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The fact that the 2011 Knicks have reached this point in the season is very, very sad.
This was a Knick team that had championship aspirations coming into the season. The Knicks have been nothing short of disappointing this season. At 24-25, the Knicks are now scrapping for their playoff lives. They sit just 1 1/2 games ahead of the Milwaukee Bucks for the 8th seed in the playoffs. Milwaukee plays hard and has some nice players, but there is no way they should be competing with the Knicks for a spot in the playoffs. The Knicks should not be in this position. They should be fighting for a higher playoff seed, not fighting for a spot in the playoffs. It is very sad.
Nonetheless, we have arrived at this point. Tonights game at Madison Square Garden is a huge game for New York. If they lose to Milwaukee, the Knicks will be just a half game ahead of the Bucks in the standings. Including tonights game, only 7 of Milwaukee's last 18 opponents have a winning record. 10 of the Knicks last 17 opponents have winning records. A Knicks win tonight would put them 2 1/2 games up on the Bucks. By no means would they be out of the woods, but it would provide the Knicks with a decent cushion on which to sit on. Given how the Bucks remaining schedule is easier than the Knicks remaining schedule, New York needs as big a cushion as they can get. I would go as far to say that a Knicks loss tonight would be disastrous. In my opinion, this is a must win game for the Knicks.
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- Whats going on with Stoudemire? In Saturday nights victory over Detroit, Amar'e Stoudemire left the game in the 3rd quarter with stiffness in his back. After the game, the injury was blown off. Stoudemire said he could have returned if the game was close. Today, there are reports surfacing that suggest Stoudemire may have re-injured his back with a similar injury to what he had at the end of last season. According to Frank Isola of the Daily News, Stoudemire is getting an MRI on his back today. Let me say this. If Amar'e Stoudemire has any sort of serious injury, this team is screwed. They are screwed. They are screwed. They. Are. Screwed. This team is not good enough to overcome an injury to Stoudemire. After Tyson Chandler, Stoudemire has probably been the Knicks best player over these past 7 games. His defense and rebounding has been outstanding, he finally found his athleticism and he's been producing more offensively. This would be a monumental loss for the Knicks. To make matters worse, Jared Jeffries is also injured. Tommy Dee reported today that he may be out for more than 2 weeks, as originally reported. Where do the Knicks go if Stoudemire is out indefinitely? Do you feel comfortable putting Josh Harrellson in the starting lineup during these immensely important games? I certainly don't. I like Jorts, but he's not a starting caliber power forward in this league. Not even close. Do you put Carmelo Anthony at power forward? I'm not sure thats a good idea either. Sure, you can get out and run with a smaller lineup, but the Knicks would get annihilated on the boards. Melo hasn't been shooting well either. He's been best scoring at the rim. Is it a great idea to have Melo being guarded by power forwards who will block his shots? Neither scenario is good for the Knicks, which is why a serious injury to Stoudemire was be so detrimental to the team.
- The Knicks have to control the boards. Last time these two squads played, a Bucks 119-114 victory, Milwaukee grabbed 17 offensive rebounds to the Knicks 9. In that game, Tyson Chandler was out with an injury and the Bucks exposed Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony on the boards. Chandler is back tonight, but now Stoudemire is likely out. Carmelo Anthony has to work to keep Ersan Ilyasova off the boards tonight. Offensive rebounds put the dagger into the Knicks heart in the last minute of the Bucks 119-114 victory. The Knicks cannot let that happen tonight.
- How do the Knicks defend both Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis? Jennings is a Knick killer. In two games versus the Knicks this season, Jennings has scored 36 points and 25 points in those two games. Not only do the Knicks have to worry about Jennings now, but they now have to deal with Monta Ellis. The Bucks added the dynamo shooting guard from Golden State at the trade deadline. There's only one Iman Shumpert. Obviously, he can't guard Jennings and Ellis at the same time. Somebody else is going to have to step up defensively tonight. Jeremy Lin struggled to guard Jennings in their last matchup. Do you trust Fields or JR Smith guarding Ellis? I like Smith checking him more than I like Fields checking him, but we'll see what happens.
- Can the Knicks survive the trials and tribulations of the 3rd quarter? New York always loses the third quarter, which is a big reason why they often lose a lot of games. On Saturday, the Knicks actually won the 3rd quarter 27-24. You'd think its a great sign until you realize they were playing a Pistons team that didn't really want to be there. This is going to be a close game tonight. The Knicks cannot afford to get blown out in the 3rd quarter like they were on Friday in Toronto. Somehow, Woodson has to get these guys to come out focused and energized coming out of the locker room at halftime.
- There will be a lot of pressure on Carmelo Anthony tonight, and quite frankly there should be. This man has not lived up to what he was supposed to be. Tonight, Melo can take a step towards being the "superstar" that he was advertised to be. In all likelihood, Amar'e Stoudemire will not play. Carmelo must find his shooting stroke tonight. The Knicks are going to need him to play well in order to win tonight. He's been abysmal over the past month, but Stoudemire picking up the slack has helped the team win. It's time for Anthony to stop screwing around. I don't care if he's having some off court problem with Lala. I don't care if he has a sore wrist. Kobe Bryant had a far worse wrist injury earlier this year and he produced. Its time for Melo to put up or shut up. I don't need to hear anymore notable quotes about finding energy or sacrificing if he plays poorly tonight. This is a game in which the Knicks need Melo. He needs to man up and play well tonight. If he doesn't, I hope the media roasts him because he'll deserve it. He's being paid $18 million this year to put the ball in the basket. If he's not doing that and he's mediocre in all other areas of the game, then why is he being paid? Anthony has to show up tonight. I pray to god that he does. Maybe Tebow can help me out with that.
- Also, Chauncey Billups has a twitter now. In case anybody is interested in that.


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40-year peak in seminary enrollment celebrated at S.O.S. dinner
By Jack Smith
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Abbot Gregory Polan of Conception Abbey led nearly 700 voices in a round of "Holy God We Praise Thy Name" at the Downtown Marriot January 30. "We bless and we thank you Lord for countless blessings," Abbot Polan prayed as he opened the annual S.O.S. - "Support Our Seminarians" dinner and auction in support of men studying for the priesthood from both sides of State Line Road and for Conception Seminary College.
As he has every year, KMBC-TV anchor Larry Moore served as master of ceremonies at the event which was the brainchild of Moore and his wife Ruth. Recalling the humble beginnings of the effort, Moore said in 1994 there was only one seminarian from the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph. "Things got even worse the next year," Moore said, when there were none.
This semester, Conception Seminary College has 110 men enrolled – a 40 year record according to Conception Seminary Rector Father Samuel Russell, OSB. Father Russell shared the great news that 26 men are currently in formation for Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph and 21 are studying for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Not all are studying at Conception, so the great numbers there indicate an increase in vocations from many dioceses.
Kansas City – St. Joseph Bishop Robert W. Finn was celebrating the loss of seminarians that night though. "In June we lost Doug Langner," Bishop Finn said, "to priestly ordination. And in December we lost Angelo Bartulica to ordination.
"As God is good, we look forward to losing another two seminarians in May," Bishop Finn said. "And the following year, if all goes according top the plan that we would pray for and hope, we're going to lose another four seminarians to priesthood."
Bishop Finn told the crowd, "We have to replace these men . . . This is a dilemma we've prayed for and worked for." Bishop Finn thanked all those who work to support the formation of men to the priesthood and urged the audience to pray and "do everything you can to encourage your sons, your grandsons to listen carefully to the call of Almighty God."
Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Joseph Naumann said as a bishop, he receives a lot of "interesting" mail. But the mail "that brings the most joy" to his heart is from parishioners who take the time to relay "the difference a priest is making in their lives." A letter that particularly touched him recently was from a woman he remembered from a youth group in his first parish. She wrote, "If there is a debt that we can never repay, it is the priesthood that serves us so faithfully and brings us our greatest gifts in the sacraments."
Archbishop Naumann thanked God "for young men today that are open to that call to the priesthood," and thanked all present for supporting them.
Larry Moore also thanked all those who help to make S.O.S. a success, in particular, Mike and Marsha Keenan who served as co-chairs of the event for the second time in a row this year.
Preliminary reports show $68,000 was raised this year from the auction and marketplace and $98,000 from ticket sales.
(pictured above: More seminarians than one stage could hold. One hundred ten seminarians from Conception Seminary College climbed to the stage for a round of applause at the annual Support Our Seminarians dinner Jan. 30. Most are not pictured because of the stage's small size.)
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Newest art exhibit features contemporary renderings of the West
PLAINVIEW – Sometimes what you expect and what you get are two very different things.
"When you think about the American West or hear the phrase, 'going west,' the images that come to mind are the familiar western landscapes of the arid regions, cowboys on horseback, gunfights and all the epic struggles of folks with the courage and creativity to explore new and unknown territory," said Dr. Candace Keller, curator of the Abraham Art Gallery and professor of art at Wayland Baptist University.
However, as Keller explains, in the world of art, "Going West" is a different interpretation altogether.
"When you present the concept of 'Going West' to a group of postmodern artists as a subject for their creations, the results are a fascinating mixture of images drawn from their personal experiences and beliefs about the West, but in the context of the current American culture," Keller said.
'Going West' is the newest exhibit on display in the Abraham Gallery, located in the Mabee Learning Resources Center on the Wayland campus in Plainview. The show will be open through Nov. 20 at the gallery.
The show features the work of ten artists, using a variety of media. Organized by the Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, the exhibit features photography, paintings, mixed media pieces and sculpture. Artists included are Bale Creek Allen, Bill Davenport, Katrina Moorhead, Teresa O'Connor, Scott Reeder, Lubbock native Johnny Robertson, Joel Ross, Chris Sauter, Mungo Thomson and Kyle Wadsworth.
Keller believes the work makes for interesting viewing and, while probably not what one expects, the images and icons will be familiar.
"If you live in West Texas or travel through it, you will identify with imagery from your past and present, perhaps experiencing what they call in theater 'the shock of recognition.' Growing up in the Permian Basin, the cool, clean lines of Bill Davenport's photo-realist painting, Molecular Sieve, brought back the experience of visual encounters with the industrial realities of the oil-rich landscape," Keller said. "Chris Sauter's conceptual installation, Engaging the Minotaur, includes tangible visuals from his environment and experiences in San Antonio, complete with a Stetson on the hat rack and the living room TV topped with a photo of mom and pop."
The contemporary exhibit represents, in Keller's mind, the role artists often play in interpreting life.
"If the occupation of the artist is to take the familiar as well as the intangible and present it to the viewer in a new way, then the spirit of 'Going West' is made tangible in this collection of works," she said, adding, "and be prepared to smile."
The show is presented in conjunction with Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, the City of Austin and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
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For the second game in a row they fought back from double-figure deficits only to fall short. This time around it was an Atlantic Sun game with Jacksonville Saturday afternoon at Swisher Gym in a 63-57 loss. Thursday night they lost 52-51 at the buzzer at North Florida after overcoming a double-digit deficit in the first half.
This time around the Lady Bisons never led. Jacksonville scored on its first possession. Their biggest lead of the game was 14 points (28-14) with 3:20 left before intermission.
In the second half the Lady Bisons started making their move. They came within four points on a couple of occasions.
But with 4:44 left in the game the Lady Bisons cut the Jacksonville lead to one at 51-50, sparked by the free throw shooting of forward Jilian Partin.
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The Lady Bisons placed four players in double figures. Partin lead with a season-high and game-high 18 points. Guard Jenna Bartsokas kept her scoring streak alive with 12 points, giving her double figures in all eight games.
Also scoring 12 points was forward Valerie Bronson, her second double figures effort of the season. Post player Cree Nix added 10 points.
The Lady Bisons shot 34 percent from the field, hitting 18-of-53 attempts.
They were perfect at the free throw line, hitting 15-of-15 shots. It was the first time in the history of the women's program that the Lady Bisons had shot 100 percent from the free throw line.
Jacksonville placed two players in double figures. Guard Regina Omoit posted a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Guard Courtney Jackson chipped in with 12 points.
Jacksonville shot 32.4 percent from the field, hitting 23-of-71 attempts.
On the boards Jacksonville held a 51-32 edge.
It was the third straight win for Jacksonville against the Lady Bisons. The Lady Bisons hold a 6-4 edge overall in the series.
The Lady Bisons are back on the road Tuesday morning at 11 against Evansville. It is their last game before Christmas. They will not be back in action until Dec. 28 and 29 when they travel to Dayton, Ohio for the Dayton Flyers Tournament.
The loss dropped the Lady Bisons to 2-6 overall, 0-2 in the A-Sun. Jacksonville is 3-4, 1-1 in the conference.


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STOCKTON - A motorcyclist died after being involved in a collision early Tuesday in south Stockton, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A motorcyclist died after being involved in a collision early Tuesday in south Stockton, authorities said.
The 56-year-old motorcycle rider was going west on Arch Airport Road just east of South Airport Way at 5:56 a.m. when he collided with another vehicle traveling the same direction, police said. The motorcycle rider was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, authorities said.
Traffic officers were called to the scene to take over the investigation, police said. Part of Arch Airport Road was closed for hours as officers investigated. The road was reopened about 10:20 a.m., police said.
The motorcycle rider was wearing a helmet, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. Neither drugs nor alcohol were believed to be a factor, Silva said.
STOCKTON - Parole agents and Stockton Police officers used police dogs to apprehend two at-large parolees who resisted arrest before they were taken into custody Tuesday, authorities said.
Police officers and parole agents located Ernesto Provencio, 37, shortly after 9 a.m. at a home in the 1600 block of Cornell Court, authorities said. When Provencio refused to exit a room, a police dog was deployed to help officers take him into custody, officials said.
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Provencio and Talamantes were both arrested on suspicion of parole violation and resisting arrest, police said.
STOCKTON - A man was arrested on suspicion of hate crimes Tuesday after vandalizing a Stockton church, authorities said.
A retired California Highway Patrol officer witnessed the act of vandalism about 4:25 p.m. at Victory Outreach church in the 2700 block of East Waterloo Road, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said. The retired officer saw Juan Alfredo Martinez, 41, spray painting the church, authorities said. Deputies said Martinez defaced the church with profanity, a racial epithet, a swastika symbol and his tagging name, "Gizmo."
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Budvar beats Anheuser-Busch in latest Budweiser battle
Euro court defenestrates globo grog firm's case
US brewer Anheuser-Busch has lost its attempt to register the word 'budweiser' as a trade mark for beer in the European Union. Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar has won the right to market its beers under the name.
The Court of First Instance (CFI) of the EU has ruled in Budvar's favour after a number of decisions and appeals.
Anheuser-Busch applied for an EU-wide trade mark in 1996 but Budvar opposed the application, saying that it already had trade marks for that term in relation to beer for Germany, Austria, Benelux, France and Italy.
That opposition was filed in 1999 and in 2004 the body responsible for EU-wide trade marks, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), known as OHIM, sided with Budvar, saying that there was a risk of confusion in Austria and France over Budvar's earlier marks and the one applied for by Anheuser-Busch.
Anheuser-Busch won an appeal against that decision and OHIM's opposition division was asked to rule again on the matter. It did, this time taking into account extra documents submitted by Budvar in relation to an earlier trade mark.
Anheuser-Busch objected to the later submission of documents.
"Anheuser-Busch claims that, if the Board of Appeal had wished to take into consideration the earlier international word mark … it ought to have informed Anheuser-Busch thereof and afforded it the opportunity of expressing a view in that regard. In omitting to do so, the Board of Appeal failed to fulfil its obligations," said the CFI's ruling. "OHIM contends that Anheuser-Busch was in a position to submit its observations on the earlier international word mark."
The CFI found that the earlier trade mark had in fact been mentioned and discussed in documents involved in the process before, and that this gave Anheuser-Busch the opportunity to deal with that trade mark if it had wanted to.
Anheuser-Busch said that documents related to the earlier trade mark were filed up to two years too late with OHIM.
The CFI said that OHIM had discretion in such circumstances.
"[The law] confers a discretion upon OHIM as to whether or not to take account of evidence produced after the expiry of a time-limit," it said.
The CFI ruling said that OHIM Board of Appeal rulings contained reasoning aimed specifically at justifying its consideration of documents that were submitted late.
"The Board of Appeal found that the documents concerned were received 35 months before the Opposition Division adopted its decision," said the ruling. "The Opposition Division thus had ample opportunity to take them into consideration and the trade mark applicant to comment on their relevance."
Anheuser-Busch also claimed that the evidence produced by Budvar of its actual use of its 'Budweiser' trade mark was not good enough.
The Court outlined what is needed to show genuine use of a trade mark.
"There is genuine use of a trade mark where the mark is used in accordance with its essential function, which is to guarantee the identity of the origin of the goods or services for which it is registered, in order to create or preserve an outlet for those goods or services; genuine use does not include token use for the sole purpose of preserving the rights conferred by the registration," the Court said.
Budvar had submitted copies of adverts in Germany and Austria and invoices for customers in Germany and Austria for sales of the beer. The CFI agreed with the Board of Appeal "the evidence which Budvar produced was clearly sufficient to prove genuine use of the earlier international word mark 'Budweiser'".
Anheuser-Busch was therefore denied the right to an EU-wide trade mark, but the ruling will not affect the trade marks which it has in individual countries within the EU.
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As mentioned in "Part 1" of this entry, I was invited to interview Jane Fraser, president of The Stuttering Foundation, about the movie "The King's Speech." This was an offer I couldn't refuse, never mind that the only interviews I've ever conducted were to obtain case histories during the client assessment process. There was no way I was going to pass up the opportunity of channeling Larry King…or Anderson Cooper…or, more likely in my case, Wayne Campbell (think "Wayne's World"). So on a cold, snowy morning in Clarion I connected with Ms. Fraser via Skype at her location in Sea Island, Georgia to talk. The hour I chatted with Ms. Fraser sped by quickly, during which we touched on memories of her father, bandied about names of speech pathology legends such as Charles Van Riper, Eugene Cooper, Robert West, and William Perkins, and discussed stuttering in the context of what she fondly called "That Movie."
It is impossible to discuss "The King's Speech" with Ms. Fraser without talking about her father, Malcolm Fraser. The two are intertwined, as each evokes memories, recollections, and impressions of the other. The founder of NAPA Auto Parts, Mr. Fraser, a significant stutterer, began The Stuttering Foundation in 1947 with the goal of providing "the best and most up-to-date information and help available for the prevention of stuttering in young children and the most effective treatment available for teenagers and adults." Each Christmas, Mr. Fraser would hold a company party at which he would give a speech and distribute awards to a sizeable audience, a task which placed him in a situation which was not necessarily the most comfortable and necessitated his publicly facing the communicative challenges created by his stutter. Ms. Fraser recalled these annual events as she discussed an early scene in the movie during which the future king addresses a crowd at Wembly Stadium and a nation-wide radio audience to commemorate the closing of the British Empire Exhibition on October 31, 1925. She believes the sheer terror Colin Firth, the actor playing the future king, shows on his face prior to and while delivering this address will help people realize what a person who stutters might be going through when required to talk and hopes it brings about a greater day-to-day sensitivity. So powerful was the scene and its association with her father's annual holiday party speech that Ms. Fraser watched it with tears streaming down her face.
Unlike previous cinematic depictions of stutterers as buffoons or villains "The King's Speech" depicts the stutterer as a hero and, in this instance according to Ms. Fraser, "a man of duty." In the movie we see an individual faced with the pressure of ascending to the throne while simultaneously tackling a severe dysfluency which disrupts almost all his interactions and attempts at communication. Undoubtedly he was motivated to become fluent and did achieve a significant level of success with the assistance of Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist. Ms. Fraser believes a large part of the future king's success was the "therapeutic alliance" forged between himself and Logue. This therapeutic alliance, which Ms. Fraser views as a vital component of the rehabilitation process, extends beyond the mere implementation of techniques and strategies, but involves the process of establishing rapport, instilling confidence, and acting as a cheerleader for the client. She often mentioned Logue's calling the future king "the most courageous person I know" as proof of the bond between the two and Logue's sensitivity to his client. The nature of their therapeutic alliance perhaps allowed what Ms. Fraser cited as the interesting uses of desensitization depicted in the movie, namely the practice session in Westminster Abbey prior to the king's coronation. They practice alone, free of any royalty associates, as if this landmark structure were any old place. Logue even takes the liberty of sitting on the throne and describing it to the soon to be king as "just a chair."
Ms. Fraser and I talked at length about Logue's promise of curing the king's stutter in the movie (a point I took issue with in "Part 1" of this entry). Like me, Ms. Fraser felt that perhaps Logue did this as more of a confidence building gesture and means of establishing a therapeutic alliance rather than a guarantee of total fluency. By way of elaboration, Ms. Fraser noted that she would never do this (promise a cure) and that fluency can be increased in those who stutter and, citing the work of Van Riper, prevented if early fluency enhancing strategies are used with young children. Following this, I asked Ms. Fraser to speculate how King George VI would have fared in the age of television. She thought this medium would have been a "nightmare," feeling that perhaps speeches would have been taped instead of broadcast live. Ms. Fraser was also of the impression that with each successful speech the king gave, his self-confidence would have grown and subsequent ability to fluently deliver a live address increased.
The movie has much to teach speech-language pathologists about stuttering, so much so that Ms. Fraser hopes the movie becomes part of the curriculum in training programs. What lessons can be learned? Ms. Fraser believes future practitioners can learn that confrontation is not necessarily a bad thing in the therapeutic process and that sometimes the unorthodox is needed. To support her case, she drew upon the work and examples of Cooper and Van Riper. Therapists should also not be afraid to take a break during the course of therapy, terminating intervention for a period and resuming it later. She feels this might be particularly useful when the clinician and client are out of sync, motivation is on the wane, or the process is not moving ahead. Perhaps, most importantly, Ms. Fraser thinks this movie provides incredible insight into the overpowering fear which occurs when a stutterer hits a block.
I would like to thank Ms. Fraser and The Stuttering Foundation for the opportunity to talk about "The King's Speech." That King George VI is a hero to her and that she views this movie as extremely important were evident throughout our discussion. Feel free to share your impressions of the movie and Ms. Fraser's remarks in the comments section.
The first installment of my series reviewing "The King's Speech" was previously posted on ASHAsphere and describes my impressions of the movie.
Kenneth Staub, M.S., CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He will be a regular contributor to ASHAsphere and welcomes questions or suggestions for posts.


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Chè chuối is a popular dessert from South Vietnam, where my parents are from. Bananas are simmered whole until softened in a coconut milk tapioca pudding. It takes less time to prepare than Western desserts, plus chè chuối is made exclusively with vegan ingredients.
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Vietnamese desserts are not always the prettiest-looking sweets, but they are very good. They are composed of ingredients different from Western desserts and might look unusual at first. A lot of traditional Vietnamese desserts are made from sticky rice or other starches like cassava.
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Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson jumped at the opportunity to play Indiana, not only seeking a signature game, but also to increase Lipscomb's presence in the prospect-heavy state.
The Bisons are heading to Bloomington, Ind., to face off against the Hoosiers on Sunday, December 28th.
"Indiana is a great game for us because two of our players are from there – Adnan Hodzic and Michael Teller – and we're trying more and more to recruit up in the Indiana area," said Sanderson.
The Bisons warm up for the season with a home exhibition against Freed-Hardeman on Nov. 4.
They open the regular season with three home games starting with Oakland City University on Nov. 15, Tennessee Tech on Nov. 18, and Southeast Louisiana on Nov. 20.
Lipscomb travels to Samford on Nov. 24 before visiting Tennessee Tech on Dec. 1.
Sanderson's Bisons kick off their Atlantic Sun schedule with a visit to Jacksonville, Fla., to play North Florida on Dec. 4 and Jacksonville on Dec. 6.
The Atlantic Sun returns to a 20-game round-robin conference schedule this year.
"I like returning to the 20-game conference schedule," said Sanderson. "Last year, we went to the 16-game schedule and had to play 13 of our first 16 games on the road.
"I've always been an opponent of playing a full round-robin schedule facing each team at home and on the road."
The Bisons face SIU-Edwardsville at home on December 9th before traveling to Raleigh, N.C. to face NC State on Dec. 20 and Elon University on Dec. 22.
Tennessee Tech and SIU-Edwardsville are member of the Ohio Valley Conference. Samford left the OVC after last season to join the Southern Conference.
"The Ohio Valley Conference schools are great teams to play," said Sanderson. "We've signed a four-year deal with Tennessee Tech. Playing teams like us is excellent, and when you throw in marquees games at Indiana and NC State, it is an excellent schedule. "
Lipscomb plays their first four games of the new year in Nashville facing Florida Gulf Coast (Jan. 3), Stetson (Jan. 5), and Campbell (Jan. 8) at Allen Arena.
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Just when you thought it was safe to leave the water, the America's Cup has blossomed into a fantastic affair.
Oracle Team USA pulled off its fifth straight victory in the Cup finals Monday, pulling within two races of front-running Team Emirates New Zealand with three races to go. For those scoring on their yachts, that means New Zealand still has to win one more race to take the Cup home to Auckland. But Larry Ellison's defending champions can retain the trophy by winning out.
If Oracle pulls it off, this will be remembered as the greatest comeback in America's Cup history. And Team New Zealand will leave its heart in San Francisco. Along with its spleen.
It's really a remarkable turn of events when you think about it. The America's Cup was the event everyone loved to hate. The participants were painted as bickering billionaires, intent on sinking their sport's greatest event in a tidal wave of cheating and tragedy and acrimonious squabbles. The economic impact was suspect. The overall interest was minimal.
Then, the tide changed course. Instead of petering out in a lopsided blowout, the finals have become thrilling. The U.S. and New Zealand syndicates are clearly the class of the field. And they've figured out how to get the most out of these amazing AC-72 catamarans. Even in a slight wind Monday, the boats provided great theater on the Bay, tacking and turning with precision, flying above the water while jabbing at each other like two welterweights in the ring.
But in the end, it was Oracle that had the faster boat. And that's been the case for five straight races. Ellison's team of all-star sailors started this competition in a two-race hole, penalized for cheating in a run-up event to the Cup last year. Then they dug themselves an even bigger hole losing 8 of the first 11 races in the finals to find themselves one loss from a humiliating defeat.
And that's when they made the Big Move. Ellison and his syndicate's CEO, Russell Coutts, decided to change tacticians, benching Bay Area native John Kostecki in favor of British superstar Ben Ainslee. It was a bold move, but one in keeping with Ellison's win-at-all-costs history.
To understand how Ellison could make such a drastic decision, you have to consider the Oracle roster. Going into the America's Cup, Ellison had hired three of the top sailors in the world to compete against one another for top-dog honors.
Coutts is the most decorated sailor in the sport's history, having never lost a Cup race. Spithill is widely considered the best skipper of his generation. And Ainslee is also a famous, decorated helmsman, having just won Olympic gold in London last summer. To put it mildly, there wasn't enough sailboat to go around. It was like having Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers on the same sideline.
But Ellison believes in spending his money, and he let the three stud sailors battle it out during practice runs all summer long. In the end, ol' timer Coutts remained on the sidelines, Spithill took the wheel and Ainslee swallowed his pride to play the role of tactician after starting the finals on the sidelines.
Put it all together and you have the makings for the greatest comeback in sailing history, as strange as that may sound to American sports fans, most of whom wouldn't know whether this is remarkable or whether this is normal in sailboat racing.
Let's make it clear: This is remarkable.
Oracle made some adjustments to its boat after falling way behind in the finals, and it clearly made the right decision in bringing Ainslee aboard.
Ever since young Ben started calling the navigational shots, Oracle seems unbeatable.
"We really have a huge wave of momentum now," said Spithill, after Monday's win, a tight race that Oracle dominated from start to finish. "The boat's going really fantastic right now."
Over on the Kiwi boat, skipper Dean Barker appeared somewhat stunned after Monday's contest. Unless he can bring home one more victory, he stands to become the Bill Buckner of New Zealand.
Now, it's on to Tuesday. Another day of racing is expected, although high winds and a strong flood tide could play a factor.
Maybe they'll get one more race in. Maybe two. Maybe Oracle Team USA will take another step toward completing the most improbable nautical victory since Nelson prevailed at Trafalgar.
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First, I'd like to appologise about the late reply! It should've been done earlier.
Second, I'd love to welcome you in the the path to Allah, and the religion of Tawheed.
Tawheed in arabic is Oneness in English. This basically means having a firm creed that Allah is one in Lordship, Warship, and one in his Attributes and qualities.
1. Tawheed ar-Rububiyyah – Oneness of the Lordship of Allaah: To believe there is only one Lord for all that exists and He is the Creator, Organiser, Planner, Sustainer & Giver of security, and that is Allah.
2. Tawheed al-Uluhiyyah – Oneness of the Worship of Allaah: To believe that none has the right to be worshipped in truth (e.g. praying, invoking, asking for help (from the unseen), swearing, slaughtering sacrifices, giving charity, fasting, pilgrimage etc) except Allaah alone.
3. Tawheed al-Asmaa was-Sifaat – Oneness of the Names & Qualities/Attributes of Allaah: To believe that:We must not name or qualify Allaah except with that He or His Messenger has named or Qualified Allaah.None can be named or qualified with the Names or Attributes of Allaah, e.g. The Most-High.We must believe in all the Qualities of Allaah which Allaah has stated in His Book (Qur'an) or mentioned through the Messenger without changing their meanings, or ignoring them completely, or twisting the meanings, or giving resemblance to any of the created things.
If you believe this then it's time for you to take Shihada (Testify that there is nothing worthy of warship but Allah, and that Muhammad -Peace be upon him- is the messenger of Allah).
Read the following sentence with the intention of going into islam, and you are ready:
Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa Allah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammad rasoolo Allah =)
There is a very useful book, yet a small one, with VERY very useful guidelines on Tawheed and Muslim creed called: EXPLAINING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FAITH. Author: Imaam Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-Uthaymeen.
I am so willing to guide you all the way, and throught rightous sources -insha' Allah-
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Suspension bridge walkway through the canopy at Myakka River State Park, Florida. The bridge, made entirely of wood, is 85 feet long and 25 feet high. Photo: Oksana Hlodan.
Alexander F. Skutch, in his A Naturalist in Costa Rica (1971), encouraged his readers, writing, "To know the forest, we must study it in all aspects, as birds soaring above its roof, as earth-bound bipeds creeping slowly over its roots." Until recently, our perspective on forest ecology was ground-based and clueless about canopy processes. Only during the past 15 years has our understanding of treetop ecology expanded substantially beyond this bipedal bias — in large part because of the dauntless efforts of a handful of temperate and tropical biologists working from ropes, walkways, airships, cranes, and towers sometimes 120 feet off the forest floor.1 That's the height of a 12-story building!
Wonders of the forest canopy
Why study the forest canopy ecosystem?
- It is the layer containing most of the productive tissue for the entire forest. Simply put, it is a gigantic food factory elevated on living stilts.
- Consequently, the forest canopy is also where most of the world's estimated 30 million species live, munching away at all those leafy sugars.
- It is a living aerial laboratory for discovery and opportunity.
- It is an unexplored frontier for scientific research and education.
The metaphors in the scientific literature for the forest canopy are resplendent and atypically poetic, capturing some of our childlike intrigue with this borderland of science.
- Canopies are described as tropical air castles, canopy oceans, hanging gardens, green mansions, aerial continents, highways in the trees.
- Up there, we are explorers in the roof of the world's forests. Until we can quantify, replicate, observe, and collect in this leafy realm, we wax romantic, unsure about the outcomes of our inquiry but convinced of its merits.
- Often quoted in recent canopy texts is an observation from William Beebe's Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana (1917): "Yet another continent of life remains to be discovered, not upon the earth, but one or two hundred feet above it, extending over thousands of square miles … There awaits a rich harvest for the naturalist who overcomes the obstacles — gravitation, ants, thorns, rotten trunks — and mounts to the summits of the … trees."
A rallying cry for canopy scientists, Beebe's prose compresses all the reasons for canopy research into a single poignant word, discovery. The word registers on the heart strings of every biologist, teacher, and student lucky enough to enter the forest canopy. The canopy is a New World for us or, more accurately, an Old World that our remote ancestors left behind millions of years ago. It is a siren song for our genetic memory.
A new look at canopy ecology
The 1990s represented the defining decade for the emerging science of canopy ecology. Access methodologies, field protocols, scores of articles, several textbooks, two international symposia, and an Emmy-winning film (National Geographic's "Heroes of the High Frontier") were among our successes. In addition to single-rope technique (SRT), there are other ways to get to the canopy, including airships, treetops rafts, sleds, canopy cranes, towers, tram-lines, and walkways that now number about 100 sites worldwide.
Just in the eastern United States alone, eight forest canopy walkways and platforms are in place for research and education: Hopkins Forest, Williams College, Williamstown, MA (1991); Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (1992); Coweeta Hydrological Laboratory, NC (1993); Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL (1994); Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY(1995); Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies, Capon Bridge, WV (In preparation); EcoTarium, Worcester, MA (1999); and Myakka River State Park, Sarasota, FL (2000). The last two provide access to the public.
What have we learned from all this lofty activity?
First, an aerial view reinforces the idea that forests are complex systems of interrelationships. And that presents to us a new, more comprehensive definition of the term, canopy.
- It once referred to the uppermost layer of vegetation in forests. Now the botanical term refers to all above-ground vegetation in a plant community. According to scientists in the field, each plant community has a canopy.
- Each tree has a canopy.
- A temperate or tropical forest has a canopy. Technically speaking, even an orchard, a lawn, a golf course, and a kelp forest have canopies. This systems-wide term includes plants and all their above-ground associations.
- The term, canopy, refers not only to the architecture of the community but also to species composition, nutrient cycling, energy transfer, plant-animal interactions, and conservation issues.
Second, our work in the canopy has revealed to us that more than 30 million species of organisms inhabit the planet — plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and protists.
- More than half are thought to be residents of tropical rainforests, and most of these species reside in the forest canopy.
Collectively, these treetop organisms provide many of the ecosystem services, economic benefits, and aesthetic and ethical aspects that make the rich tapestry of tropical rainforests vital to the planet's functioning.
Scrubbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, supplying medicines and foods, providing living laboratories for scientists and students, and representing an irreplaceable home for a plethora of life — these are just parts of the wonder found in the tropical rainforest canopy.
Now many of the canopy biologists who were trained in the Northern Hemisphere but worked side-by-side for years with their equatorial colleagues have returned to their own temperate forests to investigate the biodiversity and ecological processes at work in these northern plant communities.
Our third lesson from the canopy is a sad one. Deforestation, one of a number of human-accelerated changes across the planet, now threatens the biological integrity of forest systems.
The collective fallout from these changes may even rival that of previous major episodes of extinction on Earth. Like the 65-million-year-old Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction, humans are now unwittingly fraying the interconnecting threads of life's tapestry. The third lesson? Unless we can halt human-accelerated changes such as deforestation in the next decade or two, we may be haunted by their ecological repercussions. The window of opportunity will have closed tightly and indefinitely.
Let's not forget the wrenching lessons of Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island, where its entire human population disappeared after the island ecosystem's natural resources were irreparably exploited.
Tropical forests are disappearing at a rate of approximately 100 acres per minute worldwide. Relatedly, species that depend upon them are also vanishing. Pulitzer-prize-winning E.O. Wilson and others estimate that the background rate of extinction is one to three species per year.2
In the 1970s, that rate accelerated to one species per day. Then, in the 1980s, the extinction rate climbed to one species per hour. In the first few decades of the 21st century, we may see 100 species or more per day fall prey to human ignorance and appetites. The implications for the tapestry of life upon which we depend are horrifying.
Protecting the canopy
Yet the picture is not completely dark. Professional conservationists, science educators, volunteer networks, religious leaders, and others are calling for responsible stewardship of our natural resources. Canopy ecology is an emerging science that has helped us clarify our needs and directions. Thomas E. Lovejoy, renowned tropical ecologist and author at the Smithsonian Institution and World Bank, recently wrote: "There is no better evidence than canopy biology that the age of exploration is not over." There is no better reason than canopy biology to foster a collaborative effort among scientific researchers, educators, and all other components of society. There is no better reason to invite students young and old to enter the treetops. A New World exists, accessible by ropes and climbing gear, airships and canopy bridges in a borderland of science. Each of us is a Columbus, a Jacques Cousteau, a William Beebe suspended in a vertical moment of discovery. What better ingredients could we have for learning about a global treasure that needs all our collective energies and enthusiasm to survive?
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As many of you know we've been working on supporting Windows on par with Linux within RightScale for close to a year. The big moment has finally arrived where we can announce the general availability of our Windows support! By "support" we mean much more than being able to launch a Windows instance on EC2, which has been possible for a long time, so I thought it worthwhile to expand a little on what it took to make Windows behave nicely in the cloud and what the outcome is. This is also a good opportunity to examine whether there is a "Windows handicap" in the cloud, or whether it works just as smoothly as Linux.
First the upshot: across the board we now support Windows 2003 and 2008 on par with Linux. We provide RightImages that work well with RightScale out of the box, they can be managed in the dashboard, we support extensible monitoring, associated alerts and automation, and we support ServerTemplates with Windows and even provide a few sample templates. Plus, if you have existing images, we provide a RightLink installer with documentation and a starter ServerTemplate that gives you monitoring out of the box. This will give you a good dose of the RightScale love (monitoring, scaling arrays, user access control, etc.).
The mountain of work that we've been chipping away at for the past two weeks is being able to release 40 Windows RightImages. This work wasn't what we had imagined, it crept up on us little by little. When we release RightImages, whether it is for Windows or Linux, we strive to provide a consistent software environment across the RightImages of a generation and to ensure they work smoothly with RightScale. Both the Linux and Windows RightImages work great without RightScale as well and many EC2 users have been using Linux RightImages for a long time. Here is what we had to do for the Windows RightImages:
- install RightLink for integration with RightScale
- ensure the images are automatable, meaning psexec can be used, which also involved getting consistent settings for the windows firewall, file sharing and a few other details
- install PowerShell 2.0 on all images, including the Windows 2003 ones, because according to everyone we've talked to it's a must
- ensure all the right DLLs are installed to manage SQL server from PowerShell
- increase the size of the root disk for the 2008 images because the std 40GB are insufficient for a lot of interesting software installs (SharePoint being one example), and increase the pagefile to 1.5x ram size (up to 8GB)
- ensure the server's clock is successfully synchronized to NTP at boot and periodically thereafter
- install logic to determine when the server is fully ready after boot before starting any automation, which is not as simple as it may sound due to sysprep, double boot, and an ec2-specific service that runs at boot and sets a few things up
- ensure complete install of asp.net on Windows 2003
This list kept growing as we discovered issues. In addition, we are supporting all four EC2 regions (us-east, us-west, eu-west, ap-southeast) and it turns out we have to build each image from scratch in each region because it's not possible to copy a Windows image from one region to another (licensing restrictions). We are supporting 10 images in each region:
- Windows 2003 /2008 across i386/x64
- Windows w/SQLServer Express 2003 /2008 across i386/x64
- Windows w/SQLServer 2003 /2008 on x64
Getting to the final images involved a fair number of iterations (we don' know how many images we built total, and frankly, we'd rather not be reminded) so we built automation to crank out the images. This makes them consistent and reproducible. Unfortunately, the AWS images we had to start from are not all automatable, so we also had to build some intermediate images by hand with just a few settings tweaked so we could target them with our automation. Some of our developers ended up with nightmares about clicking through endless circular install dialog boxes!
While we were launching lots of Windows instances for testing we noticed that a fair number had their clock off by a large amount, like days. Digging into the issue we discovered that, unlike with stock AWS Linux images, the Windows wall clock is not synchronized to the virtualization host's time and that the initial NTP synchronization doesn't always succeed, partially because the Windows NTP service is "challenged" but also because it is pointed at a public pool of servers. Since performing automation on a server that thinks it's yesterday or tomorrow is a non-starter we concluded that we had to beef up the time synchronization by ensuring that we get an NTP sync before proceeding with any automation and also run our own set of NTP servers so we can ensure our customers always have in-cloud NTP servers available to synchronize with. We think this really is part of the famous "muck / undifferentiated heavy lifting" that Amazon prides itself to take care of, but they politely declined, which is a shame. We also noticed that the new HVM Linux images don't lock their clocks to the host, so we will probably switch the way the clock sync works across all RightImages.
Another interesting issue we discovered during testing was that automation at boot time would frequently fail. The root cause ended up being that our service, which was configured to launch at boot, was starting too early and that the server just wasn't ready yet. The way Windows boots in the cloud is quite different from Linux or from the "normal" world. With Windows, each OS install generates a server key that is embedded in the registry and uniquely identifies the server, so when an image is booted many times a fresh key needs to be generated for each instance and a number of things need to be updated (sysprep) and the server rebooted once. Towards the end of the second boot a special Ec2Config service finalizes the config, including admin password and hostname. This means that any automation has to wait for the reboot plus the ec2 service to complete its changes, which is not trivial due to an oversight by AWS. It's interesting how the security details of Windows (i.e. the server key) ripple down into the whole boot process, making it take twice as long as it should. The net is that while Linux instance boot times on EC2 have come down from a typical six to eight minutes back in 2006 to under a minute now when using EBS images the Windows boot times are starting out around 10 to 15 minutes. Hopefully Microsoft can be sensitized to the notion that fast boot times are an important asset in the cloud because they enable a lot of automation that is very painful if one has to wait so long for additional capacity or replacement servers to come online.
The final and biggest piece is implementing all the automation support we offer in Linux for Windows as well. As part of this we ported Chef to Windows (we're working with Opscode to feed the changes back into the mainline) and we built out support for PowerShell. This means that software can be installed and configured on Windows servers similar to the way it's done in Linux. We find that larger software packages often need to be installed manually, but even in that case it's nice to be able to automate as much as possible and choose which portions to run "ahead of time" and bake into a custom image and which portions to leave off for the actual server launches. To round out the automation we wrote a nice little monitoring plugin that speaks the collectd protocol and that offers a simple meta-language that can be used to query many of the WMI statistics available on Windows servers. And all this is available out of the box to all our customers.
One of the open question we have concerns Windows updates. We will most certainly republish fresh RightImages when AWS updates its base set. What is not clear to us is whether we should be publishing fully updated RightImages on a regular schedule. Most of the customers we asked told us that they really want to carefully manage the exact set of updates on their servers. It's going to be interesting to see how the whole update management with Windows servers plays out and how it will affect the amount of image rebuilding that everyone will have to do. We will definitely build our ServerTemplates directly on RightImages or RightImages augmented by just base installs of larger software packages and do all the config using Chef/PowerShell. This way we minimize the work we have to do when we swap out the underlying Windows install or update level.
I must say that I'm happy with where we're ending up, which is that we're getting Windows to a point where it definitely is usable in cloud style. What I mean by that is not just migrating a set of traditional servers into a equivalent set of servers in the cloud, but rather automating Windows servers for the cloud and leveraging the flexibility of the cloud to enable the business. The friction along the way certainly is higher than with Linux, whether it's from license questions that crop up everywhere to the mechanics that currently require double-booting, but it is totally possible and Microsoft can, if it focuses on it, make it a lot better yet!


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Robinson Cano, Roenis Elias lead Mariners past Yankees
Cano doubled and drove in two, while Elias threw 73 of 110 pitches for strikes
UPDATED: Thu., May 1, 2014, 8:50 p.m.
NEW YORK — Robinson Cano shrugged off the boos in his return to Yankee Stadium and walked away a two-time winner.
Cano doubled and drove in two runs to help the Seattle Mariners beat the New York Yankees 4-2 Thursday night behind an impressive pitching performance from rookie Roenis Elias.
Michael Saunders had three hits, including an RBI double, and Elias struck out 10 in seven innings as the Mariners won their fifth in six games following an eight-game skid. Seattle took both games in a rain-shortened series that marked Cano's first trip back to New York after leaving for a $240 million, 10-year contract last offseason.
"Both days felt good because both days we won, so it has to feel good," Cano said.
The All-Star second baseman was booed again and finished the series 2 for 9 with three RBIs. Seattle has won four straight at Yankee Stadium dating to last season.
"There weren't any expectations from the crowd today. I just wanted to go out and take care of business," Cano said. "You have to understand the fans, but it is not going to be a distraction for me."
Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda (2-3) gave up four runs — three earned — and seven hits in six innings, lowering his ERA slightly to 5.14. It was an improvement over his previous outing Friday night, when the 39-year-old right-hander was hammered in a 13-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
"I think it's a step in the right direction," New York manager Joe Girardi said. "A lot of nights that's going to be good enough to win."
Elias (2-2) gave up a leadoff homer to Jacoby Ellsbury but not much else in his first appearance against the Yankees. The left-hander from Cuba threw 73 of 110 pitches for strikes, starting 75 percent of his 28 batters with a strike. He allowed six hits and one earned run while walking two.
Yoervis Medina worked a perfect eighth, and Fernando Rodney got three outs for his sixth save.
"The adrenaline comes from the spotlight," Elias said through a translator. "I've never been to the stadium so it was good to come here and beat the Yankees. I've seen it on TV but never been here."
Ellsbury, who sat out Tuesday with a sore left hand, sent Elias' fourth pitch to right field for his first home run with the Yankees. It was New York's first leadoff shot since Derek Jeter connected at the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 21, 2012.
Elias, who skipped Triple-A, struck out the next three batters and settled in from there. Showing good command of a sharp curve, he induced two double-play grounders and struck out the side in the fifth.
"He was hitting his spots. He was getting ahead. He pitched a good game. He's got a good arm," Jeter said. "Sometimes pitchers are going to be better than you. He threw really well. He's not a typical lefty who tries to trick you. He gets it up there pretty good."
Cano hit an RBI double in the first and a run-scoring groundout in the third after Jeter made an error at shortstop.
Brad Miller dumped a two-out RBI single in front of hesitant left fielder Brett Gardner in the fourth. Saunders followed with a ground-rule double that made it 4-1.
New York cut it to 4-2 in the sixth on Brian McCann's run-scoring single with two outs after Cano was charged with an error. Elias retired Yangervis Solarte with two on to end the inning.
The Yankees did not get another baserunner until a two-out single by pinch-hitter Ichiro Suzuki in the ninth.
"The young man threw a tremendous game. We thought he'd be OK in this environment," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said about Elias. "The young man is tough."
After the rainout Wednesday, the Mariners pushed back ace Felix Hernandez one day to Friday night in Houston. Elias had been scheduled to start Wednesday, followed by Hernandez on Thursday. "Give him an extra day and it also gives Elias an extra day. It just made sense," McClendon said. "Felix has been taxed quite a bit and he's pitched on regular rest for quite a while. It's an opportunity to get him where we need him to be. His last two outings have not been sterling outings, I think we would agree. So it gives us a chance to freshen him up and get him back on the right track." … Seattle has not announced a starter for Saturday or Sunday. McClendon said it's possible All-Star RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (finger) will come off the disabled list to make his season debut this weekend. … McClendon sat struggling CF Abraham Almonte, who was replaced by Saunders in the leadoff spot. Almonte entered on defense in the eighth. … Many players on the Mariners received autographed Jeter jerseys — but not Cano. … Ellsbury has 11 career leadoff homers.
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Upon entering the gates of Spelman College, expect to gain more than a world-class education. Prepare to be engaged and energized throughout your campus experience.
The Office of Student Life and Engagement provides a variety of extracurricular activities that serve to enhance the Spelman College academic experience. Home to more than 85 clubs and organizations representing everything from professional, cultural and spiritual development, to recreation, sports clubs and volunteer services, Spelman students receive a plethora of opportunities to meet new people and develop their interests or talents. As an engaged Spelman student, you can gain leadership skills, explore career options, serve others, celebrate your ethnic heritage, and learn about the heritage of others.
The mission of the Office of Student Life and Engagement is to enhance the College academic experience through co-curricular engagement opportunities that contribute to students' educational mission, leadership potential, personal growth, and global understanding. The programmatic areas include the Student Government Association, Programming Board, Greek Life, Student Media, Miss Spelman & Court, Student Affairs Global Experience or SAGE, and Student Organization Administration. We support the College's mission through the provision of co-curricular programs, leadership development opportunities, and by providing exposure to various domestic and international cultural diversity experiences for Spelman students.
Preparing students to be leaders and global citizens, the Office of Student Life and Engagement offers extensive leadership training and professional development through its Leadership Institute Training, which develops programs and resources to enhance students' leadership capabilities. Through the Student Affairs Global Experience, or SAGE program, students travel globally each December to explore different countries that have included Rome, Paris, Egypt, Africa and Argentina. Diversity Thursdays, on the other hand, allows students to experience firsthand cultures from around the world. Cultural Cafes, for instance, give students the opportunity to sample foods from around the world, hear authentic music, and learn historical facts.
Spelman women also get involved in student government. In addition to the Spelman Student Government Association and class councils, there are also opportunities to pursue Greek life on campus through various sororities. And for students interested in representing the College, Miss Spelman carries the distinguished title as an ambassador to the College. Students involved in P.U.L.S.E., the student-run events planning board, help enhance the social setting of Spelman College and the Atlanta University Center though events such as Homecoming, Welcome Back Jam, Exam Jam, Romantic Interlude, Winter Wonderland and more.
Looking to unwind from a long week of classes on a Friday? Market Friday provides the perfect atmosphere for students to socialize and gather with fellow classmates and peers from the AUC.
Working in partnership with the Office of Alumnae Affairs, the Office of Student Life facilitates meetings with Spelman alumnae for various programming, networking opportunities, and alumnae connections. Alumnae often come back to invest in students during Homecoming, Miss Spelman pageant, and New Student Orientation.
Service is also a major component of the Office of Student Life and Engagement. Through SSGA, students organize annual Thanksgiving basket drives for needy families, while others conduct etiquette sessions and tutoring and mentoring opportunities for grade school children. The office also sponsors My Sisters Closet in collaboration with Alumnae Affairs, which provides gently used career clothing, shoes and purses for students preparing for interviews.
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Social Marketing Strategies from Nonprofit Charity: Water
March 22nd is World Water Day, and water focused nonprofits around the world will bring to your attention that nearly one billion people on our planet still live without access to life's most basic need: clean, safe drinking water.
These organizations need to capture your attention, access your network, and earn your dollars. Cisco supports many nonprofits with the shared mission of clean water (learn more here), but one specific organization caught my eye today, charity: water.
charity: water has been transforming the world of nonprofit marketing through their dedicated focus to digital and social media marketing. Whether that's through MyCharityWater.org where you create a profile, start and manage a fundraising campaign and activate your network through Facebook, Twitter, and email. Or through WaterForward.org where individuals activate their social networks by paying it forward. WaterForward takes the individual's control and puts it in the hands of their friends and their network, incentivizing the social sharing many marketers dream of. Watch this video to learn more about WaterForward, and check out Cisco CTO, Padmasree Warrior's book.
As you can see by these two examples, charity: water's unique strategies focus on the activating individuals and asking them to engage their network, because they know, like many marketers do, that the whole of a person's network is greater than the sum of it's parts. More digital and social marketers should take notice of the work charity: water is doing to activate more than just the individual, but rather their entire network.
Today, charity: water launches its birthday campaign.
Why birthdays? Because charity: water was started in 2006 with a birthday party. Since then, they've moved thousands of people to 'give up' their birthdays and ask for donations of their age in dollars instead of gifts. (28-year-olds ask for $28, 12-year-olds, for $12.) charity: water uses 100% of this money to directly fund water projects, proving every completed project with photos and GPS coordinates in Google Maps.
Just $20 can give one person access to clean drinking water. $5000 can fund an entire water solution for a village in need. If you can raise $5,000 or more, charity: water will attach a plaque with your name on it to the water project.
In honor of World Water Day, visit www.mycharitywater.org/birthdays today and learn how the power of birthdays can change the world.
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Group to seek tourism board for whole community
A chamber of commerce-sponsored meeting of community leaders Monday selected a committee whose goal is to approach the three municipalities that collect hotel/motel tax money about the possible formation of a tourism advisory board to oversee spending it.
Many in the room clearly would like to see local municipal councils shake loose of nearly a half million dollars not being used to increase tourism, the intent of the law that authorizes the tax.
The meeting was a continuation of an earlier gathering where many of the same people discussed such things as housing needs, ways to recruit people for critical jobs, tourism and how to improve local business opportunities.
This time, the focus of the meeting at the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School, called by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, was on tourism and how the local towns can attract more visitors.
Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee and Electric City collect hotel/motel taxes from people staying overnight in motels and campgrounds within their jurisdictions.
Among them, the three towns have amassed in reserve some $450,000 of the money that a state analyst told the group is intended to be spent.
According to city clerks, Coulee Dam has $140,000; Grand Coulee has $90,000 and Electric City has $218,000 in reserve.
The committee will be made up of chamber Manager Peggy Nevsimal, Debbie Bigelow, Kirsten Heidenthel, Kathy Baty, Greg Wilder, Kary Higgins, Pat Welton and Lonna Bussert. Nevsimal will chair the committee and will report back to the overall group by the end of July.
Steve Becker, director of marketing for Coulee Medical Center, acted as facilitator of the meeting and pledged the hospital's support for the goals of the committee.
In a phone connection with Edward Redmond, a research analyst with the Washington State Senate, the group got answers to some questions about the intention of legislators who this year amended the authorizing law with SB 5262, on which Redmond worked.
The bill amended the state law that authorizes the collection of hotel/motel funds, essentially doing away with a sunset clause that would have disallowed funding the operation of festivals, among other things, and imposing new reporting requirements connected to the money.
"The expectation was that the monies that were allocated would be spent," Redmond stated.
The group will ask the local towns involved that a tourism board be developed that could annually build a budget for allocating the money, showing how the money will be used, and then submit the plan to the various city councils.
Such a tourism board is required in communities of 5,000 or more, but is not required in small communities. Forming one could require the three city councils to agree to an interlocal agreement that would define and authorize the advisory board.
The three cities, Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee and Electric City, do fund some chamber of commerce requests, and also those of other groups such as the Ridge Riders, with a portion of what they receive each year.
The chamber last year did submit a detailed budget for spending the money on advertising outside the area, but garnered half the funds sought under its plan.


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What does Paul mean when he calls Jesus "the image of God"?
What does the Bible mean when it refers to Jesus as "the Son of God"?
A collection of statements from E.G. White on the Trinity.
This article looks at John's statements that Jesus came forth from God the Father and investigates how they have to be understood. This has implications for the doctrines of Christ's divinity and the Trinity.
Answers the claim that sin self-destructs without God's intervention.
How does this relate to God's character?
I've always had difficulty understanding the extermination of the Canaanites by the Israelites under God's orders. Can this type of war be justified?
Could you give some biblical passages showing that God reveals Himself in nature?
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Your Pro Wish List: Which Pro Dancers Would You Like To See Dance In DWTS Season 18?
Hey Everyone! Time for another Dancing With The Stars Cast Wish List. Question: Which PRO DANCERS would you like to see dance with celebrities in the 18th season of Dancing With The Stars? Pick TWELVE pros with two runners-up (optional) if you like. Make your voice heard in comments and then in a couple of weeks or so, we'll send your wishes to ABC. Special Note: This isn't a pro cheering post. If anyone leaves one name in a fly-by type of way, etc., know your post will be deleted.
Ok, see you in comments with my Pro wish list!! Wanna guess who I might have listed for two of them? 🙂
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