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Apart from eating food for nourishment, food is a way of communication. We can all recall hearing the stories and recipes our grandmother used to make. It seems fitting as a way to pass on culinary traditions especially during holidays.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, can one recipe stand out from the rest as being the best? I like to think that no one recipe makes a great Thanksgiving dinner. It is an orchestra, the sum of all the parts. Each dish provides the right note, right texture and the right balance making the entire meal a success.
"fall love"
In keeping things a little lighter, I made a simple apple juice glaze for the game hens. It worked out very well, even better the second time. Though the glaze is not sweet, it makes a wonderful golden bird with a light, crisp skin.
Apple Glazed Game Hen Recipe
2-24 ounce game hens
½ cup apple juices concentrate
½ cup chicken stock
2" piece of cinnamon stick
3 whole cloves
1 star anise
½ teaspoon black peppercorns
Preheat oven to 375°F.
1. Truss chicken and season with salt and black pepper.
2. Combine remaining ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a simmer.
3. Reduce by half and strain into a small bowl.
4. Brush glaze over game hens and roast for 20 minutes.
5. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F and baste hens with more glaze every 15 minutes until juices run clear.
6. Stop applying glaze so skin crisps just before it in finished.
Apple & Sage Wild Rice Recipe
1 cup wild rice
3 cups water
¼ teaspoon sea salt
½ cup basmati rice
¾ cup chicken stock
¼ teaspoon sea salt
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely julienne
2 large Fuji apples, peeled, cored and chopped
6 large sage leaves, finely chopped
Sea salt to taste
½ cup sliced almonds, toasted
¼ cup pomegranate seeds
1. Cook wild rice with water and salt until tender, drain off any remaining water.
2. Place basmati, chicken stock and salt in a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
3. Reduce to a gentle simmer and cook covered until water is absorbed.
3. Sauté onions in olive oil on low until translucent.
4. Add apples and continue to cook until just tender.
5. Stir in sage and season to taste with sea salt.
6. Combine rice, apple mixture, almonds, and pomegranate seeds.


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On Mondays during the NHL lockout, Sporting News will present radical—and, in most cases improbable—proposals designed to get the league back on track and ensure its long-term health. The eighth in that series: changing the salary cap system to help teams make money.
By instituting a salary cap after the 2004-05 lockout, NHL owners got long-desired cost certainty. The problem was, it turned out that was not what they wanted, as evidenced by this year's lockout in spite of a record $3.3 billion in hockey-related revenue last season.
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What the owners really want is profit certainty. By continuing to propose a salary cap system based on league-wide revenues, they will never get it. The last seven years should have made that clear, but apparently have not. The problem, as has become evident to more and more observers as the lockout has dragged on—Larry Brooks wrote about it in Sunday's New York Post, and David Shoalts in the Globe and Mail—is the floor.
Under the old collective bargaining agreement, the salary floor for 2012-13 would have been $54.2 million, a higher figure than seven teams paid their players last season. Even after this summer's spending, there still are seven teams under that prospective floor (not that it's going to wind up there): the Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and Phoenix Coyotes.
Why the NHL hasn't built its public case around these teams, instead of going with a blanket "we feel we're paying players too much" campaign, is anyone's guess. But the fact is, there are teams that are struggling to keep up with the heavyweight revenue generators, and it's a race they will never win.
The problem for the lower-revenue teams is easy to grasp, and it's not one that will change simply by going to a 50-50 split of revenues. Growth in league revenue means growth in an aggregate figure, not growth evenly split among 30 franchises. If the New York Rangers decide to raise ticket prices because of the simple economics of supply and demand for seats at Madison Square Garden, or if the Detroit Red Wings negotiate a higher rate for their local television broadcasts, those big-market teams reap all of the benefits of their good business, while the Islanders and Blues see their payroll obligations rise as a result of the bump to the HRR pool.
It should not take a blue-ribbon panel of economists to figure out that after several years of this, the disparity between thriving and struggling clubs will only grow, with the latter group having virtually no chance of profitability because of its out-of-line payroll costs. The idea of lowering the salary floor would only serve to hide the problem long enough to survive until the next CBA—a band-aid on a bullet wound.
If the NHL really wants profit certainty for all 30 of its clubs, and not just certainty of exceptionally high profits for its most powerful owners, it cannot treat all 30 teams as financial equals when they very clearly are not. This is not the NFL, where the main source of revenue is a massive national television contract, and local TV rights, one of the NHL's greatest sources of both revenue and financial disparity, don't exist outside of the preseason.
Instead of trying to apply a league-wide salary structure, the NHL should base the salary cap and floor on the revenues of individual teams, after revenue-sharing payments have been made. In addition to disconnecting small-market teams from a system in which they have no hope of keeping pace, those teams would have an incentive to grow their business, both in order to be able to put a more competitive team on the ice and to increase their profit margins. Fans in those markets also would have more reason to spend money, as they would be legitimately supporting their favorite team.
Obviously, there would be an enormous gap in payrolls. For the 2010-11 season, Forbes reported that the Toronto Maple Leafs brought in $193 million in revenue, compared to $63 million for the Islanders. The midpoint was $96 million for the San Jose Sharks Sharks and Edmonton Oilers. Applying a 50-50 split, you would be looking at a salary cap in the $96 million range for Toronto, $58 million in San Jose and Edmonton, and $31 million on Long Island for 2011-12.
Not only allowing, but mandating, that the Maple Leafs compete with a payroll more than triple that of the Islanders may not seem fair for competitive balance. Guess what? It's not—because here's the thing: Competitive balance is a pipe dream. Under a system in which team payrolls have been linked to league-wide revenues, the past five Stanley Cup champions have come from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles. In addition to winning on the ice, high-revenue teams have the added benefit of payrolls forcefully dropped to below-market rates, which is having your cake and eating it, too. If the current system leads to small-market clubs holding onto talent, why isn't Rick Nash still in Columbus, or Ryan Suter still in Nashville, or Zach Parise in New Jersey?
By requesting a trade, Nash basically created his own free agency, and dictated where he landed; the upside for the Blue Jackets was that they were able to get a return for him. The Minnesota Wild previously were on the other end of this equation, having lost Marian Gaborik as a free agent to the Rangers, but this summer (maybe because owner Craig Leipold anticipated a reduction in player costs as a result of a new CBA?) decided to start throwing cash around as if the Twin Cities had been annexed by Canada.
Big-market teams will always use their financial clout to lure top talent, and will always have a competitive advantage unless payrolls are made uniform league-wide—in which case the rich clubs would just delight in ever-higher profits while their poorer cousins spend outside their means to achieve their mandated outlay.
A team losing money because it cannot afford the salary floor has a choice: cut spending elsewhere and hope to make up the difference, or just lose money year in and year out. Neither option is good for the longterm health of the club, which is a big part of why the Islanders so desperately needed to get the hell out of Nassau Coliseum and hope that a move to Brooklyn will be enough of a financial game-changer to make them competitive. As it is, the Isles' payroll does not reflect their true salary outlay—by effectively using loopholes in the old CBA, they have $50.2 million in 2012-13 cap hits on their current ledger, but only $41.3 million in actual salaries.
A team whose salary structure locks in profits on an incremental scale with revenues, on the other hand, has every reason to increase those revenues and make investments in long-term projects that will benefit the health of the team, the way that Flyers Skate Zone rinks have popped up around the Philadelphia metropolitan area, extending the team's brand and the area's connection with hockey.
For the Islanders, who do operate the IceWorks facility on Long Island now, expanding their reach and investment in the New York area now could pay dividends by putting them in position to sign Clark Gillies' grandson to a long-term deal in 2040. There's no quick fix for the minnows to catch up to the sharks, but there are many quick ways for the minnows to be eaten, starting with maintaining the CBA's links between league revenues and team spending.
Instead of making increased payroll a burden, make it a reward, and a symptom of growing profitability. The NHL and the NHLPA both benefit in the long run, and with teams removed from the equation as their own worst financial enemies, maybe we could all avoid having to go through this nonsense again.

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There was nowhere to hide Friday night for Karns. The Oak Ridge Wildcats showed up on defense, offense and special teams to pelt the Beavers 42-0 on Homecoming night.
There was nowhere to hide Friday night for Karns. The Oak Ridge Wildcats showed up on defense, offense and special teams to pelt the Beavers 42-0 on Homecoming night.
"We just played our assignment and our football," senior linebacker Zak Clark said. "We knew that we had to bounce back from last week."
Clark and the rest of the defense smothered Karns (1-6, 1-5) from the opening drive, forcing four turnovers on the night and holding the starters to negative yardage through the end of the third quarter.
"The defense played well and are getting better," Oak Ridge coach Scott Blade said. "We have played well for most of the year except for a couple of hiccups."
The offense was just as impressive, after missing a deep pass on the first play from scrimmage, the 'Cats (6-1, 5-0) marched 40 yards on six plays and capped it with the first of Elliott Normand's two scores.
"It was good to get started fast and take another step forward," coach Blade said.
On the next offensive possession, quarterback Rian Hall connected on the long pass to Jalen Miller for a 59-yard romp and the rout was on.
"It was nice to get Jalen on track," Blade said. "We took a nice deep one there.
"We knew they were going to blitz every which way and knew they were going to overload the box and make it real hard to run. We came ready to throw. We missed a few passes that we would've liked to had back, but for the most part, we did what we wanted to."
Oak Ridge finished with 373 yards of offense — 141 yards through the air — and got two more rushing scores from Hall (8 yards on an option keeper and 14 yards on a draw) and a 17-yard scoring run from Matt Moore to finish the scoring before the half.
The Beavers tried to get going in the fourth as they found some success against the junior varsity, picking up a pair of first downs. But Riley Myer picked off a Matt Chesney pass to end the game.
Jemiah Hall and Richard Turner had the other two interceptions in the first half for the 'Cats.
Normand recovered a fumble and was the leading rusher on the night with nine carries for 98 yards.
The win keeps Oak Ridge in the driver seat of the District 3-AAA race with three games to play.
"That's important to us," said Blade of the district title. "We are just trying to get a little better and win the district. That is our first goal and it starts with Hardin Valley next week."
Winning the three games would not only give Oak Ridge its first title since 2007, it would mean at least one home game in the playoffs after traveling every week for the last three years.
However, Blade was quick to point out that anything could happen and the 'Cats have to worry about themselves first.
"There's a lot of football to be played the next few weeks," he said. "East Tennessee is real strong this year with potentially a lot of 10-0, 9-1 teams. The goal is to get a little bit better each week so that if we do make the playoffs, we are playing our best football we possibly can."
Robert Holder can be contacted at (865) 220-5508.
Karns 0, Oak Ridge 42
Karns 0 0 0 0 — 0
First quarter
ORHS — Elliott Normand 4 run (Brett Beeler kick), 8:17
ORHS — Jalen Miller 59 pass from Rian Hall (Beeler kick), 3:51
ORHS — Normand 3 run (Beeler kick), 1:45
Second quarter
ORHS — Matt Moore 17 run (Beeler kick), 11:02
ORHS — Hall 8 run (Beeler kick), 4:52
ORHS — Hall 14 run (Beeler kick), 51.2
Individual Stats
Rushing — Karns- Matt Chesney 10-37-0, Desmon Rhea 2-11-0, Cody Graves 2-3-0, Kollin Bigger 2-1-0, Brant Nickens 1-(minus-5)-0, Trevor Towe 6-(minus-16)-0; ORHS- Normand 9-98-2, Moore 10-73-1, Hall 6-43-2, Malik Hardy 5-17-0, No. 39 3-4-0 .
Passing — Karns- Trevor Towe 4-11-4-0-3; ORHS- Hall 6-12-137-1-0, Gered Young 1-2-5-0-0, Normand 0-1-0-0-0.
Receiving— Karns- Desmond Rhea 1-4-0, Hunter Goforth 2-1-0, Jevon Harper 1-(minus-1)-0. ORHS- Miller 3-90-1, Moore 1-30-0, Blake Goins 1-9-0, Robert Valdez 1-7-0, Tommy Kaczocha 1-5-0.


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Natalie Portman: NYC Ballet Gala with Benjamin Millepied
Natalie Portman attends the NYC Ballet 2010 Fall Gala at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Thursday (October 7) in New York.
The 29-year-old actress was there to support her boyfriend, Benjamin Millepied, who is one of the principal dancers in the ballet company.
Natalie is currently garnering Oscar buzz for her performance in Black Swan, in which she plays a ballet dancer. The film opens in select theaters on December 1st!
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Eastwood StoryTime
February 22, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Eastwood StoryTime program was created by a retired teacher with a big heart. Children ages 4-10 who live in a low-income housing complex gather twice a month after school to enjoy stories, poems, songs, and movement activities. RRSC has a year's worth of lesson plans to share with others who want to serve disadvantaged children in this way. As RRSC connects with children through StoryTimes, we continually work to build better understanding and relationships with their families. Volunteers assist FLCE Judy Dahlke by providing one on one reading time with children at the beginning of the program. Snacks are provided for the children and group storytime occurs before the program finishes with a craft that ties back to that week's theme.


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Carolina conservatives want more opposition in DC
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — Republican Patrick McHenry's loudest constituents have no desire to see conciliation on gridlocked Capitol Hill, unless it comes from President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats.
As the congressman holds public question-and-answer sessions with constituents during Congress' summer break, conservatives and GOP loyalists who enjoy significant influence in his western North Carolina district are demanding that he and his House colleagues defund "Obamacare," refuse to raise the nation's debt limit and generally intensify opposition to the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Congress has abysmal approval ratings, and polls suggest that most voters want the divided government to seek out compromise. Yet the no-holds-barred attitude on display here — and elsewhere as other House Republicans hold town-hall style gatherings — offers an ominous forecast of the legislative battles ahead this fall and underscores how little political incentive many Republicans have to reach common ground on issues ranging from immigration to the budget.
The atmosphere has put Republicans like McHenry in a challenging spot. He and others are all but forced to square their criticism of the president with their unwillingness to go as far as the far right wants. In doing so, they risk irking the party's most conservative voters and drawing a primary challenge; many face re-election in districts Obama lost in 2012.
So at nearly every event over the past week, the 37-year-old, fifth-term congressman pre-emptively opened several recent appearances by suggesting that there are limits to the GOP's power, reminding his constituents that "elections have consequences ... (and) this president is in office through 2016." He found himself seeking to delicately explain why he doesn't support a government shut-down or a national credit default, and why there's only so much House Republicans can do to stop funding the health care law given that some of the federal spending is automatic.
Still, at the Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce, about 40 miles outside Charlotte, Keith Gaskill told McHenry he wants to see "more backbone from the Republican Party" against Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the executive branch.
McHenry reminded Gaskill that he voted to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress.
And, when Lincoln County resident Robert Varney insisted that Congress should remove Holder from office, McHenry noted that the Democratic Senate would have to hold a trial.
"Do you really think that would happen?" he asked Varney, who was unbowed.
Varney was among voters who praised Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, tea party favorites who want to deny money for implementing Obama's health care law even if that means not financing core government functions at all after Sept. 30. Others pressed McHenry on whether he would vote to extend the nation's debt limit later this fall.
And a crowd at Lincolnton City Hall erupted in applause when a retired FBI agent from McHenry's hometown declared that "money is oxygen is Washington" and told McHenry that Republicans should "use the power of the purse" to extract what they want from the executive branch.
When constituents pressed him on health care, McHenry noted he voted against the law. But he also tried to convince the most vocal critics of it that shutting down government won't satisfy their concerns.
"No matter how much you dislike government, government does things we need," he said, citing military operations at one stop and noting Social Security at another.
On one hand, he called the nation's borrowing limit a legitimate tool for "leverage" against Obama and Democrats in an overhaul of the nation's taxing and spending blueprint — though he was short on details about his desired changes. Yet when pushed, McHenry carefully added a caveat. "We have to make good on our obligations," he said, tacitly explaining that raising nation's credit cap is about paying bills already due, not future spending priorities.
One pending issue where McHenry made little attempt at nuance was immigration. He assured multiple questioners that the House would act first on a single bill dealing only with border control. But he said, "Under no circumstance will I ever vote for the Senate bill" that includes an eventual path to citizenship for people in the country illegally.
McHenry, like others in GOP-leaning districts, still fielded withering critiques from outnumbered Democrats and the occasional independent. But the exchanges usually revealed sentiments in the congressman's favor.
Questioners in rural Polk County lambasted McHenry's vote for a less generous nutrition assistance program that Republicans want to separate from farm subsidies — ending a four-decade precedent for a unified farm-and-food-stamp bill. McHenry insisted that GOP plans won't harm "any individual child" but are aimed at "able-bodied adults who refuse to work," as many nodded their heads in approval.
Asked his thoughts on the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction blueprint— bipartisan recommendations for curtailing expensive entitlement outlays and raising taxes — McHenry called the plan "credible," but quickly added that it has "a number of flaws ... particularly when you talk about raising taxes even higher" than the January deal on earnings higher than $400,000.
At several stops, McHenry asked how many people believe "things in Washington are as bad as they've ever been?"
They're wrong, he said. The worst, he explained over murmurs of curiosity, was "about 150 years ago ... when a congressman walked over and caned a senator." Though he avoided the details, he was referring to an 1856 incident when a pro-slavery House member from South Carolina beat an anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts at his desk. "That," he said, "was the last time our country was this divided."
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1. Lots of Vintage lace, 2. A Love Affair with White..., 3. Coffee with flowers, 4. hiding spot, 5. 47/365 I found your diary, 6. white, 7. Lovely Bridal Shop, 8. Twigs & Honey, 9. laundry bokeh
- Pretty print to get you inspired for Fall
- If that doesn't do the trick how about some Fall fashion inspiration (can you tell I'm ready for Fall?). Or this
- I need to figure out a place for this cabinet
- 'Nine times out of ten, you probably aren't having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit' (good advice and it made me laugh)
- On my book wish list: Mastering the Art of French Eating
Seems like all I can muster is a post every couple of weeks. It's a combination of busy (mostly work related) and our house projects just kind of limping along.
Our bath remodel is entering its seventh week. There were some issues (as there inevitably is) with the contractor that stalled things. Today the floor will be started and then the rest of the work is up to us. We're test driving some paint (I have my own version of 50 Shades of Grey....) and sorting out the beadboard and moulding.
It will be beautiful if it ever gets finished.
I may be ready for Fall but the weather isn't cooperating with me. It is supposed to be 100 this weekend. Hello? I need sweater and hot tea weather.
Oh this is interesting...to me anyway...I'm starting a fitness bootcamp on Monday. At 5:30am! Wish me luck.
Happy weekend everyone! Hope you all are happy and healthy.


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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 25, 2012) – With hopes of finishing the regular season on a three-game winning streak, the ETSU men's basketball team will take on Florida Gulf Coast Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
The game will air live on ESPN3.
The Buccaneers will honor seniors Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.), Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) prior to the tip off, a trio that will be playing their final home game in an ETSU uniform. The Bucs currently stand at 15-13 overall, 9-8 in A-Sun action.
For more on Saturday's game, click on the game notebook link to the right, or read the game notes below. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2011-12 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 23, 2012) – Placing three players in double figures and holding Stetson's high-powered offense to just 56 points, the ETSU men's basketball team picked up its second straight win and cruised to a 72-56 victory over the Hatters Thursday evening in Atlantic Sun Conference play at the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... Senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Buccaneers' offensive attack, while senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa, Fla.) and junior guard Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) pitched in 19 and 15 points, respectively. Meanwhile, the Bucs' defense held Stetson to 39 percent shooting and forced 13 Hatter turnovers. ... The distractions were obvious, and the absence of those players did not go unnoticed. The Buccaneers, who improved to 15-13 overall, 9-8 in A-Sun action, were without the services of senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa). ... Hubbard sat out for precautionary reasons after hitting his head during a fall in the win over Lipscomb Monday night, while Cooley is now suspended indefinitely from the team following his arrest Thursday for filing a false police report. Cooley, who was not at the scene of an especially aggravated burglary that occurred inside his residence at BucRidge on Tuesday, Feb. 21, reported to police that $1,300 in cash belonging to him was taken by the intruders. ... Even without those two key contributors, the Bucs rolled throughout the game, trailing only momentarily in the opening minutes and ultimately leading by as many as 14 points in the first half. By the break, the Bucs owned a 29-19 advantage. ... After the intermission, ETSU opened with an 11-2 run to make it 40-21. From there, Stetson managed to make it a 10-point contest at 49-39 with 10:35 left in the game, but the Bucs regrouped to put together a 12-3 run, laying to rest any chance of a Hatter rally. ... For the game, ETSU shot 45 percent from the floor and 68 percent from the free throw line. The Bucs out-rebounded the Hatters 39-36 and committed just seven turnovers on the night. ... Along with the efforts of Brown, Sollazzo and Dubose, junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) posted a career high 11 rebounds on the night, while pitching in six points. ... Stetson shot just 39 percent from the field and 21 percent from 3-point range, committing 13 turnovers and giving up six steals to the Bucs. For the Hatters, Adam Pegg was the lone bright spot with a 13-point effort.
The series versus Florida Gulf Coast
In a series that began in 2008, the Bucs own a 6-2 advantage in the all-time record books against FGCU ... ETSU's last meeting with the Eagles came on Dec. 3, 2011, a 72-63 road loss.
Last time out against Florida Gulf Coast
FT. MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 3, 2011) – A change in defensive strategy gave the ETSU men's basketball team a chance – but it was not enough. ... After watching Florida Gulf Coast exploit their zone defense time after time Saturday afternoon and build a 12-point, second-half lead, the Buccaneers' made a change to man-to-man and rallied to make it a two-point game. However, the Eagles managed to make critical plays down the stretch to hold off the Bucs' rally and capture a 72-63 Atlantic Sun Conference victory inside Alico Arena. ... The first half opened with FGCU using an ETSU-style fullcourt press to disrupt the Bucs' offensive efforts. That approach worked well for the Eagles, who forced four early turnovers and jumped out to a 12-4 lead just three minutes into the game. ... FGCU did not stop there, as the Bucs' zone defense was ineffective for the third straight game and allowed the Eagles to build a lead of as many as 14 points at 34-20 with 5:14 left. Fortunately for ETSU, the Bucs did manage to outscore FGCU 8-2 to close out the half and make it 36-28 at the break. ... In the second half, FGCU's Christophe Varidel hit a pair of 3-pointers in the early going and helped the Eagles back out to a 51-39 lead with 13:12 left in the game. However, at that point the Bucs made their defensive adjustment. ... Changing from a zone to a man-to-man defense, the Bucs finally made some much-needed defensive stops and re-energized their offensive attack. Most importantly, ETSU went on to outscore FGCU 18-8 over the next eight minutes to make it 59-57 with five minutes left. ... While it was still 61-59 with just over four minutes left, ETSU was unable to get any closer and the Eagles outscored the Bucs 11-4 the rest of the way. ... The Bucs were led offensively by guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), who scored a team-high 17 points, while senior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) had a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. FGCU was led by Sherwood Brown's 20 points. ... While the Bucs out-rebounded the Eagles 40-28 and shot a much-improved 70 percent from foul line, it was other areas that cost the Bucs on this night. FGCU shot a strong 54 percent from the field, while ETSU hit on just 35 percent of its field goal attempts. The Eagles also shot 40 percent from the 3-point stripe (8-of-20).
Block party for Brown
With a block in last season's finale against Iona, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots on the year ... For his career, he is now second on the all-time list with 181 blocks, but is just one behind the program's all-time leader Zakee Wadood ... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Bucs lead nation in steals, Cooley ranked 11th on list
Key to the Bucs' wins this year has been the ability to swipe the ball from opponents ... Through games of Feb. 19, ETSU ranks No. 1 in the country in steals per game, averaging 10.5 steals a contest ... Meanwhile, junior Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) has been on a torrid pace this season and a big reason for the Bucs' success in the steals category, averaging a conference best 2.5 steals per game ... He currently ranks 11th nationally in steals per game. ... The Bucs have three players ranked in the Top 10 among A-Sun Conference players in steals: Cooley (1st, 2.5), Tommy Hubbard (2nd, 2.0) and Adam Sollazzo (5th, 1.6).
Rembert breaks out
Freshman guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa), who was recruited for his ability to score the basketball, came off the bench to provide valuable minutes in the Bucs' win over Kennesaw State (2/4) ... Going a perfect 4-for-4 from the field and 3-for-3 from 3-point range, Rembert netted 11 points for ETSU during a critical stretch midway through the game ... Afterwards, head coach Murry Bartow commented how Rembert was probably the player of the game.
Brown sets new career mark
With his 27-point effort in the win over North Florida, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new career high for single-game scoring ... Brown, who was honored prior to the UNF game for recently eclipsing 1,000 points for his career, put on an offensive show against the Ospreys ... For the 6-foot-8 senior, it was his best game since netting 25 points against Kentucky in the 2010-11 season opener.
Walton provides valuable minutes off the bench
Having waited patiently for an opportunity to contribute, freshman forward John Walton (Memphis) made the most of his opportunity in the Bucs' win over Lipscomb (2/20) ... With senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) out with an injury early in the game, Walton came on and set new career marks for minutes played (21), rebounds (3), blocks (3) and steals (4) ... He also pitched in a pair of free throws ... For the 6-foot-8 forward, it was a chance to show what he can bring to the Bucs' lineup.
Poderis reaches career mark for rebounds -- twice
In recent weeks, junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) has become a truly valuable part of the Buccaneers attack ... In the win over Mercer, Poderis picked up a career high 10 rebounds, and that effort came two days after he matched his career high for points with 14 against USC Upstate ... He rewrote the record books for his rebounding with a new personal best of 11 boards against Stetson (2/23) ... In the win over Kennesaw State, he posted another nine-rebound effort ... For the year, Poderis is averaging 4.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 20.3 minutes a game.
On their way to 1,000 points
As they began their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard were all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers. While Brown has now reached the mark, Hubbard and Sollazzo are still in the hunt. After the Bucs' last game, here is where each stands:
Adam Sollazzo ................................................ 983 points
Tommy Hubbard ............................................. 836 points
To reach 1,000, the three would have to average for the season:
Adam Sollazzo................................. 14.8 points per game
Tommy Hubbard............................. 14.7 points per game
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs did just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589. ... This season, after starting out the year shooting poorly from the foul line, the Bucs are have improved those numbers and are now shooting 64 percent for the year as a team.
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
ETSU picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers -- who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT and one CIT berth, 14 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85 -- ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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Welcome back to People Who Work Here where each week we meet a new Sub Pop employee. This week's interview is with Jaimi C, our accountant lady. She pays the bills and the employees and she's also the person who is responsible for setting up those terrible visits with the insurance lady who tells you how rude it is when you die without proper life insurance at the beginning of every year. Jaimi is really, really nice and I often try to goad her into talking shit about coworkers but she never ever does it. What's with that? Let's meet Jaimi.
L: What's the first live show you ever attended? Did you flash your boobs?
J: The very first live show that I can remember was Barry Manilow with my best friend and both of our moms when I was about 8. I don't think I had boobs to flash, but if I did, I would definitely have been grounded. [Your mom is such a prude. –ed.] My first rock show was either Van Halen or Def Leppard. My brother and I skipped school and stood in line for hours so that we could be right up in front!
L: You were a rocker chick/bad girl in high school, or so I've gathered from our lunchtime discussions. Please tell me what you wore to school on a typical day.
J: I think that you have me mixed up with someone else! I guess that you could have called me a rocker chick in middle school, but once I discovered Prince, Depeche Mode, and The Cure, my rocker days were over for a while. I wore black, black, and more black — and pointy Fluevog shoes.
L: Did you smoke cigarettes?
J: Yes, not many though.[Oh right you were goth. Cloves? –ed.]
L: Did you drink?
J: Of course.
L: How old were you when you lost your virginity?
J: 16 or 17 [Well which is it? Seventeen is reasonable but sixteen is just slutty. J/K -ed.]
L: Was your hair feathered?
J: Feathering was long gone by the time I was in high school! My hair was gigantic and teased and I probably used a bottle of Aqua-net every day. [Sick! –ed.]
L: Was your boyfriend's hair feathered?
J: No! In my junior year, I had a 22 year-old boyfriend who looked like Robert Smith. My parents were horrified, but I thought he was SO hot. [This is the dude you were humping, I take it. –ed.]
L: Did you fight?
J: No – despite my weird hair, I still got along with most people.
L: Did you ever fail a class?
J: No. I had a hard time with geometry, but I passed somehow.
L: What was your favorite band in high school? What is your favorite band now?
J: My favorite band in high school was The Cure. Recently, I've been listening to Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, and Handsome Furs.
L: Do you play an instrument? If so tell me what it is and stuff and if not tell me what you'd play if you could.
J: No – I don't play an instrument. I guess that I'd play keyboards if I did. I took piano lessons as a kid, and I know stuff like Chopsticks and the Jaws theme song…..I'm sure that I could easily catch up with real musicians. Kidding!!
L: How's having a kid?
J: Amazing! I had a really, really fun pre-kid life, but I wouldn't trade back to that old life now for anything in the world. My son Spencer is one of the coolest people I've ever known. I'm really lucky. [But what if he grows up to be a total butthole? -ed.]
L: Where did you work before you worked at Sub Pop? Tell me about it.
J: I worked at a place called Triton PCS. It is a wireless phone company that has a corporate office located near Philadelphia. I was a Revenue Assurance Manager, which is a confusing title even for people in the wireless industry. Basically, I did a lot of charts and graphs that showed the executive-types how they could make more money. It was the polar opposite of Sub Pop in so many ways. I really liked it a lot then, but now I think I'd have a hard time with it.
L: You get organic vegetables delivered to you door. What is your favorite vegetable and favorite fruit? Why? What's your least favorite and why?
J: My favorite vegetable is broccoli and my favorite fruit is raspberries – because they are both delicious! My least favorites are brussels sprouts and papaya, just because I don't like them. [That's really mature, Jaimi. –ed] I started doing the organic and label-reading thing when I discovered that my son was allergic to MSG. Once I started reading labels I realized how much chemical junk we all eat every day.
L: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
J: In elementary school I wanted to be a gymnast. In high school I wanted to do international marketing, because I really love to travel. I'm not really sure how I ended up working with money.
L: How much money does Jonathan make per paycheck?
J: More than you or me. [Duh. –ed]
L: How much money does Sub Pop have in the bank?
J: It changes every day! [What a cop out! -ed.]
L: Can I have a loan?
J: I'm sure that the bank would be so psyched to give you one.
L: Am I annoying you?
J: No way! I'll bet that these non-answers to your financial questions are annoying YOU though! [Yes.Yes they are. –ed.]
L: Okay, no really, how much money do you make?
J: Less than Jonathan. [You are driving me crazy!!!! -ed]


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The API is comprised of a table of constants, IGLAPIConstants, and the single class, IGLInterop. The class is instantiated and the table of constants are made available in the global namespace at AddOn load time under the same names by Inter-Guild Link. This gives other AddOn authors two techniques for accessing the API at run-time:
TOC Dependency
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Microsoft Is Shutting Down Xbox Entertainment Studios
The studio was created in order to make exclusive television content for Xbox owners.
"As part of the planned reduction to our overall workforce announced today and in light of our organization's mission, we plan to streamline a handful of portfolio and engineering development efforts across Xbox," Xbox chief Phil Spencer said today in a statement. "One such plan is that, in the coming months, we expect to close Xbox Entertainment Studios."
However, the Steven Spielberg-produced Halo television series will continue production, as will the documentary series Signal to Noise.


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I'd give her to my husband or gently place her down on her play mat and go and make a cup of tea, deep breathes and 30 mins later try again - generally to better results, but she was still fussy, I thought I was going to go insane some nights, but she and I got through it and I feel much stronger and more determined because of it and love her even more (if thats even possible!) for how determined and fussy she was!
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Some Interesting News... And What I Think About It...
I realize that some people just don't care for the taste of coffee. I realize that others should not drink coffee because of their unique health problems. I also realize that some folks don't want to be dependent on caffeine or any other drug.
Amongst these folks, there's a handful of people who are quite smug about their coffee-free lives and often hint that coffee drinkers are a bit ... self-indulgent.
I know a few anti-coffee fanatics like this, so I'm amused that several recent studies have shown that drinking coffee has great health benefits. Here's a report that was in the news yesterday:
Agence France-Presse, by staff
Friday, May 26, 2006
OSLO (AFP) - Drinking coffee in moderation, up to five cups a day, can reduce the chances of contracting cardio-vascular diseases, Parkison's and Alzheimer's, a study by Norwegian researchers showed.
The researchers based their findings on data from 27,000 women in the United States. Those who drank between one and three cups of coffee daily reduced the risk of contracting cardio-vascular diseases and 'inflammatories' by between 20 to 25 per cent."
Read the rest of the article: Coffee is good for you: Norwegian study
Another interesting article about coffee in the news focused on the psychological effects of coffee drinking. It seems that after coffee, people are more likely to accept negotiation and compromise.
ZeeNews.Com by staff
Sydney, May 27:
The next time you want someone to agree with your views, just put forth your ideas before him/her, over a cup of coffee, as a new research has revealed that caffeine works best to get messages through in the morning.
Researchers have discovered that a morning dose of caffeine can work wonders to drive home a persuasive message.
Read the rest of the article: Coffee has the power of pursuasion
I started drinking coffee when I was in high school. I usually drink 2 to 4 mugs of coffee a day. I differentiate between coffee mugs and cups because I think most mugs hold at least 10 ounces if filled to the brim, whereas a true cup is just 8 ounces.
I used to have a coffee percolator that looked much like the image at right. I still have a couple of stove-top percolators. I keep them for no-electricity emergencies, such as when an ice storm knocks out the power or we're going camping. But most of the time, I use my Mr. Coffee. It has a "Brew later" function so I can make the coffee the night before, set the timer, and get up the next morning to hot coffee.
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Post subject: Late Call for Nominations for the MBGA Board, 2014
Nominations are requested for MBGA directors positions to be elected at the Annual General Meeting on April 27, 2014.
The board of directors will serve to manage the affairs of the MBGA for a one year term following the election. If you, or someone you know, would like to volunteer please e-mail
with the name and contact information of the nominee. Permission must be obtained before nominating another person. Nominees should submit a statement of their qualifications before the AGM.
Nominations are accepted for any Manitoba resident, 18 years or older, who is an eligible voting member of the MBGA for at least thirty (30) days prior to the election. Nominations are open until midnight, March 27, 2014.
For further details on the election and operation of the MBGA please refer to the Election Policy and Bylaws. Reviewing past meeting minutes of the MBGA committee will also give you an idea of what to expect.
Nominees are running for a director position on the board. Once the group of directors has been elected, the board will elect officer positions.
As per the MBGA Election Policy, if there are insufficient nominees to fill the Board positions, a call for nominees from the floor shall occur
at the AGM
(As well, if you feel that you would be excited to volunteer your time and energy, by all means, ask someone to nominate you.)
We are now 20 days away from the 2014 AGM. This doesn't mean that nominations should cease. Please do make your nominations known and we will make the nomination official from the floor of the AGM.
Due to departing members, we will be losing skills in a couple of key positions and have a very big need to fill.
1) Treasurer
Description: The treasurer is responsible keeping the financial records of the organization in order. This role does not need to require the handling of money. However, traditionally, the treasurer has been one of the two signatories required to issue a cheque.
2) Secretary (Communications Officer)
Description: The Secretary/Communications Officer is responsible for the written records of the board of directors, including the minutes of each meeting. (Best suited for someone who is well organised and detail oriented.)
Please, if you are a person who matches either of the above and wish to give back to the community of Geocaching, don't be shy and let us know!
We are also looking for new board members that can fill smaller roles as members at large. The responsibilities would depend on the various roles filled.
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Here is the list so far of nominees to be on the board of the MBGA for 2014 (click on the name for their profile).
Jo-Ann (AngelFreak)
I started geocaching in July 2010 and am known for finding my first 507 caches without a gps or smartphone.
I am a very outgoing and friendly individual with a background in customer service and sales. My passion is planning parties and I have organized several different kinds (birthdays, holidays, game nights, murder mystery, tupperware, etc) for my family and friends.
I attended my first geocaching event in October 2011 and then my first MBGA board meeting the next month where I volunteered to investigate an event idea that I had. Unfortunately it didn't work out but I was happy to help plan an event for the board in February 2011.
I became Interim Events Coordinator in March and have enjoyed being Event Coordinator ever since.
Being in this position has helped inspire me to begin a career in this field. I'm starting with the legal administrative assistant course this year and will take further courses directed towards event planning in the future.
I would like to continue to provide my services to the board.
Mike (Glacier_ice)
My name is Mike Neale, aka Glacier_ice and even sometimes Red Shirt Brian. You may remember me from such Geocaches as Jimmy "Two Cups" MACHiato, 'Zach's Place' and 'Photo Edited'. I am currently serving my fourth term as MBGA President and my fifth year on the board of directors. There will be no vote bribery coming from me, so if you were looking for tips to solve Photo Edited in exchange for your vote, I am sorry, but you'll have to solve that one the old fashioned way. I will, however, continue to share stories, in my cache logs, about my three little Ice Cubes that sometimes go caching with me. I am willing to keep my name on the ballot for this year's election and continue to serve on the board of directors. I look forward to meeting the new geocachers who will be attending their first AGM this year. I also look forward to the Jedi Food Duel. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Stacy (GroovyPinkSocks - GPS)
I have been geo-caching since November of 2011, and currently have over 2000 finds. I have enjoyed many events such as assisting with geo venture, travelling to Churchill and the always anticipated "road trip".
I volunteer in many aspects of my childrens lives, Basketball coach, Guiding leader,Cub Leader,Soccer convenor/coach and a PAC member along with many other places and events when help is needed.
I have set lofty goals in each of my caching years and enjoy the challenges. I have served 1 year on the MBGA board as a memeber at large, and I look forward to helping out another year.
Loida (okeeffek)
I am a Winnipeg geocacher. My husband Kieran and I are team O'KeeffeK. I have a certificate and diploma from the University of Winnipeg, in Public Relations and Management. I am currently an outreach worker for the St. James school division. I look forward to bringing my experience and enthusiasm to the Manitoba Geocaching Association. I thank you for the nomination.
Andrew (SiaFhir)
My name is Andrew, aka SiaFhir. An apparent Matt Damon lookalike. I've been geocaching since September 2008 when I discovered the sport following the purchase of a Garmin Nuvi and wondering what else I can do with it. I got instantly hooked after my first find and have been enjoying every moment since then (even the frustrating ones that lead to a DNF!) I'm a computer software developer working for a consulting company, contracted with the City of Winnipeg, and I'm working on learning Android development on the side. I have proudly served on the MBGA board as the Vice President for the past three years, and I'm willing to continue to serve on the board in the 2014-2015 year. Thank you for your consideration.
Josh (stonagal)
My name is Josh Bernier. I have a bachelors degree in Political Science and have been studying Natural Resource Management in The Pas for the past eight months. While in The Pas I made a concerted effort to place more and better caches to highlight the towns attractions. This past year I served on the MBGA Board of Directors in the role of Statistician. I was responsible for tracking monthly caching milestones, as well as keeping the board informed as to the number of caches in Manitoba and how many were being published each month. I have been an active geocacher since August 2012 and have grown to love the game and the community over the past couple years.
Sandy (swelbergen)
Teacher, procrastinator, fairweather geocacher. Loves footwear, scarves, and Chapstick, all essential for a successful geocaching jaunt, and has finally bought some awesome yellow wellies! Personally and unabashedly responsible for Skoki and icimondo, both of which are responsible for abating her fear of rain, spiders and tornadoes. Driven to teach school children all about sustainability, GPS, remote sensing, estimating, road safety, problem solving and responsible use of technology (i.e. GEOCACHING), just so she has an excuse to teach out-of-doors and escape from the classroom. "Um, yeah, we're on a field trip..."
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Tangible Personal Property Tax Data
Taxes Levied by All Governmental Units and Value of Property,
by City, Calendar Year 2003
Tangible personal property taxes levied within cities by all
local governments in Ohio for calendar year 2003 totaled
$1.1 billion on a total assessed value of $13.7 billion. Both
of these figures are after deduction of the $10,000 exemption
granted each taxpayer. However, local governments were
reimbursed by the state for most of the revenue loss caused
by the $10,000 exemption. (See Table PD-16 for information on
the $10,000 exemption by county).
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Globalization (globalisation) in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces.
Globalization is often used to refer to economic globalization, that is, integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.


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Hello again! A friend brought me a brand new Gateway SX2110G computer, and wants win8 tossed out and Win7 Ultimate installed. Problem is, I cannot get the machine to boot from the DVD. I even bring up the boot menu and try to do it manually but the option for DVD is not there. The only option it gives me is the Windows Manager. I know the DVD is bootable because I just tested it on two machines. Boots fine. Anyone have an idea how to get these machines to see a boot disk?
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I've been meaning to ask this question for years, but I've been a little out of the BMW loop for a while. I do have a couple "modern" oil heads, but I got rid of my one flying brick and mainly stick to airheads or /2's. My very favorite bike of all time is my R80ST. Daily rider and my all around "best bike in the world" nominee.
Over the years I have considered updating this bike with a newer version of the GS, but the main reason I don't is simply the newer Beemers' style. For years now, all they offer is the hideous duck bill plastic on the front end of the GS type bikes. Other than the infamous Pontiac Aztec, I consider this the single most horrendous vehicle styling disaster of all time, and it's being done by my favorite motorcycle manufacturer! And they keep doing it!!
How can this happen? Why did this happen? Is the designer the CEO's favorite nephew?
And the really sad part is that when a more reasonable design is used, witness the little 650 XCountry, these can be incredibly beautiful bikes. I have often considered buying a Xcountry, but really would prefer a twin.
And no, I don't ride a motorcycle because of it's looks, but I simply refuse to be seen on something this ugly, and as long as my ST keeps running, I guess that will be my main ride.
Oh, and one other thing, as long as I'm whining. What is it with the displacement thing? Are we really so dumb as to think that "bigger is always better"? Is this pathetic obsession with size what motorcycle riding is all about?
A nice little 500 or 600cc twin can do most everything needed for just about any rider. Yet what do we get? Some monster bike with 11,000cc's and enough horsepower to run a battleship.
There, whining done. I feel better!!


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March 22, 2006
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The nationally recognized UC Santa Barbara men's soccer program has added Gregory Wilson and Neil Jones to the coaching staff it was announced today. Wilson, currently the head coach at Division I Philadelphia University, replaces Leo Chappel as the top assistant, while Jones returns to UCSB as the second full-time assistant coach.
Wilson comes to Santa Barbara after spending three seasons at the helm of Philadelphia, where he led the Rams to the program's first post-season appearance since 1989 last year, earning a berth in the Atlantic Soccer Conference Tournament. He is also the current head coach and instructor for the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association's ODP Program and guided his squad to the 2005 USYSA Region I Championship. In addition, Wilson spent eight successful seasons at the head coach for the FC Delco Soccer Club, where he won the 2000 USYSA Pennsylvania State Cup.
A former member of the USISL's Philadelphia Freedom, Wilson is certified with a United States Soccer Federation "A" License. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Marketing from the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science and received a MBA while at Philadelphia University.
Wilson replaces former top assistant Chappel, who was hired as the head coach at Columbia University in February.
"Greg brings a wealth of experience at the Division I, state and club levels," head coach Tim Vom Steeg said. "We are extremely fortunate to have someone with his abilities joining our staff and becoming a part of our local soccer community."
Jones, who recently spent one season playing professionally for the Queensland Roar of the Hyundai A-League, Australian soccer's top division, returns to his alma mater as an assistant. An Academic All-American and two-time All-Big West striker, Jones was also a four-year starter at UCSB, where he amassed 28 goals and 16 assists in his career. He was integral part of the Gauchos' 2004 squad that advanced to the National Championship match only to fall to Indiana in penalty kicks.
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Both Wilson and Jones are expected to be involved in all aspects of the coaching process, including recruiting, academics, development and administrative duties. They join 2004 NSCAA Division I National Coach of the Year Vom Steeg and goalkeeper coach Ryan Sparre to round out the Gauchos' coaching staff.


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Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education
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This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive resource that addresses the growing movement for incorporating spirituality as an important aspect of the meaning and purpose of higher education. Written by Arthur W. Chickering, Jon C. Dalton, and Leisa Stamm—experts in the field of educational leadership and policy—Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education shows how to encourage increased authenticity and spiritual growth among students and education professionals by offering alternative ways of knowing, being, and doing.
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Flirting With Disaster
Ivy, Nov 2003, 352 pp. ISBN: 0345458400 Tolosa, Texas police officer Dave DeMarco is stunned with the TV news that the girl he loved but did not date in high school Lisa Merrick died in a Mexican plane crash. While Dave privately mourns he is even more stunned when a distraught Lisa calls that night. She pleads with Dave to rescue her insisting the plane she piloted was sabotaged. Dave wants to ignore her pleas as he raises his daughter by ...
Light My Fire
Ivy, Nov 2004, 6.99 ISBN: 0345458419 In Tolosa, Texas attorney Ethan Miller detests his father, who always insists money is the bottom line of their firm. Ethan obtains an acquittal for Thomas Randal, a big shot at Bryan Industries in a rape case but he feels no joy because the lawyer believes his client is guilty. A bit drunk Ethan picks up a blond in a bar, accelerates his car way beyond the speed limit and causes an accident. Judge Davis gi...
Wild at Heart
Ivy, Oct 2002, 6.99 ISBN: 0804119694 In Tolosa, Texas game hunter Jack Reichert hires private investigator Valerie Parker to tail his younger spouse Shannon in order to learn what she does when he is away. Val follows Shannon to the Blue Onion where she makes a play for off duty police officer Alex DeMarco. Val wants nothing to do with Alex who five years ago was her instructor at the police academy. They made love and he flunked her the next ...


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Picture this: You walk into a room that is large enough to fit an entire football field inside. The walls are piled 12 feet high with cardboard boxes, and there are 24 lines of tables reaching from one end of the room to the other.
Picture this: You walk into a room that is large enough to fit an entire football field inside. The walls are piled 12 feet high with cardboard boxes, and there are 24 lines of tables reaching from one end of the room to the other.
Standing alongside these 24 tables are approximately 1,000 people. Some are old codgers on canes and some are older ladies with black handbags slung over a shoulder. Some are kids barely 13 years old and some are their dads and moms. Many are there from churches and clubs from as far away as Pennsylvania and Florida.
All of them are working, with no pay, getting there and feeding themselves on their own dime. This is Operation Christmas Child, a faith-based gift-giving ministry to children in poor countries around the globe.
Every year, thousands — and I do mean thousands — of shoeboxes get stuffed with toys, clothes, notebooks, soap, tools and every other dib and dab you can think of, and with a $7 check placed in last, off they go to one of seven processing centers around the country.
That's where I found myself Monday as our county 4-H agent, Denise Sherrill, and two of the moms (not any of them in the older lady class) accompanied 12 of our Young Naturalists 4-H Club members to Charlotte. Here is what we did:
First, these boxes (162,000 a day) have to be opened and the money removed and slipped into the strongbox. Rubber bands are all that secure most of the boxes. That was my job. Drag the next one out of the carton, snap off the bands, open the lid, search for the money, place it in the slot, and pass it down the line to the next station. If any money inadvertently slips through, it could and probably would lead to a child being attacked. Seven dollars is quite a bit of cash in Madagascar or Indonesia.
I admit, the temptation to pop a few of the unsuspecting workers with the excess rubber bands was beguiling, but the work tempo didn't leave much time for sniping.
The young lady next to me then sorted through for unsuitable items. What, you might wonder, would be considered an unsuitable item? Well, these boxes might be shipped in a container on a ship spending a couple of weeks in the Indian Ocean sunshine, and believe it or not, when Hershey chocolate bars and Starbursts melt they tend to ooze a loooong way.
Some of these boxes will be in an unpressurized airplane hold, and any air-filled balls tend to explode. Many boxes will be handled by Third World laborers who draw little difference between Christmas gifts and bowling balls. And porcelain ballerinas fair poorly in those conditions.
So out goes the unsuitable stuff and back in goes a handful of other donated items to make up the slack. Then the box heads to the next station.
There, an extremely efficient mother from the southern part of our county runs a strip of packing tape once around the now processed box, while another wonderful mother from Saluda scans the packing code so the box may be tracked to its final recipient.
Next, the boxes are placed in age- and gender-graded cartons, loaded on a roller conveyer and pushed by some of the older boys down the line, where they are placed on pallets and shrink-wrapped, ready for shipment.
In four hours, our 12 clubbers, two moms, one 4-H agent and a foot-sore yours truly processed about 500 shoeboxes, which will be placed in the hands of a child somewhere where a bar of soap, a box of crayons and a pad of paper is a better treasure than all the electronic bric-a-brac our society consumes so greedily.
I reckon we will be heading back next year. Christmas, after all the glitz and glitter, is really about the giving.
"For the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." And, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." And finally, "But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?"
Merry Christmas to you all.
Reach Chip Worrell at email@example.com.


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Game Thread: Utah Jazz @ Warriors 2007-05-11
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
its amazing how similar these games are playing out exactly the way the last 2 regular season games with the jazz played out.
the last game at the jazz in the regular season we blew a 4th quarter lead and lost by 4... same exact thing happened in game 1, very close in g2, in the last regular season game at the warriors we were up 30 when we pulled the starters out.
yea hopefully they saw some of the bulls-pistons game and learned to not let up


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A/B testing framework under active development at SeatGeek
Project description
Sixpack is a framework to enable A/B testing across multiple programming languages. It does this by exposing a simple API for client libraries. Client libraries can be written in virtually any language.
Sixpack has two main parts. The first, Sixpack-server, is responsible for responding to web requests. The second, Sixpack-web, is a web dashboard for tracking and acting on your A/B tests. Sixpack-web is optional.
- Redis >= 2.6
- Python >= 2.7 (3.0 untested, pull requests welcome)
Getting Started
To get going, create (or don't, but you really should) a new virtualenv for your sixpack installation. Follow that up with pip install:
$ pip install sixpack
Note: If you get an error like src/hiredis.h:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory you need to install the python development tools. apt-get install python-dev on Ubuntu.
Next, create a Sixpack configuration. A configuration must be created for sixpack to run. Here's the default:
redis_port: 6379 # Redis port redis_host: localhost # Redis host redis_prefix: sixpack # all Redis keys will be prefixed with this redis_db: 15 # DB number in redis enable_whiplash: False # Enable the whiplash/multi-armed bandit alternative algorithm # The regex to match for robots robot_regex: $^|trivial|facebook|MetaURI|butterfly|google|amazon|goldfire|sleuth|xenu|msnbot|SiteUptime|Slurp|WordPress|ZIBB|ZyBorg|pingdom|bot|yahoo|slurp|java|fetch|spider|url|crawl|oneriot|abby|commentreader|twiceler ignored_ip_addresses: [] # List of IP asset_path: gen # Path for compressed assets to live. This path is RELATIVE to sixpack/static secret_key: '<your secret key here>' # Random key (any string is valid, required for sixpack-web to run)
You can store this file anywhere (we recommend /etc/sixpack/config.yml). As long as Redis is running, you can now start the sixpack server like this:
$ SIXPACK_CONFIG=<path to config.yml> sixpack
Sixpack-server will be listening on port 5000 by default but can be changed with the SIXPACK_PORT environment variable. For use in a production environment, please see the "Production Notes" section below.
Alternatively, as of version 1.1, all Sixpack configuration can be set by environment variables. The following environment variables are available:
- SIXPACK_CONFIG_IGNORE_IPS - comma separated
Using the API
All interaction with Sixpack is done via HTTP GET requests. Sixpack allows for cross-language testing by accepting a unique client_id (which the client is responsible for generating) that links a participation to a conversion. All requests to Sixpack require a client_id.
Participating in an Experiment
You can participate in an experiment with a GET request to the participate endpoint:
$ curl http://localhost:5000/participate?experiment=button_color&alternatives=red&alternatives=blue&client_id=12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678
If the test does not exist, it will be created automatically. You do not need to create the test in Sixpack-web.
experiment (required) is the name of the test. Valid experiment names must be alphanumeric and can contain _ and -.
alternatives (required) are the potential responses from Sixpack. One of them will be the bucket that the client_id is assigned to.
client_id (required) is the unique id for the user participating in the test.
user_agent (optional) user agent of the user making a request. Used for bot detection.
ip_address (optional) ip address of user making a request. Used for bot detection.
force (optional) force a specific alternative to be returned, example:
$ curl http://localhost:5000/participate?experiment=button_color&alternatives=red&alternatives=blue&force=red&client_id=12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678
In this example, red will always be returned. This is used for testing only, and no participation will be recorded.
traffic_fraction (optional) sixpack allows for limiting experiments to a subset of traffic. You can pass the percentage of traffic you'd like to expose the test to as a decimal number here. (?traffic_fraction=0.10 for 10%)
A typical Sixpack participation response will look something like this:
{ status: "ok", alternative: { name: "red" }, experiment: { name: "button_color" }, client_id: "12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678" }
The most interesting part of this is alternative. This is a representation of the alternative that was chosen for the test and assigned to a client_id. All subsequent requests to this experiment/client_id combination will be returned the same alternative.
Converting a user
You can convert a user with a GET request to the convert endpoint:
$ curl http://localhost:5000/convert?experiment=button_color&client_id=12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678
experiment (required) the name of the experiment you would like to convert on
client_id (required) the client you would like to convert.
kpi (optional) sixpack supports recording multiple KPIs. If you would like to track conversion against a specfic KPI, you can do that here. If the KPI does not exist, it will be created automatically.
You'll notice that the convert endpoint does not take a alternative query parameter. This is because Sixpack handles that internally with the client_id.
We've included a 'health-check' endpoint, available at /_status. This is helpful for monitoring and alerting if the Sixpack service becomes unavailable. The health check will respond with either 200 (success) or 500 (failure) headers.
We've already provided clients in four languages. We'd love to add clients in additional languages. If you feel inclined to create one, please first read the CLIENTSPEC. After writing your client, please update and pull request this file so we know about it.
Sixpack ships with two algorithms for choosing an alternative.
The standard algorithm is purely random. It uses python's random.choice() against the list of available alternatives. Sixpack also includes a port of Andrew Nesbit's implementation of the multi-armed bandit algorithm. This algorithm weighs the alternative based on relative performance. To enable the multi-armed bandit algorithm, please see the above configuration section.
Sixpack comes with a built in dashboard. You can start the dashboard with:
$ SIXPACK_CONFIG=<path to config.yml> sixpack-web
The sixpack dashboard allows you to visualize how each experiment's alternatives are doing compared to the rest, select alternatives as winners, and update experiment descriptions to something more human-readable
Sixpack-web defaults to run on port 5001 but can be changed with the SIXPACK_WEB_PORT environment variable.
Sixpack web dashboard has a bit of a read-only API built in. To get a list of all experiment information you can make a request like:
$ curl http://localhost:5001/experiments.json
To get the information for a single experiment, you can make a request like:
$ curl http://localhost:5001/experiments/blue-or-red-header.json
Production Notes
We recommend running Sixpack on gunicorn in production. You will need to install gunicorn in your virtual environment before running the following.
To run the sixpack server using gunicorn/gevent (a separate installation) you can run the following:
gunicorn --access-logfile - -w 8 --worker-class=gevent sixpack.server:start
To run the sixpack web dashboard using gunicorn/gevent (a separate installation) you can run the following:
gunicorn --access-logfile - -w 2 --worker-class=gevent sixpack.web:start
Note: After selecting an experiment winner, it is best to remove the Sixpack experiment code from your codebase to avoid unnecessary http requests.
- Fork it
- Start Sixpack in development mode with
$ PYTHONPATH=. SIXPACK_CONFIG=<path to config.yml> bin/sixpack
$ PYTHONPATH=. SIXPACK_CONFIG=<path to config.yml> bin/sixpack-web
We've also included a small script that will seed Sixpack with lots of random data for testing and development on sixpack-web. You can seed Sixpack with the following command
$ PYTHONPATH=. SIXPACK_CONFIG=<path to config.yml> sixpack/test/seed
This command will make a few dozen requests to the participate and convert endpoints. Feel free to run it multiple times to get additional data.
Note: By default the server runs in production mode. If you'd like to turn on Flask and Werkzeug debug modes set the SIXPACK_DEBUG environment variable to true.
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Write tests
- Run tests with nosetests
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create new pull request
Please avoid changing versions numbers; we'll take care of that for you
Sixpack is released under the BSD 2-Clause License.
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- [BUG] Allow KPI conversion after non-KPI conversion
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- [ENHANCEMENT] Remove unnecessary markdown call
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webkorners necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Hala Deals
We're an exciting social / group buying website offering consumers a wide variety of great local deals in their city.
For those of you not familiar with the concept, we do this by featuring one amazing deal every day with huge discounts (50% - 90% off) to restaurants, spa's, hotels, movies, gyms, and much more. The big discounts are possible thanks to the power of collective buying, where businesses gets a lot of customers through their doors, and customers get to explore their city while saving a lot of money.
Our main audience are young people looking to go out and explore their cities, socialize, shop, be active, and do it at very low prices.
We want the logo to speak to our young audience who are the end users, but to also be professional and presentable to businesses, who are our customers.
The logo needs to visualize the following keywords:
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The term "hala" in the brand name means hello, so be creative and feel free to incorporate that in the logo somehow. Also we're not including the '.com' in the logo, though we wouldn't mind seeing it.
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