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The Warren Center Scores Big with 26th Annual Fantasy Football Event

More than $360k Dollars Raised to Support Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities




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Explosive, Real-time Mobile Strategy Game Battle Boom Launches Globally Today

Newest real-time strategy mobile game is here. Battle against millions of players worldwide.




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Game.IO Rebrands as Snowball Games – Focus On Community

After more than five years in the gaming industry, focused most on board and dice reinvented social games, Game.IO team made a decision for rebranding'




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Jay Novacek to Host the Warren Center's 25th Anniversary Fantasy Football Draft Night

Dallas Cowboy legend Jay Novacek will be hosting the 25th anniversary of Fantasy Football Draft Night benefitting the Warren Center in their 50th anniversary year.




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John Guest Ball Valve Supplier, Chester Paul Company, Is Known For Being Top Supplier In The Nation

John Guest ball valve supplier, Chester Paul Company, is known for being a top-tier water purification company. The recognition has come after years of dedication to their craft and to their clients.




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How to Enter the $10,000 Sweeps to Redecorate at Home, Ballard Style!

Summer 2020 home décor sweepstakes for $10,000 at Ballard Designs. This national furniture & design store is helping sheltering in place… become sheltering in style.




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Gwynn Baseball Joins Forces With BPA Sports Group

BPA Sports Group is proud to announce its affiliation with Gwynn Baseball. Gwynn, Baseball, will operate under the name of Gwynn/BPA. Together Gwynn/BPA will create more opportunities for all age groups to compete at local and national tournaments!




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Study of Police Ballot Measures Shows Trends in Voter Behavior, Illuminates Success in Passing Measures

National Police Support Fund publishes comprehensive report outlining the outcome of over 100 referenda presented to voters on behalf of police operations and law enforcement during the 2017 through 2019 election cycles.




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2010 Transportation Ballot Measures: An Examination Of Key Trends And Results

Election Day has come and gone. Yesterday, our daily Transportation Headlines highlighted the Center For Transportation Excellence's state-by-state results of all transportation ballot measures in 2010.

43 of 56 measures passed: a 77% success rate.


But what does it mean for local and national transportation issues? The pundits, planners, pollsters and prognosticators have only just begun reading the tea leaves as well as the writing on the wall.

This Friday, CFTE will host a webinar recapping the outcomes of this year's transportation measures across the country and take a look at key trends from other recent elections.

This is a great opportunity to learn how communities are using ballot measures to improve their transportation systems, so we wanted to share more information about it:
Free Webinar: Trends And Results From 2010 Transportation Ballot Measures (Register Here)
Hosted by the Center for Transportation Excellence, NAPTA and APTA State Transit Association Leaders

Fri, Nov 5, 2010 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM PST
In advance of the webinar, the following resources might be worth reviewing:



In other post-election news, Jim Oberstar (D-MN), Chair of the House Transportation And Infrastructure Committee, was defeated after 18 terms in the House of Representatives. John Mica (R-FL), the Committee's Republican leader, said in a statement today:

“Among my top legislative priorities will be passing a long-term federal highways and transit reauthorization, a long-overdue Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, a new water resources measure, and a long-term Coast Guard reauthorization.

“I will also focus on major initiatives to find ways within the Committee’s jurisdiction to save taxpayer dollars. That includes better management and utilization of federal assets, including real property, and more efficient, cost effective passenger rail transportation, including a better directed high-speed rail program.”


We also wanted to share more information about CFTE, which does an excellent job rounding up information about transportation measures and election results. They also serve as a "clearinghouse for information in support of quality transportation choices. "

CFTE is committed to two main objectives: (1) responding to transit’s critics and (2) equipping local leaders with the information they need to be successful with their public transportation initiatives and ballot measures.

How does CFTE accomplish its mission? Their goal is to deliver the message of sensible transportation choice by:
  • Creating case studies that illustrate the power of effective public transportation
  • Developing “tool kits” that aid local leaders in communicating the benefits of their programs
  • Maintaining an interactive website that provides clear information on effective public transportation development
  • Reaching out to media sources with the arguments in support of sensible transportation choice
  • Mobilizing in response to media coverage of the opposition with Letters to the Editor, Op/Ed submissions, editorial board meetings, etc.
  • Tracking legislative efforts and ballot measures and reporting on the outcomes and trendsTracking research outcomes and publicizing research results to the media, stakeholders, and local leaders

Now more than ever, as state governments struggle with massive budget deficits, and communities suffer under burgeoning traffic, support for sensible transportation solutions is in peril. Opponents using erroneous arguments and fomenting fear are eroding the great strides made over the past decade.

Supporters of balanced, practical transportation development look to CFTE for assistance with:
  • Distributing information that proves the effectiveness of public transportation
  • Engaging the opposition wherever and whenever they appear
  • Coaching community leaders in techniques for engaging the opposition in their own communities
  • Promoting transportation victories at the local, state, and national levels
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How Great Management Turned Around Baseball’s Worst Team

Jonah Keri, sports and stock market writer; author of "The Extra 2%."





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Can football help you build your portfolio?

To talk about investments in parlance with football; an investment without a goal is like a game of football with one - it'll basically have no meaning.




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Do you want to own a Multi-cap football team?

A multi-cap mutual fund scheme or a diversified equity mutual fund scheme typically invests in stocks across market capitalizations, sectors and styles of investment.




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Legendary footballer Chuni Goswami no more

The iconic sportsperson, who also played first-class cricket for Bengal, was 82 and breathed his last at a hospital here. He is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto.




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MLB Teams Pledge $30M To Support Ballpark Employees

Major League Baseball's teams have pledged $30 million for ballpark workers who will lose income because of the delay to the season caused by the novel...




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Public Invited to Grand Canyon’s Celebrate Wildlife Day Event and Park Dedication as a Globally Important Bird Area

On Saturday, September 13, 2014, Grand Canyon National Park will dedicate the park as a Globally Important Bird Area as part of its 7th Annual Celebrate Wildlife Day. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/september-2014-wildlife-day.htm




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IKEA Publishes Meatball Recipe for Devoted Fans in Quarantine Pining After the Store’s Beloved Cafés

The Swedish furniture chain published the ingredients and instructions for the saucy meatball dish to their social media pages this week.

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CSSplay - 3D Eyeball animation

3D 'eyeball' spherical animation.




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Land use planning ballot initiatives in the Pacific Northwest

Sustaining farm and forest land has been an important goal in the United States because of the role these lands play in the livelihoods of rural residents while also providing desired open space benefits. However, land use policies to protect rural lands often involve a tension between balancing public interests regarding economic and open space goals with the private interests and property rights of farm and forest land owners.




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Boy who woke up nauseous horrified to learn he had 'ping pong ball sized' tumour

Blyth schoolboy Ryan Office has recently returned from receiving proton beam therapy in Florida after being diagnosed with a very rare brain tumour



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Lottery results: Lotto and Thunderball numbers for Saturday May 9

The National Lottery draw and Thunderball numbers for Saturday, May 9, 2020 - live breaking updates and results below




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New rule changes which could affect Newcastle when football returns

The IFAB have announced a number of rule changes for when football returns after its coronavirus-enforced break




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Saudi PiF plot move for second football club: NUFC evening update

All the latest Newcastle United takeover headlines with updates on the Saudi Public Investment Fund and Gary Neville




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How to watch live Bundesliga football when it returns on May 16

Top class European football is set to return to our TV screens




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Newry City footballers ready to brave the shave for charity

They are part of a wider charity effort that has so far raised £20,000 for Southern Area Hospice Services




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Glentoran footballers lend support to Covid-19 care project

First-team players from the Oval club volunteered at Connswater Community Centre earlier this week.




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Portstewart Football Club kicks off community support project

The Seahawks have been delivering care packages to vulnerable residents during Covid-19 pandemic




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The Sacramento Ballet

The Sacramento Ballet entertains, educates, inspires, and engages people through the powerful vehicle of dance. The Sacramento Ballet has taken a leadership role in outreach, education, community service and collaborative projects, and is without question, a leader in arts education...




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R.B.I. Baseball 19 hits consoles on March 5

Can't wait for Opening Day? Good news -- you can take the field early when R.B.I. Baseball 19 is released on March 5.




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The best 'walk years' in baseball history

There is a long history of exceptional walk years as well, and Adrian Beltre, who retired after the 2018 season, is a big part of it. Here is a look at 20 of the best.




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Effect of a New Rule Limiting Full Contact Practice on the Incidence of Sport-Related Concussion in High School Football Players

A study to determine if the sport-related concussion (SRC) rate is lower after a rule change that limited the amount and duration of full-contact activities during high school football practice sessions.




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UNI football position preview: Will McElvain entrenched as No. 1 quarterback

CEDAR FALLS — A four-way quarterback competition dominated the preseason headlines for Northern Iowa last August. Walk-on redshirt freshman Will McElvain emerged as the competition’s...




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The Gazette’s 2020 preseason Super 10 softball rankings

The Iowa high school softball season was supposed to start practice Monday. Instead, the coronavirus pandemic has everything delayed until June 1, or maybe longer. Or, perhaps, canceled. But since...




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Best sports movies: Just as baseball is America, 'Field of Dreams' has become Iowa

Editor's note: The Gazette sports staff has compiled lists of its top 15 favorite sports movies. Each day, a different staffer will share some insight into one of their favorites. Some of them are...




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Ankeny wide receiver Brody Brecht picks Iowa football and baseball

Once in a while, a college football prospect with potential in another sport ends up with the Hawkeyes. Brody Brecht might be the next one of those for the Hawkeyes. The 6-4, 200-pound wide...




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Iowa football lands Nebraska wide receiver Keagan Johnson

For Keagan Johnson and his family, the decision to play football at the University of Iowa was theirs. A personal decision that set a course for a fairly massive three or four or five years. When...




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After 1 season, Matt Lesan resigns as Solon boys’ basketball coach

CEDAR RAPIDS — This was his alma mater, a place he had a ton of success at as a player. The future of the program is clearly bright. But Matt Lesan has a clear plan for his own future, which...




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Iowa’s Gary Barta says college football could be on a ‘dimmer switch’ when it returns

Iowa athletics director Gary Barta began Thursday’s meeting of the UI’s presidential committee on athletics with two numbers: It’s been 56 days since the coronavirus pandemic shut...




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Best sports movies: College football managed to survive ‘Horse Feathers’ takedown

Editor’s note: The Gazette sports staff has compiled lists of its top 15 favorite sports movies. Each day, a different staffer will share some insight into one of their favorites. Some of them...




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Photos: Cedar Rapids Kernels offer curbside ballpark food to fans

The team will be offering carry-out ballpark food to fans on Fridays with orders placed during business hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays




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No baseball right now, but Cedar Rapids Kernels offering a bit of the ballpark taste

CEDAR RAPIDS — You weren’t taken out to the ballgame or the crowd. You couldn’t get Cracker Jack, though you could get peanuts. Not to mention hot dogs and bacon cheeseburgers, a...



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Bowen Born itching to start basketball career at UNI

CEDAR FALLS — Like many high school seniors across the country, Norwalk’s Bowen Born is unsure when he’ll be able to get on campus at the University of Northern Iowa and begin...




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Best sports movies: 'Brian's Song' is about more than football — it's about friendship

Editor’s note: The Gazette sports staff has compiled lists of its top 15 favorite sports movies. Each day, a different staffer will share some insight into one of their favorites. Some of them...




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Rob Ball, Untitled

Rob Ball
Untitled, Margate, England, 2014
From the Dreamland series
Website - RobBall.co.uk

Rob Ball is a British photographer and academic working on self-initiated projects and commissions. His work has been shown at numerous institutions and festivals including The National Portrait Gallery, Ways of Looking Festival, Format Festival and Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham. Interested in areas including materiality, process, landscape and the archive, Rob produces a variety of outputs including the publications Unremarkable Stories and Beyond the View (2014). Rob is Deputy Director of The South East Archive of Seaside Photography (SEAS).




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Intuition, Creative Freedom & Doing What You Love with Chris Ballew

Today’s episode is going to rock your world … pun fully intended because today’s guest is an actual rock star. You may remember a band called Presidents of the United States of America. They took the world by storm in 1995 with their self titled album, Presidents of the United States of America playing songs like Lump and Peaches. Yes, that’s right. My guest today is frontman Chris Ballew. Chris and I have been friends for years, including collaborating on a music video together and at least one live performance (gotta listen to find out ;). Of course we get into his musical journey, a meteoric rise to success, and then realizing something was missing. We take some deep dives into Chris’ creative process, including his method for capturing his small bits and later using those to write new works, including his new project Casper Babypants. In this episode: Consider what kind of artist you are and how you relate to other artists. For years Chris played in bands, but what he learned about himself is his work is actually solo. Don’t censor yourself while you’re creating. Get it out, no matter how crazy or ridiculous or unusual and then […]

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Special subvarieties of non-arithmetic ball quotients and Hodge Theory. (arXiv:2005.03524v1 [math.AG])

Let $Gamma subset operatorname{PU}(1,n)$ be a lattice, and $S_Gamma$ the associated ball quotient. We prove that, if $S_Gamma$ contains infinitely many maximal totally geodesic subvarieties, then $Gamma$ is arithmetic. We also prove an Ax-Schanuel Conjecture for $S_Gamma$, similar to the one recently proven by Mok, Pila and Tsimerman. One of the main ingredients in the proofs is to realise $S_Gamma$ inside a period domain for polarised integral variations of Hodge structures and interpret totally geodesic subvarieties as unlikely intersections.




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Football High: Helmets Do Not Prevent Concussions

Despite the improvements in helmet technology, helmets may prevent skull fractures, but they do not prevent concussions.




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Football High: Keeping Up with the Joneses

Competition is steep in games like football. The desire to win often trumps safety.




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Football High: Garrett Harper's Story, Part II

The decisions coaches make on the sidelines about returning a concussed player to the game or not can be a "game changer" for that athlete's life.




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Football High: Small Hits Add Up

Research is showing that the accumulation of sub-concussive hits in sports like football can be just as damaging as one or two major concussions.