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Tua had tendencies to look mediocre and be out boxed
Tua hit very hard but his work rate was usually poor and one at time
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Lennox Lewis, heavyweight bore of the world
Having trouble falling asleep? Try watching one of lackluster champion Lennox Lewis' fights. He'll knock you out without laying a glove on you.
By Allen Barra
"It's not my fault," heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis complained at Thursday night's weigh-in for his Saturday night title defense, "that I'm the outstanding heavyweight of my era, the way Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis were before me." Well, uh, no, but it is Lewis' fault that he's dull, unimaginative, passive-aggressive and that he fights more like Bart the Bear than a Raging Bull. Lewis is 250 pounds, but as he demonstrated in his two fights with Evander Holyfield, his primary offensive weapons are a pawing left jab and a bear hug. As Holyfield phrased it after their first bout, "Every time I got in close he hugged me tighter than my wife."
If Lewis' fight with Francois Botha was broadcast nationally against a golf match featuring Tiger Woods, it would lose 2-to-1. Think about that. How would you have answered someone 20 years ago — no, 10 years ago — who told you golf would outdraw a heavyweight championship fight? The really sad fact is that this says less about the rise of golf than it does about the decline of boxing.
In truth, Lennox Lewis isn't so much a cause of this decline as much as a symbol. Lewis has defended his title seven times, but a couple of those were against guys who weren't household names in their own households. Lewis is quick to point out that he "isn't responsible for the quality of my opposition," which, again, is true. It's not his fault that the best heavyweight he's been in the ring with, Holyfield, was 36 when they fought for the first time. It is his fault, though, that he fought him twice without displaying passion or conviction, getting an absurdly unfair draw the first time and a lackluster win by decision the next. How boring were those fights? After the second, Bert Sugar of Bert Sugar's Fight Game magazine told everyone at the press conference that "vandals broke into the arena box office and returned 500 tickets." "I believe I am the best," says Lewis, "I believe I am head and shoulders over everybody in world heavyweight boxing. I know that in a room full of men I would be the last man standing." He probably would be. People who spend too much time around Lewis tend to nod off.
Lennox Lewis wears the same title as Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, but it bears the same relation to theirs as the Holy Roman Emperor did to Caesar. Activist groups that seek the abolition of boxing are wasting their time. Boxing is erasing itself from public memory faster than last year's MTV Awards.
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Iriver firmware flashing
Supported players
It is possible to update the bootloader and even store the Rockbox RAM and/or ROM image in the Flash memory chip inside the iriver players. Currently, only the following models are tested to work:
Do not attempt to flash other players unless you are prepared to risk rendering the player useless.
How it works
When Rockbox has been initially flashed to a player, the flash memory has been organized into the following different sections:
The reset vector contains important information to the CPU where to start executing code after the system has been powered up. The reset vector is implemented as two 4-byte memory address location pointers, who contain the memory addresses for the stack pointer and the program code entry point. With pure original firmware (without Rockbox), the entry point is always 0x0000008 (which is the start and execution address for the original firmware). After flashing the modified Rockbox firmware, that entry point is changed to point somewhere in the bootloader address space (0x1F0000 - 0x1FFFFF) to the correct bootloader entry point. That way, the Rockbox bootloader can load and the user can have a multi-boot choice whether to load Rockbox or the original firmware.
Because the original firmware does not use all available flash ROM space, it's possible to place the bootloader at the very end of the flash memory (the last 16 sectors). That way there is no need to modify the original firmware.
The Rockbox flashing plugin makes it possible to update both bootloader and firmware sections. Bootloader version 7 contains the ability to detect if there is original firmware present or if the user has replaced it with the Rockbox firmware. With flashed Rockbox, the memory organization is slightly different (but still compatible with the original firmware):
Rockbox firmware is stored in a different sector than the critical reset vector. That makes it possible for the user to safely upgrade Rockbox in flash without the fear of bricking the unit even if the firmware upgrade fails. The bootloader auto detection works by looking for a magic code at address 0x001000. If it detects Rockbox in flash, the bootloader enables additional features including EEPROM support and multiboot option between loading Rockbox from flash or to load from disk as Rockbox is usually loaded.
Overview of flashing procedure;
Flashing has three steps and done in the following sequence,
Once flashing is completed go to Bootloader Configuration to set the Boot sequence.
Upgrading the bootloader
With the iriver_flash plugin it's possible to upgrade the bootloader inside Rockbox without using the original firmware at all. Bootloader version 7-pre3 or newer is required to load Rockbox directly from flash. The table at the end of this page contains a pre-release bootloader for H110/H115/H120/H140 players. The checksum is also verified internally by the iriver_flash plugin before flashing is possible so it shouldn't be possible to mess up the bootloader.
Before flashing (especially when flashing the bootloader), make sure the battery is fully charged and no audio is playing. It's strongly recommended to use official Rockbox builds to modify the flash ROM contents, since if something goes wrong during the bootloader upgrade procedure, your player can be rendered useless! Before starting the procedure, make sure no other plugins has been used or audio has been played. If necessary, shutdown and reboot the player.
Bootloader Flashing Procedure:
However, if in the very rare situation there were errors and flashing of the critical sections failed, you will see fatal warning messages on the display. In that case, it's important to plug the player to AC power, and make sure idle power off is disabled. The next thing is to contact the Rockbox developers as soon as possible and make sure you in no circumstances shut down or reboot the player or use it for anything before developers has given exact instructions what to try.
*IMPORTANT* If you already had Rockbox in flash and you are upgrading from a previous bootloader to the bootloader version 7-pre4, please proceed to the next section immediately without rebooting the device and flash either the RAM image, ROM image or both of them. That way you can avoid possible issues when there are no recognized versions of Rockbox or original firmware in flash.
Replacing the original firmware
If you are sure you don't need the original iriver firmware, you can replace it with Rockbox. Flashing Rockbox over the original firmware has several advantages:
To flash Rockbox you need to have the latest bootloader supporting Rockbox flash images. Updating the bootloader is explained in the previous section.
If this is the first time you are flashing Rockbox to the RAM image in your player, make a backup of the flash ROM contents first, this backup can be used to restore the original firmware later if desired. To do the backup, go to Info -> Debug -> Dump ROM contents. That creates a file, internal_rom_000000-1FFFFF.bin, containing a full image of the flash rom. After making a backup, you may continue.
You can decide if you want to load Rockbox to the RAM image (
Flashing Procedure (RAM):
Flashing with Rombox (ROM):
To upgrade the flash image in the future, you can follow the same procedure as described in this section.
NOTE !: With bootloader V7, prior to installing a new build in a pre-flashed player, change the default boot sequence to Disk, then Re-flash, and then restore the boot sequence to your preference
Bootloader configuration.
Bootloader version 7-pre3(4) has an integrated failsafe menu system that can be used to configure the default boot sequence.
Once you have flashed your player, change the boot sequence to your preference as follows,
NOTE: Prior to installing a new build in a pre-flashed player, change the default boot sequence to Disk, then Re-flash, Re-flash. and then restore the boot sequence to your preference
Firmware recovery
Should there ever be a problem preventing startup using the flashed firmware image, you can always invert the boot priority by pressing and holding down REC button before turning on player. That will cause Rockbox to load from disk if default behaviour was to load from flash and vice versa. Also with REC button it's possible to access the bootloader USB mode.
Restoring the original firmware
If you want to restore the original firmware, you can do so by using a file from either one of these methods:
To restore the flash contents of the firmware section (bootloader will be always kept untouched, however we need to re-flash the critical reset vector sector), open the file from either one of the previously mentioned methods by iriver_flash and the contents of the original firmware section will be restored from the file.
Issues with the bootloader
IMPORTANT: Do NOT use mkboot or any instructions in IriverBoot to flash the bootloader using original firmware. The format used in bootloader.iriver is not compatible with bootloader.bin -format and doing that WILL brick your player. Use Rockbox plugin iriver_flash instead. It contains many safety measurements to prevent possible failures.
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Light The Way Ministries hosted a Community Hymn Sing, on Sunday April 14, 2013 at The Lutheran Home in Topton. Opening Worship music was performed by Joyce and Ed Sturtevant and Gospel music and Hymns were sung by Dale "Country Hank" Roth, his wife Sharon and Dale's daughter, Tammy Lynn. About 100 people from both the community and The Lutheran Home attended. Salvation was offered as well. It was a wonderful uplifting afternoon, many people enjoyed singing along.
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CONGRATULATIONS CONFIRMANDS! Please join us this Sunday in celebration as our young confirmands take their next step in a lifelong adventure of faith on Sunday, May 12 at 10:15a.m.
Join us at the Kutztown CommUnity Block Party. You are invited to man the St. John's table at a wonderful event, the 2013 Kutztown Block Party, on May 11 from 12 to 4 p.m. on Main Street. Day full of entertainment, music, games, contests, and food sponsored by the Kutztown Community Partnership. Call the office for more info. 610-683-8531.
"STOP-N-GO" FOR KU FINALS WEEK! St. John's UCC will again sponsor "Stop and Go" on May 13 from 7:30 to 11 a.m. on the first day of final exams, offer snacks, coffee, and free exam answer sheets to students on their way to finals. Make a difference to some very appreciative students by making the coffee, preparing some cookies or brownies, or greeting them as they stop by.Call the church office at 610-683-8531.
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Nokia rolls out Windows Phone Amber update to Lumia smartphones
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is rolling out a Windows Phone 8 operating system update that extends camera features introduced this spring in its Lumia 925 smartphone to other devices within the Lumia portfolio.
The Windows Phone Amber update--available for Nokia's Lumia 920, 820, 720, 620, 520, 928, 822, 521 and 810--includes Smart Camera, which promises users the tools to create higher-quality photos by taking a series of rapid-fire shots then editing the best elements of each image together, further bolstered by filters and effects.
Windows Phone Amber also touts Nokia Glance Screen, which adds a clock to the screen when the phone is inactive, alongside indicators that depict the battery level when the device is running on a low battery, charging or set to silent mode. "You can activate the Nokia Glance screen in the 'display and touch' section in Settings by swiping left to 'glance,'" said Nokia Conversations blog editor Ian Delaney. "Nokia Glance screen will be available for all WP8 Lumia devices except the Nokia Lumia 520 and Lumia 625, which have a smaller display memory."
Following customer requests, Windows Phone Amber additionally resurrects features from older Nokia handsets. Users may now flip the phone over to mute incoming calls and double tap the screen as an alternative to the unlock key. Also new: Improvements first introduced last month via Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 8 General Distribution Release 2, highlighted by the restoration of FM radio support--a longtime Windows Phone OS feature dropped with the late 2012 launch of WP8--as well as Xbox Music improvements to provide more accurate metadata and stability improvements to services like Internet Explorer.
"The rollout starts now first for the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 in selected countries as well as the Lumia 521, Lumia 810 and Lumia 928 in the U.S.," Delaney said. "Exact delivery timings will vary by region, phone and operator, but we expect the update to reach your Lumia 520, Lumia 620, Lumia 720, Lumia 820 or Lumia 920 by the end of September."
Sales of Lumia smartphones increased 112.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter of 2013, according to research firm Gartner. "With the recent announcement of the Lumia 1020, Nokia has built a wide portfolio of devices at multiple price points, which should boost Lumia sales in the second half of 2013," said Gartner principal research analyst Anshul Gupta.
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Islamic Republic facing difficulties obtaining anti-malware software due to international sanctions, Iranian intelligence official says
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A senior Iranian intelligence official says an estimated 16,000 computers were infected by the Stuxnet virus.
The powerful virus targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and other industrial sites in 2010, and Tehran has acknowledged the malicious software affected a limited number of centrifuges - a key component in nuclear fuel production. But Iran
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The semiofficial Fars news agency on Saturday quoted a deputy intelligence chief identified only as Ahangaran as saying 16,000 computers were infected by Stuxnet, but he did not specify whether worldwide or just in Iran.
He said Iran is facing difficulties obtaining anti-malware software because of international sanctions, forcing Iran to use its own experts to design the software.


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The same sources noted that following the mission, Zygier contacted the government in Dubai and updated it on the details of the assassination in exchange for protection. The sources also said that Israel
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Israel acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it held the Australia-born dual Israeli citizen under a false name for security reasons and that he died in prison more than two years ago - details that shed new light on a case that has strained relations with its close ally Australia and raised questions about its secretive Mossad agency.
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OB Faculty Win RULE Grant for Innovation in Undergrad Curriculum
The Organizational Behavior faculty for the School of Management undergraduate OB221 class, "Dynamics of Leading Organizations," have been recognized for curricular innovation based on recent enhancements to the course. They have received a prestigious Boston University RULE grant supporting "innovative and successful new pedagogical practices" which promote "collaborative learning, teamwork, and communication skills."
OB221 is a required core course for all School of Management undergraduates, as well as business minors. Serving almost 800 students each year, OB221 is the largest single course offered at the School of Management. It's designed so that students from across the University are quickly and fully engaged in learning about management and leadership practices at three levels: the interpersonal, group, and organizational .
Serving almost 800 students each year, OB221 has become the largest single course offered at the School of Management.
As such, the course is built to move students from an understanding of personal values, motivation, attitudes and behavior to an appreciation of the complexities of working in teams and leading organizations. Thus, it must be designed not only to impart knowledge and understanding but also build the basic skills and real-world practices of managing and leading people.
To meet these challenges, faculty members Jack McCarthy, Sandi Deacon, Lloyd Baird, and their colleagues redesigned the course and have implemented a series of team-building and experiential exercises designed to explore and build practical management skills while delivering critical lessons on individual behavior and team dynamics. In addition to major curriculum and format changes to the course, several key initiatives were recently introduced, including a new "GPS Urban Adventure," a community service requirement, and a collaborative project with the University's College of Fine Arts and School of Theatre.
The GPS Urban Adventure: "An active, hands-on exercise whose lessons students can carry into the class's more traditional teaming and management challenges."
–Senior Lecturer Sandi Deacon
Explains Senior Lecturer Sandi Deacon, the GPS Urban Adventure "functions as an introduction to teamwork, giving students a chance to learn about their teammates, group dynamics, and themselves in an active, hands-on exercise – whose lessons they can they carry with them into the class's more traditional teaming and management challenges." Using hand-held GPS devices, the students venture into the city of Boston as intact teams to find various historical sites at "waypoints" that are pre-programmed into the GPS unit.
There are several teambuilding activities that the groups engage in along the way, and the lessons are captured and discussed in a class debrief session, and again later when the teams make a presentation to the class about their lessons during the experience. "It's designed to help students build cohesion by completing complex tasks and learning about each other in a fun, interactive and engaging team exercise," Deacon says. "The lessons are then reinforced and applied as they continue to work with their teams on projects throughout the semester."
"The Community Service Initiatives allow our students to function as a real team in a setting that matters. We want our future managers to be responsible citizens in their own organizations and the world beyond."
–Associate Professor Jack McCarthy
In addition, in collaboration with the University's College of Fine Arts and School of Theatre, live stage plays are being used to help teach lessons about human behavior, team dynamics and conflict. For example, this past fall, OB221 students studied conflict resolution through watching – and then discussing with the actors, writer and director – a performance of the original play "Fallujah," written by BU senior Evan Sanderson, about an embedded American journalist's captivation with the stories he hears from those he encounters in during war time Iraq.
"We used specific scenes from the play as an innovative case study for learning and conflict management," Deacon explains. Then, during a talk-back session following the performance, students learned from the actors, director, and writer, who powerfully highlighted the importance of team work, creativity, adaptability, and innovation in their own efforts to produce something lasting and meaningful.
"Our efforts will pay off well beyond OB221. As we experiment and learn what works, we will leverage new approaches not only into other School of Management courses but throughout the University."
–OB Chair Lloyd Baird
As a way to bring the team experiences full-circle, OB221 faculty ask students to end the course with the curriculum's Community Service Initiative (CSI) component, which encourages participants to cap the learning accrued throughout the course and apply it outwards beyond the classroom and into the community. Student teams seek out community-based organizations and non-profits in which to provide a service, such as preparing meals for cancer patients and families staying at the Ronald McDonald House, working at the Greater Boston Food Bank, and organizing clothing drives for the homeless.
As Associate Professor Jack McCarthy says, "The Community Service Initiatives in O221 serve as a way for our students to actually function as a real team in a setting that matters, where they can give back to our community, work together, and perform a service that is far more meaningful than coursework. We want our future managers to be responsible citizens and effective teammates in their own organizations and the world beyond."
So, through all these efforts, OB221 has been energized and transformed. As McCarthy states, "For behavioral change to take place, people – students and faculty alike – need to be willing to take risks, move out of comfort zones and try new approaches. We rebuilt and restructured the course to help make that happen in creative ways."
Professor Lloyd Baird, Chair of the Organizational Behavior Department, says that, "Our efforts will have payoff well beyond OB221. As we experiment and learn what works, we will leverage new approaches not only into other courses within the School of Management but throughout the University."


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Who can make a bigger impact on the world: a group or an individual? One can comb history or pop culture and find ammunition to argue for either side. Groups like the United Nations and the Legion of Doom are intimidating fronts, but there's more mystique in powerful names like Kofi Anon and Lex Luthor. So what's more powerful – a group or an individual? I'll leave the answer to you, but before you decide, read the stories from This Week in Financial Blunders to see if the mess-up of one outweighs that of many.
Buying and collecting art is often a pricey hobby, and apparently destroying art is a pricey hobby as well. 51-year-old artist Maximo Caminero proved that this past week when he allegedly destroyed a $1 million vase at a Florida art museum. The Perez Art Museum Miami is currently hosting the Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibit, featuring works by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Part of his exhibit is called "Colored Vases" and features 16 vases from China's Han Dynasty that are dipped in bright paint; these vases are over 2,000 years old. A security guard at the museum saw Caminero holding one of the vases and claims he smashed the vase on the ground when asked to lower it. Caminero says he shattered the vase as a way to protest the lack of local artists inside the museum, but he did it at the risk of massive fines and potential prison time. Caminero was charged with criminal mischief, which can result in five years of prison time if the property damage is more than $1,000, which it absolutely is.
Is That a Recall in Your Pocket?
In the world of gross food news, Nestlé USA has recalled a large number of Hot Pockets after the meat inside them was found to be "unfit for human food." A total of 238,000 cases of the microwavable treats (specifically the Philly Steak and Cheese Hot Pockets, regular and croissant crust) were voluntarily recalled on Friday. The Hot Pocket recall is a part of a much larger recall from Rancho Feeding Corp. of Petaluma, California. NBC News reports that "8.7 million pounds of 'diseased and unsound' beef products" were recalled, "including whole carcasses and heads, feet, livers and so-called 'mountain oysters,' among other items." If any of that grossed you out, don't Google "mountain oysters." It's unclear how much this will cost Nestlé in total, but the customers can return the recalled pockets for full price or contact Nestlé's customer service line.
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by Nora Isaacs, author of Women in Overdrive: Find Balance and Overcome Burnout at Any Age
I used to relax. I remember those days fondly. They went something like this: On a Saturday, I woke up with the whole day stretched out ahead of me like a new canvas. My morning thoughts, simplistic as they were, revolved around how to fill it. Usually I spent some time playing with my cat before heading out for an hour-and-a-half yoga class. After class, I'd leisurely roll up my mat and chat with the teacher. Then I would amble home through the neighborhood, stopping at stores selling household necessities like lemon verbena scented candles and coffee table books on Tibetan carvings.
As working moms, we know these days are over. Now I jump out of bed at my son's first cry. My cat is ignored. I rarely make it to a yoga class. On the chance that I do, I spend it feeling rushed, preoccupied, and ashamed that I am the only one without pastel-colored toenails. On the way home, I pick up diapers and broccoli and hope that my husband is still speaking to me after what he considers an early-morning abandonment for no good reason at all.
It seems that every moment is present and accounted for. But although I can't carve out whole mornings anymore, I've realized that I can put the some skills of efficiency I use at work when to use when it comes to relaxation. As a result, I've become quite enterprising and create pockets of relaxation amid my busy days. You might think these pockets don't exist. But do you really need to be checking your email for the 28th time in a half hour? Use that time to unwind.
As my time as a mother, I've found to relax in the most ridiculously small amounts of time. The fact is, it's never too little time to do something to get you back into balance. Although it's not the same as a day at the spa, here are a few ways to squeeze some serenity into a hectic day:
One minute: Do a relaxing breath: Inhale through your nose for four counts. Hold the breath for four. Exhale through your nose for four. Repeat until one minute is up. You'll rejuvenate your nervous system and feel calmer and more focused.
Three minutes: Sometimes you just need a visual reminder of your priorities to jolt you back into remembering what is important. When you get blinded by anxiety, fear, or overwhelm, take three minutes to commune with some strategically-placed reminders of what matters: I keep my favorite ee cummings poem near my desk; Others keep a picture of a loved one, a picture of their children, or an inspiring quote nearby. Just writing it makes me feel calmer.
Five minutes: Anxiety and stress get stored in the body. When an upsetting/alarming/anxiety provoking situation comes up, scan your body for where you are holding the resulting tension; for many it's the neck, shoulders, jaw, and hands. Then tighten and release that body part, softening your muscles and "squeezing" out tension. If you are feeling daring, do this with a "lion's breath" by sticking out your tongue on an exhale and saying "AHHHH." Make sure no coworkers are nearby.
Seven minutes: Most of us mommies continuously do a few things at once. Ironically, we often do these things poorly because we are rushing and not focused. So for these minutes, stop the madness. Choose one thing to do and stick to it for. Fight your compulsion to "get more done" and see how much more focused and present you feel to the task at hand.
Ten Minutes: I know it's sounds cliché, but it works, ladies. Sneak away for ten minutes for some fresh air. Walk around the block, do some jumping jacks, take some deep breaths and remember that life goes beyond your cubicle, apartment, or office.
One Hour: Keep dreaming, momma.
Nora Isaacs is a freelance magazine writer with a specialty in health, wellness, yoga and the author of Women in Overdrive: Find Balance and Overcome Burnout at Any Age [1]. Nora's work has appeared in Alternative Medicine, Body & Soul, Fit Yoga, Fitness, Natural Health, The New York Times, Wired, Women's Health, Salon.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Yoga Journal, Yoga Life, and many other national magazines


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August 21st, 1944 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Submarines HMS Tapir and Votary launched. Submarine Zeehond launched. Frigate HMS Loch Katrine launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
Corvette HMCS Leaside commissioned, South Bank-on-Tees.
Corvette HMCS Alberni sunk while streaming south at fourteen knots in fair weather with a NNE wind of five knots but State Four seas for the rendezvous, sweeping by asdic eighty-degrees on either bow, radar operating. "Hands to Dinner" had just been piped. Four minutes later, with no asdic warning whatsoever, she was hit by a torpedo on her port side just aft of the engine room. In less than 10 seconds she was awash from the funnel aft, listing to port and sinking fast. In another twenty seconds she was gone, sinking stern first. Most of the off-watch hands were trapped in their mess decks, and only one stoker escaped from the engine and boiler rooms. Alberni was sunk by U-480 OLtsZ Hans-Joachim FÖRSTER CO, at 1141, 25 miles SE. of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, 50-18N 00-51W. 59 crew members were lost (Alex Gordon and Dave Shirlaw)(108)
FRANCE:A rapid advance across northern France begins by Allied units in pursuit of retreating German units.
Falaise: The "Falaise Pocket" was finally closed today two weeks after the Canadian First Army mounted Operation Totalize to cut off the otherwise encircled German forces. It has been a bloody battle, with Allied aircraft supporting the land forces with Typhoon and P-47 rocket-firing fighter-bombers, and to the end the Germans fought with almost fanatical determination.
Some 30,000 Germans managed to escape across the Seine after Hitler yesterday allowed Field Marshal Walter Model, who replaced von Kluge four days ago, to withdraw. Model has now told Hitler that the Seventh Army can no longer function as a fighting force. But 50,000 Germans have been captured along with considerable stocks of equipment. An estimated 10,000 Germans were killed. The way is now open for a speedy advance towards Paris.
The town of Falaise had fallen by 17 August after determined resistance by the 12th SS Panzer Division. But remnants of the German 5th Panzerarmee and Seventh Army remained in the pocket, with a narrow gap between Falaise and Argentan allowing them to escape. Today Canadian, British and Polish forces pressing in from the north linked up with the US First Army driving from Argentan to the south, with Allied aircraft strafing the Germans as they retreated over wreckage-strewn roads.
The US 3rd Army patrols reach Versailles.
The US VI Corps is advancing on Aix-en-Provence and French forces on their left are moving on Toulon and Marseilles in the south of France.
In southern France, US Twelfth Air Force fighter-bombers and fighters again blast enemy communications lines and gun positions and motor transport and train cars. (Jack McKillop)
class corvette HMS Orchis is mined off Juno Beach, Normandy in Baie de la Seine
at Courselles-sur-Mer. Her bows are blown
off as far back as the gun, and she is beached as a constructive loss.
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U-963 During a crash dive at
night (0017hrs) in the Bay of Biscay a man was lost overboard. [Bootsmaat Hans
Reiter] . (Dave Shirlaw)
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U-3514 laid down. (Dave
U.S.S.R.: The
Soviet 3rd Baltic and Leningrad Fronts move forward on both sides of Lake Peipus.
Sandomierz on the west bank of the Vistula River falls to the First Ukraine
Front. (John Nicholas)
German forces of Heeresgruppe Mitte retake Tukkum in Estonia, re-establishing contact with Heeresgruppe Nord (Schoerner). (Jack McKillop)
At 20.45 hours, the British destroyer HMS Keppel got a contact on her starboard quarter, while escorting the convoy JW-59 in position 73.01N, 03.57E - Grid AB 5456, 220 miles south-west of Bear Island. Together with HMS Kite (U 87) and a Swordfish aircraft from the British escort carrier HMS Vindex the U-boat was attacked with hedgehogs and depth charges. They hunted the U-boat throughout the night with their foxers (Anti Gnat devices) streamed, but the hunt was fruitless. At 06.40 hours on 21 August, HMS Kite had slowed down to 6 knots to clear her foxers, which had become twisted around one another. At this vulnerable moment, U-344 (Kapitanleutnant Ulrich Pietsch) fired a spread of three FAT torpedoes at the sloop, misidentified as Dido-class light cruiser by Pietsch. The ship was struck by two torpedoes on the starboard side and heeled over to that side immediately. The stern broke off, floated for a few seconds, then sank. The bow remained afloat for a minute and then sank at a steep angle. At 07.30 hours, HMS Keppel stopped to pick up survivors, while the British sloops HMS Peacock and HMS Mermaid screened the rescue operation. There are 183 casualties. Only 14 of the about 60 survivors in the water could be rescued from the ice cold water, five of them died on board and were later buried at sea. (Dave Shirlaw and Alex Gordon)(108)
ITALY : The US Fifteenth Air Force dispatches 117 B-24s, escorted by P-51 Mustangs, to bomb Nish Airfield, Yugoslavia. 102 B-24s, with P-51 escort, hit Hajduboszormeny Airfield, Hungary which 46 other P-51s sweep, some making low-level strafings on parked aircraft. (Jack McKillop)
HUNGARY: During the day, 102 B-24 Liberators of the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force in Italy visually bomb Boszormeny Airfield at Hajdu with the loss of two B-24s. During the night of 21/22 August, 70 RAF Liberators of No. 205 Group visually bomb Szony Airfield at Komoron with the loss of three aircraft. (Jack McKillop)
YUGOSLAVIA: During the day, 117 B-24 Liberators of the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force in Italy visually bomb the airfield at Nis without loss. (Jack McKillop)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: U-230 runs aground in the Toulon roadsteads, France, in position 43.07N, 06.00E. She is scuttled by her crew during the Allied invasion of southern France. All 50 crewmen survive.
PALAU ISLANDS: Radar-equipped B-24s of the US Thirteenth Air Force continue their nightly sorties against Japanese positions.
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Quinte completed refit Pictou, Nova Scotia and attached to HMCS Cornwallis as training ship Digby, Nova Scotia. Corvette HMCS Asbestos departed Bermuda after workups for St John's and EG C-2
Frigate HMCS
Runnymede arrived Halifax from Bermuda workups. Frigates
HMCS Kirkland Lake and Loch Alvie
commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins. This conference marks the beginning discussions about a post-war assembly that will become the United Nations. Stettinius for the US, Cadogan for Britain and Gromyko for the USSR are in attendance. The conference will last through the 29th.
The motion picture "When Strangers Marry" is released today. Directed by William Castle, this mystery stars Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger and Rhonda Fleming. A naive small-town girl (Hunter) goes to New York City to meet her husband (Jagger) and learns he may be a murderer. Her ex-boyfriend (Mitchum) plays it cool in his first important role. (Jack McKillop)
Coast Guard-manned Army vessel FS-192 was commissioned at New Orleans with LTJG C. J. Stevenson, USCGR, first commanding officer. He was succeeded on 29 November l944 by LTJG Charles W. Shannon, USCG. She was assigned to and operated in the Southwest Pacific area. and
ARCTIC OCEAN: Whilst escorting convoy JW.59 (Loch Ewe, Scotland to Kola Fjord, U.S.S.R.), RN sloop HMS Kite (U 87) is torpedoed and sunk about 268 nautical miles (495 kilometres) west-southwest of Bjornoya (Bear Island), Norway, by U-344 (Kapitanleutnant Ulrich Pietsch) using a spread of FAT torpedoes which ran a wandering course with regular 180-degree turns. There are 183 casualties and just 9 survivors. Position is 73 01N, 03 57E.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-743 is listed as missing in the Arctic Ocean or the North ATLANTIC OCEAN with all hands, 50 men.
U-766 is stricken near La Pallice, in position 46.10N, 01.14W, when unable to put to sea and surrendered to France.
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ESPN draft expert Todd McShay lists Hoyer as the fifth best available quarterback prospect. He has Georgia's Matt Stafford and USC's Mark Sanchez ranked 1-2 and with Brett Favre retiring, some expect the New York Jetes to take Sanchez with the 17th pick over all. If Hoyer is the fifth quarterback in the ratings, he'll be chosen somehwere in the seven rounds conducted April 25-26th in New York.
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She is 78, her fiance is 49. This is almost as exciting as Hillary Clinton wearing a bumpit. The story about her applying make-up to the roof of her mouth while filming Cleopatra (because people would see it when she said her lines) taught us what being beautiful on the inside truly meant. Congratulations Liz!
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Runner-upH&H HOMES Headquarters: Fayetteville Owners: Ralph and Linda Huff Employees: 58 Founded: 1991 Projected 2010 revenue: $100 million Business: Homebuilder
While other builders struggled in 2009, H&H Homes sales grew faster than any other homebuilder in the United States. That, according to Builder magazine. Revenue topped $89 million, a 52% increase over 2008. You might attribute the sale of 469 houses last year to the companys seemingly recession-proof market surrounding Fort Bragg. But youd be wrong, says Brad Wilson, CEO of Destination Homes in Layton, Utah: I think they have one of the most compelling success stories in my industry, in the whole country. And it wasnt luck: I think it was a culmination of experience, smarts and strategy, he says. Real estate is location, location, location, concedes Ralph Huff, CEO of H&H, and we are doing what were doing because were in Fayetteville. But consider that H&Hs share of that market went from 8% in 2008 to 23% today.
Huff, 60, had tried his hand at textiles and banking after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill. In 1978, he discovered real estate, buying a company in 1990, then starting a construction arm in 1991. Wife Linda, H&Hs president, joined the company in 1994. Over the decades, he noticed a pattern: After the Carter years were over, interest rates went down, and the market took off. And after 91, when the recession was over, the market took off. So I knew that after 2000, there would be resurgence in construction. And that happened.
Huff praises the advice he got from the Builders 20 Club, aka the Dirt Dogs, a peer group organized by the National Association of Builders. My goal before joining the Builders 20 Club was to build 120 houses a year, he says. But members from cities including San Diego and Las Vegas urged him to aim for 300. He hired a consultant, mapped out a strategic plan and assembled a young team to help with marketing, operations, information technology and finances. H&H ended up building 285 houses in 2008. Problem was, people stopped buying.
We spent much of 2007 and 2008 getting rid of old inventory that was overpriced and too big for our market, too nice, too fancy, recalls Greg West, H&H chief of staff. Blame it on the publics short-lived fascination with the deluxe features of McMansion-style houses. H&H came out of a strategic planning session in October 2008 with a conservative goal of building 250 units in 2009, 35 less than 2008. In November, Huff heard that a Raleigh builder, Savvy Homes, had entered the market selling homes for $66 a square foot H&Hs cost more than $100 a square foot. We went out to see the product and saw a field of lots with sold signs on them. Touring the model, we were amazed. In six weeks, we created the plans, the look, the marketing materials, and we started the first house in February. West adds: We pretty much pulled all-nighters to develop new plans.
Using Savvys price point and model as a touchstone, H&H developed its American Dream Collection. Priced as low as $73 per square foot, they were an instant hit, with such features as big garages and getaway rooms and names like the Patriot and the Liberty that appealed to military personnel. H&H sold 34 houses in February 2009 and 45 in March. That pace has continued, with sales estimated at $100 million for 2010. Had we not had the system and the people and the machine in place, Huff says, it would have been impossible.
But hasnt his profit margin on the American Dream Collection dropped compared with the more-upscale homes? Not necessarily, Huff says with a chuckle. Our margins have gone up significantly because weve reached an economy of scale in everything were doing with these large numbers. Just like the Dirt Dogs said they would.
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The Carrie Diaries – Season 1 Episode 2 – Recap and Review – Lie with Me
With all of the swimming taking place on this show, I found myself wondering whether The Carrie Diaries would sink or float going into Episode 2. "Lie with Me" was actually stronger than the pilot, in my opinion! As I said last week, this show is not in any way Sex and the City, but when you consider it mostly as a current series based in 1984, it's pretty damn good! Actually, I like some of these characters so much that I find myself feeling bad when I consider the fact that none of them make it into Carrie Bradshaw's fantastic adult life in modern day Manhattan. So sad, too bad, Walt!
Annasophia Robb is the new Carrie Bradshaw, whether we like it or not. Personally, I like it! Episode 2 opened with Carrie recognizing that she'd have to further juggle her launching life in New York with her relationships back home, specifically her budding relationship with Sebastian Kydd (Austin Butler). Her relationship with little sis Dorrit (Stefania Owen) was in full swing after reconnecting during the close of the series premiere. Dorrit was infinitely more likable during "Lie with Me". As it turns out, if she's not antagonizing Carrie she's a hilariously stoned fourteen-year-old girl with an affinity for bootlegging and a repulsion to boy drama.
Carrie remained grounded for two weeks following her escapades during the season premiere, but Sebastian was set on breaking her out of her cage. Carrie refused to sneak out in order to join Sebastian down at the country club, leaving the perfect empty seat for party gal and all-around awful time, Donna LaDonna (Chloe Bridges), to steal. Actually, I'm not finding her too heinous yet. I appreciate that she's really the only character who sometimes looks like a true blue hottie of the eighties, as opposed to, say, a model of today posing in a throwback shoot. Mouse (Ellen Wong) caught a glimpse of Donna and Sebastian kind of/ sort of cozying up outside the club, and was quick to phone Carrie from the club line with an update. Ah, to live a life without a cell phone; my dream and every teen girl's nightmare. Is it me, or do Sebastian and Donna look like a damn good time when they're getting stoned together? I was only two when the eighties bit the dust, but had I been a teenager then, I'd be right there on that bench with them. Mouse continued her snooping all episode long.
How dare Donna be nice. Something is going awry!
Walt (Brendan Dooling) and Mags (Katie Findlay) continued their relationship struggles this episode. The show did a really good job of spreading the sympathy around. I felt for poor Walt whose inner sexual turmoil is just so sad to watch that I want to hug him. Still, I'm not going to knock Maggie for her affair with a police officer that was obviously purely physical after suffering through two years of feeling ugly in the eyes of her beau, Walt. I think my feelings towards the whole situation were best summed up by one of Walt's lines in their opening "failed BJ" scene.
Walt: "You don't want your… our first time to be like this."
I don't know if that was the work of Brendan Dooling or the writers or both, but that was a nice little nuance of a moment.
Back at school after their country club cuddle session, Sebastian did his best to cover his tracks with a little white lie. Donna, however, was quick to flaunt her new closeness with Sebastian in front of Carrie's face. Donna had borrowed his jacket the night prior and returned it in a public display of bitchery. In truth, nothing did happen, but a little bit of puff puffing. He didn't kiss her, he just loOoves to party. He haAas to party. He doesn't need weed when he's with Carrie, though. See Carrie, you're just like illegal drugs! I know, I know… her love is his drug.
Mouse and Maggie offered their best advice during girl-talk while Walt chimed in from time to time. It was hard for Walt to contribute considering the fact that Maggie was fuming over his latest sexual slight session. Mouse hates the male species in general following her ex-boyfriend burn. Maggie's advice was for Carrie to get around her grounding by inviting Sebastian for a swim session. Carrie's father, Tom (Matt Letscher) for whatever reason, allowed her access to the swim club. Afterwards, Carrie and Maggie got some one-on-one time, Maggie admitted to Carrie that she and Walt weren't doing the sex thing, but Carrie lied for Walt's sake, covering up the fact that she felt something was off.
Carrie's internship boss moped through the morning as she, strapped for time, didn't have the option of changing out of the sack she wears to work in favor of something stylish for her hot date later that night. How did she expect to get laid? Larissa (Freema Agyeman) had been hounding the office phone (no personal calls!) and asking for Carrie. As it turned out, the photo shoot for Carrie's bag, scheduled for two weeks later, was bumped up to that very afternoon. Larissa got all spiteful when Carrie asked if there was anyway around the situation, considering the fact that she was in the middle of a swamped work day. Ugh, she'd have to wing it. Also, Sebastian called soon after and invited Carrie to a Blue Oyster Cult concert! Wow, suddenly I like the Kydd even more.
After lying to her boss, who actually seems cooler to me as an individual than Larissa, about running errands for the company, Carrie made her way down to Brooklyn. The catch was that Carrie would have to complete her internship tasks on the fly before the end of the workday.
Carrie: "One night, I wrote my name on my mother's bag in an attempt to salvage it, and now here I was, holding a zebra."
The photo shoot was, needless to say, a stylish sh*t show. I couldn't even get an adequate screenshot to capture the chaos surrounding the photographing of the Carrie bag. By the way, does the actual designer of the bag even matter?
You know what actually stood out most during this scene for me? I thought it was kind of tacky to insinuate that Corey Haim was passed out and hung-over from the night prior, considering the fact that Haim died of pneumonia most likely brought on by his addictions in 2010. Too soon, right? Also, I'm finding Larissa more obnoxious than Donna. I still think something is a-brewin' there. I'm also pretty sure she still has Carrie's bag, after Carrie was forced to leave the shoot early! Uh oh, Bradshaw! Larissa gave Carrie a Dior scarf she swiped from the set as thanks. Fake it till you make it, Carrie… or not or that advice could be what gets you into trouble during the rest of Episode 2.
Carrie arrived back at the office an hour and a half late, and her boss was pretty pissed. Carrie had gone the extra mile, though, doing a little extra work and even offering her boss the Dior scarf for her date. Carrie claimed she'd found it in the bargain bin. Well, that was nice.
"Fake it till you make it" seemed to work for Carrie (and maybe Pinocchio?), but would it work for Walt? Walt decided that he owed something to Mags and decided to surprise her with some sexual favors later that night. In reality, he ended up waiting for, like, four hours while Maggie got frisked in the back of a police car by her secret lover. By the way, wasn't that dude a little creepy when he said that he, just a little while ago, thought of her as a kid? In the end, the waiting did Walt some good, as he ended things with Maggie as kindly as possible. He loves her, but it's not like that.
Dorrit had been looking forward to a trip to the swim club with Carrie, even blowing off a super fun video shoot of a field trip with her friends to further the sisterly bond. Threatened by Donna LaDonna, Carrie mistakenly invited Sebastian to her day with Dorrit. Oh no, grungy little sis! Don't be sad. Dorrit held back tears as she left Carrie to her day-date with Sebastian. Carrie's dad wasn't cool with her bending the rules of her punishment, though. After Dorrit came home upset, he made his way to the swim club and ruined Carrie's good time. Sebastian attempted to man-up and offered a solid handshake along with his taking of the blame. Carrie's father was more concerned with the Kydd last name than the Kydd himself.
The next morning Carrie cooked a guilt-laced breakfast for her dad in an attempt to lessen the blow. In actuality, her dad wasn't looking to ground her any further. Her two weeks were up, and it is now time for Carrie to prove herself to be the girl he hopes she is. Oh, and absolutely no Sebastian because his family is secretly awful, bye! If Carrie screws up, the internship in New York City is done.
The episode closed with a girls' night scene set to a bootleg of Purple Rain. Oh, Dorrit. Sebastian attempted to weasel his was into another date, but Carrie Bradshaw always puts her gals first. That is, until she meets Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte in a couple of years. Later, Mouse! Mouse who? Oh, well! Group hug… even you, Dorrit.
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Its about that time of the year. Time to hear the buzz about the off season. What players, teams, and coaches are going to be successful this season? What does everyone think?
Its about that time of the year. Time to hear the buzz about the off season. What players, teams, and coaches are going to be successful this season? What does everyone think?
State finals: Carmel vs Cathedral
Culver as the best team in the state.
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Don't trade Jack Hexum of 17 Chestneut Street, Dedham, Mass.
What championship goalbladder?
So after opening weekend, any thoughts?
Harrison might go undefeated in the regular season, despite beating nobody outside of Evansville, Southport, and International last year.
So far, the Warriors have topped a surprisingly tough Crown Point team and LaPorte.
Their toughest remaining opponents are Ev. Memorial, Roncalli, and North Central. Anyone else think Harrison could go unbeaten?
The goal differential thing is kind of bonkers. Right now North Central is in the top 10 in the in-state column, on the basis of losing to Center Grove by three and Guerin in OT. Hey, at least the insanity will benefit my team for once.
Evansville really needs to start going into KY and MO. Memorial and New Castle seem to be on the right path playing KY teams 3-4 times this year.
Weak SOS + large margin of victory doesn't help you. Indiana's playoff system is 100% dependent on SOS and how you perform against top teams in state. Schedule weak opponents and you're only hurting yourself.
While laxpower would rather see you do well against top teams, performance against low-ranked teams appears to matter. You *avoid punishment* in the in-state column by dropping 20 on all of Evansville--something Harrison hasn't done, and frankly might not be capable of doing."Ah, yes. Speaking of the many virtues of laxpower: structurally incentivizing Steve Spurrier behavior.
We all know that the 10-goal sportsmanship limit is a sham, right? It's just one of many adjustments laxpower applies to the unrefined Reg In local-margin-of-victory score to render a final verdict on the team. Indiana uses that unadjusted Reg In number (in order to avoid factoring out-of-state results, which are another adjustment to Reg In). Therefore, the 10-goal limit doesn't matter. No matter the current margin of a game, you'll always help your Reg In by scoring one more.
It's an open question how many programs realize this and just keep it under the hat, and how many actually think there's a functional 10-goal limit. Given Noblesville's earlier 26-2 beat-down of Roncalli, it's safe to say which camp they fall into.
Look for a repeat performance by the Millers May 8 vs. Snider as they try to squeeze past the logjam chasing the #4 seed. It would be interesting to see, if/when Noblesville drops 30+ on Snider in the afternoon, whether Zionsville in pursuit of that same playoff bye would choose to act likewise in its evening game against Snider.
See? Laxpower gives weaker teams a part in the playoff picture after all."
if victory is unavoidable, at least limit the goal margin of victory. "
if victory is unavoidable, at least limit the goal margin of victory. "
The 10-goal limit correction is something that's applied to the in-state column. In other words, it's not part of the in-state column."The sum of Reg In margin of victory, external adjustment, and the 10-goal limit correction, the quality wins and W-L Pct factor represent the raw power rating, which is then scaled (normalized) such the top team in the nation has a power rating of 99.9." --Laxpower
Two Indiana boys and their teams going at it tonight in Pennsylvania.
Andrew Harris (Heritage Christian), now at Messiah, and his team is hosting Brock Warner (Center Grove) and his Eastern Univ teammates.
Good to see Indiana represented in the East.
North Central AD Chuck Jones giving a spring sports preview. Spent about half of it talking about lacrosse and rugby, and the Northside program, at about 6:38. Pretty good stuff, but I think he accidentally called lacrosse "soccer" one or two times, and said lax is televised at the professional level. NCAA DI would like to have a word with you...
watch out for westfield we have great snior leadership and great underclassmen talent
How about a little dose of reality for Indiana lacrosse. Carmel loses to Loyola Illinios 12-1.
To whomever is curious:
[1] Carmel (99.66)
[2] Cathedral (97.72)
[3] Zionsville (95.70)
[5] Westfield (93.69) vs. [12] Park Tudor (88.72)
[6] Brebeuf (92.12) vs. [11] Guerin Catholic (89.16)
[7] St. Joe (91.76) vs. [10] Bishop Chatard (91.14)
[8] Center Grove (91.42) vs. [9] Heritage Christian (91.17)
[13] Noblesville (87.75) vs. [20] Ev. Harrison (79.46)
[14] Penn (86.02) vs. [19] Fishers (80.13)
[15] Homestead (85.05) vs. [18] Crown Point (81.04)
[16] North Central (84.84) vs. [17] Culver non-prep (82.99)
[21] LaPorte (79.43)
[22] Ev. Memorial (79.36)
[23] Ev. Castle (78.18)
[23] Bloomington (78.18)
[25] Roncalli (77.16)
Things certainly got messy over the last 24 hours. Culver non-prep flies in the face of laxpower/the Indiana playoff system. They play their best ball at the end of the season (maybe that's why they don't start until April) and they're 14th now. There's a reason they were the first 11 to beat a 6, and they might become the first 12 to beat a 5.
This has to be a running joke with someone. Why are you referring Loyola to the 8th best team in college lacrosse?
You know this is Loyola Academy right? A HIGH SCHOOL team based in Wilmette, Illinois.
The most common reason that a team wouldn't be eligible is not playing eight different Indiana teams. Concordia meets this standard, but Marian only plays six different teams. Northridge, South Bend, Herron, and Lawrence North aren't eligible either.
Another reason for ineligibility would involve rules violations that have landed a team on probation.
[1] Cathedral (99.12)
[2] Carmel (96.89)
[3] Zionsville (94.23)
[4] Westfield (91.70)
[5] HSE (90.23) vs. [12] Noblesville (86.58)
[6] St. Joe (89.80) vs. [11] Park Tudor (86.77)
[7] Brebeuf (88.99) vs. [10] Heritage Christian (87.48)
[8] Bishop Chatard (88.82) vs. [9] Center Grove (88.81)
[13] Guerin (85.96) vs. [20] Ev. Memorial (78.26)
[14] Culver (85.05) vs. [19] Crown Point (78.38)
[15] Penn (84.90) vs. [18] Fishers (78.77)
[16] Homestead (82.56) vs. [17] North Central (81.56)
[21] Ev. Castle (78.25)
[22] Ev. Harrison (78.00)
[23] LaPorte (77.80)
[24] Bloomington (76.86)
[25] Roncalli (75.58)
[26] Concordia (74.33)
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DelDOT needs to cycle traffic lights
The best improvement that can be made on Route 1 without much cost would be for DelDOT to hire someone who knows how to "cycle" the traffic lights.
Letting the light stay green for two minutes or longer on Route 1 and then only giving the side street about 20 seconds is not how lights should work. People sitting on the cross streets just waste time and gas.
Anyone who has ever lived in a large city knows how light can be cycled for the best timing for everyone. I would really like to hear a response from DelDOT on this matter.
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Joe Henry sounds like a pretty good name for a no-nonsense jack-of-all-trades, a guy devoted to family who knows about a day's pay for a day's work, and about commitment. His particular line of work has made him a much-sought-after record producer for the likes of Mose Allison, Bonnie Raitt and Solomon Burke, just to name a few, and has put a few Grammys on his shelf. But he has always returned to his own muse, his own songs and his own life as a performer.
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American Pie: Band Camp (US - DVD R1)
Universal has finally revealed a few details on the STV release
Starring: Tad Hilgenbrinck
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Universal has at last announced American Pie Presents: Band Camp which stars Tad Hilgenbrinck, Eugene Levy and Arielle Kebbel. This straight to video title will be available to own in seperate rated (1 hour 32 minutes) and unrated (1 hour 35 minutes) editions from the 26th December. Each should set you back around $26.98. The unrated disc will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. The rated disc will be available in full frame only. Extras for the rated DVD include outtakes, deleted scenes, a Band Camp Dirty Diary, a Band Camp's Dirty Secrets feature, a Rover Cam Uncut! feature, and Band Camp Girls: The Music Video. The unrated edition should include that, along with a Poolside with the Playmates feature, and some Love Lessons with Ginger Lynn.
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Police say when they knocked on the door of a house where they suspected there were drugs, the homeowner let them in and said, "Yes, there are drugs inside."
Beaufort Police in Carteret County say 39 year-old Angela Rouse of 1104 Liveoak Street led them to a closet and a duffle bag with three pounds of marijuana and cash.
Rouse and her husband, 45 year-old Marcus Rouse, are both charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and maintaining a dwelling to keep drugs.


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June 29, 2016 - July 10, 2016Milwaukee
For 11 days every summer, Henry Maier Festival Park is the place to be for all music fans. This year, the Big Gig will take over the lakefront June 29-July 3, CLOSED JULY 4, then keep rocking July 5-10. With over 800 acts playing on 11 stages, you'll find alternative, rock, country, R&B, pop, reggae headliners and more, from national headliners to indie artists. The 23,000-seat Marcus Amphitheater hosts some of the biggest tours in music. As if more music than any one person can listen to wasn't enough, that's not all Summerfest has to offer. A variety of the area's restaurants are on-site offering tasty treats to keep you fueled up and ready to rock, and you can shop for everything from music-themed jewelry to puppets at unique vendors at four shopping marketplaces. The Northwestern Mutual Children's Theater & PlayZone will keep kids enraptured all day, with performances by magicians, jugglers, dance groups, puppets and more. Spend the day people-watching at the lakefront, shopping or enjoying local and emerging artists on the grounds stages – the headliners start at 8 and 10PM. There's a reason that Summerfest is a Milwaukee tradition and the highlight of the summer for many attendees, both locals and visitors – it's a festival experience like no other!
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Sam Scrivanich found a new sense of worth buying and selling foreclosure properties, and he's still in high school.
Like a lot of entrepreneurial-minded people, Sam Scrivanich saw an opportunity in crisis. In particular, the rash of foreclosures and property auctions presented what looked like an ideal investment opportunity.
So in August, he jumped into the market, picking up a large four-bedroom house in Burien as well as a condo in Bothell. He spent about $6,000 fixing up the Burien house, doing the cleaning and landscaping himself and hiring workers to repair a chimney and give the house a fresh coat of paint.
He bought the 3,340-square-foot-house with four bedrooms and 3.25 baths for $287,000 at auction. He sold it after two days on the market for $415,000, a 45 percent profit.
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The most surprising number is 18, the number of years Scrivanich has been on this planet.
He lives with his parents in Woodinville and is a senior at Inglemoor High School.
He found the house through Real Estate Investment Firm in Redmond, which specializes in what Scrivanich is doing: buying and flipping houses.
The company alerted him to the Burien house coming up for auction on a Thursday, he drove by it that evening, plugged some numbers into a spreadsheet to see if it worked out, and bid on it the next day.
Or rather, his father did. His son had football practice, so Larry Scrivanich went instead and wound up buying both the house and the condo with his son's money.
That was a surprise to Sam Scrivanich, and he's had a little more trouble unloading the 720-square-foot, one-bedroom condominium, for which he paid $87,000. It's in the Braewood complex in Bothell, close to the Brickyard Road Park-and-Ride and Interstate 405.
Banks have been slower to finance potential buyers there, he said, due to some window and railing problems elsewhere in the complex. Scrivanich said he has received an offer for $103,500; the deal is to close Feb. 8.
The elder Scrivanich had to co-sign the loans because his son didn't have a credit history, but the titles were in his son's name only. The sale of the Burien house helped the teen stay afloat and pay the bills on the condo while a buyer was sought.
Scrivanich is confident enough to want to do it again, buying a 1,905-square-foot bedroom home in Monroe on Jan. 14. He paid $175,001 and anticipates putting it on the market in coming weeks.
Who is Sam?
The teen's background has given him options not available to typical middle-class kids. His father owns Scrivanich Natural Stone in Woodinville, a third-generation family business, as well as the Mission Ridge Ski Area in Wenatchee. But Scrivanich's drive is his own, and rather than paint houses or work for minimum wage in a shop, he brings a passion to real estate that belies his years.
"To me it's not even work," he says. "It's just really interesting."
While the industry is competitive and stressful, he's enjoying himself. And he's well aware of the negative connotations flipping houses has, as investors make their profit where someone else lost their home.
"In 2000, when everything was on the rise, the only people who were foreclosed on were real nasty people who wouldn't pay their bills. But now it's just regular people like you and me who got unlucky. You have to feel bad for them," Scrivanich says.
Jared Higbee, an agent with Real Estate Investment Firm, says the youth is different. "He's not a normal high-school student, just from the point of view that you've got better things to do after school than manage four people working on a property."
Scrivanich found the firm online and has been both working with Higbee and his partners to identify potential purchases and also to learn more about the real-estate business.
According to the National Association of Realtors, which counts 1.3 million members nationwide, the average age of a Realtor is 51. More than a third of the membership had a previous career in business, finance, management or sales.
It's a trend many chapters are looking to reverse, and the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors recently created a Young Professionals Network to bring members together for networking and education.
Nick Glant, owner of NWG Real Estate in Seattle and the local board chairman for the Young Professionals Network, says the group's events usually draw about 50 members under age 35 — although there's no hard limit on age — and has approximately 200 names in its database.
"During the boom, there were a lot of young people getting into the industry thinking they could make big money," Glant said. Likewise, he estimates many people leaving the industry in the downturn have been younger.
But he is seeing more young people in the business who are doing what the older generation does well: building relationships and diversifying. Two brokers on Glant's staff were named top brokers in Seattle last year, and both are under 30. Glant himself is 30, having gone into real estate right out of college.
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Investing in distressed property isn't for the faint of heart, and Scrivanich's path was more circuitous than most. Tall, with dark-blue eyes and shaggy blond hair, he exudes a sense of cheerful aplomb and maturity.
But as a boy the going was tougher, his mother, Jane Scrivanich, says. He was angry and distrustful of authority, and once ran away from school at 7, making most of the four-mile trip home alone.
He also has dyslexia and a learning disability that hinders his ability to process words. One test showed he was considered likely to engage in high-risk behavior, although he says he never got into serious trouble.
Does investing in distressed real estate count as high-risk behavior? Jane Scrivanich laughs. What her son's business ventures have done in the space of a year, she says, is turn an angry boy into a mature, respectful and self-confident young man.
Scrivanich views his early success in real estate as proof he has other strengths. "I thought I was just dumber than the other kids and couldn't do the same things." he says. "I started realizing that life wasn't based on arithmetic."
He first started reading up on the economic downturn in late 2009 and decided he wanted to invest his savings in real estate. His grandparents had given him $500 every Christmas and birthday, which, starting at about age 13, he invested into some stock funds.
His first plan, to buy a short-sale property in Palm Springs, Calif., where the family went on vacation and had friends, fell through after six months when the bank foreclosed on the house. He'd figured that properties and land could be had for less in the desert, but realized he didn't know much about real estate.
He didn't even know what a short sale was when he made his first offer. It's when a house sells for less than what is owed on it.
So he began to look closer to home and attended sheriff's auctions over the summer.
His father helped him through the process, showing him the ropes and how it was done, and gave him approximately $5,000 to help with the down payment.
"He held my hand through it, made sure I wasn't doing something dumb. Now I'm pretty much on my own," Scrivanich says.
His father's loan — which was paid back, Scrivanich points out — gave him a little flexibility when it came to fixing up the Burien house for the sale.
He also bought a shuttle bus, fixed it up and offered wine tours and airport services through a website, www.woodinvilleshuttle.com.
Between his savings, the proceeds from the shuttle business, and what his father gave him, he was able to put down $70,000 in cash on the Burien house and the Bothell condo.
His business interests took so much time that Scrivanich was home-schooled for a few months. He anticipates returning to Inglemoor High School in February and graduating on time.
He's already been accepted to Washington State University for the fall quarter, and has applied to University of Washington-Bothell and Western Washington University. He wants to major in business and economics.
In some ways, he's a typical teenager who likes skateboarding and snowboarding; he drives a sporty blue Subaru Impreza STi with a large spoiler.
But as he closes up the Bothell condo, he notices a note stapled on the door of the adjacent unit: It's going to foreclosure auction Feb. 4. He notes the trustee is Bellevue-based Northwest Trustee Service, the same firm he bought his properties from, and the entrepreneurial spark shines through.
"Maybe I can pick up both of them," he says.


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More than 200 exhibitors will offer products, services, and equipment for the precast and masonry industries at the 2013 Precast Show and ICON Expo.
ON JANUARY 11 - 13, the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis will host The Pre-cast Show and ICON Expo. The Precast Show, the largest event specifically for the precast concrete industry, once again joins ICON Expo, the show for producers and suppliers of concrete masonry, and hardscape products and services.
More than 200 exhibitors will offer equipment, products, services, and demonstrations. Exhibitors will be in three different pavilions: a precast pavilion, a masonry/hardscape pavilion, and a "premium" pavilion at the main entrance including companies that serve both the precast and masonry industries.
Attendees can take advantage of many educational opportunities, including Precast University, sponsored by the National Precast Concrete Association and taught by expert instructors. Educational program areas will include advanced technical and sustainability, quality, management and administration, production and safety, professional development, Cast Stone Institute courses, architectural design with cast stone, profiting from green products, and more.
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Housing finance major HDFC today reported a 27.55 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 1,705.83 crore in the third quarter (Q3) ended December, 2012 on sound growth in individual loan book.
Total income of the company soared 58.75 per cent to Rs 10,128.58 crore in the December quarter compared to Rs 6,379.96 crore reported a year-ago.
"We continue to post sound results on the back of robust loan growth, especially in the individual loan segment," HDFC Vice-Chairman and CEO Keki M Mistry told reporters here this afternoon.
The total loan book stood at Rs 1,60,941 crore by the end of the December quarter, up 21.73 per cent compared to Rs 1,32,208 crore reported in the same period last fiscal.
However, the market reacted negatively to the numbers and the HDFC counter closed nearly 1 per cent down at Rs 814.50, after hitting a high of Rs 828.05 on the BSE, whose main gauge Sensex rose by 0.30 per cent to 20,102 points.
"The individual loan book witnessed robust growth of around 31 per cent, which includes addition of loans sold during this period," Mistry said, adding that around 85 per cent of the total growth in loan book came from individual loan segments with the rest coming from the non-individual segment.
The non-individual segment is likely to do good in the fourth quarter of the fiscal, he added.
On the net interest margin front, the housing finance company recorded a 4.1 per cent NIM in the third quarter.
"We hope that the spreads will remain stable in the near future," Mistry said.
HDFC also witnessed an improvement in the asset quality with gross non-performing asset (NPA) standing at 0.75 per cent in this period compared to 0.82 per cent reported in the same period last fiscal.
Its capital adequacy ratio stood at 17.5 per cent as of December with a Tier-I capital standing at 14.9 per cent. As per the company, its subsidiaries in life insurance, general insurance and mutual fund among others contributed around 33 per cent of the net profit during the reporting quarter.
Replying to a question on the plans to list its life insurance business, he said the company will take a call after the new Insurance Bill is passed by Parliament.
On his expectations from the RBI on January 29, Mistry said the RBI is likely to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points (0.25 per cent), which may be followed up in the next policy review in March.
He also said he does not expect a CRR (cash reserve ratio) cut on January 29.
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Standalone net profit for the fiscal third quarter was 11.4 billion rupees ($211.84 million) compared with 9.81 billion rupees a year ago.
Total income rose 17 percent to 52.42 billion rupees over the same period.
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2006 Super Bowl Champions
Scored 427 points (26.7/g), 2nd of 32 in the NFL.
Allowed 360 points (22.5/g), 23rd.
Differential of 67 points (4.2/g), 9th.
Expected W-L: 9.6-6.4.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +7 (0.4/g), 6th.
Simple Rating System: Total 5.9, Offense: 6.9, Defense: -1.1, SoS: 1.7, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by
Tony Dungy
Offensive Coordinator: Tom Moore
Defensive Coordinator: Ron Meeks
Training Camp: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Indiana)