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5 Reasons to Celebrate a Break-Up
By Laura Dave
Author of The Divorce Party: A Novel
This weekend, I am going to my favorite place on earth: Big Sur, California (pop: 1,049) -- a beautiful town on the Monterey Peninsula. In anticipation, I pulled out my books by Henry Miller, a writer closely associated with the area. As I flipped through the pages, I came across a saying from Miller's lover, the author Anais Nin, that I had handwritten into the margin. Nin wrote: Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Running my fingers over these words, I started thinking of my most recent novel, The Divorce Party, in which two women find themselves fighting not to let love die. And I recalled all of the people I spoke with over the course of working on The Divorce Party who found themselves fighting that same fight -- and sometimes deciding it was better to let it go. These are five reasons that they shared with me, and to which I return when someone close to me is struggling with a break-up.
1. Some Relationships Are Meant To Be Seasonal
Ty, a man I spoke with in Cleveland, was devastated when his first relationship after his divorce ended badly. He wanted to marry his new partner. But after closer inspection of their relationship -- she was only recently separated herself, they had conflicting ideas about marriage and family, they had different values -- he acknowledged that what he liked best about their relationship was that it provided distraction and comfort during a mutually difficult time. "We have passion, but, when I'm honest with myself, I don't know what we have in common on the other side of all of our drama," Ty said.
In Ty's candor, he has hit on something that is important to remember: some relationships are meant to be seasonal. They get us through a tricky period, they make us feel alive again. But that doesn't necessarily translate into two people being compatible for longer commitment. A psychologist, who I spoke with after Ty, said it eloquently: "Feeling love or passion is not enough to sustain a long-term relationship. Liking your partner is just as important. Ask yourself: do you enjoy spending time together? If you do, find a way through the inevitable problems. If you don't, ask yourself if your relationship has served its purpose."
2. The Wrong Person Can Make Us Feel Wrong
A couple in New Mexico, Cassie and Jason, met and married in three months. It was a whirlwind. Sadly, after the dust settled, Cassie realized that her husband liked the whirlwind more than being married. "As much as I bend myself into a pretzel to make him happy," Cassie said. "He criticizes me and makes me feel like I'm failing him."
It is human to feel that it's your fault when a relationship goes awry, especially if you have a partner who is more interested in finger-pointing than getting to the crux of what is ailing the two of you. But there is a difference between working hard on a relationship and working too hard. If someone is constantly meeting your efforts with endless negativity, it may be time to consider changing the conversation.
The Rope Gets Awfully Heavy . . .
When I spoke with a book club in New Jersey last year, we ended up discussing what makes relationships work. We came to an image of two people on either side of a long rope, holding their ends up. The key is that both people don't drop the rope at the same time -- that if the rope stays raised, even on one side, the relationship stays safe. I like this image because it suggests the mutual caretaking inherent to a good relationship. Which led to one of the book club members confessing the flipside: "My first marriage was over when I realized I was the only one holding up that rope. I never got a chance to rest, to reboot. It became too much."
No one can be the only one to hold the rope, not all of the time. We all -- at the end of the day -- need someone to help. If we find ourselves moving on from someone who wasn't, that -- in the end of a new day -- can be a big relief.
4. The Universe Sometimes Has More Interesting Plans For Us Than We Have For Ourselves
A woman I spoke with in Oregon took me on a tour of her home. It was her dream home, and she proudly explained that she wakes up there with the feeling that she's exactly where she's supposed to be. But she only found this peacefulness on the other side of a devastating heartbreak. "I fought like cats and dogs to stay with someone who was wrong for me," she said. "Thankfully, I lost that fight and ended up in the right life."
This reminds me of something crucial: we're not always wise witnesses to our own lives. Sometimes, in spite of tightly clinging to an idea of how we want our life to be, the universe has a plan for us that is braver and better than the one we had for ourselves. The good news is, when we stay open to it, the universe often finds a way to deliver us there.
5. You Get To Bring You Wherever You Go Next
I was surprised when a male book club member in California announced proudly that Sleepless In Seattle was his favorite movie. He loved the sentiment expressed by the radio host who brings the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan characters together. She said: people who truly loved once are far more likely to love again.
I stand by this sentiment, and believe in its truth. The kindness and goodness and joy -- the ability to love -- that you give to a partner lives inside you. If the person sitting across the table from you can't accept those gifts, be excited. As hard as it may feel, be excited to give the best pieces of yourself to someone who is able to accept them. As the man in California wisely said: "happy endings don't always come in the form that we hope for. But, for those of us who believe in them, and work for them, they do come."
©2009 Laura Dave, author of The Divorce Party: A
Author Bio
Laura Dave is the author of the acclaimed novels The Divorce Party and London Is the Best City in America. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Self, Redbook, ESPN the Magazine, and The New York Observer. Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. In August, Cosmopolitan magazine named her as one of the eight "Fun and Fearless Phenoms" of 2008. She lives in California.
For more information, please visit http://lauradave.com/


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Last week, Bulls superstar point guard Derrick Rose shed a much-publicized round of tears during the unveiling of his new Adidas shoe. On the mend from a season-ending knee injury, his return not scheduled until late in the 2012-13 NBA season, with know-nothing douche bags like me speculating that he will not be the same player, Rose said this during his highly emotional press conference:
"It's truly a blessing. With all of the stuff that's going on in this city, a kid from Englewood has got something positive going on. That makes me feel so good. This shoe is great; all this is great. But I can't explain this. I can't. I went through so much. To have, like, true fans, that means a lot to me. And I know it means a lot to my family, because we're not supposed to be here. At all. But God made the way."
Shortly after his injury in the first round of last year's playoffs I wrote that the Bulls should trade Rose and received one of the most hostile, aggrieved reactions on Twitter that I've experienced in all my years writing for RedEye. While my opinion of the long-term prospects of Derrick Rose's NBA career remain bearish, I do admit that watching this video filled me with an awful lot of sports guilt.
Because Rose is right: as neighborhoods like Englewood experience one of the bloodiest and most senseless years in recent memory, Rose remains a hometown hero the way professional athletes can rarely be hometown heroes anymore. He comes from one of the most dangerous and intractable places on Chicago's South Side, which means one of the hardest neighborhoods in America. As the teacher's union and Chicago carry on their dispute, we remember that it's all the kids who grow up without a lightning fast crossover that serve as the battlefield. It's one of the places Barack Obama claims led him to public life. As Paul Tough puts it in his piece for The New York Times Magazine "Obama vs. Poverty", it's one of those neighborhoods, along with Roseland, where Obama supposedly saw that the only way to help anyone was to accrue political power, to come back for these neighborhoods someday.
It's said that when Rose first started at Simeon Academy he wore No. 25 in honor of another Chicago star named Benji Wilson, who became the first Chicagoan to be ranked as the No. 1 high school basketball player in the country in 1984, and who was murdered in broad daylight by a 16-year-old kid while walking with his girlfriend on Vincennes Avenue.
Rose embodies this reality of big money professional sports: that some of the world's most famous athletes come from the harshest circumstances, in pockets of the country that government and civil society has all but given up on. Yet unlike so many of those athletes who make it, Rose seems preternaturally possessed by the memories of people like Benji Wilson. As a recent GQ Profile suggested, despite being one of the most marketable athletes of his generation—the youngest MVP winner in NBA history—Rose also comes off as terribly lonely and, in age when fame is currency, highly uncomfortable with his own stardom.
As a dedicated sports consumer, I firmly believe it's utterly pointless to think of the players and coaches within your preferred organization as anything but mercenaries. Yet in that piece about Derrick Rose, I failed to heed my own cardinal rule about the world, which is that any person and any situation has a political and socio-economic story behind it, and to ignore that story is to begin talking about something from a place of ignorance. This doesn't change the escapist nature of sports (after all, it's what I and so many other people look to in order to get away from thinking), but like everything else, sports often warrants a more thoughtful critique than it usually gets.
For me, that moment when Derrick Rose sucked in his tears to deliver a brief but incredibly telling statement—where he's holding this stupid shoe he so clearly does not give a shit about, that everything Adidas-stamped surrounding him is so clearly artifice, part of the latter-day carnival he's been told to perform his whole life by coaches and agents and managers if he wants to do the one thing that allows him space outside of his own head—it served as a reminder that you can never escape the forces that shape you. Not even on a basketball court.

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UCLA doesn't just have a sixth man to thank. It also has a seventh, or even eighth.
Reserves use up 30.8 percent of UCLA's minutes on the floor, fourth-most in the Pac-12. The freshman backcourt of Zach LaVine and Bryce Alford entered Thursday's game against Stanford averaging 20.0 of UCLA's 84.4 points per game.
Alford subbed in against the Cardinal at 14:02 having missed his last 11 field goal attempts, a drought stretching back two games. After missing his first against Stanford, he finally broke through with a twisting fast-break layup, deftly avoiding a leaping defender. He missed two more shots, but notched three steals.
LaVine did work, too. His shot selection has been suspect at times this season, but the athletic guard makes enough of them that forgiveness comes easy.
He drilled UCLA's first 3-pointer of the game with a more than four minutes left in the first half — a leaning jumper that somehow spun into the rim. LaVine also dished out three assists.
"We've talked a little bit to Zach and Bryce both about it," said head coach Steve Alford. "It might not have been known a month ago. Now … there's plenty of tape out. Now you're on the board as a scout, because both of them have had big scoring nights.
"You go to the bench, and our momentum changes. There's a lot of things that they've done very, very well. They're not your typical bench guys."
They showed as much against Stanford.
An 19-3 run late in the first half helped the Bruins open up an 11-point lead at halftime. Much of the impressive stretch came with starting guards Jordan Adams and Kyle Anderson on the bench.
Sophomore big man Tony Parker, relegated to the bench after Travis Wear's return from an appendectomy, led the game with 10 points.
Lack of charity
In a 74-69 loss at Utah last weekend, UCLA took just eight free throws, a season-low by five attempts.
Not coincidentally, Adams found himself strangely absent from the charity stripe. It was his second game this season without at least one free throw attempt.
He had entered Thursday ranked 15th in the Pac-12 in free-throw rate, one spot behind Anderson.
The ignominious streak didn't end early against the Cardinal. Holding a 42-31 lead at halftime, the Bruins took just four free throws in the first half — all by Parker. The 6-foot-9 big man made two.
Alford connection
Steve Alford is coaching his son Bryce for the first time, but he said his experience working with his eldest son has helped.
Kory Alford was a walk-on at New Mexico who played 10 games as a redshirt freshman before following his father to Los Angeles.
"Kory's the one that deserves that credit," Steve said. "Kory's done a really good job during the move preparing Bryce for what it's like."


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A new-look MLS SuperDraft will have a new home for 2012, as the league announced on Friday that the annual event is scheduled to shift to Kansas City.
The 2012 SuperDraft is set for Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Kansas City Convention Center and will be held in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Convention for the eighth straight year.
For the 2012 version, the SuperDraft will be reduced from three rounds to two, making for 38 overall selections. The first round will be broadcast live on ESPN2 starting at noon ET.
As in past expansion seasons, newcomers Montreal Impact will be selecting first overall. The following eight picks are currently held by clubs that did not qualify for the 2011 postseason, in reverse order of regular season finish. The remaining 10 picks will be determined by the order in which teams are eliminated in the playoffs combined with reverse order of regular-season finish.
A four-round Supplemental Draft will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Both events are set to follow the 2012 adidas MLS Player Combine, which will again be held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.


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Patricia H. Daley 9/14/2007 3:30:19 PMVery Cool!! #738309
David W. Orias 9/14/2007 3:42:45 PMThanks Patricia. #4791633
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Alison Krylowski 9/14/2007 8:03:58 PMwow! this is an amazing image. the softness and colors are beautiful. #4792399
Peter R. Hammer 9/28/2007 1:52:25 PMWow this is a stunner and the best blur shot I have seen so far. This should easily make the finals and deserves to get a place. #4858438
David W. Orias 10/5/2007 2:27:17 PMThanks Robin, Alison and Peter.
Peter, there are so many photos submitted, I just never want to try to guess what catches a judge's eye. But I like the shot no matter how it does. #4887264
Peter R. Hammer 10/5/2007 2:30:53 PMDavid I agree with you re the number of photos submitted. Even seeing a small percentage of them is very hard. The main thing is that you like the shot as the judging is very personal and an image which does well in one competition can fail totally in another. I like this image very much. #4887280
David W. Orias 10/11/2007 10:31:45 AMVery true, Peter. You just never know until the judging is complete. #4912460
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Mike D. Perez 10/24/2007 10:26:01 PMAwesome blur on this action shot, David! Congratulations! #4975783
Peter R. Hammer 10/25/2007 12:49:19 AMGood to see that this made the finals and congratulations David. Now it should go on to get a place too. #4976289
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For more than 50 years, the Colombian government battled a leftist rebel group known as the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in a conflict that claimed 220,000 lives, displaced millions of people and hampered the economy of a country rich in natural resources and human capital.
After several failed attempts, the government and the rebels reached an agreement last week in Havana that could finally end the longest running conflict in the Western Hemisphere. Colombians will vote whether to approve the deal Oct. 2 in a nationwide plebiscite.
In the meantime, the two sides Monday announced a formal cease-fire.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Apr 2011 21:29 UTC
Well. Raise your hands if you didn't see this one coming. Nobody is safe from Apple's and Microsoft's legal crusade against Android, not even Samsung, which supplies a lot of chips to Apple. Apple has sued Samsung for copying Cupertino's look and feel in various Samsung devices. This is about as surprising as the tides rolling in. Update: And Samsung's going to strike back. Hit 'm hard, Samsung. I don't like you anymore than any of these other patent trolls, but maybe we'll finally see it all crash and burn.
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A Cleveland mother has been arrested on suspicion of disciplining her 9-year-old daughter by tying her up in a chair naked and beating her.
The mother was arrested Monday night in the 400 block of East 123rd Street.
The child's father reported the crime. He does not live at the east side home, but 19 Action News has learned the mother called him to help her discipline their child.
The little girl has bruises all over her body.
Reporter Ed Gallek has learned police have the chair, and it has straps on it.
The mother is being held in jail pending follow-up investigation by Cleveland Child Abuse Detectives. Felony charges are possible.
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Hamilton was immediately on the radio complaining about damage, but the team failed to find anything in the telemetry, and as he began making his way through the field he was the fastest car on track. Within 10 laps he was back to sixth, following which he ran a long first stint on soft tyres.
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After stopping for mediums Vettel was forced to manage his tyres and Bottas slowly closed the gap to two seconds. He was saved by the Safety Car and fit fresh softs while Bottas stayed out and inherited the lead. After the Safety car interruptions, Vettel struggled to get by Bottas as he defended the lead. However a late dive down the inside into turn six sealed the win for the Ferrari driver with five laps to go.
Verstappen out-qualified team mate Daniel Ricciardo for the fourth race in a row, but blamed a 70-80 horsepower deficit to Ferrari and Mercedes for his inability to challenge the front runners.
In the race he won a first-lap scrap with his team mate and took advantage of Raikkonen and Hamilton's collision to move into third, Verstappen was able to keep Raikkonen at bay during the first stint and maintained third after the first round of stops. The Safety Car offered him a free opportunity to switch to the softs for the end of the race, but he came out behind Hamilton.
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The big four industries in the sights of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell should all return to public ownership, according to a strong majority of respondents. Water topped the poll (83%), followed by electricity (77%), gas (77%) and the railways (76%).
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Dig deeper into the figures and you will see a remarkable convergence of opinion across age groups for most sectors. This is not a generational phenomenon. Some 78% of 55-64-year-olds, who are old enough to remember the days of British Rail (unloved at the time), support public ownership of train companies.
The Observer then tries to guess why this might be the case. The suggest it could be the collapse in real income growth since 2008. Or a collapse in confidence in big business, aided and abetted by disenchantment with executive pay. Then they speculate on whether or not it is the obviously feeble benefits of privatisation that fuel this sentiment when nothing suggests that the public have benefitted, whilst shareholders clearly have. The analysis is a curious hotch-potch of microeconomic thinking on what is quite clearly a macroeconomic and even macropolitical shift. Nothing symbolises this better than the comment that follows:
The extraordinary part of this pro-nationalisation shift, however, is that Corbyn and McDonnell have barely bothered to explain how they would pay for the assets, or how they would run them better. If a company were contemplating a series of takeovers worth £200bn-plus, the shareholders would want to know the details. The prime minister, if she's serious about defending capitalism, might want to push that argument.
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She could also try rewriting the regulatory system for the utilities to ensure consumers get a better deal. You'd probably start with water – it's hard to mess up and current owners enjoy a life of almost risk-free luxury.
At least the Observer pins it's colours firmly to the mast: it would seem that they are firmly on the side of the Tories in finding ways to beat off this 'threat'.
Let's look at this another way. First, why is nationalisation popular? Let's not play with trivia at the edges: let's go to fundamentals. People know that what we're talking about, whether it be trains, power, water and maybe other utilities (BT OPenreach is an obvious example; the banking platform that guarantees that payments can take place another, the National Grid a third, and healthcare an obvious fourth) are natural monopolies. There really is no room for a second serious supplier in any of these markets. Competition is not then ever going to be a reality in practice. And in that case to pretend that the private sector can provide an answer other than monopoly abuse is obviously just wrong. This is an answer reached with regard to railways in WW1 (although the full bullet was not bitten then). It's been reached with all the others since and it's now obvious to anyone that all the alternatives are just game playing: the result is an industry that has to be so widely regulated that any pretence at real competition is a charade, which has not prevented arbitraging of rules (train fares, customer tariffs and straight rip-off in the case of water) at consumer expense.
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The New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect eighth inning in his final All-Star Game as the visiting American League snapped a three-game losing streak in the 84th edition at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, winning 3-0.
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Jose Bautista, J.J. Hardy and Jason Kipnis drove in runs for the AL, which shut out the NL for the first time since 1990 after losing 8-0 last season — the first back-to-back shutouts in All-Star Game history. Joe Nathan yielded a two-out double to Paul Goldschmidt in the ninth inning before completing the three-hitter.
It appeared the All-Star Game debut of Mets' right-hander Matt Harvey was not going to be successful when Mike Trout led off the game with a double and Robinson Cano was hit by a pitch. But Harvey struck out Miguel Cabrera, got Chris Davis to fly out and struck out Bautista before pitching a perfect second.
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Three UTEP men's basketball players have been dismissed from the program for gambling on sporting events, school officials announced Tuesday. The announcement followed an FBI investigation into allegations of gambling.
"To date, there is no indication of point shaving," UTEP Executive Vice President Richardo Adauto said at a news conference. "They were not betting on UTEP games."
Said coach Tim Floyd: "We evaluate every film after every ball game and I was not suspicious of any behavior that they were betting on any UTEP event."
Adauto said Floyd received information late last month that players had been betting, and the school officials immediately reached out to local FBI officers. Floyd indefinitely suspended two — leading scorer McKenzie Moore and reserve Jalen Ragland — on Dec. 28. On Monday, the FBI told UTEP officials that a third player, Justin Crosgile, was also implicated.
All three are no longer a part of the men's basketball program and will not enroll in school when classes resume later this month, Adauto said. Per NCAA rules, any type of sports gambling is prohibited and results in a one-year suspension and loss of a year of eligibility. All three players are upperclassmen, so as Adauto said, their college basketball careers are effectively over.
"We think we're done," Adauto said. "We think we've cleaned up what we've found and heard. The FBI is taking this investigation very seriously."
UTEP officials said they reported the gambling allegations to the FBI as a precaution. When asked Tuesday, the school officials did not specify what sports the players were gambling on, or how frequently they had done it. They also did not explain how exactly Floyd had received a tip about what was going on.
Moore, a 6-6 junior, was averaging 13.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. Ragland was averaging 3.7 points, and Crosgile was averaging 5.4 points this year. UTEP is 10-5 on the season, and the Miners face Charlotte on Thursday.
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This past weekend Art and I did something we almost never do: we went to a movie. There are two main reasons we don't usually do this: one is time, and the other is prioritizing our activities that require going very far from home. When you work a lot of hours in a week it is hard to want to go anywhere on your day off.
We both wanted to see the Great Oz. It was getting very mixed reviews and we were very curious to see what the hubbub was all about. I don't think there is anyone who has not seen the original Wizard of Oz and when Dorothy comes out of that house to the absolutely beautiful technical land of Oz, she was awed by the beauty after the dullness of Kansas. Well, my curiosity with the Great Oz, which we saw in 3-D, was how they'd handle the transition from Kansas to "color" since Technicolor is way beyond a thing of the past. All I can say is wow! In 3-D the flowers and landscape were jaw dropping. This was a great movie in our opinion.
Needless to say, I am so very in the mood to garden. Hopefully our weather will soon give us some opportunities to get outside and play in the dirt. I spent a little time assessing the state of my beds today and realized I have hosta poking nubs out, and tulips and daffodils also poking out. There are a lot of leaves and debris in the beds, but that's to be expected. When you live on Main Street, everything blows in and down the road. We have a lot of fencing that catches everything and holds on to it.
I was very surprised to see the plants poking through, as the ground is still frozen less than six inches down. I stuck a pitchfork as far down as I could and it was only about six inches. Our old lab, Kisses, was not impressed at all with being outdoors for any length of time. She is 10 years old and has the opinion that after a little business and a power roll, it is time to go inside for a nap. She sits by the back door and watches me, letting me know with big sad eyes that she doesn't care what my gardens are doing.
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Garcias heroics capped a 17-point evening, and despite shooting just 32 percent Saturday, the Fort Lewis College womens basketball team rode its free-throw shooting and defensive effort for a 65-63 victory over UC-Colorado Springs in a matchup of two of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferences best teams.
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And if you knew me in high school, you knew my free throws were absolutely terrible. So Id say Ive come a long way from that, she said with a laugh.
Make no mistake, it was far from the more artistic effort in Fridays win over CSU-Pueblo. Put this one in the grit and hustle column instead.
FLC trailed for nearly the entire game before taking a 63-61 lead with 3 minutes, 13 seconds to play. A Kellie Krueger Layup with a minute to play tied things at 63, and a Kuchar charge gave UCCS the ball with a chance to take the lead.
But the Mountain Lions were called for a 3-second violation with 17.8 left, and FLC head coach Jason Flores called timeout with 11.8 seconds to play and drew up what turned out to be the decisive play.
UCCS shot 50 percent in the first half, and the only reason the Skyhawks were within 35-32 at intermission was their 10 made free throws. Krueger was using her up-and-under move and ball fakes en route to 21 points, and Abby Kirchoff used an early spate of 11 free throws as part of her 19 points to keep UCCS up early in the second half.
But the Fort Lewis defense stiffened after halftime, holding UCCS to 30 percent shooting from the field and no 3-pointers, and Fort Lewis forced a rebounding stalemate in the second half after being outrebounded by seven before intermission by a taller Mountain Lions squad.
It was tough. It was a grind-it-out kind of game. ... This is the kind of game, its a character test, Flores said.
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WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on Transparent conductive film Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013-2018. Transparent conductive film improves electronic device usability. The ability to navigate using touch screens improves the usefulness of all electronic devices, paving the way of a spurt of innovation and new applications.
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According to Susan Eustis, the principal author of the study, The advantage of transparent conductive film is that a very thin layer of material as a coating on a surface can provide touch screen capability. Transparent conductive film supports electronic device usability. Factors that influence commercial success in the wireless device and services market relate to usability above all: The designs of the iPhone are genius designs because of the usability they bring. Development of an integrated hardware, software and service platform to support multiple wireless network standards is an essential aspect of market participation.
The transparent conductive film markets are leveraging the expanding market opportunities related to mobile communication and media devices of smart phones and tablets among others. Transparent conductive film provides the base for device navigation by recognizing the presence of aa finger as it moves across a screen. That navigation supports transmission of digital data into and out of the smart phone. The transparent conductive film markets are highly competitive. The competition is expected to intensify significantly as new technologies evolve.
Transparent conductive film principal competitive factors include price, product features, relative price/performance, product quality and reliability, design innovation, marketing and distribution capability, service and support, and corporate reputation. Indium tin oxide (ITO) has been the prevailing transparent conductive film used in touch screen applications. It requires an expensive and cumbersome sputtering deposition process. The price of indium is increasing rapidly and the film is rigid. There is demand for more flexible film in the market.
The Touch Panel Transparent Conductive Film TCF market is $956 million in 2012. Markets are anticipated to reach $4.8 billion by 2019. ITO is an entrenched technology for displays manufacturing. Indium tin oxide (ITO) has been the transparent conductive film technology for touch screens. Newer technology will erode ITO and provide improved functionality as lower prices. Transparent conductive film supports electronic device usability.
Companies Mentioned
- Calico Coatings'
- Cambrios
- Hitachi
- Honeywell
- Heraeus
- Kodak
- Nitto Denko
- OIKE & Co., Ltd
- Orthogonal
- Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co.KG
- Sumitomo Metal Mining Co
- Teijin Group
- Toray
- Wisepower / Unidym
- Transparent Conductive Film University Research
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9wjkhp/touch_panel
Source: Wintergreen Research, Inc
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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Expect Pats to be Blount with CincyDAVE D'ONOFRIO
October 05. 2013 11:20PM
Jeff Demps, the world-class sprinter whose productivity as a running back at the University of Florida earned him a contract with the Patriots prior to the 2012 season, finally made his NFL debut last Sunday.
The ex-Olympian spent the summer competing in track-and-field events, and didn't join his new team, the Buccaneers, until the middle of September, though as raw as he is, they're excited about the potential that comes with his speed and the weapon it could be out of the backfield or in the return game. He ran for 14 yards on his first carry, and his opportunities stand to increase in the future.
But it's unlikely that whatever he does will make the Patriots regret trading him to Tampa Bay, given what they got in return, given how much that move has already paid off, and given how much more it could pay off moving forward - starting today.
In exchange for Demps, the Pats received LaGarette Blount in a deal consummated during the final hours of April's draft. Because of that timing, and because the Pats already had a pair of blossoming third-year backs in Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen, the acquisition wasn't paid all that much attention. There were questions of whether or not Blount would even make New England's roster, which also included second-year man Brandon Bolden, who showed bursts of promise as a rookie.
However, Bolden began the season with a knee injury. Vereen broke his wrist in the opener and is out at least six more weeks. Those two injuries helped create early opportunities for the Oregon product, which he took advantage of, and now with Ridley having been ruled out of today's game at Cincinnati with a knee injury of his own, the stage is set for Blount to perhaps take on a more featured role.
And based on what they've seen so far, the Pats are comfortable with that - despite the fact that the opportunity arises in part because they'll be missing their 1,200-yard plow horse.
"He's a good player and he's played well," said New England Coach Bill Belichick, noting that the club has had confidence in Blount's ability to help the team since the initial days of training camp. "He has good run skills, he has good vision.
"He's a big, strong guy, he's got good speed, catches the ball well. He's been a dependable player for us. We asked him to do kickoff returns, he's done that. He's really done everything we asked him to do."
That ability to do different things was particularly accentuated during the fourth quarter of last week's win in Atlanta. The Patriots handed him the ball on the second play of the period, and once he got through the line he bounced toward the left sideline and showed how fast he can get his 6-foot-1, 245-pound frame to move.
Getting the angle on the defensive back he finished the run by outracing him to the goal line, reaching paydirt at the end of a 47-yard dash, and expanding the Pats lead to 20-10. It was his first touchdown with the team, but the second straight week in which he's broken off a carry for at least 23 yards - yet it wasn't even the run Belichick considered his best of the night.
That distinction went to the third-and-one haul that was ultimately ruled a failure by the referees' questionable spotting of the ball short of the first-down marker, but nevertheless demonstrated another of Blount's skills. After showing his speed to score, he showed his significant strength by even gaining anywhere near the necessary yardage. He was hit in the backfield, but fought his way forward, and arguably - if inconclusively - clinched the game.
"I thought the run that he had on the third-and-one in Atlanta was about as good a run as we've had all year," Belichick said. "I don't know about the spot on that one. He did everything he could to get that first down. It was a very close play. Nobody will every talk about that one, but I think that's as good a run as we've had."
Over the past two weeks, Blount has gained 129 yards on 23 carries, and so his average is up to 4.6 yards per touch for the season. He doesn't have a catch yet, and had only one in 13 games last season, so Bolden - perhaps shared with Leon Washington - is likely to play a lot today, too. But against a tough, physical defensive front, if the Patriots are to run the ball as effectively as they did last week against the Falcons, it'll likely be Blount who handles most of that load without Ridley.
He's better suited for it than Bolden or Washington are. Or Demps would've been.
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Wide range of players found at Rockingham's gaming roomStaff Report
February 08. 2014 10:21PM
SALEM - They came for the bikes and the bets.
Rockingham Park was all revved up Saturday with a motorcycle show, a packed simulcast horse racing schedule, and an increasingly popular draw - the Poker Room.
It's charity gaming, meaning the gambling benefits an area charity. Salem Family Resources was Saturday's charitable winner. Other charities benefiting from the games include the Salem Boys and Girls Club, Rockingham Nutrition, and Rockingham County Child Advocacy.
The Poker Room at Rockingham Park is open seven days a week. The games include Texas Hold 'Em, blackjack, Boston 5 and roulette.
More than 225 people were sitting at poker tables, some staring zen-like at the dealer's hands working the cards. Other players fiddled with their poker chips. Two roulette tables and three blackjack tables were also busy by mid-afternoon. House rules spell out buy-ins and other betting standards.
Idle chatter among players blended into that of a hum bubbling above the room. Floor manager Scott Webster, standing in the center of the room, scanned the active tables.
Depending on the game and the skill of the participant, a person can spend $40 and play for an hour or two, Webster said.
The crowd varies night to night, but he said he sees a good mix of people. A husband and wife shopping at the Mall at Rockingham Park, located just next door and about 100 yards from Exit 1 on Interstate 93, may swing by to play poker, he said.
There are different types of players. Some are more recreational. Some are more focused on trying to win some serious money.
A local businessman, who asked not to be identified, said he is a regular card player at Rockingham Park because it is fun, local entertainment.
Webster shruged when asked about bills in the New Hampshire Legislature to legalize casino gambling. "People are gambling everywhere," he said. "It's a great opportunity for New Hampshire."
Rockingham Gaming LLC operates the charitable gaming rooms at Rockingham Park in Salem and Seabrook Park in Seabrook. More than $11 million has gone to charities since the two poker rooms opened in 2006, according to RockinghamPark.com.
Besides major events like the motorcycle show - which continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Rockingham Park continues to offer bingo three nights a week and it has thoroughbred racing via simulcast is broadcast on numerous large television screens and monitors.
Webster estimates 65 percent of the poker players are from nearby Massachusetts. A spin through the parking lot shows that just about every other license plate is from the Bay State.


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