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Niklas Lindstrom continued to shire for Liberty, carding a one-under par during the final stroke play round of the NCAA Men's Golf National Championship at the famed Riviera Country Club.
A multiple-team race during the third round of stroke play at the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship eventually boiled down to a three-team sprint. However, the Flames ended up being the odd team out, concluding their first-ever national appearance with a 10th-place finish.
A total of 15 teams came into the final day of competition within nine shots of each other, all vying for six of the eight spots that will head into the next three days' match play rounds.
Solid play during the first two days of competition positioned Alabama and UCLA well ahead of the rest of the pack. Alabama would go on to grab the No. 1 seed for the match play portion of the national championship with a seven-over par 859 (285-287-287), followed by No. 2 seed UCLA with a nine-over par 861 (289-287-285).
As the final stroke play round started to wrap up, it became clear that four teams were challenging for the final two match play seeds, with Oregon, Florida State, Kent State and Liberty all within three strokes of each other.
The Ducks withstood the test of their closing holes, No. 16, 17 and 18, playing the three holes at two-over par to secure the No. 7 seed with a 21-over par 873 (291-294-288).
Kent State, Liberty's playing partners along with eventual No. 4 seed California (19-over par 871/295-289-287) on Thursday, remained just a stroke or two ahead of the Flames most of the way down the stretch.
The Flames and the Golden Flashes matched scores during their final five holes of play (No. 5-9), both posting two-over par during the five-hole run. Liberty came into the stretch down one stroke to Kent State and finished in the same position.
Liberty was also looking for help from Florida State, but the Seminoles were able to fend off the Flames when Brooks Koepka posted a two-putt par from the front edge of the green at the famous No. 18 to end Liberty's hopes of advancing.
Kent State (293-291-291) and Florida State (290-290-295), who both finished with a 23-over par 875, will return to the Riviera Country Club, tomorrow morning, at 8 a.m. to play a sudden death playoff to determine the No. 8 and final seed in the match play rounds that will eventually lead to a new national champion being crowned on Saturday.
The remaining seeds which have already been determined are No. 1 seed Alabama, No. 2 seed UCLA, No. 3 seed Texas, No. 4 seed California, No. 5 seed San Diego State, No. 6 seed Washington and No. 7 seed Oregon.
The Flames finished their first-ever national appearance just one shot out of the playoff, carding a 24-over par 876 (295-288-293). The 10th place showing for the Flames was the best by any of Liberty's athletics teams at a NCAA Division I national championship event, bettering the men's outdoor track program that finished 12th in 2011.
Individually, Liberty's Chase Marinell finished tied for 29th place with a four-over par 217 (71-70-76), Robert Karlsson finished tied for 50th place with a seven-over par 220 (75-72-73), Niklas Lindstrom (83-71-70) and Mathieu Fenasse (75-75-74) both tied for 77th place with an 11-over par 224 and Ian McConnell finished tied for 135th place with a 19-over par 232 (74-80-78).
Only six players in the 156-man field were able to circle the par-71, 7,292-yard course three times under par. Illinois' Thomas Pieters led the field and was crowned the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf individual national champion after carding a five-under par 208 (69-68-71).
Marinell entered the day just four strokes off the individual pace behind Pieters, but quickly fell back after a bogey on his opening hole at No. 10 when he found the front bunker.
The sophomore was able to quickly get the shot back after sticking an iron shot within three feet of the pin at No. 12 to get back to level par for the day.
However, that would be the final time Marinell would card a birdie on the day, as he closed with 10 pars and five additional bogeys.
He dropped his first shot after finding the right front bunker at No. 14, a par-3, 189-yard hole, followed by another dropped shot at No. 18 after a wayward tee shot right.
Marinell would then three-putt No. 2 before losing additional shots on both of the par 3s (No. 4 and 6) during his final nine holes. He missed the green right at No. 4 and could not get up and down. He found the green at No. 6 in regulation, but was on the wrong side of an unusual bunker in the middle of the green that eventually led to a three-putt bogey.
Marinell looked like he was going to give another one back at No. 8 after his tee shot nearly went out of bounds to the right. However, the sophomore was able to recover and get up and down for par from about 40 yards off the green.
Marinell had one last chance on No. 9, his closing hole, to help the Flames, but his 22-foot putt from below the hole just slid left of the cup to close out his five-over par 76. On the day, Marinell hit 6-of-14 fairways, 11-of-18 greens and finish with 34 total putts.
Karlsson opened what would be his final round as a member of the Flames' roster with a birdie on No. 10, before giving shots back in succession at No. 14 and 15.
Following his third straight birdie at the par-5 No. 17 hole this week, Karlsson double bogeyed No. 18 for the second time this week to make the turn at two-over par.
Karlsson traded a birdie at No. 2 for a bogey at No. 5, and almost made birdie at No. 6, but his seven-foot try from just right of the hole missed the cup.
Lindstrom continued to be the Flames' hottest golfer during the second part of the championship event, after opening the first day with a 12-over par 83.
The sophomore got off to a shaky start on Thursday, posting bogeys at No. 10 and 12. However, he would make the turn at even par after birdies on No. 13, 15 and 18 and a bogey on No. 16.
He eagled the opening hole, a par-5, 501-yards, to drop to two-under par for the day, before giving one of those shots right back with a bogey at No. 2. Lindstrom closed with seven straight pars to round out a round of 70, Liberty's second under-par score this week at the national championship event.
Fenasse followed Karlsson with a birdie on the starting No. 10 hole, but closed out his front nine with bogeys at No. 15 and 16, plus a double bogey at No. 18 to make the turn at three-over par.
Fenasse matched Lindstrom's course-opening hole accomplishments with an eagle, before posting bogeys at No. 2, 4 and 9 to offset a birdie at No. 5 to round out his best 18-hole total during the week.
McConnell, Liberty's first golfer on the course on Thursday, opened with a bogey at No. 10. He would make the turn at five-over par after four straight bogeys at No. 13, 14, 15 and 16.
McConnell would end a string of seven consecutive pars with a birdie at No. 6, before finishing up with a bogey at No. 8 and a double bogey on his last hole at No. 9.
The Flames' nemesis on the day and during the week was the famous closing hole at the Riviera Country Club, home to four major championship events in its 90-year existence.
Liberty posted a combined four-over par on the par-4, 475-yard uphill hole on the day, leading to a combined 10-over par score on No. 18 during the three days of play. The hole did play as the No. 1 handicap hole on the course during the week (+0.66), after yielding 12 birdies to 79 yards, 56 bogeys and eight other scores.
The 10th-place finish brings to a close Liberty's national championship run and the 2011-12 season. The year yielded three team victories, including the program's second consecutive Big South title and a victory at the NCAA Greensboro Regional.


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The conservative blogosphere has been making mirth out of an entry from Barack Obama's first autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," in which he briefly mentions eating dog as a child in Indonesia.
It also functions as a counter to another shaggy political anecdote, widely propagated throughout the liberal media, about Mitt Romney strapping his pet dog to a crate on the top of his station wagon for a long-ago family vacation. New York Times columnist Gail Collins is particularly obsessed with the non-story, mentioned it a few dozen times in her column since the story came to light in the summer of 2007.
Yet Obama's youthful foray into dog eating, first highlighted by Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher on April 17, has yet to be mentioned in print (according to nytimes.com and Nexis searches) and was dismissed in one brief paragraph in an online "Diner's Journal" blog entry on April 19.
The New York Post: Food, of a sort, enters the presidential campaign: The Romney camp, stung by the old dog-on-top-of-the-car story, digs out an equally hoary tale about President Obama: his admission that he once ate dog meat.
That didn't stop the Times from bashing Obama's likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney over another trivial food-related item, "Cookie-gate," covered by Michael Barbaro in a brief article in Friday's print edition, "Making Hay Over Cookies." The online headline was more slanted: "Open Mouth, Insert Foot (Instead of Cookie)."
Mitt Romney never even tasted them.
But his offhand remark about a tray of five dozen cookies from a bakery in Bethel Park, Pa., on Tuesday has lighted up the local airwaves with confectionery consternation, even earning that most coveted distinction of superficial scandals – a name.
"Cookiegate," as the bakery itself is calling the brouhaha, began as Mr. Romney sat down at a picnic table with six couples from suburban Pittsburgh to talk about the economy, a campaign event intended to capture the Republican presidential candidate engaged in casual conversation with ordinary Americans.
The table was filled with snacks, like potato chips and pretzels. But for whatever reason, Mr. Romney zeroed in on the cookies, a colorful collection that the bakery calls mini lady lox and gourmet thumbprints.
"I'm not sure about these cookies," he said, looking at one of the woman. "They don't look like you made them. No, no. They came from the local 7-Eleven, bakery, or whatever."
In the retelling, all anybody at Bethel Bakery, the beloved 57-year-old outfit that made the cookies, would remember was "7-Eleven." As in, Mr. Romney had compared their bakery's cookies with those from a convenience store.
Barbaro didn't miss out on the Obama campaign's contribution in egging on the latest mini-scandal:
Among the bakery's new customers: the Obama campaign. The local Pennsylvania office ordered a tray of five dozen cookies on Thursday, the same platter that sat before Mr. Romney earlier in the week.

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We're now a few episodes into the The Four: Battle For Stardom, and we're a few weeks closer to finding the next big superstar with the help of a panel of hit-makers and music industry titans like Puff Daddy, Meghan Trainor, DJ Khaled, and Republic Records president Charlie Walk.
Each week, the panel is encouraging all of the talented, aspiring artists out there to submit their audition tapes to TheFourMusic.com for their chance to be a potential challenger to take on one of The Four. And some of these possible future challengers are going the extra mile.
DJ Khaled told iHeartRadio during an interview that one person approached him in a restaurant to show him their audition tape ... and it kinda worked! He said:
"This show is incredible, man. And we appreciate all the love and all the listeners and the fans. I mean, it's exciting. Everywhere we walk, people screaming The Four, showing us audition tapes. The other day I was at a restaurant, somebody pulled out their phone and showed me the tape that they sent in, and I was like, 'Man, you know what? I'm gonna go look for that tape,' 'cause it was fly. It had a good energy."
As for Khaled's role as a panelist, the mogul says it's a chance to change someone's life, as they are getting the chance to work with a superstar team behind them. He said:
"From my perspective, I look at it like somebody's life being changed; somebody's dreams coming true. But at the same time, when I was coming up in the game, if I had a chance to work with Puff Daddy, I would just not only lose my mind, I would make sure that I'm the greatest thing that ever happened. So, the winner [has] obviously got to be great. They get a chance to work with Puff Daddy, myself, Meghan Trainor, Charlie Walk, and you got Fergie as a host. She's a Grammy winner and she's an icon and a star as well. So, they got a dream team. But it's not even just about us working in the studio together, 'cause we got to always make sure that's right, but it's about helping them market themselves, helping them get the right visuals, teaming up with iHeartRadio. All these keys that we're giving them, and opportunities, it's on them at that point. 'Cause we're going all out. We're taking this serious. Music is our life."
DJ Khaled also described what it would be like to help launch the career of the winner for The Four, and make them next big superstar. "I was just thinking about when I was coming up in the game, and how hard I was in that garage, to when I used to DJ the parties, when I'd make the beats, or if I was A&R on an album ... all the steps that I came up in this game. And to be able to sit back and watch this artist that comes on that stage that's a new generation, and give them some keys, but also be inspired. Because when you hear good talent, when you hear a superstar, it's nothing like that feeling when you discover a superstar, and watch them just shine and win, especially when you're with them from the start."
Who will be the next super star?! Stay tuned to The Four: Battle for Stardom every Thursday at 8/7c on FOX.
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At the Northern Trust Open, where the per capita on moronic, loudmouthed fans seems to be particularly high, Bill Haas got both ends of the spectrum on Saturday.
As Haas strode up the 18th fairway at Riviera Country Club, with a scoring standard bearer walking close by, one guy from behind the ropes said to his buddy, "Look at that. Jay Haas is 12-under."
Thirty years ago, maybe, though Bill's dad, Jay – now starring on the Champions Tour -- never won what was then called the Los Angeles Open.
Then there was the screamer at No. 17 who already wanted to hand Bill Haas the trophy with more than a round still to play. "Back-to-back!" If he was looking for a jinx, Haas got one.
Bill Haas does have a rare opportunity on Sunday. Neither his father nor his great uncle, 1968 Masters champion Bob Goalby, ever captured the same tournament in consecutive years. It's hard to distinguish oneself in such a venerated golf family, but 30-year-old Bill Haas can do so with a second straight victory at Riviera.
Haas won the NTO last year with a birdie on the second playoff hole and has a three-shot lead heading into this year's final round after shooting a stunning 7-under-par 64 on Saturday, when no one else in the field scored better than a 67.
With a win, Haas would join a list of seven back-to-back L.A. champions that includes Macdonald Smith (from the '20s), Ben Hogan ('40s), Arnold Palmer ('60s), Corey Pavin ('90s) and Phil Mickelson ('00s).
The fan was getting ahead of himself with another trophy presentation, but Haas is trying not to.
"It's very difficult in this game to pull away from the field," Haas said. "You've only seen a few guys ever really do that. Guys like Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson.
"I think I've just got to try to stay in the moment, don't let my emotions get the best of me."
Haas has some pretty fair talent closely tracking him. In his final threesome will be reigning U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, who is a good friend, and South African Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters winner. Each shot 68 on Saturday.
Also three behind is UCLA alum John Merrick (70), and four back are former world No. 1 Luke Donald (70) and Swede Fredrik Jacobson, whose 1-over 72 included a whiff of his ball in the kikuyu rough at No. 5, leading to a double bogey.
"Bill shooting 7-under is incredible out there," said Simpson. "It was very tough. I felt like my 3-under was pretty good.
"I think Bill is in a position, if he keeps a three-shot lead and goes and plays well again, it's going to be tough to catch him. But with the golf course this tricky, and you get a guy who has a good front nine, I mean, he could be tied for the lead or even in the lead with nine to go."
Haas goes into the final round having played his last 40 holes without suffering a bogey. On Saturday, he failed to birdie Riviera's easiest hole, the par-5 first, and was cruising along at only 2-under for the round through 8. Then he birdied the tough ninth, chipped in from 57 feet for eagle at 10 and birdied the par-5 11th from 5 feet.
"Maybe it helped today that I didn't birdie the first hole," Haas said. "Because all of a sudden you think, 'Oh, I lost a shot to the field.' But I proved today that you can still play a good round not doing that."
With four tour victories and the 2011 FedEx Cup championship in hand, Haas can certainly sit tall at the dinner table with his family. Jay Haas, now 59, won nine times on the PGA Tour, while Goalby, now 83 and living in Palm Springs, notched 11 wins, including the Masters title handed to him when Roberto De Vicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard.
"He won the Masters. It's a big deal in our family," Bill Haas said. "I love telling people that my great uncle is a Masters champion, and that's how my dad got started, and that's the reason I play the game.
"He talks about the whole De Vicenzo thing, but says what you think he would say. He won."
Phil Mickelson made his fourth bogey of the day on the 18th hole and shot 1-over 72 to fall into a tie for 17th place. Escondido High alum John Mallinger, tied for ninth entering the day, scored 78 and dropped into a tie for 58th. Second-round co-leader Sang-Moon Bae made five bogeys and one double bogey in shooting 76. He was tied for 13th.


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We all travel. And we all carry luggage. The thing about luggage is that usually we don't think about it as a fashion statement; beleive me, it is. Have you ever thought about how many people you pass from airport to airport, not to mention picking up your luggage at baggage claim. Do you want to be that person picking up the unmatching, worn in, ugly baggage or the one who everyone watches picking up your matching LV baggage? I damn well know I'd love to be envied, rather than pitied.
Do us all a favor, trash the old stuff and buy yourself some totally trendy luggage.
I suggest the totally obviously hip Louis Vuitton Annette luggage on wheels. For a short weekend trip, this will do the trick. The bag allows for easy travel and sports the LV black monogram canvas with leather trim, sturdy noiseless wheels, and a double zipper with a pretty spacious inner compartment. The bag is not huge, but can be used as a carry on bag and fit nicely overhead so you can avoid baggage claim, which is alwaya a huge plus. As with any other Louis Vuitton bag the price isn't cheap, but who cares if you can look that good. Goes for a steep price tag of $1,780.


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What is Duchess Kate's secret?! With Prince William at her side, Kate Middleton greeted staff at volunteers at Kensington Palace in London on Thursday, Nov. 7 for London Poppy Day. Befitting the day's "poppy" theme, the new mum, 31, wore a long red coat that was belted at the waist and emphasized her svelte, slim frame -- which appears to be more or less back to its pre-baby shape less than four months after Middleton gave birth to son Prince George.
PHOTOS: Kate's amazing post-baby evolution
For the event, Kate and William, also 31, rode aboard a 1960s-era Routemaster bus and chatted with actress Barbara Windsor and folks from the Royal British Legion Poppy Day Appeal.
With 2,000 uniformed personnel, veterans and supporters out and about at London tube and train stations across London's mass transit network -- collecting donations and putting on military performances -- London Poppy Day hopes to raise 1 million British pounds in a single day for the British Royal Legion. The holiday also marks the end of World War I.
The royal couple's social calendar has only just begun to heat up as the extended holiday season kicks off: They're set to host a winter wonderland gala (featuring Taylor Swift!) for homeless charity Centrepoint Nov. 26 -- and they'll spend the Christmas and Boxing Day holiday with both the royal and Middleton families for baby George's very first Christmas.
As for Kate's enviable figure? A source tells Us she does yoga with an at-home trainer once a week.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Kate Middleton Slimmer Than Ever at London Poppy Day Event With Prince William: Pictures


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Can you believe it is the end of July already? Where did this year go? Seriously? It seems like summer just started! My baby girl is turning 7 in about 10 days and is going to start 2nd grade. 😦 The kids are growing way too fast.
This will be a busy week. Tomorrow, Grandma Linda is coming to visit and we are going to lounge at the pool. FUN times!! Ice skating on Wednesday night, a Zoo trip in there, library and maybe an indoor activity in case of rain, too. I would love to take the kids to tour a local dairy. Saturday is the yearly cookout for Hannah's b-day.
Sunday ~ Rotisserie Chicken night! WOOHOO!! Fresh green beans & salad, too.
Monday ~ Spaghetti w/meat (ground turkey) sauce, asparagus & salad
Tuesday ~ Boston's Pizza, broccoli & cucumber salad (see recipe below)
Wednesday ~ Grilled Chicken, garlic rosemary potatoes or baked potatoes, asparagus & salad
Thursday~ Burgers on the grill, sweet potato fries, broccoli & salad
Friday~ Homemade pizza, veggies & salad
Saturday~ Cookout with burgers, grilled chicken, baked beans, corn on the cob, salad & fruit skewers.
Baked Goods
Pamela's Bread
Something GF for the GF people (Jon, my Aunt, cousin & I) to eat at the party
Recipe for Cucumber Salad
**This is also called Shanghai Cucumbers – Huang Gua
- 1 slender cucumber
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon chili oil
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
Serves 4
1. At least 30 minutes before you want to serve, halve the unpeeled cucumber lengthwise. Scrape out the seeds and cut the halves across into thick chunks.
2. Place the cucumber pieces in a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Mix well and leave for 30 minutes. At the end of this time, add the sugar, vinegar and chili oil. Mix well.
3. Just before serving, sprinkle with the sesame oil.
Esther, at Lilac Kitchen is hosting the Gluten-Free Menu Swap this week. Her ingredient of the week is cucumber! That is one of the reasons I decided to make that salad this week. YUM! Thanks for hosting, Esther.
Also, don't forget to check out lots more menu plan ideas at Orgjunkie.
Have a great week!!
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Pay Me: Members Of Obama's Campaign Want Their Unpaid Wages Now!
WTHR reports "Indianapolis - The Obama campaign says most of the payment issues that brought hundreds of upset campaign workers to the Indianapolis office Wednesday have been resolved. Campaign spokesman Jonathan Swain says a few people showed up Thursday and made arrangements for payment by mail. A few hundred people stood in line for several hours Wednesday waiting to get paid for working in the final days of the campaign. Many of those people said they were underpaid for the number of hours they worked."
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Finnish National Ballet
Finnish National Ballet (Suomen Kansallisbaletti) is a professional ballet company at the Finnish National Opera, in Helsinki, Finland. The company was founded in 1922 and it currently employs 73 dancers.It is the only Finnish company that regularly performs a classical ballet repertoire. The current director Kenneth Greve started with the company in 2008, after Dinna Bjørn (2001–2008) and Jorma Uotinen (1992–2001).
The Finnish National Opera Ballet School works in close association with the National Ballet. The school has 30 secondary education places for training professional dancers, and 150 basic arts pupils (young students).[
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Sami Khedira
Stuttgart, Madrid, Turin: Sami Khedira is no stranger to Europe. The soccer star talks about feeling at home and about what motivates him
Mr. Khedira, you started playing for Juventus Turin last summer and soon earned the nickname "il tedesco," ("the German"). How do you feel about this?
It's a reference to my straightforward and determined style of play. Nothing is below my dignity on the pitch, and the Italians appreciate that. Soccer isn't always intricate and spectacular. It's also order, discipline and hard work, virtues often ascribed to the Germans. Even so, it sometimes makes me laugh.
To me it was my father, from Tunisia, who embodied those values. Punctuality, discipline and determination were all important to him. He moved to Germany and internalized the culture and mentality.
You were 23 when you transferred from Stuttgart to Real Madrid, the world's most glittering soccer club. Was it hard to make the switch?
Not at all. It doesn't take me long to get used to new places; they interest me and I soon fit in with my surroundings. My Spanish teammates made it easy for me.
In which way?
The Spaniards are very laid back and open. They love their siesta and know how to enjoy life. Family is very important to them – and these are all things I can identify with.
And what about Spanish soccer?
That was a breeze. Real Madrid's ambition is to win every game and every title – and to do it every year. Spanish people love soccer and as a player, the spotlight is always on you. There's always tremendous pressure to perform.
What's different in Turin?
At Juve, a lot of individual work is put into getting the best out of every single player. Tactics are generally big in Italy, but what I mean is the physical requirements. There are lots of performance tests and diet plans. Everything humanly possible is done to achieve top fitness.
Has living abroad changed you?
It's made me more mature. You learn different approaches to things and step out of your comfort zone, which helps
you grow. I have always wanted to retain my natural openness because I'm convinced that it helps you develop as a person. I'm lucky that this fits in so well with my job and that I can play for some of the world's best clubs.
Can you describe a particular experience?
Tolerance is important, because there are many ways to achieve the same goal. In the locker room, for instance: I used to be unable to even picture preparing mentally for a game with loud music and dancing going on around me. But many of my African and South American colleagues do so in exactly this way. They have trouble understanding that we Europeans prefer peace and quiet when preparing to appear before thousands of spectators.
Soccer is order, discipline and hard work
What aspects of your career have influenced you most?
You learn more from defeats and setbacks than when everything goes perfectly because you are far more likely to question yourself and what you did. In the euphoria of success, you tend to get a little lazy.
Do you still have a connection to your hometown, Stuttgart?
I soon settle in no matter where I go, but Stuttgart is home. I was glad to get away at first because the typical German thoroughness we talked about sometimes got on my nerves. I often wished people were more relaxed. But from a distance, I began to appreciate dependability and precision.
For the world champion, there is really only one goal at the EURO 2016 …
We want to win, of course. The problem lies with the way titles are taken for granted. The world champion is expected to win the European championship. Public pressure has increased enormously, but our team can handle that. We know what it takes to win: growth as a team and a little bit of luck.
When the German national team hit a rough patch in the qualifying tournament, you attracted attention for you admonishing tone. What role do you see yourself playing on the national team?
I don't say much in public, but over the past years, I have taken on some team responsibilities. A handful of us share these, those of us with the experience and a feel for getting the emphasis just right. Every team needs leaders, in soccer and in the business world.
Aside from Germany, who is tipped to win the EURO title?
France has a very strong team, and with the entire country behind it, it's a hot favorite. Then we have the usual suspects: Spain, Italy and England. And let's not forget Belgium, a hungry young team with star players from all the top leagues.


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Ed Wray was terrified the first time he encountered a masked monkey. Having lived and worked in Jakarta as a freelance photographer for years, he was accustomed to seeing the animals, cruelly leashed by chains, jumping through hoops or riding trikes on the sidewalks. But for Wray, the mask was a terrifying twist.
"When I first saw a monkey with a rubber baby doll's head stuck over its head as a mask, it immediately struck me as horrifying and beyond weird." Wray said. "Something about the combination of the doll head – which I think is scary looking to begin with - and a long tail just struck a chord in me."
Shocking to many Westerners, it's a common sight on the streets of Jakarta. Most Indonesians pass along unfazed or mildly amused and a few give the handlers money. "Whether they feel more sorry for the monkey or handler, I don't know." Wray added.
Wray decided to venture past the sidewalk performances and explore where the monkeys lived and how they were trained. "Initially I was purely interested in the masked monkeys," Wray said. "But once I saw the village and the condition in which the people there lived alongside the monkeys, another grim layer was added to the pictures and to my thinking about the monkeys."
"The idea came to me that the disturbing image of the monkeys wearing the masks is a visual distillation of the kinds of horrible things that happen when people are driven to desperation by poverty."
Wray said he was going to continue with the project, adding, "One thing I would definitely like to concentrate on is how the monkeys get to the city from the jungle—the commercial process that brings them into urban areas as pets or performers."


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Team Australia drops out of America's Cup
Australia's hopes of reclaiming the coveted America's Cup trophy in 2017 are over with financial constraints forcing Team Australia's withdrawal from sailing's marquee event.
Hamilton Island Yacht Club, who were challenger of record for the 35th America's Cup, announced on Saturday they were pulling Team Australia out of the competition.
The decision followed a key meeting in San Francisco last week at which further details of the competition were discussed.
Australia, who famously won the America's Cup in 1983, have not been in the fray since they last competed in 2000.
But hope was renewed for the next Cup with their first team in over a decade to be skippered by Olympic gold medallist and World Sailor of the Year, Mat Belcher.
Belcher and the talented young crew were informed of the decision during a "sombre" meeting on Friday night.
"We really thought that this was our time and our opportunity - we're very sad," Belcher told AAP.
Billionaire wine baron Bob Oatley, Hamilton Island Yacht Club owner and Sydney to Hobart veteran, conceded the mounting costs forced the withdrawal.
"The challenge was initiated with a view to negotiating a format for the 35th America's Cup that was affordable and put the emphasis back on sailing skills," he said.
"Ultimately our estimate of the costs of competing were well beyond our initial expectation and our ability to make the formula of our investment and other commercial support add up.
"We are bitterly disappointed that this emerging team of fine young Australian sailors will not be able to compete at the next America's Cup under our banner."
As the challenger of record, Team Australia were involved in drafting the protocol for the next competition alongside Oracle Team USA.
Oracle Boss and director of the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA) Russell Coutts said he was looking forward to Team Australia's involvement.
"We are very disappointed to be receiving this news," Coutts said.
"We were excited to have Australia as a challenger and we were also looking forward to the prospect of holding America's Cup World Series events in Australia."
There has been speculation of uneasiness about the direction the regatta was taking, with a venue and date yet to be determined.
Belcher said that uncertainty had made it difficult for Team Australia to attract sponsors.
He did not rule out Australia's challenge being revived if additional funding is forthcoming.
"If government funding came in or sponsors come in there's always that possibility," Belcher said.
"We could do a late entry."
The big problem for any revived Team Australia challenge however is the prospect other teams may try to snap up their sailors - especially Belcher.
"I want to compete in the America's Cup, whether that's this time or next time ... it depends on the opportunity," he added.
Competitor's met six days ago in Los Angeles to air their concerns, with costs and the elimination of San Francisco as host city high on the list.
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NISKAYUNA -- A federal investigation into radiation released during demolition of a research building at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory found workers felt pressed by bosses to ignore safety issues and get work done faster.
A draft report, filed by investigators for the Department of Energy and obtained by the Times Union, also concluded that Washington Group International, a private company performing work under a $69 million contract, made missteps that led to an "uncontrolled spread of radioactive contamination" during the Sept. 29 demolition of a tainted Cold War-era research building at the research complex.
The company was pushing to finish work three months earlier than first planned -- by September 2011 rather than December 2011 -- in order to receive an extra $32 million in federal stimulus funding awarded for the cleanup in April 2009.
Two years ago, Knolls began a cleanup of the radioactive soil that covers about five of the facility's 170 acres along the Mohawk River, including the demolition of two buildings dating to the early 1950s, when the federal government researched nuclear weaponry at Knolls.
WGI managers "created an atmosphere of fear among the work force not to speak up about issues of concern," according to the DOE report. Such pressure "appears to be driven by project supervision and management personnel ... brought into the project with the purpose of improving production."
The investigation also found "questionable document practices" by WGI managers, including handwritten changes to safety reports without evidence of when or by whom such changes were made.
The report does not address possible effects, if any, of the contamination on workers or areas outside the Knolls facility.
DOE spokesman Bill Taylor said, "DOE takes very seriously its commitment to holding our contractors accountable for the well-being of their workers and the community. The report is still in draft form but will detail what went wrong and provide the necessary steps the contractor must take to ensure that the project can continue to move forward safely as (DOE) completes its work."
On Sept. 29, workers were using heavy equipment to pull down Knolls building H2, which was part of the Separations Process Unit, where nuclear materials were handled for weapons research until the unit closed in 1953. The building included evaporation tanks where nuclear materials were handled.
The Knolls facility is divided into three sections: the upper level, which is near buildings G2 and H2; the lower level, which included a parking lot and a staging area for rail shipments; and the north field, which was used to store radioactive slurry waste.
The unit, which was operational for less than three years, focused on research into recovering uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel.
"On the day of the event, there were workers at the site who felt unsure whether the (H2) tanks should be removed, but were afraid to express their concerns to members of management controlling the work," the draft report stated.
Workers breaking for lunch activated a radiation alarm when leaving the scene, and WGI staff found that four workers had unsafe levels of radiation on their boots, according to the report.
Rain was expected the next day, so workers sprayed a chemical fixative meant to keep materials from washing away. The next day, Sept. 30 and into Oct. 1, more than 7 inches of rain fell on the Knolls site.
Air samples taken Sept. 29 and Oct. 3 showed elevated radiation levels, and WGI "recognized that they had an uncontrolled spread of radioactive material."
On Oct. 5 and 6, tests of the H2 building's slab found that beta/gamma radiation was 1,700 times the project-imposed safety limit, and alpha radiation was 550 times such limits.
According to the report, the Office of Naval Reactors Laboratory's field office found that contamination had spread to a 2.3-acre area, where levels were at least 20 times standard limits for beta/gamma radiation. "Air monitoring samples taken down hill at the discharge area to the Mohawk River, although below any limit, indicated some low level of elevated radioactivity," the report stated.
In early October, the remnants of the H2 building were covered with tarps. Demolition work has not resumed.
Washington Group International is an affiliate of URS, a San Francisco-based cleanup company. Calls to URS were not returned.
DOE appointed an investigation board on Oct. 22 to look into the mishap. The board arrived at Knolls on Oct. 28 and finished its investigation on Nov. 11.
The investigation panel -- headed by T.J. Jackson, head of logistics management at the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management -- also concluded that:
Federal and WGI oversight programs were ineffective in identifying and correcting safety and health problems.
Vague contract language such as "as required" and "as necessary" contributed to WGI's failure to "complete work steps as intended."
WGI had "overconfidence" that its chemical fixative would stop contamination from demolition debris getting into the air and water.
There was a "lack of rigor" in executing the cleanup
Cleanup officials did not "recognize the importance of understanding historical process and system knowledge."
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A Correspondence Involving Getters and Setters
One of the reasons that I love Haskell is that it leads you to fascinating thought experiments. Here's one of mine. The conclusions aren't particularly earth-shattering, but they are interesting.
One of the most common things to do in an imperative programming language is to build getters and setters for the properties of an object. In Java, they may look like this:
public X getFoo();
public void setFoo(X val);
The obvious mapping from there into a purely functional approach gives you this, for a record type R and a field type F:
getFoo :: R -> F
setFoo :: F -> R -> R
The fact that we have two separate functions here is unpleasing to me, though. Without being quite able to explain why, I'd really like to have just one type that completely describes the property "foo". A product type is definitely cheating… but this would definitely satisfy me, if it works:
foo :: forall t. (F -> (F,t)) -> (R -> (R,t))
I'm interested in this type for two reasons: first, because it's fairly easy to embed both a getter and a setter together into such a type. Suppose you give me the functions getFoo and setFoo. Then I can certainly embed them into a foo, in such a way that they can be recovered.
foo g r = let (f,v) = g (getFoo r) in (setFoo f r, v)
getFoo' = snd . foo (\x -> (x,x))
setFoo' v = fst . foo (\x -> (v,()))
It's a straight-forward matter of substitution to see that getFoo' and setFoo' are identical to their original counterparts. So one can construct a value of the form of foo given any getter and setter combination, and given any such value of the type of foo, one can extract a getter and a setter. The second reason I care about that type, though, is that has a natural meaning aside from just embedding a getter/setter pair. Recall that the State monad (with state type S, for example) is a newtype wrapper around (forall t. S -> (S,t)). So this can be seen as a state transformer. It takes a stateful transformation, and changes the type of the state.
Now, the rather more involved question is whether there exist state transformers (values of the type of foo) that do not arise in that way as the straightforward embedding of getter and setter functions. In other words, could foo be something more than just the encoding of a getter and a setter into a function?
Alas, the answer is yes. It would be nice if the product type of getters and setters were isomorphic to the type of state transformers, and that is very nearly true… but not quite. To see the reasoning work, first note that the type (a -> (b,c)) is isomorphic to (a -> b, a -> c). (This is the type isomorphism version of distributing an exponent over a product). This lets use split up foo into two parts as follows:
foo1 :: forall t. (F -> F) -> (F -> t) -> R -> R
foo2 :: forall t. (F -> F) -> (F -> t) -> R -> t
We can simplify a little by arguing based on the universal quantification. Note that foo1 is given as a parameter a function of type (F -> t), but it cannot possibly make any use of the value, since it does not know anything about the type t. Furthermore, foo2 must produce a value of type t, and can do so only through its parameter of type (F -> t), which can only be used for that purpose. So these turn out to be equivalent to the following simpler types:
modifyFoo :: (F -> F) -> R -> R
filteredGetFoo :: (F -> F) -> R -> F
I've named them suggestively, because I have a bit of intuition for what these things tend to mean. Let's now look at what happens to the getFoo and setFoo functions that we were able to define from the original foo:
setFoo v = modifyFoo (const v)
getFoo = filteredGetFoo id
This all looks as you might expect… but remember that the question is whether modifyFoo and filteredGetFoo are completely determined by the getter / setter pair arising in that way. Clearly they are not. In particular, note that you can iterate a constant function 1 or more times, and always get the same answer no matter the number of iterations; and the identity function similarly for zero or more times. So some interesting logic can be built into modifyFoo or filteredGetFoo with respect to iterating the function passed as a parameter (a constant number of times, or maybe until some predicate holds, or perhaps something more complex), and though this would change the behavior of the modify and filteredGet operations for some inputs, it would have no effect on the get and put operations.
Still, we've got something interesting here. I wonder if there are interesting "non-standard" definitions of modify and filteredGet for some common record type. If so, then they would lead to interesting transformations on values of the State monad, which don't arise from get and set in the normal way. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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wren ng thornton / Apr 15 2011 8:07 pm
The iterability has to do with the fact that you don't actually have double negation elimination in intuitionistic logic. That is, the type T and the type (forall r. (T -> r) -> r) are not the same; the former can be weakened into the latter, but the latter cannot be strengthened into the former when T doesn't happen to live in the classical fragment of intuitionistic logic.
So if you take a function argument (T -> T) you are free to apply it as many times as you like before returning. But if you take an argument (T -> r) where r is universally bound, then you can only apply it at most once before returning (meaningfully, that is; if you assume a lazy language and ignore seq when defining "meaningful" application, thereby prohibiting side effects) and must call it at least once if the return type is r.
Mathnerd314 / Apr 15 2011 8:59 pm
You forget that even the finest imperative language in the world has not been able to eliminate _|_ from the language. Thus every function has an implicit forall r. r -> prepended to its type; in your case, this only matters for getFoo; its type is actually F -> R -> F.
Thus I'd claim that the actual type of foo is just the State type: F -> R -> (F, R)
Edward Kmett / Apr 16 2011 4:14 am
The problem with that version is that it requires you to supply a _|_ in order to use it as an accessor. The partiality of that approach is somewhat galling, it is used by Henning's otherwise rather nice Data.Accessor package.
Personally, I find the costate/store coalgebra approach advocated by Russell O'Connor to be more appropriate. A function of the form a -> (b, b -> a) — or equivalently a -> Store b a, subject to the side condition that it forms a comonad coalgebra captures the relationship of get to put.
Another benefit of merging the a -> b, and a -> b -> a functions into one function a -> (b, b -> a) is that they can be composed more efficiently. The result of the function basically provides everything you need to 'zip back up' your a with a new b inside, while the two function version has to descend into the structure a second time.
Efficiency aside, both your version and the version stated here miss the get/put laws that such a transformer should satisfy.
You can extract such a State b r -> State a r from such a lens:
but it strikes me that the use of a lens to transform state is an incidental capacity of a lens, and not its defining property, which seem better expressed in terms of how the primitive operations on a lens interact:
put l (get l a) a = a
stating that the result of putting the value you received from a lens back into the whole is the same as the original
put l b1 (put l b2 a) = put l b1 a
stating that putting is idempotent
get l (put l b a) = b
stating that you get what you put in.
But as Russell noted, and Jeremy Gibbons recently posted
those 3 laws can be replaced with the statement that you want any lens to be a costate coalgebra, which is to say that for a lens f:
extract . f = id
duplicate . f = fmap f . f
On the other hand, the approach here uses a monad homomorphism between two state monads, which isn't sufficient to capture the side conditions.
Mathnerd314 / Apr 16 2011 8:40 am
Edward Kmett: I'll agree that lenses could be much nicer. But in Java, State s a is what you've got: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.12.5
How would you use lenses from an imperative viewpoint?
Mathnerd314 / Apr 16 2011 9:00 am
BTW, what happened to category-extras?
Edward Kmett / Apr 18 2011 11:39 am
Mathnerd: it has been split into about 20 packages. I started working with Brent Yorgey to document the broken out version of things.
As for State 'being what you have', yes, you can use a lens to transform onestate monad into another by focusing on part of the state, and that is an important operation to offer via a lens, but that isn't the most efficient representation, and doesn't capture the side conditions you want a lens to satisfy.
Edward Kmett / Apr 18 2011 11:49 am
As for how I use lenses from an imperative standpoint, I have code in scala at work where I've replaced imperative methods with lenses focusing on part of the state. Then I just pass a lens to some portion of my state to my object.
Consider the following tuple type describing a bump counter and a map of distinct values to numeric keys.
case class Indexee[K](counter: Int, content: Map[K, Int])
We can build lenses out of getter/setter pairs.
object Indexee {
def counter[K]: Lens[Indexee[K], Int] = Lens ( _.counter, (x,y) => x copy (counter = y))
def content[K]: Lens[Indexee[K], Map[K, Int]] = Lens (_.content, (x,y) => x copy (content = y))
Then pass that around
class Memo[S, K](
indexee: Lens[S, Indexee[K]],
) {
// composing it with other lenses
val counter: Lens[S, Int] = Indexee.counter compose indexee
// and use it, seemingly, imperatively
def fresh: State[S, Int] = counter += 1
The lenses used above are the ones I wrote for scalaz
which are based on the separate getter/setter model.


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Lily Collins & Jamie Campbell Bower: 'Mortal Instruments' Wrap Party
Lily Collins flashes a smile while heading to the wrap party for her upcoming film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones at Club V on Saturday (November 3) in Toronto, Canada.
The 23-year-old actress and her boyfriend Jamie Campbell Bower were seen signing autographs for fans along the way.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Lily Collins
Filming on The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is scheduled to wrap later this week.
The day before, Lily and Jamie were spotted exiting a gallery following a viewing party.


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EL-ARISH, Egypt - Egyptian troops killed a leader of an al-Qaida inspired group in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula Tuesday, the latest blow to the myriad of militant organizations operating in the region, the military's spokesman said.
Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said Mohammed Hussein Muhareb and his son were killed after troops closed in on his motorcade and a firefight ensued. He said Muhareb was wanted for taking part in various attacks against troops in the region.
Another militant on a motorcycle was also killed, Ali said, while one officer was wounded and four militants were arrested.
Two military officials in Sinai said some militants fled in another car after the fighting, in an area between al-Joura and al-Muqatta village, south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid. They said the troops were acting on a tip.
Muhareb, 62, known by his alias Abu Mounir, was the main suspect and leader of a militant cell believed to be behind the August attack that killed 25 Egyptian police conscripts, one of the worst ever militant attacks against troops in northern Sinai.
In the latest of a stepped-up campaign of attacks against troops, a suicide car bomb hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers last week in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 11 soldiers and wounding 37.
The northern Sinai region, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, has been restless for years. Extremist militants operate in disparate groups there and are believed to have grown in numbers since the political upheaval following the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, largely due to a negligible police presence in the area.
But attacks have grown more frequent since last July's overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who had pursued a policy of negotiating with militant groups in the region.
This summer, government troops intensified their raids in towns and villages there, killing and arresting a number of suspects.
Military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Monday there is no more tolerance for attacks on his troops.
"No more mercy or hesitation for those who raise arms against the military," he told a group of officers in televised comments.
Muhareb is widely respected among the various militant groups in Sinai, and was a leading figure in a radical group known as Takfir wil-Hijra.
The movement's members, dubbed "Takfiris," lead secretive, isolated lives where anything and anyone that does not adhere to their rigid interpretation of Islam is deemed heretical - including the government and its security forces.
Another leading member of the group, Abdel-Fatah Hassan Salem, was arrested late last month.
Muhareb was known as the "sheik of Takfiris." He used to preach in a mosque in al-Muqatta village. The mosque has been badly damaged during earlier clashes between troops and militants. His house was also destroyed in a previous security raid, the officials said. At least two other of Muhareb's sons were killed in clashes with troops over the past eight years. The officials were speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.


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It was midnight in my childhood bedroom when I decided to dig through my closet over winter break. Midnight is always the time for too much introspection.
Imagine my sugar cookie-fueled excitement when I came upon stacks of CDs. Then, imagine my Charlie Brown Christmas-level melancholy when I discovered they were all empty.
Every summer, from the ages of 3-13, I went to summer camp. There was the typical nonsense — a summer boyfriend "cheated" on me and swimming pools were basically war zones. But the biggest injustice of all was when someone stole my CDs.
I had one of those big sleeve-filled cases so I could cart them back and forth to camp and school. God forbid I go anywhere without my entire music collection. So when the CD case disappeared, I was horrified. We were not quite at the dawn of the MP3, so I had no backups. The music was straight-up gone. Whatever brat took it might as well have stomped my discman and snapped my headphones while they were at it.
When I found the stack of jewel cases, I was eager to play them and revel in '90s and early nostalgia. After reliving the heartbreak, and without anything to listen to, I wound up thinking about when, where and why I got the CDs.
There was the Spice Girls, which were part of my attempt to fit in at a new school. They were also the gateway drug that lead me from my parents' classic rock to Britney Spears, *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. As I got older, I picked up Destiny's Child and Jennifer Lopez, because with puberty came more sexual music (ugh).
Then there were the CDs that represent the subsequent rejection of pop — Sum 41, Green Day, New Found Glory — and the age at which I started hanging out with neighborhood skaters. My favorite are the burned CDs of The Offspring and Sublime, made by a friend who drove me around in his Jetta with enormous subwoofers before swim practice.
This is all mildly embarrassing. I'd like to be able to tell you I was obsessed with the cooler indie rock that was around in those days, but I was only passively aware of it. I still loved classic rock, too, but it was more of a private thing. The music that was once in the empty jewel cases was what really shaped the tween and early teen years, and I'm willing to bet this is a pretty universal truth.
The Strokes may always be one of your favorite bands, but it was likely Simple Plan you and your friends were blasting in the car. You probably slowed-danced to K-Ci and JoJo's "All My Life" or kissed someone while Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" was playing.
Our most embarrassing CDs might actually be the most important ones. Girl who stole mine, if you could please send them back, I would really appreciate it.


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Ok, I leave for month and a half and this place FINALLY DECIDES to change up the set up for Blog Comments? GS, you make me wonder what's up sometimes xD. Don't get me wrong, I still love coming here and posting a blog and talking to you guys when I can, but this is like a culture shock to me. Plus for some reason, all most of comments on my older posts are gone :(. I don't know if it's Glitch Spot making it's mark again, but this definatly sucks if this is perminent. Aw well, the show must go on, so onto the gaming updates :). Now yes, I have been playing a bit of my 360, but aside from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD, no, I haven't really played anything new on it... although I did just recently break 50,000 gamerscore, which is kind of cool I guess... yeah, I have no life ^_^!
So in my gaming life, it's been quite intersting. A day or two after I posted my 3DS blog, I ended up picking one up with a $20 E-Shop card, Kid Icurus: Uprising, and Super Mario 3D Land. Shortly after my purchase, my email notifided me that Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked both went down to 25 bucks during an Amazon Game's Sale, so I quickly snatched them up, giving me 4 FULL 3DS GAMES TO PLAY, on top of the 3 DS games I still need to finish xD. So for a while, my portable gaming is pretty full. Recently, I have finished both Ocarina of Time 3D and Mario 3D Land! Ocarina of Time was a good 25 hour run on nothing but memory and was an enjoyable distraction from Math homework, but was just pretty much playing the 64 game on the go with a better graphics. That's not a bad thing as it's really neat to see some locals transition so nicely in 3D, but I don't see myself replaying through to the game anytime soon, unless it's to speed run it or something xD. I guess I could play it again on Master Quest, but I don't see myself doing that anytime soon, espically since I just beat it sometime last week xD. 3D Land however was VERY ENJOYABLE! It's easily my favorite Mario game, no questions about it! The visuals are good (espiclaly with 3D turned on), the music is fantastic, the gameplay is fun, levels are exciting and varied, and the mix of 2D and 3D gameplay really works with what is given. Plus the game is desinged with portable gameplay in mind, so levels are about 2-3 minutes each, which is perfect for me as I thrive on my portable gaming!
Now the other 2 I haven't played for very along... well, Kid Icurus I have, but DSO I havne't really. I have put about 10 minutes into the game, so I don't really have a grasp on anything yet in the game. I will say so far, I find the Voice Acting in the game to be very anyoying. IDK if it's the actor's, the script, or what, but they just bug me. Maybe it's because right now, the story and writing screams cheesy genaric high school anime and I am comparing to the VERY WELL DONE Persona 3: Portable which had legends like Vic Mignogna and Michelle Ruff, but I am not going to say anything I say is set in stone, as again, I haven't played much of the game. Now KI:U however, I have put about 15 into and I have to say, I am not to thrilled with this game. I mean, there are things I like about the game, but the controls... THE CONTROLS ARE JUST AWFUL! I mean, I guess they are decent for what they offer, but it just doesn't work on the portable space. Gripping your 3DS with your Left hand to free up your right to aim with the stylus while shotting with the L trigger and moving with the circle pad will take FOREVER to understand and get used to. A buddy of mine has put over 100 hours into and said he didn't fully understand the controls until 50 HOURS IN! Sorry, but I have other games to play. I have only gotten to stage 6 or so, and I could beat it on a easier difficulty, but that's my other complaint: Difficulties are to varried! Difficulty 2-5 are WAY to easy, 6-7 is still easy with only the bosses being the only challange, while 8-9 and just frustrating, mainly because you are battleing controls that make it a chore to dodge and move the camera around. I know there is a lot to like about the game and don't get me wrong, I like a lot of stuff about it, such as the Saturday Morning Cartoon Vib of the story and amazing presentation, but this is kind of why I can't play Ensalved anymore: I like everything, but the gameplay and the controls. If I can't get behind controls, I don't care how good the story is, as I can only force myself so much to play a game before I say screw it! I mean, take Bayonetta for example: story wise, I will admit, is pretty weak and laughably just ok, but the gameplay is SO GOOD, it makes up for it. I guess this is just me as a gamer and what I like, as gameplay is usually more important then a story in portable gaming, but with KI:U, I don't look it as a portable game, as I need that stupid stand it comes with to make that controls a little more tolerable, so I am playing it at home, which is hard because when I am home and can play games, I am playing my console games! Sorry KI:U, you just don't stand a chance against games like Xenoblade and Skyward Sword.
Speaking of those two, I FINALLY BEAT SKYWARD SWORD! Only took me about 6 months of on-and-off playing the game and 52 in-game hours, but I finally completed the game, mainly so I could finally move onto Xenoblade, which I will get to in a minute. Now do I think Skyward Sword is good? Yes, but it's just ok as a Zelda title. Really, I only liked the beggining of the game and the end of the game, where the story and gameplay is really at it's peak! The middle junk for the most part was just... boring sadly. I mean, there where some very high points, like anything in the Desert Area of the game and some of the Master Sword Dungeons, but aside from that, Dungeons felt like chores half the time and the game tries way to hard to make things time consuming! The game drags on and makes you go out of your way to do something simple like go refill on potions and grab an item you may have left back at home. I mean, there was a point in the game where I in the middle of a Dungeon and I forgot a empy bottle, so I had to go back out the Dungeon, fly ALL THE WAY BACK HOME, grab it, and go back. That chore took me about 20 minutes to do, 20 minutes I could of spent DOING THE DUNGEON! The game is collect heavy, and not in the typical Zelda way, oh no! There is one point where you need to collect pieces to a single song and the game at one point litterally has you collect pieces of that piece of the song because the creature giving you the song doesn't think you are worthy, yet you went to her earlier and came back out with the Master Sword... ugh... It's just anyoying really! Maybe it's because I played Spirit Tracks before I played this game, and Spirit Tracks is vastly superior in comparision (with a better companion then Fi mind you), but when it comes down to it, the game just tries to hard to focus on to many of Zelda's strong traits, and doesn't really do to well in either of them. I mean, look at the last 3 3D Zelda games: Majoria's Mask had a smaller scale, but focused on a living in-game world and gave you the freedom to understand this world at your leasure. Because of this, despite the lack of Dungeons, the game was praised for it's dark atmosphere and living world around it! Wind Waker had very little dungeons, but gave you an entire ocean to just venture forth at your leasure! Because of this focus on exploration, the game was praised! Twilight Princess was the most story focused and easily has the most number of and most creative Dungeons in the series. It was praised by people who looked at that elements of Zelda. Sure, I guess you can say Skyward Sword was praised by people for it's controls and yeah, they are good, but once you get over that, the game just tries to cover to much ground, only coming out as just ok when you compare it to the other 4 3D Zelda titles.
Ok, enough about Zelda, now onto Xenoblade. Shortly after beating Zelda, I popped in Xenoblade and watched as 3 hours passed by from putting in the Disc to turing off the game realizing I was running late xD. I only started the game on Saturday and have already easily put in about 12 hours into the game, a lot for me in such a short, especially on the console space! I have not been this hooked on a Console JRPG that I didn't play on a portable since Lost Odyssey, which was back during my Freshman Year of College! This game does such an amazing job stream-lining my many problems I have with Modern JRPGs, and actually has a huge focus on exploration the most JRPG's do! It makes me think of a mix of Skyrim's Adventure Focus with a combat system addopting elements from Final Fantasy 12 and some MMO's, with it being real time auto attack/free move with Cool Down times for all your attacks! It's a intersting breed, but the key element that works is how it focuses on getting distracted and absorbed. You can build relationships with towns which are all opitional and have no effect on the player excet how much experince you get, but the game makes questing SO MUCH easier by not forcing you to go back to the person you asked about the quest (most of the time), it makes questing fast and fun. Plus you get EXP for it! You also get EXP for exploring this gaint place you are traveling through and finding new places is the fastest way to level up, and you will want to explore even without the insentive of levling up! The scale in this game is outstand and is a reason to play this on a bigger TV, and this is the first time I am saying this about a Wii game! Places look HUGE and specacular in this game, from gigantic waterfalls to brigtful forrests to step cliffs, this game has it all! The story is really interesting to and granted, the voice acting can get anyoying, but I think it's because I am not used to English (meaning from England) voice acting, and though the writing is cheesy at times, nothing feels forced and I am enjoying to story so far! At this rate, this may take a very high place in my favorite games, possibly top 5! It's hard to say right now as I still have a long game ahead of me, but as of now, it's on the right track :). Now this may sound terrible, but I actually wish this was on the 3DS. The bottom screen would be great to put the clutter that is all the little windows like health bars and move lists, the game would look oustand in 3D with depth and all, but I think having a game that is this focused on getting lost in it's world would be great on the 3DS. With pokemon, I always get absorbed into the world, and this game would do a outstanding job of doing that. Add in some Co-Op and street pass functionality, and you have yourself an outstanding game! Maybe this just comes down to me wanting to play it anywhere, but I think this would make a great 3DS Port :)
Ok, that was a lot longer then expected xD. Sorry people, but I guess I had a lot to get off my chest xD. Hope you enjoy the blog and I will check up with you guys later, whenever that is xD! You can probably expect a post from me next week since it's E3 and all, but sadly I will not be going this year :(. Aw well, at least I will be at Anime Expo instead ^___^


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Ram Truck sponsors Battle of the Bands
Ram Truck has long been a supporter of the country music scene, from large to small musicians. You can see the brand's community involvement in its partnership with the Zac Brown Band and its very own country channel on Yahoo, Ram Country. With its love for country music, Ram Trucks is holding the first ever Ram Battle of the Bands. Ram is seeking out the next upcoming country band to help jump start their journey to stardom. Country bands are encouraged to submit their band video on the Ram Truck Facebook page for a chance to perform live.
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It's a question that science is now tackling and providing some answers for.
An estimated 80 percent of scam victims are over the age of 65, the Federal Trade Commission says. Previous research has indicated these victims tended to be male, divorced/separated, and college-educated, between ages of 60 and 70.
Now a new study may help explain why people become more vulnerable to scams. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (see abstract) University of California, Los Angeles neuroscientist Shelley Taylor showed photos of faces considered trustworthy, neutral, or untrustworthy to a group of 119 adults, ages 55 to 84, and 24 adults, ages 20 to 42.
So what constitutes untrustworthiness? Examples include lack of eye contact, an insincere smile, and a backward tilting head.
The study found that the "untrustworthy" faces were ranked significantly more trustworthy by the older test subjects than by younger ones. The reason, the researchers say, is that the anterior insula (an area within the cerebral cortex) is significantly less active in older people. It's believed this area of the brain is activated by the presence of an untrustworthy person.
Generally, as people age, they tend to do a better job of not overreacting, and of keeping their emotions in check than younger people. They have more perspective and often see things in a positive light.
That's good for mental well being, but evidently bad when trying to spot a scam.


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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2015 - Pan American Cup (Gold)... FIVB World Grand Prix preliminary round... Pan American Games (Gold). 2014 - Montreux Volley Masters (Silver)...USA Volleyball Cup vs Brazil. 2013 - Pan American Cup (Gold)...USA Volleyball Cup...FIVB World Grand Prix (6th)...NORCECA Championship (Gold)...FIVB Grand Champions Cup (Silver). 2012 - Pan American Cup (Gold). 2010 – Tour of Brazil. 2009 – FIVB World Grand Prix (9th). 2008 – Tour of China…Pan American Cup (Fifth Place).
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2015 - Started all seven Team USA matches at the Pan American Cup leading the Americans to the gold medal... Scored 71 points in 22 sets during the Pan Am Cup, including a 0.68 block average for fifth best in the tournament... Started four matches in the Pan American Games, averaging 2.29 points in helping the Americans win the gold medal. 2014 - Provided 10 kills, four blocks and three aces for 17 points during the Montreux Volley Masters. 2013 - Started 12 matches and played in 68 of 118 sets during 2013 with a 2.56 scoring average that included a 49.8 kill percent and team-leading .381 hitting efficiency…Played in six sets during Pan American Cup, highlighted by a 10-point match in a sweep of Brazil on June 15, which included nine kills on 12 attacks and an ace in the semifinal victory…Played in nine sets of the USA Volleyball Cup versus Japan with one match start…Scored team-high 12 points off the bench versus Japan on July 12, which included 10 kills on 19 attacks and two blocks…Added 14 points versus Japan on July 13, including 12 kills on 21 errorless attacks and two blocks…Averaged 3.22 points per set in USA Volleyball Cup…Started four of 14 matches of FIVB World Grand Prix, averaging 1.72 points per set with a 46.8 kill percent…Tallied 11 points with 10 kills on 20 attacks versus Japan on Sept. 1…Scored nine kills on 11 attacks as a reserve in five-set win over Bulgaria on Aug. 18…Helped the U.S. win the NORCECA Women's Continental Championship as she averaged 2.91 points with a 45.0 kill percent while starting two of four matches and playing in 11 of 13 sets...Scored 11 points in NORCECA gold-medal match against Dominican Republic, including four blocks…Started all five matches of FIVB Grand Champions Cup, producing a 3.18 scoring average with a .337 hitting efficiency (42-13-86)…Recorded a personal-high 21 points with a .458 hitting efficiency (14-3-24) and four blocks versus Dominican Republic on the final day to help secure the Grand Champions Cup silver medal. 2012 – Played in 16 sets of the Pan American Cup with two starts…Converted 20 of 40 attacks into kills with a .425 hitting efficiency for the tournament, including a combined 10-of-15 versus Puerto Rico and Cuba without an attack error…Contributed eight points off the bench versus Brazil in the gold-medal match. 2010 - Started the second match of the Tour of Brazil, scoring seven points with three kills, three aces and a block. 2009 – Scored 23 points in a two-match tour of Egypt in April…Scored 15 points (13 kills, 1 ace, 1 block) versus Egypt on April 10…Added eight points (5 kills, 2 aces) in two sets versus Egypt on April 12… Played in two matches and three sets of the Pool I leg of the FIVB World Grand Prix…Provided a kill on her only attack attempt of the World Grand Prix against Russia. 2008 - Scored 11 points during a three-week, eight-match tour of China...Tallied four kills on seven attempts without an error in three sets played at the Pan American Cup.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 – Named American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America First-Team…Contributed 355.5 points as Texas reached the NCAA Tournament semifinals in her senior season…Credited with set averages of 3.26 points, 2.63 kills, 0.86 blocks, 0.14 aces and 0.53 digs…Compiled a .478 hitting efficiency, which ranked second in the NCAA and set a school single-season mark…Finished career with over 1,000 kills and 400 total blocks. 2007 – Selected to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America Third Team as a junior…Named All-Big 12 First Team…Appeared in all 103 games and 31 matches on the Texas schedule…Averaged 3.65 points, 2.90 kills and 1.28 blocks per game…Led Longhorns in hitting percentage (.418) and blocks (130), finished third in kills (301). 2006 – Started at middle blocker in 20 of 31 matches. 2005 – As a freshman, appeared in 28 matches and averaged 3.03 points and 2.43 kills per game while hitting .261 in a split role between outside hitter and opposite.
OTHER USA VOLLEYBALL EXPERIENCE: Led U.S. Women's National A2 Team to a second-place finish at the 2007 USA Volleyball Adult Open Championships…Named All-Tournament at the 2007 USA Volleyball Adult Open Championships in the Open Division…Member of the 2004 and 2005 USA Junior National A2 Team.
CLUB/PREP CAREER: Started club volleyball experience with Go Blue Volleyball Club in 1999, then moved to the Toledo Volleyball Club as a senior in 2005…2005 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 recruit and ranked seventh in the national among incoming college freshmen by Prepvolleyball.com…Selected Mizuno High School All-American and state of Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year…Attended Saline High School (Mich.) from 2001-2005…Three-time letterwinner in basketball earning honorable-mention All-League and conference's best defensive player…Dunked a basketball in a game as a senior.
PERSONAL: Parents are Frank and Cathy Paolini with one brother, Andrew (1986)…Nickname is Pao (pronounced pay-o)…Majoring in biology/pre-dental at University of Texas…Hobbies include reading, listening to music, shopping and trying new restaurants…Has spent three years playing beach volleyball…Favorite food is macaroni and cheese…Favorite book is Kite Runner…Enjoys listening to R&B music with favorite musical groups Maroon 5 and Counting Crows…Favorite professional team is Detroit Pistons and favorite athlete is Ben Wallace. Happiest moment in life is every time she is back in Austin, Texas.
Getting to Know Lauren Paolini
What are the top songs in your iPod?
Everything is Everything (Lauryn Hill), some songs by Sade, I'll Be by Edwin McCain and Amazed by Lonestar
Name a few things that most people do not know about you.
I was the point guard on my basketball team up until my sophomore year of high school, I was born in California
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Read, listen to music on my iPod or watch good TV shows.
What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team?
Playing overseas and in the AVP or starting my own practice as an orthodontist (hopefully in Texas!)
Who was your club coach prior to going to college?
Ed Tolentino
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation?
Somewhere in Europe, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, France..wherever!
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Austin, Texas!, or Rome
What is your favorite room in your house and why?
My living room because there is a fireplace and a TV
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
My cell phone!
Rank the following types of television programs in order you like best: Reality TV, crime dramas, game shows, sit-coms, music television, cable news, sports.
Sit-Coms, sports, reality, crime dramas, music tv, cable news
What is your favorite television program?
My Wife and Kids, King Of Queens, the beginning of American Idol, and America's Next Top Model
What is your favorite movie?
Meet the Parents
What is your favorite book?
Kite Runner
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
Definitely morning
What is your pre-match ritual?
Listen to my iPod or dancing to music with my teammates
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women's National Team?
The chance to win a gold medal!
What is your favorite volleyball drill?
Queen of the Court
What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball?
Basketball for sure!
Who is your favorite athlete?
Ben Wallace ( I liked him better when he played for the Detroit Pistons though :) )
What is your favorite food?
Macaroni and cheese
What is your favorite restaurant to eat at?
Z Tejas or Taste Of Texas
What is your hometown best known for?
Ann Arbor…..probably snow..or the University of Michigan
How many different languages can you converse in?
2 English and Sign Language
What was your favorite subject in school?
What fad were you involved in during junior high school that many would be surprised to learn?
Knitting, wearing lots of clips in my hair
If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be?
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for?
I would buy a condo on a cliff that overlooks the ocean somewhere in California
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
If a movie was made about your life, which actor or actress would you want to play you?
Claire Fiorlani
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you?
Fishing pole, sunblock, and a boat.
If you could live in another time period for a week, which one would you choose?
If you could be on the cover of one magazine, which one would you choose?
What is the most "embarrassing" song on your iPod?
I'm Blue (Eiffel 65)
What is your favorite holiday?
What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall?
What is one off-the-court talent that you have?
I like to cook
What is your motto?
Always Persevere
What reality show (American Idol, the Apprentice, the Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) would you be best on?
Project Runway
What is your pet peeve?
Windshield wipers on a dry windshield
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail?
Text Messaging
Posted and Updated: Aug. 6, 2015
A look around the world how the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team players are doing


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