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Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported today Illawarra District Rugby Union is looking into a complaint that an unnamed Avondale rugby player urinated in his shorts before a match against Vikings in order to put off would-be tacklers.
An article in tomorrow's Illawarra Mercury claims the player's been cleared to compete in this weekend's match, though again without naming exactly who it is that's accused of the pants-pissing. The ruling didn't make rivals happy:
One official of a club not involved in the Avondale-Vikings game, who asked not to be named, said the player was well known for previously urinating on his own shorts.
''It's happened in the past and he's obviously played up to it since,'' he said.
The Telegraph has a photo they say was sent as evidence of intentional incontinence, though it's difficult to tell if it's urine, water, or just a pattern on the shorts. Does Australian rugby have a serial pants-pisser on the loose? Or just somebody who is very clumsy at washing his hands?
h/t to Alistair


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Last edited by Andrew - 17.11.2015
FS#221 - autocad dwg compatibility
DWG files created with QCAD display really fine now in autocad. There are only two minor issues for ACAD users:
1) ACAD complains, that they were not created with a licensed application. One may not be able to work around that one...
2) ACAD complains, that the file does not specify a codepage. For this one, there should be a way around, shouldn't it?
I am very happy with the compatibility in the new QCAD. Thank you very much for all the efforts that went into it!
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Reason for closing: Implemented

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ET Solar and EcoSol Completed a 276 kWp Rooftop PV System in Jordan
15 Jan, 2014, 09:47 GMT
MUNICH, Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading smart solar solutions provider has announced the completion and grid connection of a 276 kWp rooftop PV system in Amman, Jordan for a university by its wholly-owned subsidiary ET Solutions AG ("ETS"), together with its partners Eco Engineering and Energy Solutions ("EcoSol") and Spirea GmbH ("Spirea").
In cooperation with EcoSol, the project has been constructed on the roof of the biggest indoor sports arena of Jordan at the properties of the Al-Ahliyya Amman University ("AAU") in Amman, which is also the sponsor of the project. With 276 kWp, the project as one of the biggest rooftop PV-installations in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been fully completed and connected to the grid. The project will serve the AAU, with about 500,000 kWh clean electricity per year, mainly for their own power needs. The rest of the produced energy will be fed into the grid based on Jordan's net-metering scheme announced in the middle of 2013 by the Government.
Dennis She, President and CEO of ET Solar, commented, "The project sets an important milestone for the expansion of our smart solutions business towards Middle East, a very promising emerging solar market. This pilot project is a great success story for all project stakeholders after we overcame the challenges for first movers over the last months. We will continue to work together with our local partners, to contribute to the growth of green and sustainable energy in Jordan and other mid-East countries for the months and years to come."
Hasan Suboh, CEO of EcoSol, said, "We are very proud to have this flagship project successfully realized with engineering, procurement and supervision support from ETS and Spirea as our experienced German project partners. With their technical support and our local network to companies and institutions having a vast need in energy efficiency and renewable energy production, we are very happy to have now an outstanding grid connected project reference. This will be a convincing case for other potential customers in Jordan and the region to partner with us for PV Solar installations."
Dr. Ahmad Al-Hourani, Founder of the AAU, added, "With sharply rising energy prices for our University and Jordan's energy mix highly depending on fossil fuels, it was clear to us, that we, as the first private University of Jordan, also need to be one of the first movers in renewable energy in the Kingdom. With the announcement of the new renewable energy law, which allows us to lower our energy bill by becoming an independent power producer, it was clear to us, that we have to take this chance, in order to support the Kingdom in its core challenges, education and energy independency. Having more than 6,000 students registered, the solar PV installation is of course, also an important milestone for our educational training, proving our high level of quality as a leading university. After visiting Germany to review the usability of solar PV rooftop systems installations, it was clear to us to choose EcoSol, ETS and Spirea as a German-Jordan consortium, to secure highest possible quality by also having a local contractor. Now we are eager to extent the project across the universities rooftops and car parks to achieve more energy independency for the campus but also as further contribution to the Kingdoms energy mix."
Dr. Utz Hoeser, Partner of Spirea, emphasized, "As a specialized PV solar and renewable energy advisory firm Spirea was happy to demonstrate its capabilities in successfully connecting technologies and markets. With ETS we have found a globally leading PV Full-Solution provider, and with EcoSol a leading local engineering company determined to become a leading implementation company for PV Solar projects in Jordan and the region. We are very confident that with AAU as an important first milestone we can soon add further projects together with our trusted partners, and expand into other growing Middle East and Gulf regions."
About ET Solar & ETS
ET Solar is a leading smart solar solutions provider for solar power plants. ETS, the full subsidiary of ET Solar, is a global turnkey EPC service provider for solar power plants with over 200 MW projects developed and built worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.etsolar.com and www.etsolutions.de.
About EcoSol
EcoSol is a leading company in the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (REEE) fields. It provides full-service solution for its clients from feasibility study to operational maintenance. For more, please visit www.ecosol-int.com.
About AAU
AAU is the first private university in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is established by a decision from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in 1989. For more, please visit www.ammanu.edu.jo.
About Spirea
Spirea is German boutique cleantech advisory firm based in Frankfurt am Main. It provides comprehensive advisory services for renewable energy and cleantech industries. For more, please visit www.spirea.de.
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-To join a mailing list discussing this JSR, go to: - http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest . - -
- - Disclaimer - This prototype is experimental code developed as part of - JCP JSR166 and made available to the developer community for use - as-is. It is not a supported product. Use it at your own risk. The - specification, language and implementation are subject to change as a - result of your feedback. Because these features have not yet been - approved for addition to the Java language, there is no schedule for - their inclusion in a product. - - -
JSR166 introduces package java.util.concurrent containing utility -classes commonly useful in concurrent programming. Like package -java.util, it includes a few small standardized extensible frameworks, -as well as some classes that provide useful functionality and are -otherwise tedious or difficult to implement. Descriptions of the main -components may be found in the associated package documentation. - -
JSR166 also includes a few changes and additions in packages -outside of java.util.concurrent: java.lang, to address uncaught -exceptions, and java.util to better integrate with collections. Here -are brief descriptions. +This is an updated version of the specification submitted for JCP +Community Draft review. To check for further updates, access a +preliminary prototype release of main functionality, or join a mailing +list discussing this JSR, go to: +http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest +.
+ + Disclaimer. The prototype implementation is experimental +code developed as part of JCP JSR-166 is made available to the +developer community for use as-is. It is not a supported product. Use +it at your own risk. The specification, language and implementation +are subject to change as a result of your feedback. Because these +features have not yet been approved for addition to the Java language, +there is no schedule for their inclusion in a product. + +
Disclaimer. This draft specification was produced +using JDK1.4 tools plus some preprocessing. The resulting javadocs do +not yet correctly render other planned JDK1.5 constructs on which +JSR-166 relies, most notably the use of generic types. We are +releasing this version now (before the availability of JDK1.5-based +tools) because, even though they are misformatted and sometimes lack +proper cross-referencing, they otherwise convey the intended +specifications. + +
JSR-166 introduces package java.util.concurrent +containing utility classes commonly useful in concurrent +programming. Like package java.util, it includes a few small +standardized extensible frameworks, as well as some classes that +provide useful functionality and are otherwise tedious or difficult to +implement. + +
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Younger brother of Tove Christensen. Has a younger sister, named Kaylen (b. 1984), and an older sister, Hejsa. Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002. Was discovered when his older sister Hejsa, a former trampoline champion, was shopping around for an agent. No one was home to baby-sit him so he went along and it was suggested that he get an agent himself. One of Teen People Magazine's "25 Hottest Stars under 25" in 2002. Resides in Richmond Hill, Ontario.


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Enterprising Parsons student: may I suggest "Bloody Cuntier" for the next round — seeing as blood diamonds and all? Yes?
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Too Serious
The actual title of this post is "Are We Taking Supernatural Too Seriously, or Did the Show Just Get Too Serious?" but it was too long. :)
Before I launch into my topic, I want to clarify that "we" means all of fandom in a general sense, and doesn't mean anyone specifically. I'm amalgamating a lot of things I've read over the last several weeks, and I don't want any particular person to feel targeted.
For three seasons, I've loved Supernatural so much that watching one episode a week wasn't enough, and I've sought solidarity with fellow fans all over the Internet. The drawback is that when I adore an episode, then read several disappointed blogs about it. Man, do I deflate quickly.
This season is unique, and the complaints attack all aspects of the show. It's too dark--but it's always been billed as a weekly horror movie, and it started with the mother of an infant and a young child being burned alive on the ceiling. It's too light--how dare they match the AntiChrist with a fart joke? The mytharc is heavy, and difficult to get away from, which makes people complain that they want standalone episodes. Then we get standalone episodes, and they complain that it makes no sense to have one, don't they know there's an apocalypse going on?
What drove me to choose this topic this week was what I saw about the most recent episode, the name of which I will not type because I had the freakin' song stuck in my head for five days! My Internet trolling for Supernatural stuff is fairly limited nowadays, with about half a dozen sites and blogs on my list. I was kind of shocked to find universal displeasure with 5.06. The very same things people loved in "Mystery Spot," they hated in this episode. The combination of humor and pathos struck so many people wrong, and it baffles me.
So I wonder if we're taking the show too seriously. Have we lost touch with our overwhelming love because of that love? Most TV shows I watch are just surface enjoyment. I like them or I don't, and I don't spend a lot of time discussing them or even thinking about them afterward. Supernatural is, and always has been, different, but in sharing viewpoints, are we destroying our ability to just watch and enjoy? It seems we're always digging so deep we can't help but find dissatisfaction.
Perhaps the fault lies not with us, but with the show's writers. Maybe Kripke's taken a turn so serious it departs too far from the show's core and renders us unable to connect with the things we loved, even when they're present. But is it even possible to contemplate that? Because it's just as likely that if season 4 hadn't gone down the road it had, if they'd just continued with everything the way it was in seasons one and two, we'd have been unhappy with its lack of maturity and evolution. Few things that stay the same satisfy us for very long.
Another possibility is that our rabidity may have simply run its course. Passion, by its very nature, can only be sustained for so long.
I know there are individuals who have loved every minute of season 5, and some who have hated every minute, so my thoughts here aren't valid on that level--maybe not even on a global level. But I'm interested to hear what you all have to say. What is your temperature reading of the fandom as a whole, and how do you feel about it?


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DUBLIN, Ohio, February 28, 2008—The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, the world's most comprehensive online resource for finding items held in libraries, making those records available to researchers worldwide.
The National Library of China will develop software to convert the format of its records before they can be added to WorldCat. Following development and conversion of the records, the National Library of China anticipates that some 1.5 million records will be sent to OCLC in 2008. These records, when added to WorldCat, will display Chinese characters. The Library will continue adding records to WorldCat beyond 2008 once the format has been converted.
"The National Library of China values its cooperative partnership with OCLC," said Zhan Furui, Director, National Library of China. "By loading our records into WorldCat, the National Library of China is pleased to share its rich Chinese cultural resources on a global scale."
"The addition of these records from the National Library of China will be welcomed by scholars around the world," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. "The OCLC cooperative continues to evolve into a truly global enterprise that connects East and West and North and South."
"OCLC is indeed honored to have the National Library of China add records to WorldCat," says Andrew H. Wang, Vice President, OCLC Asia Pacific. "China offers 5,000 years of recorded history, one of the oldest cultural heritages of human kind. The records from the National Library of China will further enrich the value of WorldCat for scholarship worldwide, and will further enhance WorldCat's role as a bridge of understanding between continents and cultures."
OCLC, the world's largest library cooperative, opened an office in Beijing in July 2007 to better serve the growing information needs of libraries and other cultural heritage institutions in China and other parts of Asia.
OCLC's relationship with libraries in the People's Republic of China began in 1986, when OCLC introduced its CJK system for cataloging Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials. An OCLC Service Center was established at Tsinghua University in 1996, and access to the OCLC FirstSearch online reference service was made available to about 100 academic institutions in China. In 2004, the CALIS (China Academic Library and Information System) consortium, under the leadership of Peking University, began providing access to a NetLibrary eBook collection for 80 libraries in China.
OCLC was selected to be the host site for the 4th China-U.S. Library Conference in October 2007 in Dublin, Ohio. Last held at Shanghai Library in 2005, this prestigious scholarly conference brought together leaders from libraries, museums and archives in China and the United States for three days of presentations and meetings focusing on cooperation among institutions in China and the United States.
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Managers exchange words as Orioles top Yanks
BALTIMORE >> Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter wanted to make sure that his unusual confrontation with New York Yankees counterpart Joe Girardi didn't overshadow Chris Tillman's gem.
Girardi didn't seem interested in shedding any light on the first-inning fracas that had Showalter angry and emptied both dugouts.
Tillman took a three-hitter into the eighth inning and the Orioles beat the Yankees 4-2 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series with ramifications in the AL wild card race.
"They are all big this time of year, and I take the approach every game I'm pitching," said Tillman (16-5), who became the Orioles' first 16-game winner since Mike Mussina won 18 in 1999. "You only get to go out there once every fifth day, so for me they are all big."
With the victory, the Orioles remained tied with Cleveland and moved within 1 1-2 games of idle Tampa Bay for the second AL wild card. The Yankees fell three games behind Tampa Bay.
Tillman allowed two runs and four hits in seven-plus innings. He walked none and struck out nine, matching his career high.
"I was able to get in sync and kind of felt my way through the first couple innings," Tillman said. "I found it later in the game and I think (catcher Matt Wieters) gets a lot of the credit for that. He made some calls deep in the counts. And it was fun."
But his performance almost became an afterthought after the skirmish between Showalter and Girardi.
Following the game, Showalter patiently answered inquiries about the clash before asking reporters to change their line of questioning.
"Guys, we had a great pitched game tonight," he said. "I understand you've got to ask the questions and everything. I'd rather have the focus be on Chris Tillman, some of the things we did on the field. ... I know how drama usually plays this time of the year. I'm just glad we're playing games that mean this much to everybody, including our fans."
Both dugouts emptied briefly after the first inning, when Showalter angrily exchanged words with Girardi after the Yankees manager yelled at Baltimore third base coach Bobby Dickerson, accusing him of stealing signs. Showalter had to be restrained by home plate umpire Ed Hickox as he charged onto the field.
Girardi refused to go into specifics about what set him off, saying only, "The one thing that I've done, the whole time that I'm here, and everywhere I've been, is I'm going to protect our players at all lengths. That's what I'm going to do, and there was something that I saw and I'm just going to leave it at that."
Dickerson, who said he had never been berated like that by an opposing manager, said he heard Girardi chirping from the dugout from the start of bottom of the first. Girardi had moved from the end of the bench close to the plate to the end of the dugout nearest third base by the time the inning had ended.
"Immediately, like right when I got to third base," Dickerson said. "I didn't hear him at first. I heard something and as I looked at the dugout, he was right there yelling at me from the far end. And I was running off the field, something else was said. And after that it was over."
But not before a red-faced Showalter bolted from the first-base dugout, gesturing angrily and shouting at Girardi before being held at bay by Hickox. Girardi followed from the third-base dugout in calmer fashion as players from both teams spilled onto the field.
"It strikes a chord in me and I stand accused," Showalter said.
Once order was restored and both benches were issued a warning about any retaliatory measures television cameras showed Showalter shaking his head and glaring at Girardi from the Orioles dugout.
"Two competitive good teams and we're fighting for the same thing, so there's a small margin for error. ... But Bobby's not giving pitches," Showalter said.
Alex Rodriguez and Lyle Overbay hit home runs for the Yankees. Rodriguez's first-inning blast to right-center was the 652nd of his career, leaving him eight short of tying Willie Mays for fourth place all-time.
CC Sabathia (13-12), who came into the game with an 18-5 career record against the Orioles, yielded four runs three earned and seven hits over 7 1-3 innings. He walked two and struck out six.
Tommy Hunter relieved Tillman and struck out the side in the eighth. Jim Johnson got the last three outs for his AL-leading 43rd save.
The Orioles were 2 for 29 with runners in scoring position in their last two games, and their percentage improved in the opener of the critical series, as they went 2 for 8 in such situations.
Still, Baltimore had to manufacture two runs, which scored on sacrifice flies.
"I mean, it"s that time of the year, you know, and that's what those situations call for," Sabathia said. "You're trying to get the runner in from third and get runners over and just get runs however you can. So they did a good job of that."
The Orioles tied it 1-1 in the bottom of the first when Nick Markakis led off with a ground-rule double to center, went to third on Manny Machado's sacrifice and scored on Adam Jones' sacrifice fly.
Baltimore went ahead in the fifth when J.J. Hardy doubled into the left-field corner and advanced to third by beating the relay from first base on Michael Morse's third-to-first groundout. Wieters' sacrifice fly scored Hardy.
Alexi Casilla followed with a single past Rodriguez at third, stole second and came home on Markakis' single.
In the seventh, the Orioles added an insurance run when Machado's 49th double, a two-out poke off the scoreboard in right, scored Wieters from third.
Overbay's homer leading off the eighth chased Tillman.
NOTES: Yankees SS Derek Jeter, sidelined with a sore left ankle, took Monday off from baseball activities and will be re-evaluated Tuesday, said Girardi. ... Rodriguez batted second, his first time in that position in the batting order since Aug. 26, 2006. ... The Yankees reinstated OF Zoilo Almonte (sprained left ankle) from the 15-day DL. He missed 45 games. ... The Orioles sent IF Alex Liddi outright to Triple-A Norfolk after he cleared waivers. Liddi was designated for assignment Sept. 6.


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The Nelson Cigar Criss-Cross Bubble Pendant is available in two sizes, and comes with a brushed nickel-plated steel ceiling plate and a 6-foot cord to attach it to the ceiling. George Nelson first designed the Bubble Lamps in 1952, when he came across a Swedish hanging lamp that he wanted to acquire for his office. He was challenged by the expensive price and decided to make his own. The result was a series of elemental, spherical shapes including a rounded apple, a wide saucer, and a shapely pear.
A Designer of Icons
One of the most influential designers of mid-century modernism in America, George Nelson served as Director of Design at Herman Miller for more than 25 years. During this time, he designed iconic pieces like the Marshmallow Sofa, elegant storage furniture like the Thin Edge series, and curated what became known as the Herman Miller Collection, a comprehensive set of products "designed to meet fully the requirements for modern living." The Nelson Bubble Lamps, with their delicate, floating quality and multiple variations, were designed to enhance the experience of modern living.
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In 1952, Nelson was inspired by a set of silk-covered Swedish hanging lamps that were lovely, but expensive and tedious to craft. "The Swedish design was done in a silk covering that was very difficult to make; they had to cut gores and sew them onto a wire frame. But I wanted one badly," Nelson wrote. He designed the first prototype with a white plastic spray that was used by the U.S. military after World War II to create a protective covering for military ships and planes that were being stored at the time. He fashioned the basic spherical wire cage, and then sprayed it with this resinous lacquer. A final coat of plastic was applied, giving the shades their smooth, translucent skin. Today, Nelson Bubble lamps continue to be made the same way, with slight updates to extend their durability.
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I love living in Memphis, but I'm not from the city. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I spent many hours at a highly tender age listening to NPR as my parents crisscrossed that city in their car, running errands. I don't amuse myself by musing about the purity of destiny, but I have seriously wondered how different my life would be if my parents preferred classic rock instead of Car Talk.
I studied English at Harvard then spent a year dry-cleaning and writing poems. I went back to school because of my love for public radio journalism and got a master's in broadcast journalism from Columbia University.
I never seriously considered T.V. or print. I love conversation above images, or even words. I spent a summer working as an intern on NPR's opinions and editorials. When it came time to find a job, I mailed a slim envelop from D.C. to WKNO. Inside was a CD. I passed a breezy lunch break sitting in some grass, chatting with Candice and Dan on my cell-phone and when my internship was over, I drove halfway across the country. The rest, as they say, is history -- or, at the very least, it's archived on WKNO-FM's website.


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Psychic tickles her clients with feather readings
FEATHERS meant much more to native American Indians than simply a headdress adornment.
They held a deeper, more spiritual significance, and the Indian culture was just one of several to express that.
Birds were considered divine creatures in ancient cultures because they lived in the sky and so were closer to heaven.
Their feathers, therefore, held strong spiritual worth.
Centuries later, Tewantin psychic Jannine Umana has begun delving into that spirituality, introducing feather readings to her long list of services.
"Because birds hold a high spiritual energy, it helps me tune into the higher realms and connect with the person's spirit," Jannine said.
"The feather that each person picks will be dependent on what is going for that person at the time.
"It is the external reflection of what is happening in the person's life at the time of picking the feather."
Jannine does feather readings for groups of about 10 at one of the participants' homes.
She asks that each person finds a feather from somewhere, and places it in a paper bag.
Jannine said the readings were much more light-hearted and less detailed than one-on-one appointments, but were a fun way for people to get together with friends and their spirits.
"What the readings find is what the person needs to change within themselves to have the future they want," she said.
"They (the feathers) take on the persona of the person who found them, so then I can read the feather."
Working under the title of Heart Unity, Jannine recently returned to the Coast after 15 months on the Gold Coast.
After introducing the feather readings, Jannine received eight bookings in the first week - an immediate success.
"Lots of people want to get a reading done but they're too scared to do it," she said.
"I thought, 'I need something that'll bring people to me who wouldn't usually come'."
Jannine said she had already converted some sceptics with this fun, fresh take on spirit readings.
"I'd really like to help people realise that this is a normal thing to do," she said.
"It's not scary or abnormal."
For more information see the Heart Unity website at heartunity.com.au.
- Native American Indians believed feathers represented the power of the thunder gods, and the power of air and wind.
- The Feathered Sun, honoured by the Native American Pueblo Indians, symbolises the cosmos and the centre of existence.
- In Celtic culture, Druids would wear feathered robes in ceremonies to connect with the celestial realm.
- Ancient Egyptians believed feathers represented sky gods. The Egyptian goddess of justice, Ma'at, would compare the hearts of the newly dead with a feather to determine the worthiness of one's soul.
- In Christianity, feathers were symbols of virtue. An image of three feathers was made into signet rings - each feather symbolising charity, hope, and faith.


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An undisclosed injury has forced lightweight Evan Dunham (11-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) to withdraw from a fight with George Sotiropoulos (14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) at UFC 132.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the news with sources close to the event.
Sotiropoulos will remain on the card, the sources said, and a search for a new opponent is underway.
UFC 132 takes place July 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and features a bantamweight title bout between champ Dominick Cruz and rival Urijah Faber, a former WEC featherweight titleholder.
The summer event has now lost two scheduled matchups due to injury. A rematch between B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch, who fought to a draw at UFC 127, was scratched when Fitch withdrew due to injury and Penn subsequently said he, too, was injured.
In addition to the injury Dunham recently sustained, the lightweight is on the mend from back-to-back losses inside the octagon that blemished his undefeated resume. The Eugene, Ore. native caught the wrong end of a decision against former champ Sean Sherk at UFC 119, and he then was stopped in the first round by Melvin Guillard at UFC Fight Night 23.
Sotiropoulos also looks to get back on the right track after suffering his first loss inside the octagon. The Australian native's seven-fight streak was broken at UFC 127 by German Dennis Siver, who soundly outstruck him en route to an upset unanimous-decision win.
That dashed his immediate hopes for a title shot after being declared "in the mix" of the light title picture by UFC president Dana White.
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Welcome back to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic, Amazon and elsewhere. Good luck getting a job with Irrational Games if your game shows up here.
NCAA Football 13
Released: July 10
Critic: guillermop (Metacritic)
• "This game is alpha quality at best this game is trash, am I a EA hater? for sure, they definitely deserve the hate."
Score: 0.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Released: July 18.
Critic: SkidRowTrash (Metacritic)
• "[The music] is downright offensive to your ears. Absolutely the worst trash I have ever heard with the exception of a few."
Score: 0.
Critic: AnthonyG (Metacritic)
• "Whenever your skater falls over. The screen flashes a huge bright white light for a few seconds tlll it restarts. This has given me a massive headache and hurt my eyes after only a very short game. It really is that bad."
Score: 0.
Released: Aug. 1
Critic: Dilop93 (Metacritic)
• "BORIIIING, Microsoft, You owe me 4 hours of my life."
Score: 0.
Released: July 17
Critic: mayhem7 (Metacritic)
• "Don't get fooled by the media ratings, this game is simply boring. It feels like you don't have a clue what you are doing and simple button smashing works better than attempting to do it right."
Score: 0.
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Wheelchair rugby player Nick Springer, who had all four of his limbs amputated after contracting meningitis at age 14, won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. "Sports more or less saved my life," he told CBSNews.com.
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A relative newcomer to sitting volleyball, Katie Holloway has built a strong college career and made her Paralympic Games debut in Beijing in 2008 and a silver medal at the 2010 World Championships in Edmond, Okla.
At 12 years old, double-amputee Jessica Long competed in the 2004 Paralympic games and came home with three gold medals. Since then, the champion swimmer has proved unstoppable, winning numerous international awards and taking home four gold medals and three world records at the 2008 Beijing games. In 2011, she was named Disabled Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine.
Blindness hasn't stopped Elexis Gillette from being an elite athlete. A record-holder in long jump and triple jump, Gillette is also an accomplished sprinter. But Paralympic competitors aren't just jocks - Gillette is also a talented singer-songwriter and keyboardist.
Six-time Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden is one of the top wheelchair racers in the world. Nicknamed "Beast," McFadden was born with a condition that left her paralyzed below the waist - and by age 15, she was the youngest member on the 2004 Paralympic team in Athens. McFadden finished first place in the wheelchair division at the 2011 Chicago Marathon.
Jerome Singleton had a below-the-knee amputation that hasn't stopped him from excelling in track, basketball and football. Singleton has competed in Paralympic track and field events since 2006, racking up an impressive medal collection. In 2011, Singleton earned the distinction of fastest amputee on the planet when he won the gold medal at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Rudy Garcia-Tolson had both legs amputated above the knee when he was 5 years old. On his prosthetic legs, he has become an accomplished runner, swimmer and cyclist. Garcia-Tolson has won two Paralympic gold medals, numerous other awards, and has successfully completed a half-Ironman triathlon. In 2011 he took home the gold medal in the 200m individual medley at the U.S. Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships in Edmonton, Alberta
After breaking her back in a snowboarding accident at age 17, New Mexico-native Alana Nichols began playing wheelchair basketball in college. By 2005, she had made the U.S. Paralympics team. Nichols has also won Paralympic gold medals in skiing. Here she is at the 2011 ESPY awards.
Blind swimmer Tucker Dupree is a medal-winning competitor who represented the U.S. in the Beijing Paralympics. He holds 25 American records, and took home the gold in the 400 freestyle at the Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships in Edmonton, Alberta.
After a 2001 skiing accident broke two vertebrae in his neck, Seth McBride turned to wheelchair rugby to stay active. Since then, he's won medals in rugby tournaments around the world, including the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing and the 2010 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Vancouver.
Born without her right femur, Allison Jones is a two-sport threat as a Paralympic medal-winning skier and cyclist. She has competed for the U.S. Paralympics team since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
When a hit-and-run motorcycle accident took away his ability to walk, Oz Sanchez decided to take a "proactive approach to life [and to take] the bull by the horns." Sanchez has competed in triathlon and handcycling events at the Paralympics and has since won multiple world championships. He was crowned a three-time world champion after winning two gold medals in the 2011 World Championships in Denmark.
David Wagner (left) is paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Partnered with Nick Taylor (right), the duo have been dominating the Paralympic tennis circuit since 2004. Both men have held the No. 1 world ranking in Quad singles, too, with Wagner currently holding the top spot.


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Name: Bucky McCauley
Restaurant: Big Jim's
Position: waitress/barkeep
Age: 43
Favorite pet of all time? Horse (Mugwamp)
Coffee, tea, or soda in the a.m.? Soda (Pepsi)
Rollerblades or rollerskates? Rollerskates
Favorite musician? Bob Seger
What kind of car did you learn to drive on? '68 Mustang
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Sieffe La Trobe – RIP
I've had a rather surreal day. Over the last week I have been working flat out to finish my new eBook, nothing at all to do with music. It's all about using location based services to help when you're buying a house. Anyway I had just finished the draft and contracted someone to create a book cover design for me and went to check my email.
In the email was a message from Titirangi Folk Music Club, saying that Sieffe La Trobe had passed away and sharing the funeral details. The email was sent last week, but I was reading this an hour and a half after the funeral had started! I sat at my desk trying to take it in and couldn't. The email said that there would be a remembrance and music afterwards at a church in Henderson. I told my daughter and she said GO and next thing you know, I'm on my way to Henderson with my guitar.
How do you process this? I arrived and sat in on some great music with fiddles, dulcimers, guitars, mandolin and more, with jigs, reels, folk songs and contemporary music and left it to my fingers to decide which ones to join in or not.
I saw a few old faces but its been so long since I was in that scene that I didn't remember many of the names. Many I hadn't seen for a couple of decades.
I don't know how long I've known Sieffe. Going by this story on NZ Folkies, it was before 1984 because I remember visiting him in Fort Street when he was just setting up Fat Sparrow Studios. I still have a frame he made me somewhere that I used to swap photos out in every few days.
I remember the little shade of envy when he got himself a Roland Guitar synthesizer. I'm not positive, but I think it was the same as this one. He complained about the delay, but said that it really made you lift your game. I remember thinking I could live with that problem.
I remember, like him riding around on motorbikes with a guitar strapped to my back, folk festivals, clubs, good times.
Last time I saw Sieffe, he was jamming at the Coatsville market. It's probably been 2-3 years since we jammed together.
I finished this song a while ago and it now has a rap bridge. Seems like its haunting me. A wake up call. Daylight saving started on Sunday. I hibernate in winter, don't like playing in cold bars. I've been too busy working, not playing my guitars. Time to fix that:)
So while I didn't write this one for you Sieffe, next time I'll perform it in your honor.
Another Man Has Gone
On the streets of Avondale
Wearing the tread off my shoes
Don't you talk to me man
Can't you see I've got the blues
My heart is breaking
Cancer called again
Another man is gone.
Another man has gone
Life will never be the same
Another man has gone
How do we go on
A brother comes along the road
So drunk he can hardly stand
He looks me up and down and nods
Then he shakes my hand
Life runs in cycles
And they have to end
Another man has gone
Bridge (rap)
I've been walking down these streets so long that I can't feel my feet
But I can't stop because that's getting real, accepting the deal
The ache that I'm feeling
I'm reeling one minute you're there then you're gone and I can't stop
Because that's getting real, accepting the deal
Now I'm on a back street
Man is glaring at me
His eyes are throwing daggers
Maybe he thinks that I'm a D
But I'm just a sad man
Walking misery
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As the Second Annual Sean Penn & Friends Help Haiti Home event on Saturday proved, it helps to know people. The outspoken actor drew Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio and Reese Witherspoon to the Montage Beverly Hills hotel to keep the spotlight on the country, still suffering in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, and raise over $4 million for his J/P Haitian Relief Organization.
Presented by Giorgio Armani, the event was a power suit and LBD affair hosted by Anderson Cooper that honored California Congressman Raul Ruiz, Motion Picture Association of America chairman and chief executive officer Chris Dodd and former prime minister of Haiti Jean-Max Bellerive.
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Before the live auction started, an impassioned Penn gave a nearly 15-minute speech onstage imploring, "If you can afford to be here tonight and wear cologne, then you can afford to bid on some of these things.
"I promise you, I f–king promise, that we will make a difference in Haiti," Penn said. "Don't let the same five people do all the bidding."
Cooper kept things moving along with a minimum of jokes (the comic relief was left to a video presentation by Ben Stiller), but he did lighten things up by dropping the F-bomb after Penn's liberal use of the word.
"Sean is one of the best rabble rousers I know," said Roberts. "His passion is truly infectious and I'd do anything to support him." Roberts put her money where her mouth was during the live auction, bidding up the price on some high-ticket items eventually won by Barry Diller. DiCaprio and Witherspoon shelled out six figures for a day with Bill Clinton and an Armani runway show, respectively. Many others stood up in the crowd to pledge five, ten or one thousand dollars for medical care and rubble removal. Penn's favorite musician, Eddie Vedder, ended the evening with some classic Pearl Jam hits and a rendition of Bruce Springsteen's "Rise Up." As the crowed retired to the lounge for the after party, Penn grinned as he said, "We'll definitely do this again. There is a lot of work to be done this year, but we'll start thinking about next year's event tomorrow."


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Video games just feel right played at home: a big HD TV screen and a controller in your hand, surrounded by friends - and by surround sound! OUYA gives you all of this and more, putting the fun back into home console gaming.
There are loads of new and innovative games ready and waiting to play on OUYA, from unique indie titles to big names like Final Fantasy and Sonic the Hedgehog. And best of all, every game is free to try before you buy! The console itself boasts a powerful Quadcore processor and 8GB of memory to hold as many games as you need, and comes with a traditional-style controller.
You can even grab extra controllers to play up to four-player local multiplayer, or play online multiplayer too.
OUYA also offers a completely open design interface and welcomes developers as much as it welcomes gamers. Complete with a development kit, and everything you need to design a game for the Android Jelly Bean OS and no licensing fees!
Free the games! Order OUYA today!
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• Case: Sand-Blasted Aluminum and Plastic
• CPU: NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-Core
• Memory: 1GB RAM
• Storage: 8GB Internal Flash Storage
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• Output: HDMI (up to 1080p HD)
• Dimensions: 75mm x 75mm x 82mm
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• Connectivity: Bluetooth
• Body: Sand-Blasted Aluminum Top Plates
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• Dimensions: 163mm x 109mm x 53.5mm
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• Weight: 275g (9.7 oz)
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The Brexiteers bible: What Daniel Hannan's 'Why Vote Leave' leaves out
Former leader of Conservative MEPs says Hannan's book is full of distortions
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Honeyball's history reveals that inequality in Parliament remains rife today
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If you've learnt everything you know about Benidorm by watching the television series, you'll need to forget it all. This tourist centre on the eastern coast of Spain, has been one of the most popular destinations for UK tourists for decades and has a well-earned reputation for being a perfect place to enjoy all inclusive holidays. With a tourism-based economy, Benidorm has bars and clubs to attract groups of young adults as well as theme parks, a zoo and waterparks that make Benidorm Holidays a great choice for family holidays. It's a highly developed area, so don't come to Benidorm looking for nature trails, as luxury hotel complexes and skyscrapers are the order of the day.
One thing that Cheap Benidorm Holidays does well, is making sure that nobody gets bored. The sea-themed park, Mundomar is perfect for children, with a range of live animal shows, such as those featuring dolphins and sea lions, as well as many exotic birds on display. If you are particularly fond of animals, you should visit Terra Natura, where you can walk right through the animals' terrain and see the less ferocious animals, such as deer and parrots, in a simulation of their natural habitat. You can get very close to the tigers, albeit at the right side of some very strong glass, but it's still quite impressive to see such intimidating and beautiful animals feeding and interacting.
If you don't have children with you, you should visit Levi's Showboat, where the shows, featuring female impersonators, are hilarious but adult-oriented. The food and drink are very reasonably priced and the portions are generous. With no admission fee, this is definitely a cheap but entertaining night out. You can't end Spain Holidays without experiencing a fiesta and Benidorm has plenty to choose from, as they take place almost every month. In the winter, there are fiestas to celebrate Christmas, New Year and the feast days of many saints, often including processions, shows and sporting competitions. During the summer months, as well as saints' feasts, there is the ancient Romeria del Corpus, which features a fairground and a captivating horse procession that makes you feel as though you're in the middle of something timeless.
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SIMnext®, LLC has reached an agreement with Gubener Plastinate GmbH to become the exclusive North American distributor of the von Hagens Plastination – Real Anatomy for Teaching line of anatomical specimens.
Intended for use in anatomy education, these products provide medical, nursing, and dental students with human anatomy specimens of exquisite detail. Made by using silicone plastination technology developed by Dr. Gunther von Hagens through decades of research, the von Hagens specimens are recognized as the world's highest quality and most durable human-derived teaching specimens. The use of the von Hagens plastinates reduces the use of human cadavers, and thereby the cost for anatomy education without sacrificing the fidelity of the student experience.
"This product fits perfectly with our strategy to deliver the highest-quality and most realistic physical and virtual education tools to our customers. These human-derived specimen collections will serve as the foundation for a new generation of amazing anatomy education tools," said Gary Durack, SIMnext CEO. "We are proud to partner with Gubener Plastinate in this effort."
Jump Simulation & Education Center, a collaboration between OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, is a testing site for Real Anatomy for Teaching.
"Learning anatomy and the three dimensional relationships of the human body is dramatically improved when students encounter models like these," said John Vozenilek, MD, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Simulation at OSF HealthCare. "Drawings and illustrations in books help, but they cannot properly represent the complexity of the human form like these models can."
The von Hagens Plastination – Real Anatomy for Teaching products will be unveiled by SIMnext at the 2017 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), hosted by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, on January 28, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Meeting attendees will be able to view the products in the Regency Ballroom Exhibit Hall January 29 through 31.
SIMnext's corporate offices are based in Peoria, IL within Jump. The company's product development and manufacturing activities occur on the campus of the University of Illinois in Champaign. Both SIMnext and OSF HealthCare are members of MATTER, a hub of entrepreneurs and industry leaders in Chicago working together to fuel health care innovation.
About SIMnext
SIMnext is built on a culture of open, agile exploration with partners that enable a team of medical, engineering, and business experts to aggressively pursue answers to complex health care simulation-based education and training problems. Through this model, SIMnext is able to offer fully tested, nuanced products that are key to improving patient outcomes as well as efficiencies within the health care industry. For more information visit www.simnext.com.
About the Jump Simulation & Education Center
A collaboration between University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and OSF HealthCare, the center replicates patient care settings to ensure novice and seasoned clinicians can practice handling medical situations in a life-like environment. Boasting six floors and 168,000 square feet, the center is one of the largest of its kind and provides space for conferences, anatomic training, virtual reality, and innovation. For more information, visit www.jumpsimulation.org.


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This past Saturday we celebrated the Golden Jubilee of our dear Sister Mary Austin. She is pictured above in the kitchen (hence the apron!). There are many things for which our community is grateful on the happy occasion of her Jubilee but at the top of the list are Sister's gentle presence, her devotion and her love.
On a more practical level, we admire (and some of us even envy) her culinary skills. Treats and desserts seem effortless. Perhaps one of her more skillful desserts was a squash cobbler that most of us thought was an apple pie. Someone who was working in the kitchen leaked the secret ingredient by teasing that we were having vegetables for dessert. Sister had most of us fooled -- and enjoying our "apple pie" when we learned the truth! Last but not least, Sister Mary Austin is always ready to take on a partner for a game of Canasta -- play at your own risk -- shark on the loose!
We are a bit tardy in sharing this wonderful event since three of our number left bright and early the next morning to be with our Sisters in Brooklyn for a Solemn profession (pictures forthcoming!)


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
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Anxiety is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among children yet characterized by lower use of mental health services. Preventive efforts have demonstrated promise in the ability to reduce anxiety symptoms. However, as evidence-based interventions move into real-world settings, there is a need to systematically examine potential implementation factors that may affect program outcomes. The current study investigates the relations between different aspects of implementation and their effect on outcomes of a school-based preventive intervention targeting anxiety symptoms. Specifically, the study examines: (1) the measurement of quality of delivery, (2) specific relations among implementation components, (3) relations between these …
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Clashing business development cultures can spell disaster
Mergers and acquisitions continue to remake the government contracting market, fueled by shifting landscapes in defense spending, procurement modifications and competitive pressures. Smaller acquisitions are becoming more prevalent than the larger, scale-driven transactions of previous years.
For our annual M&A special report, click here.
In the frenzy to transform via mergers and acquisitions, significant issues might be overlooked in the haste to get smaller deals done. There are seven significant stumbling blocks to achieving growth objectives after a merger or acquisition. Overlooking any one of them could adversely affect a firm's long-term growth.
1. M&A Strategy
Was the decision to expand based on a desire to chase shifting budget and procurement priorities? Or does a long-term strategy exist that includes adding expertise to your capabilities from firms in adjacent markets? The latter approach could bolster your market position by offering customers a comprehensive, integrated suite of products and services.
2. Qualitative vs. Quantitative Due Diligence
Due diligence means more than merely crunching numbers; it involves qualitative as well as quantitative information gathering. Take the time to evaluate the target company's business development leadership and team from a potential and historical perspective, and assess the resident quality and capability of the entire business development organization. Is it mostly organic-growth farmers and few, if any, new-business hunters? You want to find a well-balanced, cohesive team that is working a real pipeline of opportunities with a high win rate.
3. Divergent Business Development Cultures: Push vs. Pull
Does your potential merger partner have a "push boxes" culture — that is, are products/services pressed on customers to solve any conceivable problem? Or does the business development team seek out customer issues and then decide if the opportunity is a good match for what the firm offers? The first position indicates a traditional sales, or push, culture. The second illustrates a customer-centric culture in which customers rely on your expertise, pull you into a discussion of their situation and trust you to help them solve their problems.
4. Differing Structures for Business Development Organizations
Does your potential acquisition have a centralized business development organization, a business development capability embedded in the business units or a hybrid of the two? Does the current structure mesh with yours or will the combination add a layer of complexity to what already exists at your firm? Acquisitions frequently result in combined entities with independent organizations hoarding resources and critical intelligence while dissipating the efficiencies and operational synergies you've banked on for the combined organization.
5. Disparate Business Development Plans
Business plans are not the same as business development plans. If business development plans exist at the potential acquisition, are they outdated and unachievable in the current circumstances? In addition to a business development strategy, what you want to see are road maps that chart how to reach concrete revenue objectives in the current business climate and have buy-in from the entire business development team.
6. Diverse and Outdated Business Development Processes
The government contracting world has changed. If business development processes exist at your potential merger partner, does everyone use them and is there proof of their effectiveness? Could you be acquiring a business development organization that's committed to outdated processes and shuns anything new? In that situation, even if the team is struggling, members will likely reject any solid business case to change what they are doing.
7. Strong Business Development Leadership
Does your potential acquisition have strong business development leaders who model effective behavior, take ownership of plans, drive processes and lead personnel to reach revenue objectives? Or is everyone reluctant to challenge the status quo, embrace new ways of developing business and risk something different in this changed environment? If so, one of your first initiatives should be to find strong business development leaders to fill that vacuum. A good business development leader will serve as the catalyst to jump-start revenue growth and achieve the numbers you expect after the merger.
About the Author
Bill Scheessele is the CEO of MBDi, a global business development services firm providing expertise in Business Development best practices in the national security, defense, scientific, energy and engineering industries. The firm offers BD consulting services in addition to education workshops to help BD professionals and teams identify hidden strengths, barriers to progress and opportunities for improvement. Learn more about MBDi, their revenue growth resources and their new virtual training options at http://www.mbdi.com or 704.553.0000.
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Companies should also apply the same due diligence and analysis of all the departments such as human resources, finance, legal, marketing and operations. M&A success also depends on a comprehensive Internal Communications Program to elicit support from executives, middle management and employees before, during and after the transaction. The quality, quantity, timing and content of communications among these parties is what makes or breaks the deal.
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Our Week in Review camera man is now also working for WTHHT. LOL! Popson and Wynder together? Please frame that pic for me and send it to me for my birthday.
Your last line had me rolling.
LOL! Yes the Week in Review quality of imaging has not transitioned to WTTHT!
I'm actually looking through this and have a lot of great pictures I can share moving forward.
I loved that 91 team. They could've made some noise if they couldve stayed healthy. They had a real fun combination of old timers (Parish, McHale, Bird, Pickney) and new blood (Gamble, Brown, Shaw, Lewis). Plus throw in a savvy vet PG in Bagley, and Joe Kline was good for . . . 6 fouls a night, I guess, and you have a team with insane depth.
Wow! I had completely forgot AJ Wynder. That season we really had a very exciting team, too bad Larry wasn't 2 years younger because I think we would have made more noise at the end. AJ Wynder! my goodness! Good article TB!
I found a profile pic here :D
*forgotten, not forgot...my English grammar is ill this morning :P
Checking that site, I discovered some crazy names such as... Bart Kofoed???? :D:D
Bohemian wrote: "Too bad Larry wasn't 2 years younger because I think we would have made more noise at the end"
I'm scared we might be saying the same thing this Spring, but with KG's name instead of Larry's :(
Great find on the Wynder pic Bohemian. I think they just stole it from TB's scrapbook though ;)
freshnthehouse- don't forget Derek Smith on that team, more to come on him soon :)
Thanks Bohemian and great find on that picture! I do still prefer my scrapbook. I have some awesome photos from it I may do an article just on those pictures lol.
I prefer your pic too, TB! ;)
JR, KG will be 20% healthier come playoffs time...enough to get us back on track! We just need some health, rest and a couple of fresh new players
AJ was a before his time... Was a Great Great point guard... Had every tool. Was better than alot of guys playing minutes today... Like Steve Blake, Sebastian Telfair, several of the Wizards guards just to name a few
I don't doubt it whatsoever Anonymous. Guys back then were more polished as basketball players. They came into the league ready to contribute then and there, not based on future potential. The game's changed since the KG draft. And now guys like Jay Bilas get to talk about potential and wingspan...
I'm sure AJ would've run circles around Lester Hudson and Gabe Pruitt
I hate when people post pictures larger than their original size. Better a tiny picture than a blurry one. And Adelphi alum would never do this.


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UPDATE: Alleged Accomplice to be Charged in Missoula Police Officer Dragging Injury
A woman is in the Missoula County jail Wednesday morning who allegedly gave assistance to suspect Dawnette Eaton after the incident Monday night where she is accused of backing over and dragging Missoula police officer Deni Poling, seriously injuring her.
34 year-old Kimberly Inman is suspected of picking up Eaton not far from the crime scene and transporting her to the woman's apartment on Grandview. Eaton had received a gunshot wound to the arm from Lt. Richard Stepper during the incident at the East Missoula McDonald's parking lot.
Inman will appear in Missoula justice court at 2:30 this afternoon to be charged with two felonies, obstructing justice and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Dawnette Eaton is also scheduled to appear this afternoon. At that time we will learn exactly what she is charged with.


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Why does the guest detect so many PCI bridge devices ?
A virtual machine configured with
virtualHW.version = "7"
has several PCI-bridges - this allows to use for example up to 10 networkcards or 4 SCSI-controllers.
If you want to disable those PCI-bridges add this lines to your vmx-file - and make sure you do not define those parameters twice
pciBridge1.present = "false"
pciBridge2.present = "false"
pciBridge3.present = "false"
pciBridge4.present = "false"
pciBridge5.present = "false"
pciBridge6.present = "false"
pciBridge7.present = "false"
On a newly installed guest this usually is no problem.
If you upgrade the virtual hardware of guest from version 4 to version 7 this can be a problem and the guest may go into an endless loop of detection new devices and reboots.
In this case you can workaround the problem by disabling the unused PCI-bridges.
Do NOT disable PCI-bridge 0


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The motors both rotate at 1000 rpm with no load going (mA value 200 mA) from 1000 to 2000 rpm takes relatively not that much extra PWM.But what if both rotate at 1000 rpm with a load going (mA value 1000 mA) from 1000 to 2000 rpm takes more PWM (If the max RPM can actually be reached!).So I thougt: what if I know the actual RPM and current value? Maybe I can optimize the PID algorithm with the extra data?Maybe I first have to do some testing to see what really happens...... Cheers.
At the moment I have two magenets/wheel. I can increase this to four? It will give a more accurate reading at low RPM, but I don't know if the interrupt can handle (12.000 pulses/minute max.)?


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SMITH COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - An autopsy has been ordered on the body of the missing 3-year old Autistic boy who was found Saturday afternoon.
Officials say the body of 3-year old Evan Wesley Reed was found in Lake Palestine, not far from a marina on the lake.
Crews from as far east as Shreveport geared up to continue their search for Evan on Saturday morning. He'd last been seen at his home on Friday evening. Authorities searched from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. after the boy was first reported missing.
"We've got seven ground crews on the ground [they're each] three man crews. They are searching door-to-door and house-to-house... in flowerbeds.. anything and everything," said Noonday Fire Department Assistant Chief Jonathan McClish.
Crews also searched the waterfront and under docks. Dive teams searched the water.
Evan's family members said Evan had mild to moderate Autism. Hearing about Evan's special needs compelled the Crampton family to drive an hour from their home in Alba to see if they could help.
"Seeing that story, we realized, that could have been us at any point," said Gordon Crampton.
Gordon and his wife Amy saw pictures of three-year-old Evan online. They said those pictures looked a lot like their nine-year-old Autistic son, Aaron.
"I felt really compelled to come out here and try to shield this family from a lot of the criticism that they're getting that they don't deserve," said Gordon Crampton.
Their mission Saturday was to try and help people understand what parents of Autistic children face everyday and how in a blink of an eye, they can get into serious trouble.
"We've been there. Your heart just stops and you don't know what to do and you're just frantically searching everywhere for your child," said Amy.
"To see remarks about this family, there was one that really got to me, about how the prosecuting attorney should be out here visiting this family and it just became very obvious that they don't understand," said Gordon.
Despite hours of searching Evan was not found alive.
The Sheriff's Office, DPS officials, Texas Parks and Wildlife, ALERT, and the Noonday, Bullard, Flint-Gresham, Longview, Shreveport, Bossier City Fire Departments all were involved in the search near the family's home on Carol Circle on Lake Palestine.
Late Saturday afternoon, there was police tape wrapped around Evan's Smith County home. Officials said they were holding the scene as standard protocol until their missing person investigation wraps up.
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