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Sophomore Rob Hollomon became the ninth player in Central Connecticut football history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, but the Blue Devils fell to Albany, 63-34, in the final game of the 2012 season.
Hollomon finishes the season with 1,104 yards. It is the 12th 1,000-yard season in program history.
Senior Deven Baker caught seven passes to become the sixth player in program history with 100 career receptions. He finishes his career with 105 catches and 13 touchdowns. He had 145 yards and two touchdowns in the game.
The Blue Devils finish the season with a 2-8 record and a 2-5 mark in Northeast Conference play.
Albany got on the board with a two yard touchdown run by Drew Smith with 9:13 left in the first quarter. The touchdown came one play after junior Andrew Clements was sacked and fumbled deep in CCSU territory.
Albany added another rushing touchdown on their next drive to go ahead 14-0, which is how the first quarter ended after the Blue Devils forced Albany to punt on their fourth drive of the game.
The Danes added a third rushing touchdown, the second by Smith, with 7:43 left in the second quarter.
Albany scored again with six minutes remaining in the half. This time on a 58-yard screen pass, which beat the Blue Devil defense that sent multiple blitzers on first down.
Albany added a third rushing touchdown by Smith and returned a fumble for a touchdown to build a 42-0 lead.
The Blue Devils got on the board with a long drive over the final two minutes of the half. Clements found senior Matthew Tyrell for seven yards on first down and then rushed 11 yards for a first down. On the next play, he hit Baker for a 31-yard play, which set CCSU up inside Albany's 20-yard line. A few plays later Clements punched the ball in from the one yard line for his sixth touchdown of the season and the team's first score of the day.
Albany outgained the Blue Devils 284 to 143 in total offense during the first half.
Albany opened the second half with a 79-yard kickoff return touchdown by Kevin Chillis.
On the ensuing CCSU possession, the Blue Devil drive appeared to stall, but senior D.J. Radich took a direct snap and converted a first down on a punt fake. Hollomon rushed to the one yard line and Clements again punched the ball across the goal line for a one yard touchdown run.
Following a rushing touchdown and a fumble return touchdown that put the Danes ahead 63-14, the Blue Devils responded with Clements hitting Baker for a 57-yard touchdown pass on the first play of the fourth quarter.
The Blue Devils added a fourth touchdown in the fourth quarter as junior Chuck Watson intercepted a tipped pass and returned it 70 yards for a score. CCSU went for two after the score and failed to convert.
Central closed out the scoring on a touchdown pass to Baker. The ensuing extra-point was good by senior Juan Duque, which set the final score at 63-34.
Junior Chris Linares had his second interception of the season on a deep pass in the third quarter.
Hollomon finished the game with 111 yards on 21 attempts. It is his fifth straight 100-yard rushing game. Over the final five games of the season, Hollomon rushed for 803 total yards.

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A massive tornado barreled across Mississippi this afternoon killing at least one person and injuring several others. Warnings have since been posted in Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
A destructive and massive storm system draped itself across half the country Thursday, from the Gulf Coast to Canada and with a wingspan from Maine to the Dakotas. At least one person was killed in Mississippi, where a tornado touched down.
Authorities in Kemper County, Miss., along the Alabama state line, reported that the storm also caused several injuries and extensive damage and destroyed at least one steel building.
Gov. Phil Bryant offered thoughts and prayers for people in the path of the storm and said that the state was sending help.
By early afternoon, the tornado was moving toward Alabama, and the more heavily populated cities of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa were in the path of the worst of the storm system.
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A tree fell on this home in Hazelwood, Mo., during heavy storms Wednesday. There were two reports of tornadoes in the town, according to Weather.com, and the governor declared a state of emergency.
The system, which has disrupted weather all over the country this week, formed a giant T on Thursday. Snow fell in the Dakotas and upstate New York, and ice-slicked roads in Wisconsin. Rain drenched the Ohio Valley and New Orleans.
On Wednesday, the storm system whipped up tornadoes and severe thunderstorms across Missouri and Arkansas, wrecking homes, downing power lines and injuring people in both states.
The St. Louis suburbs were walloped, and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency. The town of Hazelwood reported two tornadoes, and a tree fell on a house there.
While authorities in Arkansas could not confirm a tornado, but three homes were destroyed and more than 50 damaged along with a church. People were trapped inside a house in Lincoln when a tree fell on it.
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Kristin Little, manager of the Ferguson Optical shop in Hazelwood, Mo., talks with a friend on the phone as she describes the damage caused by a storm, possibly a tornado, on Wednesday.
Van Buren County, in north central Arkansas, was hit hard. More than 30 homes were damaged, six were destroyed, and a fire department was heavily damaged, according to county judge Roger Hooper. Four people were hurt.
The storm made a plaything of an 18-wheeler in Botkinburg, Ark., tossing the truck and damaging a house.
Other parts of the country were hit with a mix of snow and ice, and Gov. Mark Dayton called out the National Guard to help ice-bound Minnesotans. Freezing rain and ice yanked down power lines and tree limbs in Minnesota.
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One of the most exotic and exciting adventure races in the world recently took place in the Stockholm archipelago. In the Ö till Ö Swim Run Championships the racers faced a grueling 75-kilometer course on island trails, slippery rocks and in cold waters.
In calm conditions the race winners Lelle Moberg and Daniel Hansson of Team Milebreaker of Sweden crushed last year's course record by 19 minutes with a winning time of 8 hours 16 minutes and 19 seconds.
The Baltic Sea Action Group Swim Run Team, who were previously featured on the Suunto Sport pages managed to break their record in their second Ö till Ö race.
"We were much better prepared and also the equipment we had was improved thanks to the experience from last year. It really made a big difference," says BSAG team member Armin Hummel.
"The Suunto Ambit2s that we had really helped us to keep track about what was ahead of us and how we were doing. Overall this helped in pushing harder when needed and planning the next stages of the race."
The Baltic Sea Action Group's Hummel and his teammate Juha Lindfors finished in 12th place overall and were very happy with their time of 9:49:10.
"This was even slightly better than we expected. We also have to admit that the weather was on our side. The conditions were ideal."
With the race Hummel and Lindfors wanted to raise awareness over the state of the Baltic Sea and get more people and organizations to commit on actions to save it. You can learn more about Baltic Sea Action Group here.
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The March 11 earthquake in Japan could force Nissan to delay the start of U.S. production of its Leaf electric vehicle, now scheduled for late 2012.
"The earthquake is putting us in a very difficult situation," said Hideaki Watanabe, head of Nissan's Global Zero Emission Vehicle Business Unit. "But we are not giving up yet. Is there a potential for delay? There may be. We are assessing right now."
Watanabe said Nissan is seeking ways to minimize the lead time.
The Nissan Leaf is planned for production in Smyrna, Tenn., starting in December of next year. Production of lithium ion batteries for the Leaf is slated to begin in Smyrna in September 2012.
Nissan is already coming under growing criticism in the United States for slow deliveries of the Japan-produced Leaf. The company said the delays occurred because of technical problems and communications issues -- made worse by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Watanabe said the earthquake and tsunami shook up Nissan's internal timetables.
"On March 11 every operation stopped so all the resources that were in place were used to restore Japan," he said. "All the milestones and studies to localize production in the United States were stopped."
He declined to speculate on how long the start of production could be delayed.
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Nissan plans to install capacity to build 150,000 Leafs annually in Tennessee.
Company officials have said they expect to deliver 10,000-12,000 Leafs in the United States in 2011. Nissan has so far taken about 7,000 orders for the vehicle and expects to fill them by the end of summer. It is taking orders in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Tennessee, Hawaii and Texas.
This summer Nissan will begin accepting orders in Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Nissan's goal is to be selling in all 50 states by the time production begins in Smyrna.
Leaf production in Japan was slow even before the earthquake.
"We decided to have a conservative ramp-up," Watanabe said. "We didn't want to ramp up just because the market was excited. Quality is our priority."
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Two years ago, the New Orleans Hornets looked like a team on the rise in the NBA. They had young star Chris Paul and emerging star David West, and they pushed the San Antonio Spurs to seven games in the second round of the playoffs.
Byron Scott was named coach of the after year that season. Thursday he was fired.
Scott was axed the morning after his Hornets got blown out by the Phoenix Suns on national television, dropping them to 3-6 on the season (on the heels of a disappointing last season). The Hornets seemed like a team lost, a team playing without any passion. It was clear some kind of shakeup was needed in New Orleans, and in today's sports world that usually means the coach goes.
Scott will be replaced by general manager Jeff Bower, which is poetic justice as Bower created some of the problems Scott faced. He brought in Peja Stojakovic on an oversized contract, a move that hurt the team on and off the court. He traded away center Tyson Chandler to Charlotte for Emeka Okafo — the result has been a much worse defensive team for the Hornets, one that is letting teams run away from them. And Bower can't fix it. With the Hornets being over the NBA's luxury tax threshold by $3 million, they are not going to make any player trades right now.
Byron Scott is going to land on his feet somewhere, he had good coaching runs with both New Orleans and before in New Jersey, where he coached a Jason Kidd led team that made the NBA Finals back-to-back years. But in both cases he eventually seemed to lose the teams, which stopped playing for him.
Scott was a great Lakers shooting guard during the Showtime era, and he has said coaching the Lakers would be his dream job. Could he wind up back in Los Angeles?
Maybe, but now is not the time. The Lakers have Phil Jackson, who could theoretically retire at the end of any year — he's rich and he's got 10 rings — but is not likely to walk away from a contending team like the Lakers.
Even if Jackson did retire, this Lakers team is built to run the triangle offense. Scott's style has been to use top-flight point guards to control teams that get out and run the fast break, then run a lot of pick-and-roll in the half court. Pretty much the opposite of how the current Lakers roster is constructed.
Maybe Scott would be a good choice down the line for the Lakers, when this championship window closes and Kobe and Jackson walk away. When it is time to retool the team. But for now, the Lakers don't need Scott, save for some nice trips down memory lane.
Kurt Helin lives in Los Angeles where he is runs the NBA/Lakers blog Forum Blue & Gold (which you can also follow in twitter).


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Chinese Sci-Fi Movie Will Star Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony
For those of you who aren't going to see Kevin Durant's 'Thunderstruck' this summer, perhaps you should check out this upcoming Chinese movie entitled 'Amazing' to get your NBA acting fix.
The film features past and present NBA stars like Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Scottie Pippen and even Magic Johnson makes a brief cameo.
The overall plot for the film revolves around a video game tester getting stuck in a virtual Sci-Fi basketball game. This movie marks the first time that the NBA gave approval to a foreign film company to use NBA footage and stars.


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New Dream spoke with Gus Speth, a professor of law at the Vermont Law School and a member of our Board of Directors, about the need to reshape the political and economic system to work better for all Americans. Speth is the author of the book, America the Possible: Roadmap to a New Economy.
You've been in the trenches of the environmental movement for more than 40 years. Can you briefly describe how you came to be engaged in these issues?
A group of us at law school in the late 1960s were looking for something exciting to do with ourselves. Remember the 60s? None of us was very interested in a traditional law practice. I remember reading one day about the NAACP civil rights litigation, and the thought occurred to me: how about an environmental legal defense group? Within a year or so, that idea had become the Natural Resources Defense Council. And it's still going strong.
In the late 1990s, you stepped back from work at the United Nations and in the D.C. environmental scene to become dean of the Yale environment school, where you eventually wrote several books. What prompted this shift to writing and academia?
After many decades of working on international development and environmental policy issues, I began to reflect on where we stood, and what kind of progress we had made. In 2004, I published my book, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, which described the basic failure of the international regimes we've created to save the environment. I realized that we needed to adopt a different approach—one that not only has different negotiating procedures, but, more importantly, addresses the root causes of these problems.
You have since written several more books, including The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, and your forthcoming book, America the Possible: Roadmap to a New Economy. Could you talk briefly about these?
I see these three books as something of an "American Crisis" trilogy. Each one digs deeper into the issues beyond environment and willy-nilly poses bigger challenges to the country and to ourselves as citizens. I've been working on America the Possible for the last two years, and my basic conclusion is that progressives of all stripes have got to forge and fight for an agenda of deep, transformative change. As the slogan goes, "system change, not climate change." A shared progressive agenda should embrace not only the environment but also international affairs, social problems, and political reform. We need to build a future from the ground up in our communities, and to challenge consumerism and the gospel of economic growth. Progressives need a common, integrated vision, which includes getting social justice liberals to see the environment as part of their cause and vice versa. Today, America's progressive causes tend to be in their own silos, something that is not true of the right.
You've observed that, as Americans, we've "Let ourselves slide into a deep hole nationally." What do you mean by this?
If you look internationally, there are easily 30 important areas where the U.S. ranks at or near the bottom of a list of 20 advanced democracies—below countries like the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, the Nordic countries, and Canada, which we generally consider to be our peer nations. We have the highest poverty rate (both generally and for children), the greatest inequality of incomes, the lowest social mobility, the lowest score on the UN index of "material well-being of children," and the worst score on the UN's Gender Inequality Index. We also have the highest military spending, the largest international arms sales, the highest homicide rate, and the largest prison population.
The trends are also sobering in the health arena. As a country, we have the highest expenditure on health care as a percentage of GDP, yet despite spending all this money we have the highest infant mortality rate, the highest prevalence of mental health problems, the highest obesity rate, the highest percentage of people going without health care due to cost, the highest consumption of antidepressants per capita, and the shortest life expectancy at birth.
Taken together, this points to an America in serious decline—and by "decline" I don't mean losing world power relative to China and other countries, but decline in human and natural conditions. As citizens, we should all be angry, profoundly angry, when we consider what has happened to our country and what that neglect could mean for our children and grandchildren.
Your new book provides a bit of historical perspective on this decline. How did we get to where we are today, as a nation?
America's decline is the result of conscious political decisions made over several decades by both Democrats and Republicans who have had priorities other than strengthening the well-being of American society and our environment. Our political system has slowly been moving from a democracy to a plutocracy and corporatocracy, supported by the ascendancy of market fundamentalism and a strident antiregulation, antigovernment, antitax ideology.
One way we got here is by failing to build consistently on the foundations laid by the New Deal, by Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms and his Second Bill of Rights, and by Eleanor Roosevelt's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Instead, we unleashed a virulent, fast-growing strain of corporate-consumerist capitalism. I refer here not to an idealized capitalism of the textbook but to the one we actually have. Corporations, long identified as our principal economic actors, are now also our principal political actors.
The result is a combined economic and political system of great power and voraciousness, pursuing its own economic interests without serious concern for the values of fairness, justice, or sustainability that democratic government might have provided. Simultaneously, the Cold War and the rise of the American Empire have powerfully affected the nature of this system—strengthening the prioritization of economic growth, giving rise to the military-industrial complex, and draining time, attention, and money away from domestic needs and emerging international challenges.
Why is prioritizing economic growth, in itself, a bad thing?
The real problem is that our society prioritizes economic growth above all else—yet that growth isn't delivering. We've had tons of growth in recent decades while wages stagnated, jobs fled our borders, life satisfaction flatlined, social capital eroded, poverty and inequality mounted, and the environment declined.
The never-ending drive to grow the U.S. economy undermines families and communities; it is leading us to environmental calamity; it fuels a ruthless international search for energy and other resources; it fails at generating the needed jobs; and it rests on a manufactured consumerism that is not meeting our deepest human needs. The dominant American values today are strongly materialistic, anthropocentric, and contempocentric. Today's consumerism and materialism place high priority on meeting human needs through the ever-increasing purchasing of goods and services. Americans are substituting growth and consumption for dealing with the real issues—for doing the things that would make us, and the country, better off.
Given these realities, are you optimistic that the country can reverse course and head in a better direction?
If you look at what's happening around the country, you can make a case that good things are stirring, that there's movement in the right direction—in certain areas. But you can also make the case that we're a country lost in a sea of troubles. I like Dee Hock's observation: "Things are much too bad for pessimism."
On the hopeful side, we're seeing the birth of a lot of innovative and important things at the local level. As the old system enters its death throes, we are seeing the proliferation of models of "local living" economies, sustainable communities, and transition towns, as well as new business models, including social enterprises and for-benefit and worker-owned businesses that prioritize community and environment over profit and growth. These are scenes of the future, and they provide powerful inspiration.
I'm also encouraged by the citizen protests across the country that gained momentum last year—such as the Occupy movement, labor and union activism, and the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, which I have taken part in. Progressives are also making efforts to build coalition movements, like Rebuild the Dream and The 99% Spring. The activism is out there, it just needs to grow and connect.
Which do you see as more effective in bringing about the change you feel is needed—changes in policies and legislation, or changes in individual behavior?
It is up to us as citizens to inject values of justice, fairness, and sustainability into this system, and government is the primary vehicle we have for accomplishing this. While pursuing reform within the existing system can help, what is now desperately needed is transformative change to the system itself.
At the core of this new operating system must be a sustaining economy based on new economic thinking and driven forward by a new politics. The purpose and goal of a sustaining economy is to provide broadly shared prosperity that meets human needs while preserving the Earth's ecological integrity and resilience—in short, a flourishing people and a flourishing nature. That is the paradigm shift we must now seek.
In a recent article in Orion magazine, I wrote about 11 areas where we need transformational change, from moving to a post-growth society to adopting new business models, to shifting our consumer model from "more" to "enough." The exciting thing is that, right now, there are a lot of people working in all of these areas.
One of the areas where transformation is most needed is change in our culture and values—change that begins at the individual level. It's not either-or.
In addition to writing and speaking about these issues, how are you contributing to these wider efforts?
I've been working with organizations such as New Dream, as well as Demos, to help mainstream a vision of a "new economy." We've also been trying to build new organizations that embrace the new economy theme in ways that haven't happened yet. Three groups that I've been involved with starting up are the New Economy Network, the New Economy Working Group, and the New Economics Institute, which recently hired a new president (Bob Massie) and will be hosting an important conference on "Strategies for a New Economy" in June. To learn more about this vision, I'd also suggest reading Gar Alperovitz's article in The Nation on "The New Economy Movement," which provides a good overview of these themes.
You recently became a member of the board of the Center for a New American Dream. What drew you to New Dream, and what role do you see the organization playing in addressing the kinds of challenges you discussed above?
New Dream is one of the key organizations that has realized that business as usual is no longer going to work. Of course, the progressive community still needs to address many of the old issues related to the environment and social justice, but we also need to tackle new problems that we've identified for the country.
New Dream does a good job in focusing on the values that are at the heart of individual and societal decision making, and on providing positive examples of how we can move forward. The organization is helping to advance three important themes that I see as crucial: redefining the American dream, challenging consumerism, and building a future from the bottom up. I believe that we can realize a new American Dream if enough of us join together in the fight for it.
ALSO: Watch a video interview with Gus Speth on "Rethinking Consumerism," on NPR's Marketplace
Gus Speth is Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos in New York City. He was Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy at Yale University where he served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009. From 1993 to 1999, Gus was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute, professor of law at Georgetown University, chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, and senior attorney and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Throughout his career, Gus has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Publications include The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008), Global Environmental Governance (2006), Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004), and America the Possible: Roadmap to a New Economy (Yale University Press, forthcoming).


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No topic became a subject of heavy debate during the Tuscaloosa City Council's annual Legislative Breakfast this morning, but state lawmakers said they left with plenty to consider for the 2013 session.
TUSCALOOSA | No topic became a subject of heavy debate during the Tuscaloosa City Council's annual Legislative Breakfast this morning, but state lawmakers said they left with plenty to consider for the 2013 session.
After hearing Mayor Walt Maddox and City Attorney Tim Nunnally highlight a number of issues the city deemed important, state Rep. John Merrill, R-Tuscaloosa, said he intended to focus on ensuring tax and other revenues make it to state and local coffers.
A key concern of the city's is the growing push for national rules to require that sales taxes are collected from every online purchase.
Now, sales taxes are not collected on web-based transactions with businesses that have no brick-and-mortar building within the area from which the purchase was made.
Alabama law says people who make online purchases from businesses that don't collect sales tax should calculate the tax and pay it on their income tax return. But with no mechanism to enforce the provision, few do so.
According to Gov. Robert Bentley's office, this loophole costs Alabama between $300 million and $330 million a year, officials said.
Securing these lost tax dollars is important, but the current plan, city officials said, would centralize sales tax collections at the state level, thereby preventing local revenue collection efforts from monitoring the businesses that fall within its jurisdiction.
Instituting such a method of streamlined sales tax collection would take an act of the U.S. Congress, and Maddox, who said sales tax revenues make up about 40 percent of the city's income budget, urged the local delegation to take no action at the state level until that happens.
Merrill did not argue with the city's position that such a sales tax collection system would harm mid- to small-sized local governments and agreed with the mayor's recommendation that the state Legislature take a wait-and-see approach.
"But whatever we can do to identify that (revenue) and channel it, we need to do it," Merrill said.
Additionally, the mayor and the city attorney said the city was opposed to other proposed moves that will reduce the amount that City Hall can charge for business licenses. These license fees vary from business to business and are based on the amount of revenue each store generates.
But measures that will prohibit cities from assessing fees on the gross receipts that come from business deliveries into the city and exempting all drug sales from counting toward that license fee equation will reduce city revenue and make it harder to provide the services that residents have come to expect, the city attorney said.
"It's only fair to us that everyone pay their fair share," Nunnally said.
Merrill was not alone in supporting the city's request for additional assistance in securing more storm and business recovery funds.
Maddox told the members of the local delegation that $16.6 million in disaster relief funds appropriated to the city last year helped alleviate some of these funding issues, but the storm had highlighted significant deficiencies in the city's infrastructure that must be improved before homes and businesses can fully return.
"Every bit of dollars that we can see and invest back, I think it will only help our recovery," Maddox said.
Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, said the mayor's assertion that Tuscaloosa was still dealing with more than $250 million worth of unmet needs was an important issue for the state legislature.
"We need to make sure the city, the county and the state are all on the same page and we continue to work together to get all the assistance that we deserve," England said.
State Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, said the city had brought a number of issues to his attention, and this was made evident by the notes he made in the information packet he was give prior to the city's presentation.
Allen, who is entering his third year in the state Senate after serving 16 years in the Alabama House of Representatives, said he appreciated the annual city's breakfast for the ideas it tends to generate.
"Anytime you have progressive leadership like we do in Tuscaloosa, it's so important to have meetings like this to be able to adequately deal with the challenges that we're faced with," Allen said.
He was particularly interested in the city's request for support in raising the amount that City Hall and Tuscaloosa police officers and firefighters contribute to the Tuscaloosa Fire and Pension Fund by .75 percent each.
Allen also was supportive of the move being led by Rep. Alan Harper, D-Aliceville, and endorsed by both the cities of Northport and Tuscaloosa to move a portion of Tuscaloosa's boundary off the northern edge of the Black Warrior River.
"That should've been resolved years ago," Allen said.
The senator did, however, maintain his belief that allocation from beer tax revenues should be revisited, but he was less adamant this year that the proposal he laid out during last year's Legislative Breakfast was the only and proper way to do so.
Allen wants legislation that will redistribute 2 percent of the county's beer tax each to Coaling, Coker and Lake View, which now do not receive a portion of the tax that's estimated at about $2.6 million a year.
The reason these towns get none of the proceeds is because they were incorporated after the county's beer tax proceeds had been distributed to Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa, Northport, Brookwood, Vance and the Tuscaloosa County Parks and Recreation Authority.
Tuscaloosa city officials said they would favor such a reallocation if the distribution percentage was based on point-of-sale or population numbers, but otherwise the city stands firmly opposed.
Allen said that the lack of a consensus has led him to back off a strong push for the change, but he still believes it only fair that Lake View, Coaling and Coker be included.
"That's something we need to work through to ensure we have fairness across the board," Allen said. "We've got to be able to make sure those communities are treated fairly.
"Those three communities, they're a member of the family, and we've got to make sure they're taken care of."
Reach Jason Morton at email@example.com or 205-722-0200.


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Topic: My first suit of Mando armor
posted a bunch of pics on the merc forums, you dont need an account to view em
check it out! ill update as i go
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posted a bunch of pics on the merc forums, you dont need an account to view em
check it out! ill update as i go
Awesome! You really put a lot thought into this
wow very nice, are those reference pics you used from SWG?
its good to see some more costumers,
awesome job by the way, the sw galaxies version will mix things up a little.
if you need any tips or help, this is the place. (though im not sure you need it)
It's lookin' good man. I like your colors; pretty simple yet menacing
posted some updates
heres a preview of the build so far...
I love the shotgun/blaster Great plates for you boots; those will look great. The chest armor looks good as well, but I hope it doesn't give you a problem with a lack of flexibility not having the two breast pieces seperated.
hoping to post pics of what I've got soon; should have them up by the weekend if not sooner
You may find some flexibility issue arise from the breastplates being one piece, I made a sert like that for someone a while back and he found he wasn't able to move quite as freely as I and others can in traditional Mando plates. That said once he grew accustomed to the restrictions they presented little problem to him and he was able to work around them.
[Editor's Note: kotemandos.com is no longer active.]
That armour has long since been upgraded but you can see the similar torso plates.
Another thing you can do is use thick hard leather as a backing for the plates. 11-13oz leather is THICK! However, it will flex and give you some extra movement and comfort. This will make them look like once piece but not be all one piece.
starting to look really familiar...
That's Niiiiiiice! The outline looks a little darker on the real thing to me, even better I think
What are toy using to make the armor plates? I really really really need to get on myself to make some just want to know whats best. I could never stand to have one of these costumes: http://cache.halloweenmart.com/images/ip018115.jpg And yours looks quite nice.
Your link isn't working for me...might be my connection. but I'm assuming it's one of those coverall things with the armor painted on? yeah, those suck....
If you're a creator, I'll leave this one to the experts
If you're a buyer, eBay is the place I've got nearly everything I have. I hope to create most of my own armor eventually, but I'm starting with FanMade products to get me started, and later I'll slowly replace things as I learn how it's done.
If you've got the cash and don't have the creating skills, that's the way I'd suggest. If you think you're up to cutting/molding plastic/sintra/fiberglass/whatever, then go for it and wait for one of the 'Armor Masters' to guild you
Good luck!
Fixed. it should work now.
I heard about some sort of PVC foam stuff that sounded good but I can't remember the name. I'll stop posting about my own stuff so I don't steel the thread.
no worries mate!
the pvc you are talking about is called Sintra
its what im using, 6mm
theres all different sizes tho
its basically sheets of pvc that you can put into an oven after you cut and kinda mold around
heres some more of my progress...
feel free to check out the mercs link i have given and look around for any costuming questions, or the dented helmet is a great resource also!
Hot DAMN that looks good! You've been making some really fast progress as well!
My only suggestion would be that the chest piece looks like it could use a little more curve, as the bottom points seem to stick out some. Otherwise looks darn near perfect! Great job!
ya i have to still attach the sides
i basically snapped all the tops of my plates on and ran to take a pic haha
its got curve to it but i need to fasten the sides and bottoms of all the plates in place to hold it hehe
plus im missing all the arms armor, collar plate, kneepades and back still
lots left to do!
great job so far
im really impressed with your progress
and the gun is awesome
Looking good there vod! Someday ner'vode someday...........
That looks really good...Can you send me something that tells me how to make my own?
Oh there are lots of sites for that.. Orthar's Kote Mandos is a good one... Norvall Talon's ( i forget what its called sorry) is another. Its almost OVER information for SI the blonde.
Novall Talon's site is firespray.net
Or mandalorianmercs.com
way to promote..
wow, beats SWG's green armor! gj, hope to see more work.
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A tearful Kate Gosselin said she is worried she won't be able to provide for her eight children after soon-to-be ex hubby Jon allegedly drained their joint bank account of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"When you've left their children and their mother unable to pay for the roof over their head, it's unacceptable," Kate told the "Today" show this morning.
"I need that money to provide for them."
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The divorcing mother of eight spoke out a day after she claimed Jon -- recently booted from the couple's reality TV show -- took out $230,000 from a joint bank account the couple shared and left her with only $1000. Jon has denied he took out any funds.
"I've never taken any money out because over 10 years, Kate handled all the banking," he told "The Insider" in an interview slated to air tonight. "I have withdrawn roughly $177,000 over the course of a year, which is less than 10 percent of what we made. That's like my paycheck."
Both he and Kate were advised by the court that all account transactions had to be approved by both parties, she said.
"The last thing I wanted was to do this show and not be able to pay my bills," Kate said today as she choked back tears.
She later added, "We did the show to provide a better life for them."
Kate said a few days before she filed for divorce, Jon was making "erratic purchases" and that she removed funds from the account "so I could buy my kids food."
"I was afraid," she said.
"He has gone way far off the trail," Kate said. "Obviously, I'm very upset. ... I think he's making bad decisions. Honestly, call me crazy, but I'm still hoping I'll receive a phone call and the old Jon is back."
Kate discovered the money was missing after she was slapped with a series of overdraft notices, Kate' attorney, Marty Singer told People.com late Sunday.
When she questioned the bank, she was told Jon had drained the account and left her with only $1000, the lawyer said.
Singer said he e-mailed Jon's attorney on Friday but has yet to hear back.
"They have not responded. I'm sure he will respond by going on another TV show," Singer told People.com.
Singer said he thinks Kate's family lawyer in Pennsylvania will go to court Monday to suggest Jon be held in contempt for taking out the unauthorized sum.
The news is the latest drama to unfold in the wake of cable network TLC's announcement that it planned to downsize the octodad's role on the show. TLC was set to change the name of the wildly popular reality TV program to "Kate Plus Eight" and recalibrate the focus of the show on Kate and the couple's eight children.
But the cable network was forced to suspend filming shortly after making the announcement after Jon threatened legal action, claiming last week on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he had an "epiphany" and no longer wanted the kids to be filmed.
"I don't want them to film anymore," Gosselin said. "I don't think it's healthy for them. And the reason I don't think it's healthy for them is that we're going through a divorce right now. And I don't think it should be televised. And I think my kids should be taken off the show."


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Abstract: In this paper we will describe some problems related to the defini-tion of a set of data categories as well as to the import and merging of data from various resources. First, we illustrate how organizing a taxonomy of data cate-gories is facilitated by using the principles for creating a terminological ontolo-gy (or concept system). Next, we discuss how multiple terminological entries referring to the same concept can be identified with the purpose of merging them. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8491
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Sophomore Ashley Perkoski scored three goals and added one assist, but Central Connecticut State University gave up six straight goals in the second half and fell to Wagner by a score of 17-12 at home on Thursday. The Blue Devils fall to 4-5 on the season and 0-4 in Northeast Conference action and will next host Long Island on Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
CCSU used a 4-0 run late in the first half to take its first lead of the game since Perkoski fed freshman Betsy Vendel to make it 1-0 at the 26:19 mark. Freshman Meaghan McCurry, senior Lyndsey Mastandrea, Vendel and junior Michele Conway each scored during the stretch to give the Blue Devils a 6-5 lead with 4:20 to play in the opening frame.
The Seahawks took the lead back before the break with two scores in the final four minutes. CCSU then opened the second half scoring with Perkoski finishing off of one of Vendel's four assists on the day to make it 7-7 just 44 seconds into the second half.
Wagner then held Central Connecticut scoreless for the next 14:20, as the Seahawks tallied six straight goals to take a commanding 13-7 lead. Teri Noll and Annie O'Connor each scored two goals for Wagner during the run.
The Blue Devils got as close as four on two separate occasions but could never close the gap as Wagner went on to the 17-12 victory. The Seahawks took advantage of their free positions, converting on five out of nine free position shots. The Blue Devils went 1-5 on their opportunities.
Perkoski led CCSU with three goals and added one assist, while Vendel scored two goals and finished with game highs of four assists and five caused turnovers. Conway chipped in with two scores of her own and freshman Mackenzy Ryan led the Blue Devils with four draw controls in the defeat.
Sophomore Erin DeLancey recorded 14 saves in goal for CCSU, while Seahawk goalkeeper Alex Johnston stopped 11 shots in the game.


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OCCC Officials Make Decision to Cancel Annual Triathlon
(Published: 04-30-14)
With the safety of the participating athletes, volunteers and spectators as the college's top priority, Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) officials have made the decision to cancel the annual SuperSprint Triathlon.
"It has really come down to it being too costly to hire the proper personnel to make the event safe," said Roxy Butler, OCCC Recreation and Fitness director.
Over the past several years, the cost of hiring officers to work the event has skyrocketed. Additionally, the condition of Portland Avenue near 104th street is not safe for the cycling portion of the event. Construction is currently underway in this location, making it even more difficult for cyclists to navigate.
"OCCC has hosted the SuperSprint Triathlon for nearly 20 years, and we hope to be able to host it again in the future," said Butler. "Right now we have to do what's best for those participating, and their safety is our top priority."
Other upcoming sprint triathlons in the area include the Route 66 Sprint Triathlon on May 31 and the Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon on August 3. Click the links below for more information.
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"Rising from Ashes" is a feature length documentary about two worlds colliding when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda, Africa to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of a national team. As they set out against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past.
Rising From Ashes will be shown tonight, Thursday, April 24 in Colorado Springs at 7 p.m. at the Stargazers Theatre & Event Center at 10 S. Parkside Dr. in Colorado Springs. The event is sponsored by the newly formed CSprings Bike Initiative. Advance tickets are $11 and can be purchased online at imAthlete. Not sure when the deadline is to purchase online. Tickets at the door will be $15.
I've heard really good things about the movie and a couple local coaches have gone and worked with Team Rwanda. If you can't make it to tonight's viewing, Rising from Ashes is on Netflix and it's currently listed on eBay.
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Taiwan's Ma Joins the Shoe Club
After nearly five years in office, Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou on Monday finally joined the ranks of an elite group of world leaders than includes former US President George W. Bush and outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jia Bao.
Whether Mr. Ma sees his inclusion in the league as brag-worthy is unclear.
While delivering a speech at Taiwan Human Rights Jingmei Park, Mr. Ma was heckled and jeered by a group of pro-Taiwan independence protesters who demanded his resignation, saying Taiwan's human rights condition has worsened under his watch. Eventually, the protesters got riled up enough to attempt to hit Mr. Ma with shoes -- as well as a few bags and hats.
Mr. Bush famously dodged an airborne shoe during a news conference in Iraq in late 2008. A few months later, Mr. Wen experienced a similar (if less accurate) assault while giving a speech at the University of Cambridge.
Neither had to dodge multiple items, however.
The protesters appeared to have been moved to throw the objects after Mr. Ma repeatedly refused to acknowledge their angry chants, instead plowing ahead with his speech as if he couldn't hear them. The presidential security detail immediately ran up the stage to protect the president, who finished his talk behind the human wall. No arrests were made.
President Ma, who was reelected in January with 51% of the vote, has watched his approval rating plummet to the 13% in less than a year (pdf). Heated demonstrations against the president are becoming a frequent sight in Taipei as public discontent climbs while the economy continues to nosedive.
Those who are dissatisfied with the president blame the government for Taiwan's snail-paced economic growth. According to the island's official statistics agency, the island's full year gross domestic product is tipped to rise 1.13% year-on-year, down from 4.07% in 2011 and 10.79% in 2010.
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Taiwan's unemployment rate still remains above 4% and wages have been stagnant for a decade. Despite his promise that signing a trade pact with China would jump start Taiwan's exports, data shows Taiwan's exports is expected to fall 2.16% from a year earlier.
Those who support Ma lay blame the dour global economy for Taiwan's anemic growth and note that the government has meted out a variety of measures to revive market, such offering tax breaks to Taiwanese companies that move their operations back to the island from mainland China, relaxing cross-Strait banking ties, and raising the cap on foreign manual workers to solve Taiwan's labor shortage problem.
The government's recent refusal to grant a visa for to Dalai Lama has given Ma bashers yet another reason to accuse him of kowtowing to China.
Like many of the current world leaders, Mr. Ma has been dealt a bad hand, such as two major worldwide economic crises and a deadly typhoon during his terms. But unless he can quickly offer new and sound measures to boost the economy and quell people's concerns of Taiwan's over-reliance on China, the president may end up playing dodge ball with the protesters more times than he would like in the next three years.
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Economic strength is a product of confidence. And you can't get much less confident than Californians.
A new Field Poll found 91 percent of Californians surveyed believing the state's economy is in bad shape. Half say their personal economic situation has declined -- the fourth straight year that's happened in Field.
The numbers aren't surprising. But they are historic.
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Californians have not been this gloomy about the economy, and their own economic circumstances, since modern polling began.
This gloom also represents a sizable obstacle to change -- and points to a phenomenon that might be called the governance trap.
Californians badly want their political leaders to take decisive steps to improve the state's economic climate and create jobs.
But there are two problems. The state has somewhat limited power to affect the economy. And decisive moves on jobs issues -- or just about any issue -- are impossible under the broken governing system.
Some wise Californians know this and want to tackle changes in the governing system. But they're getting nowhere -- in part because voters don't want their leaders talking about changes in governing system. They want them focused on delivering for them economically.
That's the trap.
The state's elected leadership, including Gov. Jerry Brown, aren't helping matters by talking about jobs while failing to pursue the major governance changes necessary for the state to take decisive legislative action on the economy and other areas. This is sure to breed cynicism -- and to make the trap that much harder to escape.
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A sewing pattern to make a semi-fitted, fully lined coat. The Abbey Coat features princess seams, 3/4 sleeves, and a peter pan collar. View A is made with the flounce and view B is made with out the flounce.
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Only a little. Three of them were tailenders, and tailenders are virtually useless in Battrick.Originally Posted by Tom Halsey
Only a little. Three of them were tailenders, and tailenders are virtually useless in Battrick.Originally Posted by Tom Halsey
Dylan, accept my challenge (if you want to).
Sorry - hadn't been on for a little while...go there soon.Originally Posted by Adamc
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Just managed to win my league match against the (former) #3 team to hold on to second spot on the table.
Won the toss and batted first on a flat track, had all my batsmen set to aggressive or higher, and made a pretty big total. Cuss led the way with his fifth century in 11 matches, 151* (123), Berry 61 (81), and Gillespie 97 (83). Made 354/4 in the end. Cuss is now heading the league averages once again with 1020 runs at 170.00.
It should have been an easy win, but somehow they managed to get close. Close meaning, within one run. Gillespie (2-55) and Badley (1-58) were the only ones conceding less than six an over, but fortunately it was just enough to secure the win.
Handy eight-point lead over #3 and #4 now, but I need #1 to lose a match (and drop its NRR) if I'm going to finish #1.
BTW Dylan, you need to accept the challenge today if it is going to be played.
Won my match on Friday
Player the former 3rd team also
They made 9/239
Gillan taking 5/37 from his 10
Got the runs in 44 overs - 4/241
Colley 84, Street 58
The win consolidates top spot
Dream XI: M Hyder, J Linker, M Clock, S Wetsin, A Simms, A Golcrhist, B Hugg, S Worde, B Leap, J Giuseppe, G MacGrith
Me, You, Kwek, thats all i think... Adam used to be
LOL seeing as it says "yesterday" I think I'm outta time - sorry dude, unable to acess computers for a while because I ran off from a school excursion with 4 mates and got Maccas we all suspended, some ***** dobbed us in!
rebel change ya battrick name to rebels dylan!!!
top 4 table in my league:
Team Pld Won Tie Lost Points Net RR
2. The Trains 11 7 1 3 30 17.62
3. Lancashire 11 7 0 4 28 -0.66
4. Fløtepusene 11 5 1 5 22 -2.89
close there you should claim the top
Im playing the bottom side tomorrow so im resting Colley, Haughton, Binns and Gillan. Hopefully it won't backfire against me..
Well, well, well.. I lost and now im third...
Made 5/304 then they made 5/305 with 1 over to spare..
So angry right now
I think I can safely say that there's a big chance of me winning the league.
after another great win over dave im 6 points clear.
2. The Trains 12 8 1 3 34 20.74
3. Lancashire 12 7 0 5 28 -2.30
4. Fløtepusene 11 5 1 5 22 -2.89
with Flotpusene and the 2nd last to go, i think ive won it
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Daredevil A youth hand-launches bottle rockets during Deepavali, the Hindu festival of light celebrating the "triumph" of light over darkness, on November 7. Totally oblivious of the danger, this youth launched rocket after rocket using his bare hands until one almost plunged into two men riding along on a moped. Sadly, that rocket was too fast for me to capture. Would've made a heck of a picture though. #outwithabang
At the Top of their Game Belly dancers of the Nrityakosh Dance Company perform a musical rendition of Scheherazade on November 2. In this image, Ishita Agarwal plays Morgiana, the quick-witted slave girl from "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Although I normally avoid photographing controlled spaces, the frenetic energy of this show made the effort all so worthwhile. #blownaway
Clowning Around Dressed as a clown, a member of the Indian Army's Military Police, attempts to perform a stunt at high speed. #passagetoindia
The Bathers. For two boys of the Indian forestry service, the scrubbing down of an elephant means taking a half-bath themselves. #passagetoindia
No Time to Smile. A grave, sharp-eyed little girl sells ankle bracelets on a cobble-stoned street. #passagetoindia
The Killer. A rogue wild elephant which killed five people is clad in irons while it is tamed and prepared for an occupation in the timber industry. #chaingang It's hard to tell from this angle, but this was a muscular animal, a Sylvester Stallone of elephants, but with a gaping red wound on its left ear inflicted during its violent capture. Partly responsible for its rehabilitation, the two mahouts (elephant handlers) in the foreground belong to a bonafide team of globetrotters who have delivered baby Indian elephants (calfs) to zoos across the world. #passagetoindia #reportage
The sun also rises. #passagetoindia
Electric Junction #passagetoindia
"Ships of the desert," I understand. But "cruise ships"? #passagetoindia
Mr. Intensity This gentleman entered my viewfinder while I was trying to capture the sheer chaos of a marketplace. I had about a second to turn the main dial on my great bazooka of a camera to its lowest aperture setting and take this image while enduring the most intense glare of suspicion. His sense of fashion caused a stir among the locals who had probably never seen a middle-aged man with such flair for facial hair or for wearing such white track shorts. He was utterly incongruous in this busy, messy Indian market overrun by people, stray dogs and roving cows. More power to him. #passagetoindia
If looks could kill. #passagetoindia
A Study of Contrasts When primness is confronted by a messy road. #passagetoindia
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SUTHERLAND, Graham (1903 - 1980)
Date: 1975-6
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 100.0 x 81.5 cm
Acquired: 1989; Transfer; Graham Sutherland Foundation
Accession Number: NMW A 2270
The rock in Dog Rock sits poised at the centre of the composition, balanced as if it could tip and pitch forward at any moment. The rock is placed in an ambiguous space: on one side foliage and flowers grow while the saturated red background suggests a man-made wall or construction. The sense of balance in this painting is common to many of the period. Sutherland explained: "I have always felt the need for an element of equilibrium... I have tried to control the unbalance".


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An attorney says musician Travis Barker has settled his lawsuit against several companies over a fatal plane crash in Columbia, S.C., last year.
Lawyer William L. Robinson, who represents some of the companies sued, said the terms of the settlement are confidential. He said the settlement involves all defendants, including Learjet, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the plane's owners and contractors.
The Blink-182 drummer was one of two survivors of the Sept. 19, 2008, plane crash that killed pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, and co-pilot and Carlsbad resident James Bland, 52, as well as two of Barker's friends, Chris Baker and Charles Still. Another survivor, celebrity disc jockey DJ AM -- whose real name was Adam Goldstein -- died of an accidental drug overdose in New York earlier this year.
Barker, who was severely burned in the crash, sued last November, claiming the companies improperly operated and maintained the Learjet that overshot the runway and burst into flames.


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