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Hosting a water aerobics party is a great way to have some serious fun with friends of all fitness levels. This is a whole new take on the pool party, and there are more options than you might think for making it a fun experience for everyone.
Water aerobics is a sport rapidly gaining popularity, and it's a wonderful way for anyone to increase muscle tone and lose fat. Working out in water also provides a unique opportunity for those who suffer from arthritis and other conditions that may prevent them from using traditional exercise methods.
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It is not a dream, but a probability that the radio will demolish blocs, cut the strings of red tape, actuate the voice "back home," dismantle politics and entrench the nation's executive in a position of power unlike that within the grasp of any executive in the world's history. ["The Reading Eagle," Reading, Pa., U.S.A., March 16, 1924]In U.S., stations were broadcasting news and music by late 1920, but the new medium caught on nationwide as a fad in the winter of 1921-22; as late as July 1921 the "New York Times" had called it wireless telephony, and wireless remained more widespread until World War II, when military preference for radio turned the tables. As an adjective by 1912, "by radio transmission;" meaning "controlled by radio" from 1974. Radio _______ "radio station or service from _______" is recorded from 1920. A radio shack (1946) was a small building housing radio equipment.
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I'd really hope that they are the type of pipers that make and sew custom piping... I've got some pillows I'd like to do, but I don't want to fool with the piping. I'd assign at least 4 of them to that task. The other 7 of them could get the icing bags and do the piping work on a fabulous gingerbread house. If even one of the 11 tries to pull out an actual pipe, I'd full-body-slam them.... my 3 year old is finally taking a nap and ain't NOBODY waking her up!
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Jay Kay's on my work experience booklet?
Hey, this may sound really weird... but i was reading through my coursework booklet well work experience and i found a picture at the very end of the booklet with a man with a hat on kicking his legs in the air even though his face is under the hat it does look like Jay Kay, and it was like a double picture kinda thing to make an effect, The picture wont attach to this post for some reason, but the website my booklet is of is www.communique-education.co.uk and it shows you a few photos of the booklet.
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I'm a huge fan of vegetable gardening – or any gardening for that matter – in raised beds. There are many reasons raised beds are great for gardens like being able to garden nearly anywhere (even on rocky ground), controlling the soil, or planting more plants in a smaller space but what actually makes a good raised bed? The best raised beds give you all the advantages I just mentioned and can be made of many different kinds of materials. Here are just some of the best materials for raised beds.
The Best Materials for Raised Beds
In my mind the best raised bed materials are those that will last for a long time, are low on care or maintenance, and provide a healthy environment for plants and the people who eat them.
Natural Rocks
Natural rock raised beds definitely give you form and function – especially if you like the rustic/natural look (I'm a fan).
- Advantages: Solid, no maintenance, can be made into multiple shapes and forms.
- Disadvantages: Can be heavy to move around, may need mortared together to gain bed height..
Reclaimed bricks make excellent raised bed materials
- Advantages: Solid, no maintenance, can be made into multiple shapes and forms.
- Disadvantages: Can be expensive in large quantities, if small may need mortared together to gain bed height.
Concrete Blocks
Concrete blocks made for construction are very economical.
- Advantages: Solid, no maintenance, fairly inexpensive
- Disadvantages: Very heavy to move around, may not look as nice as other options.
Cedar or Redwood
Durable wood materials that naturally resist rot.
- Advantages: Resist rot and will last several years. Easy to assemble.
- Disadvantages: Can be expensive, will eventually need replaced
Pots for Planting Vegetables
Believe it or not pots are great raised beds for vegetable gardening.
- Advantages: You control the soil, can move the pots into the best locations or indoors if there is danger of frost.
- Disadvantages: Dry out fast and need frequent watering, need to find the right vegetables for the pots (determinant, dwarf, or bush type plants)
Good Raised Bed Materials
Good raised beds offer the function of a raised bed vegetable garden but may require some maintenance or repairs over time. They can be very functional yet attractive at the same time.
Untreated wood
Untreated beds will last only a couple years but are inexpensive and easy to put together.
- Advantages: Inexpensive and easy to assemble into basic shapes.
- Disadvantages: Will need replaced within 2-3 years, could attract termites – don't put too close to your home.
Mounded Beds
Mounding is a good way to do a raised bed garden without sides for retaining soil. Mounding is where you create a taller soil mound toward the middle of your raised beds.
- Advantages: Inexpensive, easy to build.
- Disadvantages: Lack of barriers for soil retention may cause erosion of the bed over time.
Poured Concrete
- Advantages: Will last a long time, very solid, looks good and can be stained/painted
- Disadvantages: It takes a lot of labor and time to set up. Can't be moved easily – fairly permanent.
Poor and Bad Raised Bed Materials
Pressure Treated Lumber
Older pressure treated lumber should be avoided. The treating process used to use arsenic but that is no longer the case. New pressure treated lumber is probably fine although I won't use it for edibles (I'm paranoid). Today's pressure treated lumber contains copper which probably won't leach into your soil in significant enough quantities to cause any harm.
- Advantages: Resists rot and will last several years.
- Disadvantages: Depending on the type pressure treated wood its toxicity may be in question. (with modern pressure treating this may no longer be an issue.)
Old Tires
- Advantages: Easy to come by and easy to assemble
- Disadvantages: Will eventually degrade and release toxic chemical into the soil – not good for vegetables! May not be very aesthetically pleasing – I'm not a fan.
Once you have figured out what the best materials for raised beds are you need to know how to design your garden layout. If you are putting together a new raised bed garden this year you may want to look at this post: Designing a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden 11 Things to Think About.
I'm very partial to using stone and bricks as raised bed even though most of mine are built from cheap, readily available untreated pine. What materials do you like best for your raised beds?


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Look at these precious cuties from grandma Nancy's photo album! Not only are these photos unidentified, but I honestly can't tell if they are little girls or little boys. What do you think?
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This was the shop of Francis Skerritt who sold the Sunday paper for 1d.
During the first world war, this shop had the only telephone in the area, so was very much in demand.
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George W. Piggott, an artist, died in this city last Sunday of typhoid fever. He was born in Maracaibo in 1852, his mother being a Venezuelan. though his father was of an old New-York Quaker family. He studied art under Walter Shirlaw in New-York and Lefebvre in Paris. and also spent some time in Venice. His best vein lay in portrait painting.
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If Vice President Biden was serious about taking Trump "behind the gym," it sounds like Donald Trump is in.
Rounding out a full day of rallies in Florida Tuesday night, the Republican presidential nominee went off on a tangent against Biden, calling him "Mr. Tough Guy" for comments the VP made last week that if it were high school he'd take Trump "behind the gym."
Trump remembered the comments slightly differently — he said, "did you see Biden wants to take me to the back of the barn?" — but wasn't deterred by the sentiment behind them.
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Consider Eisenstein series of weight zero, i.e.
$ E_{\mathfrak{a}}(z,\ s,\ \chi) = \sum_{ \gamma \in \Gamma_{\mathfrak{a}} \backslash \Gamma } \bar{\chi}(\gamma) (Im\sigma_{\mathfrak{a}}^{-1} \gamma z)^s $,
where $\chi$ is a multiplier system of weight zero ( $ \chi\ :\ \Gamma \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^* $ is a group homomorphism) singular at cusp $\mathfrak{a}$. Then my first question is that why this series converges absolutely in $Re(s)>1$?
My second question is how to calculate the following summation:
$ \sum_{d\ (mod c)}\ \epsilon_d(\frac{c}{d}) $, where $ \gamma = $ $\[ \begin{pmatrix} a & b\\ c & d \end{pmatrix} \]$ $\in \Gamma_0(4) $, $(\frac{c}{d})$ is the extended quadratic residue symbol and $c = b^2. $


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By Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP graduate student, PREP-AIRED blog moderator and administrator
Thank you to Dr. Daniel Carr, founder of the Tufts University School of Medicine's Pain Research Education and Policy Programs (PREP) for alerting us to a collection of articles in a recent edition of Nature Medicine which review progress and challenges in pain research from the bench to the bedside. Take a look at some of the interesting issues being addressed with a focus on pain research and treatment.
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Aug 5, 2012
WASHINGTON – While US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attempted to convince top Israeli politicians and security officials not to launch a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities during his visit to Israel last week, his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, seems more prepared for a possible attack.
In an interview with Fox News, the former US Defense Secretary said "the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, is probably correct. Sanctions tend not to work very well over a long period of time."
Rumsfeld, who served as secretary of defense during both the Ford and Bush administrations, told Fox that "Israel's intelligence on Iran is excellent." He further denied the claims that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would not yield any results.
"I don't think that Israel has to destroy all of Iran's nuclear capability, said Rumsfeld adding that "Iran is a sophisticated country. They must have deeply buried sites. And I'm sure the Israelis know precisely what they currently have."
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Due to above-average water temperatures in the Caribbean Sea, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that coral bleaching will be very likely this year. It may even be as severe as 2005 when 80 percent of corals were bleached and 40 percent died. There have been reports from several sites already in the Caribbean as well as from other parts of the world.
Coral bleaching is the whitening of otherwise colorful corals due to stress-caused death or expulsion of the zooxanthellae, unicellular protozoa (algae) that live in a symbiotic relationship with the corals. The zooxanthellae are photosynthetic organisms that live within the tissues and give the coral its distinct coloration. When they go, so does the color, causing the coral to become white or "bleached." The stress is triggered by environmental changes such as a change in temperature, change in water chemistry, lack of zooplankton (what the coral eats), or increased sedimentation.
The most common stress is increasing temperature, which is what's happening in the Caribbean, particularly the southeast Caribbean. "High temperatures cause corals to force out the symbiotic algae that provide them with food. This makes the corals appear white or 'bleached' and can increase outbreaks of infectious disease," said Mark Eakin, Ph.D., coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch.
Prolonged coral bleaching can often be fatal to the coral, and potentially devastating to the coral reef ecosystem, home to an abundance of marine biodiversity. It can also have an economic impact on the communities in places like the Caribbean, United States, Australia, and wherever there are large coral habitats. According to NOAA, coral reefs provide benefits worth up to $375 billion each year around the world.
The sea temperature rise is bad this year, but not quite as bad as 2005. That year's coral bleaching was result of the most intense thermal stress ever recorded in the Caribbean. However, this year marks another serious loss of coral habitat in the tropics. NOAA has conducted a scientific survey off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, plus constant satellite monitoring under the Coral Reef Watch program.


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Welcome to the SoConversation, featuring The Citadel beat writer Jeff Hartsell of the Charleston Post and Courier, Elon beat writer Adam Smith of the Burlington Times-News and UTC beat writer John Frierson of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Four weeks of the college football season are in the books and ... have Old Dominion and The Citadel both scored again? No? OK. Two games stood out from week four, Old Dominion�s thrilling 59-58 win over The Citadel and a game that was the exact opposite in pace and scoring, Gardner-Webb�s 3-0 victory at Wofford. What was your overall takeaway from what SoCon teams accomplished (or failed to) last Saturday?
JEFF: Wait ... I think Old Dominion just recovered a 13th straight onside kick.
If I was Monarchs coach Bobby Wilder and just watched The Citadel score 58 points on my defense, I might not kick deep the rest of the season. At least on an onside kick, there�s a 20 percent chance of getting the ball back without giving up a touchdown. Of course, given his high-powered offense, I wouldn�t worry too much about defense either.
ODU has been an FCS playoff team the last two years, so the 58 points was a good sign for The Citadel�s back-to-basics move on offense, and the Bulldogs won�t see an offense like ODU�s the rest of the season. I don�t hold the 3-0 loss to Gardner-Webb against Wofford too much, given the conditions at rain-soaked Gibbs Stadium.
Otherwise, I�m ready to see some conference games. We�ve only had four so far!
JOHN: It was a Saturday of stinkers throughout college football, but I would have loved to have been in Norfolk to see the ODU / Citadel game. So much back and forth, so many big plays and a tremendous finish � it�s a shame the game wasn�t televised. As a reporter, however, those high-scoring, afternoon / evening games do make getting everything in before deadline a challenge.
I�m more of a defensive guy at heart � my favorite game I�ve ever covered was Auburn 7, LSU 3 in 2006 at Jordan-Hare Stadium � so the Gardner-Webb / Wofford game may have been more my speed. Credit to the Runnin� Bulldogs and kicker Jordan Day for the upset, which maybe wasn�t an upset given what Gardner-Webb has done this season.
As for the other games, App State didn�t exactly put on a show against struggling Elon, Samford�s rally came up short against Southeastern Louisiana (but welcome back Pat Sullivan, who was coaching from the press box) and Western Carolina needed a 20-point fourth quarter to get past Division II Mars Hill.
ADAM: Aside from the SoCon teams for a second, think about what Gardner-Webb of the Big South has been able to accomplish recently. The Runnin� Bulldogs have gone three games (12 quarters) without scoring a touchdown � 55-0 loss at Marshall, 12-10 win over Richmond, 3-0 win over Wofford � and yet entered the FCS Top 25 media poll this week for the first time in 11 years.
That Wofford / Gardner-Webb game was played in a driving rain and coach Mike Ayers said Wofford scaled back some of its option pitches and calls due to the weather. Tough one for Wofford, which we loved up on last week (and deservedly so) after defeating Georgia Southern. Frierson and Hartsell warned that Gardner-Webb could be a letdown game. Professional stuff, fellas. Now the Terriers, on an open date, have two weeks to chew on that one.
Uncle Jeff Hartsell no doubt could use a spa day after covering that Citadel / Old Dominion shootout � 117 points, 58 first downs, 1,108 yards of offense. Wow. What a win that would�ve been for Citadel, with ODU headed for Conference USA.
There were some monster numbers elsewhere, too. Samford�s Andy Summerlin threw for three touchdowns and a school-record 478 yards. Western Carolina�s Karnorris Benson hauled in 212 receiving yards and three touchdowns. App State�s Marcus Cox, a true freshman, went off for 308 total yards and three scores. He looked like a star in the making.
Gardner-Webb�s win at Wofford was the Big South�s fourth in five games against SoCon teams. Gardner-Webb also beat Furman, Coastal Carolina beat Furman and Charleston Southern beat The Citadel, while the league�s only win over a Big South team was Furman�s win against Presbyterian, which required a blocked field goal in the final minute to seal.
While the RPI may not be the most accurate reflection of a conference�s strength so early in the season because not everyone has played their money games yet, according to RealTimeRPI.com the Big South ranks as the No. 15 league in Division I, five spots above the SoCon. The Big South is 13-7 in non-conference play and the SoCon is 7-15. How worrying is this for the SoCon, which has the ninth-best RPI among FCS schools?
JOHN: Long considered one of the elite leagues in the FCS, the SoCon has clearly not gotten off to a good start. Wofford remains the only SoCon team ranked in the coaches� poll at No. 15. The CAA and Big Sky have five each and the Missouri Valley has three in the top 10.
I think the RPI numbers are a little skewed because several of the Big South�s wins were against Furman, which appears to be down a bit this season. Elon is down as well, but you can bet the SoCon will be rooting for it to beat Coastal Carolina on Saturday.
If these numbers stay roughly the same throughout the season, and they may, then it�s cause for concern � especially when it comes time for the playoff selection committee to start comparing teams for at-large bid.
I still think the league will get two teams in, maybe three, but the possibility of it being a one-big league is certainly there right now. And who would have guessed that a month ago?
ADAM: To me, this Big South rising / SoCon sliding situation not only is worrying for the SoCon, but it�s also a reality check and sign of the changing times within the league.
Frierson makes a good point about the Big South feasting a bit on Furman, and it�s not like Presbyterian or VMI are beating Georgia Southern or Appalachian State. But still.
I can�t help but think back to 2003, when Elon was overjoyed to leave � bolt from � the Big South and step up to the SoCon. There was such an excitement and feeling that Elon had hit the big time. The Big South didn�t have enough football members for an automatic playoff berth then and was viewed as inferior when compared to the SoCon, which people used to call the SEC of Division I-AA.
Definitely not trying to be doom and gloom here. Just saying the times, they have changed.
JEFF: It might be the new reality, given the loss of App State and Georgia Southern from the SoCon going forward, and the switch of hapless VMI from the Big South to the SoCon. The Big South is bringing in start-up program Kennesaw State, and it will be interesting to see how fast that team develops � will Kennesaw State be another fast-track ODU, or will it struggle like Georgia State?
The SoCon needs Mercer and East Tennessee State to get up and running as competitive programs quickly, and it needs Chattanooga, Samford, Furman and The Citadel to step it up and join Wofford as a factor in the national FCS picture.
Now to the games you guys covered last week. Jeff was in Norfolk for the shootout between ODU and The Citadel, while Adam saw App State run out to an early lead and hold off Elon. John, meanwhile, probably did nothing during the Mocs� open date. What stood out in the game you covered and what does it mean going forward?
ADAM: Couple of things struck me about App State. Mainly, the Mountaineers still have an elite level of athlete, five or six guys in certain spots that Elon simply couldn�t match up with. When Sean Price jogged on the field for his first snap of the season � the end of the 6-foot-5 stud receiver�s suspension and reinstatement were announced 15 minutes prior to kickoff � he looked like Randy Moss gliding around out there.
Also, App State quarterback Jamal Londry-Jackson, while his numbers were impressive (16 of 21 for 205 yards and a 50-yard TD) in splitting time with Kam Bryant, is not the same player he was physically after that knee surgery in January. He simply can�t move and scramble like he used to and he doesn�t look comfortable when he has to or is asked to. The only inaccurate throws he made against Elon were on designed rollouts during which he overshot a couple short throws to open receivers.
Bryant, a sophomore, is elusive and the Mountaineers appear set for future playmakers with him at quarterback, sophomores Price and Malachi Jones at receiver and true freshman Marcus Cox at running back. Cox turned his first start into a masterpiece of 159 rushing yards and 149 receiving yards.
But with all that said, Elon�s ability to rally from 24-0 down to within 24-21 showed that App State may continue to be vulnerable to surprises this season. And Elon may have discovered some long-sought balance with 193 rushing yards, its best total on the ground against a Division I opponent in nearly four years.
JEFF: The 58 points scored by The Citadel at ODU were the Bulldogs� most ever in a losing cause; the 117 combined points was a school record, as was Ben Dupree�s five touchdowns. All of that was against a Monarchs defense that didn�t have the first clue about defending the option, but I still think the performance bodes well for the Bulldogs� offense going forward.
One thing to watch � personnel losses have mounted up for The Citadel. An All-America center, starting tight end, starting middle linebacker (and leading tackler), third-team QB, backup defensive lineman and now a promising freshman running back have been lost to injuries and / or personal issues.
JOHN: I was hoping for a day of hiking but rain nixed that. Instead I ran a few errands, watched some Premier League soccer (darn you, ManU!) and then flipped around between a lot of bad games for the rest of the day. It was a largely unproductive day and that was just fine with me.
There are three league games on the schedule (UTC at Georgia Southern, Furman at The Citadel and Western Carolina at Samford), plus two non-conference games (Coastal Carolina at Elon and Charleston Southern at App State). What will you be watching for Saturday?
JEFF: Chattanoogaat Georgia Southern is the heavyweight matchup, and recent years have seen some fun matchups between the two. The Eagles certainly appear vulnerable after their loss to Wofford and with some apparent QB issues, with Kevin Ellison starting at Wofford over Jerick McKinnon.
Samford and The Citadel need to handle struggling SoCon foes at home, though I expect Furman to give the Bulldogs more of a tussle than Western Carolina will at Samford. Furman�s losses, by a TD each, came against what have proven to be pretty good Big South teams in Gardner-Webb and Coastal Carolina, a combined 7-1 this season. And the loss to Gardner-Webb came without starting QB Reese Hannon.
In the Big South at SoCon matchups, I think Coastal Carolina will roll at Elon and Charleston Southern�s win streak will end at App State, which has removed receiver Sean Price from the suspended list (Price had eight catches for 99 yards last week) and discovered a new star in running back Marcus Cox.
JOHN: Georgia Southern and UTC have a bit in common after three games. Both teams have lost to the good team they faced (the Mocs lost to UT Martin and Wofford beat Georgia Southern) and thumped a pair of weak opponents. That means it�s really hard to gauge how this one is going to go. I do know that if the Mocs are going to challenge for the SoCon title and a playoff spot, this is a game they probably need to win.
This will be UTC�s final trip to Paulson Stadium, at least as far as we know, and it�s a place with few good memories for the Mocs. UTC is 1-12 all-time there.
I expect The Citadel and Samford to have little trouble winning their games, while the two non-conference matchups are pretty interesting given what�s happened so far with Big South / SoCon matchups.
ADAM: Really interested to see how things go Saturday night in Statesboro for all of the reasons Johnny Frierson mentioned and also because both teams are coming off two weeks to prepare after different results the last times they played � Chattanooga thumped Austin Peay while Georgia Southern lost to Wofford.
App State�s quarter-by-quarter rotation at quarterback is worth tracking. For all the good things Jamal Londry-Jackson has done in his career, for some reason I get the feeling that coach Scott Satterfield would like to make Kam Bryant his main guy at the position.
Meanwhile, Charleston Southern is 4-0 but after edging Citadel in the season opener, it�s not like the Buccaneers have beaten Jim Tressel�s Youngstown State teams since then with uninspiring wins over Shorter, Campbell and Norfolk State.
Am I crazy or an insufferable homer or both for thinking that Elon pulls off an upset of 4-0 and nationally ranked Coastal Carolina? The Phoenix found some confidence on both sides of the ball last week during its second-half surge against App State. Heck, if Elon�s freshman kickers could hit a field goal � they�re a combined 1-for-7 on the season � both the losses to North Carolina A&T and App State might have turned out differently.
As we all know, Elon is leaving the SoCon after this year, taking Adam and all his awesomeness with it. You may not know that this is John�s last season, as well. He�s decided to leave the Times Free Press at the end of the calendar year to pursue, well, he�s not too sure yet.
Since this is the last go-round for them, and possibly the SoConversation itself, we will do some reminiscing throughout the rest of the season � and Jeff will of course join in, also. Here�s today�s question: What is the best SoCon game you�ve covered?
JOHN: It�s safe to say it wasn�t in the first two seasons I covered UTC, starting in 2007, when the Mocs won a total of three games (though UTC�s OT win at Georgia Southern in 2007 was entertaining).
The 2010 season opener probably gets my vote. The Mocs hosted App State and ran out to a stunning 28-7 lead. App rallied in the second half and eventually led 42-35 with six minutes left. The Mocs the cut the lead to one, 42-41, with 51 seconds left on B.J. Coleman�s fourth TD pass.
Russ Huesman opted to go for the win with a two-point try, but App was able to break up a pass in the end zone. It was a pretty dramatic start to the season, in front of 15,000, and it was a sign that the Mocs had come a long way in a short amount of time.
JEFF: For sheer surprise, it was The Citadel�s 52-28 win at App State last year. Didn�t see that one coming.
Drama? Hard to beat The Citadel�s 54-51 OT win over Furman in 2007, or Furman�s 39-31 triple OT win over The Citadel in 2005.
Individual performance? Georgia Southern great Adrian Peterson had his coming out party against The Citadel in 1998. The Bulldogs led No. 1-ranked Georgia Southern by 20-7 at halftime, but Peterson ran for 231 yards and five TDs to lead the Eagles to a 51-34 victory. All of AP�s touchdowns came in the second half. Lawdy, lawdy, he was great.
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This is a tough one. There�s a lot to pick though from these last 10 years.
Elon played some of its most significant games in school history during Pete Lembo�s 2006-2010 tenure, but lost the most meaningful ones during that stretch in mostly deflating fashion � 2008 and 2009 SoCon �championship games� against App State, the 2008 season finale at Liberty that would�ve put Elon in the FCS playoffs with a win and the 2009 playoff loss at Richmond, a 16-13 heartbreaker, that remains Elon�s only postseason appearance on the Division I level.
I�ll go with Elon�s 22-20 win at Georgia Southern in 2008, on a sticky September night in lower Georgia. The previous season, Elon scored a 36-33 victory against the Eagles in double overtime, one of the breakthrough moments of the Lembo era.
This time, Andrew Wilcox�s field goal with 6.1 seconds was the difference, stamping an exclamation point on his 5-for-5 kicking performance. Scott Riddle, then a sophomore, directed the first fourth-quarter, game-winning drive of what become a storybook career. That march included a fourth-and-10 completion to a guy named Terrell Hudgins for 20 yards.
Earlier in the fourth quarter, Riddle got obliterated by a hit and wobbled to the sideline, his legs looking like spaghetti. But he managed to clear the cobwebs and in the years since then, former teammates and coaches have talked about that night as a definer of Riddle�s tough-guy persona.
Elon�s offensive linemen hoisted Riddle and carried him off the field when the game ended. I interviewed him on the patio furniture out there beyond the one end zone at Georgia Southern where they have the flagpole with the six national championship flags. We both were seated and he kept spinning my tape recorder on the table while I asked questions, like it was a weird game of spin the bottle or something, and watching it closely to see where and at what angle it would stop. Then he would spin it again. It was clear how woozy and out of it he still was, which made that ending all the more remarkable.
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Ex-teammate says Lance Armstrong injected EPO
NEW YORK (AP) – Tyler Hamilton, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, told "60 Minutes" that he used performance-enhancing drugs with the seven-time Tour de France winner to cheat in cycling races, including the tour.
Hamilton said Armstrong took a blood-booster called EPO in the 1999 Tour and before the race in 2000 and 2001. Armstrong won the race every year from 1999-2005.
The interview with Hamilton was broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on Thursday.
"I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator. … I saw him inject it more than one time," Hamilton said, "like we all did. Like I did, many, many times."
Hamilton told "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley: "(Armstrong) took what we all took … the majority of the peloton," referring to riders in the race. "There was EPO … testosterone … a blood transfusion."
EPO is a drug that boosts endurance by increasing the number of red blood cells in the body.
Armstrong has steadfastly denied doping and has never failed a drug test. However, federal authorities are investigating whether Armstrong and his former U.S. Postal team did participate in a systematic doping program.
Hamilton's accusations come a year after Floyd Landis, another former Armstrong teammate, made similar allegations of drug use by Armstrong and the team. And like Landis, Hamilton said Armstrong failed a drug test at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.
Armstrong's attorney Mark Fabiani dismissed the "60 Minutes" report.
"Hamilton is actively seeking to make money by writing a book, and now he has completely changed the story he has always told before so that he could get himself on '60 Minutes' and increase his chances with publishers," Fabiani said in a statement. "But greed and a hunger for publicity cannot change the facts: Lance Armstrong is the most tested athlete in the history of sports: He has passed nearly 500 tests over twenty years of competition."
Shortly after Hamilton's comments aired, Armstrong launched a website that refuted the claims and tweeted: "20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case."
Hamilton won a cycling gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games but failed a drug test later. He was allowed to keep his medal, however, because problems at a laboratory meant his backup 'B' sample could not be tested.
Months later, he was caught blood doping and served a two-year ban which ended in 2007.
Hamilton returned to racing and won the 2008 U.S. road championship, but retired last spring after admitting he took an antidepressant that contained the banned steroid DHEA. He was officially banned from cycling for eight years.
On Thursday, ESPN reported that Hamilton sent a letter to friends apologizing for lying about his past drug use. He said he testified six hours before the Los Angeles grand jury investigating Armstrong.
Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for taking synthetic testosterone. He denied taking performance-enhancing drugs for years before admitting he doped for much of his career.
Asked to comment on Hamilton's interview, Landis said in an email to The Associated Press: "The only comment I have is that I wish the best for Tyler."
The "60 Minutes" segment, which will air in its entirety Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern, also includes an interview with another former Armstrong teammate, Frankie Andreu.
Now one of the race directors at the Tour of California, Andreu told Pelley he took banned substances because lesser riders he believed were doping were passing him. "Training alone wasn't doing it and I think that's how … many of the other riders during that era felt, I mean, you kind of didn't have a choice," he is quoted as saying.
Andreu's wife, Betsy, who has said Armstrong discussed taking performance-enhancing drugs as doctors prepared him for cancer treatment in 1996, said she and her husband are working with investigators.
"We are cooperating, and we'll just tell the truth. And telling the truth has been costly," she said. "It's not popular to tell the truth about Lance."
Andreu and Hamilton were both in on the ground floor of Armstrong's record-breaking Tour de France domination, and were among the key cyclists he relied on and lived with as he put his grip on the three-week race.
They both rode with Armstrong for the first two Tours that he won, in 1999 and 2000, all together under U.S. Postal colors. Hamilton rode with Armstrong on his 2001 Tour win for U.S. Postal, too.
Andreu's Tour links with Armstrong also predate the start of his winning streak. Andreu and Armstrong were teamed together at Motorola for the 1993, '94, '95 and '96 Tours.
In his biography, "It's Not About the Bike," Armstrong described Andreu on that first winning Tour in 1999 as "a big powerful sprinter and our captain, an accomplished veteran who had known me since I was a teenager."
Hamilton was a climber, and one of his jobs was to help haul Armstrong up the Tour's punishing climbs.
Recently, American investigators reached out to their colleagues in France with an evidence request that specifically targets U.S. Postal and mentions Armstrong by name, according to those who have seen it.
The Americans requested urine samples that were taken from U.S. Postal riders for anti-doping controls and were subsequently frozen and stored by France's anti-doping agency. The requested samples included those from the 1999 Tour.
French authorities also have been asked to interview and take witness statements from people there who were connected to U.S. Postal or who worked in French anti-doping while Armstrong dominated cycling's glamour race.


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A message to Bodi Chicago nightclub — Justin Bieber does not do well in bar situations.
The Chicago nightclub was cited Wednesday for allowing the 19-year-old pop star inside the 21-and-over establishment.
A spokeswoman for Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection confirmed that police issued the River North nightclub a ticket for "admittedly and knowingly having underage persons in the establishment."
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The nightclub, if found guilty, could be fined up to $1,000. A hearing has not yet been scheduled.
The VIP party venue in the 800 block of North Orleans Street offers pricey bottle service and late-night snacks, according to the club's website.
But the nightclub isn't the only one picking up the pieces from a Bieber visit this week.
Bieber is also getting flak after getting caught on camera urinating in a mop while saying "F—k Bill Clinton" in New York City.
Closer to home, Hawks fans expressed outrage after "The Biebs" committing a sacred no-no in the Blackhawks locker room by stepping on the Blackhawks Indian head before his United Center concert.
The Blackhawks said they had no issue with the pop star, according to a statement released later by the team.
"As frequently happens with guests into our room, Justin inadvertently stepped on the team logo on the floor but moved off quickly once immediately reminded," said Brandon Faber, senior director of Media &Community Relations. "He was apologetic and understanding of the tradition but continued to take photos with the Cup and some young fans. He was extremely genuine and kind with his time. We appreciate his enthusiasm towards hockey and wish him well with the remainder of his tour."
He was also on damage control with Bill Clinton Thursday as he apologized to the former U.S. president.
And it sounds as if Clinton was really cool about it.
The insider tells us that the erstwhile commander in chief took Bieber's slam in jest, saying something along the lines of, "If that is the worst thing you have ever done, all is well."
It appears Bieber may have mastered the art of cleaning up his messes but he might want to take some advice from Clinton and focus on the good that he can do for the world.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ? Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyand ordered Phil Coke to intentionally walk Albert Pujols in the 12th inning with two out, the bases empty and Josh Hamilton on deck.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ? Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyand ordered Phil Coke to intentionally walk Albert Pujols in the 12th inning with two out, the bases empty and Josh Hamilton on deck.
The unorthodox strategy worked just fine, as Coke struck out Hamilton. But there was no one to purposely pass in the 13th ahead of Mark Trumbo, whose leadoff homer off Coke have the Los Angeles Angels a 5-4 victory on Sunday.
Hamilton is hitting just .176 with two homers and eight RBIs through the first 17 games with his new club ? just slightly better than Pujols was doing a year ago at this time in his first season with the Angels after leaving St. Louis.
So Leyland rolled the dice ? opting for the 2010 AL MVP instead of the three-time NL MVP, who had a two-run double earlier in the game.
"You have Coke against a right-hander like Albert Pujols, and a guy behind him who's struggling. It's not very comfortable to do that, to be honest, but I felt it gave us our best chance," Leyland said. "We play these guys again (the last week of June), and next time, Hamilton will probably be on fire and have 30-something home runs. So we won't feel comfortable doing that. But in this particular series, he wasn't. So you take your chances."
Coke (0-2) threw a 3-1 changeup to Trumbo, and he drove it into the upper tier of the double-decker bullpen in left field for his second homer of the season.
"He threw it 2-0, and hadn't thrown a fastball for a strike," Trumbo said. "The more mature you get as a hitter, the better educated guesses you can make. And in that case, I guessed right. That's why you've got to pay attention to the game. I got some great scouting reports from my teammates who were up there, and they gave me a good idea of what to look for."
Jerome Williams (1-0) got the victory with three innings of two-hit relief. The Angels' much-maligned and injury-riddled bullpen combined to hold the Tigers scoreless on four hits over the final seven innings to help complete their second straight series sweep of the defending AL champions.
The Tigers finished their road trip 4-5, including a 14-inning win at Seattle on Wednesday.
"A 14-inning game and a 13-inning game can really wear you out, but we have no excuses," said right fielder Torii Hunter, who was 3 for 12 with three walks and no RBIs in his first series against his former teammates. "We have a day off Monday, so we'll kick back, watch some basketball and come back Tuesday ready to go."
Tigers starter Doug Fister allowed three runs ? two earned ? and six hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and two walks. The right-hander also hit three batters, two of them during a three-run third that gave the Angels a 3-1 lead. Detroit's pitching staff has hit seven batters through the first 18 games ? six by Fister, who plunked seven last season in 161 2-3 innings.
"He uses both sides of the plate. Sometimes his ball runs and sometimes it might hit somebody," Leyland said. "I think they realize that we certainly weren't trying to hit one of their guys (Peter Bourjos) to get to (Mike) Trout and Pujols (in the fourth). I mean, that's pretty obvious."
The Tigers left the bases loaded in the ninth, the third time in the game they failed to capitalize in that situation. They stranded 13 runners all together.
Angels starter C.J. Wilson allowed three runs and five hits in six innings. He struck out four, walked four and got out of bases-loaded jams in each of the first two innings.
"We were trying to work him a little bit and make some pitches, then get him out of there and get to the bullpen. But the their bullpen did a fantastic job," Hunter said. "We've been grinding, trying to get runs across the plate, and it's just been tough for us."
Wilson has thrown 100 first-inning pitches over his last three starts ? including 28 Sunday.
"That's what you do all of your conditioning for ? to be able to survive something like that," said Wilson, who gave up a tying two-run homer to Prince Fielder in the fifth. "It's unfortunate that I haven't had a quick first inning recently. Sometimes you throw your way into a jam and you have to pitch your way out of it, so you have to be confident in your ability to make pitches."
Detroit's Al Albuquerque struck out the side on 11 pitches in the eighth and fanned two more in the ninth, giving him 16 strikeouts in nine innings so far. In the 10th, Joaquin Benoit struck out Howie Kendrick on a full-count pitch in the dirt after a double-steal by Trout and Trumbo, who was intentionally walked with two outs.
"I thought the entire bullpen was terrific, including Cokie," Leyland said. "But we had a tough series. I thought the guys battled today. We pitched well and Prince hit a big home run, but I felt like we had an opportunity that was taken away from us."
Leyland got into a lengthy argument with umpire Gary Darling in the Tigers' ninth, after Darling called Omar Infante out at second base on Austin Jackson's attempted sacrifice bunt to reliever Ernesto Frieri.
NOTES: Only two pitchers in Tigers history have hit four batters in a game ? Frank Lary in 1960 and Earl Whitehill in 1924. ... Peralta was hitless in three at-bats against Wilson, and is 1 for 20 lifetime against him. ... Leyland was planning to start Ramon Santiago at SS on Sunday, but Santiago went to see a doctor after Saturday's game because of dehydration, back issues and stomach problems. ... Fister has pitched 32 1-3 innings since his franchise-record nine consecutive strikeouts against Kansas City last Sept. 27, and has fanned no more than two in a row at any time during that stretch. ... Wilson has a 3.66 ERA in 111 big league starts, one point higher than his ERA in 252 relief appearances. ... Fister was trying to become the first Tigers pitcher to win his first four starts of a season since 1988, when Frank Tanana won his first five.


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Ted Nugent drummer pleads guilty to OUI in Maine following joyride in golf cart
BANGOR, Maine (AP) � The drummer for rocker Ted Nugent has changed his plea to guilty to operating under the influence of intoxicants following a joyride in a golf cart after a concert in Bangor, Maine.
A lawyer for 55-year-old Mick Brown entered the plea on Tuesday. Brown also was fined $1,000.
He was accused of stealing a golf cart from a concert venue and driving recklessly on a footpath after Nugent's concert on July 8 on the Bangor waterfront.
WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/SKuyzU ) reports that as part of the plea deal, three other charges � driving to endanger, theft and assault � were thrown out.
Information from: WABI-AM, http://www.wabiam910.com


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We will be bringing you weekly fancaps from the new reality dating show, Ready For Love. There have been two episodes so far and the recap below is the premiere episode that aired on the 9th. We'll be posting this week's episode shortly and then will be on track starting next week! Without further ado, here is Ready For Love, fancapped by Anne R.B.
I may be the only person watching Ready for Love. I read that ratings were very low for the premiere, and even worse in week 2. People: this show is GOOD. It's not actual good like Downton Abbey, it's stupid/adorable good – like Most Eligible Dallas. The show begins with Executive Producer Eva Longoria giving us an infomercial speech about why she invented this show: she loves dating shows but hates how the couples never last! What's a girl to do? Scientifically reinvent reality dating shows, of course. Her plan is 3-fold:


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This is Jon Irwin. He wrote a book about Super Mario 2 for Boss Fight Books, and has a lot of things to say about video games in general. He also happens to be reading at the Phoenix Festival today in Atlanta! You should come see!
Vouched: So Jon, you've written a book about Super Mario 2. Can we talk a little bit about the Princess in that game? Also, why Super Mario 2? Why not the RPG Super Mario and the Legend of the Seven Stars? Princess Peach fought with a frying pan in that one, which I find more than a little misogynistic. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
You want female stereotypes? Go play Super Princess Peach, a game for the Nintendo DS where the Princess finally gets her first starring role. Instead of running or jumping, she uses her "power of emotion" to defeat enemies. Specifically: Joy, Gloom, Calm, and Rage. If you activate her Rage power, she catches on fire (the better to burn up baddies). Use the Princess's Gloom power and she begins to cry; the tears hit the ground and cause plants to grow, giving you platforms on which to jump and reach new areas. On one hand, the use of emotions as actual gameplay mechanic is rather brilliant and like no other game I've played. But then there's the whole "self-immolation" thing and the depiction of women as overly emotional tear buckets. What's that? Answer the first question, you say? Why yes, let's re-focus our attentions…
Gabe Durham, editor and co-founder of Boss Fight Books, reached out to me after reading some of my game criticism and essays in Kill Screen's print magazine and daily website. He was starting this new press inspired by the 33 ⅓ series, where an author writes a short-ish book about a single music album. He thought the same model would work for video games. So last summer, he got in touch with prospective authors and laid the groundwork for a Kickstarter campaign to help the press get off the ground. (A campaign for Season Two is taking place now.) I was the last author he contacted; he wanted a book focused on a big franchise, something mainstream and something most people, avid gamers or not, were familiar with. The Super Mario franchise is one of, if not the biggest one out there. But the first sequel for the NES also has a weird history and has always been thought of as an outlier in the series since it looks and plays so differently. I thought the game had an interesting story to tell.
Vouched: It certainly does! What are some other video games that you believe deserve a time to shine. You know, maybe ones from less heralded series? I've got a lot to say about the entire Kings Quest series, as well as Myst/Riven, Lunar Silver Star Story, and Chrono-Cross.
Oh man. There's so many crazy-interesting games. Gabe's press could run for a hundred years and still have ample and worthy subjects. I'd love to read a book about the Rhythm Heaven or WarioWare games. Each are made by the same studio, and each are bizarre, frantic, and surprisingly skill-based. Rhythm Heaven is centered on keeping time with music, and WarioWare is more about instinct and quick decisions. Both have this zany humor that is also very sweet, a marked difference between the cynical, sarcastic humor one sees in a lot of "funny" games. The creators clearly care about things outside of gaming culture, which shows in the musicianship and variety of visual influences, and I'd love to hear how something so rich and weird and unique to an interactive medium (WarioWare could never be a film; the audience would go into epileptic fits) gets made.
I think video game culture is rife with fascinating stories to tell, and this goes beyond single games. The hardware itself can be a great foundation for narrative, between the building of its technology and the marketing of it as a consumer product to the people behind the scenes who orchestrate it all. I'd devour a book about the TurboGrafx-16, a system nobody talks about that competed with the SNES and the Sega Genesis. It tanked in America but was a huge success in Japan (known there as the PC-Engine). I had one as a kid and still have an odd fondness for it. In fact Ian Bogost, professor at Georgia Tech, co-edits a series that investigates computer hardware in this way, called Platform Studies. The high water mark for such writing, in my eyes, is still The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It's about bringing a new computer to market in the '80s. The summary sounds dry and insider-y, but Kidder's story is totally accessible, a fantastic, page-turning human drama.
Vouched: What's so evocative about it for you? Would you write a Single Sentence Review of it for us? Right here right now?
""The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder is about bringing a new computer to market in the '80s, and while the summary sounds dry and insider-y, Kidder's story is totally accessible, a fantastic, page-turning human dram."
That's the Jerk Answer. Here's another attempt:
"In Kidder's Machine, we learn that what we build, using silicon and plastic, is no different than what we build with chromosomes and DNA: our inventions are our children, and they outlive us all." Or something.
Vouched: Ha! Totally fair. Say, wouldn't it be creepy to have a robot for a kid?
Oh, I don't know. A "Sleep" button for restful nights. Duracell AA batteries for food. The high school track record in the 100M! Maybe having a robot would be awesome.
I really like the movie Artificial Intelligence, or A.I — you know, the one where Haley Joel Osment is a robot-child after a couple loses their real child in a pool accident. Was it a pool accident? I forget. Anyway, point is, lots of people railed on that movie for being over-long and too sentimental. But it's also kind of messed up and presages a not-so-unrealistic future where people are engineered and manufactured. A hundred years ago farmers probably didn't think potatoes could be "genetically modified." Today robot-children seem like some Asimovian bedtime story to freak kids out you're babysitting, but who knows? Maybe in another hundred years it'll be common.
A question for you! Why "Awful Interviews," and not Terrible ones? Or Interminable Interviews? I have the phrase "Awful Annie" in my head, and I'm wondering if that's some doll from when we were kids… but then I Google'd it and apparently there's a restaurant with that name and they have "the best omelets in town.
Vouched: Oh, I don't know, awful ain't the worst, but it ain't great either. I like occupying that strange middle territory. Is this not awful enough? Or is it too terrible?
Is that your next question? Is the antecedent of "this" in "Is this not awful enough?" our actual interview? Or are you referring to a hypothetical interview, the platonic INTERVIEW you had in mind when creating and naming said "Awful Interviews"?
In case of the former: Yes. This is awful enough.
But yeah, I'm all about the strange middle territory. My wife's belly-button is like some undiscovered landmark tucked away in a deciduous forest, hiding in the corner of a western state, let's say Montana. Soft and undulating. But with a kind of mysterious depth. Like: Does it stop there? Or does it go on?
Okay. NOW this is awful enough.
Vouched: Shit just got awkward. This is wonderfully awful, indeed! Say, are you pumped for Phoenix Fest? Tell us about it!
I'm so pumped. Did you know there'll be live glass-blowing demonstrations? Glass-blowing! I love how the readings are a part of this larger melange of artwork going on throughout the day. Music! Glass! Murals! And good ol' fashioned spoken words. A little for all the senses. Wait–will there be tastings? I think "taste" has been left out. This is a travesty. Since I'll be reading from my book Super Mario Bros. 2, and since a notable item in that game is the turnip, I request some ambitious festival-goer to whip up an exotic turnip dish and serve it to happy passers-by. Perhaps turnips could take the place of potatoes in a delicious mashed turnip souffle? Or roasted turnips, the natural sugars carmelizing under the high heat, lending the earthy veggies a hint of sweetness. Regardless: I can't wait to see what happens on Saturday. And I hear we'll be reading in an abandoned motel? Vacant for so long, but soon filled with strangers… sounds like my childhood.


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MONT VERNON -- A quiet songwriter from small town New Hampshire will be welcomed home with major fanfare this weekend as one of the top three contestants on "American Idol."
It has been a whirlwind of excitement for Alex Preston, a 2011 Souhegan High School graduate who has become famous almost overnight on season 13 of Fox's "American Idol."
On Thursday, Preston advanced to the next phase of the competition where the three finalists return home for a celebratory bash aimed to motivate them for the final leg of the competition.
"We all should be proud for making it this far," Preston told his competitors prior to the live results being announced. He also tweeted to his fans, "It's been real, y'all. Hoping and praying."
Preston, whose real name is Alex Preston Philbrick, will return home this weekend where he is expected to visit Mont Vernon Town Hall around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Later on Saturday, a parade will be held to recognize Preston's achievements starting at 4:30 p.m. at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. A free, public concert will follow the parade around 7 p.m. at the Whittemore Center at UNH.
"We're really excited to play a role in Alex's hometown visit, and look forward to welcoming him back to the University of New Hampshire," says a posting on the UNH facebook page.
Preston studied for one year at UNH, but previously took time off to work with his cousin -- multi-platinum country music singer Jo Dee Messina -- in Nashville, Tenn.
"He always carried his guitar around. That's real," Messina previously posted on her facebook page about Preston.
According to Preston's dad, Paul Philbrick of Mont Vernon, Preston recently returned to New Hampshire intending to restart his college career when the "American Idol" audition occurred and Preston advanced to the top 50 contestants. Preston is enrolled to return to UNH this fall, according to a spokesperson at the school.
Preston has been in Los Angeles for the past several months, managing each week to remain out of the bottom vote-getters and continuing his relationship with girlfriend Jillian Jensen, an Idol contestant who did not survive Rush Week earlier this season.
On Wednesday, Preston dedicated one of his three songs to Jensen, who was present to cheer on the talented singer/songwriter who celebrated his 21st birthday on Tuesday.
Preston took on Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," which didn't receive the best critique from celebrity judge Harry Connick Jr. who had hoped that Preston would have switched it up a bit and put his own unique stamp on the song.
Preston also took the stage performing Alex Clare's "Too Close," which judge Jennifer Lopez said might have been better with a "dramatic drop-out."
His final performance of Coldplay's "Yellow" drew the most favorable comments from judges, with Keith Urban commenting on Preston's "poetic vulnerability."
Remaining in the competition is Preston, along with Caleb Johnson and Jena Irene who have consistently performed powerhouse vocals so far on the show. Sent home on Thursday during Break-ups and Make-ups Week was Jessica Meuse.


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