spotting a week before you're due for your period could actually be implantation bleeding. This is when the fertilized egg burrows into the lining of the uterus. Not every woman experiences implantation bleeding.
Are you walking around like a zombie? Maybe you're about to be a Mombie. Extreme exhaustion and fatigue are one of the toughest pregnancy symptoms to cope with. Especially if you have a high-stress job or are trying to run around after toddlers. Rest when you can, it should go away in three months, maybe.
Frequent Urination
Are you running to the bathroom every five minutes? Frequent urination can be a sure sign of early pregnancy. So if you do find yourself spending more time on the pot than in your office chair, you could be pregnant.
Missed Period
Well, this one is kind of a no-brainer. If your period is regular and you realize after a few days that it hasn't arrived yet, it's probably time to take a test.
Morning Sickness and Heightened Sense of Smell
Yet another of my telltale symptoms. If you find yourself nauseous and turned off by certain smells all the time, you could be pregnant. I don't know why it's called "morning sickness." It should be called "all damn day sickness."
Food Cravings and/or Aversions
Do you all of a sudden find yourself NEEDING pickles and mashed potatoes at every meal? That was my craving anyway. If you find yourself craving certain foods all the time, you could be pregnant. There's a flip side to this coin. Is hummus your favorite thing on earth? Do you find yourself wanting to vomit at the sheer thoughts of it now? You could be pregnant. Sudden aversions to food could also be a sign of pregnancy.
This is another one that happened to me every time. It worsened with each pregnancy too. Do you look like you just ate everything in your pantry? Progesterone relaxes the muscles in your body, including your GI tract. Slowing down your metabolism, therefore causing gas and bloating.
If you think you may be pregnant, please talk with your healthcare provider.
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Sermon delivered on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at St. Augustine's Anglican Church, Columbus, OH.
Lectionary texts: Isaiah 58.1-12; Psalm 103; 2 Corinthians 5.20b-6.10; Matthew 6.1-6.
In the name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of a 40 day season we call Lent. It is a time for confession, self-denial, and repentance. But why do we do these things? What's the point? Is it because Christians are inherently masochistic or are there better reasons? I suspect that many who call themselves Christians couldn't answer these questions and so tonight I want to lay out for you why we observe a season of Lent. To do that, we are going to have to go back to the beginning to see God's intention for us and his creation and then look quickly at what happened instead. Then we are going to have to look at God's promised future for those who love him, for those he calls in Christ, so that we can be reminded what we are here for and where we are going.
In Genesis 1-2 we read the creation stories. While they are doubtless familiar to most of us, I suspect we miss a critical piece of information regarding how God works and his intentions for his human creatures that are contained in these narratives. In these stories, we read that God created humans to be wise stewards over his creation (cf. Genesis 1.26-31; 2.19-20). That is what it means to be created in God's image. To be wise stewards and rule over God's good creation requires that we be obedient to God's will for us. If we don't obey God, how can we possibly reflect his glory and be wise stewards of his creation?
This, then, is how God intended things to work. God still does. And as we read in the creation narratives, this is indeed how things worked until human sin entered the picture (cf. Genesis 3ff). The essence of human sin is an unhealthy focus on us and our needs and desires, rather than a single-minded focus on God and obeying his will for us. That is why one of the biblical terms for sin, hamartia, literally means to miss the mark so that when we repent, we turn around and change course. In other words, when we really repent, we stop being essentially self-centered creatures and become God-centered creatures so that we can once again be his true image-bearers and wise stewards.
And we can all think of examples of good and poor stewardship. Think of the advances in science, medicine, and education that have improved the quality of our lives and allowed us to treat each other and God's good earth wisely. Then think of hate-mongers like Hitler or the unbridled greed that led to the stock market crash of 2008 that wiped out billions of dollars of hard working folks or the terrible abuse of humans and animals that we read about on a regular basis, and you can quickly understand how badly we have strayed from God's good intentions for us and how grievous it is to God. This is also what our OT and gospel lessons are about. God is telling his people Israel what he expects of them as his called-out (holy) image-bearers. They are to pursue justice and righteousness so that the poor and oppressed are cared for because they too are God's image-bearers. Moreover, both Jesus and Isaiah are reminding us that God does not so much care about our religious activities as he cares about why we do what we do in God's name. In other words, God cares about our inner motivations. We must therefore always ask ourselves whose glory are we seeking, our own or God's? If we do not seek God's glory in all we do we are missing the mark, i.e., we are sinning, and being less than fully human.
To summarize, then, when human sin entered the world, we got ourselves kicked out of paradise, became alienated and estranged from God, and lost our full measure of humanity. When that happened, death entered the picture because when we are separated from our Source of life, we must die. This is the cost of our disobedience to God. It is a sad and terrible picture. We all know what it is like to live in a fallen world because we all have been afflicted by the evil and consequences of sin, both our own and others'. When we start to understand this dynamic, we are ready to understand why we need a season of Lent because Lent is a time when we are called to be quite intentional and work on the things that dehumanize us and make us miss the mark of being God's image-bearer and a wise steward of his creation.
But thankfully human sin and death are not the end of the story. God loves us and intends for us to enjoy life with him in the manner he intended when he created us. That is why God called his people Israel to be agents of his healing love and redemption. But Israel turned out to be as badly flawed and broken as the people God called them to help redeem. Instead of being his image-bearers and wise stewards so that God's mercy, justice, righteousness, and love could reign and bring healing and restoration, Israel turned inward on itself and became essentially self-focused. That is why God is so implacably opposed to idol worship, both for his people Israel and for all humans. The desire to worship is built into our genes. We will inevitably worship something and we will become what we worship. It's an ironclad spiritual law.
This wouldn't be a problem if we did not have free will and could only worship God. But we do have free will because God created us for relationship and real relationships can only happen if both parties choose to enter into them freely, our relationship with God included. But too often we end up choosing to worship ourselves and when that happens things get ugly (and scary) in a hurry. Israel's idol worship helped turn them inward on themselves so that they failed to be the wise stewards and God's image-bearers to God's broken and hurting world. In other words, they disobeyed God's calling to them. If you want to understand why God got so angry with his people in the OT and ultimately brought judgment on Israel, you have to understand this dynamic. Likewise with us. When we are more interested in focusing on ourselves instead of on God, how can we ever hope to have a real relationship with God, let alone enjoy life with him?
But God in his eternal mercy and wisdom understood and foresaw all this. None of this caught God by surprise and so as Paul reminds us in tonight's epistle, God became human in Jesus and bore his own righteous judgment on our sins, the very things that make us estranged from God and prevent us from having our lifeline reconnected, so that we could live. Or to use Paul's language, we have been reconciled to God. That's why we call the day Jesus was crucified Good Friday. The whole history of the human race indicates we cannot be the people God created us to be without some radical help and in Christ's death we got that help.
Moreover, Jesus' resurrection announced that God had made good on his promise to usher in God's new creation. We need to keep this hope in Christ firmly in our minds because this is our future and it serves to both remind us of what awaits us and to motivate us. Jesus' death and resurrection remind us that God has overcome evil, sin, and death and promises to bring in a new age, the new heavens and earth, where all evil is banished forever and we will be given new resurrection bodies that are impervious to decay and death. We won't be floating around on clouds playing harps forever—how dreadfully boring that sounds. No, we will be living in a recreated world in the manner God intended for us in the first place. Whatever that looks like, and none of us really knows, it will be glorious beyond our ability to think or imagine because God's glory is beyond our ability to imagine. We didn't do anything to deserve this mind-boggling gift from God, nor can we earn it. It is ours by faith and our faith will always produce a response that anticipates the promise. But one thing we do know. To live in God's new creation means we will need to learn to act accordingly. Just like being a citizen in any country demands certain norms of behavior, so it will be in the new creation. To live in God's sin- and evil-free world means that we will not be turned inward but God-ward. It means we will want more than anything to be obedient to God's will for us so that we can truly be human and reflect God's image outward in God's new creation. And this, of course, is where Lent comes in.
Lent is a time where we announce our intention of becoming fully human and obedient to God in the manner God created us and intends for us. In the death of Christ, we have been reconciled to God and so this is in loving and grateful response to what God has done for us in Christ to end our alienation and exile from him, to reconnect us to our life support system, so to speak. We respond to God's love in Christ for two reasons. First, as we've seen, we believe Jesus' resurrection has ushered in God's promised new creation and so we are called to the task to be his agents of new creation. In other words, we are called to be obedient humans who reflect God's image out into the world so that we can be his true image-bearers. This means we have to root out everything in us that is hostile toward God and which dehumanizes us and makes us turn inward (or worship things that make us turn inward). But because we are so profoundly broken, we have no hope of accomplishing this on our own. Thankfully, however, as Paul reminds us in tonight's epistle lesson, we don't do this on our own. We do this in and through the power of God because we have been given the Holy Spirit to help us with deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus. This is simply another way to describe the process of becoming fully human and obedient once again, just the way Jesus was.
The second reason we respond to God's love in Christ is related to the first. As we have seen, living in God's promised new creation demands that we have a heart and desire that are focused on obeying God, not ourselves. When we identify those things in us that are preventing that from happening, we are developing the needed character to live in the new creation. When we turn inward and worship ourselves by our greed, selfishness, pride, and abuse of our bodies (to name just a few) we are behaving in ways that are contrary to God's good will for us so that we can live as fully human beings. We don't have to find the temptations to do these things. They find us and every one of us knows how easy it is to develop bad habits and bad character.
But there will be no room for these character habits in the new creation. Instead, if we hope to be fully human and obedient to God (even though that is virtually impossible this side of the grave because we are weighed down by our body of sin), we have to work on developing the habits of heart and mind that are conducive to being fully human and obedient to God—love, faith, patience, kindness, compassion, and a passion for justice (to name just a few). That means, of course, that we must work at these things because they do not necessarily come naturally to us. In other words, we must develop the discipline to develop the necessary habits of heart and mind that will be demanded in the new creation. The good news again is that we don't do this on our own, either. We do it only by the power of God through the Holy Spirit living in us. That is why it is a good idea to take up a discipline in Lent that is related to developing these godly character habits, things like prayer and fasting (here is where those prayer beads can help us) and regular reading and study of the Bible (here is where we can help the Spirit help each of us by helping each other keep on task).
What is it in you that you need to put to death (or continue to work on putting to death)? Think deeply on the things we have talked about tonight and ask God to show you what is dehumanizing you and causing you to miss the mark of being fully human and God's image-bearer. Whatever it is, and whatever you give up for Lent, it should be directly related to that which is making you worship yourself or which prevents you from working for God's righteousness and justice. And if you do give up something for Lent with the attitude that you can hardly wait for Easter so that you can resume what you've given up, you've missed the point completely because doing so is effectively telling God you want to continue to worship and obey yourself, not him.
This Lent, we all have to decide whom we will worship. Our natural human tendency is to turn inward and worship ourselves, which, as we have seen, will lead only to our further dehumanization and alienation from God. Sadly, this will result in God's final judgment and our eternal death and permanent separation from God. That, by the way, is why there is such an urgency in Paul's epistle lesson tonight. Not only do we not know the day of our death (when it will be too late for us to turn around), if we don't act decisively to turn around and stop missing the mark, there may come a day when we pass the point of no return where we are unable to correct our course because we have become too hardened and dehumanized.
But when, by God's grace, we choose to worship God and seek to be obedient to his will, we are laying the groundwork not only to cooperate with God here and now, but also to live with him in his new creation forever. We have this hope because we have seen his cross and believe in his promise to heal and be reconciled to us, which of course means we have Good News, now and for all eternity. May God grant you a holy Lent this season so that you come to know fully what it means to love God and be truly human.
In the name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.


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So sorry readers! My posts had been irregular since October. It's been crazy lately! Aside from me recovering my pocket/credit card from my non-cosmetic splurges (that means you, Starbucks Promo!) and saving up for the Christmas Season x iPhone 5 x car maintenance, work had been eating up much of my non-work time (time allocated for my personal/family life, blogging, writing, researching and buying make-up, etc). Even sleep time! I had been sleeping for 2-4 hours a day on an average weekday. >.> It's insane! So my dark circles are more prominent on my pale, anemic skin. :))) And I'm getting bruises all over. Don't know how I got that.
So while I was looking at my backlogs, I decided to talk about Skinfood's Sweet Almond Eyeliner in #1 Almond Black.
I never had appreciated eyeliners. I don't know how to use them, and it gives more emphasis on my dark circles (and I don't need more of that).
When the mall store of Skinfood had a sale, I picked up Sweet Almond Eyeliner in #1 Almond Black. Why? Because I didn't have ANY eyeliners in my make-up arsenal.
This was at 50%, so what have I got to lose?
Not much is said about this product except that it is a:
Liquid eyeliner with soft feeling that contains almond oil
For a 7ml eyeliner that just costed me P362.5 ($8.80), it isn't that bad. But if it was on it regular price, no way. I got this color since it was the only color on sale.
The entire eyeliner bottle is very lightweight and small, so it's very easy to bring around with you. As for the packaging, I love it. It's simple yet classy. I also noticed one thing about this eyeliner. When you shake the bottle, it gives you this clanking sound, as if there's a ball inside. So weird.
The brush holder is very long which provides you a good grip of it. The brush is very thin and soft, so it makes it easy for you to paint on yourself a good line and a wing at the end. But for hands that tremble, this might give you a tough time to get a good, straight line.
The eyeliner itself isn't scented, which is good for those with sensitive noses.
If you're looking a swatch of this, I'm sorry but I can't provide one for you. I bought this last 2010, but I just got a chance to give it a photo op this year. >.<
What I don't like about this eyeliner is that it seems like it's not waterproof. I love rubbing my eyes and they get all water-y from allergies, so this doesn't last long. I get so annoyed at it that I only used it twice. Hey, at least it was easy to remove. Hahaha!
Do I recommend this? I don't see myself using this ever again. I'm very glad I got this from a sale, so no hard feelings on the purchase.
Sigh. Oh well. Skinfood's cosmetics had been a hit or a miss. At least their skin care is good on me. When I enter other Korean mall stores, I would get compliments on my skin, but I can't really tell them that it's because of Skinfood. :)))
How about you? What are your thoughts on eyeliners? Love them or hate them?
For those who would want to know the ingredients of this product, I'm sorry but it didn't come in with one.


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Birzhevaya Square is one of the central squares in Moscow, located in Kitai-gorod district between Ilyinka St., Staropanskiy and Bogoyavlensky lanes. Before the Merchant Exchange was built, the square had been called Ilyinsky Cross. Later it was renamed several times, especially in Soviet times. In the end of the 20th century the square was again called Birzhevaya.
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Kitay-gorod starts at Red Square. Apart from Red Square, the quarter is bordered by the chain of Central Squares of Moscow, notably Theatre Square (in front of Bolshoi Theatre), Lubyanka Square (in front of the KGB headquarters), and Slavyanskaya Square.
Since time immemorial Kitay-gorod has been developing as a trading area. And for centuries it was known as the most prestigious business area of Moscow. Its three main streets — Varvarka, Ilyinka, and Nikolskaya — are lined with banks, shops, and storehouses. There are also lots of historical buildings that relate to the heritage of the federal and global importance now.
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A whole quarter of Kitay-gorod adjacent to the Moskva River and known as Zaryadye (now just Varvarka Street) was demolished in the 20th century, sparing only those structures that were classified as historic monuments. These include the Cathedral of the Sign (1679–84), the Church of All Saints (1680s), St. George's Church on Pskov Hill (1657), St. Maksim's Church (1698), St. Anna's Church at the Corner (1510s), St. Barbara's Church (1796–1804), the Old English Embassy (1550s), and the 16th century Romanov boyar residence. The two last are the museums. You can visit them to see the life of the first Romanovs in the 16-17th centuries.


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It sounds like your main problem is yaw PIDs too high. Cut stabilisation page inner loop yaw PIDs (all numbers) in half (repeat if needed).
This is interesting. BTW Is the tail motor ESC Silabs or Atmel? Flashed?
You can set output page min/neutral/max to something like 1500/1650/1800 to avoid needing to change hardware.
Yes. The only reason I want to change hardware is to avoid the closed source controller. Quote from: TheOtherCliff on April 29, 2017, 06:15:25 pmYou can set output page min/neutral/max to something like 1500/1650/1800 to avoid needing to change hardware.
OK, I have changed back to tip120 transistor for tail motor. I have not modified the OPLink data intervals. Attached are the configuration that can take off, for my own record.Right now, the rubber band ties the transistor to the panel. And the ground pin of the transistor stands up the board and bares the banding of the board upon impacts. So, after a numerous impacts on the walls, the transistor ground pin breaks. I am thinking about using some standoff pillar on the lower 2 corners of the board to stand up the board.


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The Mariel Boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans, who traveled from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between 15 April and 31 October 1980. The term Marielito is used to refer to these refugees. Also, the term Banana Boat is used to describe one of those boats that brought the immigrants, as insinuated by Elvira Hancock.
Right at the start of the Scarface film, Fidel Castro orders that those that don't want to stay in Cuba to go away, We don't want them, we don't need them. It's implied that over 100,000 cubans had migrated to Florida, and among them were criminals and political prisoners like Tony Montana, Manny Ribera, Chi-Chi, Angel Fernández, Emilio Rebenga and others.
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Wilton school is victim of phishing and spoofing
The good thing about a recent cyber security scare at Wilton High School is no one fell for the bait and no identities and data were breached.
But that doesn't mean the hacker(s) didn't try.
About two weeks ago, approximately 15 high school students and parents reported getting suspicious and threatening emails at their school email accounts.
The emails appeared to be coming from themselves, and had the same email address as their accounts. This is known as "spoofing," when a hacker impersonates another device or user on a network.
The sender of the email then indicated they had taken over the victim's email and demanded payment in Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, to restore the victim's contact lists.
This threat turned out to be what is called a "phishing" expedition, where the sender tries to extract personal information from the victim.
No one responded to the hackers and it turned out they did not have access to the email contact list so no data were compromised.
The school district's IT department was alerted about the suspicious emails and took action. "Our IT team and school team responded quickly and effectively," said Fran Kompar, director of digital learning at Wilton public schools.
"As soon as we found out, we contacted families and students and instructed them to change their passwords. We don't know of anyone who responded to the emails," she said.
Kompar has seen an increase in the number of spoofing and phishing incidents this year. "We've ramped up security and filtering," she said.
Spoofing, phishing and other types of cyber attacks are happening in school districts across the country. In some cases, the cyber breaches have led to "ransomware threats" where the hacker actually invades a computer system and holds information on it hostage unless a "ransom" payment is made to an untraceable address in Bitcoin.
Ransomware attacks have been reported by Connecticut schools in Middletown, Wallingford, New Haven, Pomfret, and most recently, Wolcott.
"It's important that staff and students are trained to know what this is and we are now working on a training module as well as software that has a training program on it," Kompar said.
The district's IT staff is also working with Google, G Suite, and Google Docs to review any cyber security vulnerabilities with those popular programs.
"Cyber security is a big topic with all technology directors and we are trying to keep ahead of it," Kompar said.
She said all last year the schools had fewer cyber security incidents than they did in just the first month of the current school year. "We need to step up training of students, staff and parents, and our own systems," she said.
To keep students and parents aware of cyber security issues, the district's website, wiltonps.org, has information on digital learning, data security and privacy.
"In this era, we cannot overstate the importance of cyber security. It's important for us to remain ever vigilant and be aware of actions and trends. Our IT department is working with students and families to learn how to handle these situations now that they are more prevalent," said Wilton High School Principal Robert O'Donnell.


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Welcome to the Student Office!
The Student Office is located on the ground floor of Block 4A at Kräftriket. The same building contains the Lecture Hall (Aulan) and most of the Department's classrooms. At the Student Office you can register for courses (in cases where you can't register online), get study certificates and obtain help with other administrative matters concerning your studies. Here you will also find timetables, course programs and reading lists for all the Department's courses as well as information about the Department's activities in general.
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Register online
Since the autumn of 2015 the Department uses registration online for the courses you have applied for via antagning.se or universityadmissions.se, which means that you register for the courses at the Web service My Studies (www.student.ladok.se/student/loggain) yourself. In order to reach this site you need to activate your university account. For more information, see IT for students. If you run into any troubles when registering, or if you need to re-register you can always contact the Student Office.
Application for credit transfers and validation of "real competence"
- Guidelines for credit transfers and validation at the Department of Oriental Studies (pdf), see: Riktlinjer för tillgodoräknande och validering vid institutionen för orientaliska språk
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Fill in the form and the relevant documents, put them in an envelope addressed to Director of Studies, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies and hand it in at the Student Office.
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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our family. The girls loved Nana and Papa's house and all the older cousins to play with. However, coming back was even more fun b/c Christmas decorating time was soon to follow.
(tea party with the cousins)
I love Christmas! Dave is always rolling his eyes at me when I sneak Christmas music before Thanksgiving. Eloise and Lily love the Hippo Song and this last week while listening to it on repeat we hung our snowflakes in the window and decorated the tree.
Our tree is 3 ft tall and artificial. This is a BIG problem in my family. My parents own a tree farm and usually bring us our tree. (as we speak my mom is assembling a swag to add some "realness" to my Christmas greens). Two years ago we were unable to have a tree b/c of how small our apartment was and so I bought this little tree to help bring a little Christmas into our house. This is the 3rd year we have used it and I'm hoping to do away with it next year. But for now it is adorned with creative ornaments both received and bought.
Eloise set up her "people". (Fisher Price Nativity). She plays with it all the time and gets a little annoyed when Lily takes off with one of her "people". Mama also has her "people". My nativity is set up next to the tree as a reminder to me of what this season truly represents, Christ's birth. We are excited to begin teaching Eloise about this joyous celebration.
Another exciting event of the season. The Pottery Barn Chairs have arrived. My parents are down this weekend and the PB Chairs were shipped here. My dad put them together and we had a mock christmas with the girls. We were able to take them up and wait until Christmas morning b/c we don't have a car big enough to haul them back. They LOVE them and so does mom. Here they are enjoying their first morning playing with them.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Hello Christmas
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our family. The girls loved Nana and Papa's house and all the older cousins to play with. However, coming back was even more fun b/c Christmas decorating time was soon to follow.
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2 comments:
- Cutzi said...
Yay for Christmas! Now, what's this hippo song? I think I need to find it.
And a tree farm!? You're the luckiest girl ever! I fantasize about owning a tree farm - I just try not to think about all the hard work that must go into it. They just grow magically right? And then it snows and you make a little hot cocoa and people pay you to cut them down? ;-)
- December 2, 2007 at 8:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Awww...the girls look so cute in their new chairs! Just precious! I love the little people nativity scene!
- December 2, 2007 at 5:29 PM


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By CRAIG HALEY
(Stats Perform) - Schools below the FBS have a hard-enough time getting one prospect invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, so having three is extraordinary.
It has occurred on the FCS level this year, but not with one of the powers that usually come to mind, such as national champ North Dakota State or runner-up James Madison.
Rhode Island has three of the 12 former FCS players who help comprise 337 overall prospects at the annual pre-draft spectacle, which runs through March 2 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. With wide receivers Isaiah Coulter and Aaron Parker and offensive guard Kyle Murphy, URI is the first FCS school to boast a trio since Jacksonville State in 2017.
Making it more surprising for the flagship public university in the smallest U.S. state is it has only one winning season in the last 18 years. But that banner 2018 campaign also suggests how the trio of Combine invites helped raise the program's stature.
"I think that there's a tremendous amount of pride in our program to be able to send three quality kids out to the Combine, have an opportunity to go on and play," said seventh-year coach Jim Fleming. "It's also an incredible tribute to the work ethic and the focus and the preparation that these three kids have put into it to achieve this opportunity."
Parker and Murphy were first-team All-Americans as seniors last season, while Coulter - who is a cousin to Parker - went more under the radar, earning second-year All-CAA honors as a junior before he declared for the draft as an underclassman.
The 6-foot-2, 204-pound Parker was recruited out of Maryland to play outside linebacker, but he also was an option quarterback in high school, and the Rhode Island coaches quickly decided to utilize his great hands and speed at wide receiver. Excellent at creating separation on routes, Parker caught 216 passes for 3,460 yards and 30 touchdowns in 44 career games.
"His interest in getting better every day is very evident in terms of the work effort and interest in looking into the minute details associated with his craft," Fleming said.
"He's an alpha. He is a guy that is a catalyst for our entire football program, just the way he practices and plays. He's got a tremendous amount of emotion, so he'll be missed."
Coulter followed Parker to URI and is a vertical burner who joined his cousin as a 1,000-yard receiver this past season while he caught 72 passes and eight touchdowns. Although smaller than Parker at 6-2, 190, Coulter attacks the ball in contested coverage. Fleming supports Coulter's early entry into the draft, but preferred that he return for his senior season to mature more physically and perhaps become the top offensive player of the year in the CAA.
"I predicted it: the first time this kid touches the ball, he'll score a touchdown," Fleming said. "Sure enough, we threw a quick screen to him at Central Michigan three years ago and he took it (56 yards) to the house. He continued to grow in his role here, significant impact player for us. The most impressive probably was watching him play out against Virginia Tech (in 2019) because he really might have been the best player on the field at that time."
Murphy grew up less than an hour's drive north of URI in Attleboro. He gained experience at all positions on the Rams' offensive line, but at 6-3, 307, he will settle into being a guard at the next level. He is athletic and plays with an intelligent style.
"He's a no-nonsense guy," Fleming said, "that gives great effort on the day-to-day in his preparation both in the weight room and the offseason and, of course, on the football practice field. But when it came to game time, there was one more notch that he took things up on a Saturday. He's a finisher, a guy that just wants to finish every play."
Scouts routinely visited the URI last season to get to know the Rams' pro prospects, but little compares to the Combine, where all 32 NFL teams take an up-close-and-personal look at players through measurements and medical examinations, psychological testing, interviews and on-field workouts.
"Way back when, we had the opportunity to take very good raw material and be able to develop them to a level that gives them an opportunity to go on and chase a dream," Fleming said, "and it also allows us to be able to present URI and give us some street credit to the fact if in fact you come here, you can get to the NFL based upon your performance."
FCS Players Invited to 2020 NFL Scouting Combine
Quarterback: Kevin Davidson, Princeton
Running back: James Robinson, Illinois State
Wide receiver: Isaiah Coulter, Rhode Island; Aaron Parker, Rhode Island
Tight end: Charlie Taumoepeau, Portland State; Adam Trautman, Dayton
Offensive guard: Kyle Murphy, Rhode Island
Offensive tackle: Alex Taylor, South Carolina State
Defensive end: Derrek Tuszka, North Dakota State
Linebacker: Dante Olson, Montana
Safety: Jeremy Chinn, Southern Illinois
Punter: Alex Pechin, Bucknell
Updated February 24, 2020