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Offseason checklist for ASU football
Arizona State beat Navy to such a degree, one might feel unpatriotic watching the carnage. Six-hundred yards of offense on one side of the ball. The starting defense only gave up one touchdown. This was a mauling.
It's easier to describe the times at the beginning of a Dickens' novel than to really quantify the size of this win. On the one hand you beat a service academy in a lower-tier bowl game, so it's not that big of a win. On the other hand, you had a national TV spotlight to showcase a 600-yard offense to recruits while showing any teenage defenders an attacking/hard-hitting defense. From that stand point, and compared to the alternative of losing, this was a huge game for ASU.
The deep ball to Rashad Ross has been open all year. The problem has been the inability to complete the play. Ross' best route running and, simply holding onto the ball, came at a time where wide receiver recruits are looking at their televisions thinking, "that could be me." Although Marion Grice won the offensive MVP, chicks dig the long ball, and so do recruits.
ASU fans should feel great about the direction of the program. Eight wins. Beating U of A. Finishing one second behind winning the Pac-12 South. A returning QB who's excellent when judged through the prism of college and not the NFL. A returning tight end who is putting up numbers to compare to the great tight ends of the past at ASU. Grice and D.J. Foster returning to give punch to the backfield.
However, there's still so much to prove. Where is the signature non-conference win? Who was the victim of national noise-making victory? When the biggest fight of the year comes against Washington in a board room for who goes to the Vegas Bowl, there's a lot of ground that still needs to be covered.
So what needs to happen in the offseason? Here's the checklist:
Don't talk the big game. Do it.
I guarantee some small programs have talked to offensive coordinator Mike Norvell hoping for him to become their head coach. I would be willing to bet the farm that some major schools, including recent national champions, have made a run at hiring Norvell to run their offense. Consistency is a huge key to keeping the train on the track.
If you're a major program, your major assistants leave for major head coaching jobs. If you're small-time, your assistants leave for the job before the next job. Will Muschamp left Texas as an assistant to become the head coach of Florida. If Mike Norvell leaves to become a coordinator somewhere else, it shows ASU didn't want to commit the resources to become a championship team. Sign the man to big money. Then announce it to the world every other young assistant coach thinks ASU is the place to be.
Where do you think these revenues come from? ASU did nothing to shed the national label of having a weak fan base. If you can't sell out a 10,000 allotment of Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl tickets, why would a higher bowl want you? There are always ties between schools for different bowl positions. The winner is determined by one thing: fan support. When you don't buy tickets, bowls don't listen to the school's administration politicking for a higher bowl. It's clear by the lack of support that ASU fans love mediocrity because not enough of them want to do what it takes to get out of it.
Do it again. Have a similar season again. Maybe add a non-conference road win or beat USC. Matching this year is important because you won games with great athletes. Dennis Erickson had a philosophy that he would just out-athlete you and deal with the discipline problems later. Graham did a brilliant job molding undisciplined athletes into principled, selfless men. He deserves a ton of credit but so do Brandon Magee and Cameron Marshall. This season wouldn't have gone as well without those two leaders. In year two of the Graham regime, it will be much easier from a discipline and installation standpoint, but Graham must replace the athleticism he was given.
Do it again. Read defenses even faster. Slow the game down even more. Improve your accuracy despite the fact that it's already a strength. Leading as underdog is not that difficult. Everyone looks at the underdog as "one of us." You are no longer the "long-shot" QB coming into camp. You are the undisputed leader of the 2013 Arizona State Sun Devils. You must act like the leader without changing anything about your personality. You still must be able to be "one of the guys" while all those guys are following you. No single player's level of improvement will have a bigger impact on the Pac-12 South race than Taylor Kelly's.
Change nothing about yourself but never forget one thing, they're 19! No matter how confident you are that your team can convert aggressive plays from inside your 5-yard line at the end of the first half, they're still 19. They will screw it up from time to time. I know it's hard but you must take the power out of their hands.
Talk more ASU on your talk show. Even if the show is not a charity event that talks about every team evenly. Even if the show topics are dictated by ratings and ticket sales. Begin each season with a fresh mind. Allow the fans to lose coverage through their lack of support as opposed to going into the year negatively assuming ASU fans will never earn it.
Drop any remaining grudges from the Erickson regime. It's not the current regime's fault that Erickson ignored you. He was wrong to think he was the gift of Southern California recruiting. He was wrong to dismiss most Arizona talent as not worth his time. Don't hold all of ASU responsible for the actions of a few. Judge this coaching staff on the same standards you judge yourself.
2013 will either be step two in the process of building a champion or just an upwards climb of a roller coaster with the hill on the other side.


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A Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy shot at a man suspected of using a stolen credit card at the Woodlands Mall Wednesday afternoon.
Deputies said the suspect was seen by mall security using the stolen card at a Macy's shortly before noon. When officers attempted to approach the suspect in a vehicle, he backed the car into a mall security vehicle. As the suspect drove toward the deputy, the deputy fired his gun one time hitting the vehicle's front windshield. The suspect was not hit.
Authorities said the suspect, 41-year-old Tuad Damonn Washington , of Houston, was then taken into custody.
Washington will be charged with aggravated assault.
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*The Companion Bible (A.K.A. "The Bullinger Bible") is a work by Dr. E.W. Bullinger (1837-1913), and is the King James text (Un-altered) of the Authorized Version of 1611.
Best is to spend 2 minutes on this site to see what's so special (or not) about itCompanion BibleQuote*The Companion Bible (A.K.A. "The Bullinger Bible") is a work by Dr. E.W. Bullinger (1837-1913), and is the King James text (Un-altered) of the Authorized Version of 1611.Main index: http://www.companionbiblecondensed.comLook at page 1 and 2 for a good impression: http://www.companionbiblecondensed.com/OT/Genesis...pdfAll 66 books are .pdf files that you can save.Problems saving or you want all books combined in one big file? Ask.
You have a printed version Paul?I ordered one too. Will take 6-12 weeks for shipping acording to Amazon.The many reviews on Amazon where very positive about the translation itself but the quality of the printing seems very bad.Is that true?
The only real problem is with the printing/binding. You can rub your finger accross the page and see the ink on your finger.
BUT The printing is bad. Ink Offsetting on the pages. I had to go to a different bible to fine out what it said because some of the page was missing. They must have ran out of ink. The company that printed the book must not have a quality control. Its the worst printed book I have seen.
I am even more disappointed than I was when I first took it out of the box. I have spent the last few days reading my Companion Bible and doing some bible marking. First, I went to highlight a verse and the ink in the verse smudged across the rest of the text. Finally, I took a break and went to the restroom, there was ink ALL over my face from the cheap printing.
There was one thing that I was GREATLY disappointed in and that is the quality of the paper and the printing. It(I'm talking about the Genuine Leather, thumb-indexed version)is NOTHING like all of the newer versions of the bibles currently on the market. I am big on bible marking and I am afraid that this bible simply will not hold up. The paper is VERY thin, almost like a sort of tissue. It really broke my heart when I opened the box and saw this! The printing must not have been changed since Bullinger himself wrote this! It looks like text straight from a type writer!I am SO, SO disappointed with the quality of the printing of this bible, even the ribbons(bookmarks)are a bit cheap!
The Companion Bible (Bullinger's) is not the neXt Bible.
"We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment."
I very much like electronic versions. I do a lot of searching and cross referencing in my Bible software.But printed version are better for reading.The problem is that I almost need an extra house to store all my books...So lately I'm looking into e-paper. It seems to read exactly like paper. Problem is that I like see things before I buy. Bit weird but many e-paper devices aren't shipped outside the USA.....Would be great for traveling and would reduce paper versions.
Dear brother Whitewings
I just use one Bible the NASV electronic version with the 1901 and KJV versions included. What's more I don't need a 40 roomed mansion to accommodate it as it fits neatly on to a single CD.
I have followed this thread and believe me I have never read such a load of baloney in all my born days, but it serves one good purpose for which I am greateful.
It goes to prove the wisdom in the proverb 14:12 & 16:25
It will probably get you to the moon but it will get you nowhere in God's realm, I can assure you. This comes to you and your readers in love, no offence is intended.
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Can you give me the ISBN number then I'm sure I've got the right stuff and can burn the rest.
If vanity was a sin.....
The only thing it proves you judge what you don't know.
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CONCORD, N.C. – As the battle begins to intensify for the coveted WKA Speedway Pavement Series national titles, racers in the northeast have a couple options this weekend as Sandy Hook Speedway in Street, Maryland will be hosting a Pavement Divisional this Saturday, followed by their Super Regional event on Sunday.
With King George Speedway in Virginia already wrapping up its Super Regional last month, many drivers will be converging on the Maryland facility for a crack at the top spot on the podium, thus guaranteeing them a spot in the starting field for their respective classes at the Chapel Hill Raceway Grand Nationals in Great Valley, New York August 10-12
Additionally, the Oakland Valley Raceway Park in Cuddebackville, New York will host the latest round of their divisional program. The scheduled Super Regional is slated for July 29, just a week or so before the Grand National event.
While winners of the respective classes gain an added advantage by virtue of their victory, the door is open to all competitors on the Grand National weekend to come and run against the very best in the country.
Action at Chapel Hill will begin with practice on Friday, culminating with the $500 to win Charlie Hodge/ Joe Moore Memorial Champ Heavy Money Race sponsored by Bonsignore Kart Shoppe. 2nd through 5th will receive $300, $250, $150, and $100 respectively. Anyone wishing to sponsor a lap in the race can contact Joe Hodge at (516) 567-1122. Race Day #1 will provide a full day of action for Animal competitors while Sunday will serve as Flathead Day with championships on the line for all competitors.
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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for April 23, 2014. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the Crime tab.
Michael James Mitchell, 59 trespassing after notice, obtaining drugs by fraud first offense
Charis Mitchelle Joy, 21 shoplifting $1,000 or less
Brittney Diane Barrett, 28 obtaining drugs by fraud first offense
Brennen Jogn Gutierrez, 19 driving under the influence
Bradley Edward Calhoun, 23 simple possession of marijuana second offense
Joseph Robert LaFleur, 33 criminal domestic violence two counts, malicious injury to personal property
Tony Odell Jones, 46 violation of an order of protection misdemeanor, unlawful use of a telephone misdemeanor, family court failure to appear, contempt of magistrates court, return of suspended license tag commitment, failure to surrender drivers license commitment
Stephan Cole Bogdansky, 23 criminal domestic violence
James Hubert Wright Jr., 24 possession of less than 1 gram of methamphetamine or cocaine base first offense commitment, possession of other controlled substance in schedule I to V first offense commitment
John Wayne Hubbard, 44 forgery less than $10,000
Lee Anthony Holmes, 34 operating an uninsured vehicle commitment, giving false information commitment
Aaron Keith Steele, 24 malicious injury to animals or property $1,000 or less commitment
Belinda Jean Mafnas Wall, 52 driving under the influence
William Glen Hewitt Jr., 20 possession of a controlled substance third offense two counts, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, minor purchase or possession of beer/wine, possession of drug paraphernalia, open container of beer/wine
John Francis Fogarty III, 22 receiving/possession of stolen goods
Isaac Justin Horne, 25 trespassing after notice
Jason Nathaniel Tripp, 36 driving under the influence first offense bench warrant, driving under suspension license not suspended for driving under the influence first offense bench warrant
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Texas A&M operates two branch campuses and three overseas centers.
The Texas A&M University at Galveston campus opened in 1964. With a current enrollment of about 2,000, degrees are awarded from Texas A&M University. The Galveston campus offers 10 marine-oriented bachelor's degrees and a master's degree in marine biology, marine resources management and maritime administration and logistics. The university also grants a doctoral degree in marine biology through the Marine Biology Interdisciplinary Degree Program in cooperation with Texas A&M University and Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.
Also a component of the Galveston campus, the Texas Maritime Academy is one of six seacoast maritime academies in the U.S. and the only maritime academy on the Gulf of Mexico coast. It provides opportunities for students to learn how to operate and maintain an ocean-going vessel. At the conclusion of the program, graduates can become licensed as officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine, or serve in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Naval Reserves or U.S. Coast Guard.
In 2003, Texas A&M and the Qatar Foundation for Science and Community Development entered into an agreement to bring Texas A&M's top-ranked engineering programs to the Middle East by establishing a branch campus in Doha, Qatar, funded by Qatar Foundation. Today, Texas A&M University at Qatar enrolls more than 350 engineering students from more than 20 countries and recently moved into one of the largest and most advanced engineering education facilities in the world.
In addition to the branch campuses, in 2009, Texas A&M opened the Soltis Center for Research and Education in San Isidro, Costa Rica, which serves students, faculty and researchers year around.


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Obama on golf with Tiger
President Obama on Wednesday said hitting the links with Tiger Woods was like playing a golfer from "another planet."
"He plays a different game than I do. He's on another planet," Obama said in an interview with the local ABC affiliate in San Francisco.
They are the first public remarks on the topic since the president played with Woods last weekend at the Floridian golf club in Palm City. Woods said afterward that the president "hit a few" good shots and the experience was "pretty cool."
Obama said he wasn't nervous about teeing off with Woods, and he was pretty sure Woods wasn't either.
"I don't think either party was nervous. He knew that I wasn't a big threat to his world ranking and I knew that I better keep my day job,"
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Never lose your keys again with the Hone keychain
The Hone us keychain accessory for iPhone and iPad, now on Kickstarter, that aims to eliminate the problem of losing car, house or any other type of keys. Everyone has experienced the panic -- you're running late, searching for your keys, can't find them anywhere, time is ticking away... Well, instead of checking and re-checking the same places, over and over again, desperately hoping you somehow missed your keys the first ten times around, the Hone offers a better, more technological solution.
A small Bluetooth device for your keychain, the Hone connects to your iPhone 4S or new iPad via the latest Bluetooth 4.0 low energy protocols. When you lose your keys you just simply fire up the companion app and it will trigger an audible alarm and flashing lights. Even better, it has a built in proximity sensor so if you can't see you keys, walking around and getting nearer to them will change the way the Hone alerts you too.
The Hone runs for up to six months on one replaceable battery and has a range of up to 150 feet. The makers of Hone will also make the device hackable in the future by releasing the devices UDID and Bluetooth profile. This means that you could hack it and use it for a different solution if you wanted a low energy Bluetooth device for something else.
If you want to get on board with this project, you can be an early adopter with a pledge of $40. The Hone still has 22 days left to run but has already reached its fundng target of $46,000.
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Never lose your keys again with the Hone keychain
Im buying one of these but for a different purpose! I will have it glued to my wife's purse and set it off everytime we walk out of a store with security bars :lol: :twisted:
Umm. Why is this dude even ON kickstarter??? His sister is Kat Dennings, star of the "2 Broke Girls" tv show. I'm darn sure she makes MORE than enough money to float her bro to fund the startup and development of this product.
Btw, Kat? You're amazing. :-)
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WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
"People make me happy.. not places.. people"
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson
"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself" - Tony Benn
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
RIP Craigos
& have at you, chaps. Get ****ing stuck in.
Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"The PFA does not represent players when they have broken the law and been convicted on non-football matters."
- Gordon Taylor in 2009 following Marlon King's release after a prison sentence for sexual assault & ABH
Grecian said he wanted to be reminded when a new round of this came up btw.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
Richmond to beat Port Adelaide.
Umm, collingwood, awaits reason I can't pick them.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Not sure if Youvers was actually tipping or just having a poke at the Bombers, but it's a moot point and they were dicked anyway.
Joining him in taking an early shower are the five of us who backed Augustus's boys.
uvelocity: esselol
superkingdave: Richmond
benchmark00: Ninthmond
BoyBrumby: Richmond
Somerset: Richmond
Redbacks: Tigers
morgieb: Fremantle
ripper868: Lions
Riggins*: Adelaide
Burgey*: North Melolbourne
biased indian*: adelaide
grecian: collingwood
Qualifying Finals
Hawthorn vs. Collingwood (MCG)
Adelaide vs. Sydney (Football Park)
Elimination Finals
West Coast vs. North Melbourne (Subiaco)
Geelong vs. Fremantle (MCG)
Yay, I know more about this sport than Benchmark
Oh, Adelaide please.
West Coast.
RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy
Proudly supporting the #2 cricketer of all time.
Am I allowed to change my pick, or does it lock at the start of the round?
i feel like i shouldn't say this out loud around benchmark, but i actually think the brayshaw's are going to get up.
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Vermont cancer patients and their caregivers are receiving one-to-one support from those who have been there before in a unique volunteer program in our state. Started four years ago, Kindred Connections recognized a need for peer support for cancer patients and their caregivers in Vermont. Established by the Vermont Cancer Survivor Network (VCSN), this unique Vermont program's motto is "We listen, we help." The goal of Kindred Connections is to match those who are currently dealing with cancer, whether as patients or caregivers, with a volunteer supporter who has faced many of the same challenges and understands.
Kindred Connections started as a small group in Central Vermont and has rapidly grown to include chapters in Franklin and Lamoille Counties, Newport, the Mad River Valley and now Chittenden County.
Kindred Connections volunteers are trained to listen to patients and their families and to provide assistance. Whether it's to listen to patient and caregiver feelings, worries, concerns, to accompany someone on medical visits, to help them maneuver through the world of cancer treatment, do food shopping, or simply to provide some laughter and friendship during a trying time, Kindred Connections volunteers are there.
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COLUMBIA CITY — It was more than three months ago that 18 individuals were arrested for various crimes related to dogfighting in Whitley County.
Since that time, two dogs have been euthanized, one more could be, and most of the court proceedings are still in the pretrial phase.
Two of the three dogs were euthanized in previous months, according to court documents which included an expense report from the Whitley County Humane Shelter.
The third dog belongs to Eddie Smith, who was the person residing at the home where the arrests occurred. He was given six charges, including three felonies.
The remaining dog is at the Whitley County Humane Shelter. Shelter officials indicated they can no longer care for the dog and no other shelter will pay for her. If Smith does not pay for her costs of care, the dog will have to put down.
Smith has a jury trial set for Aug. 7 and Aug. 8.
Excell L. Hazzard, 45, of Chicago, was the only individual who pleaded guilty in Whitley County Superior Court in January. He was given six months in Whitley County Jail by Judge Doug Fahl, with six months of his sentence suspended. Most inmates only serve half of their sentence if they have good behavior, thus, Hazzard was released from Whitley County Jail Thursday.
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Named All-Academic by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) … Tallied 13 goals in 28 attempts for a .464 shooting percentage … Scored two goals against then 20th-ranked Hartwick (2/4/12), Occidental (3/3/12) and La Verne (4/22/12).
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Cinebarre kicked off the summer with a Blue Hawaiian Luau featuring a live performance by David Maraks of the Beach Boys and Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean and the Surf City Allstars on June 8. The concert was followed by an outdoor screening of the Elvis Presley movie "Blue Hawaii."
Concert-goers wore their favorite Hawaiian shirts. There was a limbo contest, a "Wipe Out" drum contest, a hula hoop challenge and an air guitar contest in which the winner received an autographed Stratocaster.
Adults played beer pong and kids enjoyed a dunking booth, a bounce house and corn pone games.
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I have 2 flavors,, Yugo 11-49 mfg still sealed,, and the copro projectile ones in the bandoliers,, there marked 7.9/FS/1943/ T*u C what ever that head stamp is. I don't know. Those were opened last year and have been stored in ammo cans,, and as you can see there super clean. I have 500+ in bandoliers and 500 Yugo in 15rnd box's both on strippers. I should have the rest of the Yugo by next Thursday or so. When I pick those up I'll fill the Yugo orders for those then, bandolier-d ones available now.
I am going to offer these up in 100 rnd lots, and 100 limit per member if there's a high demand,, if not I'll sell each member more if they want. I'm offering this up to the long time members ONLY,,,at $6 per box of 15. Please only members with minimum of 100 post need request,, been burnt by a couple newbie's in the past so,,,it is what it is. Sorry , new guys.
I know some of you were looking so I grabbed the extra case for you guys if you need some. I'm only going to make a dollar on each box to cover my driving across-ed the state to get them but I think it's fair considering what I've seen them for lately. Hope it helps out you folks that can't find any mil-serp. stuff.
Of course I'll need ammo disclaimer or FOID copy with payment to cover my butt and make the law happy.


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English's lack of inflectional morphology has consequences. One of them is the attendant need for a fairly rigid syntax, the structural position of morphemes within a sentence, to convey the necessary information needed to decode the sentence. If you're writing a poem in Latin, you have remarkable freedom to move words around within a sentence, as (usually) the inflections carry the information necessary to determine the relationships within the words. Case markings, for example, denote subject-object relationships. But in English, we only have case markings for pronouns (which here I will use to refer to personal pronouns)-- he/him, she/her, I/me. (In fact English had a broader case structure, but it was lost in the transition from Old English to Middle English; a vestigial example is found in the slowly dying "whom.") We also only have gender in singular pronouns and not in our verbs or nouns that aren't semantically assigned to one gender or sex. (By semantic gender I mean referring to actual gender or sex in the real world, and not purely linguistic gender, as in the assignation of gender to inanimate objects in languages like Spanish.)
Plural pronouns lack gender inflection, given that referring to any group might necessarily include people of both sexes. (Although note that there's no reason we couldn't have a plural pronoun that referred only to a specific sex or gender.) You/your, we/our, they/their-- each is plural and gender indeterminate. Gendered possessives are found only in the singular-- he/his, she/hers. We can say, therefore, say "every girl threw her ball" or "every boy baked his cake" without trouble. But what about possessives that consider both genders? What do we make of a sentence like "Every child lost their marbles?" It's a question I considered for my semester project in a class in generative grammars and minimalist syntax last semester. I'm not a linguist myself, though I am in a related field, so please take this post with the requisite grains of salt. Here's what I found.
Pronoun X
We have this problem in English: we're lacking a particular pronoun, the third person gender-neutral singular. The conventional way around this is to use their: "every student picked up their paper." But this usage drives prescriptivist grammarians crazy, as "every" is singular, which we can tell from how "student" inflects as singular. (It's "every student," after all, not "every students.") The typical advice is to instead us "his or her" in place of their. That's a technically satisfying answer, but as anyone who actually uses English knows, it's imperfect: it sounds clunky, likely due to its phonological distance from the other possessive pronouns like I, me, she, he, you-- each of which has only one syllable. That's not an irrelevant concern. Phonological symmetry is actually an important consideration when it comes to certain categories of words.
Urs Weidman, in a chapter from a 1984 edited collection, called this missing pronoun "Pronoun X." He defined its features as follows:
◦Syntactic Class: Determiner/Pronoun
◦Prosodic quality: Unstressed
◦Person: Third
◦Number: Indefinite
◦Semantic Class: Human
◦Gender: Dual
The semantic class of "human" listed there is important, as it forbids the use of "its." "Its" carries no gender distinction but is not eligible to refer to human subjects. As Weidman points out, there have been historical efforts to generate the missing pronoun in order to solve this problem-- "ho," "thon," "he'er," etc. Unfortunately, the determiners (a syntactic category of which this type of pronoun is a part) are a functional category-- that is, they are used primarily to structure language and not to deliver semantic or propositional content, which is the role of the lexical categories. You can invent new verbs and nouns-- we do it essentially every day-- but not, say, new articles. So these replacements have never caught on, and lacking the necessary term, we've regularly used "their."
Pronouns, Anaphors, and Binding Theory
To grasp what's happening with singular "their," it's necessary to talk about pronouns, anaphors, and antecedents, and a relationship dictated within them called binding theory. Binding theory describes the conditions under which certain pronominals and anaphors (such as himself/herself, etc.) can occur in English. When two terms are semantically linked to indicate the same real-world reference, such as in "Freddie deBoer" and "me," we say they are coindexed. Terms that are coindexed can be broad/grouped/undefined, but they still refer to some consistent referent.
How does binding theory operate? Binding theory dictates situations in which two terms are coindexed and one c-commands the other. C-command is a structural relationship in syntax that helps determine a broad range of operations; understanding c-command requires an understanding of syntax tree structure that isn't really important for what we're doing here. If you'll forgive a bit of squishiness, it'll be easier to talk about subject-object relationships. So one rule of English binding theory is that it permits reflexive anaphors to be taken as objects by their own coindexes-- "John loved himself"-- but not personal pronouns-- "*John loved him," where "him" refers to John. Similarly, pronominals can't take their own coindexes as objects-- "*He loved John," where "he" refers to John. So far, so good.
Antecedents, variables and the problem with "gender neutral"
I've used the terms "gender neutral" or "gender indeterminate" to refer to the use of plural possessives like "their." But a little investigation reveals that we don't actually get the "their" problem with every gender neutral antecedent. For example, a term like "student" doesn't provoke that construction by itself; we don't see people saying "The student picked up their paper" where "their" is coindexed with "student." What provokes the construction, rather, is the presence of a quantifier, such as "each," "every," and "some." Those particular terms are unusual in that they are syntactically singular but refer to a range of possibilities-- "each student," after all, refers to students as individuals but applies to a group of individuals.Those are the conditions under which we are likely to get the problematic "their."
What we're talking about here, technically, are bound variables. Pronouns are variable because they can refer to different real-world referents (that is, they can be indexed with different terms, depending on context). Typically, pronouns don't require a specific syntactic position. You can say "when did he get here?" without ever having said who he is. This makes them free variables. Anaphora, however, require a certain locality to their antecedents. You can't just sprinkle "himself"s just anywhere. They therefore are bound. The kind of antecedents that I've been referring to, the quantifier-gender neutral noun combinations like "each student," are bound because they have a necessary structural position (c-command) and variable because they refer to no particular individual. They are syntactically limited but semantically fungible, an unusual case. (A deep consideration of bound variables by Barbara Partee can be found here in PDF form.)
The Syntactic Conclusion
My final conclusion, then, was as follows: "Their" with a singular coindex is a bound variable that must be c-commanded by a Spec where the DET is a quantifier that merges with a singular NP that does not designate a particular gender. That is, we see the use of "their" as a singular possessive pronoun only in cases where the object using "their" follows a subject which contains a quantifier that inflects as singular but refers to any individual of a possible range of choices. I've provided a syntax tree of such a sentence below.
The Grammar Wars
All of that is long-winded and technical. The practical question persists, however: what to do about "Everyone needs to keep their hands inside the moving vehicle at all times"? The syntactitians have it easy; their definition of grammaticality is simply "that which is recognized by a native speaker as a possible utterance," and considering that this type of construction is voiced all the time, it qualifies. But prescriptivists grammars hate it, because of the pairing of a plural pronoun with a singular antecedent. On the other extreme, the living language crowd says that anything goes.
I am not, myself, either a rigid prescriptivist nor a pure "anything goes" type. The plain fact is that language lives and evolves, and trying to hold onto one version of the language is like trying to grab a puff of smoke. Yet I also think that simply saying "hey, language evolves, so get over it" is too easy, and threatens our ability to use language in a specific and nuanced way. Too often, in my estimation, the anything goes types actually become their own kind of prescriptivists, with whatever current construction they like becoming the right way. After all, if anything goes, the traditionalists are perfectly free to prefer the stricter interpretation. And if we want to be adaptive and cosmopolitan, we shouldn't borrow prescriptivist readings when it suits us. When dealing with scolds, it's nice to be able to point out that "they" was used as a singular pronoun for centuries before anybody said that you couldn't. But we shouldn't be tempted to take that as dispositive when we are trying to avoid exactly that kind of rigidity.
For myself, I try to keep my scoldings about grammar and vocabulary limited to the cases where there seems to be a genuine threat to meaning and specificity. For example, I would never let a "your/you're" problem go in a paper I was grading; there are a myriad situations in which such substitution can obscure meaning. I'm also touchy about the meanings of many words, as lexical drift tends to move away from specificity, and specificity is the key to writing well. I don't want "literally" to become some meaningless intensifier because when it does, I no longer have a word that means "in the narrow denotative sense." When "ironic" comes to mean simply weird or funny, a particular and important idea is lost into a vague mush. Some things I'm willing to let go of, and some I'm willing to fight for.
Using "their" for singular antecedents is one that I think people need to just give up on. As I've argued, it only occurs in a very limited set of circumstances, and those circumstances uery unlikely to produce confusion about what is meant. We all know what is intended in such a statement, to the point that most of us don't even notice it in spoken conversation. And as we lack a satisfying alternative, the usage is likely to persist. That's not to say that you shouldn't understand what the "rule" is, if only to be able to satisfy those gatekeepers that police it. (Don't use it in your resume, don't use it in your grade school application.) But this is an example of a gate that's not worth defending anymore. I no longer correct it on my own students' papers. Those who want to persist with "his or her" can go right ahead, but perhaps it's better to leave others alone. Everybody can make their own choice.
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Carnie, Andrew. Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 2nd edition. Malden: Blackwell, 2007. Print.
Chomsky, Noam. "On binding." Linguistic Inquiry 11.1 (1980): 239-245. Print.
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Evans, Gareth. "Pronouns, Quantifiers, and Relative Clauses." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7.3 (1977): 467-536. Print.
Partee, Barbara. Compositionality in Formal Semantics - Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee. ed. Barbara H. Partee. Malden: Blackwell,1978. Print.
Radford, Andrew. Syntactic theory and the structure of English: A minimalist approach. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Print.
Weidmann, Urs. "Anaphoric They for Singular Expressions." Modes of Interpretation. Zurich: Gunter Nagg,1984. 59-70. Print.


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Thursday, October 3, 2013
MeadWestvaco Corporation and Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial Corporation broke ground Sept. 23 on the area's first Marriott property.
The Courtyard by Marriott, located off Hwy. 17A and Interstate 26, will stand in the shadow of the first phase of the Nexton community, a pedestrian campus environment encompassing Class A offices, retail, restaurants and multi-family residential components.
Ken Seeger, president of MWV Community Development and Land Management, said the new hotel is tip of the iceberg for the development.
"With Nexton's first Class A office building under construction and SCRA, Carolina Ale House and The Parks apartments soon to be under way, Nexton is truly coming to life," said Seeger. "This marks a watershed for the Summerville region. We're very proud to be a part of it."
Berkeley County Supervisor Dan Davis said the benefits of road improvements are being seen.
"Seven years ago we began this massive road improvements project from Jedburg Road, Sheep Island, and on down to here in order to bring new business and industry to Berkeley County and the tri-county area," Davis said. "All the road improvements have led us to this day. This is the fruit of that labor. It's nice to see the results of all that hard work."
Vic Mills is CEO of Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial.
"We are delighted to begin our second hotel in the Charleston area in a little more than a year," he said. "The Summerville Courtyard by Marriott will be the first in the Southeast to have the new Courtyard room design."
Mills also announced a second hotel construction project, an extended stay Residence Inn, another Marriott product currently in the design phase that should begin construction sometime in 2014.
The Courtyard by Marriott's design is revolutionary, Mills added, and will incorporate rigorous environmental standards to reduce energy and water consumption. The building will feature 96 rooms and state of the art amenities to include a bistro, lounge, outdoor pool, exercise room, business center, market pantry and artwork from local artists.
"This will be like no Courtyard you've ever experienced," he said. "The exterior and interior design will be very unique to Courtyard."
The Courtyard by Marriott will be the first of two hotels developed with the partnership of MeadWestvaco Corporation and Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial.
With over 900 Courtyard by Marriott hotels worldwide, a July 2014 completion date is planned for the new Summerville hotel.
"Look around you," Dan Davis said at the conclusion of his remarks. "This is going to be the new focal point of the tri-county region."
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has scheduled a public meeting in Piketon on April 25 to discuss results of the agency's most recent review of USEC Inc.'s American Centrifuge Lead Cascade Facility.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Comfort Inn, 7525 U.S. 23 in Piketon, and will be open to the public. NRC staff members will be available to answer questions after the business portion of the meeting.
The NRC staff assessed USEC's performance last year in the areas of safety operations, radiological controls, facility support and other areas. According to the NRC staff review USEC continued to conduct its activities "safely and securely, protecting public health and the environment."
The NRC said they found no areas needing improvement during the performance review period. Due to that performance level, NRC inspections at the facility during the next review period are being conducted at the normal level of inspection for that type of nuclear fuel facility, and no additional inspections are required.
"The NRC inspects nuclear fuel facilities such as USEC's Piketon facility and monitors their performance on an ongoing basis," NRC Region II Administrator Victor McCree said. "We issue inspection reports and hold these meetings near each facility to discuss our oversight and answer any questions local residents may have."
A copy of the review for the USEC facility in Piketon is available on the NRC website, www.nrc.gov.
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The AAA7's 2011 Annual Report, "Bridging the Gap Between Care Settings," highlighted the many accomplishments of AAA7 staff, Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, and provider organizations throughout the ten counties served by the AAA7. Stories sharing consumer experiences and how the variety of programs the AAA7 provides have helped them were a feature throughout the publication. The programs provided through the AAA7 help older adults and those with disabilities live safely and independently in their own homes through services paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, other federal and state resources, as well as private pay.
"This Annual Report shares the many achievements, commitment and dedication by all who work to make available program options for older adults and those with disabilities," stated Pamela K. Matura, Executive Director of the Area Agency on Aging District 7. "Through the many stories and information surrounding the programs we provide, we hope that readers will have better knowledge of these services and the impact they make in providing resources that allow citizens in our 10 counties to remain in the one place they call their own…home."
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The award-winning Berkshire Living has folded, according to a report in The Berkshire Eagle on Saturday.
Publisher Michael Zivyak told The Eagle on Friday that a deal to sell Berkshire Living and its affiliated titles to Delaware lifestyle publisher Today Media fell through at the "11th hour."
iBerkshires called the Berkshire Living office several times last week but no one picked up and also left phone and email messages for Zivyak when it became apparent the magazine's website was no longer being populated.
The regional lifestyle magazine, "The Good Life in the Country," offered interviews and features on local cultural attractions and leaders, reviews of music, drama, art and restaurants, and spotlights on homes, shops and other local offerings. It was recognized not only for its coverage but its design.
The financially strapped magazine and its BBQ: Berkshire Business Quarterly suspended publishing late last year. The deal was announced in early February and the magazine was to be relaunched in the spring while its online entities continued.
The Berkshire Daily e-letter and weekend preview have continued to appear under Berkshire Living's editor Seth Rogovoy, although a notice on buying ads through BL was removed.
With the exception of some blog posts, most of the material on the website is dated; a lone listing for a Metropolitan Opera broadcast at the Mahaiwe is on the calendar. Zivyak's search for three salespeople is still on his blog and just a few weeks ago the magazine was searching for a graphic designer.
The Eagle caught Zivyak cleaning out the magazine's offices on North Street on Friday. He told the paper that Today Media had a "change of heart" and that an attempt to find another buyer failed.
The 17,500-circulation magazine was launched in 2004 with offices in Great Barrington and included BBQ, Berkshire Living Home and Garden and Berkshire Custom Publishing. It moved to Pittsfield a few years ago.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Excelsior Printing Co. will bring its newly acquired business to the city.
The Roberts Drive printing company announced Tuesday that it purchased Oatmeal Studios of Rochester, Vt., and will bring the inventory and warehousing to the city, which could translate into local jobs.
"The founders wanted to retire. We were in negotiations for about a month and finalized the deal last week," Julianne Fruscio, Excelsior's business development and marketing coordinator, said on Tuesday.
Excelsior has been printing Oatmeal Studios' greeting cards for more than 20 years. Oatmeal's sales team will be offered positions first and unfilled jobs could be filled locally. Additionally, Excelsior hired Joseph Gallagher to be the general manager to develop even more products and expand into other markets.
"We're really hoping to develop the brand Oatmeal more," Fruscio said. "It's a new direction for us because we are now specializing in greeting cards."
Though Excelsior has the ability to do its own design work, it will continue using Oatmeal's database of freelancers to design the cards. Oatmeal also accepts submissions on a daily basis, Fruscio said.
Oatmeal Studios was founded by Helene and Joe Massimino and has been creating and distributing greeting cards and notepads for more than 30 years. The greeting cards are printed with vegetable-based inks on recycled paper.
"We think it's a great fit," said Joe Massimino in a press release. "Excelsior has been a part of Oatmeal Studios almost from the beginning and they have a stationery pedigree of their own that will serve Oatmeal Studios' customers well into the future."
In 2005, Excelsior separated from Crane & Co. and, in 2008, made a similar acquisition of SeedPrint. Excelsior now prints and ships seed packages while doing minimal design work.
Crane purchased the Excelsior companies — Excelsior Printing and Excelsior Process & Engraving — in 1970. Crane moved Excelsior Process & Engraving to the Robert Hardman Industrial Park in 1985 and then announced that it will close the Curran Highway location last year.
Excelsior Printing Co. on Roberts Drive was purchased by David W. Crane in 2005.
No one should be surprised to learn that Quality Printing Co. of Pittsfield has once again scored an award for its beautiful work.
What's even more satisfying is that it won for its most recent annual calender, "A Closer Look at the Berkshires," which was dedicated to the late Joel Librizzi.
The Printing Industries of New England gave it a Pinnacle Award for Best in Category for the 2010 calendar, which features some of the best local photography in the Berkshires. Librizzi, a longtime photojournalist for The Berkshire Eagle, had been a judge for Qualprint's calendar competition for more than a quarter-century before he died last year.
The past May, the calendar picked up a silver in a national calendar contest, the second year in a row "A Closer Look" had struck silver.
Qualprint also won a PINE award of merit for work it did for Berkshire Money Management in the association's regional Awards of Excellence Competition on Nov. 12
The presentations were made at PINE's 2010 Industry Awards Gala held at the Newton Marriott with hundreds of industry professionals in attendance. The Awards of Excellence Competition attracted more than 200 entries from 35 printing and imaging companies across New England competing in a variety of printing and graphic communications categories such as best annual report, direct mail campaign, corporate identity package, and more.
Panels of three judges with extensive experience in printing and print production were brought in to examine the wide range of work submitted. Tim Burton of Burton & Mayer, Menomonee Falls, Wis.; Paul Schmitz of Schmitz Press, Sparks, Md., and Art Stowe, former president of the Printing & Graphics Association Mid Atlantic were the judges. Each entry was judged anonymously on its own merit in a category with similar printed pieces.
The judging criteria included: registration, clarity and neatness, sharpness of halftones and line drawings, richness and tonal qualities of color, paper and ink selection, ink coverage, difficulty of printing, effective contrast or softness, overall visual impact and bindery.
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Tottenham will not sell Gareth Bale under any circumstances this summer, even if they fail to qualify for the Champions League.
John Terry has revealed he has been texting Jose Mourinho and has asked him if Chelsea are the club where he feels loved.
Millwall have started the search for a new manager after today accepting the resignation of Kenny Jackett.
Brentford's shoot-out winner Adam Forshaw tells fans to expect more drama in the League One play-off final.
Gianfranco Zola is confident Manuel Almunia will be fit for Watford's play-off semi-final against Leicester after the goalkeeper missed Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Leeds.
Ian Holloway expects Kevin Phillips to play an important role for Crystal Palace in the Championship play-offs.
Chris Eagles fears it will be a long summer as Bolton Wanderers come to terms with missing out on the play-offs.
A young Clarets fan has spoken of his delight after Burnley forward Danny Ings gave him his boots after the final game of the season.
Morten Gamst Pedersen says he is ready to honour the final year of his Blackburn Rovers contract - as long as the club still want him to be part of their plans.
Chris Morgan admitted he wants a "quick decision" on his future as Sheffield United manager following Monday's League One play-off semi-final defeat by Yeovil Town.
Veteran striker Steve Howard has admitted he has fallen in love again with football after helping Sheffield Wednesday retain their Championship status.
Chris Brown has urged the next manager of Doncaster Rovers not to fix something that isn't broken.
Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany believes success against West Brom in the Premier League can provide the spingboard to FA Cup success.
Sir Alex Ferguson's revelation that he will have a hip operation this summer has led to one bookmaker claiming there has been a flurry of bets that David Moyes is set to be installed as Manchester United's assistant manager.
Daniel Sturridge admits Liverpool will sorely miss "a great man" when Jamie Carragher retires later this month.
Sylvain Distin has refused to slam derby referee Michael Oliver for the blunder which he believes cost Everton a crucial victory.
Newcastle United goalkeeper Rob Elliot says United will keep their cool in the pressure cooker of a relegation fight.
Alan Pardew has heaped praise on Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa after his steady performance against West Ham - and says he wouldn't hesitate to field the Toon star in exactly the same slot against Queens Park Rangers.
Alan Pardew has pinpointed Hatem Ben Arfa as Newcastle United's potential relegation saviour - even if he feels the forward is still two months from hitting peak fitness.
Grant Leadbitter wants the bitter sting of Boro's slump to propel them into next season as a stronger team.
John O'Shea admits Sunderland will be keeping a close eye on proceedings at the DW Stadium tonight.
Paolo Di Canio says his players must get the balance right between aggression and recklessness, after watching a second Sunderland player red-carded in as many matches.
Southampton are hopeful that midfield star Morgan Schneiderlin will be back for their crunch clash at Sunderland.
James McArthur says Wigan Athletic are up to the challenge of balancing a fixture pile-up with continuing their assault on two fronts - survival in the Premier League and winning the FA Cup.
Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert can understand Christian Benteke taking out his frustrations on defenders who resort to rough treatment to try to stop him.
Peter Odemwingie's future with West Bromwich Albion was decided during talks between the club and the PFA last week - with the striker set for a summer exit, irrespective of Saturday's flare-up with Baggies supporters.
Bookmakers have made Port Vale boss Micky Adams a 3/1 favourite to be named the next manager of Wolves after Dean Saunders' sacking on Tuesday.
Sacked Wolves manager Dean Saunders was on Tuesday described as "totally out of his depth" after being relieved of his duties. Owen Coyle and former West Brom boss Gary Megson were immediately installed as favourites to take the job.
Neil Redfearn has likened Sam Byram's stunning ascent at Leeds United to the impact made by a young Gareth Bale at Southampton.
Norwich City's former loan striker Kei Kamara has labelled his Canaries' stint as an unforgettable experience as he prepares to make his MLS return for Sporting Kansas.
Reading midfielder Jem Karacan has rubbished suggestions that he is set for a summer move to Turkish giants Galatasaray.
Leon Britton admits Swansea City's old guard will have mixed emotions if they end their winless run against Roberto Martinez's struggling Wigan side tonight.
Port Vale's Micky Adams and Crewe's Steve Davis are among the bookies' favourites to take the vacant manager's job at Wolves.
Stoke boss Tony Pulis thought his players relinquished the midfield battle during Monday night's 1-1 draw at Sunderland.
Dundee boss John Brown has warned he would be ready to walk away from football if he is punished for his criticism of referee Alan Muir following his club's relegation from the SPL.
Motherwell strike legend Willie Pettigrew has pleaded with Michael Higdon to sign a new deal at Fir Park and repeat his record-breaking goalscoring heroics all over again next term.
Hearts have told young players Callum Tapping and Dylan McGowan that they will be staying on at Tynecastle next season - but Lithuanian midfielder Denis Prychynenko is being released.
St Mirren Scottish Cup winning hero Campbell Money says Saints boss Danny Lennon must make the re-signing of Paul McGowan his priority now that the Paisley club's SPL status is secured.
Dunfermline administrator Bryan Jackson has pleaded with supporters to continue turning out to back the club as the Pars battle for their Irn-Bru First Division future.
Rangers chairman Malcolm Murray could be set to leave Ibrox, after reportedly losing a vote of no confidence from the board.
The PFA Scotland's Player of the Year, Michael Higdon, has vowed that he will not allow his arrest on Sunday night to cast a shadow over the "proudest night" of his life.
A US tycoon is investigating a possible takeover at administration-threatened Hearts, while Queen of the South striker Nicky Clark admits a move to Rangers would be hard to turn down.
The 12 Scottish Premier League clubs will make one more attempt on Tuesday to agree on reforms in time for next season - with four different options on the table.


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NCHSAA expands mercy rule to basketball, football
CHAPEL HILL — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association Board of Directors on Wednesday extended so-called "mercy rules" already in effect for baseball and other sports, to football and basketball.
In football, if a team achieves a point differential of 42 or more by halftime or any time thereafter, a running clock will take effect or the game can be terminated by mutual agreement of both schools. The differential is 40 points in basketball and includes a running clock after that time.
Among other changes, the NCHSAA instituted a 23-match regular-season limit on volleyball; will allow conferences to include shootouts after the two 10-minute overtime periods in tied soccer matches.
PAC-6 Track & Field Championships set at Hillside today
DURHAM — The PAC-6 announced Wednesday its second rescheduling in as many days of its annual boys' and girls' track & field championship meet.
The meet, originally scheduled for April 29-30, had been moved from Riverside to Hillside High School today and Friday because of weather concerns. The meet has been reconfigured and will now take place in its entirety today at Hillside.
Field events get under way at 3:30 p.m., relays at 4 p.m. and other track events at 6 p.m.
Postponements mar prep schedules
DURHAM — Durham Public Schools canceled all Wednesday scheduled sports events because of the threat of severe storms.
In addition, scheduled opening round matches of the state dual-team tennis championships at Carrboro and East Chapel Hill high schools, already postponed Tuesday, were postponed again until today at 4 p.m.
Jameis Winston has another brush with law
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston was issued a civil citation after sheriff's deputies said he walked out of a supermarket without paying for $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish.
The Florida State quarterback and baseball relief pitcher said he forgot to pay for the food. The offense was relatively minor but was his latest brush with the law. Winston had been the subject of allegations he had sexually assaulted a woman in December 2013. A prosecutor declined to charge him, citing a lack of evidence and gaps in the accuser's story.
Florida State baseball coach Mike Martin suspended Winston indefinitely until he completes community service. Florida State plays a three-game series at UNC Chapel Hill May 9-11.
NCCU opens MEAC T&F Championships
GREENSBORO — N.C. Central opens competition at the 2014 MEAC Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships today at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of N.C. A&T.
Admission is free throughout the three-day event which ends Saturday.
Competition begins at 1 p.m. today and runs through about 8 p.m.
UNC, Duke men, women make NCAA singles, doubles tennis fields
DURHAM — Fred Saba and Jason Tahir of Duke and Brayden Schnur and Ronnie Schneider of UNC have been named to the field of the 2014 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship May 21-26 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
Schnur — with Brett Clark — will also compete in doubles.
Named to the women's NCAA field were Duke's Beatrice Cooper, Hanna Mar and Ester Goldfeld as well as the doubles team of Mar and Capra. The doubles team of Goldfeld at Alyssa Smith is an alternate pick.
Also named were UNC's Jamie Loeb, the No. 1-ranked player in the country, Hayley Carter and Caroline Price, while the doubles team of Loeb and Carter is the No. 3 seed in the tournament and is joined in the field by a second UNC doubles team in Whitney Kay and Price
Loeb is the No. 1 seed in the tournament, Capra the No. 5 seed and Carter the No. 7 seed. Capra and Mar of Duke are the No. 5-seeded doubles team.
California Chrome is early Kentucky Derby favorite at 5-2
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The only time Victor Espinoza won the Kentucky Derby was aboard War Emblem in 2002. They broke from the No. 5 post, the same position he'll start the 140th edition of the race with early 5-2 favorite California Chrome.
"I think it's a perfect spot," trainer Art Sherman said. "I think we break clean, he'll get out of a lot of trouble. He's got a little gas leaving there."
At 77, Sherman could become the oldest trainer to win the Derby, surpassing Charlie Whittingham's record of 76 when Sunday Silence won in 1989.
Hopportunity was made the 6-1 second choice in the full field of 20 horses.
Texas lands Duke recruiting target Turner
AUSTIN, Texas — Seven-foot center Myles Turner, widely regarded as the No. 2 prospect in the current high school senior class, announced Wednesday that he will attend home-state Texas in the fall.
He picked the Longhorns over Kansas, Oklahoma State and Duke among others. Duke was considered a longshot destination for the big man since the Blue Devils have already signed the nation's top prep center, 6-11 Jahlil Okafor, the No. 1-ranked player in the class as well as fellow McDonalds All-Americans in point guard Tyus Jones, wing Justise Winslow and shooting guard Grayson Allen.


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No. 2 Indiana 72, No. 7 Michigan 71
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Cody Zeller made a go-ahead layup with 13 seconds left and altered Trey Burke's shot at the other end, lifting No. 2 Indiana to a 72-71 victory over No. 7 Michigan on Sunday that gave the Hoosiers their first outright Big Ten title in two decades.
The Hoosiers (26-5, 14-4) trailed by five points in the final minute but took advantage when the Wolverines (25-6, 12-6) were unable to seal it at the foul line. Zeller finished with 25 points and 10 rebounds.
Victor Oladipo had 14 points and a career-high 13 rebounds, including seven on the offensive end.
No. 10 Michigan State 71, Northwestern 61
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Keith Appling scored 16 points and Gary Harris added 12 to lift Michigan State over Northwestern.
The Spartans (24-7, 13-5) were eliminated from Big Ten title contention early in their game when Indiana beat Michigan, and Kale Abrahamson scored 16 points for Northwestern, which has lost eight straight.
Michigan State senior Derrick Nix scored 10 points in his final home game.
No. 14 Ohio State 68, , Illinois 55
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Deshaun Thomas, playing perhaps his final home game for Ohio State, scored 19 points in a victory over Illinois.
Ohio State (23-7, 13-5) is the No. 2 seed for next week's Big Ten tournament.
Aaron Craft added 14 points and six assists while creating his usual havoc on defense for the Buckeyes. Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 10 points.
Temple 84, No. 21 Vcu 76
PHILADELPHIA — Khalif Wyatt scored 30 points, Jake O'Brien had 19 and Temple beat Virginia Commonwealth after rallying from a 16-point deficit.
The Rams (24-7, 12-4) lost their chance to share the A-10 title with Saint Louis. VCU is the No. 2 seed. Juvonte Reddic led the Rams with 20 points and Treveon Graham had 17.
No. 22 Wisconsin 63, Penn State 60
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Traevon Jackson made a contested 3-pointer at the buzzer and finished with 15 points as Wisconsin staved off an upset bid by Penn State. The Badgers (21-10, 12-6 Big Ten) went the length of the court with less than 4 seconds left. Jackson pulled up on the wing and made his 3 over the arm of Kevin Montminy.
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This blasphemy has a really interesting argumentation. Matt MacPherson says that Google is ubiquitous (everywhere), omniscient (everything) and immortal (everytime a server dies, it can be replaced easily). Google remembers everything, and many people depend on it.
The idea is not new. Three years ago, Thomas Friedman wrote an article for New York Times that quoted Alan Cohen, a V.P. of Airespace, a WiFi provider: "If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with WiFi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."
Google is just a metaphor for the perfect search engine, that could answer to any question, could understand your thoughts and could make material barriers insignificant. But playing God may be dangerous and may melt your wings.
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24 August 2012
As August draws towards a wet bank holiday and the hop festival is just around the corner it must be harvest time.
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22 August 2012
The Wings & Wheels launch got off to a flying start as two Hawks swooped in to help the team with their Guinness World Record attempt.
Having looked long and hard at the thousands of recent records, discarded the longest distance to squirt milk from your eye and the most forward rolls in one minute, the team at Wings & Wheels created the longest ever line of toy cars.
15 August 2012
As Britain rides high on medal successes, three pubs have their own reasons to celebrate – free beer for a year thanks to Spitfire Premium Ale's Glorious 2012 promotion. The lucky pubs, George & Dragon, Ilfracombe; The Bull, Tunbridge Wells; and New Hall Tavern, Preston, have each won a firkin a week for a year – 3,744 pints – after being selected at random in a text-to-win on-cask promotion.
06 August 2012
The licensee of a Shepherd Neame pub close to the Olympic village is keeping Australians up-to-date on proceedings with a regular slot on national radio.
Frankie Colclough of the Eleanor Arms in Bow, East London is on the doorstep of the UK's largest ever sports event and has been approached by ABC Radio to give some insight on the public mood.
03 August 2012
As I write this the Olympics are well under way.
We have had the torch through Faversham, a memorable event but it seemed to be over very quickly until we all retired to local hostelries, the torch's progress through Kent was celebrated with our own special beer that was only available in pubs on its route.
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The gates of hell have opened. Its ghosts have been let loose to roam on earth and visit the homes of their relatives.
According to traditional Chinese beliefs this happens every year during the seventh month of the lunar year, resulting in a raucous, feast-and-music filled celebration known as the Hungry Ghost Festival. But not all ghosts are good. There are some spirits who wander the streets, ravenous and envious because they died without descendants or were ignored by their kin while alive.
To appease the hungry spirits, ethnic Chinese step up prayers, aided by giant colorful joss sticks shaped like dragons. They also burn mock currency and miniature paper television sets, mobile phones and furniture as offering to the ancestors for their use in the other world.
For 15 days, neighborhoods hold nightly shows of shrill Chinese operas and pop concerts to entertain the dead. The shows are accompanied by lavish feasts of grilled pork, broiled chicken, rice and fruit.
People appease the ghosts in the hopes that the spirits will help them with jobs, school exams or even the lottery. On the 15th day of the month – the most auspicious – families offer cooked food to the ghosts.
Here's a gallery of images from this year's Hungry Ghost Festival by Hong Kong photographer Vincent Yu.
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In the end, though, the only thing that is going to matter to the American people is if Qaddafi goes, or is rendered forgettable. The polls show people want regime change. If the rebels regroup, and are strengthened, as seems to be happening, that will help shift perceptions of the intervention. But even as the U.S. backs off, and what remains of the operation proceeds under NATO leadership, intellectually and emotionally, America has taken a side in the conflict. And Americans like to win."Seems," here, is everything.
This is one of those speeches that was more for the experts than the American people. An address to the nation that will not resolve anything for them. The only thing that will make this intervention seem wise is if Qaddaffi goes, or rendered so isolated and powerless that he can be forgotten. (Should he go soon, that would make Obama seem very wise, indeed.)
That Franke-Ruta is right about the political fallout, I can't deny. This is the consensus, at least, that we can all agree on: if this situation is resolved in a way that seems like a win-- if we end up with a conclusion that can be spun as victory-- it will be good for Barack Obama, the Democrats, modern day Kiplings like Samantha Powers, and the continuing prosecution of the Forever War. But I beg you to consider the distance between our rhetoric of humanitarianism and what Franke-Ruta, and just everybody else, are saying for Obama to call this a victory.
First, please do consider Matt Yglesias and his pointing out that good consequences can emerge from bad policy and create bad precedents. (Yglesias has been consistently great on this topic.) Now think about why we are saying we are going to war: for the humanitarian reasons of protecting the Libyan rebels from slaughter at Benghazi, and as is now inarguable, of removing the dictator Qaddafi from power. Does it not strike anybody else that the political goal of claiming a "win" can be achieved without anything like long-term humanitarian gains for Libyans?
Everyone should read this history of humanitarian intervention from Adam Curtis at the BBC. The thing about humanitarian gains is that they are always conditional and temporal. What looks like victory in the short term sometimes looks like defeat in the long term. This is true simply on the level of achieving better conditions for the people you're trying to help, but it is especially true given the sad nature of human conflict. Consider this excerpt:
But Kouchner quickly discovered that victims could be very bad. There was an extraordinary range of ethnic groups in Kosovo.
There were:
Muslim Albanians
Orthodox Serbs
Roman Catholic Serbs
Serbian-speaking Muslim Egyptians
Albanian-speaking Muslim Gypsies - Ashkalis
Albanian-speaking Christian Gypsies - Goranis
And even - Pro-Serbian Turkish-speaking Turks
They all had vendettas with each other - which meant that they were both victims and horrible victimizers at the same time. It began to be obvious that getting rid of evil didn't always lead to the simple triumph of goodness.
Which became horribly clear in Iraq in 2003.I am on the side of the Libyan rebels in comparison to Qaddafi. (Taking sides with them does not mean willing to support aerial bombing campaigns ostensibly in their favor, and the fact that this isn't plain as day only serves to underscore the sickness of our discourse on foreign policy.) But that does not mean that the Libyan rebels are "good" and that the outcome of their possible victory will be desirable. What terrifies me, and what should scare you, too, is the fact that the political fallout for the Obama administration and all of the hawks in the media will have nothing to do with the long term humanitarian picture for Libya.
Like Gore Vidal said, we live in the United States of Amnesia. Our news cycle moves fast, our attention span is short, and nobody cares about yesterday's news. I think anyone can imagine a situation where the rebels defeat Qaddafi and a new government is put into place, and the western world congratulates itself on a job well done, as Obama's approval ratings soar. Liberal hawks and neocons get even more entrenched in their views and self-satisfied. Meanwhile, Libyans will continue to wrestle with the consequences for decades to come. And the results could be all kinds of bloody and terrible-- perhaps we might even call it humanitarian disaster. With Iraq, we were temporarily forced to deal with the long-term consequences because we were occupying the country. Now, even though we still have 50,000 troops there, our attention has gone elsewhere-- while the constant violence and near total political breakdown continues.
This is a very frightening turn for democracy, when long-term human consequences of our actions are so divided from long-term political consequences. Whether you are happy, unhappy, or indifferent to our recent health care reform, we can be sure that Americans will observe the consequences of that change and their attitudes will have political weight. No such certainty exists regarding Libya and its outcomes. What will be remembered is the shallow, short-term rhetoric of victory, not the mature, unflinching and long-term understanding that genuine humanitarianism requires. Our regard for humanitarianism has passion but no depth.
Will the architects of this war still be talking about it in a year or three or five? I doubt it. And so political reality becomes further and further divided from humanitarian reality, in a conflict waged on purely humanitarian grounds. The only word for this is folly.


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Commissioner Garber provides his year-end thoughts ahead of MLS Cup
December 3, 2013
Major League Soccer Commissioner Garber's State of the League address will be live streamed from Google's New York City office at 11 a.m. PT today.
Commissioner Garber will provide his year-end thoughts and answer questions from fans and media ahead of the 2013 MLS Cup. Immediately following the address, host Jimmy Conrad will reveal the 2013 MLS Best XI presented by EA Sports FIFA 14 at 12 p.m. PT.


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(Release: March 4, 2011) - Two Hagerstown Community College students were recently awarded academic scholarships for the spring 2011 semester.
Joseph Monath, of Hagerstown, received the Larry E. Small Memorial Law Enforcement Scholarship. Recipients of the Larry Small Scholarship must demonstrate outstanding leadership, be active members of the 5-14 Club, be involved in extra-curricular activities, and have an above-average academic record at HCC. Monath is an administration of justice major and plans to transfer to UMUC to complete his bachelor's degree before becoming a police officer. He will graduate from HCC in May 2011.
Fellow administration of justice major, James Garcia, of Hagerstown, received the Maryland Law Enforcement Officers Scholarship (MLEO). The MLEO scholarship is awarded by faculty representatives from HCC's administration of justice department to those eligible students working towards an associate of applied science degree in the administration of justice field. After graduation, Garcia plans to work for an investigative agency for a short time before becoming a police officer. He will graduate in July 2011.
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