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"Local food, spoken word, and foot-stomping music" will take over the fields at Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor Educational Farm this weekend. Barn dancing, storytelling, and theater will also be part of Saturday's attractions at the Plant and Sing Festival, as will all things organic, from planting to harvesting to culinary delights.
An all-day kids area will entertain the young ones with pony rides, arts and crafts, butter making, pumpkin painting and carving, farm games, and a Goat on a Boat puppet show at 4 p.m. The musical headliner, with a sunset show on Saturday, will be Béla Fleck, a 14-time Grammy Award-winning banjo player, joined by Abigail Washburn.
Events begin tomorrow with a 7:30 p.m. Historical Film Archive screening of a roots-music film by Joe Lauro and Bennett Konesni, the farm's creative director, at the Shelter Island Library.
On Saturday, a 10 a.m. forest and shoreline nature walk will be led by Peter Priolo, a naturalist, and at 2 p.m., Maura Doyle will lead a tour of the manor's historic grounds.
Throughout the day and early evening on Saturday, a "literary lounge" will be moderated by Kathy Lynch, sponsored by Canio's Cultural Cafe. Among the readings is one at 1:30 p.m. by Scott Chaskey called "Seedtime: The History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds." Silvia Lehrer, a culinary instructor, will give a reading and a tasting of one of the recipes from her recent cookbook, "Savoring the Hamptons."
Megan Chaskey, a poet, musician, yoga instructor, teacher, and healing practitioner, will give a staged reading of "The Beautiful and the Senseless" on Saturday at 3 p.m. The one-act play was written about Rachel Carson to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her book "Silent Spring," which led to a revolution in environmental thought and practice.
Music will kick off at 1 p.m. that day with the Hoodoo Loungers, formerly the Who Dat Loungers, a New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration band, followed by Sylvester Manor's own Worksongers and others with choral singing and folk music, both electric and unplugged. At around 3, it'll be Lily and the Tigers performing gothic Americana tunes, and then Dunegrass and the Sun Parade Velocipede.
The Gawler Family will play folk music with banjos and contra calling, and then Free Seedlings will take over before the Béla Fleck show.
On Saturday and Sunday, from 6 to 8 a.m., Heidi Fokine will lead a sunrise yoga class. On Saturday, those wishing to take part in garlic shucking should arrive by 10 a.m., and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., all have been invited to observe and join in the singing and planting of garlic at no charge, as part of the harvest festival tradition to preserve customs and explore a "contemporary culture of food that is joyful, alive with people, and rooted in place."
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Buffalo Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs and MFT Degrees
Marriage and Family Therapy Programs (or as they're often called, MFT Programs) focus on the healthy functioning of family and romantic relationships. Potential course topics include frameworks for assessment, treatment models, counseling strategies, and more.
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Students might also examine the needs of families from different communities, religions, cultures and ethnicities. Some programs may even allow students to concentrate their studies on one specific patient population. In sum, marriage and family therapy graduate programs aim to foster skills to provide effective therapy to couples and families in any situation.
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Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Degrees Programs : Varying Approaches
Marriage and family therapy graduate programs may adhere to a few different treatment models, philosophies, or ideological frameworks. Each of these could have a significant impact on the perspective taken in each course, or even on the design of the program as a whole.
Examples of treatment models you may encounter include:
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Reach out to your selected programs for more information on their preferred treatment models and how that might affect your education.
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While the specific curriculum for different MFT programs may vary, each of them is likely to share a few distinct goals. For example, MFT graduate programs generally aim to provide a firm foundation of knowledge, which professional marriage and family therapists might use to help real families. What may differ is how those goals are addressed in an individual program's curriculum.
Some examples of what marriage and family graduate school programs might teach include the following.
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Certification or licensure may also be required to work as a marriage and family counselor in many states. As a result, schools may also design their curriculum to support licensure prerequisites in their region. It may be useful to familiarize yourself with the requirements wherever you plan to live and work, and make sure the programs you apply to align with those requirements.
Some programs may also require practicum, internship, or other fieldwork experience in order to earn an MFT degree. These types of experiences give students a chance to put theory into practice and gain hands on experience in a guided setting. The specific details may vary by program, concentration, and other factors. Contact your selected program to learn more.
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Accreditation is a process by which a school or program is recognized as being qualified to issue a degree or teach a certain subject. This is one way to judge a program's quality. The US Department of Education recognizes various accrediting bodies. A program or school maintains accreditation by meeting certain standards set by these organizations. For more information about what this entails, follow up review the CACREP or COAMFTE websites, the US Department of Education website, or follow up with your selected program.
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Marriage and family therapy degrees may be offered at several levels. In general, these can be broken down into three groups. The type of program you choose could depend on your objective, your educational and professional background, and other preferences.
- Marriage and family therapy masters programs may issue either a Master of Arts or Master of Science degree (often abbreviated as MSMFT) upon completion. Some states may require the MSMFT (or similar) as a prerequisite for licensure. As such, many such programs may be designed to support the licensure process. However, requirements may vary by state, so make sure to consider this during your search.
- Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral programs could offer a few different types of degrees. These include a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy, Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) or Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy (DMFT). The specific approaches and objectives of each may vary. However, in many cases, PhD programs are more academically inclined and look at designing and implementing research. PsyD and DMFT programs, on the other hand, tend to be more clinical.
- Marriage and Family Counseling Graduate Certificate Programs are much shorter than degree programs and may be found. This could enable students to study specific topics of interest within Marriage and Family Therapy. Certificate programs might also be a great starting point for those just beginning their graduate education. Or they could act as continuing education to support licensure maintenance. Programs may be found at the masters and post-masters level.
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A big part of choosing an MFT degree program is finding the ones that fit into your life. Whether you prefer to commit yourself completely to your studies, or balance your time between school, home, your professional therapy practice, and family obligations, different programs might serve you in different ways.
MFT programs may offer a range of options for flexibility and course delivery formats, each of which might be attractive to different students. While each have unique aspects, they can generally be divided up into three types.
- Marriage and Family Counseling Schools offer MFT education in a face-to-face classroom format. Some of these programs may be designed to comply with local licensure requirements. MFT graduate schools may also be able to help organize any necessary field experiences in your area utilizing their relationships with hospitals and practices in the local community.
- Online MFT Programs deliver courses directly to students' computers. Choosing to study online may make it possible to consider marriage and family therapy graduate programs outside your local area, and offer extra flexibility to accommodate your schedule.
- Hybrid Marriage and Family Therapy programs are also referred to as partially online or blended programs. Hybrid programs use a variety of styles to combine the convenience of online courses with face-to-face learning.
What Is a Marriage and Family Therapist?
A licensed marriage and family therapist seeks to help couples and families function in a healthy way. They do this by identifying specific obstacles and helping clients overcome them. Therapists or family counselors might ask questions to help clients, individual and family, define and understand their own feelings and situations. They may provide counseling, or create and enact treatment plans to help people overcome issues and encourage healthier behaviors.
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A marriage and family therapist career typically requires a master's degree, such as the Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy degree. In addition, all states require marriage and family therapists to be licensed. State requirements vary but licensure may require a master's degree and 2,000 to 4,000 hours of post-degree supervised clinical experience. In addition, licensed MFT therapists must pass a state exam and complete annual continuing education classes.
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Lopinavir/Ritonavir Monotherapy: The Answer's Still No
August 28, 2013
At IAS 2013, investigators from the EARNEST trial reported the primary outcome of their study at 96 weeks. Study details are as follows: 1,277 HIV-infected Africans with failure of their first NNRTI-based regimen were randomly assigned to one of three regimens:
The volunteers' median CD4+ cell count was really low (71 cells/mm3), and 42% of the participants had a plasma viral load above 100,000 copies/mL.
The primary endpoint, so-called "good HIV disease control," included being alive and without new WHO4 events at 96 weeks, having a CD4+ cell count greater than 250 cells/mm3, and having a plasma viral load below 10,000 copies/mL (or greater than 10,000 copies/mL provided there were no protease inhibitor resistance mutations) -- criteria that would be considered unacceptable in any developed country.
Despite this lenient definition, the rates of "good HIV disease control" were 60% for the NRTI arm, 64% for the raltegravir arm, and 56% for the monotherapy arm, which was not enough to demonstrate non-inferiority for monotherapy against the NRTI arm (treatment difference -4.1%; -10.8, +2.6). The rates of viral load suppression to below 50 copies/mL at 96 weeks were 74% for the NRTI arm, 73% for the raltegravir arm, and a complete disaster for the monotherapy arm at 44%. Moreover, 18% of those on monotherapy had intermediate- or high-level resistance to lopinavir/ritonavir, and that was assuming that all patients with a viral load less than 1,000 copies/mL were still susceptible to the drug.
The rates of grade 3/4 adverse events were similar among the three arms: 22%, 23% and 24%, respectively.
One wonders about the rationale of even including a boosted protease inhibitor monotherapy arm in this rescue study, after the approach noisily failed in at least two previous studies (SARA and HIV STAR), and wonders as well about the design of only 12 weeks of intensification with raltegravir, when it is universally accepted that at least six months of undetectable viral load are required to avoid failures on boosted protease inhibitor monotherapy.
The authors emphasized this was a pragmatic trial that replicates typical public approach settings. Therefore, baseline resistance tests were not done in all individuals (and were not reported in the IAS 2013 presentation).
In addition to its similarities to the SARA and HIV STAR studies, this is the second study (after the SECOND LINE study presented at CROI 2013) that has been unable to demonstrate superiority of lopinavir/ritonavir + raltegravir to lopinavir/ritonavir + two recycled NRTIs (including inactive lamivudine and a second, jeopardized NRTI). This is not a great result for raltegravir, even though it was one of the hypotheses going into this study. It stresses, however, the substantial activity of recycled (often inactive) NRTIs.
Which other studies presented at IAS 2013 will have lasting impact long after memories of the conference itself have faded? Read more of Dr. Llibre and Dr. Young's top picks.
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The Nowcasting Demonstration Project for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
July 2012 - This project aims to produce more accurate and timely forecasts of hazardous weather such as thunderstorms that can lead to flooding, damaging winds and fires.
Forecasting over time periods of just a few hours ahead is commonly referred to as nowcasting and whilst the lead time is short, it can nevertheless provide useful information to the emergency response community. Since March 2012, the Met Office has been running a demonstration trial of an hourly-cycling Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) system for the southern UK. This combines a 1.5 km resolution version of the Unified Model and 3 km resolution Data Assimilation Methods. This system is referred to as the Nowcasting Demonstration Project (NDP) and every hour it produces analyses and forecasts for the period 0 to 12 hours ahead.
The NDP has been enabled by the installation of a new supercomputer allowing faster production of more technically advanced NWP forecasts and data assimilation in addition to the current operational forecast systems and means that the NDP is available to Met Office forecasters over the period of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. This period allows us to perform a demonstration and evaluation of its capabilities and potential for future operational use over the whole UK when more computer power is available in the future.
Ultimately it is hoped that an NWP-based system can replace the Met Office's current Precipitation Nowcasting Research of Lagrangian extrapolation blended with NWP. It will combine an accurate depiction of the current weather with improved representation of the evolution and development of new weather and storm systems by using the fluid dynamical, microphysical and thermodynamical equations governing the behaviour of the atmosphere. Good data assimilation and analysis is vital for these short period forecasts of 0-6 hours and frequent updates using more recent observations of the state of the atmosphere are needed.
The NDP forecasting and data assimilation system
The NDP is nested in the The UKV model - Kilometre-scale forecasting over the UK with the Unified Model which provides it with boundary conditions, but it produces analyses and forecasts every hour rather than the 6 hours of the larger-domain UKV. The domain of NDP is shown in the figure above and covers just Wales, Southern England and the Midlands as this is all that can be run in the available time on our current supercomputer system.
The data assimilation method is called 4D-Var because it uses all observations over a set time window, in this case of 1 hour, i.e. they are available in 4 dimensions - the 3 spatial dimensions and time. During the data assimilation period/time window, observations of the current state of the atmosphere are combined with the latest available forecast for the same period. Using an iterative minimization method called "variational analysis" (essentially least squares fitting allowing for errors in the forecast and the observations), the evolution of the forecast is gradually changed to be closer to that of the atmosphere as measured by the available observations.
The NWP model needs information on temperature, humidity, cloud, wind, pressure and aerosols (for fog and precipitation formation) but no one observing system provides this information over all time and space. Up to now, operational NWP systems have typically used hourly observations which may take 1-2 hours to reach the Met Office. The NDP requires sub-hourly data that need to reach the Met Office within 5-15 minutes of the observation time so very fast processing and communication links are required.
The NDP is able to assimilate:
- Doppler radial wind (DRW) observations from 5 radars, 6 times per hour,
- wind from wind profilers every 15 minutes,
- satellite radiances from Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) SEVIRI channel 5 (clear and over low cloud) and channel 6 (clear) plus, over sea only, clear window channels every 15 minutes,
- hourly 3D moisture derived from cloud observations (satellite + surface reports),
- MSG cloud- and humidity-tracked winds (air motion vectors) once an hour, aircraft temperature and winds (AMDAR) once per hour, and
- hourly surface temperature, relative humidity, wind, pressure and visibility.
In addition, radar-derived surface rain rates, available every 15 minutes, are assimilated in the first hour of the forecast, using the technique of latent-heat nudging - adjustments to the temperature and moisture fields aloft in response to the precipitation.
The data assimilation time window runs from 30 minutes before the hour to 30 minutes after. We wait 15 minutes for observations to arrive so start the forecast at 45 minutes after the hour. The observation processing takes about 1 to 2 minutes, the 4D-Var analysis 3 to 10 minutes and the 12 hour forecast about 10 minutes on 6 nodes of an IBM power 7 computer. The forecast is available approximately 1hour after the nominal analysis time.
Observations are not available uniformly in space, nor are all required variables available at all observation locations. Therefore their information needs to be spread smoothly in horizontal and vertical directions in order to adjust the previous forecast fields and also via so-called balance relationships to adjust other fields. The spreading functions applied to observations in the NDP are sharper than those in the standard UKV. For example, in the UKV the humidity spreading function has a horizontal scale of around 90 km whereas in the NDP it can be between 30 and 2 km depending on the vertical mode. This allows the observational network to generate and retain sharper features in the NDP analysis and forecast.
An example NDP forecast
The figure below compares surface rain rate forecasts from the NDP (top left), UKV (bottom right) and current UKPP nowcast system (bottom left) with the radar derived surface rain rate (top right) at 15UTC (16BST) on 28 May 2012. The NDP and UKPP forecasts are 5 hour forecasts from 10UTC and the UKV is a twelve hour forecast from 03UTC which is all that would have been available to the forecasters at the same time as the NDP and UKPP forecasts. The line of thunderstorms was not present at the analysis times for any of these forecasts. The UKPP blended nowcast failed to predict the storms as the extrapolation could not develop them and the operational 4km resolution UK forecast also did not develop them. The UKV 1.5 km resolution forecast for the UK did develop some storms but they are too far east and isolated. The NDP has benefited from a later analysis time, the hourly cycling, more observations and the more advanced data assimilation system of 4D-Var rather than 3D-Var and has a good indication of the line of thunderstorms and their location.
Further information
More Information on the NDP system and example forecasts can be found by following links below:
- The Data Assimilation System for the Nowcasting Demonstration Project (NDP)
- The Nowcasting Demonstration Project: case study of 7 May 2012 Oxfordshire tornado
- The Nowcasting Demonstration Project: case study of line convection on 28 May 2012
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GLENDALE, Arizona — Arizona Flight Training Center (AZFTC) now offers the ground school portion of its private pilot certification for free.
"We're about to see a significant pilot shortage in the very near future," said Rick Rademaker, president of Executive Aviation. and Chief Flight Instructor for AZFTC. "Combined with the rising costs of expert training, we're literally seeing the student pilot ranks declining."
Rademaker believes this is a real problem, as the demand will eventually exceed the supply of qualified pilots. "In order to fulfill future openings, prospective pilots need to start their training now," he said.
Rademaker hopes that the offer of free ground school, in addition to pilot financing, will help attract anybody who might have been discouraged in the past from flying because of cost.
Arizona Flight Training Center, already has a well established military ATP program, that prepared more than 100 pilots last year for a transition into commercial aviation.
"We've become pretty well known for the quality of training we provide to some of the already best trained pilots in the world," he said,
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Mood at New London High is subdued on day after six teens arrested in murder case
New London - The mood was somber Wednesday at the city's only high school, the day six teenagers were arraigned in New London Superior Court, two charged with the murder, and four with accessory to the murder of downtown resident Matthew Chew.
A veteran staff member who works closely with students spoke of kids huddling together and talking in quiet tones, a rarity in the halls.
"I've never seen anything like this," she said Wednesday evening. "They talked among themselves. Some of them are afraid that they might be perceived as snitches if they talk to a teacher or counselor."
"So many people are friends and relatives of these kids," she said of the six teenagers. "And some of the girls are, or used to, date some of them.
"There are about 1,000 kids in the school. This probably affects about half of them in some way."
The administration as a whole worked to present a calming, business-as-usual demeanor.
At the closing bell Wednesday, as students poured out of the school into the wind and rain, Principal Tommy Thompson stoically assumed his usual post directing traffic in the parking lot.
It was, he said, a tough day.
But the school system made its "crisis team" of guidance counselors and social workers available to students and staff, he said.
The e-mail he sent to his staff thanked them "for the professional and caring manner in which you conducted yourselves today in light of recent events."
It then went on to say, "Reflecting on the staff meeting, I understand why some may feel the need to allow students the opportunity to discuss the recent tragedy in the community during class. However, this can be counterproductive and exacerbate student stress levels.
"We have trained professionals to hold group or individual counseling sessions. Best practice, as our school psychologist discussed and as referenced according to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, is to maintain usual routines.
"A return to normalcy will communicate the message that the student is safe and life will go on."
Superintendent of Schools Nicholas A. Fischer said the school system will take a "long term" and "comprehensive" approach to address the recent spate of violence.
"We need to work together in the city to find out why kids are violent," Fischer said.
He suggested the district look into alternative education programs for students that would be something between regular classes and special-needs classes.
Fischer also said that more resources should be devoted to the mental health of students and families.
"That's especially tough around the holiday season," Fischer said.
But meanwhile, on Wednesday, the staff member spoke of what was going on in the school's halls. She asked not to be identified because the staff was told not to talk to the media, but she said that these things need to be said.
"This isn't going to go away," she said. "This will go on as long as the court case. It's so hard for me to deal with, I can only imagine what the kids are going through."
"Violence is becoming too normal for too many kids," she said.
"The kids need to talk about all of this stuff. We have got to talk about this stuff. This is their life."
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"So here I am, ready to take a step and say I'm an atheist. I guess my question is: Is this nagging feeling normal? Have other people dealt with this, and if so, what did you do? Or is this even an issue?"
The nagging feeling is perfectly normal. I don't presume to offer new atheists advice on how to deal with it, except to enrich themselves with science. I believe that most who are willing to do that will soon find the sheer nonsense of religion and the arrogance ..especially that of mainstream religions ..becoming obvious. Belief in 'god' is Not a requirement for living a happy, moral and productive life.
My respect for your intellect and courage
I know this is an old post, but I have to say that I, very recently, went through the exact same thing. The old saying is totally true!: "Watch that last step 'cause it's a doozy!" It took me a long time to get over the phobia...and that's exactly what it is; an irrational fear. I felt physically sick when I thought about taking the final step and saying, out loud, "There is no god". Have you seen the movie The God Who Wasn't There? I referenced it in a blog I posted on my own conversion and it's got one of the most powerful ending scenes I've ever seen in a movie. I'm betting there are some other former christians out there who would agree with me. He stood in the very same church he was saved in and said "I deny the holy spirit." and that was the end of the movie. Gives me butterflies thinking about it. I don't think people who were fortunate enough to not be indoctrinated will have a hard time seeing it as such, but it was a scary moment for me.
Hope all has gone well in your "coming out"!
I think most of us coming out of religion experience the same concerns, however based on my experience the atheistic logic becomes obvious as you naturally move forward and you can't understand how you actually believed that biblical stuff in the first place. It doesn't make any sense and it is rotten with contradictions. Having said all that and claiming to be atheist I will say though that in my opinion we haven't ruled out the possibility of an ultimate creator larger than the universe technically speaking, But one thing is for sure. Religionists need a reality check and get back to the drawing board. They claim to respect science but only choose what suites them.
I believe the nagging feeling is normal for anyone who is trying to overcome years of indoctrination by a religion. To me, Its similar to a person addicted to alcohol or drugs and suddenly going "cold turkey" it's scary and can be painful but its worth it.
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true".
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jutland is well-reputed to have touched virtually every family in Portsmouth. But for the Gallagher family, it had a particularly heavy toll.
Petty Officer Stoker Edward Gallagher was 50 in 1916. He had been born in Crawley in Sussex on 4 August 1865. His son Musician Ernest John Gallagher was born in Portsmouth on 8 September 1896. He joined the Royal Marines Band Service on 19 September 1910, when he was just 14 years old. By May 1916, he was 19.
In 1916 Edward Gallagher was serving onboard the Battlecruiser HMS Invincible, whilst Ernest was part of the Royal Marines Band onboard another Battlecruiser, HMS Indefatigable. Both ships were sunk at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May to 1 June 1916. HMS Indefatigable was ripped apart by a huge explosion, with only two men out of a crew of 1,017. Invincible was also destroyed by a explosion, and out of her crew of 1,026 officers and men, only six survived.
Both father and son have no known grave other than the sea, and are remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial on Southsea Common. Mary Gallagher would have received not one but two terse telegrams from the Admiralty in the days after Jutland. She survived them for almost 30 years, dying in Portsmouth in 1946. She was 76.
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- World War I sacrifices at sea (blogs.ancestry.com)


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Hope springs eternal at Liverpool, but so do performances and results like this. Nowhere was anticipation and optimism more in evidence as the new season got under way, but deja vu was the feeling as the old stadium emptied.
Liverpool's stoical supporters confidently expect the revival sparked by Kenny Dalglish in 2011 to continue apace, but it was clear here that the assimilation of the new signings will take time and that it is unrealistic to expect the reinforced team to gel immediately.
Dalglish, who was without Steven Gerrard, Martin Skrtel and Glen Johnson because of injuries, gave debuts to José Enrique, Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing, and will have been encouraged by a first half in which Liverpool were dominant. Unfortunately, an old failing reared its ugly head and the lion's share of possession failed to produce the goals it warranted. The one they fashioned before the interval was not enough to withstand Sunderland's improvement, which resulted in Sweden's Sebastian Larsson celebrating his debut with a volleyed equaliser.
When the force was with them, Liverpool looked good. The fact they have never won the Premier League is not so much a statistic as a cliche these days, and only those who view such things through red-tinted spectacles believe that barren run is about to end. Nevertheless, the team that finished sixth last season is stronger for the summer recruitment drive, and a top-four finish is a plausible target.
They could have been ahead here after five minutes, when Kieran Richardson tripped Luis Suárez in front of goal, but the Uruguayan blasted the consequent penalty over the bar. Richardson was fortunate to get away with a yellow card, when red was the more appropriate option. As Dalglish put it: "I suppose nine-and-a-half referees out of 10 would have given Kieran the red card." Steve Bruce admitted: "On another day it could have been a red card."
The first goal was not delayed long. In the 12th minute, Adam took a free-kick on the right with his left foot and Suárez scored with a stooping header at the near post.
Until half-time, with Adam pulling the strings, there was only one team in it: Downing shivered the crossbar from 25 yards out, Carroll thumped the ball home, only to be penalised for pushing, and Adam demanded a smart overhead save from Belgium's Simon Mignolet. Sunderland had spent most of the first half carelessly conceding possession, with Richardson horribly vulnerable at left-back and Jack Colback out of his depth in midfield. Bruce's decision to prefer the inexperienced Colback to David Vaughan, who was Blackpool's player of the year last season, was a puzzling one. Craig Gardner, too, had a right to feel disappointed.
In the second half, Sunderland were more economical and, therefore, a threat at last. Liverpool, in general, and Adam, in particular, tired when they had to chase for the ball and it became more of a contest. A mistake by young John Flanagan, deputising for the injured Johnson at right-back, allowed Larsson to put over a cross that merited a better finish than Asamoah Gyan's poor header. Flanagan's confidence waned thereafter and he was little more than a liability by the end.
The equaliser came when Egypt's Ahmed Elmohamady crossed from the right and Larsson, beyond the far post, lashed the ball back whence it came, inside José Reina's left upright.
Dalglish sent on Dirk Kuyt and Raul Meireles in search of the winner but it never looked like coming, leaving Bruce much the happier manager. Larsson and Wes Brown had delighted him with assured first performances. But why had he given starts to only two of his summer signings, omitting Gardner, Vaughan and Connor Wickham? "I needed to stay loyal to the lads who did so well last season," the Sunderland manager said. "The new ones will get their chances. The two new ones had marvellous debuts, so I hope the others are as good."
Liverpool will need to keep their game together for the full 90 minutes on Saturday, when a trip to Arsenal will prove a sterner test of their potential. Sunderland, meanwhile, are at home to Newcastle and will be looking for more penetration than Gyan and Stéphane Sessègnon offered here.


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Cindy Eyanson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 214 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
Social Eclips Marketing
We create a presence online for local small and medium size businesses. Using Social media and video marketing to accomplish this. We help businesses create the presence by using Facebook, blogs(wordpress, blogger), youtube, twitter, linkedin and many more. This is done with quality content and videos that educate and help the consumer vs. sell the consumer. We also help them with Google rankings and places along with Facebook places. The sole purpose is to increase their business through internet marketing.
Social in the name... ie...social media....
Eclips - this is the dutch spelling for Eclipse - so I came to this thinking "eclipse your competition". Yet as I looked at it more by using the Dutch version it covers 2 things... Eclips your competition and E-Clips.... as in video as we use a lot of video in our campaigns and marketing online.
It will be...
Social Eclips
Social Media and Web Video Marketing
Small and Medium business owners in the United States.
Anyone working to have a presence online that leads to more business.
Entrepreneurs looking to grow their business.
The Feel...
We want a modern, fresh logo which is still emotionally engaging while still remaining professional...We are looking for a logo that is clean and crisp. Playful okay, but not cartoon type.
Classy but not too fancy. Professional but NOT conservative.
No stock images or clip art in logo.
We are open to your ideas. Eclipse would signify dark, yet I do not want dark. I would like it to stand out with bold colors. Even more sun than moon, would be a good way to describe it.
feel free to experiment with colors
Name in logo or logo with name separate. Not sure what we want. Would love to see your creativity there. We really do not have a design in mind. We are going in with an open mind.
Will need to use on many platforms:
Business cards
facebook page
Icons for the logo for website would be great too.
EDIT: I am struggling as to if the logo should have just Social Eclips or if it should have Social Eclips Marketing...
please play with both.
Your efforts are so appreciated!
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LAGUNA BEACH — With the way the Los Angeles Lakers are struggling, Estancia High girls' basketball co-coach Xavier Castellano has been getting a bit agitated.
As the losses pile up for the Lake Show, Castellano, a lifelong Lakers fan, at least had led the Estancia girls to a perfect record in the Orange Coast League.
But that is no longer the case.
Host Laguna Beach pulled away for a 43-37 victory Thursday night, handing the Eagles their first league loss and cutting their lead in league in half.
Estancia (14-8, 5-1 in league) now leads Laguna Beach (16-3, 4-2) by just a game with four games left. Godinez, the defending league champion, also is 4-2 in league.
Castellano said Estancia, ranked No. 9 in CIF Southern Section Division 3-A, played its worst game of the season Thursday.
"We didn't implement the game plan, and we seemed really tight," Castellano said. "Give them credit, they hit shots. We did what we wanted to do, we held Jackie [Cenan] to 10 points."
Cenan, the Breakers' star freshman who averages a league-best 19 points per game, had gone off for 30 points in the teams' first meeting, a 60-55 Estancia victory on Jan. 10. In the rematch she did score just 10, but that just opened the door for Laguna Beach junior center Jane Wallin.
Celebrating her 17th birthday, Wallin scored nine of her team-high 14 points in the fourth quarter. Estancia had trouble denying her the ball, particularly when senior center Gianna Jason, who had five points and 15 rebounds, fouled out midway through the quarter.
Jason picked up two fouls along the sideline in a 23-second span. The second, with 4:36 left in the game, was her fifth foul.
The Eagles' top scorer, junior guard Celia Duran, also fouled out with 3:25 to go. The Eagles were down by four points at the time and couldn't get closer.
"It's tough, because they're our leaders," Castellano said. "We rely on Celia a lot sometimes, and we're trying to change that. I think the girls defer to her a lot. Also with [Jason], being the defender and leader that she is ... you see what happens when she's out of the game. [But] we have to step up. We're a young group, and our immaturity showed tonight.
"We're not a one-man team, we haven't been all year. It just so happens that everyone had an off-night."
Estancia made just one of seven free throws in the fourth quarter, and seven of 16 for the game. The 37 points were a season-low for the Eagles.
Freshman Alexandra Lewis had a trio of three-pointers for Laguna Beach, which made history in its home gym. Orange Coast League scorekeeper Frank Aronoff said the Breakers set a program record with their 16th win. This is their 39th varsity season.
Last year Laguna Beach finished 0-18, but Coach Mark Lewis has led a strong freshman class in accomplishing big things. Lewis didn't mind just 10 points from Cenan, who aggravated a right ankle injury in the third quarter but returned to the game minutes later.
"I've preached this all along, I don't care who scores as long as we score," Lewis said. "One night it can be Jackie with 30, the next night she can have 12. Alexandra set the pace early tonight with her long shots, so they now had to be aware. It always had them on edge looking for that outside shot, which opened it up for Jane and Jackie. It was key to knock down a few of those outside shots, and I thought we handled their pressure a lot better than last time."
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On all 4 of my teams I drafted Alfred Morris in the last round of the draft (knew he would be there so took my kicker one round early, ensuring I got the kicker I wanted PLUS a starting RB...in the last round).
Chickened out on one team..but started him on 3 of my 4 teams. Talk about a sleeper! I finally guessed something right! Im not very good at FF, but I am giving myself a pat on the back for reading that just right. He was only ON 3% of Yahoo teams and started 1%.
Now I can go back to screwing up the rest of my season with my one tiny moral victory


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December 3, 2011
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. — Jake Strausbaugh defeated two top-seeded opponents to win the 149-pound weight class, and was voted the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the 2011 Indiana Little State Tournament held Friday and Saturday at Wabash College.
Strausbaugh posted a 3-0 record for the weekend in his weight class to earn the award. He opened Friday's action with a 6-0 win over Blake Wood from the University of Indianapolis, then knocked off fifth-seeded Forrest Romer from Trine by a score of 10-7 in the semifinals. A 10-7 victory against sixth-seeded Reece Lefever in the finals gave Strausbaugh the victory.
View photos by Drew Casey '12 here.
Strausbaugh was one of 14 Little Giants to earn top-eight finishes in the tournament.
Dalton Stanley was also an individual champion at 165 pounds, finishing with a record of 3-0. Entering as the number-four seed, Stanley defeated Andre Foster from Lincoln College 8-1 to move into the championships semifinals for a match against James Bennett. Bennett had already defeated the top seed in the tournament, but Stanley vanquished him by a score of 5-4. The win put Stanley in the championship, where he defeated number-two seed Cedric Gibson from Wisconsin-Whitewater 6-5.
Josh Boyer finished second in the 125-pound weight class. The top seed heading into the tournament, Boyer scored a pin at the 3:43 mark of his match against Paul Beck from Indianapolis. He followed with a 7-6 victory against fourth-seeded Andre Sanders from Indiana Tech, but lost 7-2 to second-seeded Anthony Hawkins from Calumet College of St. Joseph's in the finals.
Colin Downey, Drew Songer, and Dylan McBride each grabbed third place finishes at the tournament. Downey was 3-1 at 141 pounds, while Songer posted a 5-1 record at 174 pounds. Joran Fenton added a seventh-place finish in the 174-pound weight class bracket. McBride finished the weekend with a 4-1 record at heavyweight.
Tommy Poynter finished sixth at 125 pounds. Pat Parham finished eighth at 133 pounds. Josh Sampson was 5th at 157 pounds, while teammate Cody McKinnon finished seventh. Logan cooper was fourth at 184 pounds, with Greg Rhoads finishing in fifth place. Austin O'Neal was sixth at 197 pounds.