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When you're the Minnesota Timberwolves, you have to lure in season ticket buyers by any means necessary. So they've come up with quite the novel plan: They're tying ticket prices to which lottery pick the team gets.
This means it is possible to pay only 43 bucks for season tickets in Minnesota next year. But you have to buy now. According to ESPN's nifty Lottery Mock Draft, the T-Wolves have a 15.6 percent chance of the top pick. Worth a shot, right?
The deal: Your season ticket pre game price is equal to whatever pick the Wolves get in the draft. They pick No. 1? $43 for 43 games, or $1 per game. Seriously. $86 for the No. 2 pick. And so on. Perhaps this underscores our insanity or our love of a great deal, but it intrigues us. It's a huge risk-reward — the cheaper the ticket, presumably, the more reason you would want to watch this team because they would be bringing in a higher-caliber pick, presumably either Derrick Rose or Michael Beasley in the case of the under $100 options. They take a tumble in the lottery and end up with a stiff and you're stuck with a couple hundred bucks worth of tickets in the cheap seats to watch a still not ready for prime time squad.
What a fascinating concept: You either win big, or lose big. Forty-three bucks for season tickets to see Michael Beasley or Derrick Rose play all year? We're 1,200 miles away, and we're tempted to buy them.
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Urbancode has released version 3.6 of its AnthillPro, a tool that automates Continuous Integration builds, nightly builds, tests, deployments, releases, and other process in the application lifecycle. A new Distributed Web Interface lets enterprises define their development environments based on geographic location, improve responsiveness for users connecting over the WAN, and store large, often-used files on the same LAN where they are consumed. The Relay Server acts as a proxy for agents behind a firewall or in another location, making the network configuration for agents painless.
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I routinely use an arnica gel for minor muscular strains. In fact, it's one of my "go to" treatments.
In 2010, however, I found myself swallowing Boiron Arnica Montana 30C pellets, an oral version that was the only option at the closest GNC. I started at five pellets, SIX times a day–TWICE the recommended dose. Risk of overdose? Not likely.
"30C," which I looked up that evening, tells you all you need to know.
This consumable version of arnica, unlike the creams I'd used in the past, was a homeopathic remedy. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, pioneered the field of homeopathy in 1796, if the term "pioneer" can be applied to alternative "medicine" founded on concepts like mass dilution and beatings with horse-hair implements. From the Wikipedia entry for "homeopathic dilutions," last I looked:
Homeopaths use a process called "dynamisation" or "potentisation" whereby a substance is diluted with alcohol or distilled water and then vigorously shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body in a process called "succussion"… Hahnemann believed that the process of succussion activated the vital energy of the diluted substance.
Back to 30C. 30C indicates a 10-60 (10^(-60), or 10 to the negative 60th) dilution, the dilution most recommended by Hahnemann.
30C would require giving 2 billion doses per second to 6 billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any one person. Put another way, if I diluted one-third of a drop of liquid into all the water on earth, it would produce a remedy with a concentration of about 13C, more than twice the "strength" of our 30C arnica.
Most homeopathic remedies in liquid are indistinguishable from water and don't contain a single molecule of active medicine. In systematic review after systematic review, these dilutive homeopathic remedies display no ability to heal beyond placebo.
I found this particularly bothersome. Bothersome because I appeared to heal faster using oral 30C arnica.
There are a few potential explanations…
The water actually retains some "essential property" of the original substance because of the beatings and shakings. I give this a probability of somewhere between zero and epsilon (where epsilon is almost zero). It violates the most basic laws of science and makes my head hurt.
NOTE: Some people use the term "homeopathic" interchangeably with "organic" or "herbal"; I am not addressing this misnomer nor the associated compounds. Some herbal, non-prescription medications have tremendous effects. I'm speaking only to the original use of the word "homeopathic" as related to dilutive treatments.
I didn't realize it was a homeopathic remedy until after four or five doses, and I had been told it could reduce pain by up to 50% in 24 hours. Placebo is strong stuff. People can become intoxicated from alcohol placebos, and "placebo" knee surgeries for osteoarthritis, where incisions are made but nothing is repaired, can produce results that rival the real deal. This explanation gets my vote. Now, if I could just forget what I read on the label, I could repeat it next time.
Imagine you catch a cold or get the flu. It's going to get worse and worse, then better and better until you are back to normal. The severity of symptoms, as is true with many injuries, will probably look something like a bell curve.
The bottom flat line, representing normalcy, is the mean. When are you most likely to try the quackiest shit you can get your hands on? That miracle duck extract Aunt Susie swears by? The crystals your roommate uses to open his heart chakra? Naturally, when your symptoms are the worst and nothing seems to help. This is the very top of the bell curve, at the peak of the roller coaster before you head back down. Naturally heading back down is regression toward the mean.
If you are a fallible human, as we all are, you might misattribute getting better to the duck extract, but it was just coincidental timing.
The body had healed itself, as could be predicted from the bell curve–like timeline of symptoms. Mistaking correlation for causation is very common, even among smart people.
In the world of "big data," this mistake will become even more common, particularly if researchers seek to "let the data speak for themselves" rather than test hypotheses.
Spurious connections galore–that's what the data will say, among other things. Caveat emptor.
'Tis possible that there is some as-yet-unexplained mechanism through which homeopathy works. Some mechanism that science will eventually explain. Stranger things have happened.
And while we don't need to know how something works if we observe it to work (which clinical trials have not, in this case)…
Until something even remotely plausible comes along, I'll do my best to scratch my psora (an itch "miasm" that Hahnemann felt caused epilepsy, cancer, and deafness) with at least one molecule of active substance.
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This short article gives an outline of the origins of Morse code and its inventor and how the frequency of letters is reflected in the code they were given.
In this short problem, can you deduce the likely location of the odd ones out in six sets of random numbers?
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(Phoenix, Ariz. -- July 29, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today commended the selection of Luke Air Force Base as a training base for the next generation of Air Force jets, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"The Air Force's choice of Luke is terrific news for the citizens of Arizona," Goddard said. "Since its opening in 1941, Luke has played a vital role in our nation's security and our state's economy. It has earned its status as one of America's premier air bases. Its choice for the F-35 promises to continue its prominent mission far into the future."
Goddard has been one of the state's strongest advocates for Luke's selection. In addition to making several trips to the Pentagon to promote the base in meetings with senior Defense Department officials, he led the legal fight against residential encroachment that had placed Luke's chance of being chosen in jeopardy.
Luke's bid for the F-35 was significantly enhanced by an agreement Goddard brokered five months ago with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Under the agreement, the county will no longer issue residential building permits in the high noise and accident potential zones near the base.
Controversy over encroachment around Luke goes back to 2004 when the Arizona Legislature passed a law to ensure adequate buffer zones around the state's military bases. All local governments in Maricopa County complied with the law except the county itself, which continued to issue residential building permits near the base.
Goddard issued a legal opinion to the county and followed up with a letter asserting its obligation to protect Luke from further encroachment. When the county did not agree to comply, he filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court asking the judge to require the county to take the steps specified in state law. Though the court ruled in the state's favor on nearly every point in the lawsuit, the county refused to give up its legal challenge until the out-of-court agreement was finally reached in February.
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Alicia Keys Covers Vibe With a Pompadour
Alicia Keys shared the cover image of the upcoming issue of Vibe, which is graced by her beautiful face.
The singer is over the moon about the result of the shoot, as she tweeted: "You get the first look! I'm in love with this @vibemagazine !!!!
The image is futuristic, with Keys displayed in a fierce way. Her hair styled in an elaborate, pushed back pompadour that would normally be better suited for Bruno Mars or, say, Elvis. But she owns it.
Her lips are also painted dark purple with a matte finish, and her shirt has a high collar. It's all very much like 'The Matrix.' We're half expecting Keys to offer us a red or a blue pill. Where's Neo when you need him?
The cover tags reads as follows: "Alicia Keys' First Real Interview." It implies that the vocalist will go deep and delve into new or previously uncharted topical territory in her Vibe chat. We can't wait to read the issue and get real with Alicia Keys. We'll just enjoy the cover shot for now.


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Wild: Granlund, Zucker Down; Dowell, Veilleux Up
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild have added grit and experience for the final stretch of the regular season.
The Wild recalled forwards Jake Dowell and Stephane Veilleux from their AHL affiliate in Houston on Monday and reassigned young forwards Mikael Granlund and Jason Zucker to the farm club.
With three games remaining, the Wild are in a fight for a playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Their 4-1 loss to Calgary on Sunday was their fifth straight at home, and they fell to 3-7-1 in 11 games this month.
Zucker hasn't had a goal or an assist in the past nine games he's played. Granlund has one goal and one assist in the past 13 games he's played.
Also, backup goalie Josh Harding was taken off injured reserve.
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George Clooney, Jared Leto + More Cover Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue [PHOTO]
Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood Issue is celebrating its 20th year with the publication's March 2014 issue. The three-panel cover features a diverse lineup of impeccably-dressed A-listers, including George Clooney, Jared Leto, Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o.
It's one of those magazine covers that is framable, especially if you are a fan of most of the films in this year's Oscar race. These are the people who have defined Tinsel Town for the past year, and it is they who will continue to do so.
Clooney and Julia Roberts, who is perched on Idris Elba's lap, are perennials, for their work on screen and behind it. Meanwhile, after Leto spent years establishing himself as a rock star with Thirty Seconds to Mars, turning his back on his acting career, he finds himself a Best Supporting Actor frontrunner. And look, it's Michael B. Jordan, too!
Ejiofor and Nyong'o exploded onto the scene with their work in '12 Years a Slave.'
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text: TECHNOLOGY: Digital + Social Media It's Not You, It's Facebook By By Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:39 PM RELATED CONTENT What Are Eyecare Professionals Saying About Google+? How to Get the Most Out of Google+ How to Delete All of/A Lot of Your Friends on Facebook Read more on this topic in the three part series: How to Get the Most Out of Google+ How to Delete All of/A Lot of Your Friends on Facebook By Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD Recently I deleted my entire Facebook friend list. You would think that it would take days, but in about ten minutes I was able to disconnect with all 1,200 people that I have "friended" over the last several years. "Operation Facebook Cleansweep" may seem like an odd move for a self-described optometric "social media evangelist," but in fact, a massive Facebook shakeup is something that I have been contemplating for months, but only now (with the introduction of Google+ have felt comfortable putting into action. To be clear, I didn't delete my Facebook account – just my entire friend list. I've never "liked" Facebook. I'm much more of a Twitter guy. There is a famous tweet by Shayla Maddox, "Twitter makes me like people I've never met and Facebook makes me hate people I know in real life." I totally believe that. While I have successfully used Facebook to connect with people and promote my practice, I never felt comfortable with it. It is too "busy". There are too many deliberate hooks set to drag people into using it. It is no accident that Facebook is the most popular website ever – Facebook builds it that way. And I have found that it has only gotten worse with the accumulation of more Facebook friends. Sometime after I crossed 1,000 friends, it literally became impossible to keep up with all the events, all the notifications, and all the pictures of dogs. I would log onto Facebook to make one quick update to my practice page, and get sucked into a half an hour of pleasant but completely frivolous clicking and commenting. In response, I have developed several Facebook defense mechanisms: never being available to chat, blocking all apps, and ruthlessly hiding people and brands. This "like/hate" relationship with Facebook continued for a long time. And then three unique things happened. First, in March of this year I read about the Great Facebook Reset in Wired Magazine. It got me thinking about what Facebook could be like with a better friend list. Then in June, Facebook began using the ultra-annoying " Happening Now" feature, which I disliked so much I considered simply deleting my account outright. But since I use Facebook literally every day to promote my practice, this was not a decision to make lightly. Finally, Google+ recently became available, as I described for Vision Monday readers here. Over the last few weeks, I have used Google+ more and Facebook less. I have grown very comfortable with the Circles, which are flexible friend lists on Google+. I use them to control who sees what I post, without having different pages. This is a critical difference between Facebook and Google+. With Facebook, if someone wants to friend me, I either have to decide if I want to be their friend or whether encourage them to "like" my professional Facebook page. With Google+ I can encourage them to add me to their Circles, but I only will Circle them if I want them to see what I am sharing. I can add them as a "friend," a "patient," an "optometrist," or any other classification, and then they can only access the information I want to share with each group. It is great. Google+ is very flexible. Browser extensions can be used to modify its look and feel to make it more fun and less cluttered, which I like. Using extensions (See 'How to Get The Most Out of Google+'), I've added functionality like cross-posting to my Facebook and Twitter accounts when I want. I've even exported my friends list and pictures from Facebook, but haven't put them all into Google+ yet. Not least, I have gotten very comfortable with the Google+ app for my iPhone. So after all this time with Google+, it dawned on me. There is no reason for me to delete my Facebook account at all. I can just start over - a clean sweep. By deleting all my friends, I can add back only those that I really want to hear from. Even non-friends can still always message me through Facebook. I just don't have to be exposed to every single thing they do in real time! By preserving my account, I can continue to use Facebook Connect to log in to hundreds of different websites. And I can continue to use Facebook to promote my practice. When patients ask to re-friend me, I simply explain that my account is now for private use, but I would love for them to like my professional Facebook page. If you are interested in finding out exactly how to delete your Facebook friend list, read this. And the results of "Operation Facebook Cleansweep" so far? Some mild teasing from friends and a few questions about my motivation to do it. But mostly, a vastly improved Facebook experience. I can go on and see things from my family that I would have missed and be in blissful ignorance of the rest. Will there one day be a need for "Operation Google+ Cleansweep"? I hope so, because that will mean that the network has succeeded. With the announcement that powerful business pages are coming in the month or so, I am hopeful. Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD, FAAO, Bright Eyes Family Vision Care, Tampa, Fla., is an optometrist specializing in the vision of infants and children. A social media evangelist, he helped create "Peripheral Vision" which educates eyecare professionals about social media. Dr. Warford was a speaker at the first CLICK Conference last year. He is the chair of the social media committee of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and is chair of the Florida Optometric Association's Children's Vision Committee. He is a graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry and is an active volunteer in many charitable organizations. He founded Foursquare Day in March 2010.


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Note: My life is now completely back to normal after my lovely vacation. I have a to-do list with a million things on it and no time to do them, clean laundry to put away in my room, and have had lots of baby drool on my shirts this week. Oh, and I am no longer completely jet-lagged. 🙂 I hope you've enjoyed my Australia posts so far, and there are many more this month for you to enjoy!
If we were sitting down for coffee, I'd probably talk your ear off.. (which isn't unusual).
I'd tell you that I was so excited to go back to work and see my kiddos. I'd also tell you that I wasn't feeling well earlier in the week, and I was seriously hoping it was just jetlag and that I'd be over it in a few days, which turned out to be the case.
I'd tell you that between a full moon this week and 1 last day of school next week, I had some pretty crazy hyper school aged kids. Why they have to go back just Monday (and some only have a half a day) is just silly. I'd also tell you that thanks to the end of the school year, I now have more hours than I have had in the past. Which leaves me with even less time to do the other things on my list.
I'd say that when I got home the other day to see my first letter from Geena, I was so excited! I'm super jealous that she has a typewriter and that she used it on my letter. I can't wait to get to know her more! I'm thankful for Megan & Joelle for putting this together!
I'd tell you that I planned a pretty busy day for today (Saturday). I woke up early to go yardsailing with my friend Mike's Aunt Liz, who I met through his wedding. I went back home, where I met up with my dad to go to the farmers market. After that, I left for a lunch date with my Aunt Julie, and then stopped by to visit my grandparents. After that, I went to Starbucks to have an actual coffee date with my friend Ruth.
It was lovely. Now I'm home, blogging, updating my planner, and about to watch the Belmont Stakes, though I'm bummed that I'll Have Another was scratched from the race and that there will not be a triple crown winner.
I'd tell you that while at my grandparents house, I got to meet their new doggie for the first time! My grand-parents have never had pets before and more pictures and the story of my new friend Amos should have their own post, but here's a little collage I put together on my phone!
I'd tell you that I'm looking forward to a fun, long, busy week.
How was your week? What are you up to for this upcoming week?
Linking up with Rags to Stitches (Coffee Date) and Life Rearranged (Insta-Friday) so go check them out!


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It's spring so its time to think about planting for summer. Did you know gardening is the fourth most popular leisure activity in New Zealand? (The top three are watching TV, reading and socialising with friends).
Every household should have a garden - they can be dead simple; all it takes is a get-up-and-go attitude - and a few tips from oily rag gardeners!
K.O. from Mahia has a cost-effective way of raising seeds. "Seed propagating kits from retailers are expensive and you can easily make your own. Save flat, shallow plastic trays (the black plastic trays used to sell sausages and mince are perfect) to use for the base/saucer. Grab an old cardboard egg tray (the ones that hold 30 eggs) and cut it to the size of your plastic meat tray, so that it fits nice and evenly inside the tray ... and voila, a seed propagating kit! Instead of going about the finicky business of watering fragile seeds, you simply fill the plastic tray instead, and the cardboard egg tray will constantly absorb water from the plastic tray, keeping the soil and the seeds evenly moist. I use this technique to get a head start on the season, placing my homemade seed kits in an old, unused vehicle, which acts like a greenhouse. You can also use old plastic bags, put the seed kit inside and leave in a sunny location, but be sure to open for a brief period daily to let the germinating seeds breathe. I have also used the hot water cupboard to germinate seeds with great success."
G.B. also has a seed-raising tip. "If planting large seeds like beans, use the inners of toilet rolls, part fill with seed mix, put in the seed and top up. You can get about 12 of these to stand up in an icecream container. And in due course plant out the whole tube. The plants will not suffer any transplant shock and the cardboard will rot away quickly."
A. Hume from Wairoa writes, "My husband is growing all our garden veges from seed. He has found a useful way of using two-litre milk bottles as seedling pots. He cuts it halfway up, fills the bottom with soil, then cuts the top into four divider slots and slots them in. We use every container that comes into our house - yoghurt pottles, plastic bottles and polystyrene containers - and best of all, they are all reusable."
Keen as Mustard from rural Palmerston North uses non-shiny pamphlets, photocopying paper, invoices, statements, phone bills, electricity bills etc to make paper pots for raising seeds. Just fold the paper into a pot shape, fill with soil and add the seed. Once it has germinated and is strong enough, plant the whole lot into the garden without any disruption - the pot will disappear very quickly. "Now I look forward to getting my junk mail and bills as all I can see is the food that they will start!"
Denis from Opotiki has a smart idea to lighten heavy pot plants. "Use broken up polyurethane packing in the bottom of your pot plants. It keeps them warm and is lighter when you need to move your large pots."
TXMA from Glenfield has this tip for using kitchen waste. "Instead of buying blood and bone for your garden, get a fisherman's heavy duty meat grinder (burly maker) and grind up the bones to use as fertiliser. Dry the bone meal in the oven as you cook your next roast or just dig it straight in."
Frank and Muriel Newman are the authors of Living Off the Smell of an Oily Rag in NZ. Readers can submit their oily rag tips at www.oilyrag.co.nz.


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Back to Australia!!
Sass & Bide will be hosting my book signing in Sydney and Melbourne next week. I have also made sure to have at least one day in each city to shoot.
I know I will be shooting in Sydney on the 6th and 7th and in Melbourne on the 11th. I hope to meet some of you in your Down Under Summertime finest.
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As you know, Episode 4/5/6 underwent some significant digital restoration back in 2004. We built off that work and we identified and restored issues down to the subtle defects in picture and sound. Because the restorations in 2004 were really ahead of their time, most of the work that needed to be done on the original trilogy was just subtle, restorative touches, which included correction of blemishes, working on some images, dirt removal, and correcting of some side-effects from the optical compositing process. We also tried to address some of those nit-picky errors, like in Empire Strikes Back when Luke is attached by the Wampa, and you can see the edge of the frame and you can see that the Wampa arm is attached to a puppeteers pole. Well, we fixed that, so now it just looks like a Wampa arm altogether with no puppeteer pole.
Other issues we address: You know how things just look different when they go into HD or DVD, just by the nature of how the video treats the color space? A perfect example is in 2004 with the light sabers, how in the original trilogy all of the light sabers sort of dimmed, you lost that really hot, white core. Well, we went back and wanted to really be true to the original intention of the films, so we brightened up the light saber colors and we brought back that hot, white core that was original to the film.
Another thing, its not just the original trilogy that really benefited, the prequel trilogy benefited from this restoration process as well, especially Episode 1. It was 1999 when Episode 1 was created; over 2000 visual effects were done, including digital animation, environments and digital compositing. But the entire movie was captured on film, so when we went from film process into the DVD, a lot of the things from the DVD magnify the image of the film, and we lost about 8% of the picture there. With this restoration, we went back to the original digital files for Episode 1, not the film apps, to go through and really check every frame to make sure they were restosred. We were also much more selective about minimizing that blow-up, so we have more of that image to see.
It sounds like the audio issues from the 2004 DVDs may also have been fixed.
ohfortheluvva...Anakin kills Shaak-Ti? What, does he dig her up after Grievous impales her in the opening minutes of ROTS?
Regarding the Original Trilogy films, I don't think it's quite accurate to say that these are simply the 2004 DVD masters recycled for Blu-ray. These films are NOT the 2004 versions. It would be more accurate to say that these are new 2011 Blu-ray versions. Let me be clear what I mean by that: It's accurate to say that these are probably built from the same negative scans that were done for the 2004 DVD release, at whatever resolution those were produced. (Note that I'm working to determine the exact resolution of the original digital masters of all the films - the resolution at which the restoration work for Blu-ray was done, and from which the final Blu-rays were mastered.) But I can tell you from first hand observation that many fixes and improvements have been made to these films.
On the audio front, you will be very pleased to know that most of the audio complaints fans had about these films on DVD - about particularly Episode IV - have been addressed and fixed for Blu-ray. For example, many of you will recall that in the 2004 Episode IV DVD release, the music in the rear channels of the 5.1 mix was often reversed. (Credit to Bits reader Neil S. Bulk who first brought that issue to our attention back in 2004.) You should all be very be pleased to know that that's no longer the case. Finally... fixed!The Supervising Sound Editor on the Blu-rays for Skywalker Sound, Matthew Wood, gave us a pretty detailed demonstration of the new 6.1 DTS-HD MA uncompressed audio mixes on these Blu-rays. (For those wondering why 6.1 and not 7.1, Matt said that 6.1 was chosen because it builds nicely on the 5.1 EX mixing work that was done for the Prequel films.) The first scene he showed us was the beginning of the assault on the Death Star at the end of Episode IV. Now, I suspect he showed us this scene for exactly the thing I noticed immediately upon previewing it. Some of you may recall that on the 2004 DVD, when the X-Wings begin their dive down to the Death Star, the familiar John Williams trumpet fanfare was buried in the mix so you could barely hear it. No longer! The trumpets ring true in the Blu-ray mix loud and clear. When I heard this, I couldn't help thrusting my arms up in the air in a bit of happy relief. I then turned to Matt, who as it happens was standing right next to me, and saw him give a little smile and nod - he knew exactly what I was reacting to. When I leaned over to thank him for fixing it, his simple reply made me smile as well: "Trust me, I read the blogs too..."Matt and his team have been very careful to ensure that these new 6.1 DTS-HD MA uncompressed audio mixes reproduce in exacting detail the sonic experience of these films we all know and remember, albeit with the added quality and clarity that the latest lossless mastering technology can provide. Matt reported that the 6.1 mixing process for Episodes V, IV and the Prequels was relatively straightforward, because all of the original audio stems and elements were readily available and were well catalogued. For Episode IV, however, "getting it exactly right" required a rather extensive forensic effort, as this material just wasn't cataloged with future surround remixes in mind. In many cases, Matt and his team went back to original analog tape recordings made in 1976 to get the best quality of all the required elements. As a result, it's fair to say that the surround mix for Episode IV was almost completely rebuilt from scratch, with Matt comparing his work to the original print master to ensure its creative accuracy. And at every step of the way, director George Lucas and original sound supervisor Ben Burtt were consulted to ensure that the mix reproduced as closely as possible their original intent for the film's sonic experience. In fact, Matt says he played the film's reels many times for George, in 15-20 second chucks, to get his feedback.That's not to say that there aren't new little tweaks here and there, but rest assured they're very subtle. A few additional audio details were apparently "added" into the mix as well. I put added in quotes, because in many cases these elements - mostly very subtle background sound effects and voices - were recorded back in 1976-77 for the original film and were even used in the original audio mix, but because of the poor state of the art for movie soundtracks at the time, nobody's ever really heard these things before.In the scenes Matt sampled for us, the clarity, resolution and staging of what heard was really quite impressive. I have to say, talking with Matt was enormously reassuring. He just clearly gets it. He knows these films, and he loves them as much as anyone. He knows all the complaints fans have had with the 2004 DVD release and he made sure to correct them - to get them right at long last.
Now, you'll recall that a little bit ago, I said these should probably be best considered new 2011 versions of these films, and not the 2004 DVD versions. All the fixes and corrections alone justify this in my opinion, but there's another reason too... and you can probably guess what it is: Once again, George has apparently added a few new "surprises" into these films. I don't know what they are and didn't get to see any of them on Friday, but I was assured that there will be "new things to notice" when we watch the films. I think we can safely assume that one of them will be the new all-digital Yoda in Episode I. Way back when Episode III was released on DVD, ILM digital effects supervisor Pablo Helman confirmed to me that the puppet Yoda in Episode I was replaced with a digital version to better match his appearance in Episodes II and III. In fact, the Episode III DVD extras includes a clip of the Episode I digital Yoda. However, this Blu-ray set is really the first opportunity we'll have to see it in full. What the other changes to these films may be, I have no idea, but I suspect there will be no lack of blog posts on this very subject within hours of the first discs becoming available to fans.
will Episodes IV, V and VI look as good as more recent films that have had state-of-the-art negative scans of 4, 6 or even 8K resolution? No, probably not. It will obviously be easier to say for sure when the final product is in hand in a few weeks, and we all have some time to really go over it and live with it a bit. In any case, this is one of those issues over which personal opinions are going to vary widely. The takeaway here is this: These films will look notably better than they ever have before at home, on any home format, and most (if not all) of the A/V issues that have driven fans crazy over the years - particularly about the 2004 DVD release - should be fixed on these Blu-rays.
Now then, let's move on to the extras. Is it really worth getting the Complete Saga set just to get the three extras discs? For me at least, the answer here is clear: Absolutely. Yes... I've now seen many of the Original Trilogy deleted scenes. No... I can't tell you much about them (believe me, that drives me as crazy as it does you). But I was pretty surprised by them and in a good way. What I can tell you is that they are substantial - at least for the Original Trilogy. This isn't just dribs and drabs stuff - it includes long sequences. And they're extremely cool. Frankly, for me this is the real draw of the entire BD release. As you've seen in some of the teaser clips Lucasfilm has released, they're not pristine, but most of them are in HD - at least the Original Trilogy clips. And trust me, they're well worth seeing. It's stuff some of you have wanted to see in good quality since 1977, along with a few things fans may not have known even existed.
I have to say, I'm very encouraged by what I've seen so far with regard to these Blu-rays, and by the answers I've gotten to the questions I've asked about them. Like many of you, the last few DVD releases of these films have always left me... wanting. It just always felt like they were rushed somehow, and that all too many little important quality details just were overlooked. But this Blu-ray set feels very different. Finally, it appears that these films may have gotten the attention they deserve on home video at long last - especially the Original Trilogy. In fact, I think this may be the first time since that 1994 Definitive Edition laserdisc box set that the films have been so carefully handled, and that so many of the fan irritant A/V problems have been properly addressed. So can I say that this Blu-ray box set represents the "ultimate" release of the films on disc, or that these films will look absolutely perfect? No. But I think it's now possible for me to believe that Lucasfilm may - just may - have finally done these films fairly proud on disc. We'll see.
I dont' know about that... I don't see Lucas tinkering with the original Trilogy Yoda at this point. TPM was dismal looking, but OT Yoda really wasn't. I think this is one of those things he won't touch, but that's me.
"After Frank Oz did Empire Strikes Back, I tried to get him nominated for an Academy Award; but we heard back that the Academy doesn't consider puppetry to be an art. I think it is an art - and Yoda represents the highest level of that art."- George Lucas
Yeah, no way they'll ever "officially" replace the original puppet with a CGI version. It'd be disrespectful to Stuart Freeborn, Frank Oz, and everybody else who helped bring him to life.
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A variety of activities have been scheduled on Monday-Friday, April 4-8, to commemorate Asian Awareness Week at Hope College.
The public is invited to all of the week's four events. Admission is free except for the Asian Food Festival on Wednesday, April 6.
The week is coordinated by Hope's Asian Perspective Association (HAPA), a student organization working in conjunction with a variety of campus groups and offices including the college's Office of Multicultural Education. T-shirts will be sold and cash donations will be collected at all events to raise funds for earthquake relief for Japan.
The week will begin with a Sushi Night on Monday, April 4, at 6 p.m. in the MaasCenter auditorium. Attendees will be able to make their own sushi rolls.
A showing of the documentary film "Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women," with discussion led by the film's producer, Dr. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, will take place on Tuesday, April 5, at 6 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication. "Silence Broken" tells of Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
Participants will have an opportunity to taste a variety of Asian dishes on Wednesday, April 6, from 4:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the annual Asian Food Festival hosted at both Phelps and Cook halls. Meals during the festival are $5 for those not on the college meal plan, who may participate at the Phelps dining hall.
The week will conclude with a performance by comedian Dan Nainan on Friday, April 8, at 8:30 p.m. in the DeWitt Center Kletz. Nainan, whose father is from India and mother is from Japan, was a senior engineer with Intel before becoming a comedian. He has performed around the country as well as internationally; specific appearances range from NBC's "Last Comic Standing," to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, to Apple's "Get a Mac" series of television advertisements.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., facing Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street. The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at Columbia Avenue and 10th Street. Phelps Hall is located at 154 E. 10th St., on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street.


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- ping(8)-compatible superuser restrictions (e.g. flood ping) have been removed, as 2ping is a scripted program using unprivileged sockets, and restrictions would be trivial to bypass. Also, the concept of a "superuser" is rather muddied these days.
- Better timing support, preferring high-resolution monotonic clocks whenever possible instead of gettimeofday(). On Windows and OS X, monotonic clocks should always be available. On other Unix platforms, monotonic clocks should be available when using Python 2.7
- Long option names for ping(8)-compatible options (e.g. adaptive mode can be called as --adaptive in addition to -A). See 2ping --help for a full option list.
Because of the IPv6 improvements, there is a small breaking functionality change. Previously, to listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, you needed to specify -6, e.g. 2ping --listen -6 -I 127.0.0.1 -I ::1. Now that -6 restricts binds to IPv6 addresses, that invocation will just listen on ::1. Simply remove -6 to listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
This is a total rewrite in Python, and the original Perl code was not used as a basis, instead writing the new version from the 2ping protocol specification. (The original Perl version was a bit of a mess, and I didn't want to pick up any of its habits.) As a result of rewriting from the specification, I discovered the Perl version's implementation of the checksum algorithm was not even close to the specification (and when it comes to checksums, "almost" is the same as "not even close"). As the Perl version is the only known 2ping implementation in the wild which computes/verifies checksums, I made a decision to amend the specification with the "incorrect" algorithm described in pseudocode. The Python version's checksum algorithm matches this in order to maintain backwards compatibility.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Balancing work and personal responsibilities is a challenge for the majority of U.S. surgeons, and that struggle could lead them to cut back on their office hours or leave their practices altogether, according to a new survey.
Of 7,197 surgeons, more than 52 percent said they recently had a work-home conflict. About a quarter said they were likely to reduce their work hours within the next year and about a third said they planned to leave their practice within the next two years.
While surgeons believe cutting back or moving may help them, the researchers say it could signal trouble for the U.S., which is already facing a shortage of surgeons.
"There could be potential ramifications to patients in terms of access to care," said Dr. Liselotte Dyrbye, the study's lead author from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She said patients may have trouble getting in to see a doctor. Also, the health system may see increased costs thanks to physician turnover and the price to recruit and train new surgeons.
The findings, published in the Archives of Surgery, are the latest from a series of surveys of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), which previously found that alcoholism in not uncommon among surgeons and one in 16 have considered suicide (see Reuters Health articles of February 22, 2012 and January 18, 2011; reut.rs/Mro8VD and reut.rs/MrodsA).
"Integrating personal and professional lives is a big challenge for U.S. surgeons. Their ability to resolve work and home conflicts really relates to both important personal and professional factors," said Dyrbye.
In 2010, Dyrbye and her colleagues sent emails to ACS members that asked about their careers, burnout, depression, quality of life, alcohol abuse and how happy they were with the career and choices.
They found that surgeons who reported having a work-home conflict in the three weeks before taking the survey were more likely to work long hours, be women, have children and work in either an academic or Veterans Affairs medical center.
"They were also less likely to think surgery would be a good career option for their child," said Dyrbye.
Dyrbye said that's important, because about one in five medical students is the son or daughter of a doctor. That means their parents could influence them to turn away from medical school.
Beyond plans to cut office hours or leave their practice, surgeons who reported a recent work-home conflict were more likely to have certain troubles at home, too.
Overall, they were more likely to report feeling burned out and depressed, and said they had relationship difficulties and problems with alcohol.
Also, when they were asked about their quality of life, surgeons with a recent work-home conflict had worse scores than those without a conflict.
"It's not surprising to see some of these unhealthier behaviors in surgeons with these workplace characteristics," said Amanda Buhl from the Washington Physicians Health Program.
"We're never going to eliminate work-home conflicts, but what's important is how work-home conflicts are resolved," said Dyrbye.
She told Reuters Health that the data do not provide those answers, but she can speculate that there are a number of things surgeons and organizations can do to minimize the conflicts. Those include better scheduling and providing childcare onsite.
The researchers write that past research showed surgeons in the U.S. work an average of 60 hours per week, 16 hours in the operating room and are on call about two nights.
For her, Dyrbye said, it helps to get her child's school calendar as soon as it come out to block off days when she needs to be home or out of the office. But she admits that there will always be unexpected conflicts.
SOURCE: bit.ly/KzjxBG Archives of Surgery, online June 18, 2012.


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With the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six faculty members died in a mass shooting Friday, school safety is weighing heavy on many minds.
With the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six faculty members died in a mass shooting Friday, school safety is weighing heavy on many minds.
The Craven County School System has 25 schools. School resource officers � who are armed officers from local law enforcement agencies � are assigned only to the middle schools and high schools: New Bern High School (which has two resource officers), H.J. MacDonald Middle School and Grover C. Fields Middle School; Havelock High School, Havelock Middle and Tucker Creek Middle School; and West Craven High School and West Craven Middle School.
The school system pays $38,975 to law enforcement agencies for each SRO that they provide. The funds offset the salary and benefits of the officer.
But even for schools that don�t have resource officers, other security measures are the same.
Craven County school spokesperson Jennifer Wagner said all exterior doors on school property are locked during school hours and office staff must buzz visitors in after they are viewed either directly through a window or via a video camera.
John Clay, SRO at West Craven High School, said he could not speak for the school system but he explained the safety procedures at that high school.
He said West Craven has doubled the number of surveillance cameras to 32, with 10 more being installed.
�If teachers or staff sees someone who does not fit in, the front office is contacted and I am contacted. Teachers who have classrooms with windows scan outside. If they see something outside, contact is made with the front office,� Clay said.
He also patrols the school grounds every 90 minutes.
The schools have four lockdown drills each year. One of those practices must include law enforcement agencies on the campus. Those lockdowns are held in September, November, February and April.
Lane Mills, schools superintendent, said he will request a lockdown drill before students break for the holidays.
Clay said lockdowns are a great preventative measure.
When a lockdown is announced, teachers first check the hallways and any students still there are brought into the classrooms.
The classroom doors are then locked and students are taken to a safe place inside the classroom and the lights are turned off. If all is clear and safe in a classroom, the teacher slips a green card under the classroom door.
If there is a threat inside the classroom, a red card is put outside the classroom door.
If a security breach should occur, three law enforcement officers are immediately dispatched to the school and a search is conducted of the entire school. Law enforcement agencies have floor plans for each school.
Security is not only about cameras and watchful eyes; it is also about student behavior.
�Bullying and communicating threats is looked at. Guidance counselors contact me. I talk to the administration and we conduct a threat assessment,� Clay said.
�The students and teachers are like family. We love them and want them safe,� he said.
�If there is a threat to students or teachers, we don�t back up and we don�t back down,� he said.
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Turning our attention from the sudden-death excitement of the Major League Baseball playoffs, scoring the first of three debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hardly needs the instant-replay assistance of arduous fact-checkers and less-than-independent pundits. Romney hit it out of the park. Obama exited early.
Turning our attention from the sudden-death excitement of the Major League Baseball playoffs, scoring the first of three debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hardly needs the instant-replay assistance of arduous fact-checkers and less-than-independent pundits. Romney hit it out of the park. Obama exited early.
It may have been a bit of a surprise � presidential debates in this era of non-stop news coverage rely on a script with which the audience is quite familiar � but whether it was an upset depends on viewers� expectations going in. Rather than the outcome, the surprise that lingers is that only one of the players really came to play.
Mitt Romney looked the part of the challenger. He was alert, energized and confident. Obama slumped his shoulders, smiled mostly to himself, and for some reason kept staring down. He was that guy at the meeting who�s surreptitiously checking his email.
The exciting 2008 candidate of hope and change? Gone. Even the larger-than-life American eagle hanging behind the two candidates seemed perplexed.
This was, though, a serious exchange blessedly shy of rehearsed jabs � that gentlemanly, biceps-gripping handshake followed by the one-against-one collision this presidential race hadn�t seen.
Romney moved quickly and kept the viewers engaged, while Obama dragged and seemed to be hoping the audience would turn over to baseball.
Before the debate�s opening economic segment had ended, we wondered if we had tuned into a reality program, "The Wonk and the Prof." The former, Romney, was agile and ready to rumble; the prof, by contrast, seemed wordy and defensive.
For the first time in 16 years, a Democratic president had to defend a first term in the White House in a national debate. Romney was free to play offense, at one point reminding Obama that when the president agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts at the end of 2010, Obama said it would be unwise to raise taxes when the economy was struggling.
Obama nodded with evident pleasure when Romney said he wouldn�t raise taxes going forward. The president clearly disagreed � and looked less enthused when Romney asserted that he instead wants to raise federal revenues by putting more Americans to work.
Throughout their economic discussion, the two men probed repeatedly at each other�s perceived vulnerabilities: that Romney, a man of immense personal wealth, favors the rich. And that Obama, having pledged four years ago to halve the federal deficit, failed.
We had expected Obama to spend a good share of Wednesday night working to re-energize the voter coalition that elected him in 2008. But as the night wore on, it was Romney brimming with ideas and offering that he would rather work out specific solutions with Congress next year, not issue ultimatums to the legislative branch today.
Obama talked more about the health-care plan he signed into law than he did about initiatives he would advance in a second term.
Both of these men boast Ivy League degrees. And each has shown himself capable of tremendous personal achievement.
But on Wednesday night, one man behaved as if he wanted to use what he has learned in life to lift the American spirit. The other man behaved as if he was still strolling across Harvard Yard.


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1 August 2016
Garden Party by Pandora
Last week I attended the Garden party organized by Pandora right after my arrival back in Bucharest. Everything was so dreamy and gorgeous that I didn`t even realized when time passed by and the clock showed 10pm.
Sure, we had flowers, a great garden set up, sushi and the new Pandora Collection together with a short speech held by the Ranevents Team about the Autumn and Winter Collections together with the new one Pandora Rose. Pure perfection and great vibe. Loved it and
I will let you enjoy the pictures and some pieces of their collection. For more, visit their stores and for sure you`ll spend some money in there haha.
Kisses, M ♥
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Diamond engraving tools have been used in the engraving industry for years. They are designed to scratch the surface of the part being engraved. They have a phono point similar to the point on a pencil.
This type of engraving is the easiest way to mark a metal label or part. When engraving soft material such as gold or silver, use the 140°; for brass and aluminum use the 120°; and for stainless steel use the 130°.


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Commonsense safety is easily overlooked as an integral part of a personal wellness program. A person may exercise extreme caution about diet, yet be quite lax in attending to accident prevention.
Most accidents — both in the home and on the road — are easily preventable. No training is needed to put on a seat belt in the car or to buckle up young children in a car seat, but these simple gestures can save lives and dramatically decrease the chances of severe injury. It only takes a minute to ask your doctor or pharmacist to check your prescription and over-the-counter medications for possible adverse drug interactions. Over half of all prescriptions dispensed annually are taken incorrectly, and drug errors account for increasing numbers of deaths in hospitals and nursing homes. You already know many ways to prevent accidents, since most of it is basic good sense. Yet the complications and pressures of modern life may cause you to put these safety precautions low on your list of priorities. The memory jogger below encourages you to take action where you need it.
A Safety Survey
Jot down what you already know about each of the items listed below, or go over this list with your spouse, your children, or a friend, and use it as a basis for discussion.
What I know about safety and wellness with regard to:
This list is not comprehensive. It is a place to start. We suggest that you add to it by taking a slow walk through and around your home, looking for safety hazards. Make notes about what needs to be done to make your home safe. Check off items that need attention soon. Prioritize your checked items. Take a calendar and assign, in order of priority, one or more items to this week and one or more items to each week thereafter, until all obvious potential hazards have been handled.
If you need more information about any of the items on your list, your public library is an excellent resource. Consult the front pages of your phone book, which should have a survival guide and a list of emergency phone numbers. Call your local Red Cross for information about safety training.
The online version of Dr. Travis' Wellness Inventory may be accessed at (www.WellPeople.com). The Wellness Inventory may also be licensed by coaches, health and wellness professionals and organizations.


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Ongoing research project | 2006
TIGGE – global ensemble forecast data
The TIGGE dataset consists of ensemble forecast data from 10 global NWP centres, starting from October 2006, which has been made available for scientific research, via data archive portals at ECMWF and CMA. TIGGE has become a focal point for a range of research projects, including research on ensemble forecasting, predictability and the development of products to improve the prediction of severe weather.
TIGGE was established as a key component of THORPEX: a World Weather Research Programme to accelerate the improvements in the accuracy of 1-day to 2-week high-impact weather forecasts for the benefit of humanity. Although the decade-long THORPEX programme finishes at the end of 2014, TIGGE will continue for a further 5 years, when its future will be reviewed.
The name TIGGE originally stood for "THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble". With the completion of THORPEX, the name will officially be "The International Grand Global Ensemble", but it is recommended to simply refer to "TIGGE".
Find out more at the TIGGE website.
TIGGE-LAM for regional ensemble forecasts
TIGGE-LAM is an extension of TIGGE archive to include weather forecasts from limited-area model (LAM) ensembles. These forecasts are produced on grids between 12 and 2 km resolution and provide detailed information for the short range, up to a few days ahead.
TIGGE-LAM will enable users to compare models and improve the methodologies for the generation and application of regional ensemble forecasts. It will also provide valuable feedback to global ensemble developments as the resolution of these systems is planned to increase significantly in the coming years.
More information about the TIGGE-LAM project is available at the TIGGE-LAM website. European data are available from the TIGGE-LAM portal.
Links with GEO (Group on Earth Observations)
Both TIGGE and TIGGE-LAM form part of the weather contribution to the Global Earth Observation System-of-Systems (GEOSS) and are accessible through the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI).
The TIGGE-LAM archive has been developed as part of the EU-funded GEOWOW project to improve Earth observation data discovery, accessibility and exploitability.


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Wild Cats: Tigers
Never think for a moment that they are compliant like a cat! They are very wild and strong. They are the strongest of the cat family.
New-born tigers open their eyes only two days after they are born. Although she is very wild towards other animals, the mother tiger is very sensitive and caring towards her cubs. She suckles them for a period of six weeks. Then, she gradually teaches them how to hunt and find their food.
After this period of education, the young cub grows into a strong adult that can move very fast. At one leap, he can cover a distance of four metres (13 feet). Now, open your arms wide. The distance from the fingertip of one of your hands to the fingertip of the other is about a metre. Four times this is the distance that a tiger covers in only one jump.
Tigers can camouflage themselves – adaptation to environment – a feature of which they are unaware. Their fur, very much in harmony with the natural colours of the environment in which they live, is extraordinarily suitable for camouflage in the jungle.
This way, they can secretly approach their prey. Besides, these colours give tigers very aesthetically beautiful and impressive features. The lines on their fur and cheeks as well as the shapes of their eyebrows differ from one tiger to another.
Tigers respect each other's hunting territories. A tiger marks its territory by leaving a scent it secretes on the bushes. This odour warns other tigers of the existence of another tiger's territory.
The unusual features of tigers are not limited to these. Unlike other cat species, these wild-cats like water very much. Furthermore, in spite of their huge bodies, they are great swimmers. Like all other creatures, Allah has granted tigers awe-inspiring characteristics.
Little baby tigers are very cute and thus arouse compassion in us. Despite being very wild animals, Allah has inspired mother tigers to be very compassionate and merciful towards their babies.


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Cougarettes ride depth to pair of wins
If you based it solely on physical stature, New Braunfels Canyon junior Madison Williams knows she probably doesn't measure up.
She's not the strongest, doesn't have the highest vertical jump, and likely isn't going to intimidate anyone on the opposing team.
But in the No. 3 Cougarettes' wins Tuesday over No. 9 Steele and Seguin, Williams demonstrated that often what you see isn't always what you get.
Canyon (3-0) defeated Steele 25-14, 25-14, 25-18, then topped Seguin 25-10, 25-14, 25-16.
"I'm maybe not 6-4, big, can jump super-high, but I can still get a good kill," said Williams, who tallied a combined 19 kills, 16 digs and three aces during the two matches.
A 5-foot-10 outside hitter/setter, Williams was a key component to Canyon's spread-the-wealth approach.
With senior outside hitter Rafae Strobos, a 2011 All-Area Super Team selection, sidelined as a precaution with knee tendinitis — she's expected to play this weekend at the Round Rock Westwood Showcase — the Cougarettes displayed their depth.
Setter Jayci Givens guided the way, as Canyon had nine different players record kills. They had a .343 hitting percentage on the night.
Senior Yanesha Johnson had a team-high 20 kills over the two matches, and middle blocker Megan Isbell had 19. Junior libero Sam Rodriguez totaled 31 digs.
"Without Rafae, we really have to depend on each other to make good plays," said Givens, who had 61 assists. "Of course, we're ready for her to come back, but the rest of the hitters are doing a great job of hitting the ball and putting it away when we need them to.''
But it was more than just attacking that prevailed the Cougarettes to victory. They also served 23 aces, including 13 in the match against Seguin.
The tough serving was crucial in the opening set as Canyon rallied from an early 6-1 deficit. Sophomore defensive specialist Shelby Williams served for nine straight points, including two aces, as the Cougarettes closed out the frame on a 24-4 run.
Canyon used another big spurt in Game 2 to get past the Matadors. Williams had two kills and two aces to spark a 10-2 run, turning a 10-10 tie into a 20-12 advantage.
"I just want to kill the ball," Williams said. "That's the way I am, I guess.''
The Cougarettes never trailed in the third game, leading by as many as 12 points.


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In an industry that employs more than 12 percent of the American workforce and handles consumer spending worth $4.1 trillion, the retail sector provides a rich source of humor stemming from the unique interactions between employees and shoppers. Retail, the first-ever syndicated comic strip to focus solely on this sector, presents a hilarious look at the retail industry by chronicling the daily events at the fictitious Grumbel's department store.
Created by Massachusetts retail management veteran Norm Feuti, the humor of Retail plays out through the day-to-day trials and triumphs of four main Grumbel's department store employees and the customers they encounter.
"The concept of a retail-based strip has great mass appeal because everyone can relate to it, either as a former or current retail worker or shopper," says Norm. "The headache of returning merchandise and the joy in finding the right item or perfect gift can make shopping both a stressful or highly enjoyable experience. The combination of unreasonable customers, over-enthusiastic bosses and frustrated employees can make for sometimes volatile, but often funny situations."
Cooper is the resident clown and stock boy, who discontented with his "lackey" status, finds ways to entertain himself by speaking freely and pulling the stunts that his co-workers only fantasize about.
The unappreciated middle manager, who has spent most of her adult working life in retail and moving from store to store, only to discover that while the store names change, the game stays the same. She remains optimistic about her chosen career even though it sometimes runs contrary to her idealistic philosophies.
Stuart is the Grumbel's store manager and "corporate yes man," who believes that what the corporate office says, goes ― no matter what.
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At the moment, although fastworks can change the VIN, it cannot update the immobilizer codes in the ECU. This is being worked on, but there isn't a firm release date yet.
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