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Growing the Ranks of Female Devs
At PRX I am the only woman on a team of six. With a team that size, it could be a coincidence that I'm the only one. But it is not. In most companies with six developers, zero would be female. I'm here at PRX because of my skills but also because PRX cares about having and encouraging a diverse workplace. We took that beyond our office a few weeks ago when we participated in a full-day free workshop focused on teaching Ruby on Rails development to interested women. In one evening and one long day we taught 44 students enough so that by the end of the workshop they had each deployed their own web application live on the Internet. You can read an interesting and thorough recap of the event, replete with pictures, feedback, etc., here. Also, if you're interested in participating, we plan to do another workshop with the same format later this fall. You can find out more on our site.
PRXers had roles in every aspect of the workshop. Dan Choi, a former PRX employee and contractor and permanent PRX friend, was the driving force behind the workshop and the main organizer. We developed the curriculum with a team of volunteers from BostonRB including Andrew K., Chris R. and me from the PRX team. I was the main lecturer/teacher for the workshop, Andrew was a teaching assistant and lecturer, and Kathryn Bennett, a tech intern at PRX, also TA'ed. Genevieve, who works on the content side of PRX and does a lot of work in our content management system, participated as a student. And PRX backed the event financially as one of the sponsors.
The main goal of the event was to encourage people with no previous experience to get involved with Ruby/Rails development, and I believe we succeeded. But for me there was another positive outcome. In putting on the event we pulled together a team of volunteers, teachers, and sponsors who all see the importance of an inclusive, diverse community of developers. At this one event I met and worked with over ten other female Ruby/Rails developers many of whom work in places where they are the only girl. I had only met two of them before, and I was frankly but happily surprised that there were so many of us. It helped show me that the community we were envisioning is already nascent among the women who are working as developers and the colleagues, companies, and organizations that are supporting us.
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It was only a matter of time before Duncan Jones entered the blockbuster world. His debut "Moon" managed a huge amount with a fairly slim budget, he stepped up to a bigger canvas effectively with "Source Code," and he's been linked with big projects like "The Wolverine," "Man Of Steel" and "Catching Fire" over the last few years. But the helmer, a keen videogamer, was finally lured to the megabudget world by "Warcraft," Legendary's adaptation of the popular series of fantasy video games.
Another epic full of orcs and goblins and elves isn't the most immediately enticing prospect, but Jones' involvement is enough to ensure that we'll be interested, and he's justified our faith with some promising casting choices for the project. According to Coming Soon, Jones has added to the "Warcraft' cast with new additions Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell and Robert Kazinsky, while Dominic Cooper is in negotiations to come on board as well. The quartet would join "Vikings" star Travis Fimmel and "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol"'s Paula Patton in the project.
Foster's been a reliable figure for a while, but after strong work in 2013 with "Lone Survivor" and "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," is poised to step up a level next year, playing Lance Armstrong for Stephen Frears. Kebbell has blockbuster bona fides from "Prince Of Persia," "Wrath Of The Titans" and the upcoming "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes," while Kazinsky was cast, then replaced, in "The Hobbit," but then bounced back with roles in "Pacific Rim" and "True Blood." Cooper, whose big studio experience includes "Captain America," "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and the upcoming "Need For Speed'" and "Dracula Untold," isn't yet signed, but looks to be close. There's no sign of Colin Farrell, previously linked to the project, so it's very feasible that Cooper's taken the role originally earmarked for him.
So far, there are no details on what sort of roles the actors will be playing, but we're not sure it would make any sense to us, anyway. But as far as casts go for this sort of thing, it's promising, and we're particularly amped to see Foster get a major role like this -- it's long overdue. Filming on the megabudget project will start next year, and Universal will be putting it out on March 11th, 2016.

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Spring 2005 • Volume 11, Issue 2
Reaching out through LifeSkills program
by Justin Phelps '05
Bradley men's and women's basketball players Daniel Ruffin '07 and Kayla Hackman '05, pictured at right, have added "life skills" to their classroom and athletic studies.
The two point guards joined Bradley's LifeSkills program last year to spend time with Clifford Dahl, a 7-year-old Peoria boy.
Dahl was diagnosed with Batten Disease in 2003. The rare neurological illness affects primarily children and will eventually cause mental impairment, seizures, and loss of motor skills and speech. Dahl has already lost his eyesight because of the incurable disease.
"It's kind of a reality check," Ruffin said, "Some people can complain about their lives; you can always find something wrong. But by being around him, you see that he would switch with you in a second. He would take your life in a heartbeat. It helps me be happy and satisfied with what I've got."
Ruffin and Hackman visit Clifford at least once a month, but usually more depending on their academic and basketball schedule.
"I wish I could spend more time with him," said Hackman, who has volunteered her time with children before. "I have a passion for kids in general. I love working with kids because at this age, with what I'm doing, I know there are a lot of kids looking up to athletes. I know that because when I was little, I did it. So I promised myself if I became an athlete, I'd return the favor."
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During Damascus meeting, Russian president urges Islamist group to 'resolve issue of Israeli soldier' and reconcile with Fatah
Roee Nahmias
Published: 05.11.10, 19:52 / Israel News
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During a meeting with Hamas politburo
chief Khaled Mashaal in Damascus on Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the Islamist group to "resolve the issue" of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit as soon as possible.
Medvedev (L) and Assad (Photo: AP)
Russian media reported that during the meeting, which was also attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad,
Medvedev called on Hamas to reconcile with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction.
According to the Russian delegation's press secretary, Medvedev, who has already left Syria for Turkey, also stressed the importance of creating the conditions that are necessary for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The press secretary added that the meeting also centered on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza amid Israel's ongoing blockade. The participants stressed the need to provide aid – including food and construction materials - to the residents of the Hamas-ruled territory in accordance with a demand
made by the Mideast Quartet (Russia, US, European Union and UN) in Moscow on March 19.
Earlier Thursday, Assad said
during a joint press conference with Medvedev that Russia is one of the supporters of the peace process and that this process is currently deadlocked.
However, according to Assad, "even during a stalemate, there are elements that can take steps to increase the opportunities for peace, or, on the contrary, take steps that may completely foil the peace process."
"We consider the expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem and the attacks on holy sites, as well as the siege on Gaza, as steps that may completely foil the peace process," Assad said.
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Sure if they're done right... make sure they're cut dry, or you'll have the trouble I did where it was initially cut too short... O.o, took about a month to grow to where I actually like them on a regular basis.
Pic from today (hey my hair is nice today, may as well show off... :P). I have an angled bang, cut shortest on the left above the eye and then angles down on both sides. Kinda weird, but it works better then a straight bang would, so why not?
I think it's down to my cheekbone or tip of my nose when straight. I haven't straightened it so I don't 100% know....
I have bangs because I've always loved them, but I was heavily warned against getting them originally. I'm not sure why but sometimes bangs work curly and sometimes they don't and it can be two people with similar curl pattern and length. Maybe it's a face shape, styling habits or hair thickness thing. I can never be bothered to style mine daily, if I had to I would simply grow them out, I'm extremely lazy with hair styling in the morning. (Maybe a result of being spoiled with curly hair I can just wake up and spray with a little water and be done with styling!) So I wear mine curly and somewhat haphazardly. The overall effect I think works though. Mine are shortest at the center, the outline forming an arc. Surprisingly, I can wear side parts despite the symmetrical cut. At the center it usually stretched out reaches somewhere between my top lip and a bit above the point of my nose. When it is it's shortest I wear it like blunt bangs, all hanging across my forehead. When it is on the longer side I wear them like sidebangs, mostly just because I would otherwise have hair in my eyes. The first two pictures show my hair with the sideswept bangs. The third and fourth show the blunt-bang effect. The fourth is more extreme and the picture makes it look pretty bad. It wasn't actually that bad, but, I rarely style it that way it was a lot shorter than usual and really humid that day. As you can see from the second and third picture I can do both looks in one day when it is at the intermediate length. I love having curly hair because it is so easy! If you have it and want bangs for heaven's sake do not straighten them unless you really love the look, because you have the ability to have such an effortless style!
I have curly bangs my curls are a mix of 3a and 3b. Sometimes they are really springy and other days they are pulled out. (Depending on how long I have preserved my curls after wash day) I love them and am planning to trim them a bit soon to keep them springy ❤


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When IBM first kicked off the Dynamic Infrastructure announcement at Pulse 2009 conference, we heard some rumblings on whether Dynamic Infrastructure was just another executive buzzword or if there was real meat behind "the concept."
Cloud & Service Management blog
IBM kicks Dynamic Infrastructure into Action!
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Impact, SOA, and Service Management
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This week IBM kicked off the Impact conference from May 3 - 8 in
Two key announcements:
-New IBM Appliance Delivers Enterprise Cloud Services
Social media: Live buzz, broadcasting, and games
Twitter is filled with excitement on the conference. Follow @smartsoa and @sandycarter and use the #ibmimpact tag to track all the great activity. You can also follow broadcasting of the keynote and some of our most popular sessions.
The Impact conference is using social media in some of the most creative ways I've seen at IBM yet! They have a cool social media game where you can earn points for participating in Twitter, blogs, videos, etc. Hmm, I wonder how many points I can earn? Check out these links to learn more:
IBM Service Management activities at Impact
IBM Service Management is a big theme at the conference since Smart SOA makes business processes easy to change, but those changes create the demand for a Dynamic Infrastructure to be adaptive and support those business processes. IBM Service Management anticipates how business processes shift their pressures on the infrastructure, enabling the infrastructure to adapt quickly while enabling smart choices for a smarter world.
As Robert LeBlanc said at Pulse 2008, you can have Service Management without SOA, but you can't have SOA without Service Management. Al Zollar, IBM General Manager of Tivoli Software, will give a keynote on May 5 during the Impact general session, discussing how a smarter planet requires a dynamic infrastructure based on IBM Service Management capabilities. Expect to hear announcements on
IBM Service Management has the following activities at Impact:
18 IBM Service Management experts and executives will be available for one-on-one meetings with clients.
Smart SOA Service Management in the
Two pedestals in the Expo:
-Service Management (ITCAM for Transactions | OMEGAMON XE for Messaging, TBSM | ITCAM for SOA Platform, TUAM, ITCAM for WebSphere)
-Security Management (TSPM/TFIM)
Service Management speaking sessions include:
May 4
TSM - Managing the Virtual
Rob Goodling, IBM
Venetian - Murano 3305
TSM - SOA Management on IBM System z®,
Divyesh Vaidya, IBM
Venetian - Murano 3203
BIA - The Last Mile to SOA Success: Service Management,
Casey Plunkett, IBM
Venetian - Galileo 1003
BID - Transforming Your Business Through BPM - Four Primary Use-Cases ,
Janelle Hill, Gartner, Inc , Kramer Reeves, IBM
Venetian - Galileo 904
May 5
TMC - Managing your IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM WebSphere Message Broker Environment
Jim Palistrant, IBM
Venetian - Delfino 4105
TSM - Lab: Monitoring Transactions in SOA Infrastructure,
Pradeep Nambiar, IBM, Jim Palistrant, IBM
Venetian - Marcello 4403
TMC - Meet the Experts and Demo for WebSphere MQ and Message Broker management
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Venetian - Tech Zone – Messaging
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TSM - Manage your SOA Environment with IBM Tivoli
Todd Kindsfather, IBM and Jim Palistrant, IBM
Venetian - Palazzo D
BIS - Extending SOA Principles to the Infrastructure for Greater Flexibility and Cost Effectiveness
Kristin Hansen, IBM and Bruce Otte, IBM
Venetian - Galileo 907
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Casey Plunkett, IBM and
Venetian - Galileo 906
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Robin Hernandez, IBM
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TSM - Managing the Virtual
Rob Goodling, IBM
Venetian - Palazzo D
TSM - Security Policy Management with WSRR, DataPower & Tivoli Security Policy Manager
Sridhar Muppidi, IBM and
Venetian - Murano 3203
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Tina Groves, IBM and James D. Moore III, IBM
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If you haven't heard by now, IBM will be talking security at the place where "the world talks security" next week—the RSA 2009 conference. On April 23, Brian Truskowski, GM of Internet Security Systems (ISS), will provide an RSA keynote on "Securing the Smarter Planet." His talk will address how security professionals are in a key position to enable effective change to create a smarter planet as our world and systems become more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent.
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As an IBM Business Partner, you are critical to the success of using innovative security solutions to enable a smarter planet. We'd like you to join us in shaping this conversation and activity in new IBM Security social media channels on ibm.com, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Time: 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
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We are very excited since IBM is a finalist in several categories:
As part of the IT security industry's leading global awards program, the SC Awards U.S. was organized to honor the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats confronted in today's corporate world.
SC Awards hones in on the achievements of the guys and gals in the trenches, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the passionate work of government, commercial and nonprofits working to help the industry.
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Welcome to the IBM Service Management blog. A variety of authors who represent different parts of IBM will discuss a range of Service Management topics such as service availability and performance, green IT, IT asset and financial management, IT governance, service delivery and process, storage management, SOA management, enterprise asset management, and service assurance for service providers.
We'll discuss industry trends and happenings, analyst
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offerings, upcoming events, helpful resources, and heroes in the broader IBM
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chirp said on Jan. 14 '10
I like this. I wonder if it would have more thoughts-as-they-happen immediacy if the type was handwritten as if written with chalk. Did that make sense?
ethereal said on Jan. 14 '10
Another take on this might be lose the speech bubble dealy at the bottom and then indicate "talking" somehow, perhaps by way of lines, coming out of the thing where it's open as if it's a mouth or jaws.
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China rang down the curtain on the inaugural AIBA China Open boxing tournament with five golds and four silvers in Guiyang, Guizhou Province on Saturday, proven to be the biggest winner at the high caliber international boxing event.
China's boxing kingpin Zou Shiming outpointed the former Commonwealth champion Sunil Kumar of India 4-2 in flyweight, while the 2008 Olympic silver medalist Zhang Zhilei ran away with a win over the little-known super heavyweight Syrian boxer Ghossoun Soumar by the score of 9-4. The 2009 Asian Championships titleholder Zhang Jianting was crowned in middleweight.
Other than the three aforementioned veterans, light flyweight Wu Rongguo and light heavyweight Meng Fanlong emerged as two rising prospects who battered their way to their respective championships.
The other six gold medals were shared by boxers from such boxing powerhouses as the Cuba, Russia and Kazakhstan.
"As far as the tournament goes, the China Open is a big success," Jianping Chang, China's biggest boxing boss told this journalist yesterday. "The tournament is the WORLD'S first-ever yearly AIBA 3-star caliber boxing event."
Last year, AIBA launched a star-based system of approval for events, for the purpose of developing more boxing events worldwide and providing boxers with more opportunities to earn World Ranking points.
The 3-star event is the top-ranked boxing tournament under the AIBA system. Such premier boxing tournaments as the World Championships, World Cup and Olympic Games boxing matches all have mandatory 3-Star approval.
"The first edition of the China Open served as a new attempt both for the AIBA and China's boxing fraternity," Chang said. "Next year, the second version of the game will still be held in Guiyang and it's gonna be upgraded to a formally AIBA approved 3-star event."
Chang claimed that the inaugural edition of the China Open has reached 3-star event status, yet it has not been officially approved by the AIBA.
According to AIBA, all international and continental events with more than 20 countries and over 150 boxers participating, as well as the five Confederation championships, are eligible to apply for 3-Star status. Smaller events may apply for 2-Star or 1-Star status.
The newly-concluded China Open has brought together fighters, coaches, ring officials and AIBA technical officials of more than 200 from 21 countries and regions, including great boxing powers like Cuba, Russia, Kazakhstan, Italy, Philippine and Germany.
While it is merely the first edition of the game, China Open has attracted such world-class fighters as the 2009 Worlds champion lightweight Domenico Valentino, 2008 Olympic Games heavyweight runner-up Clemente Russo, and Cuba's two 2008 Olympic silver medalists - bantamweight Yankiel Leon Alarcon and flyweight Andris Laffita Hernandez, not to mention China's grand slam champion Zou Shiming and Olympic silver medalist Zhang Zhilei.
"Quality-wise, I believe the event will become better and better," Chang said. "There's also room for improvement, for example, the TV coverage."
Although the event was mentioned in China's largest TV station CCTV's CCTV News, the games were mainly covered by the local TV station.
"The backup pool of our Chinese boxing athletes is fairly strong, compared with other sports categories," Chuanliang Zhang, head coach of China's boxing national team confided. "The new generation of our boxers has grown up."
"If a broader TV coverage is introduced, it will inspire those boxers' commitment to the game, as well as produce more quality consumer products in regard to boxing for the masses."
Some insiders even daringly reckon that "its influence would reach near the status of those of basketball and soccer" within China should the second edition of the China Open was covered live nationwide.
By the end of this month, right after the China Open was ended, China's first national amateur boxing league tournament is to kick off. It is an event that should be operated mostly under the market regulations, resembling to the China Football Association Super League (CSL) and China Basketball Association (CBA). It is based on such a mechanism that would bring vigor and vitality into the untapped boxing market in China.
"With the sports channel of CCTVs continued coverage of world professional boxing championship matches, the sport of boxing already has a very large fan base in China," Chang revealed.
"Hopefully, these series of events would raise a massive tide of boxing and bring more people to get to know and appreciate the Noble Art, a sport of strength and beauty."
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Freddy Washington Talk About His New Album "The Jesus Record"
Grammy, Stella and Dove Award nominee and New Jersey native Freddy Washington's debut album is titled The Jesus Record. Washington's work features gospel, hip hop, R&B and country vibes, creating what can only called a one-of-a-kind sound that's earning him critical acclaim and industry notoriety.
Washington wrote and produced all 17 tracks for The Jesus Record. BREATHEcast sat down with Washington to talk about his musical style, his creative process and his early success.
BC: How were you able to integrate so many different styles of music?
Honestly, it wasn't something that was thought out. It wasn't formulated where I thought let me mix a bit of this with some of that. But as a songwriter, writing the songs gives you a little bit of a head start in producing because I let the song tell me where it needs to go. In terms of blending genres I just make music I'm passionate about. Sometimes it's CCM, sometimes it's gospel, other times it may have a country vibe to it. The Jesus is Andrae Crouch meets Michael W. Gospel people listen to my album and say it's got a CCM vibe. CCM say it's gospel. I don't see it as a negative; I see it as an advantage to be able to reach more people with the gospel.
BC: So you don't believe in the musical boundaries?
I understand why we need them. But, especially on this record I had control so I didn't have to worry about someone telling me what I could not do. The Lord allowed me to break a few of the rules and make it the way I felt he gave it to me. I love that god has created so many different people with different voices. I want my voice to be heard in a pure sense, the way God gave it to me I want to give it back to him. What you find with that is there are always people on that wavelength you just don't know who they are. So I'm hoping people will enjoy it and be blessed by the lyrical content.
BC: What is the creative process like when you're the writer, artist and producer?
Well, that's hard because when you work with other people on their project as a producer it's easy to step back, look at the big picture and cut away things that don't fit. It's hard to let anything go when you're the artist, writer and producer. Maybe that's why my album has 17 tracks. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have done it on this record. I may not be able to do it on the next record.
BC: For such a young artist you've received numerous accolades. What do you attribute your early success to?
I'm grateful to have received those awards behind the scenes, it was a team effort. I didn't receive those awards performing on a stage by myself. It was all of us and being able to share it with them made it better. And it reminds me that we're in this together to promote the gospel, to spread the word of Jesus Christ.
BC: Do you remember the first time you sang in church?
Yes. It was really, really bad. I'm still at the church I grew up in, my father is the pastor. So I was in church when I wanted to be there and when I didn't want to be there. The great about being with those people you came up with is if they love you they'll tolerate your mistakes, they'll encourage you, they'll tell you to keep going and eventually you get better. But it's not about the skill it's about the message and the love. I was lucky to grow in a church where they heard me sing off key a lot and they loved me in spite of it. Now they get to see me do other things and be successful and feel they had a hand in my development. That community is important to me. I'm home every Sunday playing the organ because it helps you maintain accountability.
BC: What's your favorite cut on the album?
On this record I'd say it's the title track "Jesus." If you listen to that song and not the rest of the record you'll still get what I'm trying to communicate with this record. It encapsulates the whole thing. If I had to pick one that's the one I'd pick.
BC: When people listen to your album what message do you want them to come away with?
The gospel. This record was an attempt to remind people of the main thing which was a holy God who sent his son to rescue us from our sins. This man whose life should have been rewarded was punished by death. And by putting our faith in him we can have life we never earned. The reason I'm so passionate about that is because I think we view the gospel like it's the initial thing and now we're going into the deep stuff. But we can never fully grasp what the gospel means in our lives, our relationship with ourselves and with our families. I want people to take away that if they place their faith in the lord their sins are forgiven.


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I spent all weekend editing the Kindred The Family Soul "Magic Happen" music video I shot last Friday. It is by far my best work. The 30 ft techno crane we used really added a lot of production value to the shoot. Now all I have to do is get the video colored and do some beauty work to it and it will be good to go. We shot the video on Canon 5Ds and 7Ds and the footage looked so good that I decided that I was going to shoot my film on them as well. I have shot 8 different projects so far this year, with all but one being shot on the Canon 7D (the other shoot was on a RED), so I feel comfortable with that camera and what it takes to make the footage look good, so it's done. "The Last Fall" will be shot on the Canon 5D and 7D cameras.
Monday I reached out to the guy who I want to play my lead actor and asked him if he wanted to start working out together to start preparing for the role. He is already in pretty good shape but I want there to be believed as a football player. Also I haven't worked out in a little over a year and so it would be good to have some motivation to get back into working out as well. Surprisingly he hit me back and said he was down. I joined a gym in Hollywood and on Monday June 6th, and we started training together with a personal trainer, Taylor Reed. He also told me that his agent was finally going to read the script and that he told them that my project was a passion project and that he really wanted to do it so we'll see how it all works out. My only concern is that his agency will try to block it. At the end of the day his agency works for him so if he really wants to do it then he will. The fact that he is working out with me before we have the deal finalized says a lot in itself.
Monday myself and my two producers Scott Hebert and Nikki Love had a production meeting. We discussed a little bit of everything but the main things were the budget and locations. Our budget fluctuated so much, ranging from as low as 16K to as high as 200K and we just really needed to lock a number down and go with it. We decided to stay at 50K for the time being but to really try to push our investors to go as higher. We have some meetings set up and basically it's put up or shut up time. We gave them till this Friday to make a decision. With our budget being as low as it is we have to get some major love on our locations. We all agreed to think of spots in both LA and Chicago that we could film in for free and to meet again on Wednesday to reveal our findings so that we could start locking locations down as well. We set a deadline for two Monday's from now to have all of our locations locked in.
On Wednesday I made one of the most major decisions of my filmmaking career. It's crazy how everything works out sometimes timing wise. With my mother passing away suddenly a few weeks back she put me in a position of financial empowerment due to the circumstances at her job. Luckily she had life insurance and she named myself and my sister on the policy as benefactors. Without going into too much details I am now in a position to where if I wanted to fund my entire movie myself that I can and today I decided that I was going to put my money where my mouth was. I told my producers to up our budget and that I would put up the rest of the money up to make it work myself. However that meant that we were going to have to go back to our initial investors and rework our deal. With the caliber of talent that I want to work with on this project my initial budget idea was no longer feasible and I wanted to be able to work comfortably.
I also talked to our potential leading guy's manager on Wednesday giving him some bullet points on the project. His agent and manager both seemed really surprised that we had our funding together and a concrete start date, July 11th. He asked me if I had an agent or manager myself, and I told him no I do not. Guess I haven't made it onto anyones radar yet. That's fine, I'm not worried about it. Who needs an agent to take 15% of something you created without them anyway.
On Thursday we had the conversation with our investor about the updated budget situation and surprisingly that seemed to make them even more excited about the project. They decided to match what I was bringing to the table and this upped our budget significantly. My mother always told me, "Why should someone invest in you if you are not willing to invest in yourself" and today I found out the true meaning of this quote. This gives us some wiggle room to move around with but not much. Most importantly this allows us to shoot in both LA and Chicago and fly some crew out.
I also got the go ahead from our leading guys agent and manager to send them a "better" offer for this actor we want to cast.t. Me and my team decided what we were willing to offer and without going into too much detail we had our entertainment lawyer start drafting up the paperwork so that we could send it out Friday morning. So far I have worked out with our potential leading guy everyday this week but one, so we have been able to have candid conversations about the project in person. On Thursday I stressed to him that we were sending the update deal out on Friday and to push his reps to close quickly so that we can announce his involvement hopefully by this upcoming Monday. Our audition process really starts to get going next week so that will only help and besides it's not like we can offer the world anyway. I want to put the money on the screen where it counts.
Today, Friday morning my producing partner Scott Hebert went and incorporated "The Last Fall" as an LLC. We also are getting a poster designed and are starting to design our website. We're crewing up and locking stuff down. I'm getting excited, we are 5 weeks away from shooting now. This weekend I am really going to get started on my script analysis and will work even harder with my leading guy to get him ready for the role. I hope to have a press release about our film hit the trades next week. God willing I'll see you guys next week.
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|Genre: Drama, Foreign, Romance
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Summary:Tells the tale of eight individuals in Beijing and Taipei searching for true happiness and trying to end their loneliness by finding that one person who could make their life complete, among them a young Taiwanese businessman who meets a single mother from Beijing while looking to acquire a home in the Chinese capital. He develops sympathy for her and the three become a caring and mutually supportive family.


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Kristy Kowal qualified first for the semi-finals of the 200 breast with a 2:26.32. In the 100 breast, Kowal missed making the Olympic team by .01 of a second.
Second qualifier was Megan Quann, the 100 breast champion, in 2:28.12. Third was Amanda Beard, the 1996 Olympic silver medalist in this event, in 2:29.62. Fourth was Annemieke McReynolds in 2:30.77, fifth Kristen Caverly in 2:31.78, sixth Jenna Street in 2:32.43. Stacianna Stitts, who made the Olympic team in the 100, was seventh in 2:32.70. Katie Yevak was eighth in 2:32.99.
Rounding out the semi-final are: Amy Balcerzak (2:33.09), Tara Kirk (2:33.24), Sarah Chandler (2:33.61), Maddy Crippen (2:33.86), Tamber Covington (2:34.05), Katie Hathaway (2:34.32), Laura Davis (2:34.58) and Katie McClelland (2:34.59).
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Rounding out the semi-final are: Ryan Lusk in 2:05.07, Rob Canales (2:05.26), Eric Shanteau, Christopher Greenwood (2:06.26), Tim Carlson, Ben Anderson, Steve Brown (2:06.72) and in a tie for 16th at 2:06.74, Tony Kurth and Daniel Ketchum, who swam in heat 2. Ketchum and Kurth will have a swim-off.
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The $12.5 billion deal Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminoles signed today takes slot machines off the table for the Palm Beach Kennel Club.
Track owner Pat Rooney Sr., his lobbyists and track owner Pat Rooney Sr. and some influential lawmakers had pushed for a Palm Beach County referendum in which voters could allow the track to expand its gambling operations to include slot machines. Senate President Jeff Atwater's district includes the dog track.
But even the possibility of slots of any kind in Palm Beach County was a deal-breaker for the Seminoles, sources close to the negotiations said.
The final deal, which lawmakers must sign off on before it goes into effect, won't allow slot machines or "slots-lite" – video terminals that look and play like the more lucrative Las Vegas-style slots – in Palm Beach or anywhere outside of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, where they are already permitted.
The Seminoles have agreed to pay the state $150 million a year or more, depending on how much their casino operations bring in, for 20 years in exchange for giving them exclusive rights to slot machine gambling throughout the state.
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Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $500,000 to Virginia Theological Seminary for a program on better preaching.
Dean Ian S. Markham: "The opening liturgy in the Chapel … will be February 12 at 7 p.m."
The Anglican Church of Melanesia adopted the Anglican Communion Covenant in November.
Bishop Jim Mathes: "I should let voicemail do the work while driving and let driving be my singular work."
Erin Morey joins a 20-member delegation to a United Nations gathering.
The stakes of this crisis could not be more serious or portentous.
"We wrapped on the third of July. Michael Brown was killed on the ninth of August."
Archbishop of York will speak at a major event honoring Janani Luwum, martyred Archbishop of Uganda.
Mark H. Hansen, a former priest of the Diocese of Connecticut, has posted bail for Bishop Heather Cook.


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The Early Works is a career retrospective of the artist James Davis, founder of the Myxolydian School of Art. The works archived in this edition show the progression of Davis' style towards the multi-layered style he created, called Myxolydian.
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Cyprus today became the fifth member state to seek access to funds from the European Union's bailout fund. The Cypriots join Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and neighbours Greece. The move was triggered after the Cyprus Popular Bank, the nation's second-largest bank, asked the government for recapitalisation. The bank has been hit hard, as has the wider Cypriot banking sector, by exposure to Greek economics. A Greek restructure of €200 billion in debt has caused the bank a €3.65 billion loss, and money is being lost on loans domestically and to Greek customers.


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The Tao Te Ching (or Dao De Jing/King) is an ancient Chinese text that literally means "classic" "way" of "virtue," and is a cornerstone of philosophical Taoism. It is attributed to Lao Tzu or "Old Master," who lived during the 6th century BC, and who was a record-keeper at the court of the Zhou Dynasty.
This short text is broken up into 81 "chapters" that read like little epigrams or poems, which can be easily read in a few hours. The simple yet powerful philosophy of Taoism can be contemplated in the image of the Yin Yang symbol: each side of a duality while an opposite also contains its opposite, as in dark/light, male/female, etc. These enduring philosophical poems are graceful and beautiful, and deserve to be memorized.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — A 16-year-old who fought off a rare apparent wolf attack in northern Minnesota says he won't be sleeping outside anytime soon.
Noah Graham, of Solway, was camping on Lake Winnibigoshish with five friends last weekend. He told The Pioneer (http://bit.ly/16JUDo4 ) he was talking with his girlfriend just before the animal chomped the back of his head early Saturday.
Department of Natural Resources officials think it's the first documented serious-injury wolf attack on a human in Minnesota. As of Tuesday, the DNR was waiting for DNA test results to confirm whether a wolf trapped and killed in the same campground early Monday is the animal that attacked Graham, and for results on whether it had rabies.
Despite a 4-inch gash on his scalp, 17 staples to close the wound and "the worst pain of his life," Grahamdidn't seem fazed Monday by his encounter, nor the needle that delivered a rabies shot following the attack.
"I had to reach behind me and jerk my head out of its mouth," Graham recalled. "After I got up, I was kicking at it and screaming at it and it wouldn't leave. But then after a while I got it to run away."
The wolf killed Monday had a jaw deformity that prevented its upper and lower teeth from lining up and likely had to scavenge because it wouldn't have been able to kill large prey, said Tom Provost, regional manager for the DNR's enforcement division in Grand Rapids.
Graham said the attack came without warning.
"There was no sound at all. Didn't hear it. It was just all of a sudden there," he said.
Graham's girlfriend fled to her Jeep, while two other members of the camping party slept through all the screaming, kicking and fighting, he said.
He said he called home after the attack and his father told him to call 911.
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Arthur H. Ames, age 82, of Rhinelander died on Friday, October 7. 2011 at Milestone Assisted Living with his wife Anna Maria by his side. He was born in Berwyn, Illinois on September 12, 1929 the son of Hazen and Blanche (Novotny) Ames. Art graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1951. He married the former AnnaMaria Millin on November 3, 1973 in Wheaton, Il. He was CEO of Ames Industries in Chicago, IL. They moved to Rhinelander from Chicago in 1988. Art enjoyed building model ships, fly tying, and the outdoors.
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The tensor fascia latae muscle is found at the outer hip, at the top of the IT band. It can be stretched in a seated position as shown here.
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For the first time in 11 years, AS THE WORLD TURNS' Martha Byrne (Lily) will not be hosting her annual fund-raiser for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which is usually held in the fall at the Marriott Marquis in New York. But she vows the event will be back after some restructuring.
"I'm taking 2006, off, and after the baby is born, I'll have more time to think about it," reveals Byrne, whose third child is due in June. "The event just gets bigger and bigger every year. It's an event for 1,000 people, and there were basically four people running it. My mom is incredible and I couldn't do it without her; I know the hospital would agree with that. She's a one-woman machine that's running out of steam. Her health and sanity are more important at this point."
Byrne is keeping involved by sitting on St Jude's professional advisory board. "I feel that I can make changes so there will be more exciting things to do. It will be different for the fans and — most importantly — it will raise more money for the hospital," she explains. "When I started this, they were only doing a few events in New York, and now they're doing hundreds of things. I can bring a lot to the table as to helping on a bigger scale.
"Being on the board, you go to the hospital and meet with the other PAB members and discuss corporate sponsorship," she adds. "I'm trying to get a committee together so that we can do something that's dedicated to the daytime fans, but also run very smoothly. The responsibility [will be] shared among 30 committee members, as opposed to two or three people who have good intentions but it's just too much to do."
Byrne is already thinking of ways to revamp the event. "The fans are invaluable," raves Byrne. "They've been so incredibly supportive, and I do it for them because they deserve it. Not only is it great for the hospital, but it's a fan-appreciation day. It'll be different, but it's going to be with daytime fans and casts from every show. I've always wanted to do something outdoors in the spring in Manhattan. It's an important thing to me, so I'm trying hard to continue it. Stay tuned!"


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SIZE: One Size About 42 x 52 in. (106.5 x 132 cm)
CORRECTIONS: None
1 ripple = about 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm). When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
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Making a Gauge Swatch
dc2tog (dc dec) Yarn over, insert hook into st and draw up a loop, yarn over and draw through 2 loops. Yarn over, insert hook into next st and draw up a loop. Yarn over, draw through 2 loops, yarn over and draw through all loops on hook.
COLOR SEQUENCE: Work 2 rows of each color in the following Color Sequence: A, B, A, C, D, C, E, A, E, B, D, B, A, C, A, D, E, D.
To change color, work last st of old color to last yarn over; yarn over with new color and draw through all loops on hook to complete st.
With A, ch 168.
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Escondido's biggest landlord is … Escondido
ESCONDIDO —— It may not boast the singular hairstyle of a Donald Trump, or the toothy grin of a Steve Wynn, but chances are you are familiar with Escondido's biggest real estate mogul —— the city government.
Between public facilities, community centers, parks and some parking lots, Escondido owns a whopping 6,256 acres, according to a North County Times analysis of the city's landholdings, based on information provided by the city's real estate and parks departments.
In all, Escondido owns 9.8 square miles, a figure equivalent to 28 percent of all the land within the city's boundaries, although some properties lie in the unincorporated areas next door. That tally does not include the city's miles of public roads.
By comparison, Oceanside, North County's largest city in terms of size and population, owns about 18 percent of the land in its jurisdiction.
Taking into account all of the city's flood channels, streets and rights of way, Escondido owns 499 parcels in and around the city, according to the city's Geographical Information System.
While the municipal government easily qualifies as Escondido's single largest landholder, its inventory shows it hardly qualifies as an entrepreneurial land baron.
Indeed, most public land is topped with essential facilities, such as City Hall, fire and police stations, and water treatment plants.
Daley Ranch, the ecological conservation preserve bought in 1997, accounts for nearly half of all city-owned land, 3,058 acres.
Similarly, large swaths of open land around lakes Dixon and Wohlford, the city's water reservoirs, account for another 1,567 acres.
The city, however, also owns one of the most profitable local plots, the 75.5 acres underneath the Westfield North County mall, which it leases to the shopping center operators and several department stores.
Other properties range from hundreds of acres to a few thousand square feet, and include:
- a 640-acre watershed on Valley Center Road, outside the city's boundaries;
- 5 acres at Centre City Parkway and Lincoln Avenue, used for community gardens;
- 40 lots totaling 32.2 acres in the Mountain Shadows Mobilehome Park on Citracado Parkway, and another eight lots totalling 21.8 acres in The Views Mobile Home Park on West Valley Parkway.
All of which leaves little city land lying fallow, waiting for developers to snatch it up.
"People seem to have it in their mind that we have all this property that we can't wait to get rid of," said Tom Nutt, Escondido's real property manager. "You can see, we don't have that much."
Location, location, location
Still, Nutt said he receives one or two inquiries a week about potential land deals.
His department's inventory lists three properties as "For Sale." And in the last two years, the city sold just three properties for a total of $1.5 million, including a pending sale of 10 acres off Puebla Street.
But other holdings could prove boons for bolstering development within the city.
Recently, the council has batted around the idea of redeveloping the 18 acres at the public works yard that were offered, but ultimately rejected, as a site for Palomar Pomerado Health's new hospital.
City officials also say they hope to attract a mix of residential and commercial space for the site of the police facility on Grand Avenue, once the city begins construction on its new fire and police headquarters.
Some of the city's most sought-after parcels, however, could be the eight parking lots scattered around downtown. Each of them is just a few thousand square feet, but together they total 4.3 acres of potentially prime real estate.
Already, the city plans to develop condominiums and a parking garage on Lot No. 1 along East Valley Parkway as part of its attempts to build a Marriott hotel next to City Hall.


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Berkshires Taco with Cider-Braised Pork Tenderloin
SERVES 6 (24 mini-tacos)
Ingredients for Cider Braised Pork Tenderloin:
4 lbs (1.8 kg) boneless loin of pork (preferably from the center), tied
¼ cup (60 ml) unsalted butter, divided
2 tbsp (30 ml) olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
10 whole cloves
6 sage leaves
2 cups (500 ml) fresh apple cider
5 juniper berries, slightly crushed
2 large Granny Smith or other tart apple, peeled and diced
1 ½ lbs (675 g) turnips, peeled and diced
Flat leaf parsley
1. Preheat oven to 300◦F (150◦C).
2. Pat the roast very dry with paper towels. Melt 2 tbsp (30 ml) butter and 1 tbsp (15 ml) oil in a deep casserole just until the butter foams. Add the pork and brown it evenly on all sides over medium heat. This browning will take approximately 7 to 10 minutes.
3. Remove the roast to a platter and season it liberally with salt and pepper. Wipe casserole dish clean and add remaining butter and oil. Add the onion and sauté slowly over medium heat for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until light golden colored.
4. Stud the roast with the cloves and return it to the casserole, fat side up. Sprinkle the sage on top of the roast and add the cider and juniper berries. Turn up the heat and bring the liquid in the pan to a boil.
5. Cover the casserole with a lid and place it in the oven. After 1 hour, add the apples and turnips and baste the roast, basting 3 times in all during the cooking time.
6. After a total of 2-½ hours, remove the lid and roast for an additional 15 minutes. Transfer the roast to a warmed platter, and keep warm.
7. Skim off any surface fat from the pan juices. Set casserole on high heat and reduce the pan juices along with the apples and turnips, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
8. Add pan juices over top of the sliced pork, cover and keep warm.
Ingredients for Ginger Gold Salsa:
3 Ginger Gold apples, diced
½ cup (125 ml) diced red onion
1 jalapeno pepper, minced
2 chipotle peppers, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
¼ cup (60 ml) lime juice
1 tbsp (15 ml) apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp (15 ml) olive oil
2 tbsp (30 ml) chopped cilantro
Sea salt and cracked pepper, to taste
1. Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and set aside.
Ingredients for Peppered Honeycrisp Apples:
4 Honeycrisp apples, julienned
1 tbsp (15 ml) pink peppercorns
1. Sprinkle julienned apples with pink peppercorns.
Method for Taro Tortillas
24 thinly sliced taro root chips, fried until crisp and golden brown and shaped into half-moon mini tacos
Cliantro Leaves
24 slices avocado
Method for assembling:
1. Shred the pork loin and mix with the Ginger Gold Salsa.
2. Place pork and salsa mixture in taro root chips.
3. Top with the Peppered Honeycrisp Apples, cilantro leaves and avocado slice.
Served with my house made Sawkill Creek Sparkling "Jonathan" Hard Cider, 2011
Looks delicious!
Comment by Philip on January 15, 2013 at 9:47 pm
I cannot wait to try these! My mouth is watering so much right now!
Comment by Hungry Man on January 15, 2013 at 9:46 pm
It looks tasty, however those are not tacos.
Comment by A Mexican on December 21, 2012 at 8:53 pm
The dish sounds really appealing. Can't wait to try it at home.
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The most important issue to young people in the 2008 campaign is one that no presidential candidate will discuss. In fact, even touching on this subject is taboo for anyone with aspirations to Congress or the White House. Anyone who has the temerity to mention this political third rail will almost certainly lose the campaign.
The issue is the curtailing of corporate power, and as long as corporations continue to finance major candidates, it will remain unspoken. No one running for office wants to be blacklisted by corporate lobbyists in Washington.
That's a shame, because this issue is connected to almost every other problem facing America today. As long as corporations have no incentive to avoid polluting, we will continue to poison this planet at an alarming rate, and as long as corporate lobbyists hold an inordinate amount of influence in Washington, there will be no substantive solutions to problems like income inequality or our woefully inadequate healthcare system.
The unchecked power of American corporations does not just affect America, either. It is our corporations that are exploiting developing nations by employing their people at low wages in inhuman working conditions. The environment, obviously, is a global issue. And while some may scoff at the idea of the United States waging war for economic reasons, it is difficult to ignore the mounting evidence that we invaded Iraq, at least in part, to bring profit to American oil companies and defense contractors. What country is next? Iran?
If presidential candidates were willing to treat unchecked corporate power as an actual problem, we might be able to begin considering solutions. At a start, the regulations already in place to curtail corporate power could be enforced again.
More drastic measures need to be taken as well. I would start by changing the legal definition of a corporation. Currently, a corporation is legally defined as a human being, and therefore it possesses all the liberties that go along with being a member of the human race.
That definition is clearly absurd–a corporation is little more than a profit-making machine formed by a loose collective of human beings. It is not entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, or any other amendment of the Constitution for that matter.
Public financing of campaigns is also a central part of reducing corporate power in America. While public financing's detractors argue that it is fundamentally undemocratic, it will in fact bring America closer to the democratic ideal we purport to hold so dear.
There is much about the current campaign model that is fundamentally undemocratic, but nowhere is that more true than in the field of campaign finance. It is virtually impossible to run for Congress or the White House without becoming a corporate-sponsored candidate, and corporate-sponsored candidates act more on behalf of the corporations that pay to put them in office than the actual human beings that vote for them.
Public campaign finance will fix this by leveling the playing field and ensuring that candidates are selected based on their ability to present their case, not how much money they can raise from GE or Bechtel.
Additional regulation on corporations is also a must. While this includes environmental statutes, something that nobody seems to be discussing is how to regulate corporate America's human rights abuses abroad. In other words, if Nike is abusing workers in Indonesia, what can we in the United States do to make sure that ceases?
One possible solution is economic sanctions against our own corporations. America is a massive market, and many of the worst violators of human rights are based here, although their factories may be abroad. Why not close off the American market to these companies unless they adhere to some sort of international human rights standard?
One could argue that we have a moral obligation to do something like this, but it is not entirely without its own material rewards. This is a national security issue–to many developing nations, these corporations are the face of the United States, and the more people they abuse around the world, the worse the international perception of us becomes and the more potential terrorists and anti-American sentiment we breed.
In a campaign that is more about fundraising than real issues, unchecked corporate power is the elephant in the room. We cannot rely on the candidates to raise the issue–rather, we must raise awareness among Americans in the hopes that they will force the candidates to acknowledge this central problem in our democracy.
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EAST BOUND: Butler will make the first of
two trips to New York in a 12-day span when it visits Siena for a
rematch of last year's BracketBusters game on Tuesday, Nov.
23. The contest at Times Union Center in downtown Albany will
start at 7 p.m. (ET) and will be televised locally on WNDY
23. The Bulldogs are coming off a week of dramatically
different results. Butler began last week with an 88-73 loss
at Louisville, the Bulldogs' biggest margin of defeat in 142
games. Four days later, the Bulldogs raced past Ball State,
88-55, Butler's biggest margin of victory in 70 games!
The two outcomes left #16/18 Butler at 2-1 on the young
season. Siena also posted a one-sided victory over the
weekend. The Saints rolled over Northeastern, 84-68, in
Boston, Mass., to improve to 1-2 on the year. Butler and
Siena met for the first time last February in a featured
BracketBusters games at Hinkle Fieldhouse, and the Bulldogs
prevailed, 70-53. Butler will be returning to New York in
less than two weeks for a nationally-televised game against Duke on
Dec. 4. The game against Duke will be played at the IZOD
ROAD TEST: The Bulldogs, looking for their first road victory this season, will be facing a team that is 38-1 in its last 39 home games. Siena had the nation's second-longest homecourt winning streak, prior to losing this year's season-opener to Vermont at home.
Butler is 34-7 on the road under head coach Brad Stevens.
POLLING DATA: Butler, ranked No. 2 in the final ESPN/USA Today national poll a year ago, opened the 2010-11 season with a No. 17 ranking in the Associated Press (A.P.) preseason poll and a No. 18 ranking in the ESPN/USA Today preseason poll. It was the second straight season (and the second time in school history) that Butler was nationally-ranked in the preseason. The Bulldogs are receiving votes in this week's A.P. poll and ranked No. 23 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
Butler has been nationally-ranked in five consecutive seasons.
LAST TIME OUT: Butler used a 20-6 scoring run midway through the first half to turn a close game against Ball State into a one-sided affair. The visiting Cardinals, who entered the game with a 2-0 record on two double-digit wins, led 11-9 with 14:25 left in the first half. That's when guard Shawn Vanzant ignited the run with a three-point field goal. Six more Bulldogs scored during the run, which put Butler on top, 29-17. The Bulldogs stretched the margin to 18, 38-20, with an 8-0 run to end the half and then extended it to as many as 35 points on two occasions in the second half. The 88-55 final score was Butler's largest margin of victory in the past 70 games.
Butler's 88 points were the third-most under head coach Brad Stevens.
HOME RUN: The victory over Ball State was Butler's 17th consecutive win at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Bulldogs improved to 46-3 at home in four seasons under head coach Brad Stevens.
FIRST DEFENSE: After giving up 88 points
at Louisville, the most allowed in the Brad Stevens' era, the
Bulldogs rebounded by holding Ball State to just 55 points.
The Cardinals entered the contest averaging 76.0 points per
game. Butler held Ball State to just 20 points in the first
half, before yielding 35 in the final 20 minutes. Last
season, Butler was 20-0 when holding its opponent below 60
Butler has won 22 consecutive games when yielding fewer than 60 points.
HOT START: Junior Shelvin Mack has topped the Bulldogs in scoring in each of the team's first three games. He tallied 20 points in 28 minutes in Butler's season-opening victory over Marian and then posted 25 points in 27 minutes at Louisville. The 6-3 guard posted 19 points in 31 minutes against Ball State. Mack, who's shooting 52% from the field in Butler's first three games, has topped the Bulldogs in scoring 22 times during his career. He had a team-high 23 points against Siena last year.
Shelvin Mack has scored 20 or more points in 14 career games.
DOUBLE TIME: Senior Matt Howard sparked the Bulldogs to their first half lead against Ball State with 12 points in 15 minutes. He scored seven points in the final six minutes of the first half to help Butler to a 38-20 halftime lead. Howard finished the game with 16 points and 10 rebounds, his tenth career double-double. Howard, plagued by foul problems, played just 19 minutes against Siena last year and finished with just eight points and one rebound.
BENCH WORK: Butler had a 37-18 advantage in bench scoring against Ball State, thanks in large part to a pair of former starters. Senior Shawn Vanzant and junior Garrett Butcher, both starters in Butler's first two games, came off the bench against the Cardinals with solid offensive performances. Vanzant scored 11 points, the fourth double-figures scoring performance of his career, to pace Butler's reserves, while Butcher came off the bench with a season-high seven points. The Bulldogs also picked up seven bench points from 6-11 sophomore Andrew Smith.
BETTER HALF: Butler head coach Brad Stevens may have discovered the right halftime speech. The Bulldogs have scored 50 second half points in back-to-back games. That total matches the most second-half points scored by the Bulldogs a year ago. Butler hit 12 of 25 (48%) shots in the second half at Louisville, while out-scoring the Cardinals, 50-47, and then connected on 17 of 34 (50%) attempts and out-scored Ball State, 50-35, in the final period.
Butler is out-scoring its opponents, 141-108, in the second half this season.
SCORING WATCH: Senior Matt Howard stands 15th place on Butler's all-time scoring list with 1,360 career points. He trails Rylan Hainje (1998-2002) in 14th place on the all-time list by 12 points.
PRESEASON HONORS: Shelvin Mack has already been recognized on several preseason All-America teams. Mack was chosen first team All-America, along with Kyle Singler of Duke, Harrison Barnes of North Carolina, Jared Sullinger of Ohio State and Jacob Pullen of Kansas State, by Fox Sports.com, and he was named honorable mention All-America by the Associated Press. The 6-3 Butler guard also was ranked fourth among top 2010-11 point guards and combo guards by Gary Parrish of CBS Sports.com. He was named to the John Wooden Award 2010-11 Preseason Top 50 list, and he's on the 2010-11 Naismith preseason watch list. Mack was chosen as the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year and named first team preseason All-League.
EXHIBITION LEADER: Senior Matt Howard averaged 15.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in Butler's two exhibition wins. His 19 points against Florida Southern were the most by a Butler player in the two exhibition tests, as were his 10 rebounds against Hanover. The 6-8 forward, who had 12 points against Hanover, shot .632 (12-19) from the field and .778 (7-9) from the free throw line in the two games. Howard, who averaged just 22 minutes per game in the two contests, was the lone Bulldog to score in double-figures in each of the two exhibition games.
SUCCESSFUL DECADE: The Bulldogs' victory over Green Bay on Dec. 31, 2009, closed out the most successful decade in Butler basketball history. Butler won nearly 70% of its games during the decade, posting a 10-year record of 236-103 (.696). The Bulldogs had eight 20-win seasons, earned eight postseason tournament bids and had a pair of NCAA Sweet 16 appearances from 1999-2000 to 2008-09!
RECORD RUN: Butler's 118 wins over the four seasons from 2006-2010 set a school and Horizon League record for most wins in four consecutive years. The Bulldogs also own the Horizon League's two-year (59, 2006-08 & 2008-10) and three-year (89, 2007-10) records for victories.
Butler has won at least 20 games in five consecutive seasons and in 12 of the past 14 campaigns.
•Butler is leading the Horizon League in team free throw shooting (.732). The Bulldogs were second in the league in free throw shooting (.738) a year ago.
•Senior Matt Howard has moved into a tie with J. P. Brens (1989-93) for the No. 12 spot on Butler's all-time rebounding list with 615 career rebounds. Mike Miller (1978-81) stands 11th on Butler's all-time list with 637 career rebounds.
•Matt Howard has scored in 107 consecutive Butler games, every game of his collegiate career.
•Matt Howard is one of 30 candidates nominated for the 2010-11 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. The award is presented to one senior who has shown notable achievement in four areas of excellence - classroom, character, community and competition.
•Junior Shelvin Mack is closing in on becoming the 33rd Butler player to reach 1,000 career points. Mack enters the Siena contest with 982 career tallies.
•Shelvin Mack is currently the second-leading scorer in the Horizon League with a 21.3 ppg average. Norris Cole of Cleveland State leads the league at 21.6.
•Shelvin Mack has 136 career three-point field goals. He's 22 three-pointers behind Darrin Fitzgerald (1986-87) in 10th place on Butler's all-time list for three-point field goals.
•The Bulldogs are 30-5 when Shelvin Mack scores at least 14 points and 19-3 when he leads the team in scoring.
•Junior guard Ronald Nored scored just one point against Ball State, but still had a major impact on the outcome of the game. The 6-0 Butler point-guard turned in a solid defensive performance against the Cardinals' leading scorer, Jauwan Scaife, holding him to three points in the first half and eight points for the game.
•Ronald Nored didn't start last year's game against Siena (it was Butler's Senior Day), but he came off the bench with eight points, six assists, two steals, two rebounds and a blocked shot.
•Senior Zach Hahn, getting his second collegiate start, led the Bulldogs with a pair of 3-point field goals against Ball State.
•Junior Garrett Butcher, who came off the bench with seven points against Ball State, posted his highest scoring total since February 26, 2009, when he came off the bench with eight points against Youngstown State. Butcher had off-season surgery on both knees to correct a problem that plagued him all of last season.
•Sophomore Andrew Smith has grabbed 14 rebounds in a reserve role in Butler's last two games (eight versus Louisville and six against Ball State).
•Butler has won its last 23 games when hitting at least nine three-point field goals. The Bulldogs are 40-1 under head coach Brad Stevens when hitting nine or more three-pointers. Butler hit eight three-point field goals against Ball State.
•Butler is one of just three NCAA Division I schools to win at least 25 games in each of the last four seasons. The other two are Kansas and BYU.
•Butler is the first team in Horizon League history to record four consecutive seasons of 25 wins or more. The Bulldogs won 29 games in 2006-07, 30 in 2007-08, 26 in 2008-09 and 33 last season.
•Butler head coach Brad Stevens landed four recruits on the first day of the NCAA's fall signing period. Joining the Bulldogs' 2011-12 freshman class were 6-4 Roosevelt Jones of O'Fallon, Ill., 6-1 Jackson Aldridge of Sydney, Australia, 6-6 Andy Smeathers of Bargersville (Center Grove H.S.) and 6-9 Kameron Woods of Louisville, Ky. (Eastern H.S.). Jones averaged 20 points and 12 rebounds for 30-4 O'Fallon last year, while Aldridge was a gold medal-winning point-guard on Australia's U18 team. Smeathers, averaged 14 points for 17-4 Center Grove, while Woods averaged 7.0 points and 7.0 rebounds at Eastern, one of the top prep teams in Kentucky.