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Topher Hurley, who just successfully defended his Masters Thesis at Mines (Congrats!), is the Director for the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference (RMCCC). RMCCC has 17 member schools and is the only collegiate conference to experience growth in 2012. Topher sat down with Katie Macarelli (BRAC's media volunteer extraordinaire) to tell us about collegiate cycling in Colorado.
1. Tell us about the insane amount of Collegiate Conference Growth we have experienced in Colorado over the last year:
Its been crazy! We increased our number of license holders by 25% (~400 racers in 2011 to a little over 500 by the end of 2012). We also saw a 34% increase in race starts over 2011 during our mountain bike season last fall. A lot of that has to do with the increase in license holders, but we also saw a big bump in the number of people crossing between disciplines (XCers racing Downhill and Downhillers racing XC). Our track numbers were up as well. I don't have any numbers to put to it, but we finally have enough track interest to hold a short conference season this summer. Collegiate cycling as a whole was down 3% last year, so I'm blown away that we had the kind of growth that we did.
2. What do you attribute this to?
The biggest reason is that we have bunch of super awesome teams that are regularly successful nationally. Our team managers and coaches (can't name them all here, but Dave Hagen (FLC), Jason Hillmire (CU), Len Cabrera (USAFA), and Dave Weins (Western) are great examples) have figured out how to maintain the balance between being serious about racing and having a really good time. The national success + relaxed atmosphere at races lets us attract (and retain) racers from the entire range of abilities (2/3rds of the 2012 US U23 MTB worlds team that were RMCCC athletes, and we also have exchange students that prove that Wal-Mart bikes are more capable and durable than most of us give them credit for).
Reason #2 - Look at where we get to race. What bike rider wouldn't want to take school sanctioned (and often funded) trips to Steamboat, CB, Durango, Fruita, etc once or twice a year?
Reason #3 - We are also starting to see the first big wave of kids with high school racing experience start college. One of the big pushes for the conference in the next few years will be to strengthen our relationship with Kate Rau and the Colorado HS League. They have done an incredible job of growing the sport (almost 400 kids at their races this fall) and the more HS kids that we can turn into the collegiate racers the better.
Reason #4 - Working with BRAC has helped elevate our events and also brought more athletes to our race days, which brings more income to our clubs. Money always helps grow programs!
3. How does the RMCCC compare to the National level?
We do pretty well. CU and FLC are long time dominant powers in all disciplines (collegiate cycling encompasses road, track, cross, mtb, and we've added BMX this year). Both of the last two years, we won almost half of the available jerseys and took almost half of the podium spots at mountain bike nationals. It is somewhat harder to dominate like that on the road, but we typically have 2-3 teams on the team omnium podium and a few individual national champions by the end of road nationals. Track and CX are a little more variable. It is going to be interesting to see how we do in BMX (Nationals is March 2 in Phoenix). The midwestern schools have been recruiting BMX racers pretty heavily and I'm not sure if our schools have the BMX depth to compete. I hope I'm proven wrong!
4. What unique set of challenges do Collegiate racers face in this day and age...aside from parties, travel and failing their classes miserably?
Ha! I don't think most of our racers would see the first two as challenges... You hit the nail on the head with the third one though. Our seasons are pretty compressed (12 days of mountain bike racing in 6 weeks + nationals, and 14 days of road racing in 7 weeks + nationals) due to the national championships schedule, school schedules, and the the fact that racing bikes in February in Colorado is a bad idea. Plus, most of our teams (and races) are student-run, so not only are these kids training, racing, and studying, but they are having to navigate the byzantine world of college bureaucracies, organize team training and travel, and navigating the even more byzantine world of road closures and event permitting. So these kids work their asses of to keep from failing classes miserably.
Even being around the collegiate scene for the last 7 1/2 years, I'm still amazed how successfully our riders pull off the balance of school, racing, team management, and race promotion without going totally crazy. The dedication of these racers to the sport as a whole is absolutely amazing.
5. How did you go about strengthening the ties between the Collegiate world and BRAC?
Great question! The short answer is drinking beer with Chris and Clint.
The longer answer is that the fact that Chris, Clint, and I get along well enough go drink beer (or ride bikes) together has made it far easier to work through the issues that have cropped up in the last year. Last spring had some really entertaining weeks that none of us want to repeat. So, over the summer we developed a Memorandum of Understanding between the RMCCC and BRAC that sets out the formal relationship between the organizations (if anyone wants to read it, it is available at: http://collegiatecycling.org/rmccc/uploads/Rules/RMCCC_BRAC_MOU.pdf).
Chris, the BRAC board, and Jeffrey Hanson (Collegiate Director at USAC) put in a lot of work to make sure that the MOU is solid for both organizations. We signed the final version in September and it has been smooth sailing since. It is actually unprecedented for a collegiate conference and an LA to have any kind of document covering the relationship between the organizations. Definitely something to be proud of.
This is a little off topic, but I'd like to thank everyone at BRAC for the support that they have given us over the last year (and in future years). Collegiate racing is (and hopefully always will be) a minimally structured and pretty quirky part of the sport. Everyone at BRAC has been incredible at accepting the quirks of the collegiate world and helping to teach our promotors how to put on quality races. I am really excited to see where bike racing in Colorado goes in the next 5-10 years.
6. Can you give us a short bio on yourself?
The short bio is:
26 years old. Grew up in Boise, Idaho. Moved to Golden in 2005 for school.
Started racing bikes when I was 13, Cat 2 on the road @ 17, Still a Cat 2 on the road. Cat 1 on the XC mountain bike. Raced collegiate nationals in every discipline (road, CX, endurance MTB, Gravity MTB) but track (not making it to track nationals is my only regret about my racing career). Member of the 2007 Mines team that won collegiate mountain bike nationals. Ran the CSM Cycling team for 2 1/2 years. Promoted 7 road and MTB races at for CSM. Got sucked into conference management in 2010 after blowing up my knee racing mountain cross. Race mountain bikes for Rocky Mountain Racing and Golden Bike Shop.
Not Bikes:
Just finished my M.S. in Mining Engineering from CSM (B.S. in Mining Engineering from Mines in 2010). Thesis was based on measuring detonation properties of industrial explosives using high-speed imaging (yes, I have every 12 year old boy's dream job). Amazing girlfriend that accepts that I spend 14 weekends a year working at bike races for free (and more pretending that I can ride bikes fast). Dog. Occasional snowboarder.
I had some incredible mentors as a junior and feel like I need to similarly give back to the sport.
7. What does the job of Conference Director entail?
The official job description is 2 pages, but the short description is that I: am the primary interface between the RMCCC and BRAC and between the RMCCC and USAC; work with the teams in the conference to set race schedules, develop rules, and set conference policy; provide support to promotors during the permitting process; provide race-day support and guidance to promotors, teach skills clinics for our intro riders (both road and MTB), work with our officials to make sure that officiating is consistent throughout the season; process collegiate upgrade requests; attend conference directors meeting and conference calls (there are 11 other conferences) to share best practices and help guide national rules and policy; and probably more that I can't think of right now. The best part of the job is interacting with all of the collegiate kids at the races. I got thanked by a racer last fall for talking her into trying mountain bike racing, she tried it and loves it. It doesn't get much better than that.


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I'm soo used to it, that I no longer pay attention to it -.-.
Yes all the time. Especially where I live. Because black people aren't supposed to like Kpop or anime. Black people are running the streets blah blah. I get so much hate from people because of my interests because black people don't like that kind of stuff
*insanity is contagious*
Yeah. Racist black people always accuse me of being racist because I'm white. And I usually just stare at them in disbelief and say. "I bet you voted for Obama, because you're genuinely THAT stupid."
Not racially stereotyped, but I catch a lot of crap for being an atheist.
"Hurry up....before there's still time."-Master Shake
Not really. When I do I just laugh it off and walk away. Now, if you typed "Have you ever had someone call you a racial slur?" I would say "yes".
Usagi: Warrior of the Rabbit. Killing Psychotically.
I'm so white and from a white community so no I haven't. I just get stereotyped on where I live and my height. :/
Long hair, don't care
Not racially. Sometimes culturally. I'm from England so occasionally get the odd "cup of tea" joke when travelling but never anything hurtful. I was in a public baths once in Osaka Japan, the ones where you strip naked and dunk yourself into boiling water and then freezing water; the old locals there were falling about laughing at my inability to cope with the temperatures and shouting "English Gentleman".
I'm black and I can't catch a break from my own race because of how I talk or any other race because I'm black. Do we see my dilemma?
.___. Yes, I have (sortof) but more like I have been racially stereotyped.......by my own freaking race! I used to be called 'Oreo' up to fifth grade, and even sometimes I do think people think that in their head. I guess the term I mean is 'colourism' ( stereotyped more on skin color) so, yeah, I am somewhat used to hearing 'Wait, where are you in the picture? Oh, is the shadow you?' or 'Hey burnt twig' any African joke ect.
Call me a sadist, but if you're going to try to insult me, get alittle bit more creative.
(Oh, and white people never really had any issues, only older people, and that's because I was with a ex-associate of mine who looked....like a escort)
Meh, ya know?
I've been called a cracker before. Does that count?
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Yes, but luckily racism against white people is pretty easy to ignore unless you're a prick about it. Nobody thinks I'm going to rob or assault them out of nowhere, but it is sometimes annoying when people assume I've been brought up in a strait-laced, well-off household, and can't understand what it's like to have hardship (Mom works at Wal-mart and Dad, after strings of unemployment, just recently got a pretty good job selling bottled water). I've been pretty well-educated and my parents (although divorced) are very much good people, so I look the stereotype pretty well.
But it did get a bit bothersome when my friends (most of whom were actually not white, but that doesn't matter too much) always wondered why I never went out all the time with them. I needed to explain, to their disbelief, that I can't afford all that stuff because, unlike them, I don't receive money from my parents to blow on movies, meals, clothes, and toys. It sometimes got to be a problem in college, since although I held a full-time job, I had to pay for school myself, and didn't have the kind of money that even people without jobs had. I sometimes got the feeling that they thought I was ditching them when I didn't go to parties all the time. In that case, I think even my white friends were using white stereotypes.
The only other times it ever gets in the way are the rare times when I need to talk to someone that's dumb enough to think that I can't understand anything they've gone through because I'm white. There are certain extents where that might be true, but it's not like I live in a completely different world. I've never been skydiving, but I can still understand fear, excitement, sublimity, wind, or most things that a skydiver might talk about. Everyone has shit to deal with (I assume), and everyone's had the experience of being stereotyped negatively (I assume), even if not on the grounds of their race. But regardless, I've only rarely met people that actually brought up my race as evidence that my views were unfounded. That's more of a quality of dumb people though, than of racial stereotypes.
Yes. And not to be racist in return, but it's usually white people (particularly white guys) who display the highest level of ignorance when it comes to racial issues.
I rarely have racist comments directed at me when I am on the job but it's a white person making that comment 80% of the time. Latinos never make any racist comments. Old Asian people will sometimes but the only indication is that they assume I speak their language. Black people do sometimes as well, but they're using it in an attempt to be funny and will make it clear they're joking so I don't mind.
Had a white guy try to correct one of the notices I posted once. His 'corrections' were all wrong. Things like using 'your' instead of 'you're' and 'there' instead of 'they're' and he really thought he was right. He then asked me how long I've been in the US and when I told him I had a degree in creative writing and have been paid to be a ghostwriter he stopped trying to correct me.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
All the time I get spat at. One scowl at me and there it goes. Some people go out of their way to spit in front of me to make sure I notice it, but it happens so often anyway. Trash gets thrown in front of me. Drink cups out of cars right at my feet. Yelling out windows, etc.
Get harassed in stores all the time, either by shoppers who think I am the funniest thing ever, or by store clerks pretending to not see me standing there, and then they don't want to talk to me. Self checkout is nice: it puts THEM out of a job and it does not care who I am. I win.
Sometimes store loss prevention will blatantly follow me around the entire time I am there, waiting for something to happen. I must look like a criminal AND a stupid one too if they think I'm going to do something with somebody standing right nearby the entire time. If I am not in a rush, I try to make sure to wander ALL over the store just to waste their time. And then sometimes I walk out and leave them with a full cart to put back. Why should I reward their behavior by making the purchase? I am neither a criminal or stupid.
(while they are watching me so carefully, of course they miss the employees hauling away the store via the loading dock)
Anyway, I notice when I am treated like this and remember them and choose to shop where they only care about the color of my money. Online shops are great for this. Brick and mortal retailer's biggest weakness isn't only their noncompetitive prices, it's also their awful employees.
Happened pretty often actually.
I grew up in germany and had to deal with stupid racism all the time.
Most of my friends had the same problem and a lot of classmates as well.
We did learn to live with it and didnt let it bother us after a while its just how it is if you grow up in germany as a white german you have to deal with all the hate a racism towards you.
Rarely is it ever direct racism.
If I'm shopping somewhere its common that I notice a stark contrast in the level of service I receive in contrast with someone who is the same race as the person helping me. Happens all the time at restaurants and stores.


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the well known as manufacturer of CD-RW/combo recorders, introduced its first
DVD+R/RW writer, the LiteOn LDW-401S. The Taiwanese manufacturer has chose
the "plus" format for its debut in the DVD recording market, without
following the same policy for the future products. The ATAPI/IDE half-height
DVD+RW writer supports 4x writing for both DVD+R/+RW formats.
technology is engaged by LITE-ON due to succeed buffer- under-run-free function
and great media compatibility for high-speed writing DVD+R, DVD+DW, CD-R,
CD-RW media.
the Smart-X technology LiteOn gives you the opportunity for constant Audio
CD/VCD/DVD playback and excellent data extraction. The buffer memory of 2MB
helps on DVD recording procedure.
DVD-ROM (Single layer )
Dimension :145 ( W ) x 41.3 ( H ) x 170 ( D ) mm
As you can see from the tables above LiteOn supports writing for DVD+R/RW
and CD-R/RW media.
The burn procedure can easily approach the 4x speed under CLV with
DVD+R and DVD+RW media. As far as it concerns the CD family, the maximum writing
speed for the CD-R is 40x CAV and 24x P-CAV for CD-RW Ultra Speed discs. The
of the drive is 2MB.
LiteOn LDW-401S uses the RPC II region control, allowing user to change
the drive's region 5 times in total. For our tests, we set the region code
to 2
The drive supports reading of all the DVD recordable/rewritable discs except
DVD-RAM which is also not included in the writing capabilities of the drive
with the DVD-R/-RW format and Mount Rainier.
European retail package includes the LiteOn IDE drive, one 4.7GB 4x DVD+R by
Ricoh, one 4.7GB 4x DVD+RW by Ricoh, a quick installation guide,
an audio
cable and mounting screws.
The attached software includes only Cyberlink's Power DVD XP
for video playback LiteOn could definitely include at least a burning /authoring
software for CD/DVD, as it is usually happens with all the compatible retail
The front panel of the drive is colored in ordinary gray with an eject/load
button, a busy led indicator which is green at the read process and red at
the writing,
jack with a volume control knob and the emergency eject hole.
On the disc loading tray you can see the sticker of the LiteOn website URL
placed on the right next to the CD-RW format logo while the DVD+RW format logo
is placed on the left side of the tray.
On the rear panel you can see the analog output, the ATAPI interface connector
and the power input.
The mainboard of the drive is available in the following picture. You can
click on the picture to see it in a higher resolution but please be patient
while it is loading.
The LiteOn drive was connected to our test PC and was identified
as "LITE-ON DVD+RW LDW-401S" under
WinXP. All tests were done with firmware revision ES0G.


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University of Maryland
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
3835 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742
Bill Bonstra, FAIA (B.ARCH '83) has spent his career as an architect seeking to enrich people's lives through thoughtful design, a philosophy he has extended to his relationship with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for over 30 years. This past month, Bonstra, who has supported the school over the years financially and as an advisor, mentor and teacher, pledged a $30,000 endowment through UMD's New TerpStart Matching Scholarship Program.
Bill is the first alumnus of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to give through the TerpStart Matching Scholarship Program, a new need-based scholarship program where the University will match the spendable income from the endowment in perpetuity. The program is designed to assist those students with the greatest financial need—Pell eligible students—as part of the University's continued mission to provide access and affordability to a quality college education. With the University's annual match, TerpStart allows the donor's gift to go farther, reach more students, provide greater impact and attract a more diverse student body. The TerpStart program requires a minimum of a $30,000 contribution, which is payable over five years.
The impact that this endowment will have brings Bonstra deep personal meaning. Coming from a modest upbringing in rural New Jersey, Bill relied quite heavily on financial aid during his time at UMD. Although he has supported several endowments over the years, the TerpStart Matching Scholarship Program will allow Bonstra the opportunity to make a large impact on the future of a new student. "Over the years, what has driven me is the desire to do something that is meaningful to me. This new scholarship not only helps students with the most need, it also gains the backing of the University through dollar-for-dollar matching, which really intrigued me."
The William Bonstra Scholarship Fund, which will be available to students studying architecture, is set to begin in the fall of 2014. "I am very excited to be participating in this program," said Bill. "My hopes are that I can build this endowment to a level that will help several students each year for many years to come. I hope my story will also inspire other alumni to do the same."
TerpStart will be offered until June 30, 2015. For more information, contact Laura Mikolajko.


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It's putting Hoosiers discipline and structure with athleticism. People notice it right away. —Orem basketball coach Golden Holt
They've stunned basketball experts for years. Kids from Utah, beating up on other teams packed with the nation's top youth talent from around the country. They're a novelty. They turn heads. And they're good.
Few have done it better than all-star teams called Salt Lake Metro and Utah Pump-N-Run. These are travel teams that collect Utah kids from grade school to high school and go around the country playing tournaments.
"It's putting Hoosiers discipline and structure with athleticism. People notice it right away," said longtime Salt Lake Metro sponsor and coach Golden Holt, now Orem High's basketball coach.
A core of these players, now playing at Lone Peak High and bound for BYU in basketball and football, are taking center stage nationally. Lone Peak is currently ranked No. 6 in the nation by Max Preps. Many are calling coach Quincy Lewis' team the best high school squad in state history.
Lone Peak played in a national tournament last year in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and when Lewis returned to his hotel room he had three phone calls from elite tournament directors, inviting his team, all expenses paid. On Saturday, Lone Peak traveled to Chicago to play No. 13 ranked Priviso and won in a blowout 85-46. In that game, TJ Haws scored a game-high 24 points on 8-of-10 shooting, and Mika had 18 points and 15 boards.
"Lone Peak will play in four of these tournaments in-season this year," Holt said. "It's like an NBA schedule for a high school and it's never been done."
Lone Peak will play Chester (Pa.) in the Brandon Jennings Invitational in Milwaukee on Dec. 12 and at St. Anthony High (N.J.) in Jersey City, N.J., on Jan. 21.
It all began many years ago when motivated parents like former Cougar Marty Haws, Holt and Lewis began traveling the country with kids. Most AAU teams go on a couple of trips to Portland or Las Vegas in a year. This team built up schedules that took them to half a dozen.
The current AAU group, together since the second grade, includes BYU-bound Nick Emery, TJ Haws and Eric Mika; Utah signees Parker Van Dyke (East High) and Brandon Miller (Brighton High); UVU recruits Jordan Darger and Zack Hunsaker; and Conner Toolson, Cooper Holt and Talon Shumway, who signed to play football at BYU.
"I remember one of our first wins came over the Houston Defenders, one of the great national elite clubs in the country. I remember seeing the Harrison twins, Andrew and Aaron, now signed at Kentucky, crying because they lost to our guys," coach Holt said.
Another win came over Simeon (Ill.) and its current national player of the year and Sports Illustrated coverboy, Jabari Parker, when all were sixth graders and Antonio Davis was Parker's coach.
"These Utah players came in the gyms and with their precision, teamwork, passing and shooting. (They) simply beat up on other teams. People were amazed and impressed," Holt said.
Emery and Mika are now ESPN top-100 players because of that exposure. "Experts around the country know who these players are," Holt said. In Milwaukee this past summer, TJ Haws and Mika were named among the top 10 players in an elite national tournament that included Parker's Simeon team.
And what's come of it? Future Utes Van Dyke and Miller, current Ute Jordan Loveridge, and future Cougars Emery, Haws and Mika are fearless against top competition. Why? "Because they've competed on the same stage with the Harrisons and others for years," Holt said.
"I'll predict Dave Rose at BYU, with these players, will someday make it to the Elite Eight or Final Four because they sense they belong and they can compete physically and mentally," Holt said. "They won't be thinking they're 10 points down before they even get on the court."
Next Saturday, many of these local players will be in action against each other when Holt's defending 4A state champion Orem team, with Hunsaker and BYU-bound Dalton Nixon, will take on defending 5A champion Lone Peak in the second year of the Great Western Shootout at Orem High. Go to greatwesternshootout.com for more information.
"The game will be at 5 p.m., right before the BYU-Utah game. It will give Cougar fans an opportunity to see future players in action at one place and time before going to that game in the Marriott Center," Holt said.
This tournament also includes Basha High (Ariz.), Bountiful, Denver East (Colo.), South Sevier, Foothill (Nev.) and West Jordan.
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Max Preps USA Top 10
1. Simeon (Ill.)
2. Fort Bend Travis (Texas)
3. Prestonwood Christian (Texas)
4. Long Beach Poly (Calif.)
5.Chester (Pa.)
6. Lone Peak (Utah)
7. Rainier Beach (Wash.)
8. Whitney Young (Ill.)
9. Southwind (Tenn.)
10. Salesian (Calif.)


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A kawaii neko is one who comes to japanese class dressed as if he/she were going to an anime convention. It litterally means "cute cat" in japanese, and it is usually one of the first things a n00b can say because they watch a lot of anime.
Frilly socks, any type of hat with ears, and parasols. (Mind you this is in the context of being worn to a class.)
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Small crustaceans and worms that poke along near or on the seafloor are favorite eats. After being nabbed by poison-filled tentacles, the captured food is transferred to the mouth, which is attached to a long, tubular stomach extending nearly the bell's vertical length. It isn't luck that determines whether a jelly dines en route but distinctive, bright-red, light-sensitive ocelli (eye spots) located at the base of each tentacle that detect prey. In this case, seeing isn't about identifying the big "E" on any eye chart but surmising light from shadow. I know the bell jelly sees something, based on its feverish pulsing to escape the flashes from my strobe. Looking under the bell, one finds organs, besides the stomach. Of note are the gonads (sex organs) — more a collection of sausage-like appendages that dangle from the under surface of the umbrella. Early taxonomists were clearly impressed enough to celebrate them by choosing Polyorchis, meaning many testicles, for the genus.
Back in the 1800s, when this bell jelly was identified, no one could have imagined its role in modern neuroscience studies. Though the jelly has long been known to bear nerve-rich tissues within its margins, not until the last couple of decades has it been understood that the tissues contain the neurotransmitter dopamine. In higher animals, neurotransmitters comprise a group of chemicals that allow nerve cells (a.k.a. neurons) to communicate with each other and, as a result, produce or inhibit actions (mental, emotional, physical). Though they don't actually touch each other to communicate, neurons exchange information in the spaces (synapses) between where one neuron ends and another begins. When a message reaches the end of the first neuron, it triggers the release of neurotransmitter chemicals into the synapse, then these chemicals travel across the synapse and touch the beginning part of the next neuron in the chain. That touch triggers the next neuron to spread the message on down the chain of cells. Dopamine, a well-known neurotransmitter chemical, has been used in human treatment (L-dopa) for motor diseases like Parkinson's. But neurotransmitter mechanisms can go haywire, with other brain disorder outcomes like hallucinations, paranoia, depression and other symptoms of mental illness.
The phylum Cnidaria comprises what are believed to be the most primitive organisms (jellies, anemones and corals) with a true nervous system. Dopamine is found in extracts taken from the nerve-rich tissues of the margins of this jelly (not so for other compounds in the same family like epinephrine, norepinephrine and serotonin) and is shown to be involved in the jelly's swimming mechanism from studies carried out on contracting (crumpling) and relaxing pulses.
While dopamine is known to be floating around the tissue that surrounds the nerve cells, only recently have researchers carried out experiments that lead them to believe the nerve cells themselves might be responsible for releasing the neurotransmitter. If so, the message would be released from the neuron then relayed to the muscle to permit contraction. Whether or not the dopamine-rich tissue is the neurotransmitter link inhibiting or modulating the jelly's central nervous system will only be known when studies definitively show that dopamine is also present inside the nerve cells, not just in the surrounding tissue, and that the cells do in fact release dopamine.
Some may wonder why time is "wasted" studying a primitive animal without a brain just because it has dopamine, when we should be putting our time and money into understanding and treating brain malfunctions? That the bell jelly has bottom-rung status evolutionarily speaks to its relatively simple mechanics (few nerve cells next to our billions of nerve cells), making it an easier model to study. Although we branched off from jellies, we still share origins, so understanding the workings of a jelly provides us with a refined starting point with which to understand ourselves. In this case, knowledge gleaned from understanding the jelly neurotransmitter mechanism helps us reconstruct the early evolution of the ways and means of neurochemical communication, since it is presumed that it was in the Cnideria, or a common ancestor, that such mechanisms first evolved.
— Judith Lea Garfield, biologist and underwater photographer, has authored two natural history books about the underwater park off La Jolla Cove and La Jolla Shores. Send comments to email@example.com


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Celebrating, remembering and fighting back
The white paper bags lining the track of the Greater Auglaize County Relay for Life this weekend each represented a life.
Some were in honor of cancer survivors, while others were in memory of those who lost their battles with the disease. They recognized grandparents, children, brothers, sisters, parents, prom dates, and friends from all walks of life.
As longtime friends and former co-workers Susan Little and Evie Becker rounded laps they celebrated the life of Little, a breast cancer survivor, and remembered Becker's husband, Danny Eaton, who lived less than two months after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
"We're here to support each other," Becker said.
Little, who had recently completed her treatments when Eaton was diagnosed, helped her friend take care of him.
"We hope to help find a cure," Little said as both stressed the importance of early diagnosis.
Becker, who said she still feels her husband's presence, sees Relay as a celebration of life. As a nurse she also remembers giving chemotherapy to patients, such as Stanley Morden, and the loss of their great souls.
"I'm a survivor for four and a half years," Little said. "It is exhilarating to still be alive, to wake up every day and still get a chance."
Luanne Kuck, a cancer survivor of 15 years from New Knoxville, comes out every year with her friend, Judy Kuck, and their husbands, who helped her when she was sick.
"I've come to relay every since the first one," Luanne Kuck said. "I like coming out and seeing all the survivors to help raise money for a good cause and seeing the lighting of the luminaries."
A group of Wapakoneta High School students who belong to the flag corps walked and danced their way around the track as they remembered grandparents who fought cancer.
"Cancer is a heartbreaking thing and not easy on anyone," Ashley Golden said. "Hopefully all the money raised and work done goes back to help those in need."
Alexis Hoelscher said it's great to see the whole community come together in such a way to fight cancer.
"Taking one step helps a lot," Alexis said.
Ashlynn Cotrell, 6, and a member of a group of Daisies with a team at Relay this year, said they are "making a cure for cancer."
"We are helping cancer be cured," Ashlynn said of fundraisers held at the event and prior to it. "A Girl Scout's job is about helping."
Joanne Sidener, who helped form the young team, said it was something she always wanted to do after losing her mother to cancer and thought involving the girls would be a great chance for them to learn about helping others. A representative of the American Cancer Society came and talked to the 5- to 12-year-olds about what their work would mean.
For Connie Kantner, whose brother Chris Ewing passed away this year from cancer, her first experience participating in Relay for Life has been healing.
"It was one of the first things I thought of when I found out he had cancer and there wasn't much we could do to help him," Kantner said. "We wanted to fight the cause."
Her team of family members and Ewing's high school friends sold baked goods and beaded bracelets recognizing specific types of cancer at Relay. Kantner mapped out a schedule so someone was walking laps throughout the event, which extended from 6 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday.
"We're trying to really get into it," said Kantner, whose brother lived in Florida when he died within weeks of his diagnosis of colon cancer.
"It feels like one gynormous family," she said. "People that come up are so friendly and they all are going or have went through what we have. It's really touching. I'm glad we did it. We'll definitely be back."
Her sister Chris Terkelsen said she knows their brother would be tickled at what they've accomplished.
"He was real humble, but we know this would make him happy," Terkelsen said. "I think he's watching. I have to believe that."


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aac files take ages to start on Ro. Why?
Hi, I'm a total newcomer to the Ro, and these boards.
I took advantage of the recent experimental trials of 320kbps aac audio for the last week of the Proms on BBC Radio 3 to use suitable software to download a few to test. The files were wrapped up in flv files from which I extracted them with FLVExtract.exe. Once loaded onto the Ro (firmware version 1.10 or 1.22) they do eventually play, (well, sometimes they don't and the dreaded system check and restart ensues), but only after about 60 seconds of inaction. The files are fairly large (in the order of 250MB) but should they really be taking that long to start?
Oh, and I haven't tried yet but does anyone know if the Ro can be tricked into playing mp2 files by renaming the suffix as mp3? Perhaps I should just give it a try.
[Update: So far so good with renaming mp2 files as mp3. The test 192kbps (48khz sample rate) file from BBC Radio 3 DAB is playing well. However, it's a bit early to be sure. In my experience of other players on which I have tried this work-round, after some time horrible bursts of digital artefacts in the form of loud 'cracks' or 'squeaks' manifest themselves. I'll report back.]
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You might want to try repacking the AAC files into a new MP4 container. Something like mp4 box or foobar2000 might be able to do it. The reason I suggest this is that MP4 is a weird container that supports all kinds of really inefficient layouts for audio files, some of which can be extremely slow to decode if the file is very large. If the file started out as an FLV it might be packed into a really weird MP4 file and thus have these issues.
Thanks for that, saratoga. I will try to investigate.
The the mp2 renamed as mp3 is still going strong without any unwanted interruptions, or loud reports. Since it has now been playing for some 40 minutes, I think the Ro might just have come up trumps.
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The Evolution Of The Netbook/Cloud Computing, Again, Shows The Difference Between Invention And Innovation
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We tend to think of technology as a steady march, a progression of increasingly better mousetraps that succeed based on their merits. But in the end, evolution may provide a better model for how technological battles are won. One mutation does not, by itself, define progress. Instead, it creates another potential path for development, sparking additional changes and improvements until one finally breaks through and establishes a new organism.That is the process of innovation. And yet, we tend to only celebrate the invention -- the first idea -- rather than all the evolutionary process that it takes to make something successful. Things like patents tend to block that evolutionary process by limiting the pace at which those mutations and developments can occur. They slow down innovation, rather than letting it flow, by putting an arbitrary wall around each new step, rather than letting the evolution proceed uninhibited. We may get the innovation eventually, but at a much slower pace than we might otherwise.


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Adriaan Soeterbroek is a Dutch cartoonist. Born in Pijnacker, he is settled in Alkmaar since 1970. He had his cartoons printed in several publications and made two comic strips for Welzijnsweekblad: 'Café Welwezen' (1978-81) and 'Maarten-Kees' (1981). He self-published two book collections containing these comic strips.
A cartoon he made for the VARA website Joop.nl in 2011 caused national uproar, because it compared rightwing politician Geert Wilder's idea of "harness villages" to the German concentrationcamps of World War II.


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FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — The Frederick County sheriff's office is investigating after a man's body was found in a Frederick motel pool.
The Frederick News-Post reports that deputies called to the Days Inn on Buckeystown Pike on Saturday evening found the man's body at the bottom of the pool.
Capt. Tim Clarke says Christopher Michael Robert, 41, of Ijamsville was pronounced dead on the scene. Clarke says Robert and his mother were staying at the motel because the air conditioner at his home was broken. He says no foul play is suspected.
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Sarasota city plan and zoning code would have to be changed before hundreds of units could be built.
Rosemary District residents grilled a group of developers this week about plans for an apartment complex that would require zoning changes in their neighborhood.
The group, Rosalyne Holdings, LLC, called the meeting Tuesday at City Hall to discuss plans for an apartment complex on Cocoanut Avenue, between 10th Street and Boulevard of the Arts.
Residents had questions about the building proposal itself, but also about how the plan could transform the neighborhood. The two four-story buildings proposed would include as many as 450 units in an area that, under the current rules, can house only about 150 people.
To make that possible, the developers want to change the city plan and zoning code that govern the Rosemary District.
Some owners and operators of businesses in the neighborhood welcomed the creation of an overlay district in the neighborhood. The district, reaching from Fruitville Road north to 10th Street, and from Cocoanut Avenue east to North Orange Avenue, would allow the maximum allowable density on individual properties to increase from 25 homes per acre to 75. The total density of the district would remain the same under the plan.
Sarasota attorney Bill Merill, representing Rosalyne Holdings, said the group sought an overlay district beyond their building project because some felt there was a need for more dense population in the area to support nearby businesses.
"This area is vitally important to downtown," Merill said.
Some representatives from local businesses, just outside the proposed district, suggested expanding it to include their properties too.
But other residents voiced skepticism. Some worried that the new apartment buildings would impact them directly, while others questioned the long-term impact of the zoning changes.
"It happens to be right outside my window and, frankly, I don't like the idea," said Paul Cassidy, who lives near Cocoanut Avenue. "There are a lot of other implications — for example, traffic."
Other complaints centered on noise, light pollution, parking conflicts, the aesthetic appearance of the building, and the disruptive influence of "younger people" moving in.
A few residents questioned whether allowing increased density of one property in the district would rob potential from others. If the district as a whole remained under the same density limit, then an increase at some properties might come at the expense of another, they said.
Greg Hall, an architect with offices in the Rosemary district, said he hoped any changes would protect property owners who might add density in the future. "I would hope we could find something more equitable than 'first come, first served,' " he said.
Joel Freedman, a development consultant working with Rosalyne Holdings, said those issues would be addressed in applying for the zoning changes and planning the project. Before Rosalyne Holdings can think of building on the site, they must have amendments to the city plan and zoning code, and that will take months.
After filing an application for those changes by February, the developers will have to see it through the planning board, public hearings, a review by the state government, and the City Commission.
If all goes as they hope, Freedman said, the changes in the Rosemary District could be in place in September and the building project could be underway. Another public hearing will likely be held in April.


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The Tigers from Fayetteville High School (11-7) suffered two upset road trips last week, going down to Moore County and Community. Both teams are struggling to stay out of the district cellar.
The loss to Community came in overtime. Fortunately for FHS, with Huntland's loss to Forrest, the Tigers remain in the third spot in the standings.
Currently in District 9-A action, Middle Tennessee Christian is 8-1; Cascade, 7-3; Fayetteville and Huntland, 6-4; Forrest, 4-5; Eagleville, 3-6; Community 2-7; and Moore County is 2-8.
Friday night the Tigers went down to the Vikings, 90-76, in overtime.
After getting off to a slow start, FHS trailed 17-6 at the end of the first quarter.
The Tigers began chipping away at the deficit, winning the second frame, 21-18, led by James Keith who scored 10 points in the eight minutes. Community was up 35-27 at the break.
Fayetteville kept their foot on the gas in the third, winning the period, 16-6, taking the lead, 43-41.
But, the Viking sent it into overtime, taking the fourth frame, 19-17, knotting it at 60-60 at the end of regulation.
The four minutes of free basketball belonged to Community. Despite the Tigers scoring 16 points, the Vikings added 30, hitting three from the arch and going 19 of 21 from the line for the win.
James Keith led for the Tigers with 21 points. Nicholas Hopkins followed with 17; Aaron Parks, 13; Michael Parks, 12; Isaiah Thompson, 11; and Dorian Thompson had 2.
FHS hit 24 shots from the paint and 6 from the arch with Michael Parks and Nicholas Hopkins hitting two each; Aaron Parks and James Keith had one.
From the line, the Tigers were 10 of 14.
Luke Primm led for the Vikings with 28 points.
Moore County
Tuesday night the Tigers were defeated on the road by Moore County, 52-47. FHS led 20-8 in the first quarter, but the Raiders took control of the game from that point on. Nicholas Hopkins scored 10 points in the period.
The Raiders won the second frame, 16-8, and FHS was up, 28-24, at the break.
Moore County took the third period, 17-12, and the Tigers trailed 41-40 at the end of three.
Fayetteville struggled offensively in the fourth with the Tigers only points coming from Aaron Parks and James Keith. The Raiders won the 8 minutes, 11-7, to finish with the win.
Ben Harvey led for Moore County with 18 points.
Hopkins led for the Tigers with 16 points. Keith finished with 7; Michael Parks, 9; Aaron Parks, 7; and Isaiah Steele scored 2.
FHS was 10 of 19 from the line. Hopkins had one 3-pointer for the Tigers.
For their next action, Fayetteville hosts Cascade Tuesday, then Middle Tennessee Christian comes to town on Friday. Game times are at 6 p.m.


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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan Strome scored in the first period as Canada beat the United States, 2-1, to advance at the World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia. Jacob Trouba scored for the United States, which needs to beat Slovakia on Monday in Group B to move on. Canada faces Russia on Monday to determine which team gets a bye into the semifinals. Nugent-Hopkins, 19, the first pick of the 2011 NHL draft by Edmonton, had 52 points in 62 games for the Oilers last season. Slovakia stayed alive by beating Germany, 2-1, on an overtime power-play goal by Peter Ceresnak. In Group A, Finland beat Switzerland, 5-4, on a shootout goal by Markus Granlund, who also scored twice in regulation. The Czech Republic defeated Latvia, 4-2, to advance. Martin Frk scored twice.
Rockets' White won't go to D-League
Rockets rookie Royce White refused his assignment to Houston's D-League affiliate, yet another setback to his return to the court. White, the 16th overall pick in the NBA draft, has spent most of the season on the inactive list while he and the Rockets figure out how to handle his anxiety disorder and overall mental health. White's assignment to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers on Saturday looked to be a positive step, but on Sunday he released an almost 500-word statement where he said in part: ''I have chosen to not play, because the doctors and I believe it to be unsafe for unqualified Rockets front office personnel to make medical decisions, as they are not mental health professionals.'' . . . Fifth-ranked Indiana will have freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell back Monday night at Iowa. The NCAA cleared Hollowell of any potential infractions, two days after Hollowell and his family notified the school of a potential ''compliance issue.''
Williams, Isner team to lead US to win
Venus Williams and John Isner led the United States to a 2-1 victory over South Africa at the Hopman Cup mixed team competition in Perth, Australia. Williams rallied to defeat Chanelle Scheepers, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. After Kevin Anderson beat Isner, 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (7-5), the match came down to mixed doubles. Williams and Isner beat the South Africans, 6-3, 6-2, to clinch the victory. Spain beat France, 2-1, after Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues won the mixed doubles against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Mathilde Johansson. AndreaPetkovic, who retired with a right knee injury against Australia on Saturday, was diagnosed with a ruptured meniscus and will miss the Australian Open. She will be replaced by Tatjana Malek for Germany's Cup matches against Italy and Serbia . . . Third-ranked Serena Williams opened the 2013 season in style, needing less than an hour to beat fellow American Varvara Lepchenko, 6-2, 6-1, in the first round of the Brisbane (Australia) International.
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Richardson caps weekend with record
Speedskater Heather Richardson won her third title in three days at the US Long Track Championships in Kearns, Utah, setting a national record in the 1,500 meters. Brian Hansen won the men's race. Richardson's time of 1 minute, 53.84 seconds lowered the old mark of 1:54.19 set in 2009 by ex-Olympian Jennifer Rodriguez. She won the 500 on Friday with the fastest time in the world this year and won the 1,000 on Saturday, setting national records in both races . . . Ex-champion Anders Jacobsen of Norway won the opening stage of the Four Hills ski jumping competition in Oberstdorf, Germany, finishing ahead of defending champion and World Cup leader Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria . . . Russia's Maxim Vylegzhanin won the second stage of the Tour de Ski in Oberhof, Germany, and took the lead in the World Cup series. Defending champion Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland won the women's 9K pursuit.
Jimenez breaks leg in skiing accident
Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez broke his right shinbone while skiing Saturday and will be sidelined for up to five months after undergoing surgery in his native Malaga. Jimenez, 48, was a vice captain on Europe's Ryder Cup-winning team in September. In November, he became the oldest European Tour winner by capturing his third Hong Kong Open title . . . Texas A&M defensive end Damontre Moore will forgo his senior season to enter the NFL draft . . . Cain Velasquez (11-1) reclaimed the UFC heavyweight title Saturday night in Las Vegas, battering Juniordos Santos (15-2) on the way to a lopsided unanimous decision in UFC 155. Dos Santos took the UFC belt away from Velasquez in November 2011 in 64 seconds, earning a first-round stoppage win in Anaheim, Calif.


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Greenlight Capital said Thursday that it is suing Apple in a New York federal court over the company's proposal to make it more difficult for it to issue preferred stock. David Einhorn, who heads the investment fund, said the proposal would close down one avenue for Apple to reward shareholders with more cash.
Preferred stock is designed primarily as a way for companies to deliver a fixed income to shareholders. It differs from common stock, which generally doesn't promise a regular flow of income but rather is a wager on a company's long-term growth.
Apple is still the world's most valuable company, but its stock has lost 35 percent of its value since September, as it's become obvious that its once-rapid growth has slowed down. The company is fabulously profitable, and Wall Street wants the company to share more of that money with its shareholders rather than tucking it away in low-yielding bank accounts.
"Apple has $145 per share of cash on its balance sheet. As a shareholder, this is your money," Einhorn said in a letter to the company. He has a history of criticizing companies publicly, often after shorting their stocks.
In a statement Thursday, Apple said its management and board continue "active discussions" about what to do with the money, and it will take Einhorn's proposal into consideration.
Its $137 billion in cash makes up nearly a third of Apple's stock market value. Shares of the Cupertino, Calif., company traded at $456.95 in the late afternoon, up $2.25, or 0.5 percent, from Wednesday's close.
Corporations normally don't hoard cash the way Apple does. They keep enough on hand for immediate needs, and either invest the rest in their operations or hand it out to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks. If they need more cash for, say, an acquisition, they borrow it.
Analysts say the company should be doing more if it wants to lure investors back to its shares. Stuart Jeffrey at Nomura Securities calculates that Apple will generate about another $103 billion over three years to add to the $137 billion it has now, but it has only committed to returning $45 billion of this $240 billion in total cash to shareholders.


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2008 Portability Study: Portability rules
However, she adds, employee customers won't necessarily be looking to take foods back to their desks.
"A lot of employees have expressed an interest in take-home dinners," she explains. "Whenever we menu chicken dumplings, for example, people will get extra servings to take home."
Boucher believes a rotisserie station planned for the new servery will feed into the desire for portability, because customers will be buying whole roasted chickens to take home for dinner.
Portable foods are by no means the main driver for any institution or company's foodservice program. On average, about 22% of a department's total business is generated by portable menu items. The highest percentage, 25%, is found in hospitals, followed by 24% in schools and 22% in colleges. Interestingly, although every B&I operator surveyed offers portable foods, only 18% of their revenue on average comes from such items.
What people are buying: The basic rule as regards portability is this: If it can fit into a portable container, customers will take it out. According to our respondents, there is no single type of food that dominates as a portable item. Salad items from salad bars and entrées from the main or grill lines are most popular, with 16% of portable business on average coming from these stations.
Beverages, at 15%, are next, followed by deli sandwiches (14%), pre-packaged breakfast foods (9%) and other pre-packaged foods such as sandwiches and salads (8%).
Each market segment obviously has its preferences. For example, colleges are most likely to see entrées taken from the cafeteria, with 22% of take-away business from this category. By contrast, B&I operators report only 9% of portable business comes from entrées. For these operators, deli sandwiches are the hot ticket, making up nearly 19% of business. Hospitals tend to see a healthy focus, with the largest single percentage of portable business—20%—coming from salad bars.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., recognizes that portability can mean any type of food, so Dining Services designed a takeout unit that allows students to get a variety of items at one time. "On The Go!" is arranged so students can select up to five items quickly, bag and pay for them with one swipe of a meal card.
Half of respondents expect portable business to increase this year, and most of the rest expect business to remain steady. Among those who expect business to grow, the increase is projected to be 10%. Overall, about 75% of operators are actively looking to grow the business, either by setting up dedicated stations for grab-and-go foods (52%), purchasing new packaging that enhances portability (48%), improving merchandising of portable items (40%) and promoting portability more aggressively through coupons, discounts and e-marketing (19%).
Some operators say their portable business has plateaued after several years of steady increases. Sarah Johnson, director of dining services at Purdue, says when grab-and-go units were added, students flocked to them.


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Haven't been here in five years. But it's pretty clear to me that Obama ******* sucks. Have all liberals here gotten around to this, or are there still some apologists? Some points:
*Obama murdered an American, and legally authorized the murder of others
*Obama tried to extend the Iraq War, only stymied because Iraq wanted home prosecution of US soldier war crimes
*Obama has continued Gitmo, and rendition
*Obama has ordered/not prevented the mandhandling of objective journalists at airports
*Obama has advocated the prosection of whistleblowers of US fiscal lawbreakers, and US military lawbreakers
*Obama has never even charged any banking executive to fault, and has immunized all previous administrations from war crimes
*Obama has started several new wars via drones: Yemen. Somalia. Libya.
*Obama has greatly increased drone strikes at Yemen and Pakistan, leading to hundreds of innocent deaths
*Obama has authorized drone strikes at weddings and funerals bystanders
*Obama has targeted "any man of military age" as an accepted target of death
*Obama has not put forth any legal rationale for any of the above, depiste FOIA and ACLU requests
*Obama has not gained anything on the Palestine-Isreal conflict
*Obama has, to the above, not prevented Israel building new houses/settlement
*Obama has, as his many formers, supported the dictator Mubarak
*Obama has saber-rattled with Iran, despite a reather equitable solution at hand, which the US rejected
Sure, maye he's better domestically. He did allow gays in the military. He achieved a universal health care that primarily beneifts health care corporations rather than individuals. He directed domestice law enforcement to not enforce marijuana, until oh, they have assraped California marijuana providers.
Seriously, he sucks. Unlike Romney, Paul, Democratic write-in, etc., Obama is a PROVEN enemy of civil liberties, the Constitution, reasonable foreign policy, and peacefulness. Anyone thinking he's going to do an about-face in his second term is a pie-in-the-sky-staring hippie idiot. Obama is a piece of ****. He will continue Bush's 3rd term into the 4th with very little change.


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DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio man with six previous drunken-driving convictions has been found guilty of a seventh. This time, authorities say he caused a crash that killed a woman.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that 45-year-old Marc Kraft was found guilty Wednesday of eight counts related to the fatal November crash. He could face as much as 28 years in prison when he's sentenced Friday.
Police said Kraft's blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit when he slammed his pickup truck into the back of a Subaru stopped an at intersection in Delaware, near Columbus.
Thirty-six-year-old Heidi Hecker was killed, and her 10-month-old daughter and boyfriend were injured.
Kraft had not had a valid license since 1992, and has six previous drunken-driving convictions in Pennsylvania.


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In addition to an outdoor pool, Promenade Champagnat provides a steam room and a 24-hour fitness centre. The aparthotel offers a restaurant. A 24-hr business centre is on-site at this 3.5-star property.
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- Pool sunloungers
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- Free WiFi
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- Outdoor pool
- Multilingual staff
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- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
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- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Award-winning author Louise Erdrich has been named the 39th recipient of the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state's top honor.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced Monday that he will bestow the honor on Erdrich during a ceremony April 19 in Wahpeton. Erdrich, who was born in Little Falls, Minn., in 1954, and lives in Minneapolis, grew up in Wahpeton. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
"I will always consider Wahpeton, and the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, my home," Erdrich said in a statement. "As I've been helped by powers beyond my ordinary talents, this award is for all. It honors my family, teachers, friends, ancestors, the characters in my books, and the generosity of this land."
Erdrich has maintained strong ties to North Dakota while becoming a prominent figure in the field of literature, often featuring the state in her books, Dalrymple said in a statement.
"She has proudly represented our great state and it is my privilege to honor her with this prestigious recognition," he said.
Erdrich is the author of 14 novels, as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her book "The Plague of Doves" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Her latest novel, "The Round House," won the National Book Award for fiction.
The Rough Rider Award — named after the former U.S. president who once ranched in the North Dakota Badlands — is bestowed by the state's governor on those who have been influenced by North Dakota in achieving national recognition in their chosen fields.
Past winners include musicians Lawrence Welk and Bobby Vee, baseball great Roger Maris, journalist Eric Sevareid, author Louis L'Amour, actress Peggy Lee, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers basketball coach Phil Jackson.
Portraits of all of the winners hang in the state Capitol in Bismarck. Erdrich's portrait will be unveiled during the Wahpeton ceremony.
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Sharples farewells Sir Paul Holmes
Press Release – The Maori Party
Dr Pita Sharples, Co-Leader of the Maori Party, is mourning the loss of Sir Paul Holmes, whom he calls a great New Zealander, and a good friend.
1 February 2013
Sharples farewells Sir Paul Holmes
Dr Pita Sharples, Co-Leader of the Maori Party, is mourning the loss of Sir Paul Holmes, whom he calls a great New Zealander, and a good friend.
Dr Sharples said "it is with great sadness that I learned of Sir Paul Holmes passing today. He has been a special friend of mine, supporting me in all my endeavours."
"He was there to support the establishment of the urban marae at a time when not many Maori and Pakeha did; he supported the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Maori as a bona fide education model; and we also shared a special love for the Hawkes Bay which was always a point of connection."
"In return, Sir Paul had my absolute support and friendship in his activities and actions."
Dr Sharples said "he was an extraordinary commentator, interviewer, never afraid to push the envelope, and often with his trademark impish sense of humour."
"He was undoubtedly a great New Zealander. He loved his family, and he loved us as well. My thoughts are with his whanau and friends who are mourning at this time."
"Kei te rangatira, kei te hoa, haere i te mohio kua arohatia koe. Haere ki te okioki ki te mano ki te tini. Koutou ki a koutou, haere."
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We survived the first significant cold spell. A second one is coming this weekend.
Area Division II and III teams are hoping not to hit the skids any time soon. Their respective playoff tournaments are less than a month away.
Almost all local teams are still in the hunt for a postseason berth. Some could clinch (or have clinched) spots this week.


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Verizon Thinkfinity has secured another great content partner with The Electric Company to connect with today's kids, parents, and educators. The Electric Company is a multimedia literacy experience designed to teach reading concepts through fun and engaging videos, games, and activities. Resources are available free to all.
New episodes of The Electric Company will begin on PBS KIDS GO! starting Monday, February 7th.


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A song about the explosions at Boston Marathon has gathered more than 1,200 hits on Youtube and it is by a Connecticut musician.
Derek Waldron of Columbia said after he saw on television, he felt compelled to write a song for the victims of the Boston bombings.
"It's called I Will Run and it was inspired by the everything that happened at the Boston Marathon, and everything that happened the other day," he said. "And it was on the news and by like 10:30 p.m. I had seen it, and it was so heavy that I needed to step away for a little bit. And I just went to the piano and it just wrote itself really."
Waldron, who is music teacher for Oak Grove Montessori School, said he felt a close connection to what happened.
"And all the pain will find its way home back to where it rightly lives. I won't look back over my shoulder because the past never gives," Waldron sings in I Will Run. "There is nothing that I can't do when my feet are on the ground, you can take away my body but you'll never hold me down."
He is a runner himself and said he and his dad dreamed of running the Boston Marathon together.
"Its just such a positive event for everyone involved the whole that was just so sad that I just wrote that song," Waldron said.
Since posting I Will Run, A Tribute - In Memory of the Boston Marathon Waldron said he's surprised by the video's growing number of views, but glad to share his way of helping others heal.
"I'm thrilled and I just always," he said. "All I've ever wanted is to touch people with my music and reach out."
As of 1:30 p.m., I Will Run has 1,287 views. and has been sent to The Ellen DeGeneres Show by Waldron's Facebook fans.
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Conley coming through for Grizzlies vs Clippers
- Article by: TERESA M. WALKER
- Associated Press
- April 28, 2013 - 1:48 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Los Angeles Clippers are focusing much more of their attention on Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley, and he has only himself to blame.
Conley is having a bit of a coming out party in this first-round series, scoring a postseason-best 28 points in Game 2, a performance he followed by handing out 10 assists with three steals and no turnovers, which hadn't been done in the NBA playoffs since John Stockton in 2001.
He topped that in Game 4, setting a Grizzlies' postseason record Saturday with 13 assists, 15 points and two turnovers.
Clippers guard Chris Paul says Conley is approaching elite point guard status in the NBA.
"The team goes as he goes," Paul said. "I think that's what their team realizes. When he plays well, they play well. They feed off his energy. I try to contain him as much as possible, but Mike is one of those guys year in and year out just keeps getting better, and he's a handful."
Paul said that before Conley handed out 23 assists over two games as the Grizzlies evened up this series at 2-all with Game 5 on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
With his play the past two games, Conley became just the eighth player since the 1992 postseason to hand out at least 23 assists with no more than two turnovers over a two-game span in the same playoffs.
Rajon Rondo had 27 assists with two turnovers for Boston last year. Paul did it twice with New Orleans in 2008 with 23 assists and one followed by 28 assists and two turnovers. Jason Kidd had 25 assists and two turnovers for Phoenix in 2001, while Mark Jackson had 28 assists and two turnovers in 1998 with 24 assists and two in 1999. Muggsy Bogues had 23 assists and two turnovers for Charlotte in 1993 and Terry Porter had 25 and two turnovers for Portland in 1992 according to STATS.
Conley insists he's just trying to match up against Paul and do the best he can.
"I have to match him ... in order for us to win," Conley said.
The six-year veteran has blossomed for the Grizzlies since Memphis traded away leading scorer Rudy Gay on Jan. 30 to Toronto. Since the All-Star break, Conley averaged 17.6 points in March and 17 points in April as he scored 20 or more points in 10 of the final 17 games of the regular season. He also led the NBA with 174 steals this season, breaking his own team record by 30.
"He's played well in the regular season," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said Sunday. "And I think after the first game the people coming out and biting him in the back again. But you just have to go out and play and compete."
Conley has his teammates' confidence.
"We expect Mike to make the right play pretty much every time," center Marc Gasol said.
Conley has performed well enough in this series that the Clippers have made defensive adjustments trying to corral the 6-foot-1 guard.
"I've got to get used to them playing that way, certain ways and being schemed because I haven't had to deal with that in my career having so many guys on our team to scheme against," Conley said. "It's something new for me, so hopefully I'll adjust."
Not that Conley is complaining. He was the No. 4 overall draft selection out of Ohio State in 2007, and the Grizzlies rewarded him with a five-year, $40 million extension in November 2010.
"It's good to have a little bit of respect around here, but I'm just trying to get better as the days go on," Conley said.
Conley is a speedy guard, and his ability to dart through the lane for easy layups or quick passes to Zach Randolph or Marc Gasol have hurt the Clippers. Los Angeles coach Vinny Del Negro said they have to be able to control Conley a little bit.
"If he plays on the perimeter, that's better for us," Del Negro said. "But he's capable of making shots as well. We got to pick our spots with him, and we know how important he is to kind of running their team."
Conley didn't let going 1 of 9 from the floor in Game 3's 94-82 win distract him. Not only did he hit his four free throw attempts, he also grabbed six rebounds and blocked two shots playing more than 37 minutes. In Game 4, Conley had seven of his assists by halftime. He also hit two of his three 3-pointers.
The Grizzlies haven't had a last-second shot yet in this series. Critics have wondered who would take that shot, but Paul has an idea who will have the ball.
"There was once upon a time if the game was on the line, you knew it was going to Rudy or Zach for the game-winner," Paul said. "Now they go to Mike, and rightfully so. I think that shows how much confidence they have in him."
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Associated Press: Pelosi Holds Global Warming Talks
By Charles Babington
WASHINGTON, (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on an overseas trip to embrace an audience and a topic for which President Bush has shown scant affection: 'Old Europe' and global warming.
Pelosi, D-Calif., and seven other House members left Saturday for meetings with scientists and politicians in Greenland, Germany and Belgium on ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The trip comes shortly before a climate change summit next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012.
Bush rejected that accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and unfair excludes developing countries like China and India from its obligations. Pelosi, who strongly disagrees with that decision and many other of Bush's environmental policies, told The Associated Press on Friday that she said she wants to work with the administration rather than provoke it.
But Pelosi stopped short of condemning the president's call for slowing the nation's growth rate in carbon emissions, an approach that many say is too meek.
'I think there are better ideas,' Pelosi said. 'I want to keep the door completely open to working with the president on the issue of energy independence and global warming. … There are plenty of areas where we can find common ground.'
Since Democrats took over Congress in January, both the House and Senate have proposed to push the nation more aggressively to reduce carbon emissions.
Pelosi set up a new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and appointed Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., as its chairman. The committee cannot write legislation, but was created to study and offer recommendations on how to deal with global warming.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee recently approved a bill to obligate the administration to send senior diplomats to international meetings on climate change 'with instructions to secure binding commitments for reform,' according to a committee statement.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is pushing a nonbinding resolution that would press the administration to work on several diplomatic fronts to combat global warming.
The new head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, is a strong advocate of battling climate change. She replaced Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who has called global warming a hoax.
Pelosi acknowledged that some in Congress and the administration see climate change as a hopeless cause while others give it their highest priority. In seeking solutions, she said, 'we need to shorten the distance between inconceivable and inevitable.'
Accompanying Pelosi on the trip are Markey and Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.; Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.; Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, D-S.D.; David Hobson, R-Ohio; John Larson, D-Conn.; and Hilda Solis, D-Calif.


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BRAIDWOOD — It seems odd that, until last Friday, Seneca hadn't won an Interstate Eight Conference boys basketball tournament championship, but then the sample size is small.
The 2013 tournament was only the seventh held by the conference, and during that time, the conference has consisted of 12 teams instead of the eight it had for many years, giving the Fighting Irish added competition.
Seneca has fielded teams that you would have thought were capable of winning one during those six fruitless years, but it's not as though either of its state-qualifying teams of the past decade got the chance to play in one. Mark Aubry's teams never got the chance to play in a conference tournament. Nor did Garrett Callahan — whose jersey number (33) will be retired by Seneca next Saturday, by the way.
But Seneca's drought wasn't the only I-8 Tournament quirk that was ended through Seneca's 50-34 win over Westmont. Up until then, no No. 1 seed had ever won the conference tournament. Again, six years isn't a giant sample, but it's pretty remarkable that the team deemed to be the best in the conference failed to win the tournament every single year for that whole time.
That all changed with this year's Irish, but their road to the title wasn't an easy one. After a first-round bye, they were pushed by Reed-Custer before winning 78-69. I was there for the second-round game against Herscher, a 43-34 win last Tuesday that was more competitive than the relatively close final score would indicate.
Seneca's largest margin of victory came in the championship, but at halftime, the Irish were leading just 21-20 over the Sentinels. They held Westmont to a 1-for-11 third quarter as they opened up a 34-25 lead and never looked back.
"It was an outstanding third quarter. Defensively, we got our heads screwed on straight," Seneca coach Russell Witte said afterward. "Any time a Seneca team can go spread at the end and take care of the ball, we're going to make our free throws down the stretch."
With that, the Irish checked one of the few remaining empty boxes left on the list of things their program can accomplish.
"Seneca High School has achieved everything possible short of national recognition, but we've never achieved this," Witte said. "For this great group of kids to go out and do this, and become the first one seed to do it at the same time, is just fantastic. I couldn't be happier for them."
SATURDAY SENTINEL: Seneca boys end some I-8 tourney oddities
BRAIDWOOD — It seems odd that, until last Friday, Seneca hadn't won an Interstate Eight Conference boys basketball tournament championship, but then the sample size is small.


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Edward Cullen and Bella Swan are two humans who just happen to be in college and dating. But what if Bella told Edward something that scares him to death? How will Edward react? ( All human)
I do not own twilight or any of the characters exept the ones I made up
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( Bella's POV)
I couldn't believe it. One stupid party, a few stupid beers and I take it to the next level with my boyfriend a month ago. I could barely remember the night I was so drunk. Now, I had to deal with the shocking news I just recieved. I looked at the clock, I was going to be late to class. I wanted to ditch, but Edward would know something was wrong and come looking for me. I didn't want to tell him what I had just learned, I wished I still didnt know.
" How's the most beautiful girl in the world this morning?", my boyfriend Edward kissed me on the cheek.
" Fine, a little under the weather, but I'll be okay.", I smiled back at him.
" Look, I know we've only been dating for a short time, but I want you to meet my family. They are coming to visit, and I think it's the perfect time.", Edward blushed.
" You've told me you hardly ever get to see your family. I don't want to take this time away from you.", I said avoiding his words.
" I'd rather them meet you though, then me proposing and them having no idea who you are.", Edward touched my cheek.
" Proposing? I thought we said we would wait a year or two.", I blushed scarlett.
" Well.. yeah, but I really want you to meet them. I love you Isabella Swan. I know, at least this is how I feel, that I want to spend the rest of my life with you.", he pressed his lips to mine.
" I love you too Edward Cullen. I'll meet your family, but first there's something, that... I have to.... tell you.... privately.", I pulled him into the bathroom.
" Alright, what is it.", he smiled and bent to kiss me more feircely. I almost got lost in his kiss but was brought back to reality.
" Edward, remember last month at the party. We got drunk and we.....", I blushed too embarrassed to say what we did.
" Yes, but what does it have to do with anything now?", he asked.
" I'm pregnant, I took four tests. They all came out positive.", Edward's face looked pale, then before I knew it he fainted.
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So, on the latest Life's A Game Podcast our very own Ric came up with the idea for a new webseries looking at Game protagonists and seeing whether they're more likely to save a prince than a princess.
I actually want to see this series made because I think it'd be amazing, or at least piss off some fanboys somewhere.
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You might not be that impressed to receive a clump of grass or branches on a first date, but a boto dolphin might think differently. A new study suggests that these Amazonian dolphins wave bits of flotsam to attract mates. The boto is a freshwater river dolphin that swims through the currents of the Amazon…


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It's a short slate this week, so we're going with a short picks column.
I want to dedicate this final column of the regular season to the guy who called me a couple of years ago and told me that Ray Charles could pick football better than me.
At the time, I defended both Ray Charles (who could have been a great handicapper if you gave him the stats, who the heck knows?) and myself, pointing out that picking against the spread consistently well is harder than it sounds.
This year, my record speaks for itself.
And now, to business for the last time before the bowls. As always these are for entertainment purposes only.
Kent State (plus-5) over Northern Illinois — You're going to ruin MY Sugar Bowl? Fine. Do it, but I'm vulturing a win out of it.
UCLA (plus-10 1/2) over STANFORD — It's tough to beat someone twice, which I think the Cardinal will do, but not by as much.
Oklahoma at TCU (over-60) — Shootout City. Let's hope the Sooners make it to that Sugar Bowl instead.
NEVADA (plus-8 1/2) over Boise State — The Broncos also have Sugar Bowl hopes — who doesn't? — but they have struggled in Reno.
WEST VIRGINIA (minus-19 1/2) over Kansas — I can't stress enough how bad Charlie Weis is. Florida is 11-1, and Kansas will be 1-11.
HAWAII (minus-6) over South Alabama — Norm Chow's squad has been waking up a bit lately.
Florida State (minus-13) over Georgia Tech (at Charlotte) — Angry Seminoles plus bad Jackets D equals beatdown.
Nebraska (minus-3) over Wisconsin (at Indy) — Admiral Ackbar makes one final appearance. The Huskers are the better team.
TULSA (minus-1) over Central Florida — I'm wary on this one, but Tulsa is unbeaten at home and just beat the Knights a couple of weeks ago.
Georgia (plus 7 1/2) over Alabama (at Atlanta) — As Florida and Georgia keep winning, I keep wondering if I've missed the truth all along — that they are the best two teams in the country.
Last week: 10-3
— Matthew Osborne is the editor of The Trentonian and a Heisman Trophy voter. He can be reached at 609-989-7800, ext. 201, or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @trentonianozzy.