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Publisher: Atlus
Genre: Role-Playing Game
Players: 1
ESRB: Teen
Reviewer: Marcus Way
Overall: 8 = Excellent
Atlus' Revelations: Persona, like many of their titles, has fared well throughout the years. Not only has the Persona series flourished, but the original has also managed to become more popular and appreciated over time, fetching a high price on online auction sites. For fans that jumped on board the series with the third release on the PlayStation 2, which would be quite a few of you, catching up with the first two PlayStation One entries has been a bit difficult. Patience has its rewards, and now those who did without can also see how it all started with this revamped re-release of the original, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. A relocalized script, gameplay enhancements, and realignment back to the Japanese release make this the truest domestic representation of the original to date.
Persona opens up with a group of high school students daring each other to take part in a game called Persona. Their brief fling with the occult sends them into a dream world where a masked man by the name of Philemon, proclaimed dweller between consciousness and unconsciousness, unlocks in them the ability to conjure the manifestations of their inner selves, their personas. The group awakes inside of St. Hermelin High's infirmary, located within the city of Lunarvale, and shortly thereafter realizes that something isn't quite right. Not only can they summon personas, which take the form of vespers above their bodies, but the town is changing as well. A portal created by the SEBEC Corporation has opened up a rift to an alternate dimension that is slowly changing the town, and is also being used as a gateway for demons to invade our world. With Lunarvale under siege, the crew ventures out to uncover the bizarre mystery behind the portal and their newfound powers.
The story is a bit more convoluted than the brief summary, but the freshly relocalized script and newly added animated cutscenes, featuring some lovely graphics and solid voice work, do a great job in fleshing everything out. Aside from increased clarity, the revamped text also realigns the North American version to bring it closer to the original release's story and world. The setting is decidedly mid 1990s—love the outfits—but the overhauled dialogue and description text have moved the setting back to Japan and characters, such as Mark, have been brought over without their previous alterations (re: changed from Asian to African American). The story is particularly interesting, more so than those found in many other role-playing titles, and the refinements add a much more natural tone and pace.
Sharing the bill with the students are their personas. The personas, or masks, possess magical powers and level alongside the students. Your character is the only one whose experience points can be allocated to one of the core attributes—strength, dexterity, etc.—with the other students having their points auto assigned and the personas automatically gaining new powers. The automated leveling works well, with the computer making sound choices for the characters, and I found just enough freedom of customization in the managing of my character's attributes. But to expand your repertoire of spells, you're going to have to acquire additional personas, and that is going to require a little wheeling and dealing.
A fairly novel concept at the time, and one that remains so today, Persona features the ability to negotiate with enemies in addition to engaging them in combat. Utilizing a rudimentary emotion-based response system, you talk with the demons to either try to coax them into helping out or scare them off before they become enraged. A small diagram indicates whether the demons are angry, happy, scared, or eager. Each character has four approaches, ranging from being sarcastic to trying to pick them up, and enemies can become too angry to talk, flattered, scared, or friendly enough to give a spell card. Spell cards are essential because it is only by combining two of them that you are able to create a new persona. Just as you can intimidate the enemy, however, they can do the same to you, with either affected side suffering adverse side effects. The system has remained largely the same in subsequent Shin Megami titles, and it still offers an interesting and entertaining twist.
Not all problems can be solved with words. When the enemy gets too mouthy or belligerent, you can break out the axe or sword or sniper rifle or sub machinegun. Another unique feature of Persona's combat is that the game has medieval melee weapons alongside contemporary firearms. The type of weapon used is crucial as some weapons can be downright useless against certain opponents: flying creatures, for example, are susceptible to firearms, while other enemies can reflect the rounds back and damage the shooter. Other creatures can absorb, brush off, or effectively dodge against persona-based attacks, so something along the lines of a sword to the gut might be the best way to deal with them. Since combat is fought on grid-based battlefields, different attacks affect different grids, often in patterns, and the formation of your party becomes important; a character's powerful attack isn't useful if it isn't hitting something. Fortunately, formations can be switched during combat by choosing one of three predefined options, set up prior to combat. From placement to approach, there is a wide array of strategic options.And to get any enjoyment out of Persona, you had better enjoy and take full advantage of those options. If grinding or a high encounter rate in general isn't something you're fond of, then the only thing you will find here is a quick way to go insane.
Matching the incredibly high encounter rate is a remastered soundtrack that features fully vocalized songs that are at once catchy and maddeningly repetitive. Save for turning the sound off completely, you will have to listen to the same tracks over and over again, which quickly becomes very trying. Fans of the later releases might also be a little disappointed to find out that there are no Social Links, either, as those weren't introduced until Persona 3. Yet with all that said, it won't be the music, the dated graphics, or the simpler mechanics that turn people away, it will be the amount of encounters. Imagine having to talk to or fight against a handful of demons every few feet, no matter where you go: your destination is right there, just a few feet away, but it could take a good ten minutes to get to due to having to wade through the awaiting hordes.
The encounter rate is high on the world map as well. You will spend much of your time walking around the sealed city, traveling down the main streets to locales that act as dungeons. It's a bit of a perspective bonanza while you adventure, as the view will shift from over-the-top while in the city to isometric during combat to first-person while in dungeons. Just to get anywhere, though, even while on the city streets, you can expect multiple stops. The encounter rate seems to actually be higher than the first North American release, another change to get it back in line with the original. However, Atlus has also added a few features to help to alleviate the tediousness, such as three difficulty modes, an option to skip animations, the ability to run within any perspective, and an auto-battle mode. Just know that, regardless of where you are, you are never safe.
Those who own the 1996 release will find it hard to go back. Not only has the retooled script and added cutscenes made the game much more approachable and engaging, but the various additions and tweaks have really enhanced the experience. The core design itself is old, and there is no getting around that, but a lot has been done to make it as painless as possible. For example, the party's health is now displayed while walking in the dungeons—a small but important addition. There are also the smaller changes that make this a much more authentic outing, such as the reinsertion of yen as the in-game currency. There are also numerous gameplay additions, including puzzles, dungeon floors, and most notably, the Snow Queen scenario that is unlocked after you deviate from the main storyline. About the only change I can foresee some not liking is the music, as the original soundtrack was less poppy and more hard synth; it would've been nice had both soundtracks been used. For fans, this version is a must; however, for a newcomer, it will be more of an acquired taste.
Overall: 8/10
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, despite its increase in popularity, remains a title with niche appeal. While I certainly enjoyed my time with it, there are many that will be turned off by a number of items, be it the dated graphics, revamped soundtrack, aged mechanics, or high encounter rate. Persona has many aspects found in older PC titles, including the first-person dungeon crawling and grueling encounter rate, that still hold a lot of appeal but maybe not so much for those weaned on later releases. While many of the touchups have helped, the game's age does show, but the combat remains satisfying and the story engaging enough to warrant a strong recommendation. Just be prepared to grind.
(This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher. Originally published on November 6, 2009.)


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text: Shhh! Take a peek at 15 of the world's most exquisite librariesUpdated 0406 GMT (1206 HKT) March 30, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesStrahov Abbey library, Prague, Czech Republic – Strahov Abbey library, Prague, Czech RepublicThe Library: A World History is the most complete account of library buildings to date. Here James Campbell and Will Pryce take us on a virtual journey through some of their favorites.Interviews by Milena Veselinovic Hide Caption 1 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesTripitaka Koreana – Tripitaka Koreana, Haeinsa Temple, South KoreaWill Pryce: "Visiting this library was an extraordinary, if fraught, experience. We hiked up a mountain only to be told that we weren't allowed to photograph the interior. Fortunately we had a Korean student of James's with us who pleaded with the Abbott and little by little we negotiated our way in. First we could take a picture through the door, then from just inside and so on. The collection is revelatory because you realize that you are looking, not at books, but printing blocks and that they date from 1251 - reminding us that the Koreans were printing for centuries before Gutenberg."Hide Caption 2 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesTianyi Chamber, Ningbo – Tianyi Chamber, Ningbo, ChinaJames Campbell: "This is the oldest surviving Chinese library, dating from 1561. It is very dark because you were not intended to read inside, but to take your book to the garden or perhaps your room. The books have since been removed so this is the last picture that will ever be taken with the books on the their original shelves."Hide Caption 3 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesThe Peabody Library, Baltimore – The Peabody Library, Baltimore, U.S.Will Pryce: "This is an extraordinary space, a temple to the industrial age which creates an almost cathedral-like effect. There are thousands of books wherever you look and gorgeous ornate balustrades. Despite all the classical details it's actually made of iron and spans the weight of this huge library above the concert hall below."Hide Caption 4 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesBiblioteka Malatestiana – Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena, ItalyJames Campbell: "This is the closest you can get to what a medieval library looked like. It was built for Malatesta Novello, a member of a prominent Italian aristocratic family, and it still contains original books, in their original places."Hide Caption 5 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesMerton College Library, Oxford – Merton College Library, Oxford, UKJames Campbell: "Although the building was completed in 1373 and is one of the oldest academic libraries in the world still in continuous daily use, the fittings date from the late sixteenth century. It is less ornate than Rococo libraries in palace or monastery complexes, because universities did not have access to the same amount of money, but it is still extraordinarily beautiful."Hide Caption 6 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesBiblioteca Marciana, Venice – Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, ItalyWill Pryce: "It's an extraordinary piece of design, a statement of confidence by the Venetian Republic. It lies at the center of Jacopo Sansovino's scheme to re-design St Mark's square, though the building was completed after his death. The vestibule houses the Grimani collection of classical sculpture under a ceiling by Titian. While the original lecterns have gone, the superb interior design of the library gives us a sense of the richness of Venetian cultural life in this period."Hide Caption 7 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesThe Bodleian Library, Oxford – The Bodleian Library, Oxford, UKWill Pryce: "Arts End is one of most lovely corners of the group of libraries that constitute the Bodleian. Under the galleries there are little desks where readers face the bookshelves of one of the earliest wall-system libraries."Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesAdmont Abbey library, Admont, Austria – Admont Abbey library, Admont, AustriaJames Campbell: "This is one of the largest monastic libraries ever built. The whole thing is a complete work of art. The corridors and staircase that leads to it is relatively simple, so when you enter this stunning space flooded with light there is almost a moment of revelation, a theatrical effect. There are no desks to work at because these library rooms were never intended for study, but for impressing visitors. The books were taken back to the monks' warm cells to be read. It was built in 1776, a piece de resistance of rococo design."Hide Caption 9 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesMost beautiful libraries in the world – Philips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire, U.S.James Campbell: "This is perhaps the largest high school library ever constructed. From the outside it looks like a severe brick box punctured by windows. The inside is completely different. The main space rises the whole height of the building and the bookcases are behind the dominating concrete structure. Students can read with privacy on carrels next to the windows which they can decorate with their own possessions."Hide Caption 10 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesBiblioteca Joanina, Coimbra – Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, PortugalWill Pryce: "This is a very imposing library from a time when Portugal was extremely wealthy and powerful. It is very dark but features intricate gold leaf which gives it magical luminosity. The backs of the bookcases each have different color, and there are integrated ladders that pull out, and secret doors that lead to reading rooms."Hide Caption 11 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesThe Escorial Library, Madrid – The Escorial Library, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, SpainWIill Pryce: "This library was ground-breaking. It established the template of using books to decorate the walls of the library which we've been using ever since. The great hall is a harmonious combination of bookshelves, books and a wonderful painted ceiling. It was complete by 1585 and influenced everything that followed it."Hide Caption 12 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesMost beautiful libraries in the world – Mafra Palace Library, Mafra, Portugal James Campbell: "The Mafra Palace Library in Mafra, Portugal is at 88 meters the longest Rococo monastic library in the world. Sadly the original designs are lost but we think it would have been covered in gold leaf with an ornate painted ceiling. However, because the construction lasted from 1717 to 1771, by the time it was completed a simplified decoration was adopted. The library also hosts a colony of bats who come out at night to feed on the insects who would otherwise eat the books."Hide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, U.S.James Campbell: "Outside it looks like a white box, so there is an element of surprise when you go in. All light comes through the stones in the wall, and the honey-color trickle of sun rays makes it magical. It is one of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, and it is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The elegance of the Beinecke later inspired the glass-walled structure that holds the original core collection of the British Library."Hide Caption 14 of 15 Photos: Take a peek at the world's most exquisite librariesUtrecht University Library – Utrecht University Library, Utrecht, HollandWill Pryce: "This is best solution I have seen to the problems of building a library on a contemporary scale. From the outside it's a simple rectangle but inside a series of voids have been opened up creating a complete variety of spaces to work. There are secluded areas for those who like to be surrounded by books and more open ones for those who prefer to be around people. 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The 93,000-square-foot John Butrovich Building houses the University of Alaska's statewide administration and other departmental offices. The high-powered hardware of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is also located here.
John Butrovich was raised in Fairbanks. In 1944, he was elected to the Alaska Territorial Senate and served there for 34 years. During his years as senator, he was at the forefront of the Alaska statehood movement and pivotal in the development and maturation of the state. Butrovich was speaker of the delegation sent to the White House to persuade President Eisenhower to sign the statehood bill. He served on every committee of the Alaska Senate and was Senate president from 1967-68. When he retired in 1978, he was elected an honorary member of the House of Representatives. UAF granted him an honorary doctor of law degree in 1980.


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Team Alton: Three Remainby Sara Levine in Food Network Star, June 12, 2012
When Bob and Susie declared that Team Bobby and Team Giada were both winners of the Guy Fieri live show challenge, it was bad news for Team Alton. All four members faced the Producers' Challenge and the pitch room, where no matter what happened, one teammate would be going home. Alton went to bat for all of his finalists: "Every one of these people is going to make your brain tie up in knots. You're not going to be able to let one of them go," he told Bob and Susie.
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Boy, did this matchup have some spice. Then Ben Roethlisberger damaged his knee, and suddenly this takes on the look of another Patriots romp - particularly if the Steel Curtain that was ripped apart by Miami doesn't mend itself very quickly.
"A lot of people came in a lot more focused," says Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell, who will really need to step up with Roethlisberger sidelined. "Not to say we weren't focused last week, but I think losing the game the way we did, in the fashion that we did kind of opened people's eyes and let them know that you can get beat on any given week, no matter the team you're playing."
Expect the Steelers to rely heavily on versatile running back Le'Veon Bell to take some of the pressure off QB Landry Jones. Bell is one of the most dynamic threats in the league, as comfortable lining up at wide receiver as he is in the backfield, earning New England coach Bill Belichick's admiration in the process.


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Family favorites on the big screen, all summer long
The thrilling second chapter of the epic HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON trilogy returns to the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless, five years after the two successfully united dragons and Vikings on the island of Berk. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. Hiccup and Toothless must unite to stand up for what they believe while recognizing that only together can they change the future of both men and dragons.


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Fair Trade Chocolate Cardamom Truffle Cookies
Fair Trade Chocolate Cardamom Truffle Cookies
Renowned chef Malika Ameen shares a decadent and fudgy cookie recipe that is a chocolate lover's dream. A simplified version of a rich chocolate truffle, with a whisper of sweet cardamom, these cookies will be sure to impress your loved ones on Valentine's day. Bake a batch of these and watch them disappear in minutes!
Yield: 2 dozen
- ¼ cup All Purpose Flour
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ¾ teaspoon Fair Trade Certified Ground Cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 8 ounces Fair Trade Certified Dark Chocolate, Chopped
- 2 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
- 2 Large Eggs
- ½ cup Fair Trade Certified Cane Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Fair Trade Certified Vanilla Extract
- 2 ounces Fair Trade Certified Dark Chocolate, Cut into Chunks or Fair Trade Certified Chocolate Chips
Preparation Instructions
In a heatproof bowl over a double boiler melt chocolate and butter until smooth. Set aside.
Combine flour, baking powder, cardamom and salt, and mix to combine.
In another heatproof bowl mix together sugar and eggs and combine with a whisk. Place egg mixture over double boiler over gently simmering water and whisk constatntly until mixture is hot to the touch.
Remove from heat and add to warm chocolate mixture. Stir to combine.
Add vanilla extract and mix to combine.
Gently stir in flour mixture. Cool for a few minutes.
Add chocolate chunks and mix.
Chill for 10-15 minutes.
Scoop rounded tablespoons of batter (25 grams) and place on a parchment lined baking tray. Bake at 350 for approximately 7-8 minutes until the outside looks slightly cracked. Be very careful not to over bake cookies because they will continue to bake as they cool once removed from the oven.
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A's ride three homers to sixth straight win
ANAHEIM -- Once upon a time, the A's relied on pitching and defense to offset their lack of power.
Yet, there they were on Tuesday night at Angel Stadium, making up for spotty pitching and defense with a power outburst in a 9-5 victory, extending their winning streak to six games while spoiling the Angels' home opener.
The A's made a habit out of hitting the ball out of the park in 2012, a trend they've carried into '13. Through eight games, they're tied with the Yankees for a Major League-leading 15 homers, and Coco Crisp has four of them in as many games. He hit 11 all of last year.
"I don't expect him to lead the league in home runs, but he's got some power and sometimes when you get off to a good start, it could be one of those years where some things fall into place," manager Bob Melvin said. "That's not typically what we see him do, but he's seeing the ball well, elevating some balls. If you make a bad pitch to him, he's all over it."
That's what Crisp did in the second as the A's, who had already pounced on Angels starter C.J. Wilson for three two-out runs in a 43-pitch first inning, built a four-run lead. But homer-happy Oakland wasn't happy all of Tuesday, as sloppy play both on the mound and around it had the club trailing heading into the seventh.
Cue John Jaso and Brandon Moss, who turned things around against power right-hander Kevin Jepsen, Jaso hitting a three-run homer off the bench and Moss launching a two-run shot to give the A's back the lead.
The biggest culprit was the defense, but Jarrod Parker, who was knocked around in his first start of the season last week, didn't look much better this time around. Parker allowed six baserunners in the first two innings, but escaped both frames unscathed. That wasn't the case in the third, when he allowed five of his nine hits and two runs.
The A's righty then loaded the bases in the fourth, departing with one out for his shortest outing since May 18, when he lasted all of two innings against the Giants.
"Not good," said Parker, who also walked three. "It was a battle all night. I made a few pitches when I had to, but not as many as I needed to. Obviously guys picked me up big time tonight.
"Just command of the fastball. It wasn't there, and that's something I take pride in."
"We haven't seen that in a while and missing by, at times, wide margins, which he doesn't normally do either," Melvin said.
Still ahead by a pair of runs, the A's failed to keep it that way in the sixth, committing two errors as the Angels took the lead with three runs of their own.
Righty Pat Neshek allowed a leadoff triple to Mike Trout, and Brendan Harris followed with a routine fly to right field, where Chris Young dropped the ball, allowing Harris to reach second. Harris, again, was on the move by way of an A's defensive miscue seconds later, with shortstop Jed Lowrie committing a fielding error on Albert Pujols' ground ball to put runners at the corners with no outs.
Lefty Jerry Blevins was brought in to face Josh Hamilton, who tied the game with a sacrifice fly, the Angels ultimately grabbing the lead on Howie Kendrick's RBI triple off Ryan Cook that was misplayed by Young, who is in right field while the injured Josh Reddick remains out.
It was a rough night all around for Young, who struck out for the second time in the seventh. Fortunately, his teammates picked him up.
With two outs, two on and Jepsen on the mound in the seventh, Jaso pinch-hit for Derek Norris and delivered a three-run homer. Josh Donaldson kept the inning going with a base hit, and Moss, who already had two RBIs after singling in the first inning, followed with his two-run blast.
Jaso is now 24-for-52 (.462) with five home runs and 19 RBIs in his career at Angel Stadium.
"When I'm in the lineup, it's about seeing pitches and learning the pitcher," Jaso said. "When you get in there to pinch-hit, you always have the mindset of swinging. The manager's not putting you in there to see pitches. He's putting you in there to hit."
"We're playing well right now offensively," Melvin said. "Our defense wasn't great and we didn't pitch like we normally do, but when the offense continues to score runs in that fashion, sometimes it overshadows the things you're doing wrong."
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Inside Lacrosse released its 2013 Face-Off Yearbook Division II Preseason All-Conference teams, tabbing three Lions as preseason favorites in the Deep South Conference, it was announced Thursday. Robert Hutchinson, Matt Obermeyer, George Proechel, and newcomer Dylan Yonts all earned a spot on the 2013 squad.
Hutchinson, who earned Deep South Conference Player of the Week (4/2/12) and Saint Leo Athlete of the Week (4/9/12) accolades last season, competed in all 14 contests for the Lions in 2012, starting eight. The Islip Terrace, N.Y. native scored eight goals and added five assists in his sophomore campaign, adding a team high 79 ground balls and earning a .557 faceoff percentage, winning 107-of-192 attempts. Hutchinson was a vital member of the Lions' midfield crew, a produced in all areas of the field.
Obermeyer adds preseason conference honors to his Face-Off Yearbook DII Preseason All-American nod. In his sophomore campaign, the Winter Springs, Fla. native earned All-Deep South Conference First Team honors, was the DSC Offensive Player of the Week (3/19/12), earned Academic All-District First Team credit, and was the recipient of the Excellence Core Value Award. In 2012, Obermeyer led the team in goals scored with 38, and tacked on six assists for 44 points on the season, good for second best on the squad. Competing and starting in 13 games, Obermeyer set a new program record for goals in a season and goals per game in a season with 2.92. He added 19 ground balls and caused five turnovers on the season, and was indispensable to the Lions attack unit.
Proechel picks up the preseason award to kick off his senior campaign on a high note. Proechel's list of accolades includes All-Deep South Conference Second Team, and Preseason All-Conference honors in 2012, 2011 Second Team All-DSC, and DSC All-Conference credit in 2010. He has been named player of the week four times in his career. One of the most prolific players in program history, the Orlando, Fla. native currently sits third in points per season with 53, second in points per game with 3.71, second in goals in a season with 37, second in program history in career points with 137, career goals with 90, and career assists with 47. He leads the program in career man-up goals with 13, and is second in career game-winning goals with five. In 2012, Proechel started in all 14 games for the Lions, amassing 37 goals and added 15 assists for a team best 52 points. He added 20 ground balls and four caused turnovers to his total, and was a vital member of the attack unit.
Freshman Dylan Yonts earns the honor after being tabbed a 2012 US Lacrosse High School All American back in June. Guiding his team to the New York State Class 'C' State Finals and gaining recognition on the All-Tournament team, Yonts received the highest of athletic honors as he was selected a US Lacrosse All-American with a 46-goal, 29-assist senior campaign. The midfielder also earned All-Section First Team accolades, in addition to series of awards during a dominant junior season, including D&C All-Greater Rochester Super-16.
Saint Leo matches conference and cross-town rival Tampa for the most positions on the Deep South preseason team, with both teams collecting four spots apiece. Catawba claimed two positions, with Wingate and Florida Southern earning one position each.


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I have heard that Muslims consider dogs to be "unclean" and never have them as pets.
So I am wondering:
- Is this truly a belief in Islam, or is this is just a cultural norm from countries that happen to be predominantly Islamic. In other words, is there something in Islamic theology about dogs or is it just a cultural tradition from different countries.
- Does this belief or tradition vary from place to place? I know Islam exists all over the world.
- Do some Muslims have dogs for pets?
- What does "unclean" mean?
- What do Muslims think about dogs and how they should be treated?
I have read a couple things:
- Muhammad had a cat.
- Muhammad once protected a female dog who was giving birth so that no one would disturb her and her puppies.


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Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8:40 p.m.
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LAKELAND — Florida authorities say that a man and three children have been killed in a wreck northwest of Orlando.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the accident occurred Friday night on SR 33 in Lake County. Police said in a news release that "for an unknown reason" 41-year-old Wilfredo Malave lost control of his 2009 Mercedes, which struck several trees and a pole before hitting another tree and coming to a rest.
The father and his 9-year-old son Zion were pronounced dead at the scene; a 7-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl died at Southlake Hospital.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swapped hard-fought battleground states Tuesday night in a tense duel for the White House shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment that crimped the middle class dreams of millions.
Obama won New Hampshire, and Romney put North Carolina in his column, the first two of nine battleground states to fall.
The rest of the pivotal states were anything but settled -- Ohio, Virginia and Florida among them -- with long lines in some locations hours after poll-close time. Romney led in the national popular vote with 40 million votes, or 50 percent. Obama had 34.4 million, or 48 percent, with half of the precincts tallied.


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OTTAWA -- Last year at this time, there was a rare emotion swirling between the federal government and Canada's First Nations.
Both the government and many First Nations leaders felt the stars were aligning so the dismal education system most First Nations people were forced to endure would finally be improved.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Assembly of First Nations had jointly declared education to be a priority. An expert panel appointed by Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and a Senate committee studying native education were finishing their work, and ultimately both released reports calling for better funding and a First Nations Education Act to enshrine certain principles of learning and standards.
Duncan committed to a First Nations Education Act being in place by September 2014.
There was $275 million over three years in the 2012 budget for new reserve schools and early-learning programs.
With all of this, the feeling was maybe, just maybe, the problems facing education on reserves would be addressed.
But in recent months, that hope has faded, replaced with resentment, anger and that old staple, mistrust. The level of that anger will be front and centre this week as chiefs meet in Gatineau, Que., for a special assembly.
The wheels have been slowly coming off the bus over the last year as First Nations leaders perceive repeated attacks on their independence and treaty rights -- from funding cuts to chiefs organizations that are often critical of the government to a number of bills affecting First Nations chiefs say they were not properly consulted about.
In October, Ottawa suddenly issued a press release claiming reserve schools were not underfunded, even though both the Senate committee and expert panel said the opposite. It drove a stake through the hope that Ottawa might be willing to inject some serious cash to improve reserve schools.
Around the same time, the Assembly of First Nations voted to reject a federal First Nations Education Act before it even got started, believing Ottawa was going to unilaterally create legislation that did not properly consult chiefs and other First Nations leaders, and that would be a top-down approach that didn't take into account unique needs in different parts of the country.
Chiefs in Ontario and Manitoba have also made similar rejections in recent weeks.
The ill will toward such legislation -- which a year ago was being touted as a potential saviour for the country's First Nations children -- is so strong Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak said Friday if anyone at the assembly this week tries to get the idea back on the table "it would be a very big mistake."
The chasm between Ottawa and First Nations appears to be so big Nepinak is ready to wash his hands of this government altogether and start working toward unseating it in 2015.
But if one thing is clear -- kids can't wait until 2015 or longer. When some reserves see fewer than three in 10 of their kids graduate from high school, when education is a critical component for the health and well-being of children, and for the health and well-being of our future economy, we need action now.
And both sides need to get back at it.
Ottawa needs to admit the only reason it can say it spends more per pupil on aboriginal education is because of the tuition it pays for some reserve kids to attend off-reserve schools. That on-reserve schools get less than $7,000 per pupil in funding, far below the $10,500 average for off-reserve schools. A new formula for funding on-reserve education would go a long way to getting this process back on track.
But Ottawa can't do it alone.
First Nations leaders need to be willing to talk. Walking away from the development of a First Nations Education Act before the process has even really started benefits nobody.


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Pineda sharp, offense rolls against Shields in victory over Royals
KANSAS CITY -- Michael Pineda turned his back to home plate in the fifth inning Monday night and gazed out at center field following his fourth strikeout. A few hundred feet away, the Kauffman Stadium CrownVision HD scoreboard provided a replay of Mike Moustakas' solo home run off the Yankees' right-hander, two innings earlier.
Pineda observed this, then turned around, stomped on the mound, and redeemed himself by making Moustakas strikeout victim No. 5.
The Moustakas home run was all Pineda would allow in New York's fifth straight win, an 8-1 triumph over the Royals. The Yankees visited Kansas City to make up a June 9 postponement, and they now head to Detroit to continue a tough stretch that includes 13 games -- and four different cities -- in 13 days.
Baltimore won Monday, so New York remains six games behind the American League East leaders. But Monday's win brought the Yankees to within 2 1/2 games of the Mariners for the second AL Wild card spot.
The Royals managed just five hits in 6 1/3 innings off Pineda, who made his MLB-leading 15th straight start allowing six hits or fewer. Pineda's control and command matched his dazzling repertoire, as he issued zero walks and struck out five. His seventh start this season surrendering two runs or fewer dropped his ERA to 1.95.
"He could do pretty much whatever he wanted with the baseball," catcher Brian McCann said. "He's got so much cut on his fastball that I feel like he could throw that literally every pitch and be very successful, and to add in a wipe-out slider and a really good changeup -- when he's on, he's tough."
In Pineda's previous 10 starts, New York provided 12 runs of support, and at most, four runs in a single game. The Yankees' offense churned out 13 hits and eight runs Monday, backed by home runs from Stephen Drew, Martin Prado and Jacoby Ellsbury and a pair of RBIs by Derek Jeter, playing his final regular-season game at The K.
"We swung the bats extremely well tonight, we got contributions from everyone, up and down the lineup," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Drew broke a 1-1 tie in the fourth, with a home run off Royals starter James Shields. It was his second homer in his last four games and second since joining the Yankees.
New York tacked on four insurance runs in the seventh to claim a 6-1 lead. Prado (2-for-4, double, homer) began the inning with a home run to left, and Ellsbury (3-for-5, three RBIs) and Jeter added RBI singles.
"They found holes. [Shields] made a mistake, I think, on the ball to Prado, and he hit it out. I mean, the score was still manageable, and they just started finding holes," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Ellsbury's hit was the 1,000th of his career, and No. 1,001 came in the top of the ninth on a two-run shot to right.
"It's pretty special. They got the ball for me, that will be in my collection. I guess it just means you've played for a little while," Ellsbury said.
David Huff closed out the game for the Yankees, tossing the last 2 2/3 innings in scoreless fashion. He replaced Pineda in the middle of the seventh inning, when Girardi stuck by the 95-100-pitch limit he instituted for Pineda before the game. After Pineda allowed a one-out double to Salvador Perez, Girardi called on Huff with his starter at a season-high 96 pitches.
"[Pineda] is an aggressive guy, there's no doubt about it, and he kept his pitch count down and did a really good job for us tonight, and he's been real consistent, so I'm happy with what I see," Girardi said.
Pineda appears to be peaking at the ideal time for a Yankees team creeping back into the postseason discussion.
"Over the course of a long season, you have your ups and downs, and right now, we're on an up," McCann said.
Jackson Alexander is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I lost Wayne nine months ago to cc, and my Mom 2 weeks ago from time.
I can't help it I think of Wayne just about every waking moment these days. There is two more weeks before Christmas, I can't help of thinking of him, it seems everything I do is still surrounded with him, my thoughts, and my emotions. I am going to a couselor every week, if it wasn't for that I would really be crazy. I cry more these days and am still angry that our time together was cut short, I know he is better off to be without the pain, but I am so lost without him. To be such a happy time of the year, this year is the saddest for me.
I'm not a widow, I am a wife
We are only apart for heaven's sake
You are waiting for me at heaven's gate


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Since Kim Kardashian married Kanye West and gave birth to their baby, North West, in 2013 her star power has been steadily on the rise. With her reality show, sex tape and messy divorce from Kris Humphries all in the past, Kim has been free to embark on some new adventures like creating a wildly successful mobile video game based on her life and co-starring (in her birthday suit) in Kanye West's "Bound 2" music video. Most recently,
Kim bared all once again for a booty-centric Paper magazine photo shoot that caused a serious stir on the internet and in the media. This latest stunt and the wave of publicity it created has people asking why everyone cares so much about this famous-for-being-famous celebrity. The fact of the matter is, however, the world is talking about Kim Kardashian and she's got us right where she wants us.
AppealKim Kardashian has given Jennifer Lopez a run for her money in the department of celebrity posteriors. Thanks to a background that is predominantly Armenian, her curves have attracted infinite attention and earned maximum exposure, courtesy of a Playboy spread, a much-ballyhooed sex tape and a Twitter feed that proves that Kardashian is anything but shy about showing off her physicality. However, in November 2014, Kim reached peak-booty with a meme-inspiring photo shoot for Paper magazine that featured a full-moon cover shot and an inside spread in which the 34-year-old bared every inch of her rockin' post-baby bod.
Kardashian's combination of raw exotic beauty and sexy confidence makes her ideal dating material for a lot of men. If you ever have the chance to take her out, just stick to a limo ride and a fancy dinner at a high-priced Los Angeles eatery, rather than crashing a trendy club for a dance-off on '80s night. This is a girl with expensive taste.
While she appears to fit the bill of fun-loving California girl quite nicely, Kardashian spent the first four years of her 20s as a married woman. Her husband at the time was Damon Thomas, but after their split, she continued to date within the music industry through courtships with Nick Lachey, Nick Cannon and her partner in celebrity sex tape crime, Ray J.
Kardashian developed a liking for athletes, enjoying a long-term relationship with Reggie Bush and an alleged fling with Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2011, Kim explored marriage once again with NBA player Kris Humphries. Seventy-two days later, she explored divorce again, too and waited an entire year to finally settle with Humphries outside of court.
Of course we now know Kim Kardashian as one half of "Kimye" the power duo of her and rapper Kanye West. And with baby North West, they're giving Jay-Z and Beyonce a run for their money as the coolest family in Hollywood. There's a lot of talk that Kim and Kanye's marriage is a publicity stunt, but even if it is, they seem to be enjoying the ride, so we all might as well too.
SuccessWhile Kim K's sex appeal is undeniable, many people have trouble seeing that she has actually come a long way since her most controversial past days of sex tape-fame.
Like her former BFF Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian has gamely used money, sex and social status to her unique advantage. After initially being branded famous because her late lawyer father was a friend of O.J. Simpson -- not the ideal association for fame -- Kardashian has developed her image as a socialite and reality TV star, while forging lucrative connections with both halves of her fan following. She's engaged women through cosmetics, fragrance and clothing ventures, and made her male admirers happy by gladly flaunting what God gave her.
Kim has cashed in on her fame through product endorsements, appearances on shows like The Apprentice, Dancing with the Stars, America's Next Top Model and even American Dad. Her mobile video game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood caught on like wildfire and has reportedly made $43 million since its launch. She's worth even more as Kanye's wife, and has been able to attach her name to bigger brands, like Vogue, which she and hubby Kanye graced the cover of in April 2014. She must be doing something right because as of May 2014, Kim was estimated to be worth a cool $45 million.
In addition to monetary success, Kim continues to maintain a stronghold on her authority in the world of pop culture. When she so much as changes her hair color, tabloids and fashion magazines alike go wild. When she launches an app, she profits in the millions. As controversial as Kim is, she has overcome what could have been a controversial 15 minutes of fame by strategically and entrepreneurially rising to become one of the most financially successful and talked about starlets over the past few years. This is why AskMen controversially named Kim Kardashian #3 on the 2015 list of Top 99 Most Outstanding Women, a nod to her success rather than purely her looks (in contrast to AskMen's prior "Most Desirable" lists).
Kim Kardashian BiographyAs the second daughter to high-powered Los Angeles lawyer Robert Kardashian and his wife, Kris Houghton, Kim Kardashian was immediately dropped into a comfortable California lifestyle that included posh living arrangements, a Catholic school, a sweet ride at 16 and a childhood friendship with another future socialite named Paris Hilton. In 1989, the marriage between Kardashian's parents disintegrated and her family makeup changed considerably. Her mom became Kris Jenner, after a marriage to former Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, and she gained a sizable set of step-siblings, fronted by Brody Jenner.
The new family unit went the way of The Osbournes and become a pop culture favorite later on, but during her high school years, Kardashian remained close with her father. Apart from his involvement in the trial of O.J. Simpson, he had become far more active in the music industry than in the field of law. As such, Kardashian became gainfully employed at Movie Tunes, her father's business that was responsible for promoting musical artists. At 20, she married producer Damon Thomas, but the death of her father in 2003 sent Kardashian on a new journey to find her own entrepreneurial talents. Kardashian and her husband divorced in 2004, and her first attempt at self-employment came in the music video and commercial industry as a wardrobe stylist. Unfortunately, this venture was unsuccessful, so she went back to the drawing board for her next professional makeover.
Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape And Keeping Up With The KardashiansHaving not succeeded the first time, Kim Kardashian tried again in the style sector, but put her attention toward closet arrangements rather than specific wardrobe choices. Her job was to renovate closet space and find ways to better organize the clothing of her clients. After getting good results from revamping the storage space of boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard's wife, Bernadette, Kardashian took a shot at redoing Paris Hilton's clothing collection. Apart from the fact that Hilton's clothing was so extensive that it required the space of a fully-modified bedroom rather than a regular-size closet, Kim's work was well-received. Among Los Angeles socialites, she was more popular around town, but her overall celebrity influence was inconsequential.
The relationships between Kardashian and blues musician Ray J changed her level of fame quickly and substantially. In 2007, adult film giant Vivid released a sex tape that they had filmed together. While the two principals claimed that the sex tape was never intended for public audiences, it provided an immediate jump-start to Kardashian's career, making her an immediate internet fixture. It was also perfectly timed to coincide with a spread in the December 2007 issue of Playboy and the launch of her reality TV series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The show followed her and her family members through the maintaining of their store, D-A-S-H, and their various personal challenges. It became a favorite of female viewers while offering more views for men of the woman who had caught so much attention for her sexcapades.
Kim Kardashian On Dancing With The StarsAs the most in-demand girl about town, Kim Kardashian had ended Paris Hilton's reign as the pretty, wealthy young thing with a popular sex tape. This didn't sit too well with Paris Hilton, who had previously featured Kardashian as a guest star on The Simple Life. A catty socialite war ensued when Paris Hilton referred to her former best friend's formidable posterior as "gross" and "disgusting." Kim responded by candidly stating: "If Paris Hilton thinks my butt looks gross, I really don't care. At least I have a butt."
The war of words between the two socialites only upped Kardashian's club cred, and she flaunted her assets further through endorsement contracts with Bongo Jeans, as well as Famous Stars and Straps. Through the rest of 2008, Kardashian continued her pop culture invasion through a fitness DVD called Workout with Kim Kardashian, a Razzy-nominated movie role in Disaster Movie and as a featured contestant on Dancing with the Stars. The latter featured her in a mambo set to "Baby Got Back," but Kardashian's backside would only be good enough to get her into the third week of competition with dance partner Mark Ballas.
With more acting parts a year later in the TV series Beyond the Break, the prime-time winner CSI: NY and the continuing seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian continued to hold on to her industry status. A Twitter account, complete with regular racy self-portraits, captured over four million followers. In 2010, Kim built more professional bridges and scored more pop culture points through the release of her self-titled perfume line and a guest appearance with her Kardashian sisters on the new season of 90210.
With seven seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians completed in addition to two other reality TV shows and a music single ("Jam") under her belt, Kim Kardashian seemed to have the world wrapped around her beautifully manicured finger. After two seasons of success with Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, the spinoff Kourtney and Kim Take New York went on the air in January 2011, when the sisters moved from to the Big Apple to open their third D-A-S-H store.
Kim Kardashian Gets Married, Then DivorcedKim Kardashian got engaged on May 18, 2011, to New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries after dating for just six months. Kim and Kris were married in a hugely publicized wedding that was broadcast after the fact. The wedding cost tens of millions of dollars, and it's reported that the couple earned $17.9 million from media deals stemming from the wedding, including a $2.5 million photo deal with People magazine.
A mere 72 days after the blowout nuptials, Kim Kardashian filed for divorce on October 31st, citing "irreconcilable differences." The $17.9 million she made from her wedding works out to a modest income of $10,358.82 per hour from being married to Kris. Wise investment?
Kim Kardashian Gets Dissed By Jon Hamm
In an interview that appeared in Elle UK's March 2012 issue, Jon Hamm called Kim (and Paris Hilton, lumping them into the same category of celebrity) "a f*cking idiot."
Kim responded via Twitter, writing, "We're all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs and creates 'stupid' is, in my opinion, careless."
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kanye West had claimed that he had feelings for Kim Kardashian before -- and during -- her time with then-husband Kris Humphries. Kim began dating Kanye in 2012, while she was still technically married to Humphries and announced toward the end of 2012 that she was pregnant with their baby. In October of 2013, Kanye proposed to Kim. And it wasn't just any proposal: the 36-year-old rapper rented out San Francisco's AT&T Park and had the jumbo screen display the words "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" Then, Kanye presented Kim with a 15-carat diamond ring while a 50-piece orchestra played Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful." The couple were married in May of that year and so began the union of Kimye.
KimyeSince the formation of Kimye, Kim has been enjoying a new level of popularity and success. Her nudie cameo in Kanye's music video for "Bound 2" had heads turning and even inspired a hilarious parody courtesy of James Franco and Seth Rogen. One of Kim's most lucrative ventures of 2014 was her mobile video game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in which players attempt to rise to fame as a Hollywood star or starlet, just like Kim! The game earned $1.6 million in just the first five days of its release, so clearly even if the public claims they don't like Kim, they clearly wouldn't mind being her. There's even talk that Kanye has improved Kim's fashion sense and style since being with her (those bleached eyebrows? Definitely Kanye's idea).
Then in November of 2014, Paper magazine's front cover photo of Kim oiled up and bare booty-ed with the caption "break the internet" did just that. The memes and comparisons and opinion pieces came out of the woodwork. And even though the pose was actually an homage to photographer Jean-Paul Goude's 1976 photo of model Caroline Beaumont, many ignorant to that fact touted it as "iconic." It only added fuel to the fire when it come out that inside the magazine was a full-frontal spread of Kim showing off an impressive post-baby body before she and Kanye try for their second.


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LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) — At least three people in two states will split the $448.4 million Powerball jackpot, after two winning tickets were sold in New Jersey and one was sold in Minnesota, lottery officials said Thursday.
No winners immediately came forward to claim the jackpot. Winners in both states have a year from the date of the drawing to do so.
One of the winning New Jersey tickets was bought at a Super Stop & Shop store in South Brunswick and the other one was purchased at an Acme Markets store in Little Egg Harbor, said Judith Drucker, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Lottery.
The winning Minnesota ticket was sold in Anoka County, which includes the city of Anoka and other suburbs north of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota Lottery spokeswoman Debbie Hoffmann said. The exact location wasn't revealed.
The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 05, 25, 30, 58, 59 and Powerball 32. During the telecast, Powerball officials announced the jackpot that was pegged at $425 million previously in the day had grown amid a buying frenzy.
Each winning ticket was worth $86 million before taxes, or $58.3 million after taxes, if taken in a lump sum. They are worth $149.4 million over 30 years if the winners choose the annuity option.
Several people were anxiously checking their tickets Thursday morning for would-be winners at the Little Egg Harbor store where one of the three tickets that matched all six numbers was sold.
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Weber wasn't sure what the store's haul would be, though he said he planned to donate a large portion of it to a charity in the area, which was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy in October.
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A recent game change intended to build excitement about the lottery has increased the frequency of huge jackpots. Wednesday's jackpot drawing comes only a few months after the biggest Powerball jackpot in history — a $590 million pot won in Florida by an 84-year-old widow. The second largest Powerball jackpot, $587.5 million, was won in November and split between two tickets from Arizona and Missouri.
New Jersey's winners join Passaic resident Pedro Quezada, who was the lone winner of the March 23 Powerball drawing. The 44-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic claimed a lump-sum payment worth $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes.
The revamp of Powerball in January 2012 changed the price of a ticket from $1 to $2, a move that upped the chances of the game reaching a major jackpot. There was a loss in the number of players, but the new game — which also created more chances to win smaller, $1 million and $2 million prizes — has brought in 52 percent more in sales, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. Sales were $5.9 billion in the fiscal year that ended in June.


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It is widely accepted at the start of the CFL regular season, defences will be ahead of the offences in terms of execution and polish.
On a night where the majority of points scored came from turnovers, it makes one wonder whether the two very different quarterbacks on display are tethered to the right style of system.
Buck Pierce and Anthony Calvillo could not be more different as quarterbacks if they tried. Yet as it stands right now, I don't think either one can be too thrilled or is complimented by the kind of offence they are running.
Anthony Calvillo is a pure pocket passer, or the QB equivalent of a nuclear reactor. He is incredibly efficient and effective as long as he is handled with extreme care.
He never wants to leave the cozy confines of the pocket, and when he does, or is forced out of it, bad things happen, or it is such a rare feat it ends up on SportsCentre.
A.C. is at his best when he makes a pre-snap read and knows where he is going with the football before the play clock even starts. He relies on his accuracy and his synchronization with his receiving corps to effectively orchestrate his offence.
The way A.C. was roughed up and left to fend for himself Thursday night reminded me of how things used to be for Calvillo prior to former head coach Marc Trestman's arrival in 2008. The Bomber defence pinballed him around on opening night like a red-headed pinata.
They sacked him, rushed him, got in his passing lanes, hurried him, occasionally blitzed him, and made his life miserable. It got to the point where he was flinching after he threw the football, chucking and ducking in an endless attempt at avoiding contact.
This was not the kind of offence the Alouettes had been running the last five years, and if they don't change it in a hurry, A.C. is not going to make it through 18 games.
If A.C. is a nuclear reactor, Buck Pierce is a master of improv theater. Give him too much structure and it stifles him. Afford him options and the ability to be creative and he is at his best.
So while Anthony excels when he is at the helm of a chess board, moving the set pieces around him as he sees fit, Buck is nowhere near as mechanical.
The more he moves outside of the pocket, the more he extends plays with his legs, the more he is throwing on the run and utilizing play action, the more dangerous and successful he is.
A lot of defences practise what is called "scramble drill" at some point during the week.
It's a situational drill where you react and cover up when the QB has escaped from the pocket and his receivers break off their routes and come back to the football. Buck is one of the best scramble QBs in the CFL, who almost throws better on the run than from behind centre, and is adept at giving his receivers additional time to get open. Caging him in the pocket and making him one-dimensional is as ill-suited to his skill sets as forcing A.C. to run and gun at the ripe old age of 40.
Whichever team identifies and makes the changes necessary to cater to the strengths of their starting pivot by next week, will be the team that comes out on top in the rematch in Montreal.
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Throughout the Boston Red Sox baseball season, the MBTA accommodates thousands of extra fans as they travel in and out of Fenway Park. Customers are urged to take public transportation to and from the games and advised to check T-Alerts for the most up-to-date service information on game days. Go Sox and thank you for riding the T!
Taking the T to Fenway Park
- Green Line (Subway Schedule): The Green Line's Kenmore and Fenway Stations are the closest to Fenway Park. Customers can board any B-, C-, and D-Branch trains to travel to Kenmore Station. For Fenway Station, customers can board any D-Branch train.
- Commuter Rail (Framingham/Worcester Line Schedule): Customers can use Yawkey Station on the Framingham/Worcester Commuter Rail Line for service to and from Fenway Park.
Travel to Fenway Park on the Commuter Rail via South Station
- Once the Commuter Rail train arrives, transfer to the Red Line subway level and take an Alewife-bound train from the northbound platform.
- Transfer from the Red Line to the Green Line at Park Street Station. Park Street Station is only two Red Line stops from South Station.
- Once at Park Street Station, board any Green Line B-, C-, or D-Branch train and travel to Kenmore Station.
- Fenway Park is less than a half mile from Kenmore Square Station.
- MBTA station personnel in orange vests will be available to answer any questions and to assist and direct customers on game days.
- Or, use Yawkey Station on the Framingham/Worcester Commuter Rail Line.
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- Parking is available at many MBTA stations. Before beginning the trip to Fenway, visit the MBTA Parking page for a full list of parking locations and information.
Late Games and Extra Innings
- In the event the game runs late, a public announcement and a posting will be made on the jumbo screen at Fenway Park advising customers that the last train will depart Kenmore Square Station at 12:10 a.m.
Purchasing Your CharlieTickets in Advance
- Buying your return CharlieTicket at the beginning of your trip is strongly encouraged and will help to avoid long lines and delays during fare collection after the game.
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Mosaic 9.5 has allows control of content based on authorization rules stored in a policy file. This means we can control access to an application, catalog, tile or other resource by setting permissions in the policy file. We can also combine the permissions in different ways to control the user experience.
This is a very powerful feature that allows the developer or administrator to control resource access at a very fine grained level. It also can be an incredibly maddening feature when it is not configured properly. In this post I'll try to demystify some of the magic behind authorization. Hopefully this will make your configuration a bit less stressful.
The rules for the authorization of Mosaic content is stored in a policy file which is deployed to Mosaic as you would other resources. The application and catalog descriptors will have a Policy Reference that indicates what policy file(s) contain the rules for the resource. The policy reference is optional, and if it is absent it means that there are no specific rules for that resource. There may be more than one policy file deployed to your server.
The policy file uses the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) notation to define the authorization rules for each resource. This allows you to set up some incredibly complex rules for authorization, but it also allows you to get a little too creative with the rules. Its like juggling chainsaws. Its really cool when it works, but if something goes wrong there will be a big mess to clean up.
The rules of authorization:
These are some general rules of thumb that will help you keep the authorization functionality from driving you crazy:
- Mosaic evaluates the authorization at runtime.
When a user accesses an application, Mosaic reads the application descriptor and assembles the application before sending it to the client. While this allows you to update rules with out recompiling code, it also means that large, complex policy files can cause performance issues.
- The evaluation of permissions for each resource is independent of that for other resources.
When Mosaic determines that a resource is needed, it checks the policy file to see if the user has access (assuming there is a policy reference). Then the next resource is similarly checked. Mosaic does not maintain state information between the calls, so each resource request is judged on its own merits. For example, say a tile is used by two different applications. The tile rules are evaluated separately from the evaluation of the applications. In other words; If you can read a tile, you can read that tile regardless of what application it is in.
- If a resource is inside of another resource, you need access to the parent resource as well.
Although each resource is evaluated on its own, for practical purposes, there is a evaluation order. You can consider the evaluation order as application, catalog, view template, panel template and tile (or other catalog resource) and that these can be treated as an AND operation.
What that means is that if you have access to the tiles and not access to the app, you won't see anything. Although the tile rules may say you have read access, the tiles have no container into which they can be put.
For example; to see a tile the user must have access to the application AND the catalog AND the tile (1&1&1=1). If any of these are denied, you will not see the tile.
In addition, there are two corollaries to the rules:
- What happens if there is no policy?
This can happen if the resource (application, catalog, tile, etc.) has no policy file reference. Since there is no rule, Mosaic assumes access is granted.
- What happens if there is a policy, but no rule applies?
This can happen if there is no specific rule in the policy that applies to the resource for that user. According to the XACML standard, this results in an indeterminate result. In this case Mosaic falls back to the overall Mosaic authorization setting (also known as the base setting). This is set in the mosaic-context.xml file using the denyWhenIndeterminate property. If the value is set to true then any indeterminate requests will be denied.
One thing to watch for is an error in your XACML policy file. If there is a mistake or typo that is still legal XACML, an indeterminate state can be returned. For example, if you make a mistake in an attribute entry then the rule may not execute and an indeterminate result will be returned. If the denyWhenIndeterminate property is set then no user will be able to access the resource.
For these reasons I recommend adding a "catch all" rule that will apply when no others do. It will make debugging your policy file much easier.
An Example
Lets take a look at a simple sample to see how this works. The source for this example can be downloaded here.
The test consists of the following:
· Two user roles were added to Mosaic. Each role has one unique user:
o <security:user name="r1″ password="password" authorities="ROLE_MOSAIC_R1″/>
o <security:user name="r2″ password="password" authorities="ROLE_MOSAIC_R2″/>
· Two applications – App1 and App2
· One catalog – AppCatalog
· Two tiles – Tile1 and Tile2
· AppCatalog has entries for Tile1 and Tile2
· App1 uses Tile1 and Tile2 from the AppCatalog
· App2 uses Tile1 and Tile2 from the AppCatalog
· There is one policy file – ControlPolicy
· App1 and App2 contain a reference to ControlPolicy
· AppCatalog contains a reference to ControlPolicy at its root
· The Tile1 and Tile2 entries in the AppCatalog each contain a reference to ControlPolicy
When the applications are accessed using the owner's account (a super user with all access granted) they look like the following:
App1 with no authorization rules:
App2 with no authorization rules:
Policy Rules:
Rules for R1:
· Read access for App1
· Read access for AppCatalog
· Read access for Tile1
Rules for R2:
· Read access for App2
· Read access for AppCatalog
· Read access for Tile2
Rules for resource owner:
· All actions to all resources
In addition there is a "catch all" rule to catch anything that does not apply to the above. This rule is set to deny.
The following are the results when the two users attempt to access the two applications with the above listed rules:
For user R1:
· When accessing App1, user R1 sees the app and Tile1. He does not see Tile2
o The user has access to the app, the catalog and Tile1 (1&1&1=1) so he sees Tile1
o The user has no access to Tile2 (1&1&0=0) so he does not see Tile2
· When accessing App2, user R1 is denied access.
o The user has no access to the app, but does have access to the catalog and Tile1. Since he can't see the app, access to the catalog and tile are not relevant (0&1&0=0)
For user R2:
· When accessing App1, user R1 is denied access
· When accessing App2, user R2 sees only Tile2. He does not see Tile1
Compound Rules
What happens if you want to do more complex rules on combinations of resources? As I said earlier, Mosaic requests authorization on individual resources and does not pass the state information during the request. If you want a combo – say only show Tile 2 if Tile 1 is present – can you do it? You can, but you need to be a bit creative.
You need to find a way to combine the two tiles into a single resource on which Mosaic can check the authorization. Fortunately, this can be easily done using view and panel templates. In the catalog you can combine the tiles you need into a single view/panel. The application will reference the view/panel template and not the tiles individually. The policy file will include a resource entry for the view/panel as well as the tiles, catalog and application.
Of course the rules must be setup so the user has access to the tiles as well as the view/panel.


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Gut bacteria plot resistance according to microbiologists at University of Illinois Urbana, as reported in Nature Science Update 2 March 2001. They studied bacteria that only live inside the human digestive system and found they contained genes for antibiotic resistance. They would have gained these by swapping genes with already resistant bacteria found in food. This process would help explain the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance.
Editorial Comment: Antibiotic resistance is often used as evidence for evolution. However, as microbiologists study the process, they have found that resistance genes have always existed and bacteria are able to pass on genes that carry antibiotic resistance to other bacteria. This is a built in survival mechanism for bacteria. As far as they are concerned antibiotics are poisons. The rise in resistant bacteria is due to widespread antibiotic use in farming as well as in medicine. This has killed off many non-resistant organisms and left only already resistant forms of bacteria to reproduce and spread 'resistance' genes to remaining non-resistance bacteria. No evolution is involved. The already resistant bacteria have not changed and the acquisition of their resistance genes by others does not even change them into a different species of bacteria. (Ref. bacteria, antibiotic resistance, evolution)