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The violence which wracked the western Indian state of Gujarat ten years ago has almost become a metaphor for a particular aspect of India's contemporary reality. The metaphor is described differently, depending on whether one is a supporter of Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi or an opponent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Justice Department Weighs In On NYC 'Stop-and-Frisk' Case
NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department has treaded carefully into the debate over the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk policy, telling a federal judge that it strongly endorses an independent monitor to oversee changes should she decide civil rights violations have occurred.
Lawyers for the Justice Department filed a 21-page statement of interest in the case late Wednesday, the last day to file paperwork. The court papers say the government wasweighing in "only in order to assist the court on the issue of remedy, and only should it find that NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices are unlawful." It did not say whether it believed the practices to be unconstitutional.
"The department has extensive experience working to ensure that police services are delivered in an effective, constitutional manner," the Justice Department said in a statement following the court filing. "Our statement of interest is intended to share our experience relevant to fashioning an appropriate remedy, should it be required."
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Sheindlin is considering whether to order reforms to the police policy after a 10-week bench trial in which a dozen people testified that they were stopped by police solely because of their race.
About 5 million people have been stopped by New York police in the past decade, most of them black and Hispanic men. Lawyers for the four men who sued say hundreds of thousands of those stops were unconstitutional, and they want a monitor to oversee changes to police department training, supervision and policy.
City lawyers, the mayor and the police commissioner have all argued that the stops are not wrongful, and the policy is a necessary crime-fighting tool that has helped drive down crime to record lows. Several police officials testified at the trial about how stops are conducted, and many officers disputed the witnesses' version of the encounter. In order to stop someone, police need reasonable suspicion, a standard lower than probable cause, which is needed to justify an arrest.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday lambasted the idea of a monitor.
"This is just a terrible idea, and it's not needed," he said, reiterating his arguments that such oversight could muddy officers' understanding of the rules and authority they are to follow.
"The NYPD has brought crime down in a ways that nobody, nobody thought was possible … The NYPD has just done a spectacular job, and it just makes no sense whatsoever when lives are on the line to change the rules and hamper the Police Department from doing their job. They comply with the law; we are 100 percent confident in that."
The Justice Department paperwork, first reported by the Daily News of New York, did not mention the merits of the other reforms requested.
In its statement, the Justice Department noted that it sought and secured reforms to police misconduct in dozens of law enforcement agencies nationwide, and gave the judge citations to peruse the cases. It singled out as a particular success a consent decree in Pittsburgh in 1997 where reforms were overseen by a monitor until 2002.
"An independent monitor can be essential to ensuring that complex institutional reform is achieved," the statement said.
In those cases, the Justice Department took a lead role in litigation and reforms, but it has not in the case against the NYPD. However, it is significant that the government is weighing in on the issue.
City lawyers argued the department does a good job policing itself with an internal affairs bureau, a civilian complaint board and quality assurance divisions.
Judge Scheindlin did not say when she would rule but promised it would be timely.
As for whether the city would appeal the ruling if a monitor is imposed, "it's all hypothetical," Bloomberg said. "We feel very strongly that we are doing what's right to protect the public, and we're doing it within the law."

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5 Fun After School Activities That Keep Kids Learning
A child's day doesn't end when the final school bell rings. In fact for many children it's just beginning. Where to go for ideas? Oddly, pull from what your kids love most about school — and think outside the sandbox. From the physical, to


text: After 10 days and nearly 2,000 photo submissions, there is a grand prize winner in the Pure Michigan Instagram challenge that highlighted Michiganders' favorite beaches.Gina Ferwerda of Silver Lake submitted the winning photograph that features kayakers at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes. The Instagram challenge kicked off earlier this month. Fans were invited to tag @PureMichigan and use the hashtags #PureMichigan and #BeachChallenge to enter. Winners were chosen daily. Ferwerda's prize is a variety of Pure Michigan beach items. Partners in the challenge included the state departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources. To see the complete gallery of photos from the challenge, visit michigan.org/beachchallenge. Anjana Schroeder: [email protected] Twitter: @anjanaschroeder


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Service opportunities are one of the five pillars of our Leadership Development* strategy in Uganda. Every year, teams of students in our Leadership Development Program (LDP) spend at least 10 days in remote villages of Uganda, serving the local people in those communities.
The students participate in projects such as home shelter construction for parents and caregivers of children in our Child Sponsorship Program; they also construct churches, build latrines for child development centers, rehabilitate roads, or clean village water sources.
In addition, these young leaders visit schools to speak to other young people about life skills necessary for a successful life, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and how to overcome it, and academic and career guidance, among other subjects.
LDP students also share their testimonies and the gospel of Jesus Christ with children and families through house-to-house visits and open-air evangelistic meetings.
In the following paragraphs, I would like to share four ways through which service opportunities are equipping and empowering these young emerging leaders.
First and foremost, service opportunities expose Leadership Development Program students to various needs in the communities around them. While the needs of a particular community might not be new to the students given their backgrounds, constant exposure leads to more critical thinking about these and similar needs elsewhere, and how they might be addressed.
Exposure to need always breeds new ways of thinking about why things are the way they are and what can be done to change the situation.
The students, both during service activities and upon returning to their campuses, also pray and seek God for direction on how to respond.
It is said that "the pain that somebody feels is the pain they can heal."
Secondly, students discover their gifts and passions while they are engaged in service activities. Many of the students surprise themselves when they discover that they can perform certain tasks, that they can take charge of a group to accomplish a task, and that they can share the gospel with someone and lead him to Christ.
Moreover, these small and big discoveries made during service time will be built upon and be maximized in the days ahead, both while the students are still in the program and when they have long graduated from the program. For some, these opportunities become the bedrock of their career development that eventually lead to their life mission.
Thirdly, LDP students realize the potential of the local church during service opportunities.
Most of our service opportunities' teams are hosted by the local church in the communities where the activities are conducted. Everything that the students accomplish is facilitated through partnership with the local church.
The students' leadership potential, and all the knowledge and skills they acquire, represent the gifts that the local church has. Personal and community transformation will come when these emerging leaders begin to exercise what they have experienced through service projects.
Last but not least, Leadership Development Program students observe firsthand how God mobilizes His church to carry out His mission in His world, and how they are a part of that mission. Students learn that service opportunities are a story of two groups — the hosts and the visitors — both members of God's Church, coming together to accomplish all the outlined tasks in a specified period of time.
Both have different resources to bring to the table for the same mission and purpose.
Reflecting on this fact, the emerging leaders must ask themselves,
"Where am I in God's missionary plan? What has God given me to bring to the table, in response to the problems around me?"
These are questions that we encourage them to ask while they are still in the program, but much more when they leave the program.
We are convinced that the students who participate in service opportunities cannot longer remain the same as they were prior to participating.
Their view of the world and their view of themselves change after such serving experiences. This is one of the ways through which we work to raise leaders who will be recognized for their godly character and influence, will mobilize to end the cycle of poverty that undermines their nations.
*This content honors our historical Leadership Development Program. To learn more about our current youth development opportunities, click here.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nicholas Kalyebara serves as a Leadership Development Program Specialist at our Ugandan Field Office. You can read more from Nicholas on his blog, Nicholas Kalyebara.


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Public Comment
Berkeley's Measure U: $1 million for sunshine? That's a stretch! And it would still be a bargain!
Opponents of Berkeley's proposed Sunshine Ordinance (Measure U) claim it would increase the cost of city government by between $1 million and $2 million annually.
They don't itemize that estimate; they just want you to take their word for it.
Even if it were accurate, the cost for each of Berkeley's 130,000 residents would be at most about $15.40 a year or just under $1.30 a month.
But if San Francisco's experience is any indication, the estimate is way off the mark.
After surveying city departments, San Francisco's Budget and Legislative Analyst said compliance with local and state sunshine laws carried "identified" costs of about $4.27 million in calendar 2011 – just over 0.6 percent of that city's fiscal 2011-12 budget of $6.83 billion – of which Sunshine Ordinance Task Force operations accounted for $997,676.
Bear in mind that the task force has a full-time administrator, while Measure U would mandate only a part-time secretary for Berkeley's Sunshine Commission.
The San Francisco analyst's report also pointed to a likelihood that without the task force, "some portion of complaints would be directed to other public bodies, such as the courts, which would in turn incur costs."
So the task force has saved the city untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in court expenses. And who knows how many millions of dollars the local and state sunshine laws have saved San Francisco by enabling the exposure or prevention of backroom deals?
Likewise, Measure U would likely bring a net cost savings to Berkeley's taxpayers. It's a bargain! And it deserves your "Yes" vote.
Richard Knee is *Member and past chairman, San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
*For identification purposes only. The foregoing is intended strictly as a conveyance of personal knowledge and opinion.


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Qu Hui, member of our forum, Scholars of Shen Zhou, has recently prepared some new Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel biographies: Xun You (Gonda), Jian Yong (Xianhe), Fa Zheng (Xiaozhi) and Lü Qian (Zike).
As many of you know the Three Kingdoms community once included a site called the Three Kingdoms Frontier. It was among the earliest successful Three Kingdoms sites published in English. If you recall this website you probably also remember when it went offline a few years ago, rendering much of its forum's content—including some excellent Sanguozhi translations—difficult or impossible to find. We were asked some time ago to rescue this content to Kongming's Archives. Although it has taken some time I'm going to begin with a few biographies today, and will follow up with more as time permits. From Stephen So (you may know him by his internet handle, Shu-Han Zhao Lie Di) some Sanguozhi biographies of Wei officers: Hao Zhao (Bodao), Li Dian (Mancheng), Wen Pin (Zhongye) and Xiahou Ba (Zhongquan). Additionally, co-translated by Stephen So and The Historian (another knowledgeable member who frequented The Frontier), Cao Zhen (Zidan).


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Checking in on… the Pac-10Posted by Brian Goodman on December 16th, 2010
Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Mountain West conferences.
A Look Back
- Much like the rest of the country, this week in the Pac-10 was mighty slow as student-athletes focused on their schoolwork in anticipation of winter break. And, much like the rest of the Pac-10 season to date, the three challenging games on the schedule this week for Pac-10 institutions all went down as losses, as Arizona got destroyed by BYU, Washington continued its run of losing to quality competition in a loss to Texas A&M (a loss that also sealed the Pac-10's fate in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Challenge) and Cal dropped a nail-biter against Southern Mississippi. With just a couple more weeks of non-conference play remaining, the Pac-10 is in danger again of having few if any viable candidates for at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament.
- Team of the Week: VACANT – Really. There's not a team out there that did anything this week to earn any accolades. Who is this supposed to go to? USC for beating Northern Arizona? UCLA for unimpressive wins over Cal Poly and UC Davis? Stanford for not slipping up against UC Riverside and North Carolina A&T? Cal for only losing to Southern Miss by two? Nah. There's just not a team in the conference that did anything worthwhile this week.
- Player of the Week: E.J. Singler, Sophomore, Oregon – While Singler certainly owes a portion of this award to the fact that it was a light schedule around the conference, he did his fair share to outright win this honor as well. Kyle's little brother averaged 16 points and 12 rebounds per game in leading his Ducks to a pair of easy wins over a couple teams with a combined record of 5-14, including Willamette of Division III, a game in which Singler went for 18/17 and three steals. So far this season, the versatile Singler is second on his team in scoring (13.1 PPG), and leads the team in rebounding (6.7 RPG), blocks (11 on the year) and threes (14-26 from deep), while putting in just a minute less than the team-leader in minutes, Joevan Catron.
- Newcomer of the Week: Faisal Aden, Junior, Washington State – Aden has moved to the bench with point guard Reggie Moore now back from his wrist injury, but his production hasn't slowed a whole lot. He added another 20-point game this week in WSU's by-the-books win over Texas Pan-American, with a season-high seven rebounds and another four three-pointers along the way, and is presently averaging 18.3 points per outing while hitting at a rate of 49.6% from the field. Aden's continued ability to providing a scoring punch off the bench makes the Cougars one of the top contenders for the conference crown.
- Game of the Week: Texas A&M 63, Washington 62 – Another week, and another disappointing Pac-10 loss takes home our Game of the Week honors, this time the Huskies coming up short in their attempt to beat somebody – anybody – of consequence. Despite their perfect 16-16 night from the foul line and the Aggies' imperfect night from deep (0-8 from three), the Huskies were outrebounded, outworked and outclassed by their Big 12 opponent. And yet, with time winding down, they still had a chance when Isaiah Thomas snuck up on Nathan Walkup in the open court and picked his pocket with six seconds left, then raced up court to the free throw line before running out of room and out of time. He forced a shot up as time expired into the waiting arms of Aggie junior David Loubeau who sent it back and, with it, sent the Huskies back to Seattle with three losses in their three attempts against top-tier opponents. Soon enough, all these Pac-10 teams will be playing each other, so we'll have to choose a game in which a Pac-10 team leaves victorious.
- Game of the Upcoming Week: USC at Kansas, 12/11, 9:00 AM PST, ESPN – While this would not normally be the type of game you would look down the schedule and circle, there are a couple of interesting debuts here that should have all college basketball fans – not just Pac-10 fans – very interested. For the Jayhawks, freshman guard Josh Selby will make his debut, while Trojan fans will get their first glimpse at their new point guard, Jio Fontan, a junior transfer from Fordham. While Selby's unveiling will get the most attention, given that he was a McDonald's All-American and one of the most highly regarded recruits in the nation this offseason, Kevin O'Neill and the Trojans are just as excited about Fontan. "He's our best player," O'Neill said. "He's our best leader. He's our best scorer. He's our best defender. He's our best passer. He's our best guard. He's our best player." Whether he'll be able to fit right in with the Trojans and move them beyond the up-and-down 6-4 squad we've seen so far remains to be seen, but O'Neill at least has some experience with getting midseason transfers to step in at point and change the look of his team, as Pat Gerrity did last season for USC. Last year, Gerrity stepped in about this time and led the Trojans to an improbable blowout win over then ninth-ranked Tennessee in his first game back. If Fontan can make anywhere near that type of splash in his first game back, the Trojans could head into Pac-10 play with postseason hopes.
Power Rankings
1. Washington State (7-1): Following this week's Washington and Arizona losses, it is time to bump the Cougars up to the top spot in the league, even in a week where all they did was post a 22-point win over an outmanned Texas-Pan American squad. This is far from a perfect WSU team, but they've cleaned up some of their weaknesses from last season – namely, defensive efficiency – and even improved on their strengths. Last season, Klay Thompson started out the season on fire, ripping through the non-conference schedule with a barrage of shots from deep, but this season he has clearly returned as a more complete player. He's added the ability to score off the dribble effectively, he's become a much more effective passer (he has led the team in assists thus far, stepping in as the team's playmaker as the incumbent point, Reggie Moore, sat out the first five games with a wrist injury), while still rebounding at a good rate (4.3 RPG). Throw in juco transfer Faisal Aden as a consistent offensive threat alongside Thompson, plus the return of Moore at point and frontcourt contributors like DeAngelo Casto and Marcus Capers, and the emergence of sophomore Brock Motum and freshman Patrick Simon and this is a solid WSU team that is not going anywhere once conference play kicks in.
Looking ahead: The Cougars travel to Santa Clara on Sunday before heading off to Honolulu for the Diamondhead Classic, where they'll open against Mississippi State (with Renardo Sidney and Dee Bost) with a potential matchup with Baylor awaiting in the semis, assuming both squads advance.
2. Washington (6-3): It cannot be said enough, just how disappointing the Huskies have been thus far. Sure, KenPom loves them, still rating them as the sixth best team in the country and the seventh most efficient offense in the land, but even a slightly closer look reveals a team with some cracks. Sure, their three losses are to Kentucky, Michigan State and Texas A&M – all three teams that figure to be dancing come March – but in all three of those games, they were outrebounded (in the Kentucky and A&M games, severely). Worse yet, for a vaunted offensive team, they turned the ball over, didn't shoot particularly well and were consistently slowed by their defensive-minded opponents. Then there's Isaiah Thomas, the pint-sized point with the over-sized game. However, thus far he has struggled to take on his new role as the team's go-to offensive player. In previous seasons he has been at best a secondary option for Lorenzo Romar, but now he needs to be the man for the team when the game is on the line, and thus far, he has been largely ineffective in the team's three losses: a 13-point average on a combined 10-32 with 11 turnovers and nine assists. Certainly, the team's three losses aren't entirely on Thomas' shoulders, but if he's going to take over the role of team leader, he'll need to be a lot more effective in their big games.
Looking ahead: A couple home games against San Francisco and Nevada round up the pre-conference slate (although the Huskies do have one more non-conference game with Seattle mixed in with their Pac-10 play) before the Washington schools visit the Los Angeles area in the last week of December to kick off the conference season.
3. UCLA (5-4): Following the Montana debacle, the Bruins got back on track this week with some ho-hum victories over UC Davis and Cal Poly at Pauley Pavilion. While names like Tyler Honeycutt, Reeves Nelson, Malcolm Lee and Joshua Smith (19 points and 12 rebounds against Cal Poly) jump off the box scores for UCLA, a closer look reveals signs of life from much-maligned point Jerime Anderson. Anderson handed out 11 assists against just one turnover while knocking down three of his seven three-point attempts in these two games and looked solid defensively. Clearly this means one of two things: either Anderson is starting to come around and, while he'll probably never live up to his advance-billing as a highly-regarded recruit, is ready to make solid positive contributions for Ben Howland, or he's more suited to play at the Big West level. Anderson's taken enough abuse in his first two seasons as a Bruin, so in the spirit of finding that silver-lining for a hard-working kid, either one of those possibilities is an improvement for a guy who has struggled mightily living up to his expectations in Westwood.
Looking ahead: The last major test for the Bruins before conference play comes Saturday in the Wooden Classic against BYU. However, given their earlier experiences with overlooking Montana following a tough loss at Kansas, UCLA would do well to pay attention when Montana State comes calling on Tuesday.
4. Arizona (8-2): There's no sense in beating around the bush: Arizona got completely destroyed by BYU in Salt Lake City on Saturday. A year after allowing Jimmer Fredette to go for 49 points at the McKale Center, the Wildcats were fortunate to hold the All-American candidate to a mere 33 points and nine assists in this year's matchup. Perhaps more disturbing than their inability to reign in Fredette – a guy who few teams in the country have been able to control – was their own inability to get their All-American candidate, Derrick Williams, free. Williams was efficient against BYU, tallying 13 points on nine shots, but the Cougars denied him the ball and collapsed on him when he did touch it, forcing other 'Cats to beat them. Sophomore point Momo Jones did his best, going for 20 points (on 7-11 shooting with four threes mixed in) in his best game of the season, but the rest of the team aside from Williams and Jones combined to make just nine of their 40 shots. At this, point the entirety of the Arizona resume is that they played Kansas sort of close on national television, losing by just eight. Sorry, but an eight-point loss as your best performance of the season doesn't present major qualifications for a conference title, even in a weakened Pac-10.
Looking ahead: The Wildcats host Northern Arizona in something called the Fiesta Bowl Basketball Classic on Thursday (even though the Fiesta Bowl is a football game, and one that won't even be played for about two more weeks), then travel to Raleigh for a pretty tough roadie against North Carolina State.
5. USC (6-4): The Trojans have been the epitome of an up-and-down team so far. They won their first two against less-than-stellar completion, then dropped their next two against only slightly better teams. Two more unimpressive wins followed, backed up by even more unimpressive losses. The good Trojans have been back for the last two, the upset of Texas a couple weekends back and their dispatching of Northern Arizona this week, during which senior point guard Donte Smith caught absolute fire in the middle of the second half, scoring 14 straight points to offer a strong response to an NAU team that had cut a 12-point halftime lead to just three. Smith started his run by knocking down a three, then stole the ball on the defensive end and turned that into a breakaway layup, before wrapping up his outburst with three more threes to send the Trojans on their way to an eight-point win.
Looking ahead: Given the Trojans two-up/two-down pattern, this week's road trips to Kansas and Tennessee look even less promising, although maybe newly eligible point guard Jio Fontan will be able to break the USC streak.
6. Arizona State (4-4): The Sun Devils played just one game this week, a 71-48 thrashing of Gardner-Webb, but there are some signs that they might be on the verge of turning things around. While sophomore Trent Lockett and freshman Kyle Cain have been pretty solid contributors for Herb Sendek this season, the Devils' trio of seniors (Ty Abbott, Rihards Kuksiks and Jamelle McMillan) have been disappointing. Not to read to much into a win over Gardner-Webb, but those three combined for 39 points, 12 rebounds, eight assists and nine threes in that win. Given that each of those guys has been a consistent contributor for the Devils over their time in Tempe, they might be ready to turn it on for conference play.
Looking ahead: The Sun Devils make a trip to Reno to face Nevada on Friday before returning home to host Long Beach State, a pair of games that should not be overlooked.
7. Cal (5-4): Three games into the season, Mike Montgomery looked like he was on the verge of pulling off something special in Berkeley. Despite losing four starters from last year's Pac-10 champion, along with a host of other reserves to various maladies and defections, the Golden Bears opened with wins over CS Northridge, New Mexico and Temple, the last two on that list particularly impressive. Since then, the Bears have gone 2-4, scored five points in a half on one occasion and followed that up with a 15-point outburst in a half the next night out, and have lost twice by 20 or more. This week's slip-up was quite a bit closer than that, as they lost at home to Southern Mississippi in a nail-biter, with the game undecided until a potential game-winning three by Jorge Gutierrez clanged off the heel at the buzzer. The Golden Eagles' Gary Flowers scored the last 12 points for Southern Miss on his way to a game high 28, including the game-winner with three seconds left, but the game was really won on the glass as Cal was outrebounded 31-22 on the game and 11-1 on the offensive end, an unsettling stat given the Bears' desire to rely on the toughness of their frontcourt duo of Harper Kamp and Markuri Sanders-Frison. One highlight for the Bears was junior Nigel Carter's 16 points on 4-4 shooting from deep, matching his entire output from last season in one afternoon. Carter hasn't exactly been a consistent scorer for the Bears this season (he has just 14 total points in the other eight Cal games), but after Sunday's performance, he has made eight of his 11 three-point attempts on the season.
Looking ahead: Cal hosts Cal Poly on Saturday before being the last of four Pac-10 teams to get a crack at Kansas (at least in the regular season) this year.
8. Stanford (6-2): Stanford got its first action since the 76 Classic in this week, although the competition wasn't exactly top-notch: UC Riverside and North Carolina A&T. Junior Jeremy Green led the way with nine three-pointers this week while averaging 20 points a night and junior Josh Owens stepped up as the likely candidate to be Green's running mate this season, notching 14.5 points and nine rebounds per game this week and proving himself a good Mr. Inside to Green's Mr. Outside. While Johnny Dawkins won't learn a whole lot about his team against competition of this caliber, at least the Cardinal had a chance to get back out on the court and get the relatively unexperienced team used to playing with each other.
Looking ahead: A significant bump up in the level of talent this week, as the Cardinal travel to Indianapolis for a meeting with Butler on Saturday before a Tuesday matchup with Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
9. Oregon (7-3): The Ducks continue to be rock solid under new head coach Dana Altman, generally beating the teams they are supposed to beat while giving solid efforts in their losses. This week the competition was meager (Willamette, a Division III school and Jacksonville State), but the Ducks took care of business with a great deal of maturity. Instead of sleepwalking through overmatched opponents, Oregon did exactly what they were supposed to do. They beat Willamette by 33 while dominating on the glass, then never trailed in the crisply-played game against Jacksonville State, handing out 20 assists on their 29 field goals. While I've still got Oregon down here near the bottom of the conference, this is a solid ninth-place team, a team that will not beat itself, that will give consistent effort on a nightly basis, and a team that will probably finish further up the standings despite the limitations of this roster.
Looking ahead: So far, the Ducks have played every game on their schedule within the friendly confines of the state of Oregon. That changes on Friday with a trip to Charlottesville to face Virginia, a significant test for a young Duck team. They return home on Tuesday to face Idaho at Mac Court.
10. Oregon State (4-5): I'm going to try to get through this Oregon State review without mentioning how bad this Beaver team is. Wait. Does that count? Oh well. The good news for the Beavers is that their savior has finally arrived. Highly regarded recruit Roberto Nelson has finally played his first game in a Beaver uniform, over 15 months since he first set foot on the campus as a student, after battling with the NCAA over academic eligibility issues. While his debut performance in the Beavers' 20-point win over Texas-Pan American was underwhelming (15 minutes, four points, three turnovers), OSU fans got a glimpse of the type of talent that made him a top-100 recruit a couple years back, as Nelson scored 13 in a five-point loss at Montana. While he's not going to turn this team into a contender overnight, he is a badly needed dash of talent on an otherwise very ordinary roster.
Looking ahead: George Washington and Illinois-Chicago visit Corvallis – two very winnable games for the Beavs.


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Nicole Scherzinger and her partner, Derek Hough, walked away from the 10th season of "Dancing With the Stars" with the mirror ball trophy, and for good reason: Nicole was consistently the best dancer.
She didn't noticeably learn anything or improve in any way. She was a highly trained dancer when she entered the competition, and she used that training (as well as a boatload of natural talent) to dominate throughout.
But in her victory over Evan Lysacek and Anna Trebunskaya lies the problem with the way the season was cast. Even though Evan was a gold-medal figure skater with readily transferable skills, he at least specializes in something other than dancing. Nicole, on the other hand, has been a singer-dancer all along as part of the Pussycat Dolls. Dancing is part of the reason she's a star in the first place.
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The show has been, in the past, about taking people who are famous in other pursuits and turning them into dancers. With Nicole, it has taken a famous singer-dancer and crowned her as a great dancer. The show can't even arguably claim to have taught Nicole to dance, the way it taught early winners such as Kelly Monaco and Drew Lachey.
This difficulty was crystallized in a rude faux pas in which judge Len Goodman declared that Nicole should win just before Evan and Anna performed their final dance, a performance he was supposed to be scoring. How would it feel to perform in front of judges, one of whom has already said you were out of the running?
On the one hand, the panel was in an impossible position. The judges were asked to judge dancing, and Nicole was the best dancer. She was well ahead of Evan in the finals before the audience votes were added. It was a contrast to past seasons, where the scoring often stayed close enough for the audience to mostly make the call.
The judges can't be faulted for having started to give Nicole 10s very early in the competition — she was better than everyone else. If anything, they tried to think of reasons to mark her down, from rule violations to failure to abide to the strict rules of each form, desperately attempting to make it look like she wasn't miles ahead in training and ability from the day she was added to the cast.
And it wasn't all bad for the show: Her high skill level (and, to a lesser degree, Evan's) allowed audiences to see some very good dancing. But with the ratings up this season, doesn't it seem likely that we're going to see more and more contestants who are effectively already famous for being dancers? Is that ever really going to be as much fun as watching a guy such as Emmitt Smith learn how to dance? Or Apolo Ohno? Is a singer-dancer dancing as interesting as a race-car driver dancing?
It's telling that the most moving part of the night had nothing to do with either of the finalists: It was the moment when Erin Andrews and Maksim Chmerkovskiy were eliminated in third place.
Unlike Nicole, Erin did improve markedly over the course of the season, and watching tape of her rehearsals, you could see how hard she had worked. She had needed encouragement, she had wondered if she could do it. She had felt frustrated and sometimes, she had flopped. So her departure — and especially the lovely moment when she and Maks danced together with all the pressure off — felt a little more satisfying.
Nicole, on the other hand, spent her rehearsal time speaking in abstracts about performance levels and — most unflatteringly — complaining about camera angles that might not flatter her. She was never worried about her dancing, and she never needed to be. She was the front-runner by a mile, from start to finish, if actual technical dancing skills were to be the deciding factor. Nobody ever saw Nicole genuinely frustrated. Nobody ever saw Nicole really fail. (Except in a highly cringeworthy backstage interview in which she agonized over a momentary lapse in her scores, saying, "I'm an artist! I'm not like other people!")
Nicole deserved her victory. She's a terrific dancer, and it's probably true — as the judges told her — that she's by far the best natural and technical dancer they've ever cast. That, unfortunately, is a trend that may well be repeated in future seasons, which will not be a good thing for the show.
Linda Holmes is a writer in Washington.


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Further global experts join Air New Zealand's Sustainability Panel
Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Christopher Luxon says the panel provides guidance and critique as the airline works to embed sustainable growth, with the new panellists bringing further expertise in social, economic and environmental issues.
"As leaders in their fields, our new appointments offer a global perspective to support our Board and Executive as we challenge ourselves to drive our sustainability agenda forward.
"Professor Jackson is at the forefront of research into sustainable economies, providing policy advice to numerous Governments on prosperity and growth - as well as stimulating public engagement on sustainability issues as a media commentator and playwright.
"Carbon management is a significant challenge for the aviation industry so we are pleased World Bank advisor and international emissions expert Dr Suzi Kerr will share her expertise as we work toward our industry target of carbon neutral growth from 2020."
Professor Jackson says he is delighted to join Air New Zealand's Sustainability Panel, particularly as the airline works to strengthen its social impact programmes.
"Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish within the limits defined by a finite planet, and I look forward to working with Air New Zealand as it explores this fundamental challenge."
Dr Kerr says research is fundamental to building a robust approach to carbon policy and offsetting, and she's excited to share her expertise with the airline.
"Air New Zealand is encouraging stronger climate change policy and I am pleased to work alongside the airline as it explores higher quality carbon offsetting options for New Zealand."
Air New Zealand's Sustainability Advisory Panel will meet in Auckland for the airline's annual sustainability breakfast event on Wednesday 4 October.
Founder and Director of not-for-profit Forum for the Future Sir Jonathon Porritt heads up the panel which comprises a number of New Zealand and international experts, including:
- Sir Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder and Director, Forum for the Future (United Kingdom)
- Dame Anne Salmond, New Zealand anthropologist, writer and distinguished professor of Maori Studies, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
- Sir Rob Fenwick CNZM, entrepreneur, business person and conservationist, Chair of Predator Free NZ and The Kiwi Trust (New Zealand)
- Brian Pearce, Chief Economist, International Air Transport Association (Switzerland)
- Dr Susanne Becken, Director of Griffith Institute for Tourism and Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith University (Australia)
- Dr Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (United Kingdom)
- Dr Suzi Kerr, Senior Fellow at Motu and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University (New Zealand)
Previous panellists Derek Handley and Suzanne Hunt finished their tenure on the panel earlier this year.
Christopher Luxon says the pair has brought immense value to Air New Zealand over the past two years.
"I'd like to thank Suzanne and Derek for the very important role they have played as critical friends of the airline as we commenced our sustainability journey."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 27 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
This contest is to design a logo for a new website called SpendSmart: This will be a new product from Chicago Research Partners: (http://www.chicagoresearchpartners.com/) - the parent website is being redone -
please read the full brief carefully. Design must be in Adobe Illustrator and photoshop/vector, jpg and gif
We are launching an new product called "SpendSmart" - think of it like an "amazon .com" type site for manufacturing companies. Our target market for this is manufacturing companies and investment bankers. So, it's important that the site be polished, clean, crisp - professional. The parent company site is in need of a complete overhaul, but we are moving toward a more clean look, so keep that in mind when creating the logo
- professional, clean, polished (not boring) looking logo
- since it's a buying site, we like the shopping bag motif, or something that evokes "buying"
- would be nice to incorporate the "smart"
- colors preferred: cool hues (blues, greens, violets)
- creativity - not the same old boring corporate look of just plain gray and blue
- cutesy, too casual - since this is going to be shown to bankers
- don't use "shopping cart" symbols please
- nothing cheesy
- don't be boring
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(Not lately, that's for sure!)
But anything new in the lives of hibby and hubby lately?
Well, hubby (dun da daaa!) graduated with his Masters. Woo hoo!
Then we moved to a different country.
Then I opened a cake stand shop.
All in all, a productive last several months, I'd say… Hopefully, in the next few, I can expound on living in Canada! (I'm loving it.)


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Templating in PHP
We use Templateing in PHP language itself to provide web interface for XCache.
Template Engines like Smarty is hot these years, but some ppl jump out and say: "STOP IT, php itself is Template Engine already". But well... the way XCache choose isn't to prove something right or wrong, but just to make XCache iself lesser dependency.
Difference between php-programs and php-templates?
I'm not the rule maker, but i can try to classify for you if you wanna know.
- Separate "Web Interface" logic from program logic(data/input processing/prepareing).
- Never interactive with something like sql or complex api etc.
- Use variable/data from your program/scripts, instead of making variable/data. (there can be some exceptions)
- If you want to do anything that does not affect any of the interface, do it outside of tempalate! It's not part of template.
Difference between php-templating and other xx-language-templateing?
- Use all simple goodies in php.
- Variable substitution is done easily. With heredoc or just write variable inside string.
- Loops/Functions? can be used to generate similar parts to reduce work. In Smarty u have, and only have "include", although u can use your own plugins.
- <?php echo $a; ?> is much more complex than {$a}. You won't complain about writing extra characters len('<?php echo $a; ?>') - len('{$a}'), but what if you gotta write 100 or 1000 of them?
- I wrote the tpl in about 10 minutes in smarty-alike language, but spent about 1 hr translating it into template in php language.
- It's ugly, unless you're "scripter only" instead of "i'm also web designer".
Anyway, we never want to lit a fire on this topic again, but to just explain what is used what we learned in XCache.


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Ok, I liedby admin on March 20, 2013 at 7:22 pm
I said I had more to post, and I thought I did. I was going to post a couple of short stories that I wrote a while back. But when I actually dusted off the files and took a look they were… they were just awful. It's going to take some major rewriting and probably a couple of writing classes before I am ready to show these stories anywhere. So that's it for not.
And thus we are done. I got nothing else sitting on my hard drive waiting to see the light of day.
Let me just give my final thoughts on the comics I showed here:
This was with out a doubt the most fun to write out of the scripts. There was no limit on the world or the characters, what ever crazy thing came to mind was fair game. It is also the most limited of the scripts I worked on in terms of appeal. "Random fun" comics are a very old format spanning back to the very origins of webcomics. As such it's a pretty well tread territory and frankly I only have so much wacky fun in me. While this was a fun comic to write I can tell I would quickly run out of ideas.
The one think I did like about this comic that did make it different from the others was that the two main character really did love each other. I get so tired of the will they/won't they story lines. A comic that features the next stage of a relationship is kind of fun and taken to the extremes of A2Z is very fun. Instead of arguing about how to replace toilet paper its over the world destroying weather machine. It's Mad About You with killer robots.
I think if I was good enough of an artist, this is the comic I would draw myself. But this comic just doesn't have the base in 2013 to support a contract artist.
Celine the Exquisite Corpse
We will put this under the heading of seemed like a good idea at the time. While Exquisite Corpse is a fun party game the nature of the writing quickly spins the comic out of control. This might work if there was an overseeing editor that was in charge of shaping and directing the story but. As it is this was just a dumb thing to do. Entertaining but dumb.
Sarah Finn
Honestly if I was looking for commercial success this is the comic I would go with. I know the rhythm of this type of story both in the mystery/monster of the week storyline and the TG body angst storyline. I know how to make money with this type of story and I have the contacts needed to bring it to life. I could do a good job with this comic.
The problem here is I am done with this type of story. I had 6 years on Exiern and I am just played out on the TG thing. Plus the adult aspect of Sarah Finn makes me a bit twitchy. I can very quickly undermine the comic if you are not careful with it. I found with Exiern the pressure to meet profit targets started to infiltrate my writing. I am just not good at separating the business man me who wants to include fanservice to make a profit and the writer who wants to keep the integrity of the story intact, fanserice be damned.
I would have to get someone to manage the business side of things and frankly keep profits a complete secret from me. Which is not impossible, Dan might be interested. But even then we are back to the TG thing. That's the hook of the story. Without it I really don't know what the core of the conflict is. And I am really and truly tapped out on TG.
I don't know with this one. Maybe with a bit more time and space I will come back to it. But right now I just don't feel like it.
This was my favorite script. I was something different and yet tied to so many things I love. The main character was different from all the "strong independent women" (http://youtu.be/7diBUMQVh4k) that litter modern fiction right now but still someone who was proactive with her life. Rachel was a meddler and a perfectionist. Her obsession with Defender was not so much love as just wanting to get the "best man" as if men were collectibles. She was powerful and yet flawed, and in both she was somewhat unique.
The problem here thought is the same thing I liked about about Rachel, her uniqueness. Rachel was a urban, latinia, yupie woman and I'm none of those things. As Rachel grew the superhero story I had planed for her just didn't feel right. And frankly writing for a character who can see the future is pretty tricky. My voice as a writer started to clash with Rachels voice in my head and the plans I had for the story started to unravel. I was left with a good character and a good conflict but no idea how to write them.
I still feel like there is something here. Something grand. But I don't know anymore if I am the one to bring it to life. I tried to find collaborators for this story but none of them worked out. Perhaps as I mature as a writer I can come back to this one day but for the time being I am just lost on this story.
Not done yetby admin on September 19, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Tejedora has ended but we are not done with pages. I am just a little swamped right now. We will finish up with the last story October 1st.
It's a webcomic about nothing!by admin on April 26, 2012 at 8:33 pm
He welcome to my little aside here. I will be updating this site 3 times a week until I run out of material. Right now I have around 50 pages of unpublished material so that equates to 4 month of updates. After that? Who knows. If people like a paticular story or setting I'll spin it off into it own thing. Otherwise it's 4 months of free comics. Granted 4 months of free comics that don't really have beginnings or ending but still 4 months of free comics.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are entertained.


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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: John Adams
Fearful Symmetries is an ever-changing cascade of dancers costumed in vibrant tones of red with a racing score by celebrated American composer John Adams.
Peter Martins has choreographed 11 ballets to the music of the prolific American composer John Adams since creating his first work to the composer's music, The Chairman Dances, for New York City Ballet's American Music Festival in 1988. Fearful Symmetries, choreographed in 1990 to the score of the same name, was the second ballet Martins made to music by Adams. The score was commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and was first performed at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in October of 1988.
In describing Fearful Symmetries, Adams has said, "It is for sure a seriously aerobic piece, a Pantagruel boogie with a thrusting, grinding beat that governs at least two-thirds of its length. Perhaps partly for this reason, it's become my most choreographed work, with over a dozen different versions, including those by The Royal Ballet and the New York City Ballet. What appeals to me most about the piece is the timbre: It mixes the weight and bravura of a big band with the glittering, synthetic sheen of techno pop (samples and synthesizer) and the facility and finesse of a symphony orchestra."


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I'd love to teach people how to sketch if the opportunity ever happens. Wish had known 30 years ago what I know now about concept sketching.
The Art of Concept Sketching
I occasionally get to work on lettering for book and magazine covers. I enjoy this as I get to create elegant letterforms and they all start with very rough quick sketches. It has taken a lifetime to learn how to sketch in the practical manner of jotting down ideas. Everything gets refined in vector format and there is no need to spend hours on a sketch to exchange ideas with a client. This is one of the best forms of direct client communication in the daily business of lettering.


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Tag: Aldo Nova
4 Aldo Nova – S/T (Release Year – 1982)
It has been 26 long years since Canadian musician, Aldo Nova, released his first album. His 1982 debut feature material put together almost entirely by himself, with a little bit of help with some studio musicians. On the strength of his hit single Fantasy, this album went all the way to # 8 on the Billboard charts. This album would eventually go multi platinum in the United States.
The sound of this record is pretty common for the early 80's. It is a keyboard laded pop metal, that reminds me a lot of the early sound of Bon Jovi. Aldo Nova proves to be a very good guitar player. When you hear him cut loose on the guitar, you will wonder where he has been hiding, and why you haven't heard more about him over the years.
For this listener, Fantasy is the hardest song on this album, and one of the few songs I still enjoy. The rest of the material is more in the line of AOR than hard rock.
Yes, there are some heavy guitar riffs here and there, but I have heard a lot of better material than this over the years. If you are looking for a copy of the tune Fantasy, this is place to get it. While this release may have been somewhat influential to the hair metal scene, It is only slightly above average to my ears.
This CD has been out of print for a while, but was recently remastered and reissued in April 2008. AOR and melodic rock fans may want to check this disc out.
Rating:Out of 10
Track Listing:
1. Fantasy
2. Hot Love
3. It's Too Late
4. Ball And Chain
5. Heart To Heart
6. Foolin' Yourself
7. Under The Gun
8. You're My Love
9. Can't Stop Lovin' You
10. See The Light
Aldo Nova is:
Aldo Nova – Vocals, Guitars and Keyboards
Michel Pelo – Bass Guitar
Michel Lachapelle – Drums


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Some new pixelboard sign messages on the 401 today, including one that gave my heart a wee flutter:
By definition, this means if someone - ANYONE - is going faster than you, pull over to the right and let them pass.
It is the law, after all, clearly stated in two separate sub-sections of the Highway Traffic Act.
The signs (and the laws) also make no reference whatsoever to WHAT speed you're going. "Slow-ER" is a relative, not an absolute, term.
Just because you're obeying one law (the speed limit) does not give you the right to break two others.
The wording is not quite as strong as "ALL TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT" would be, or, as they say in Australia, "KEEP LEFT EXCEPT WHEN OVERTAKING" (their 'left', of course, is our 'right').
But I'll take anything I can get.
The sad thing, as regular readers know all too well, is that the people who design our highways don't seem to know the people who prepare the pixelboard signs (or the Highway Traffic Act).
So they keep designing the lanes such that the driving lane keeps disappearing.
This is illogical, dangerous, confusing, and Beyond Stupid.
And it's one area where the Australians are no smarter than we are - their driving lane keeps disappearing too.
What's wrong with these people? Why do only England and Germany (and Newfoundland, bless their hearts) seem to get this right?
And why can't I flush some of these highway designers out so they can try to explain to me why they keep doing it wrong?
Or so maybe I can beat some sense into them...


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Hi everyone, I have been off of the supermoto market for way too long and it seems like I am getting to the realisation that most of the names I used to know are just a long gone memory.
The question actually is, what supermoto (new) can someone buy in UK? Is there anything available beyond the usual suspects of the like of KTM and Ducati? Just to put things in context I am coming from the days when the DRZ-400SM was still a thing in Europe, as well as the Aprilia SXV, or Husaberg, or CCM, etc.
What about the about the CRF? Is it still an insane choice or the engine improved? Or the the husky SMR for instance... I guess, as you can see, that I need a fairly decent crash course about the current status of the market out there, so please don't be shy and pass any info you have or think could be relevant.
Also possibly worth mentioning that I am after an agile lightweight supermoto, with a good balance between reliability and fun that can be used both as daily commuter or for short trips here and there. Conversions are also welcome if they are a viable solution.
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No team in MLS has less experience coming from behind this season than Real Salt Lake.
Before Saturday's game in Chicago, RSL had trailed for a total of five minutes in one game. And that was way back on March 15 at San Jose, when the Claret-and-Cobalt turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 lead before it became a 3-3 tie.
Despite going down 2-0 in Chicago — RSL's first multi-goal deficit of the season — the league's last unbeaten team (4-0-5) insisted nobody was worried at halftime. And that their keep-calm-and-carry-on attitude contributed to Salt Lake's three late goals, including two in the game's dying minutes, and a rather astonishing 3-2 victory on the road over the Fire.
"We weren't playing bad," RSL captain Kyle Beckerman said of his team's first-half performance. "We gave up two shots and two goals."
It looked worse than that at times. For long stretches, actually. Salt Lake's defense looked dazed and confused, giving up a 22nd-minute goal to Mike Magee, who followed up on RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando's save on Harry Shipp. And confusion reigned once again when Juan Luis Anangono slammed a header home in the 30th minute.
But RSL came out of the locker room after halftime surprisingly optimistic.
"We created several good chances" in the first half, RSL Coach Jeff Cassar told reporters. "[Fire goalkeeper] Sean Johnson made a couple of unbelievable saves. And I was really, really happy with the way things were going."
As were his players.
"We felt like if we could keep playing the way we were … we could get one," Beckerman told reporters. "And once we got one, we knew that the comeback was possible."
Despite the deficit, the talk at halftime was "positive," according to Cassar. "It was — continue to keep doing the things that we're doing, 'cause all it takes is one. And then everyone starts to get a little bit nervous."
Chicago did indeed begin to look nervous when RSL forward Joao Plata scored to make it 2-1 in the 72nd minute. Cassar, who has yet to lose since taking over as RSL head coach this season, looked more like a riverboat gambler going for broke. His three substitutions all pushed his team forward — Sebastian Velasquez on for Luke Mulholland and offensive-minded defender Abdoulie Mansally in for fellow defender Chris Wingert in the 69th minute. And then forward Olmes Garcia entered for defender Nat Borchers in the 88th minute.
The substitutions opened RSL up to Chicago counterattacks that never quite materialized. And the Fire looked downright depressed when Alvaro Saborio equalized in the 90th minute.
"Heck, after they got the second one, they were, like, 'We might win this game!'" Cassar said.
Which, confidence aside, was not something anyone was talking about in the RSL locker room at halftime.
"For me, I was happy to get out of there with a tie," Beckerman said. "But then, when you kind of saw what was unfolding, I figured, 'We might get a third here.' And, sure enough, we did."
Weirdly enough, last week's 2-2 tie-that-felt-like-a-loss, when RSL gave up two late goals at home to Vancouver, inspired the Claret-and-Cobalt in Chicago.
"Our feeling was — hey, look what happened to us last week. Why can't we do it the other way around on this one?'" Beckerman said.


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Letter, John James Ingalls to Dear Father [Elias T. Ingalls]
Author: Ingalls, John James
Date: February 11, 1859
In this brief letter from the Senate Chamber, Lawrence, Kansas, February 11, 1859, Ingalls writes about the bill abolishing slavery in Kansas Territory; it was passed too late to give the legislature a chance to override an almost certain veto by Governor Medary. The bill only passed after a "spirited and angry debate."
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John James Ingalls Collection, #177, Box 1, Folder 2
Item Number: 102106 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Civil rights; Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900; Kansas Territory. Legislature - Lawrence; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864; Slaves in Kansas Territory; Weather
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It was a genuine bolt from the blue. The rapid elevation of Mystics' benchwarmer Bailey Mes into the Silver Ferns netball team to face Australia next month has been rated as the biggest selection shock since Rachel Hunter was chosen to host the Halberg Awards.
So how did a player that had just 15 minutes of court time in the ANZ Championship this season, and equally limited appearances in previous years, force her way into the national team?
By all accounts Mes was extremely impressive during last week's trials. With Silver Ferns coach Waimarama Taumaunu keen to canvas all potential options in the midcourt, Mes was invited alongside a handful of other young players to trial.
What set Mes apart from the other young invitees and existing squad members Grace Rasmussen and Anna Thompson was, in Taumaunu's words, "she was one of the top few in the aerobic testing, in her standing jump and in her speed. So if you have all that in 186cm running around the midcourt, that's a major factor".
Taumaunu appears confident she can turn a great athlete into a great player. But this strategy does not always work.
Remember Larrissa Willcox? Nobody would blame you if you don't.
Willcox, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Perth, was selected in the Ferns in 2009 despite some inconsistent form for the Canterbury Tactix.
When asked about the reasons for her selection, one of the key factors highlighted was her athletic physique. She was strong, determined, and killed it on the fitness tests.
It was hoped Taumaunu, who at the time was assistant coach to Ruth Aitken, could turn Willcox into a more skilled and canny defender.
But you can't coach intuition.
Willcox went on to play two games for the Silver Ferns against a world seven selection team, but after an average 2010 season in the transtasman league she has not been heard of since.
The selection of Mes highlights a conundrum coaches in all codes have grappled with from time to time - how much value do you place on work ethic, fitness and conditioning over natural flair and ability?
When creativity and flair are often coupled with unpredictability, the hard working grafter can be seen as the safer bet.
But there are still big risks to throwing Mes into the cauldron of international netball too soon. Given the debate that has raged over her surprise elevation, there will be a lot of pressure on the youngster to prove her worth when she does take the court. If it goes badly it could be a significant setback to both the team and Mes' confidence.
But the selectors' bold call also has positive spin-offs.
Taumaunu has sent a strong message to her squad that you are never simply entitled to step into another player's shoes when spots open in the team. It is never anyone's "turn" to wear the black dress. You need to earn your place.
Mes' unlikely elevation can only help breed a competitive environ-ment in the squad, which helps build depth for pinnacle events.
As for how the new-look midcourt fares against Australia next month, perhaps a remark from Taumaunu at last week's trials is most telling. "I'm excited about the long-term - we'll see what happens in the short term."


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We've not launched the site yet - it's still under development, but we'd like to start the design process with a good, solid logo.
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Brief tenure belies Byrd's connection to Bucs
PITTSBURGH -- Marlon Byrd's time in Pittsburgh was not long, but it was memorable. He made sure of that with one swing of the bat, which sent 40,487 black-clad Pirates fans into a frenzy last October.
Byrd, whom the Bucs acquired from the Mets last August, spent just 30 regular-season games and six postseason games with the Pirates. But he was an important acquisition as the team made the playoffs for the first time since 1992. On Friday, the outfielder stepped into a PNC Park batter's box for the first time since October, striking out in a Phillies uniform in the second inning.
Byrd hit .318/.357/.486 in his 30 regular-season contests with the Pirates, and his second-inning home run off Cincinnati's Johnny Cueto opened the scoring in Pittsburgh's Wild Card Game victory. Byrd, 36, said that game was his favorite memory of the month and a half he called the Steel City home, but he said he cherished "every second."
"It was a great experience, being in this city," he said. "Seeing everyone wearing Pittsburgh Pirates jerseys instead of Steelers jerseys in September was very different for this city."
Byrd, who had a .364 average, .982 OPS and five RBIs in six playoff games -- the first postseason experience of his 13-year career -- signed a two-year, $16 million deal with the Phillies this offseason. He said teams were aggressive when trying to sign him and that he thought his strong finish with the Pirates had something to do with it.
"It changed [my career] around," Byrd said. "Not just showing last year, coming back and re-establishing myself. It showed I could play in the playoffs and help a team win. It was huge, especially for a team that was ready to win."
Pirates fans were re-introduced to Byrd on Friday as the Phillies and Bucs opened a three-game set. Byrd entered the series hitting .267 with 16 homers and 49 RBIs this season, and he batted fifth in the Phillies' order.
"One warm reception and then boos after that," Byrd said of what he anticipated from the crowd. "It's a great city with great fans; they love their teams. They know what I did here last year."


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Police said Monday they suspect a man was on drugs when he rammed his car through the front of a Wal-Mart in California and began assaulting customers, injuring four people.
Haamid Ade Zaid, 33, of Seaside was being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Jail for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, being under the influence of drugs, and resisting arrest, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said.
"In my 18-year career I have never seen anything like this," Morales told the San Jose Mercury News. "After looking at some of the pictures, it's amazing he didn't hit anybody with the vehicle."
Calls to the store by The Associated Press were not immediately returned. It was open for business on Monday.
Zaid was arrested on Sunday after a red, Oldsmobile Cutlass crashed through the San Jose storefront and hit a beer display before stopping near the pharmacy.
The driver got out of the car with a blunt object and began attacking people, police said. No motive has been determined.
About 70 people were inside the store, near the scene of the crash. One sustained serious injuries.
Morales did not know the extent of the injuries to the other three people but said they were not life-threatening. A store employee was among those injured.
Two cars were struck in the parking lot before the car crashed into the store.
Customer Sharon Kaye told the Mercury News the driver sideswiped her car as he made several runs around the parking lot before driving between poles at the entrance of the store.
"At first, I thought I may have done something to anger him while driving," she said. "But then I realized he was out to get into the store."
After the crash, workers put up large boards to cover the automatic doors smashed by the car. The store remained shut down for several hours, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Kory Lundberg told the newspaper.
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Holland Municipal Stadium, the home of Hope College Flying Dutchmen football since 1979, could soon have a new playing surface.
The Holland City Council has taken the next step that could lead to the installation of synthetic turf at the stadium in time for the next (2012) season.
City of Holland officials and representatives from Hope College and Holland Public Schools are working on an agreement that would create a joint partnership for developing a stadium facility of greater quality as well as a long-term management plan. Formation of the formal partnership is in process.
Holland City Council action on December 14 authorized seeking proposals for the design and engineering costs that would lead to the synthetic turf installation.
The Flying Dutchmen have played their home football games at city-owned facilities for many decades. Hope called Riverview Park (now a recreation area near FreedomVillage) their home from 1932-78.
The Flying Dutchmen moved to the newly constructed Holland Municipal Stadium, which is south of the college's outdoor athletic complex, in 1979. The lighted stadium seats more than 5,000 fans. It is shared with the Holland High School football team. Because of the amount of use by the two programs, the natural grass surface has frequently deteriorated over the course of the season.
"Our kids love playing at Holland Municipal Stadium," said coach Dean Kreps. "The change in surfaces will enhance their playing experiences."
The Flying Dutchmen have a 33-year record of 89-56-3 at Holland Municipal Stadium, including a 4-1 mark this past season.
Just east of Holland Municipal Stadium, construction is underway on a new college-owned 12-court outdoor tennis stadium. The complex will provide Hope athletes with a site they have needed for years and will serve community tennis enthusiasts. It is scheduled for completion next summer.


text: Those of you who know me might find this hard to believe, but I'm out of GAS. Maybe it's because BaM is dead. Maybe it's because I have finally come to accept that I will never catch up to Pete's 46 PRS in four years (24 for me). Maybe I have just learned to appreciate what I have hanging on my wall instead of seeking to acquire every shiny new thing. Or, maybe it's because my DGT STD hit a massive tonal sweet spot that has enraptured me, that has enthralled me, that has so captured my attention that I'm spending a great deal of time learning the nuances of this guitar. I fear that this may supplant the 2008 DGT clownburst with underwound pickups as my #1.


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By: Karen - KI4GOT (Visit Karen's Farm Here)
Chicken genetics seem to be an endless source of confusion for so many people. I've taken a number of genetics courses in college, and at first they even confused me, but I also didn't know much about what the various mutations looked like in comparison to a number of different breeds. When I first started keeping chickens again, I had no idea where to start in determining what mutations were involved in some of the varieties I had.
Since then, I've done more research into specific colorations found in certain breeds, such as Bantam Cochins and Dorkings, and have gained a greater understanding of what goes into each variety. It also doesn't help that the same color in one breed may be called something else entirely in another. For example, comparing Brahma's to Cochins, a Light Brahma is also known as Columbian in the Cochins, while a Dark Brahma is known as Silver Penciled in the Cochins. Silver Grey dorkings are known as Silver Duckwing in many varieties, Red Dorkings are also called Black Breasted Red (aka BBR), or Red Duckwing in other breeds.
Before I start, let me mention that I tend to refer to mutations as having 1 or 2 copies of the gene, while the description below mentions each gene having 2 alleles. This is just 2 ways of saying the same thing. Here's a brief review of what DNA is.
Quote from http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics:
Living things are made of millions of tiny self-contained components called cells. Inside of each cell are long and complex molecules called DNA. DNA stores information that tells the cells how to create that living thing. Parts of this information that tell how to make one small part or characteristic of the living thing – red hair, or blue eyes, or a tendency to be tall – are known as genes.
Every cell in the same living thing has the same DNA, but only some of it is used in each cell. For instance, some genes that tell how to make parts of the liver are switched off in the brain. What genes are used can also change over time. For instance, a lot of genes are used by a child early in pregnancy that are not used later.
A living thing has two copies of each gene, one from its mother, and one from its father. There can be multiple types of each gene, which give different instructions: one version might cause a person to have blue eyes, another might cause them to have brown. These different versions are known as alleles of the gene.
Since a living thing has two copies of each gene, it can have two different alleles of it at the same time. Often, one allele will be dominant, meaning that the living thing looks and acts as if it had only that one allele. The unexpressed allele is called recessive. In other cases, you end up with something in between the two possibilities. In that case, the two alleles are called co-dominant or incompletely dominant.
There are two types of mutations. Autosomal and Sex-linked. All the mutations known in chickens are autosomal, with the exception, for all mammals and birds, of one pair of sex-determining genes. In people, men are shown as X/Y, while women are X/X. In poultry, the hen is designated as X/- while the rooster would be X/X. Each parent donates 1 allele from each gene in the DNA strand. Only the X chromosome carries genetic information, the /Y or /- sex determining chromosome does not carry any other information.
There are so many mutations and so many breeds, it can be overwhelming to say the least. It also doesn't help that a number of mutations react differently when combined with others. What I'd like to do here is to explain the basic functions of some types of mutations...
**NOTE: When you see a mutation abbreviation with + next to it, that refers to the normal or wild type gene that is not affected by any mutation. Essentially, a Black Breasted Red is unaffected by any mutations at all. It is the coloration found in the original Jungle Fowl that chickens descended from. Mutations shown capitalized are considered dominant, while lower case letters are recessive. Sometimes there are multiple mutations found on the same gene, and even though several might be recessive, there is a dominance of one over another.
Recessive mutations always require 2 copies of the gene (aka matching alleles) to be visible, while dominant mutations only require 1 copy to be present for the mutation to be apparent. There are also dominant mutations that are known as 'incompletely dominant', where only 1 copy of the gene gives you one visual type while 2 copies gives you another.
The mutations known to chickens typically do one of three things. They affect pattern, red pigmentation (known as pheomelanin) and black pigmentation (known as eumelanin). The pattern genes can be some of the most confusing, so I will leave that for last. Some mutations affect roosters and hens differently.
Kippenjungle's Chicken Calculator is a handy tool for anyone wanting to learn how genes interact with each other. All pictures (other than photos) below are from there and show only the single gene effect on an otherwise wild type bird. Another note - although the images are basically the same for some mutations, there are slight differences when shown on a live bird. These images are just to give you the basic idea of what it does.
For the most part, pheomelanin and eumelanin are affected in one of 2 ways. They are either enhanced (made darker) or restricted (made lighter).
These mutations are:
· Mahogany (Mh) - dominant, enhances red but limits some black.
· Dilute (Di) - dominant, dilutes red and gold pigments.
· Champagne Blond (Cb) - dominant, dilutes gold pigments.
· Inhibitor of Gold (ig) - recessive, changes gold pigments to yellow (lemon).
· Silver (S) - sex-linked incompletely dominant, turns red to white in roosters and turns brown to grey and lightens the salmon breast (when present) in hens.
· Dark Brown (Db) - refers to color of chick down. Columbian-like restrictor of black. Less effective on hens. Reacts with other mutations to cause some patterns and acts under Birchen.
· Melanotic (Ml) - dominant, enhances black pigments. Also shifts black pigment helping form patterns in the presence of other genes.
· Charcoal (cha) - recessive black enhancer.
· Chocolate (choc) - sex-linked recessive, dilutes black pattern to chocolate color.
· Dominant White (I) - dilutes black patterns to white (sometimes leaky).
· Dun (Id) - incomplete dominant. 1 copy dilutes black to brown, 2 copies dilute further to khaki.
· Smokey (is) - recessive blue. changes the effects of dominant white to a blue color. recessive to wild type i+
· Blue (Bl) - incompletely dominant, 1 copy dilutes black to blue/grey, 2 copies dilute further to splash.
· Recessive White (c) - no expression of any color, thus white feathers.
· Lavender (lav) - recessive, dilutes black to lavender, dilutes gold to isabell. The American Poultry Association (APA) refers to the lavender color as "Self Blue".
Pattern genes are complex and often confusing. They may simply change the coloration of each feather, only certain areas of a bird or even areas only on a single sex. Quite often they also respond differently in the presence of other restricting or enhancing mutations listed above.
The e-locus mutations are sometimes the hardest to understand, since many affect each sex differently. They may also modify (or be modified by) other genes present.
· Wild Type (e+) - Males black breasted with red duckwing (wing triangle), hackle, saddle, shoulders. Females brown-gold with salmon breast, black stippling on back and black tail.
· Extended Black (E) - Dominant, turns the wing triangle black, changing it from a duckwing to a crow-wing. Males become a rusty black, hens less rusty black.
· Birchen (ER) - Turns wing triangle black (crow-wing) but leaves hackle and saddles normally marked. Black breast can be laced. Somewhat flattens red tints.
· Wheaten (eWh) - Least permissive for black, most permissive for red. Males are wild type without hackle black, females wheaten colored without salmon breast and almost no stippling on back.
· Partridge (eb) - Males are wildtype but somewhat heavier black striping in hackle. Hens are wildtype but without salmon breast. (Not to be confused with the color Partridge, in which hens are double laced)
The mutations affecting feather patterns are probably the easiest to understand (at least for me).
· Columbian (Co) - restricts black from the body of both males and females, also suppressing the salmon breast in hens. leaving the hackle pattern and black tails. Does not have any effect on ER (birchen) birds.
· Pattern gene (Pg) - changes the black pigment in hens to concentric penciling, males remaining unchanged except in the presence of certain other genes.
· Barred (B) - sex-linked dominant. produces alternating bars of black and white pigment. Males with 2 copies of the gene will appear lighter and the barring finer and more distinct, where males with only 1 copy will resemble females with wider and less distinct barring (sometimes darker overall coloration).
· Mottled (mo) - recessive, giving white feather tips or less regular white patches.
When you start combining certain mutations you can get some drastic differences from what you might expect, and some different combinations produce nearly the same result.
· Co, Pg, Ml - single lacing
· Co, Ml - quail-type pattern, columbian with patterned back
· Db, Pg, Ml - spangling
· Db, Pg - autosomal barring (quilt pattern)
· Co, Db, Pg, Ml - single lacing (sometimes half moon spangling) with patterned tail
· Co, Db, Ml - quail-type pattern, columbian with patterned back
· Db, Ml - quail-type pattern, columbian with patterned back
· Co, Pg - incomplete single lacing
I should also mention though, all of the talk of colors has NOTHING to do with breed requirements in regards to type or conformation. For more information on specific breed requirements I recommend purchasing the APA Standard of Perfection, available directly from the APA at http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/store.htm
Here are a few other examples of a few patterns and combinations, including some not mentioned above, that you might find when dealing with laced varieties.
Also included are a few pictures of REAL birds, to give an idea of some of the colors listed above...
Leigh's Blue and Splash Swedish Flower Hens. These birds have the blue gene (Bl/bl on the left, Bl/Bl on the right), in addition to mottling (Mo) and columbian (Co) that give the typical calico/mille fleur pattern.
My own blue laced red bantam Wyandotte rooster and a splash laced red Wyandotte (LF) pullet. The mutations involved in these birds involves the pattern gene (Pg), melanizing (Ml) and columbian (Co) which give the classic lacing, plus blue (Bl/bl for the roo & Bl/Bl for the hen) and Mahogany (Mh) to deepen the intensity of the red.
This next pair are both Red Dorkings, essentially the wild type of chickens, having no mutations at all.
The three birds in the foreground are silver grey Dorkings (two hens on the left, rooster on the right). The only mutation involved in these birds is silver (S). To the right (chopped off a bit) and also the picture below are two dilute red Dorkings. I'm not positive of the exact genome, but these two girls have dilute (Di) and the one below may possibly also have mahogany (Mh), which would explain the darker red head and breast than the one above.


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Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Remembering his first glimmers of vocation as a boy in power-charged mid-century Chicago, Tom Clark has given us some of the most beautiful American Poems that I know. At the Fair is the work of a living master. -- Aram Saroyan
Not nostalgia transports us here, but the sweet pulse of "vanished ephemerae", love of the Voyage, the illumination, and "throbbing rituals" of a life lived always inside poetry. Tom Clark's prodigious archive of memory trembles on the edge of a teetering universe, calls us back toward the imagination of Reverdy, Vallejo, Ungaretti as witness to the power and thrust and ethos of language. "The universe is strange, the universe is dangerous, the universe doesn't answer the phone." Indeed. But Clark does answer here for all us dreamers. -- Anne Waldman
I read At the Fair driving through the vertiginous rock castles of Utah on the way to Moab, and it hit me like a gong in perfect synch with the incredible landscape. Memory, time, and the suffering of puny humans who resonate nonetheless with beauty, are indelible in this work; it is majestic, profound, and smart. For a language-user that's about the utmost. You can read this in a cave and you'll know grandeur. -- Andrei Codrescu
Doors swing open on this shock of light. Here you will experience scripts and mind-telegrams, shapely in nerve and essence, moving always, and moving on. A circus at the settlement's edge: with memory-movies, new songs, and travellers' tales. We are reminded of frontier days when poetry was the better politics, proud inside itself. As Tom Clark's fresh voice echoes, and re-echoes, so beautifully, in the head. Across oceans and continents from Mediterranean California. And back. Mind kites in marine haze. Streaks. Showers.
"A theory of games is not the same thing as games," the poet says. Hitting on the precorporate is no retreat. Let this book happen. Its pleasures are subtle and true. -- Iain Sinclair
What a world. Every sinew in Tom Clark's verse-and-prose combine, taut and eloquent as can be, answers to a bevy of emergent occasion beyond the door, under the bed and in every phantom portfolio, whatsoever the unseen powers have slipped over gadzillion cubicles and the overextended imaginations of this our Earth. The poet's smooth lines and sudden-sprung fancy are the gentle observer's only comfort here. Large as that is, expect no closure as the page flips from "This is where we came in" to "So here we go." Go with Tom, boldly. -- Bill Berkson
"M'illumino / d'immenso," as Ungaretti wrote in Santa Maria La Longa on the 26th of June, 1917; "Morning arrives / Big Time // (Morning arrives / Wide Eyed)," as Tom Clark 'translates' it, in Berkeley, California, on the 12 of June, 2010. What a pleasure it was for me to read it that morning, posted there on his blog (http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/) accompanied by an array of amazing photos -- closeup of a "Peach Glow" water-lily just after rain; astronaut's view of an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption, Mt. Cleveland, Alaska; the Hubble Space Telescope's image of the Cone Nebula (seven light years long, 2,500 light years away); one final closeup of Red-eyed Tree Frog standing on a bright green leaf near Playa Jaco, Costa Rica. So now too what a pleasure to read this book, having seen it 'in pieces' each morning with the pictures that are here 'missing.' But if these words are all that remain of such an original work (words plus pictures), are they 'ruins' -- Shelley's "shattered visage" around which "the lone and level sands stretch far away"? Yes, in one sense, because the poems are (as Tom says in a comment on the blog) "a mythic history of presence within the irretrievably lost"; but also no, since the words are still here, and in each present moment of reading invite us to imagine those now missing pictures along with the "disquietudes" of the world they look at and think about and feel, the one that "Just before sunrise... seems to wobble slightly on its axis." And so as Tom writes at the end of "Homecoming," "here we go." -- Stephen Ratcliffe
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