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Amazon.com: Cinderella Transforming Pumpkin Carriage Only $20.24 (Reg. $54.99)
This Hip2Save.com Deal was hand-posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 at 6:02 pm.
Here's another huge price drop over on Amazon.com! They are currently offering up this Disney Princess Cinderella Transforming Pumpkin Carriage for only $20.24 (reg. $54.99!). Plus, this item ships FREE within 2 days via Amazon Prime (no minimum!) – so you will receive in time for Christmas. OR get free shipping on $25+ orders with Super Saver Shipping, but keep in mind that it will not arrive by Christmas.
As a price comparison, this toy is selling for $45.97 on Walmart.com!
(Thanks, Kyla!)
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That's sooo cute… I don't have anyone I could buy it for tho, :(
Aww..me too. But it is sooo pretty.
Got it thanks, mine is going back to YoYo.com, free return and a $12 difference. I got the pony castle to make up the savings:)
Fabulous price!!!! I was going to buy at $25 and waited! Yay! My prime JUST expired yest. :( sooooo I ordered a $5 book and got free shipping!!!! :)
Awesome, I just ordered this yeaterday and got Amazon to refund me the difference! Yay! Thanks so much for posting this! :)
How did you get refund from Amazon? I ordered it yesterday too…
Tomoko, I ordered this yesterday also. Just finished a live chat session with Amazon representative. He issued me a $8 credit. Awesome!
Gloria, thanks for the info! I'll try to talk to them this morning :-)
This was worth finally signing my husband up for the free Amazon Prime Student since he is is college. Yay!
I purchased mine for $26 too….what was the best way to get a refund of the difference? Thank You!
From Amazon after a live Chat…I had no idea about the 7 day price drop:
"Thank you for your patience. Because the price of the item dropped within seven days of the delivery date, I'll issue a refund for the price difference in the amount of $6.74. You'll also receive a confirmation e-mail when the refund has been processed. Please give me a moment to request that for you."
LOVE Amazon!
I bought th.is at Target for $25 when they had their toy clearance. It's a really cool gift. Sadly my daughter found it and I had been stashing it for a while, she will still love it on Christmas morning
I purchased this toy a few days ago when it was posted on Hip2save. I just finished online chat with Amazon customer service, and I'm getting a refund too. The person I talked to didn't mention about 7 day policy though. She said, 'Unfortunately, we do not have a post-order price guarantee. Under the circumstances, I'll make a one-time exception for you and issue a refund for the price difference in the amount of $6.74. You'll also receive a confirmation e-mail when the refund has been processed.' Anyway, I still love Amazon!
The carriage looks just gorgeous.


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The link between Henry's activities and Jack's is further strengthened by the image of Henry's attempt to verbally control the transparent creatures — "He talked to them, urging them, ordering them" — which evokes the image of Jack in the previous chapter staring at the traces of the pig trail "as though he would force them to speak to him." Both boys try to force their verbal communication on nonverbal entities, an effort doomed to failure. Henry cherishes what little control he feels he has and does not mind that his orders go unheeded. His efforts at mastery over another are still in the play stage, although cruel nonetheless to the vulnerable Percival. Jack, on the other hand, has a much more difficult time tolerating resistance.
When the boys are forced to rebuild the fire in a different spot because Ralph silently refuses to move from the site of the original fire, Jack is furious. Ralph uses a means of control over the group that is nonverbal and nonviolent, ensuring that neither the rhetorical skills nor the physical superiority of the hunters can be used against him. In the face of passive resistance, Jack is powerless to stop Ralph from imposing his will on the group and asserting his authority.
As the biguns Roger and Maurice torment the littluns by destroying their sandcastles, they still hear in their heads the reprimanding adult voices of the civilization they left behind. Roger throws rocks at Henry, but he throws them so that they'll miss, surrounded as Henry is by "the protection of parents and school and policeman and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins."
Even Jack still feels the influence of his former life, laughing while he describes the great amounts of blood spilled in the hunt but shuddering at the same time. His distaste is followed quickly by acceptance, however, as he wipes his bloody hands on his shorts. Golding implies a certain relief for Jack in the phrase "able at last to hit someone, [Jack] stuck his fist into Piggy's stomach." His entire life had been moderated by rules set by adults against hitting other children or physically acting out his aggression; now on the island, only the conditioning he received while still in civilization holds him back, and the imprint of that conditioning is fading fast from his character.
Most societies judge character to a great extent by how an individual behaves, how thoroughly a person has internalized the mores and ethos of civilized society. British culture, in particular, places a high value on maintaining civility even under adverse circumstances, the mask of good manners concealing strong emotions and impulses. Jack discovers the other side of a mask's power — the power to liberate — when he applies the clay and charcoal camouflage: "the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness."
While the masks of polite society leash our evil nature, Jack's mask of colored clay unleashes it. The mask — or the transformation it invokes — frightens the hunter Bill, who initially laughs but then backs off into the jungle, and it compels the twins to abandon their fire tending duties, a symbol of how they are being drawn away from all of the civilized domesticity and communal hope for rescue represented by the fire. Jack refers to the mask as "dazzle paint," the camouflage used in warfare, clearly linking his new identity as a shameless killer with those adults fighting the war.
When the ship is sighted, Ralph remains calmly in place while the other boys present blunder around in excitement. Yet, when he realizes that there is no smoke signal for the ship to sight, he loses the calm that has so far characterized his behavior — the mask over his emotions. Now he rushes heedlessly up to mountain to the fire site, "savaging himself" on the bushes, reaching the top only to see that the fire is out and the ship is leaving.
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Improving the FDA
May 24, 2012
Paul Howard
Republicans and Democrats continue to disagree about how to fix the struggling economy, but most members of both parties agree on at least one thing: Technology will continue to drive economic growth in the future. The life sciences sector, in particular, will be as crucial to tomorrows advances as the physical sciences were in developing yesterdays -- the jet engine, the semiconductor.
This is the good news for American patients and companies, since the United States is the long-standing global leader in fields like biotechnology and drug development. The bad news is that U.S. dominance in the life sciences is now threatened by an outdated regulatory system at the Food and Drug Administration.
Though companies continue to spend billions developing drugs, the pipeline of new medical products might be drying up. In 2010, the number of drugs entering Phase III trials, the pivotal trials required for FDA approval, was down by 55 percent compared with the number in 2007. Phase II and Phase I entrants were down by about 50 percent each as well. In a recent survey, three-quarters of Californias biotech CEOs said they had put new projects on hold. Another survey found that nearly 40 percent of venture capital companies have decreased their investment in pharmaceuticals and medical devices companies over the last three years.
At the same time, 44 percent of venture capital firms said they plan to increase their investment in life sciences companies in Asia, while 35 percent said they planned to increase such investments in Europe. Only 13 percent said they planned to increase these investments in North America.
FDA regulation is not the only variable affecting the pace of innovation. Companies must also contend with tight capital markets, a growing number of cheap and effective generic drugs, and increasing barriers to reimbursement due to rising health care costs. But 60 percent of firms surveyed cited regulatory challenges at the FDA as having "the highest impact."
Thankfully, Congress is close to passing bipartisan reform legislation that should give patients faster access to new medicines and medical devices and perhaps streamline the process for bringing life-saving and life-enhancing products to market. It wont transform the FDA overnight, but it would be a major step forward. The new legislation is based on several user-fee agreements (user fees allow the FDA to hire additional staff to review product applications) negotiated by the FDA and the drug and medical device industries. The bills overarching theme is that better communication between companies and regulators will lead to better outcomes for patients.
For instance, the user-fee agreements mandate additional meetings between companies and regulators to ensure new drug reviews are as seamless as possible; require that the agency develop a benefit-risk assessment model for new medical products; and require ongoing FDA staff training on how to review applications that incorporate biomarkers, which can help companies develop safer and more effective medicines targeted at patient subpopulations based on genetic or other diagnostic criteria. Congress has also added provisions that would improve and make permanent incentives for pediatric drug research; extended incentives for companies researching new antibiotics and antifungals for drug-resistant pathogens; clarified standards for the FDAs "fast-track" and "accelerated-approval" programs for serious and life-threatening diseases; and create a "breakthrough-therapies" designation for expediting development of the most promising medicines.
Overall, the legislation will improve the FDAs ability to bring safe and effective new products to the public in a timely manner. Without these improvements, life sciences investment will increasingly move abroad, and American patients will wait longer for more innovative therapies.
The preservation of American leadership in this vital field will pay enormous dividends in the form of improved health, higher-paying jobs and lower overall health care costs, as diseases are delayed or cured through breakthrough technologies like regenerative medicine. As such, the user-fee legislation is a down payment on a better future for all Americans.
Congress should pass it, and President Obama should sign it.
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Margaret "Peg" Kennedy-Dygas was appointed Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University in May, 2013. Born and raised in Ohio, she earned the Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was a member of the Honor Group and held Rockefeller and Ranney scholarships. She received the Master of Music in Voice Performance degree and the Doctor of Music in Voice Performance and Music History and Literature, with a Minor in Music Theory degree with High Distinction, from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Dr. Kennedy-Dygas has performed as soprano soloist in opera, concert and recital in the United States, Canada, Italy, Great Britain and Germany. An avid pioneer with new music, she produced and performed Beverly Grigsby's The Mask of Eleanor (chamber opera for soprano and computer generated sound) in Kentucky and Minnesota, 1987-89. In 1995, she performed Richard Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder with the Omaha Symphony, Bruce Hangen conducting. Her recital performances have been broadcasted on public radio and television in Kentucky and Nebraska. She has performed numerous works by 20th-century composers such as Peter Maxwell Davies, Gwyneth Walker, Randall Snyder, Elwood Derr, John Downey, Duke Ellington, and Robert Beadell. In 1996, in collaboration with composer Daniel Pinkham, she released the compact disk, "Music, Thou Soul of Heaven: Solo Songs by Daniel Pinkham," on the Arkay Records label. She has successfully raised over $200,000 in grant funds to support creative projects, scholarship of teaching, and technology in the arts.
Her voice students have won numerous prizes and awards from the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Lyric Opera of Chicago Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, as well as performing professionally in opera and musical theater, and teaching on college and university faculties. Dr. Kennedy-Dygas' interest in the scholarship of voice teaching led her to participate in the inaugural Peer Review of Teaching project funded by the former American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) in 1994-95. She has presented papers and workshops at national meetings of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Music Teachers National Association, College Music Society, and the College Art Association. She has published articles and reviews in Journal of Singing, American Music Teacher, The College Music Society Newsletter, Choral Journal, and Notes. From 2003-2006, she was the founder and editor of the VoxBook Project, a collaborative online database of solo vocal recordings and related material from the archives of Hope College and St. Olaf College.
Dr. Kennedy-Dygas has served on the music faculties of University of Kentucky, Lexington; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Hope College; and University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she also served as Associate Dean of the College of the Arts. At Hope College, where she served as Chair of the Department of Music, she was awarded the Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award in 2006 for her accomplishments in building the voice and opera theater programs. At the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she led strategic planning initiatives, developed strategies to assess student learning in the arts, led interdisciplinary project initiatives, assisted with fundraising, and successfully acquired grant funding in support of technology for the classroom.
In joining the administrative team at Ohio University, Dr. Kennedy-Dygas brings a lifelong passion for making a difference in people's lives through the arts. Her vision? "The College of Fine Arts will be the nation's best transformative learning community in the arts by being irresistible and by being relevant. These two imperatives will lead our entire strategic plan into the future."
Dr. Kennedy-Dygas is married to Douglas C. Dygas. They have three children who will attend Athens City Schools. The Dygas family loves to travel, bike, and explore new experiences together.


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Nice flavor, bit sticky, and an improved paper wrapping easier to remove would be nice.
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By Luke's Gigi
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Delicious flavor! You can really taste the pecan flavor. The candy is so soft it is almost impossible to unwrap. I probably won't purchase this product again.
By gramps
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this tasted like the caramels my Dad used to make. they really are delicious
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By Patti B
from Concord, NC
I have ordered this candy before. I had read the reviews and was in agreement regarding the amount of nuts in each piece. However, the caramel was so rich and buttery I decided to order the candy again. I was very disappointed.This batch had no nuts and tasted burned. It wasn't worth eating so out it went. I probably will not order the caramels again.
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By Danisha
from NJ
Best caramels I've ever had!! But you must keep them cold, as they stick to the paper alot and then you can't eat the whole candy. Mine were not topped with pecans.
Does not have any pecans.
By Nugget
from Chino, Ca
For being caramel pecans they don't have any pecans in them.
Bottom LineNo, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Truly a tasty treat!
By TexasDianne
from Pearland, TX
I was astounded at the high quality of this Pecan Caramel candy. Delicious, creamy smooth, and a nice snack size. I like to have one with my evening coffee. My only complaint is that it is difficult to unwrap, I have to use a small pair of scissors to cut the plastic/paper(?) that covers the caramel.
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By Deb
from Las Cruces, NM
Would not recommend if you are expecting pieces of nuts in it like I was
where are the peacans?
By fran
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pkg says pecan creamy caramels. i found no pecans in any of the candy i have eaten so far.
I would buy this candy again.
By LadyT
from Chicago, IL
I purchased this product for self, because I love caramel candy with any kind of nuts, I love english toffee and taffy apples especially around this time of year. The candy was very good, but needed a bit more pecans in it, because some of the candy didn't have much pecans in it.


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Jianghuai Automobile's production line in China's eastern Anhui province. (File photo/CFP)
While Navistar, the largest truck and school bus maker in North America and the third largest truck engine maker in the United States, is shrinking its business in North America, the company plans on stepping up the investment in China, said Shanghai-based First Financial Daily.
Lewis Campbell, CEO of Navistar, said the company will cut down the cost of management and R&D, and will sell or close businesses in North America, leaving only its core operation of trucks and engines.
The CEO reportedly has announced to lay off 800 employees, which could save 28% in R&D costs, and has been considering shutting down 19 production lines in North America.
The joint venture between the company and Chinese Jianghuai Automobile in Anhui province was approved by the Chinese government in July.
The registered capital of the joint venture came to 1.2 billion yuan (US$191 million) with a total investment of 3 billion (US$479 million). The production line of the joint venture is expected to beging operation in 2013 and produce 150,000 engines each year.
An Jin, chairman of Jianghuai Automobile, said that the localization of engine production in the beginning will reach to 60% and the rate is expected to go to 100% in the future. The two companies will develop the overseas markets together, An said.
The joint venture will not just focus on China's market but a competitive alliance for the global market, with the truck production center in China as its base, said Wan Ruyi, CEO of Navistar China.
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Knowing that variety is the key to a good sale, the Spinners encourage all interested growers to take part. Growers wishing to pre-register should contact Penelope Olson, 785-2784 or firstname.lastname@example.com, to let us know how many fleeces you plan to submit so we can send you the right number of tags and registration forms. When you get them, please fill out the tags and forms as completely as possible. There is no need to return anything. Simply submit your tags and forms when you deliver your fleeces to the Fleece Tent.
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Great Love Quotes
Trying getting back together with your ex?
Words sometimes are the best tool available to getting back together with your love. A great trick (or tactic) you can use when trying to get your ex back is sending him or her quotes. But beware that using any trick without a solid strategy can backfire on you.
So, if you have no strategy to follow, I strongly advise you to check out this step by step plan:
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Without a strategy you'll probably start saying stuff that comes off as desperate, needy or argumentative. Remember that a trick (like a knife…) can be used for good of bad. Use love quotes for the greater good!
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"Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!"
From the movie Moulin Rouge
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…"
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
Julia Roberts
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
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A look at Oklahoma's care homes for the mentally disabled
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series of stories investigating conditions in Oklahoma's group homes for the mentally disabled, mentally ill and elderly. The investigation was conducted by reporters from the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman.
Officials have investigated two dozen cases of abuse and neglect at federally supported homes for mentally disabled people since 2007 and found more than 2,500 violations of care standards, public records show. Homes had violations ranging from failing to protect a resident from sexual assault to failing to provide a sanitary environment, according to records from the state Health Department. New Frontiers shut down in OKC metro An outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases, mental anguish and a rape allegation ultimately led to the 2007 shut down of a string of New Frontiers cottages in the Oklahoma City area. "We had a systemic breakdown throughout these cottages," said Dorya Huser, the state Health Department's chief of long-term care services. "We had some serious concerns." Inspectors visited New Frontiers more than 60 times in about a year, Huser said, even though facilities usually just get a yearly inspection, plus an occasional revisit or visit initiated by a complaint. "Each time we seemed to find more problems," she said. Edmond attorney Floyd Propps was hired by owner Don Moore to try and prevent closure of the nine cottages that housed about 60 residents. "I remember it being so frustrating. Anything we tried to do didn't seem to work," he said. "I think there was an immense amount of friction between the administration there and the Health Department." Records reveal that from 2006 to 2007: *Three patients tested positive for sexually transmitted diseases and test results were missing for a fourth patient. *Six patients from four cottages were likely exposed to sexually transmitted diseases. *The homes failed to protect patients from sexual exploitation and consequently spread sexually transmitted diseases. *Neglect due to mental anguish from frequent witnessing of inappropriate sexual behavior. *An alleged rape of a female resident by a male resident in July 2007. Homes should provide sex education, access to birth control and protection for sexually active clients, said Mary Fleming, the Health Department's director of long term care survey. "There was a lot of education. There was a lot of follow-up when it was learned certain people had a sexually transmitted disease," she said. The department declined to recommend recertification for the cottages to receive Medicaid reimbursement, essentially forcing the cottages to close. 'Light a lot of fires' In March 2008, Jerald Ray Bishop, a Home of Hope employee, allegedly raped and sexually abused a female resident of the Vinita home. The abuse allegedly took place on several occasions while he worked as a job coach. Bishop is awaiting an April 16 preliminary hearing in Craig County to determine whether he will be tried. David Svedman, chief executive officer of Home of Hope, said police were notified the day the resident informed staff and Bishop was immediately fired. Svedman said he was frustrated with the lack of response from state officials in the follow-up investigation.
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can i request Fight Gone Bad tomorrow?? after seeing the Ultimate Fighter finale last night, i really want to do FGB. the light heavyweight fight was AWESOME...no other way to describe it. ill probably do it regardless but id feel better if it were the 'official' WOD. i always feel like such a cheater if i dont do the posted WOD. thanks.
The gentleman on the rower can prob kick my butt :>
Horrible sculling technique is my middle-name.
Cool to see older friends using rings.
It is great to see Ridge PT up and running! They have some CrossFit classes going and have switched the bulk of thier rehab to a function based, CrossFit approach. Wooohoo!
Thinking of fitness at any age:
This morning, while we were doing the NYC WOM in Central Park, a guy who had to be *at least* in his mid seventies jogged up to pullup bar, cranked out nine or ten reps like it was the easiest thing in the world, then jogged off.
As they say, 'use it or lose it'.
There was a time Josh, before machines I guess, when that's the kind of thing people did for exercise. I had my rings sent to my folks' home in Texas because they wouldn't ship overseas. When I picked them up my Dad was curious about what was in the box addressed to me. I showed him the rings thinking he'd wonder what in tarnation those things are for. His reaction was a simple nonchalant, "Oh yeah." World War II infantry he was. Today I hang my rings up in the gym and everybody pretends not to stare.
I just returned from the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship held for the first time at West Point, NY. The Army Men's Gymnastics team qualified for the NCAAs by winning the Eastern Conference. Army Cadet Brian Lee finished 2nd in the Still Rings finals, narrowly missing 1st place by a few hundredths of a point. It was a great competition. After graduation, most of the Cadets will go on to Iraq as 2LTs. The team competition will be televised on ESPN 2 on Wednesday.
Although not its intent, title IX, has decimated college men's gymnastics in the U.S. There are now just over 20 men's college teams when 20 years ago there were 120+ teams. The U.S. male gymnasts are just as gifted as ever, but they can't compete with the big money sports of football and basketball. We have to face the fact that although everyone likes to watch the sport every 4 years at the Olympics, it will never have a following in the U.S. My theory is that the sport is just too hard and requires too much work and dedication to become proficient. Any little fat kid can get lucky and chuck a ball into a hoop the first day on the court, but it may take 2-3 years of hard work to master a handstand or back handspring. The muscle-up is one of the most basic moves on rings, and just think how hard it was to learn just this one basic move. In a country where NASCAR and golf is recognized as "sport," I hold out little hope for men's gymnastics, unless we can get sponsorship by Budweiser.
As a "minor" sports guy I sympathize with you Todd. But don't be so quick to vilify football and basketball. Those sports generate a lot of money for athletic departments (which helps pay for "minor" sports). Without them, it's not out of the realm of possibility that we'd be seeing in colleges what we now see at high schools...athletes having to pay to play, or the sports just being eliminated wholesale.
IMO, the main problem with Title IX is that football is included in the equation.
Hey Todd H,
I was too at the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship, it was a great competition!
I agree with your comment Todd, but MattG has a point too.:)
Gym was closed over the weekend so I just got to Diane today. i know better than to keep a lady waiting, especially on a first date.
actually two firsts today. in addition to meeting Diane i also met Pukie. Diane was fun, but i did feel much better after pukie.
dl 225 broken 11/10 8/7 9 last set unbroken
subbed dumbell presses #30 each hand. still working on the handstand thing.
broken 11/10 10/5 9
time 20:42
watched the crossfit DVD this weekend, I've got a long way to go to get to 3:40 on diane.
enjoyed some strange yet motivating stares during dls from two women working out on a swissball (no offense to swissballs my kids love them.)
I totally agree. The light heavy weight fight was awesome! and Dana White (UFC Pres) did the right thing in offering that third contract. both of those guys are warriors.
Speaking of UFC; isn't the big fight next week?
I watched those UFC fights on Spike TV and they were very good. There was also another show on free TV from UFC 49 with three fights. Chuck "The Iceman" Lidell was on and knocked out Vernon "Tiger" White. Ken Shamrock was on and lost. He is 40 something and was still looking good. He slipped twice and the second time he could not get up. He was down on the mat, getting hit, could not defend himself so the referee stopped the fight.
I skipped one of my workouts to watch the ultimate fighting. I skipped another because of it being springtime and having to run to the local hardware stores and nurseries. I bought landscape timbers, bricks, mulch, a couple of plum trees, a few blueberry and raspberry bushes and some perennials and flowers for my wife. I had an alternative workout moving all that stuff, planting the trees and bushes and digging and setting the bricks, timbers and spreading the mulch. I need to do my taxes tonight. I am hoping to have time after to get in a WOD.
9 regular grip bar MUs in 5 minutes - 12 total attempts with 3 misses; all but the last MU was ugly with the bar hitting me mid ribcage followed by a press to get on top of the bar. The last MU was a surprise as I didn't hit the bar on the way up; I just landed on top somehow. No clue how that happened, but it was cool.
Setted OH squats with weighted TSC pullups:
65/75/85/95/105x5 - all solid, butt to floor
52/52/52/52/52x3 - dead hang, no kip, throat on bar
Because I land like an elephant when I jump and I need to improve on the "Kelly" WOD, I practiced 2 foot hops working to land softly and with bent knees. My knees are feeling plenty sore from yesterday.
Just enough time for a quick 2 minute double 15# cb swipe test: 37 reps
TODD H.......In some ways its like the short story THE GIFT OF THE MAGI ..an irony of life.. seemingly no good deed goes unpunished....we need Solomon like thinking and decision making in matters such as this...in general elected officials dont always see the BIG PICTURE.
Lidell v Couture, next Saturday. I'm so PPVing that one! LOL.
I loved the fights this weekend. A bunch of folks from Brand X got together to watch. Great time.
Coaches Greg & Lauren,
On the anniversary of my first year @ Crossfit HQSC, I want to take the opportunity to "Thank You!" for letting me join in such a great experience.
I watched from across the street for awhile and it seemed like everyone was having such a good time working out so... I ask Greg if I could give it a try.
Well, here I am one year later... 31 pounds lighter, 1 year older (that's 58 big ones), stronger and more determind than ever. It's been even more fun than it looked from across that street.
Much thanks to my many trainers & teachers... Greg, Lauren, Lani, Jason, Matt, Brendan, Nicole, Tony, Kevan, Captain Thompson, Michael Street & more!
And, thanks for the encouragement & inspiration (@6am almost every weekday morning) Jim & Debbie, Mike & Karen, Mindy, Sue, Dave, Blake, Annie, Scott (I miss you!), Mike, Eva T, Rob and Greg A.
You are all awesome! "It doesn't have to be fun to be fun". Thanks from my heart!
Active rest today. Did 45 minutes on the cross trainer. Aerobic day today. Have an awesome day.
PFT today, my first 300- The ladies seem to be working.... Definetaly showed a few more Marines today crossfit was the way to go, look for some new comers this week...
Situps: 120
Pullups: 24 dead hang w/no kip
3 mile Run: 17:40
Hey, I was just wondering what people thought of my summer plans..
Background: Have made considerable endurance and cardiovascualar progress since starting Crossfit half a year ago. Was very good during school, as time of workouts was short.
Summer: Considering the amount of free time I will have (student) will start a bodybuilding strength routine - Loading Phase of Stewart Smith's Maximum Fitness. Then, will return to Crossfit when have gained some strength, so that certain Crossfit exercises are done easier and with better form.
Does this make sense? Has anyone else taken breaks from Crossfit to focus purely on strength, and then return for the full fledged aerobic workout Crossfit gives?
What did you do a day or two prior to your PFT...
I'm a squid and we don't do pull-ups, yet (I think our PFA will come closer to your bulldog version with the addition of pull-ups soon)...
But, besides the differences, like to know how you approached it. Did you treat the day before as a rest day? Or did you just do the PFA in the morning as if it was just an extra workout during the day?
Finally convinced my wife to try a Crossfit-type workout. I did Tabata pushups, situps (AbMat), squats, and burpees. She did Tabata situps (AbMat) and burpees and proceeded to kick my butt! In total reps:
pushups 98
situps 63
squats 103
burpees 27
situps 75
squats 120
Nice job, Rach!
Mike Donnelly
As far as spectator sports go I think Gymnastics suffers as does figure skating and the like....since the roman days it's obvious spectators like direct man-to-man conflict (Football etc) whereas although gymnastics is aeshetically thrilling it has a delayed resolution to the 'conflict'.
I can think of ways to restructure the competitions to make some events more fan-friendly can you?
Hey Aush,
Usually I rest the day before a PFT, but this time I figured I'd change it up and just charge through, so yesterday I did the regular WOD. Lately I've been trying to focus more on the mental side of the workouts and just put my mind in neutral and my body in gear. And to be honest, I think most of the WODs are harder than a PFT. After I finished today my body was like "where is the rest of the workout and why don't you feel like you're about to puke..." My mentality is that if you know you have to do X amount of whatever to get a perfect score on a PFT or PFA, you have to train harder than that and try to do X++, so when test day rolls around you'll rock it. The only thing I'd suggest is don't do any distance running the day or two before your PFA. What exactly do you have to do for the PFA? Hope this was helpful, let me know if I can help with anything else.
i for one was disapointed to see Shamrock loose, but thats how it goes sometimes. my hat goes off to the 41 year old superstar who helped form a great sport.
I'm a day behind. Did Kelly today.
20" box jump, otherwise as Rxed.
My friend (a fellow CrossFitter) sent me a box of lard in the mail as a present. No note attached. What does it all mean? Any good recipe ideas?
Lynne Pitts,
as order 25 HSPU in between heavybag round like so:
warmup skipping for 5 round and finish my rest day with some take-down on a dummy
Executed an improvised WOD for today as yesterday was a rest day.
- OH Squats: 7 sets @ 65, 95, 95, 105, 115, 85 lbs.
- Dips: 7 sets @ bwx15, 25lbs x10, 35lbs, x8, 45lbs x7, 45lbs x7, bw x15.
- Dumbbell swings: 6 sets @ 40lbs x15, 45lbs x21, 50lbs x18, 55lbs x15, 55lbs x12, 60lbs x10.
- Military incline sit-ups, 3 sets of L-sits.
- 1 HSPU practice.
Did SS 5 minute snatch test 24kg - 122 reps - to get a base line for the TSC.
Then did 1/2 Angie - 9:16
Now off till RKC, back to CF next Tuesday. I'm asuming Manday I'll be in no condition to do nothing but whine.
Good luck this weekend! Looks like there will be some serious fanny-kicking on both coasts at the end of the week!
Thanks for the tip. I'm looking forward to the Lidell/Coutre match. Now, I just have to strategically get the family to the certain pizza place next Saturday to watch the mayhem!! Local place gets the PPV and lets all comers watch. Don't tell anyone though! It's a secret.
I can't wait for that fight. The crappy thing is that I like both Chuck and Randy. I have to go with Randy though.
Lauren (or ??):
Could you provide me with a link, and/or, more information on the "Scalability - Ridge Physical Therapy & Wellness Center?"
Thanks, marianne
I've always liked Couture personally, but the Iceman is local, and I like him too, I've even been to his gym, SLO Kickboxing, so if I have to choose, let it be Lidell!
BTW, what causes that cauliflower ear?
Sally, you are an inspiration to all � proud of you � one hell of an athlete!
Happy 1 year - stay stong - continue to grow!
See you in sunny SC, in a few days�
Felt like terrible today.
3 rounds:
1 mile run
21 pull ups
Then Mini Kelly (3 rounds). Probably going to pay for that.
Todd H
I emphathize with you regarding the current status of mcollege men's gymnastics. But you show your ignorance of basketball because it involves more than "chucking" the ball and doesn't involve luck I assure you. Shooting, although an important element, is not about luck. It is a skill. And some basketball players are among the best conditioned athletes in the world.
The UFC light heavyweight bour for the contract was a bloody classic which made me more of a fan for MMA. I respect both of those gents for their effort and courage.
It was too bad that Shamrock performed so poorly in his bout. Alot of people who saw him for the first time missed an extraordinary athlete when he was at his peak. MMA would not be where it is today without his efforts.
Put the female side of the crew through a quickie...
5 rounds for time:
10 Dips (assited)
10 Wallball shots 20#
10 SDHP's with 25# curl bar
10 Glute Ham Situps
10 Back Extensions
Finishing times were 11:30 (Sgt. Jean) and 12:30 (Brandy) respectively. Strong work.
JF: Good job! Don't you wish spelling lessons had been so much fun in school? ;^)
Well don't know if you'll see this being it's a day late...
Navy PFA is:
1.5 mile run
push-ups in 2 mins
sit-ups in 2 mins
usually we do the push and sits first...
Agreed I did a PFA last year when I'd only been doing crossfit for about 2 months...now that I'm completely immersed I think it will be much easier, I haven't timed myself on a 1.5 mile run, but I know I can push alot harder on a run now than I ever could before...and since we get to basically do half push-ups on the test I should max everything...by the time we get around to adding pull-ups I think I'll be able to crank out 20...just wondering if working out the day before degraded you in any way. I guess I'll just pay attention to what exercises the 19 APR WOD calls for and not do any push-ups if those are in it in excess.
Thanks for the feedback.
a day behind.
had an o-lift jones, so i did "Grace" today.
time = 7:10
BW = 167#. almost a 3 minute improvement from october 2004. cool!
added c&j singles to 185
deadlift 1x315/1x315/1x335/1x335/1x345
OHS 5x135/5x165
looking forward to FGB tomorrow!
five rounds
400 M run
95# Good Mornings 21 reps
KTE 21 reps
first day back after back off week felt really good. ran the 400's faster than I did previously at 8.0 rather than 7.5
The Good Mornings started at 95 teh first roumd but I dropped the weight to 75. This seemed more manageable. My posterior chain needs to get stronger.
The KTE's in the beginning were good reps. But as I fatigued in the later rounds I was doing Knees to chest.
around 31 minutes. need to buy a new watch.
five rounds max reps 60 LB. DB bench Press/Pullups
Gravitron 35 Pullups resistance 80-100 lbs.


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Bishop John Shelby Spong: "The Pacific School of Religion and Theological Education for Tomorrow's Christianity"
I spent a week recently teaching in the summer session of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. It was a demanding schedule of four hours a day from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on each of the five days of that week. This opportunity forced me to think about the state of theological education in the United States and to wonder about its adequacy to meet the crises the Christian Church faces in the 21st century. In this column I share those thoughts.
The Pacific School of Religion illustrates well the past and the future state of training of church leaders. This seminary is part of the consortium of theological schools that surround the University of California in Berkeley. Each of these schools began its life as a west coast seminary serving its particular denomination. Each one, therefore, built its own chapel, dormitory, refectory and library. The unconscious, and therefore largely unspoken, idea was to re-create the English, Scottish, German and European model in which theological education is part of a university setting and presumably, in dialogue with the expansion of knowledge that is the essence of university life. It was essentially a Protestant model that sees ministry in terms of engagement with the world, not a monastic process of withdrawal from the world.
Over the half century between the end of World War II and the end of the second millennium, Protestant Christianity went through many changes. Much of its self-understanding, while not admitted, had been tribal in nature. Episcopalians tended to be the worshiping descendants of English immigrants, Presbyterians of Scottish immigrants and Lutherans of German and Scandinavian immigrants. Roman Catholics also are primarily descendants of the nations of Southern Europe and Ireland. As is the case with all sweeping generalizations, this conclusion has many exceptions to the rule, but it is, nonetheless, broadly accurate. When the generations went by and intermarriage occurred people began to forget their country of origin and its special worship patterns and Christianity in America became homogenized and at the same time began to splinter into many patterns, sometimes quite congregational and individualistic as new identity was sought. Methodism became very much the Anglican Church Americanized and was the primary religion of the frontier as it moved westward. The United Church of Christ claimed its Zwinglian roots and took on a more radical flavor. Baptist and Pentecostal groups proliferated and began to exhibit an anti-intellectual bias. The Unitarians on the other hand took up the intellectual challenge, feeling stifled by the creeds and doctrines of the traditional churches.
Inevitably, as the years rolled by denominational (i.e. tribal) loyalty began to fade. Each Christian tradition had within it those who wanted to walk the frontiers of new understanding and those who wanted to defend the "unchanging past" with increasing determination. This meant that cross-denominational alliances began to form that linked the progressives together on one end and the traditionalists on the other.
Among the denominational seminaries, the realization also began to dawn that biblical and theological scholarship was not the possession of a single tradition. There is no such thing as conservative or liberal scholarship; there is only competent or incompetent scholarship. There was, therefore, no real need to have separate libraries at each theological school in a specific geographical area or to replicate professors in the same academic disciplines in separate schools. The case was still made that specific things like liturgy, chapel worship, clergy ordination formation, canon law and denominational history might need to be handled individually by the separate schools, but other disciplines were common to them all. These were the forces that pushed denominational schools toward a consortium. The schools around the University of California in Berkeley were ideally suited by dint of their location to lead this change.
The first step was to combine all of the denominational schools' libraries into a single facility able to serve all the students, thus maximizing the books that were available and the services that a large library could offer. The next step was to allow the enrollment of all students in any class offered by any part of the consortium, thus maximizing the courses that would be available and stopping senseless replication of teaching resources. Each school kept its own requirements for the awarding of degrees, but full credit would be accorded for classes taken at any member school of the consortium. The denominational schools thus became participants in an entity called "The Graduate Theological Union," where doctorates were offered and a summer school, open to all of each school's graduates, was available. So more and more of the students at each theological center studied and formed friendships among and with those who would be clergy in all traditions. Denominational concerns began a slow, but inevitable retreat.
In time, the Berkeley Graduate Theological Union, for a variety of reason, some more noble than others, gave up its responsibility for the summer school, but one of its constituent members, namely the Pacific School of Religion, agreed to pick it up and to continue to run a fully accredited program, but on an ecumenical basis. I have been on the faculty of this summer school under the aegis of both the Graduate Theological Union and the Pacific School of Religion on six different occasions. Each of these opportunities has been unique and worthwhile. My classes have ranged from about fifty students to over a hundred. Representing a wide sweep of traditions, between half and two-thirds of these students were ordained graduates of a particular theological seminary, who were returning in the summer for "continuing education." Others in the class were those still in pursuit of their divinity degrees and theologically interested lay people. My students this summer included ordained clergy who were Congregationalists (UCC), Presbyterians, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalians, Quakers, Unitarians, Baptists and Roman Catholics. Two rabbis also enrolled enriching us all.
An unexpected serendipity of the development of theological consortiums has been that the member schools have begun to define themselves more sharply. In my own theological training, my seminary and most of the Episcopal centers for preparing clergy defined their vocation as "generalists," preparing men and women for ministry in the broader definitions of Episcopal Church life. One seminary might emphasize pastoral ministry, another liturgics, another intellectual concerns and another social action ministry, but generally Episcopal seminary graduates could serve almost all of our churches. As "normal" church life began to fade, however, in both importance and in its appeal to the increasingly secular population, this "general" preparation began to have a limited value and the cry for bolder action was heard, but all too often ignored as a threat to denominational support. When a fire destroyed the chapel at one seminary, the immediate emphasis was to build a bigger and better chapel to continue the same kind of liturgical activity that people are today abandoning in droves. Strange mottos like "progressive orthodoxy" were adopted to suggest that no radical new thrust in clergy preparation was required.
The Pacific School of Theology, affiliated with the United Church of Christ, the Methodists and the Disciples of Christ traditions, however, decided that rising indifference to traditional religious activity represented a new opportunity. Their vocation, they declared in both word and deed, was to engage the world in which they found themselves living. Scholarship, therefore, would not be compromised to protect the insecurities of the faithful. Biblical studies would be encouraged to come out of the academy and be introduced to the people in the pews. If the operative church definition of God could not stand against the onslaught of scientific knowledge they would let that old definition die rather than trying to respirate it artificially. They would no longer be interested in defending the creedal formulas of the 4th century that no educated person in our age can accept. They would no longer be interested in coddling those students who still wanted to diminish women, people of color or gay and lesbian people. This school thus began to define itself publicly, to announce to would-be students exactly who they were and what their students should expect. If this was not the kind of theological education that applying students wanted then they should look elsewhere. People listened and took notice. The Pacific School of Religion still trains pastors, but pastors who want to live in, speak to and engage the religious concerns of the future, not the religious concerns of the past. So at PSR experiments with new forms of ministry appeared and things tied to an older world disappeared.
Will it work? Will people gravitate toward this attempt to discover a future for Christianity? Only time will tell, but one sign of success is already apparent. The Methodist Theological School at Drew University in New Jersey went in search of a new dean a year ago. They found him on the faculty of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. His name is Jeffrey Kuan, a professor of Old Testament. If the Drew Theological School can build a bold training center for clergy on the east coast to match the excitement that the Pacific School of Religion has created on the west coast, perhaps a new kind of clergy will emerge – those committed to Christian ministry, but not afraid of knowledge; those willing to rethink traditional symbols; those even willing to offend the ones who have not progressed beyond their 4th grade Sunday School understanding of God for the sake of the future. If that occurs, something new in theological education and clergy training will begin to appear. PSR gives me hope. So does Drew Theological School. I salute them both with great expectations.
~ John Shelby Spong
Reprinted by Permision of ProgressiveChristianity.Org


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MIDDLETOWN, Kentucky (WAVE) -- "I'm going to be making some sawdust here in about three or four minutes," artist Joe Salyers says on a cold morning behind the "Taste of Kentucky" store in Middletown, Kentucky.
What he's able to create using a red cedar log and a chainsaw impresses enough people that the store will sell dozens of them this year.
"They're a very popular item, both locally and around the country," says John Hassmann, owner of Taste of Kentucky.
As shoppers rush home with their presents, Joe's Kentucky Hardwood Christmas Trees stand out both for the artistry and the artist, who started his craft late in life.
"You never get too old," Joe said. "I didn't even start doing this until I was very near 60."
More than a decade later, he wields his tools with ease even though one is missing. Joe lost his left hand in 1968 in a mill accident.
"I've learned to do a whole lot of things that most folks would say well he can't do that with one hand," he said.


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Plug-and-Produce technologies real-time aspects - Service Oriented Architectures for SME robots and Plug-and-Produce
Publishing year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 249-254
Publication/Series: Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2008
Document type: Conference paper
Publisher: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Plug-and-Produce (with the meaning that devices can be plugged in without any manual configurations needed) is an attractive paradigm for manufacturing systems, and in particular for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that do not have the expertise of system integrators but do need to be able to reconfigure their systems by themselves. One approach for loosely (in terms of timing) coupled devices is that of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). As can be understood from developments with multiple robot arm and online operator interactions, future applications will in some cases need real-time guarantees for performing services. Thai: includes both real-time communication and the need to perform services with a predictable timing. A review of available technologies and inherent limitations of distributed computing leads to the conclusion that the standard SOA approach based on process oriented (like for RPCs and web services) calls similar to distributed object orientation will not be practically useful. Instead, a data or state centric approach should be adapted together with one-way message-based communication.
- Computer Science
- real-time computing
- Plug-and-Produce
- Plug-and-Play
- robot
- manufacturing systems
- flexible
5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
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Red lentil, chickpea & chilli soup
Cooking timePrep: 10 mins Cook: 25 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
Come home to a warming bowlful of this filling, low-fat soup
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 222
- protein
- 13g
- carbs
- 33g
- fat
- 5g
- saturates
- 0g
- fibre
- 6g
- sugar
- 6g
- salt
- 0.87g
- 2 tsp cumin seeds
- large pinch chilli flakes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 140g red split lentils
- 850ml vegetable stock or water
- 400g can tomatoes, whole or chopped
- 200g carton chickpeas or ½ a can, rinsed and drained (freeze leftovers)
- small bunch coriander, roughly chopped (save a few leaves, to serve)
- 4 tbsp 0% Greek yogurt, to serve
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- Heat a large saucepan and dry-fry the cumin seeds and chilli flakes for 1 min, or until they start to jump around the pan and release their aromas. Add the oil and onion, and cook for 5 mins. Stir in the lentils, stock and tomatoes, then bring to the boil. Simmer for 15 mins until the lentils have softened.
- Whizz the soup with a stick blender or in a food processor until it is a rough purée, pour back into the pan and add the chickpeas. Heat gently, season well and stir in the coriander. Finish with a dollop of yogurt and coriander leaves.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2010
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Comments, questions and tips
Lovely! Burnt the spices the first time and about killed myself coughing (stupid old electric hob!) but 2nd go went well. Wasn't impressed after cooking, but when yoghurt and coriander was added it was really lovely! Made it the night before for lunch the next day, as people said the flavours developed. Was loads for lunch (3 people) and enough left for a small soup for 2 a day or two later also. Will definitely make again, might even freeze it (before the yoghurt and coriander).
Originally coming from the middle east, I have tried many different versions of both lentil and chickpea soup and I can honestly say this is one of the best versions of both varieties that I have ever tasted. My mother and sister absolutely love it too. It will definitely be a recipe that I use often!


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To be the two remaining Western Conference teams, the Suns and Lakers had to excel at what they do best and those superlatives are unscathed.
Something has to give now. When the conference finals start Monday, either the Suns' league-best 3-point shooting is going to be taken down a notch - or the Lakers' league-leading 3-point defense will snap.
Phoenix can stake a claim to the best-ever 3-point shooting team with a 41.2 percent season that is second only to the 1996-97 Charlotte Hornets, who recorded a 42.8 percent record during a 3-year experiment that shortened the distance to 22 feet. The Lakers gave up a league-low 32.8 percent on 3-point shooting this season.
Neither gave ground in getting to this point. Phoenix shot 41.7 percent on 3s in the first two rounds, making 10 per game. The Lakers surrendered 32.3 percent 3-point shooting, allowing six per game.
"We've won games where we didn't have to make a bunch of 3s either," said Suns coach Alvin Gentry, whose team got this 36-9 run started with 15 games of single-digit 3-point makes. "For us, it's all about spacing the floor. If they're guarding the 3-point line, hopefully that means there are alleys that we can drive."
The Suns made only 33.3 percent of their 3s this season against the Lakers, although Phoenix's lineup and rotation that turned its fortune never participated fully against LA. Shooting center Channing Frye was suspended for the teams' only 2010 meeting.
The Lakers size allows a player such as 6-foot-10 Lamar Odom to defend out to the 3-point line, and it provides a back line of defense for the perimeter players to be physical and challenge 3-point shots.
"They get up in you and make you drive and they have help-side defense," Suns forward Jared Dudley said. "The one time we were successful we got stops and into transition. It's hard for them to guard the 3 in transition."
Suns guard Jason Richardson was most affected by the Lakers this season with 3-for-21 shooting on 3s. He is at 51.5 percent in the playoffs, followed by Steve Nash at 46.4 and Goran Dragic at 44.4. After slow starts, Frye is at 38.5 and Dudley is at 37.8. Leandro Barbosa has shot the best he has all year at 36.4.
"We just have to spread the floor and Steve is going to attack with pick-and-roll and find the shooters," Dragic said. "If we're going to have our day and make those 3s, we'll be OK."
On Thursday, Richardson, Nash, Grant Hill and Amar'e Stoudemire were asked to take a day off while others scrimmaged to help prepare Robin Lopez. Nash showed up anyway to shoot. You don't have the NBA's fifth-best career 3-point shooting percentage (43.2) without practice.
The 3-point shooting went from a preseason concern to a surprise success, but the Suns insist they don't rely on the 3 as past teams did. But when they have made at least 45 percent of their 3s, they are 28-4. When they make less than 35 percent of their 3s, they are 10-13.
The Suns made 34 of 69 3s in their past three games, a turnaround from when several shooters were cold at once during a 12-18 midseason slump.
"We kept harping on, 'You've got to be two more steps here, you've got to get behind the line here, you've got to get deeper in the corner,' " Gentry said. "It really was just that. In the NBA, being one step further can be the difference in being able to create a lane for somebody to drive all the way to the basket. Guys are just so athletic in this league and when you add in the fact that they (the Lakers) are so long, I could see why they're able to defend the 3-point line."
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Chicago Data Summit: Extending the Enterprise Data Warehouse with Hadoop
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Hadoop provides the ability to extract business intelligence from extremely large, heterogeneous data sets that were previously impractical to store and process in traditional data warehouses. The challenge for many companies now is in bridging the gap between the data in the data warehouse and the data in Hadoop. The presentation explains some steps that Orbitz has taken to bridge this gap, including examples of how Hadoop and Hive are used to aggregate data from large data sets, and how that data can be combined with relational data to create new reports that provide actionable intelligence to business users.


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ATLANTA, GA – JANUARY 10: Paul Millsap #4 of the Atlanta Hawks taking a shot duing a game against the Houston Rockets on January 10, 2014 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2014 NBAE (Photo by Scott Cunningham/NBAE via Getty Images)


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PAWTUCKET – One cannot quantify with simple words what John Scanlon and Ray McGee mean to this city's public school athletic programs.
So given recent developments, two coaches – one from Tolman and the other from Shea – feel that it's time to begin a new tradition to preserve the legacies of these two dedicated and beloved athletic directors.
Following the final out of Tuesday's Division II baseball game between the Tigers and Raiders at McCoy Stadium, the first-ever awarding of the "McGee/Scanlon Trophy" will be made to the winning team.
"It's going to be informal, but I think it's cool to have their names attached to something," said Theo Murray, the head baseball coach and assistant football coach at Tolman, which is Scanlon's jurisdiction.
Added Dino Campopiano, who as one of McGee's charges at Shea is the head coach of the football and baseball teams, "Athletics in the city don't run without these two guys. There are really no words to explain it."
With Scanlon retiring at the end of the school year and McGee on the fence about whether he wants to follow suit, the idea of creating a meaningful honor with plenty of staying power was a no-brainer. Remember, we're talking about a pair who have been strongly linked with Pawtucket sports and for several decades.
"These two guys are legends in the city. Anyone who grew up in the 1960s to the present knows these two names. They are synonymous with Tolman and Shea and both have their connections between both schools," Murray pointed out. "Ray was the football and hockey coach at Tolman for the longest time and John was the basketball coach at Shea."
This token of appreciation came about as the result of a conversation between Murray and Campopiano during a recent gathering of Division II baseball coaches. Once the business of selecting the participants for the 12th grade and underclassmen all-star games was complete, the attention shifted to McGee and Scanlon and how to appropriately honor them.
As currently situated, Tolman and Shea are in the same baseball division, with the guarantee of two regular-season meetings. With realignment on the horizon and whispers about the creation of a third division, there's a chance that the Tigers and Raiders could be scaled back to one get-together on the diamond for the next two years.
If Tolman and Shea end up in different divisions, Murray plans to line up a non-leaguer with the hopes of having McCoy Stadium as the backdrop.
"Every year, we'll designate one of the games as the McGee/Scanlon game," Murray stated.
You would be hard-pressed to attend a Tolman or Shea sporting event and not run into McGee and Scanlon. Both would have been locks to attend Tuesday's baseball game, yet Scanlon had an inkling that something was up when Murray informed him to make sure that he and McGee would be present.
Then came last week when the trophy appeared in Scanlon's office, which is when Murray's friendly hint made total sense.
"It's nice to be appreciated and we do appreciate what they're doing," said Scanlon, who decided as far back as last June that the 2013-14 school term would mark his final one as the overseer of the Tolman athletic department. "I smelled something, but I didn't realize that they were going to have a trophy."
Scanlon was the one who broke the news to his good pal at Shea.
"That's fantastic and great. I appreciate it and I know John does too," McGee relayed.
Looking strictly at their careers as athletic directors, the joint work Scanlon and McGee put forth in solidifying Tolman and Shea as Thanksgiving football rivals might go down as their greatest accomplishment. Last November marked the 12th all-time holiday meeting between the neighboring public high schools.
"The best way they handled that was making sure that everyone was set," said Campopiano, whose Raiders used to meet Lincoln on Turkey Day while Tolman had a longstanding engagement with St. Raphael. "They took care of the city schools, but they did it in a business-like manner. Everything about them is class act."
What's on tap Tuesday at McCoy not only helps to legitimize the creation of the Tigers and Raiders as Thanksgiving partners, but also on several other fronts as well. To the two coaches who were instrumental in creating something that pays homage to two longtime pillars of Pawtucket athletes, there is nothing more fitting that having McGee's and Scanlon's names fixed to something lasting.
"All I need to know is that every once in a while, we're reminded about how good these guys have been to all the coaches and athletic programs at both schools," said Murray. "They give us plenty of freedom, but they also have our backs."
Echoed Campopiano, "Even with the financial times the way they are, they make sure to give our student-athletes everything possible. Our kids don't go without as far as equipment, uniforms ... everything. Without those two, there would be no athletics as it stands today."
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Japanese built Toilet Motorcycle runs on human waste
Butt it's real! It is. TOTO, a toilet maker from Japan, has invented a motorcycle with a built-in toilet that is powered by the very, erm, waste that it collects. Called the Toilet Bike Neo Project, the creation is actually for a good cause: Toto aims to reduce CO2 emissions in bathrooms by 50 percent by 2017. So ride and purge. Sounds like a wonderful initiative.


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After a six-year hiatus the Barnstable High School Athletic Hall of Fame has been revamped and has returned with the announcement of its second class of inductees.
This year's class was researched and chosen by the BHS Athletic Hall of Fame Board of Directors including Jack Aylmer (Class of 1952), Fran Fermino (1953), Jim Murphy (1982), Beth Murphy Talerman (1980), Mike Delaney (1972), Tom Turco (BHS volleyball coach), Sean Walsh (BHS historian and Barnstable Middle School track coach), and BHS Athletic Director Steve Francis.
Inductees were chosen for their various honors in coaching or participating in BHS sports. A celebration dinner and Induction Ceremony will be held on Nov. 24 at The Roadhouse Cafe. While this year's dinner will be private due to space restrictions, the 2007 event will be open to the public.
This year's inductees are: William P. "Billy" Bangs (basketball, tennis, football, baseball coach and first athletic director, 1926-1936), Katherine "Kay" Nehubian (coach of girls basketball, softball and field hockey, 1929-1971), Francis Ray Fermino (class of '54, played football, baseball, track and field), Warren R. Bowen (class of 1895, originator of BHS football program, played left halfback), Elliott B. MacSwan (coached football and ice hockey from 1939-1965, athletic director from 1964-1974), Matt Dacey (class of '80, played football, baseball, and basketball), Scott Nickerson (class of '82, played ice hockey, baseball and soccer), John Ellis (class of '77, played football, winter track, and spring track and field), Tanya McIntyre (class of '95, played soccer, basketball, and softball), Tracy Roderick (class of '86, gymnast), Michelle Cunningham (class of '95, played volleyball, basketball and softball), and Gerry McDowell (class of '72, played soccer, basketball and spring track and field).
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My mom and little brother were making things to give to Mike and I for trade. Check out the awesome clothes pin buddies my amazing little brother, Nate, made. They look like Mike and I!
Also, my mom brought some bracelets and she wrote "Give and Take…Dunn and Runge" on them.
I love my family so much!