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The Blackhawks are growing up.
They've won the Stanley Cup twice in four seasons, they're again one of the NHL's elite teams--and a handful have become first-time dads recently.
Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa each welcomed their second children earlier this season, and both are fathers to a pair of daughters. Sheldon Brookbank and his wife are expecting their second child in the spring, and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson also is prepping to become a dad in the next few months.
RedEye caught up with Sharp, Hossa, Brookbank and Duncan Keith to get the lowdown on their fatherly experiences.
Daughters Madelyn, 2 years, and Sadie, 3 months
Biggest differences between becoming a dad and doing it second time?
"I was a little more relaxed the second time through, not so nervous about the little things. As a family, we'd been through it once before, so it's like we're veterans now."
Any good stories from your time as a veteran dad?
"Yeah, the first time I showed up at the hospital and spent a lot of hours and was all disheveled and out of whack. The second time I showed up prepared. I had my iPad, I had some pajamas to wear on the bed there. I was relaxing, watching football, and before you know it I had a second daughter. It pays to go through it once before."
You've had success on the ice after each of your daughters was born, right?
"It's funny how it worked out, scoring game-winners right after both of the daughters were born. I don't know why that happened. I just think I'm more relaxed and not really thinking about hockey too much, just enjoying life."
Are you a diaper changer?
"I'm going to say yes, but make sure my wife doesn't see that, because I'm not a diaper changer. I try to be the best dad I can be, but when it comes to changing diapers, that's Mom's department."
What shows is Madelyn into now?
"She's big into 'Doc McStuffins.' She likes the Bubble Guppies. She loves singing, so she sings 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and she sings her ABCs, the alphabet song, but her favorite song is 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm.'"
Do you ever catch yourself subconsciously humming along with the "Bubble Guppies" theme song or some other a kids' song?
"I've never caught myself doing it, but I'm sure it's in my head because that's all I hear all day long are kids shows on television or on the iPad or my daughters singing them. I try not to think about it too much."
Are there any kids shows that annoy you?
"Yeah, ['Caillou' is'] the worst. That's bad. All of them are the worst, to be honest with you. If you actually watch the show and get into it, they're tolerable, but if they're just background noise, they're all painful."
How about when you were a kid? Were you a "Sesame Street" kid? Who was your favorite character? Do they even have that up there in Canada?
"Oh yeah, c'mon now. Oscar the Grouch."
Sum up what it's meant to become a dad—twice.
"It's pretty life-changing, to be honest with you. I have a lot of friends that have kids and my brother has two kids and they all say the same thing, that it changes your life for the better. And it definitely does. I'm a different person now with the two girls, especially the fact that they're girls and not boys ... that changes everything. Softened me right up."
Is Madelyn talking a lot?
"Our 2-year-old doesn't stop talking. She's talking all the time and she's pretty good at carrying on a conversation, which is pretty impressive at 2 years old."
How are Keith and Seabrook as dads? Both of those guys are dads now ...
"It's a little different picturing it. Seabs is pretty much a dad to Duncs right now. He looks after him, picks him up and takes care of him. He's been looking after him, pretty much, for the last six years, so Seabs has some experience in that situation."
Daughters Mia, 2 years, and Zoja, 2 months
Were the emotions any different with the birth of your second daughter earlier this season than your first?
"Pretty much the same. It's exciting news to my family. It's just a beautiful thing when you hold a newborn and you know mom and the baby are healthy. It's just exciting."
What's it been like being a dad the past couple years?
"It's awesome, especially when the first one is getting older. She understands more things, so we basically can have a little talk with her and she's starting to pick up on some things. It's getting more and more great."
Are you a diaper changer?
"Oh yeah, definitely. Maybe at the beginning I was a little scared to do these things, but once I got over that it was no problem. It's pretty much routine now."
Do you find yourself having to watch more kids television shows?
"Oh definitely. You wake up in the morning and have to put on Disney Channel, the Mickey Mouse things. It's all part of the routine."
What are some of your best memories so far of being a dad?
"The first birthday was nice. We had her birthday at home in Slovakia in early September last year, so that was really cool. We had family coming over from the other side. Mainly it's just being around her. Every day she changes, especially when you go on a long road trip. You come back and notice the big change. She's leaning new words in Slovakian and English, so it's kind of funny to see that."
Does it make those long road trips harder now, being away from your family?
"I think so, yeah. Before you just left and you come home and nothing changed. Now you go and the kids grow so fast, if you go on a two- or three-week road trip, that's going to be a long time away."
Did you get a picture of Mia sitting in the Stanley Cup?
"Yeah, but she's 2 now. So we still put her in there ... but she looks kind of funny."
Son Colton, 6 months
Your son, Colton, arrived during the playoffs last spring, so what's it been like for you being a dad now?
"It's been fun. It's nice to have that quiet time with him at the end of the day, at night. I've definitely been reading him some books. We read a lot more books now. Pretty simple books, but he likes it."
What are you reading to your son?
"That's a good question. I don't even know what I'm reading. I'm just reading it. [Laughs]. I'll pick out a book and read it to him and he likes it. It's just those little times that are fun. He smiles a lot now and laughs, so he's a happy little boy."
Have you gotten any Blackhawks children's books for him yet?
"I haven't seen any of those kicking around, but I should get some. I started showing him the 'One Goal,' book from 2010. I was flipping through the pages and showing him that one. I need to show him some hockey, get him thinking about hockey at a young age, you know? Brainwash him a little bit."
Now that you're a dad, do the longer road trips become harder for you?
"Yeah, I think so. They seem to grow day by day and when you're gone for a couple weeks, he looks a little different when you get back. I think he's a good-looking little boy, so it's funny to see him grow and change each day."
Is he crawling yet?
"No, he's not crawling yet. He's trying. I'll see him flailing away on the ground, trying to get to something. He's pretty good at rolling. He rolls around to get where he wants to go."
Are you a diaper changer?
"I don't know. I try to help out, but I wouldn't say that's my No. 1 duty."
Who gets up with him when he wakes up in the middle of the night?
"He's actually pretty good at sleeping. He's about 6 months [old] now, so it's nice. He doesn't get up until about 7:30, so he's been a good little sleeper."
Does he look more like Mom or Dad?
"I think it's a good mixture of both. Maybe a little bit more like his mom, but there's definitely some of me in him."
Did you get any skates for him yet? Sharp said Bauer sent him some skates for Madelyn.
"They haven't given me anything. He's got a Bauer contract. I don't have a deal like that. I'm not that good, so I can't get a deal."
Are you going to get him some skates soon?
"Oh yeah, I'm going to get him skates. I'll get him a pair eventually. It wouldn't take long to get them and he's not crawling yet, so I don't know about putting skates on him. But he'll get skates as soon as he can start moving around."
Son Bennett, 15 months
"I have one 15-month old son and another one on the way, due at the end of May."
Are you getting a little nervous about having a second one?
"I'm starting to wonder if I made the right decision there. I think it's going to be a lot tougher. We have the one sort of—sort of—under control. Two is going to be a whole new ballgame."
Were you nervous going into the first one?
"I didn't pass out or anything, but I definitely had a moment there, when something happened and the doctor was kind of like, stressed out, and it stressed me out for a minute or two. But everything went fine and I saw the little guy there and I could've have been happier."
Were you in Chicago yet?
"Yeah, we'd pretty much just moved here and had the baby. We had him at Prentice Center downtown."
Are you a diaper changer?
"Oh, I do it all, yep. A lot of poopy diapers and he just will not sit still. He's just squirming around and you're getting poop everywhere and stuff. I think my wife does it more than me, but I definitely do my share."
You're not afraid to get in there and get a little dirty then ...
"I get my hands dirty, yeah. I've got a method down now I've been using for a while."
Do you have a name all picked out for the next one, boy or girl?
"We have a couple picked out, but we're not releasing those yet. We've got to meet the kid before we decide."
What's been the best part about becoming a dad?
"Just playing around with my son. He's just a really happy little guy and he's really excited to see me when I come back from a road trip and it just makes you feel good. I just like hanging out with him, wrestling around with him and stuff like that."
Your kid's walking now. That makes things considerably tougher, doesn't it?
"Yes and no. Now we just have those baby gates that we can just make sure everything's safe and we just let him roam around the main level, so we don't have to be chasing him everywhere. As long as we don't have anything dangerous in there, he can just wheel around. He usually stays around where we are. He'll go for some rips out in the living room and stuff, though."
Has he crawled out of his crib yet?
"Not yet. He's petrified of this Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner we have. He's petrified of it. He'll be walking and walk by it and just stare at it and make a bunch of noises. He'll hide behind it and points at it and kind of lunges at it a bit, and then he'll just, like, cling to you."
Does the Roomba actually work? Is it worth your child's fear?
"You know what, it brings your house to respectability. It has sensors for the hardwood and you can just leave it on. It's not going to be spotless, but it's respectable. Your dog would hate it. I can see why my son hates it, because it's just a thing moving around the house with a mind of its own. And then it just sits on its charging dock and he like freaks out all over."
Does he watch hockey yet or still too young?
"Yeah, he watches it."
Have you gotten him any sticks or pucks yet?
"Oh yeah, we've got the mini sticks going. He's got these little nets and mini sticks."
Is he a lefty or righty?
"He switches still. He hasn't chosen one yet. I'll just let him pick one, whatever hand feels good."
Does he have a Hawks jersey?
"Yep, he's got a little Brookbank jersey. He's got some hockey gloves, those little mini gloves. They're a little big for him still. No skates yet, though. We're going to wait a bit. I think I started skating when I was 4."
Who had most influence on choosing your son's name?
"I actually came up with it, but then my wife really wanted it. I didn't have to sell it really. I was a little skeptical at first about the double B, 'Bennett Brookbank,' but we both just agreed on it. We both liked it and this one ultrasound looked like her dad, whose name is 'Ben,' and it was just funny how much the silhouette looked like her dad. We were laughing about it and calling him, 'Little Bennie Boy,' in the womb. So I came up with the name Bennett and we were like, 'Yeah, that works.'"
Does your brother Wade [another professional hockey player] have kids?
"Yeah he has two girls and one boy, who's six months older than Bennett. His daughters are 6 and 3, I think. And they're actually due again the same week as us."
So, there could be some good family squabbles at dinners and get-togethers?
"We'll have a couple defense pairings there, who knows?"
Brian Hedger is a RedEye special contributor. @brianhedger
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text: Hi Experts; I want to find the right iptables commands combination to address the following need: - NEs are NATed thru the linux box (using iptables) towards the WAN cloud, where the NTP servers are situated. - In order to achieve redundancy, the NTP Servers are in a load balancing cluster with one virtual IP address (172.30.4.245) - The problem is that when the NEs request for NTP updates using the 172.30.4.245, the NTP response is received from one of the actual IP addresses (.200, .230 .240). Example: The iptables is not allowing this flow, which is normal since the requested vs responding address are not the same (172.30.4.245 vs 172.30.4.230) : Request : UDP 10.68.2.11:23445 ---> 172.30.4.245:123 (this is Before NAT, of course after NAT the source is 10.23.14.72) Response: UDP 172.30.4.230:123 ---> 10.23.14.72:23445 (Response to the WAN address) I'm wondering if there is any way to let iptables establish the UDP flow only based on the (s-port/d-port) regardless of the IP addresses, and execute the NAT back to the LAN based on that. UDP/NTP is just an example, almost all the needed services are setup in the same way (load balancing in Cluster). View attachment 69 Appreciate your help ! Thanks & Regards lvl1s7a

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Becta embarks on software review
Microsoft Campus under the microscope
Further education colleges are being urged to take part in a review of education software licences.
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) said it has teamed up with management consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to find out if colleges and schools are getting the best "value" out of using the dominant educational licensing product, Microsoft Campus.
A spokesperson for Becta told Government Computing News: "Becta has always recognised the importance of ensuring schools and colleges have access to a range of products and services which represent good value for money.
"In areas where a single supplier is dominant, particular vigilance is necessary to guarantee that this happens and that institutions do not find themselves inadvertently locked-in to a particular supplier via, for example, a licensing mechanism."
Participating colleges will be asked to complete an online survey, along with a four hour interview on campus.
The deadline for interested parties is the middle of July and the results of the review will be released in September 2006.
This article was originally published at Kablenet.
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By DAVID GREEN
Plans to move Morenci's police station and recycling center to the back of Wakefield Park remain alive after a motion to rescind the decision failed Monday by a 4-3 vote.
City council members voted June 8 to approve moving the police station to the former NWD building, but the action has been discussed at several council meetings since then.
Councilor Keith Pennington cast the only "no" vote when the move was approved in June and he introduced a motion to rescind the decision at the council meeting Monday.
Pennington reiterated his three reasons for opposing the move.
"I don't want to lose the opportunity to rent the facility to a start-up business," he said. "I'd hate to lose the shared staff between the police department and city hall. I'm not crazy about the location on a dead-end street in an industrial area."
Council member Tracy Schell said she has not heard negative responses to the move and she addressed several questions about the move that were previously submitted to council members by a resident.
It was noted that only a small portion of the building would be needed for the police office and garage and the recycling center. The questioner asked what would be done with the remainder of the space.
The storage area on top of the offices would be used for police records, Schell said, and space not needed for the recycling center would be used to store Department of Public Works equipment and materials that are currently stored outside.
Another question asked if the existing recycling center was inadequate.
Schell said it is inadequate because it lacks rest room facilities and that it is not convenient because users must drive down an incline from Baker Street. In addition, she noted that a fork lift truck must be driven from the DPW garage behind the park to the recycling center whenever cartons of materials must be loaded onto a semi-trailer.
Another question asked about the cost of converting the NWD building to a recycling center in light of the need to partition the police area. That cost is not known.
Schell spoke of the need at city hall for additional office and storage space, and she said someone is interested in buying both the recycling center building and the existing police garage across from city hall.
The NWD building has remained vacant since a business closed last year.
"If there was interest in the building," Schell said, "this never would have come to the table."
Mayor Doug Erskin pointed out there has been interest shown recently in renting the NWD building, but city supervisor Barney Vanderpool said the space was larger than what the prospects were seeking.
Audience member Jan Sampson criticized council for rushing the process out of committee and to a vote without first presenting the idea to the public.
Schell agreed that should not have been done, but she added, "that doesn't make the decision wrong."
Council member Leasa Slocum said she presented the idea to several people where she works and the majority doesn't care where the police station is located.
"Did you tell them how much it would cost?" asked audience member Tim Decker.
The cost isn't yet known, she said, but because changes in state regulations will force changes in Morenci's police station, she favors taking what she believes to be a less-costly approach rather than face a major project later.
"It doesn't mean we're going to do this tomorrow," she said. "We might rescind it after examining the costs."
Police chief Larry Weeks said he and volunteers have cleaned in the NWD offices and he bought a pair of desks with money from the state "drunk driving fund." No refurbishing work has been started and doesn't intend to do anything until council makes its final decision.
Pennington was joined by Art Erbskorn and Mayor Erskin in voting to rescind the motion. Schell, Slocum, Greg Braun and Jason Cook voted against the motion.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Jun 2013 13:41 UTC, submitted by LinuxGizmos
"Japanese firm Systena Corp. has announced the first Tizen-based tablet, which also appears to be the first Tizen product of any kind. The unnamed Systena Tizen tablet offers high-end features including a 1.4GHz, quad-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, 2GB of RAM, and a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel display, specs which come close to matching the most powerful Android tablets currently on the market." Interesting.


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PEORIA -- The Peoria Chiefs rematch with the Lake County Captains on Tuesday was snowed out in Eastlake, Ohio.
The Cleveland suburb was hit by 2-3 inches of snow, which followed a Monday night series opener in which the teams played through two rain delays.
The Chiefs and Captains will get back on track with a double-header on Wednesday, which starts at 4:30 p.m. central time.
Peoria will send righty Nick Petree (0-0, 0.00) to the mound in Game 1, and righty Arturo Reyes (1-1, 6.14) in Game 2.
Lake County will counter with righty Dace Kime (0-2, 17.00) and righty Jordan Milbrath (1-0, 0.00).
Peoria won the series opener, 9-6, on Monday.
Dave Eminian covers the Chiefs and Rivermen for the Journal Star. Reach him at 686-3206 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve.


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A Big Ol' Rye
Where does the time go? In the considerable time since I last managed to get a post together I have mostly been baking one bread over and over. So here it is: a big ol' rye.
This bread is all about keeping it simple – nothing fancy here. It is about 30% whole rye, about 70% hydration (depending on the flours), shaped into one big round. It is scaled to be just within the capacity of my Bosch Compact mixer and just fit on my baking stone (there have been some close calls with the stone for sure). The final dough weight is a little over 2 kg. The only downside to the big loaf is that it takes hours to completely cool!
The process:
Build the starter using 375g whole rye four, 375g water and 45g starter. Mix it all up and let it ferment 12-16 hours at room temp. This fermentation time could be shorter I suppose, but I like a tang to my sourdough ryes.
For the dough use all of the starter, 900g bread flour, 500g water and 23g salt. This gets mixed for 10 minutes on speed 1. I stop the mixer 3-4 times to scoop the dough out and flip it over so that it all gets worked.
The dough gets a bulk ferment of 3-4 hours at 75⁰F with a stretch and fold at about the 1 hour mark. After shaping one big round the final fermentation usually takes another 2-3 hours.
The loaf is baked at 450⁰F with steam for 15 minutes then finished at 420⁰F for 45 minutes.
And that's it. This bread freezes very well so I end up with at least a couple weeks' worth of sandwiches. I have added a handful of flax meal or nuts on occasion just to liven things up, but I always come back to the basic bread and am never disappointed (Well, except once when I knew my starter was in a funk but baked anyway… the chickens ate very well that week).


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Tonight's Concert Picks: Japandroids at Union Transfer, Maxi Priest at The Keswick Theatre, The Best of Joey Sweeney at Johnny Brenda's, Work Drugs with Shark Tape at Ortlieb's, XPN Welcomes Ra Ra Riot at The Chameleon Club
Vancouver, BC duo Japandroids shook the walls at their midsummer Johnny Brenda's show and tonight they'll shake the walls of Union Transfer. Japandroids are touring in support of an album many consider to be one of the year's best (here, here and here). The punk rockers released Celebration Rock earlier this year and were subsequently named Band of the Year by Spin, with their song "The House That Heaven Built" being named Song of the Summer by Paste. Tickets and information for tonight's show with DIIV can be found here. Below, watch the video for "The House That Heaven Built."


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HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities are reminding Ohioans to wear life jackets around water following the drowning death of a fisherman in southwest Ohio.
Witnesses said the man, who was not identified, was fishing alone in a cove at Caesar Creek Lake Friday morning when he fell out of his boat.
The Hamilton JournalNews said (http://bit.ly/KMS7EP ) the man was found in six or seven feet of water and his body was pulled to shore by another fisherman who tried to revive him.
Warren County Coroner Russell Uptegrove said it was unclear whether the man fell into the lake because of a medical issue or if he lost his balance.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources official Jeff Boester says everyone around water needs to be responsible for their actions by wearing a life jacket.
Information from: The JournalNews of Hamilton, http://www.journal-news.com/cgi-bin/liveique.acgi$sch=jnfront?jnfront


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EFF's Deep Links blog reports that the county prosecutors have now withdrawn the warrant they obtained to search Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen's home during Apple's desperate attempt to claw back its lost iPhone prototype: San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant.
That means Chen will get all his stuff back. In April, members of the Silicon Valley's R.E.A.C.T. law-enforcement task-force seized four of Chen's computers and two servers from his home. (My posts: here, here, here, here, here, and here. All the posts together here.)
It's ironic looking back at it all. Apple was so keen to protect the secrets of its G4 iPhone before the big product launch date. And now the ultrahyped gadget has turned out to be a total dog. Maybe Apple should have lost more prototypes in bars. That way, perhaps they would have gotten wind of the phone's call-dropping problems when there was still time to change the design.
And this sad news just out today: The Associated Press reports via the NY Daily News: iPhone factory worker commits suicide over lost G4 prototype.


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Dub Colossus is hailed as one of the most inventive fusion acts of recent years, with their blend of contemporary and traditional Ethiopian styles, jazz and dub reggae. With two successful albums to their name (A Town Called Addis and Addis Through The Looking Glass)
Dub Colossus began as the vision of musician/producer Nick Page (aka Dubulah), founding member of Transglobal Underground and Syriana, who first travelled to Ethiopia's capital in 2006. There he came across some amazingly talented artists – female vocalists Tsedenia Gebremarkos, a fine, soulful performer and highly successful African pop star; and Sintayehu 'Mimi' Zenebe who runs a nightclub in Addis; extraordinary young pianist Samuel Yirga, veteran saxophonist and jazz exponent Feleke Hailu and Teremage Woretaw, a traditional folk singer, an azmari, an exponent of the one-stringed messenqo violin. Add to this mix Dubulah's love of 1970's Jamaican Dub Reggae and Dub Colossus was born.
Dub Me Tender is a reworking of tracks from both Dub Colossus albums plus four previously unreleased tracks – all put through a dub blender – a distinctly personal approach for Dubulah.
The original aim of Dub Colossus was to combine the golden years of Ethiopique beats and Ethiojazz with the dub reggae styles of the early 70's groups like Abyssinians and Mighty Diamonds. The dub element on Dub Me Tender, ever-present in the first two albums, has been pumped up – giving these tracks a full Dubulah workover. This is an album in the tradition of Joe Gibbs' African Dub series and Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell, but it is still the extraordinary Ethiopian essence of Dub Colossus that gives the tracks on this album a unique edge.
Dub Me Tender features the cast of Addis Through The Looking Glass; the original Ethiopian musicians are joined by the reggae singer Mykaell Riley (Steel Pulse), drummer Nick Van Gelder (Jamiroquai), the Horns of Negus brass section, bass work from Dr Das (Asian Dub Foundation), and double bass from Bernard O'Neill (Syriana).
It's always a challenge for someone like me to explain the spontaneous musical creative process that is an integral part of making a dub record - a bit like describing how to bake a cake whilst trampolining in the dark. But that is the fun of it, after all; the making of odd sounds by accident and design using different areas and frames of reference!
Another way of describing dub from my point of view is as a humorous and surreal reaction to an insane life in an insane world or resistance via sonic satire!
Dub was originally the remixing and reinventing of reggae songs in the late '60s early '70s, sometimes with new or placed instrumentation and musical lines.
Using effects such as echo, reverb and phasing but shifting the emphasis to create a sonic impression of big landscapes, space and dimension, as well as humorous and odd sound effects. A bit like a slick TV ad being turned into a Looney Tunes cartoon or a Fellini or Kusturica film visually remixed by Wallace and Gromit in an altered state. The effect of a good dub track should be to transport you to an abstract world in your minds eye.
For me, most successful and original dub producers were Joe Gibbs, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Prince Jammy and Scientist, and more recently dubsters like Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood and "Groucho" Smykle.
Old dub records were made by performance. For example a group of between one and six people had an audio channel each, sending a signal to effects via aux and eq ports on a mixing desk with someone on the delay feedback control, in a roughly rehearsed performance so as to keep the element of surprise, chance and happy accident.
I remember doing this with Transglobal Underground and Natacha Atlas on 'Diaspora Dub' - we all had two knobs each to send to different effects that had been set up prior to the mix. We would select two or three takes of the mix and then edit the best bits together.
Digital editing means easy manipulation and processing of mixes and tracks but it doesn't make up for the performance aspect of dub.
I wanted Dub Me Tender to be in the style of the greats, but also contemporary and forward looking. The Ethiopian elements of the music made for a strong unique identity. The combination of analogue and digital sound sources makes for a great combination.
The album was recorded in Ethiopia, Scotland and in England at Real World and Intimate Studios.
SSL and Neve desks were both used in the recording and premixing of the album, but for the dubs my Soundcraft and effects units were easier to use, although I also used a control surface in conjunction with Logic 9 for digital dubs.
Some of the sound effects used on the album are homemade, some are manipulated samples...children's toys, wooden rulers and mouth pops! - VIVA DUB!
Neve VSP72 84 input flying faders (Intimate Studios)
Otari Radar 2
Otari MTR 90
Ampex 1/4"
AMS Reverb
Bell DDL
SSL XL9080 K series (The Big Room, Real World Studios)
EMT Plate
AKG Spring
SOUNDCRAFT RACPAC (Castle Dubulah)
Mac Book Pro
I used the following for the dub effects and feedback:
Analogue: Sound City Echomaster (made by Binson circa 1964) metal wheel, wire, tape heads.
- Danelectro spring reverb
- Line 6 Delay 1 u rack module
1/4 or 1/2 inch Tape recorder plus multispeed
Plug Ins used included:
Audio Damage - Dub Delay
IK Multimedia – Ampeg SVX
GSI – Type 4 Spring Reverb
TAL - Dub Delay 111
By Dubulah
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Marilee is a three-time high school All American and a New York State Champion in the breaststroke. She also was named an Academic All American by NISCA, twice-named a Scholastic All American by USA Swimming, and recognized as an AP Scholar with Honors. Marilee started swimming competitively at the age of five with the Badger Swim Club led by John Collins. She competed on the Bronxville High School varsity team since the seventh grade, lettering six times, winning three New York State Section One Championships in the breaststroke, and becoming captain her senior year. Her proudest accomplishment, other than becoming a Yale Bulldog swimmer, was winning the New York State High School Championship as a sophomore. Her most exciting moment in the pool was swimming the breaststroke leg of the Badger medley relay anchored by fellow Badger swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist Jenny Thompson. Marilee's younger sister and fellow Badger teammate, Erin McGowan Kiernan, is a freshman at Princeton where she swims butterfly and IM on the Women's Varsity Swim Team. Her grandmother and namesake, Marilee Stepan Wehman, medaled in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, and her great grandmother, Mary Louise Therese Quinn Stepan, was a US National Champion in 1929. A Philosophy major, premed student, and member of Branford College, Marilee has consistently scored points for Yale in the first three years of her college career capturing a top three finish in every dual meet, and a top six place in each of the three HYP meets and two of the three Ivy Championships. She is most proud of being a member of the medley relay team that broke the Yale record and finished third at the Ivy Championships in her freshman year. Marilee chose to come to Yale for the unrivaled quality of its undergraduate education, the overwhelming sense of community within the residential colleges, and the daunting challenge to make a contribution to the record of 35 undefeated seasons, ten Ivy championships, four national championships, and 27 Olympic medals that constitutes the tradition of Yale Swimming.


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It's a strange world when, to gauge the state of economic affairs in Russia, one has to look at government bond yields in Switzerland and many eurozone countries.
But that's exactly what things have come to.
The eurozone mess is putting pressure on the Russian economy and, so far, it's handling it well. If things don't deteriorate further in Europe — and I have some difficulty being an optimist on that front — Russia is a bargain. If they do, it still is a bargain, just one with a much longer-term payoff.
Swiss two-year government bond yields have long stopped reflecting the economic situation in Switzerland, as they now serve as a gauge for anti-euro sentiment. Since April 24, they have spent the whole time sinking deeper and deeper into negative territory while the eurozone drama has been unfolding. They "yielded" -0.39% at last count. This is because the Swiss National Bank has drawn the line at 1.2 on the EURCHF exchange rate after pressure from the exodus of panicky euro holders drove the Swiss currency to near-parity with the euro last year.
The pressure from the EURCHF cross has now shifted onto Swiss government bonds, as they guarantee the holders payment in Swiss francs upon maturity, regardless of whether the euro is with us two years from now or not. Other relevant spreads of Spanish and Italian government bonds to German bunds — the least-risky eurozone sovereign debt instruments — are at or close to all-time highs.
The Swiss Mix
I'm sure you're wondering how this is all this relevant to Russia. Well, Russia is the No. 1 global exporter of natural gas (at 200 billion cubic meters) and the No. 2 oil exporter (at 5 million bbl/day). The largest chunk of those exports goes to Europe, and the same is true for its imports.
With 2008 still fresh in the memory of many foreign investors, this time they appear to be selling first and asking questions later, despite efforts from the local authorities to maintain economic order. In 2008, the Russian economy saw $134 billion of net capital outflows, almost all of it — $130 billion — concentrated in the fourth quarter right after the Lehman failure and the expeditious global domino effect.
This time, no such panic is evident, but in 2011 foreign investors pulled $80.5 billion out of the country, and in the first six months of 2012 they pulled out $43.4 billion in an eerily orderly manner.
While some undoubtedly will pin part of the blame for this on the re-election of Mr. Putin, it appears that the stress in Europe actually has far greater impact in this case. As things quieted down (temporarily) in Europe, the MSCI Russia Index rebounded since its June lows and now trades at a forward P/E of 4.4, a dividend yield of 3.8% and a mere 0.8 times book value. For comparison, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index trades at a P/E of 11.3, dividend yield of 3.1% and 1.6 times book value.
Buyers of Russian equities should realize that such depressed valuations generally are characteristic of economic malaise, which isn't present in Russia at the moment. On a three-to-five-year horizon, this index-wide discount to book value is unlikely to persist, while the Russian economy is likely to grow.
There are expected moves on the tax front in 2013 to lure more foreign investors, which should provide a boost to economic growth. Credit should be given to then-Prime Minister and now President Putin for pulling off the lengthy negotiations with Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) to develop Russia's vast Arctic reserves via state-owned Rosneft. While a similar British Petroleum (NYSE:BP) deal failed because of opposition from the British energy giant's local partners, Exxon is back in a big way after pulling back for years. (Rosneft owns the former Yukos crown jewel Yuganskneftegaz.)
This seems to be a much bigger deal for Exxon Mobil than the never-officially announced failed takeover of Yukos. Russia is willing to abolish export duty and slash the mineral extraction tax to keep taxation stable for 15 years. (At present, oil companies in Russia pay a 60% tax on oil exports).
Rosneft also gets minority stakes in Exxon projects in North America, and both companies are working toward unlocking shale oil and gas in Siberia, which Rosneft does not have the technology to extract on its own.
Where to Look
Rosneft has no listed ADRs in the U.S., but Exxon Mobil is another alternative. The stock market currently has a hard time discounting this deal to its present value, as any benefits will trickle to the bottom line only a couple of years from now and hit critical mass much later. But the largest undeveloped oil reserves lie in Russia's Arctic region, and the largest global oil company by market capitalization made a giant first step toward putting them on the market.
As to the Russian stock market in general, it will remain captive to developments in Europe and the short-term gyrations of the oil price.
Many Russian companies — including Gazprom (PINK:OGZPY), the No. 1 publicly traded owner of hydrocarbon reserves in the world — have long surpassed revenue and EPS high watermarks seen during the all-time highs in Russian equity benchmark indexes in 2008, yet their shares continue to languish.
Regrettably, this cannot be considered as a timing indicator, and it might last for a long time until the situation in Europe is resolved.
Ivan Martchev is a research consultant with institutional money manager Navellier & Associates. The opinions expressed are his own. Navellier & Associates holds positions in Exxon Mobil and Gazprom for its clients. This is neither a recommendation to buy nor sell the stocks mentioned in this article. Investors should consult their financial adviser prior to making any decision to buy or sell the aforementioned securities.


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The people who like to make things happen are outer-directed. They like to be in charge, when they see that something needs to be done they don't wait for it to somehow get done, they go ahead and do it. They run organizations and head committees, they want to improve the world, the working conditions of the labor force, or see to it that the soda machine finally gets fixed. Outer-directed people speak up at meetings; their voices are heard and their opinions respected.
The downside to this way of interacting with the world is that they may become poor listeners, too sure of always knowing what's best. They may steamroll over the opinions and ideas of the more soft-spoken and miss out on important information, expertise, or assistance. The tendency to take control of every situation means they are often overly busy and over-committed
If you are running around with back-to-back meetings and going to events with no time to reflect on why you are busier than your comfort dictates, you need to stop, take a break and decide if this is the direction you wish to take or if you are being driven by unconscious forces that propel you. The questions may be: "What am I running from?" "What am I avoiding?" and "Why do I always need to be in charge, to be center stage?"
The people to whom things happen are inner-directed, they are the thinkers, the writers, the quiet people who are happy to be on the sidelines, observing from the shadows, or fading into the woodwork. They have a rich inner life and are interested in self-exploration. They can take advantage of circumstances, but they rarely initiate change. In general they do not want to control anyone or anything.
The downside for people who don't speak up is that their ideas don't have a forum, and therefore they are lost as a resource for their communities and organizations. They may endure unhappiness or discomfort needlessly because they miss out on opportunities to improve their situations.
If you are inner-directed and happy with it — happy to take the time to read, walk, go to a movie, have friends you see, do some volunteer work — and that seems enough, so be it, continue as you are.
The people who ask, "What happened?" are undirected. They float through life without much of a purpose. They live in a grey area, not sure of who they are nor what they should be doing. It can be an uncomfortable feeling so they often try to escape into alcohol abuse or drug addiction. Some undirected people find direction in joining far-out political or religious sects with blind devotion to a charismatic leader — anything that directs their energies without any thoughts of their own. While it is useful sometimes to let go of control, if it extends beyond the normal stress-reduction of a vacation, it will keep them from growing into productive and happy members of society.
If you feel undirected with not enough to occupy your time, if you are bored, listless and spend a lot of time just ruminating, you need to make an effort to get yourself out of your chair, out of the house and into the community. There are places where people gather for all types of activities: conversation, music, lectures, sports, trips. Learn about volunteer opportunities. Be somewhere and do something with other people.
We all need the three ways of being at different times in our lives. We all begin life as undirected, then as adolescents we become inner-directed with identity seeking in the teen years, trying on the roles of leader, observer and follower along the way. As adults, we then choose a way of functioning that provides both satisfaction and comfort.
In our later years, we become more inner-directed, more reflective, quieter, happy to retire from the hurly burly of having to earn a living. Yet many who have been doers over a lifetime continue to re-invent themselves: learning new things, wrangling with new technology and contributing to their communities.
So identify whether you make things happen, let things happen, or ask about what happened and decide whether you are satisfied with your direction. If yes, congratulations for being happy with who you are. If no, you know there are other choices and so try them out — you may surprise yourself.


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The St. Petersburg Times reports the Tampa Bay Rays are bringing 22 of their most promising prospects, including P Jeremy Hellickson and OF Desmond Jennings, to St. Petersburg next week for a four-day winter development program. Players will work out at Tropicana Field, and also undergo media training, make community relations appearances and attend a Lightning game. The invited players are C Luke Bailey, P Nick Barnese, SS Tim Beckham, P Alex Colome, P Joseph Cruz, P Devin Fuller, OF Todd Glaesmann, Hellickson, P Kevin James, C Jake Jefferies, Jennings, P Kyle Lobstein, P Jake McGee, P Matthew Moore, P David Newmann, 1B Jeff Malm, SS Juniel Querecuto, OF Cody Rogers, P Scott Shuman, 3B Matthew Sweeney, P Albert Suarez, and P Alexander Torres.
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|2012-05-18, 12:04
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|2012-05-19, 07:37
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
All this Shioon hate, and yet nobody notices how EVERYONE ELSE in Murim acts. I'd rather deal with a "stupidly honest" guy like him any day over all these self-styled "smart" people who will kidnap, rape, murder and then turn around and say "it's your own fault for being weak/stupid."
|2012-05-19, 08:33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Murim is like underground Yakuza/Mafia/Gangs. Once you get there you don't run around handing out flowers showing peace signs with his hands, and saying that they should love each other.
"Smart" antagonists are what they are, stupid ppl who think they ate them all (brains that is).
Other leaders are like normal Godfathers, smart, collected, thoughtful, but you cross them the wrong way and you will see yourself with concrete shoes at the bottom of river in next 24 hours.
Shion just picked the fucing wrong genre to play in. He should go into some stupid kids fight manga, or some Romance story. He is stupid but nice, so he would do nicely as romance protagonist or some kids manga hero (as 99% of them are braindead or lobotomized).
|2012-05-19, 14:56
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|2012-05-19, 15:06
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The Shermain
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NY
Age: 39
Shioon acts less like an action manga hero and more like your typical loser harem hero. He's definitely in the wrong genre. The only real action type manga he'd fit in are those harem-fighting hybrids where the guys sits around spewing cliche phrases to make the girls fall for him while they do all the fighting. I hate those kinds of manga. You know, Rappi Rangai, Sekirei (which wasn't actually too bad, but is just dragging on way too long), Zero In, most Im-Dap Young crap, etc. Just couldn't stand the main guy standing around doing nothing 95% of time.
|2012-05-19, 15:54
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|2012-05-19, 16:14
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The Shermain
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Location: NY
Age: 39
The only real fights I've seen him win were by the him landing one shot and the opponent giving up or against some nameless fodder. I wouldn't really call those victories... Or even important. The girls (and guys) around him are the ones doing the real fighting, pulling his *** out of the fire because he can't do it himself.
An action hero shouldn't be the damsel who needs to get saved in most fights. It doesn't make for an interesting protagonist, imo.
|2012-05-19, 16:16
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|2012-05-19, 16:37
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Join Date: Apr 2012
It wasn't until character development kicked in that Shioon seriously started acting like a typical main character.
|2012-05-19, 17:04
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Working the bags...
Join Date: Mar 2009
He's won one maybe two fights if you count in the bully douche awhile back. The one most recent he fainted like a girl who caught the bouquet thrown at a wedding right afterwards. The bully douche fight is the only that he remained awake afterwards. That's for this part and part one included. Every other time he becomes a human meat bag that looks a truck ran over several times. I wouldn't call that a glowing endorsement of him being a bad ass. At being a Rocky Balboa impersonator, sure he's got that nailed down pat. However don't get me wrong, I want to see him a bad ass. It's just not happening in what you'd call a timely manner considering how far we've come chapter wise i.e 144 if IIRC...
|2012-05-19, 17:17
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Sure he's not a shining testement of badass but he's not nearly as bad as some people are making him be. The fact that someone was comparing him to useless harem protognists is by far one of the most overly exaggerated thing I've heard about a character.
|2012-05-19, 17:22
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Working the bags...
Join Date: Mar 2009
No, I'm not being too quick to judge. You like very little developments in your MC after that many chapters then good for you. I myself like to except more from my main character after that long period of time. The rest button being pushed was a major set back to the story...
|2012-05-19, 17:27
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Join Date: Apr 2012
And yeah reset bottum is a bitch. It doesn't really help that author spends chapter after chapter focusing on new characters instead of Shioon.
And Shioon is getting better. Getting from cowering to the ground in the begginning of New Waves to basically saying fuck you to someone that was going to kill him is a change of character. Maybe not good enough for you but I feel it's getting somewhere.
|2012-05-19, 20:24
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singing heartbreak
I think that things have been kinda boring for a while now. Shioon's fight with Mr. Cool wasn't really that impressive to me honestly. The only interesting things that has happen in this series is (a)Elder Kwon kickin' some ass, (b) Sera educating Shioon, and (c) Jinie getting closer to Shioon. That's about it. Everything else isn't really special in my opinion. Note that the only fight that has been worthy to be interesting to me is Elder Kwon's fights.
When you compare his progress in the original to how much he's progressed in NW(not considering his downgrade), considering the chapter count(i.e. 72 chps of TB, & 72 chps of NW), he's developed FAR less in this new series than the old one. Even if I don't consider his emo suicide days, he's still done more than the whole 72 chaps of NW, esp if you refer to fighting. It was exhilarating seeing him fight Hyun so Chin, knowing he had no chance of success, but still fought with all he had; him escaping capture from the Alliance members for a whole day and, completely spent, fought against the Alliance's strongest member, Kangsung; a beach chapter(well, a couple of pages); Shiho(though Sera is close as we can get right now); him finally decking the bully after all the torment he's put Shioon through(and specifically after his badass warning to him about messing with Saehee); and the list goes on. This new series just hasn't lived up to the greatness of its predecessor.
Will it get better? I believe it will. Perhaps it was the author's intention to make this half of the series longer, less 'run&gun', and more fleshed out. Maybe when Part 2 is done, from an overall perspective, it will be as good as the original. But right now, NW is considerably behind TB in every way possible.
|2012-05-20, 00:34
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The Shermain
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Location: NY
Age: 39
Meh, I haven't read this in a while, so I didn't even know he won a fight. From what I remember, the only fights he actually won in New Waves was against the fat boy early on and the idiotic bully. Every other fight, Jinie or someone else had to step in to save him. And considering you can't remember the name of the guy he just beat, he couldn't be too impressive.
I just have a huge dislike for resets, especially when the author then drags things out. It's lazy and it's the sign of a bad writer just trying to milk things. If he wanted to restart the manga with Shioon as the hero, fine... But there's better ways than turning him into some punching bag that is only alive because of some magic pill that gives him infinite regeneration. It's like a bad version of Naruto with an S&M fetish.
|2012-05-20, 05:25
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The fight outcomes have been a mixed bag.
While he loses most fights where he is outgunned or outnumbered, he HAS pulled off surprising victories when he can actually implement a strategy.
Victory 1.
A 300 lb thug who launches himself into the air and clobbers people by landing on them belly first.
Victory 2.
Goon Jung, the bully who turned him into paste most of season 1, and was only beaten at the end when Shinoo finally got his martial arts. In Season 2, he "suddenly" got martial arts which mirror Shioon's, and only now do we know why.
Victory 3.
"Goth Chain girl." While he didn't decisively defeat her, he DID manage to rescue Jinny and get away alive. That counts for something.
Victory 4.
"Cool Guy." Shioon beat a MASTER CLASS opponent there by using his opponent's own arrogance against him.
Overall, Shioon's skills can't be blamed, it's his naivete and "stupidly honest" innocence that's getting him in trouble more than the "broken Ki center."
BTW, Shioon is NOT proud of himself in any way, and anyone who says that he is, obviously HASN'T BEEN READING THE STORY. Shioon WAS depressed because he blames himself for what happened to his mother, and being taken hostage by a MASTER CLASS opponent before the Sun Woo clan.
Now he's angry, not only because he was betrayed by this "doctor," but because the SUC have betrayed the "code of honor" of this entire "Mafia" society embraces.
Oh there WILL be payback. Just wait for it.
|2012-05-22, 19:08
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Cover for chapter 73 up at the artist's blog:
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South Carolina-Michigan Preview
Both Brady Hoke and Steve Spurrier are trying to take that last
step that will vault their respective programs into the nation's
elite. The two coaches look for clues how to achieve that for next
season on Tuesday when Michigan plays South Carolina in the Outback
Bowl in Tampa, Fla.
No. 19 Michigan (8-4) finished second to Nebraska in the Legends
Division of the Big Ten, and three of its losses came to the top
three teams in the country – No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Alabama and
No. 3 Ohio State – as well as the Cornhuskers. The Wolverines were
unable to prevent their archrivals from completing an unbeaten
season, losing 26-21 to the Buckeyes on Nov. 24 after failing to
score in the second half.
Despite failing to come away with a victory in any of those
marquee games, Hoke thinks his team will apply lessons learned from
those defeats in this contest.
"I think it's always a benefit when you play good football teams
whether you win or lose," he said. "You learn how you have to
play. We have to do a better job of taking care of the football,
have to run the ball better."
Running the ball has not been a problem for Hoke in his two
seasons at Michigan with Denard Robinson as the team's offensive
focal point. Despite missing two games due to an injury to his
throwing elbow, the senior has 1,166 rushing yards and seven
touchdowns to go with 1,319 passing yards and nine scoring
The injury, however, completely eliminated his throwing, forcing
him to line up as running back in the last two games. Robinson, who
pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended license Dec. 18 but
remains eligible to play, ran for 220 yards in those contests.
He is hoping the time off will allow him to resume being a dual
"I feel pretty good, to be honest with you," Robinson said when
the game was announced earlier this month. "When we start
practicing, I can have more say. I'm not throwing how I want to
throw, but I'll get there."
This will be the final game for "Shoelace," who was the first
player in FBS history to rush and pass for 1,500 yards in 2010.
Robinson has 4,395 rushing yards, 78 shy of passing Anthony Thomas
for second on the school's all-time list. His 42 rushing TDs are
third in Michigan's annals.
If Robinson can't play quarterback, Devin Gardner will likely
make his fifth straight start there. He has thrown for 1,005 yards
with eight touchdowns and four interceptions to go with seven
rushing scores since taking over for Robinson.
Regardless of who is under center, both players will have to
account for South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney, who was named a
first-team All-American and SEC defensive player of the year after
setting single-season school records for sacks with 13 and tackles
for loss with 21 1/2. The sophomore also won the Hendricks Award,
given to the nation's top defensive end.
Michigan's offensive line, however, could be up to the challenge
as it has allowed a Big Ten-low 15 sacks.
Even with Clowney, the 11th-ranked Gamecocks (10-2) were
relegated to a third-place finish in the East Division of the
annually powerful SEC, losing on the road in consecutive weeks to
then-No. 9 LSU and then-No. 3 Florida in October. South Carolina
regrouped to win its final four games, including a 27-17 victory at
previously 12th-ranked Clemson on Nov. 24 behind 4 1/2 sacks from
Clowney, giving the program consecutive seasons with double-digit
victories for the first time in school history.
The school extended Spurrier's contract two years through 2017
on Monday, and the veteran coach still relishes the fight to bring
that elusive conference title to Columbia.
"We have achieved a lot of goals, but we have not yet won the
SEC championship," said Spurrier, who is the school's all-time
leader with 65 wins. "Hopefully, we can do that within the next
couple of years."
Spurrier has a pair of capable quarterbacks after Dylan Thompson
had a strong game at Clemson in place of the injured Connor Shaw,
throwing for 310 yards and three touchdowns. Shaw, who has thrown
for 1,732 yards and 15 TDs, is expected to be fully recovered from
his foot injury by the time of this game, but Spurrier has not said
which quarterback would start versus the Wolverines.
"We'll just get both of them ready to play," he said. "See how
it goes."
Whoever Spurrier elects to start could have an advantage because
Michigan will be without starting cornerback J.T. Floyd.
Floyd is one of three Wolverines suspended, along with punter
Will Hagerup and backup linebacker Brandin Hawthorne, for a
violation of team rules. Hoke didn't specify which team rules were
The loss of Floyd could be costly for Michigan because the
Wolverines have one of the best pass defenses in the FBS, allowing
an average of 155.2 yards.
Thompson or Shaw will have to compensate for a team without
injured star running back Marcus Lattimore, who suffered a
devastating season-ending knee injury against Tennessee on Oct. 27
and opted to forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the
draft Dec. 12.
This is Spurrier's second trip to the Outback Bowl and fourth
overall for South Carolina. The Gamecocks beat Ohio State in both
2001 and 2002, but lost to Iowa in their most recent appearance in
The teams have split two all-time meetings, with Michigan
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We love our British brands here at Brandish, and there's no wristwatch house here in Blighty we love more than Storm. Revealing their 2012 range, we wen't down to see their AW2012 collection at a preview event in London today. Combining retro mechanical aesthetics alongside items with a more futuristic feel, there's something for everyone this year. We've picked out …
Black and Purple Rubber Player
Nixon is a company in it's relative infancy, in the world of time pieces there is more heritage and history than you can shake a stick at: Rolex, Tag Heuer, Breitling, Bvlgari, Omega all have elaborate back stories usually involving some other notable trade such as aviation or nautical navigation. Nixon makes up for it's lack of heritage by coming up with contemporary, provocative and colourful designs, the voguish feel of these watches is achieved by using high quality modern materials until now rarely seen around the wrist. The popularity of the products Nixon has been putting out has made the jewellery elite sit up, take notice and put out their own products in less traditional materials, most noticeably Chanel's J12 coming in both black and white ceramic, though while the others are treading water to keep up Nixon remains ahead of the pack pushing the boundaries and combining new designs with new materials.
Been-there with beanie? Rethink in cashmere
OK, so the slouchy beanie hat is hardly news, having been here since the days of Nirvana and worn by every self-respecting celeb as they venture out to get the milk after another all-nighter in Primrose Hill. But the beanie hat in a luxury textile casts the rock drummer's hat of choice in an entirely new light.
L'Uomo Vogue: AFRICA ISSUE – November 2008
After taking on the lack of model diversity, Franca Sozzani (the editor extraordinaire behind the Black Issue of Italian Vogue) now wants us to sit up and pay attention to a different cause- the immense need for aid in Africa.
As part of her campaign for fashion to stand up and act, Sozzani has made the latest issue of L'Uomo Vogue the 'AFRICA ISSUE.' This means that every feature or person included in the issue has some sort of relation to the need of Africa. It features Nelson Mandela, Naomi Campbell, Forest Whitaker and Bernard Henri-Levy (the philosopher and co-editor of the special issue.)
New York Magazine tells us that Sozzani "not want to make an aesthetic statement about Africa…unlike a recent issue of India's Vogue magazine…this one won't show peasants posing with $5,000 handbags."
See after the jump for pictures of contributors including Nelson Mandela and Michelle Obama and e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to tell us what you think of the issue.
b Store lace up Chelsea boots from Farfetch
Combining a lace up with a Chelsea boot doesn't sound like the smartest move but this B Store shoe is marvellously executed.
Reader Request: black and brown
Click image to enlarge, product details after the jump
So LFW has been and gone and I can concentrate on my Brandish readers once more. Andrea sent me an email a couple of weeks ago asking for clearer sartorial guidance (and praising Will's outfit picks).
Love the Look: Jaakko on Hel Looks
It's a simple look but Jaakko's tonal outfit posted on Hel Looks a few days ago hits the fashion spot. Breaking up the monotony with a patterned scarf is a wise move and he shows that black and brown can be worn together (more about this soon) without incurring the wrath of the fashion gods.
Casio's black watch hides its skeezyness behind a black resin strap
I know Casio watches are a bit ubiquitous nowadays but I'm still hankering after a gold Dual Time Casio for that sleazy uncle/skeezy factor. There's something amazingly creepy about having two kinds of time on one watch, and I love it.
Swear and Cassette Playa bring you the Playa 1
Bored of Brogues? If so then perhaps these imaginatively named Playa 1's are for you. Available now from Swear this is their second collaboration with Cassette Playa, best known for bright and colourful t-shirts and apparel.
Bored of Brogues? If so then perhaps these imaginatively named Playa 1's are for you. Available now from Swear this is their second collaboration with Cassette Playa, best known for their bright and colourful t-shirts.
Bored of Brogues? If so then perhaps these imaginatively named Playa 1's are for you. Available now from Swear this is the second collaboration between Swear and Cassette Playa, best known for their bright and colourful t-shirts.
Topman sale: Black hi-top sneakers
Topman's sale is on and they're slapping massive discounts tons of stock. My choice are these black and purple hi-tops which are reduced to £20.


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For Caribbean escapes, the cheapest flights and packages come from major city centers like Toronto and Vancouver. The best deals are to be found in the summer months, when demand is not as high but the beaches are just as nice. In the winter months the choices are endless, with direct flights to Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Mexico (just to name a few), but expect to pay a premium for vacations around Christmas and New Year's.
Costa Rica offers surfing and untouched beaches for those who want more of an adventure; Honduras is gaining popularity with their cheaper all-inclusive hotels. Keep in mind flights are much longer and more expensive to this on-the-rise island oasis.
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NH College Roundup: FPU, SNHU gird for baseball tourney
May 05. 2013 10:30PM
Franklin Pierce University will host Merrimack College in the first round of the Northeast-10 baseball championship on Tuesday in Rindge at 7 p.m. Merrimack clinched a berth with a 9-1 win Sunday against Stonehill.
Bentley University, the second seed in the tournament, will host third-seeded Southern New Hampshire University Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Marty Dunlap's two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning led the Ravens past No. 19 nationally ranked Southern New Hampshire on Saturday night at Penmen Field.
The win, combined with a 3-1 loss by Bentley on the road at Massachusetts Lowell, allowed Franklin Pierce to lay claim to the Northeast Division title, as well as the division's top seed.
Franklin Pierce wrapped up the regular season at 32-15 (22-6 Northeast-10, 15-6 Northeast Division), while SNHU fell to 32-15 (16-12 Northeast-10, 13-8 Northeast Division).
Columbia 6-12, Dartmouth 5-5: In New York Saturday, Columbia captured the best-of-three Ivy League baseball championship series and earned an NCAA regional berth. Columbia scored six runs in the seventh inning for its 12-5 clinching win. Gus Craig had a walk-off single in the 10th inning for the Lions' 6-5 win.
For Dartmouth (32-9) Jeff Keller had a two-run homer and Dustin Selzer (double) and Ryan Toimil (single) added RBI hits. Dartmouth ended its season with a school-record 32 victories and the lowest team ERA (2.75) since 1971.
Penn 3, Dartmouth 2: In Philadelphia, Alexis Borden (17-10) threw a complete game eight-hitter to lead Penn to its first Ivy League title since 1981. Borden fanned eight and walked two. Kristen Rumley (22-9) suffered the mound loss for Dartmouth (26-20). Kristen Rumley and Morgan McCalmon each had an RBI for the Big Green.
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Eastern Conn. State 9, Keene State 8: In Keene, the second-seeded Warriors defended their Little East Conference men's lacrosse championship. Keene State, which saw its eight game winning streak come to an end, completed its season with a 14-3 record. Senior Ian Hart of Richmond scored four goals for Keene State.
Women's lacrosse
Penn 10, Dartmouth 7: In Philadelphia, Penn captured the Ivy League title and an NCAA berth. Dartmouth (10-7) waited word on receiving a possible at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Liz Calby scored four times and senior Hana Bowers added three for the Big Green. Bowers set a tournament record with eight total goals.
Men's tennis
Colby-Sawyer 9, Rutgers-Camden 0: In Latham, N.Y., Colby-Sawyer (14-7) won the program's first North Atlantic Conference championship title match. The Chargers, behind No. 1 seeded player Nathan Taschereau of Goffstown, earned an NCAA Tournament berth. The pairings will be released today.
Women's tennis
Colby-Sawyer 9, Penn St. Berks 0: In Latham, N.Y., the Chargers captured the North Eastern Athletic Conference championship match. The championship is the program's sixth overall for the Chargers (18-4), which is a school record for wins in a season. CSC earns an NCAA Tournament berth.


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If the news of Joe Banner stepping down as Eagles team president had broken a year ago, I would be on the floor receiving CPR right now, unable to type this.
For a long time I thought of Joe as Jeffrey Lurie's surrogate, his summer camp buddy from childhood whose business and sports savvy made it possible for Lurie to own and operate a pro team. Lurie hasn't been a constantly vocal presence during the decade I've covered the team. Usually, when he did speak, it seemed to me Jeffrey's perceptions were filtered through Joe, that in essence, Joe was Jeffrey, on a day-to-day basis.
But remember that searing, anguished postmortem Lurie delivered on the 2011 season, the one in which it seemed like Lurie was building a case for firing Andy Reid, before he pulled back? That was not the sort of address Banner would have delivered. Joe has always conceded very little to critics. He is the guy who pointed out last offseason that even though the Steelers had won a bunch of Super Bowls, at that point the Eagles actually had more consistently made the playoffs over the previous decade.
What I heard whispered in the wake of that speech was that Lurie's disquiet was not limited to Reid, that the chairman was genuinely at his wits' end over the Eagles' sour image in Philadelphia, the inability to connect with the fan on the street. That image has two parts -- Reid's stolidity, and Banner's sneer. In the intervening months, the team has tried to present Reid in situations where normal conversation with reporters has been possible, where he might be a bit more relaxed and forthcoming. And Banner has disappeared from the public eye altogether. Sam Farmer from the Los Angeles Times dropped into a notes column a few months back the intriguing news that Reid had demanded more say in personnel, that Banner's power was on the wane. The Eagles issued a statement from Reid explaining that he had always had final say in personnel, which was true on the face of it, but most people around the team felt Banner drove a lot of personnel decisions, especially where the salary cap was involved.
I wrote about this a few weeks ago for SportsWeek, a column entitled "Where's Joe Banner?" Banner was unavailable to speak with me for that, just as he had been out of sight when the team announced LeSean McCoy's new contract that week, but the team public relations apparatus got in touch, concerned about what I was going to write. I was given a company line about a natural evolution of general manager Howie Roseman's role that would make him more of a spokesman, blah, blah, blah. I was told that Joe's situation was essentially unchanged.
This was absolute crap, of course, and I knew it was at the time. At the McCoy signing, agent Drew Rosenhaus kept talking about how different it was doing business with the Birds these days. Rosenhaus described a negotiation done with Reid and Roseman, and spoke of having had an opportunity to "visit with" Banner. Rosenhaus described Reid's heavy involvement as unprecedented.
At the Eagles' Youth Partnership Playground Build last week, I chased Joe around while he conferred with State Sen. Hardy Williams, then attended to urgent business with a paintbrush, too busy to do anything but tell me over his shoulder that his role wasn't changing. When it came time to admit it was, he summoned a representative from the Inquirer to impart the news, which is Banner's longtime custom.
It will be fascinating to see what unfolds. Roseman started out as Banner's protege, but his style is very different. Reid still doesn't have a contract beyond 2013, but remember, it was Banner who said Andy had to win the Super Bowl to get a new deal. Neither Lurie nor Roseman has been quoted on that subject. Wonder if it's still true?
Are the Eagles Andy Reid's, more than ever, this morning, or are they Howie Roseman's? Or were they Jeffrey Lurie's, more than we realized, all along?
I think we'll be writing about all this stuff a lot more for a long time to come.


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CLEVELAND (AP) Michael Bourn didn't take much time to savor the first walk-off hit of his career.
Racing around the bases as if his two-run homer in the ninth inning was still in play, Bourn was mobbed by his teammates when he reached home plate as the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 6-4 win on Sunday.
''I was pretty excited,'' said Bourn, who threw his helmet into the air after rounding third before being doused with water. ''I was flying around the bases. I was happy not just because I hit a walk-off, but that we got the sweep against a good team. It was a really good moment I won't forget. My emotions were really going.''
Bourn hit an 0-1 pitch into the right-field seats off Adam Ottavino (0-2). Mike Aviles singled and took second on George Kottaras' sacrifice before Bourn hit his second home run of the season. The walk-off win was Cleveland's fourth of the season.
''In that situation you just look for a pitch to hit, and when you get one to hit you have to make sure you hit it,'' Bourn said.
Scott Atchison (2-0) worked around a two-out double in the ninth by striking out Charlie Blackmon to end the inning.
Colorado completed a 2-7 road trip and has lost four straight for the first time since last September. The Rockies lost two of three in Atlanta and Philadelphia before being swept away by the Indians.
''We battled and we came up short,'' Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. ''That's the way it went again today. A timely hit sometimes can change a game, but we've had a hard time getting it this whole trip. If you don't take advantage, it will come back and haunt you. It did again.''
The Rockies fell to .500 for the first time since April 20 when they were 10-10. Colorado is 12-21 on the road.
Josh Tomlin allowed three runs and matched a career high with eight strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings. He left with a 4-3 lead, but Blackmon's sacrifice fly off Bryan Shaw tied the game in the seventh.
Lonnie Chisenhall, who had six RBIs in the series, broke a 3-all tie in the third with a sacrifice fly.
Jhoulys Chacin allowed four runs in five innings.
The Indians scored three runs on one hit - Michael Brantley's RBI single - in the first. A bases-loaded walk to Jason Giambi and David Murphy's sacrifice fly scored the other runs.
Chacin created his own problems in the inning by walking three and committing a throwing error.
Aviles' RBI single in the eighth gave Cleveland a 7-6 win Saturday and a four-run inning was the key in Friday's 5-2 victory.
Indians manager Terry Francona believes his team is finally producing some timely hits.
''We're getting them, and we're doing better situationally too,'' he said. ''It's a lot easier when you keep the line moving like we've been doing, when you take your walks, like we did in the first inning. For a while there we had nobody hot.''
Corey Dickerson hit a two-run homer in the second. Justin Morneau's RBI groundout tied the game in the third.
Brantley's leadoff double started the Indians' third. He took third on a fly ball and scored on Chisenhall's fly out to right.
Brandon Barnes' leadoff double and a walk to Jordan Pacheco started the seventh. After a sacrifice, Blackmon's fly ball scored Barnes, who slid home ahead of Bourn's throw.
Colorado's key hitters struggled during the trip. Carlos Gonzalez reached on a bunt single to start the eighth, but was 2 for 20 in nine games. Troy Tulowitzki broke an 0-for-13 streak with a third-inning single, but ended the trip in a 3-for-23 slump.
Colorado, the highest-scoring offense in the National League, managed only 26 runs on the trip, and struck out 38 times in this series.
''We had to pitch well,'' Tomlin said. ''That's a good-hitting team.''
Chisenhall, normally a third baseman, made his first career start at first base.
NOTES: Francona said the team's training staff thinks Carlos Santana (concussion) could return Friday. Santana has started light hitting drills and his activity will increase as he progresses. ... Rockies 3B Michael Cuddyer made his second straight start at the position. Prior to this weekend, he hadn't played there since 2010 with Minnesota. ... Indians RHP Zach McAllister (sore back) will pitch on a rehab assignment at Class A Lake County on Wednesday. ... The Rockies have Monday off before beginning a three-game home series with Arizona on Tuesday. ... Indians RHP Justin Masterson (2-4) takes on Red Sox RHP John Lackey (6-3) in the opener of a three-game series Monday in Cleveland.


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I don't quite understand the relevance of your analogy. Whether it's a police car or only a taxi cab, you realize that without a doubt there is agency involved.
HADD isn't proposed as an explanation for religion specifically, but as a reason why in general we see purpose where there is none, and imagine living beings in inanimate objects.
We've all seen rock formations and clouds that "look like" something, usually an animal or person. Nobody ever says "Oh look at that cloud: it looks like a rock I saw the other day." They say "Hey that cloud looks like a horse", or "That rock formation looks like Jimmy Durante."
Man's first reaction upon hearing thunder was probably "The gods are angry". I doubt they said "We don't know what causes thunder, so we'll withhold judgment until we have a firmer grasp of science."
You got to explain that again. My mind works by picking out what practical application something has and if there is a FEW parts that are not at this moment useful, stocking them up too. All of that SEEMED useless. So my it just went over my head.
I have come across this before - in a book called "Religion Explained" by Pascal Boyer. The idea of agency - ie a rock could be a bear so I will act as though it were - is probably the way early people survived just as, today, it saves us speeding tickets! A rustling in the tress behind us might be wind... or is it a wild beast - do we wait and investigate with a wooden spear or beat a hasty retreat? One can easily see that this process might end up with various agencies, wind rivers etcThe next stage, for this is the earliest stage of religion, would be to see someone come forward who claimed to be able to pacify these agencies (OK, lets use gods) a shaman if you like. in return for food and status the shaman can keep the people safe - and get some control over them.
Oh, and I recommend the book - it was a very good read.
To me, the more powerful universality in myth is not non-human agency, but the description of superlative qualiaThe important part of these characters aren't that they are disembodied agents, it's the qualia of the agents themselves, the archetypal images of strength, wisdom, power, etc.
This is where your argument falls apart for me, but I suppose that is another topic altogether.


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The danger of the worlds oil stocks growing thinner and thinner by the day is a real and recognised problem. At present 93 million barrels of oil and liquid fuels are used per day worldwide. That sums up to a staggering 34 billion barrels a year. That equates to 5.4 trillion litres of oil per year. There is no wonder as to why the oil prices are rising so rapidly and why any national oil company is trying to maximise it's profits now before oil becomes a really scarce fuel source.
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Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons formed over millions of years along with impurities such as sulphur. It is found in liquid form in standard surface temperatures and pressures. It's characteristics such as density are highly variable depending on the length of the hydrocarbon.
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In the next five years, it is estimated that almost half of all global oil demand growth will be coming from china and that trend is estimated to continue to the year 2040. This is mostly due to the growing oil demand in the transportation sector in China and India. In OCED countries the growth in oil demand is estimated to decline due to government policies on fuel efficiency and the high rate of vehicle ownership already present in those countries.
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Crude oil extracted from various geological sources is separated by an elaborate refining method which produces several end products. The crude oil is initially heated to a temperature of 400°C and as the oil (gas state) rises up through the chambers in the refinery, different oils drain off as they return to the liquid state whilst those with shorter carbon chains stay in the gas formation and continue up the chambers until it gets cool enough for a certain oil to return to the liquid state and drain off. A few main end products are listed below:
This is the heaviest of all the hydrocarbons that are separated and is drained off from the bottom of the separation chamber. Bitumen is primarily used in tarmac but can be used as a waterproofing material.
Fuel Oils
Fuel oils are separated in the chamber above that of bitumen since their carbon chain is slightly shorter, they are most commonly used in boilers, power stations etc…..
Separated from the crude oil mixture one chamber above that of Fuel oils, diesel is a common fuel for compression engines such as those in cars and lorries. A diesel that goes by the name of 'gas oil' can be used for domestic heating.
Extracted at around 200°C, one chamber above that of diesel, kerosene is mostly used as Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). Kerosene can also be used for heating and cooking oil.
Petrol is drained off from the refining chambers at 150°C after kerosene and is a common fuel used in automobiles.
Refinery gasses
Refinery gases are the lightest of the oils in crude oil and never reach liquid form in the refining process. They can be used as blanketing gases in the refinery or as fuel for gas lit lamps and barbeque gas canisters etc….
Recent developments in the oil sector
America reduces buying oil from the middle east, this caused the oil stock prices to fall drastically. It is estimated that by 202 nearly half of all the crude oil in America will be produce at home whilst 82% will come that side of the Atlantic, while by 2035 oil from the middle east into America could be nonexistent.
What formed oil?
Oil was formed over millions of years under high pressures and temperatures. The fossilised remains of animals and trees from millions of years ago are what eventually become oil when subjected to the conditions mentioned above. A great thing would be if we were able to harvest some dinosaur stem cells to regrow one for scientific purposes.
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MACON, Ga. (Nov. 14, 2012) – A day after three Buccaneers landed All-Atlantic Sun postseason honors, the ETSU volleyball team placed four scholar-athletes on the conference's All-Academic Team, which was announced by the league office on Wednesday.
Junior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) joined sophomores Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.), Ivey Rice (Johnson City, Tenn.), and Jamie Rutledge (Kingsport, Tenn.) on the list – the most players placed on the list by one institution. All four of these standout scholar-athletes have compiled a cumulative GPA over 3.50 and helped the Bucs receive the AVCA Team Academic award in 2011-12.
"To place these four players on the All-Academic Team is a testament to their dedication of fulfilling their role as a student-athlete," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "These ladies are high-achieving individuals and clearly have found the balance between being great both on and off the court."
Devine – 2012 A-Sun Player of the Year and a unanimous First Team All A-Sun selection on Tuesday – has generated a 3.556 GPA while majoring in physical education. The Kingsport, Tenn., native was named to the Buccaneer 4.0 Club in the fall of 2011, and is also a two-time A-Sun All-Academic and Dean's List member. In addition, Devine has received Buccaneer Honor Roll accolades (3.0 GPA or higher) in all four semesters at ETSU.
Meanwhile, Hardy was also a First Team All A-Sun pick by the league coaches on Tuesday, while registering a cumulative GPA of 3.805 in Exercise Science. The sophomore middle blocker was named to the Dean's List and Buccaneer Honor Roll both semesters, while landing A-Sun All-Academic accolades in 2011-12.
Rice, a bio medical major, has produced a cumulative GPA of 3.832 at ETSU. The Johnson City, Tenn., native was named to the Dean's List and Buccaneer Honor Roll in both semesters last year. Like her other counterparts, Rice also landed on the Atlantic Sun All-Academic List in the fall of 2011. On the court, the sophomore outside hitter mounted four double-doubles this season and set a new career high for block assists (5) and total blocks (5).
Rounding out the group of Buccaneers is Rutledge with a 3.916 cumulative GPA while majoring in English and minoring in education. Rutledge recorded a 4.0 GPA in the spring of 2012 and has been named to the Dean's List and Buccaneer Honor Roll in both semesters thus far at ETSU. The Kingsport, Tenn., native was also an Atlantic Sun All-Academic selection in the fall of 2011. The sophomore setter ranks sixth in the conference in assists per set (9.79) in A-Sun only matches, while ranking seventh overall in the statistical category with 8.83 assists per set. Rutledge also collected eight double-doubles on the year and set new career marks in assists (64), digs (15) and service aces (3).
Lipscomb's Caitlin Dotson was named Scholar-Athlete of the Year, along with being a unanimous academic selection after totaling a 3.84 GPA. The pre-med major was named Second Team All A-Sun on Tuesday.
The A-Sun Academic All-Conference teams recognize student-athletes who embody the conference's mission of Building Winners for Life. All the members of the team boast a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (GPA) or better and participated in at least half of their team's matches.
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