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Brown, A (2014) Enhancing learning of fluid mechanics using automated feedback and by engaging students as partners. In: The Higher Education Academy Annual Conference 2014, Aston. The Higher Education Academy. 2 pp. [Conference contribution]
Brown, A, Dixon, D, Eatock, J, Meenan, BJ and Young, T (2008) A Survey of Success Factors in New Product Development in the Medical Devices Industry. In: Engineering Management Conference, IEMC Europe 2008, Estoril, Portugal. UNSPECIFIED. 5 pp. [Conference contribution]
Brown, A and Meenan, BJ (2007) Investigating the Effects of Fluid Shear Forces on Cellular Responses to Profiled Surfaces in-Vitro: A Computational and Experimental Investigation. In: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France. UNSPECIFIED. 4 pp. [Conference contribution]
Brown, A, Meenan, BJ and Young, TP (2007) Price trend analysis and its implications for the development of new medical technologies. In: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France. UNSPECIFIED. 4 pp. [Conference contribution]
FitzGibbon, F, Brown, A and Meenan, BJ (2007) Assessment of user perspectives of cardiac point of care technologies in chest pain diagnosis. In: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Lyon, France. UNSPECIFIED. 4 pp. [Conference contribution]
Brosnihan, TJ, Brown, A, Brogan, A, Gormley, CS, Collins, DJ, Sherman, SJ, Lemkin, M, Polce, NA and Davis, MS (2003) Optical IMEMS (R) - A fabrication process for mems optical switches with integrated on-chip electronics. In: BOSTON TRANSDUCERS'03: DIGEST OF TECHNICAL PAPERS, VOLS 1 AND 2. UNSPECIFIED. 5 pp. [Conference contribution]
Brown, A, O'Neill, G and Blackstone, S (2003) Single-crystal micromachining using multiple fusion-bonded layers. In: Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VI, Santa Clara. UNSPECIFIED. 10 pp. [Conference contribution]
Irissou, P, Yallup, K, Brown, A, Gaston, G and Blackstone, S (1999) Complementary Bipolar Fabricated by the Bonding of Patterened Buried Layers. In: Semiconductor Wafer Bonding: Science, Technology and Applications V, Honolulu. UNSPECIFIED. 5 pp. [Conference contribution]
Journal article
Brown, Alan (2018) Engaging students as partners in developing online learning and feedback activities for first year fluid mechanics. European Journal of Engineering Education, 43 (1). pp. 26-39. [Journal article]
Brown, Alan, Burke, GA and Meenan, BJ (2013) Patterned cell culture substrates created by hot embossing of tissue culture treated polystyrene. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, online . [Journal article]
Brown, A, Burke, GA and Meenan, BJ (2011) Modelling of shear stress experienced by endothelial cells cultured on microstructured polymer substrates in a parallel plate flow chamber. Biotechnology and bioengineering, 108 (5). pp. 1148-1158. [Journal article]
Brown, A, Eatock, J, Dixon, D, Meenan, BJ and Anderson, JMCC (2008) Quality and continuous improvement in medical device manufacturing. TQM Journal, 20 (6). pp. 541-555. [Journal article]
Brown, A, Meenan, BJ, Dixon, D, Young, T and Brennan, M (2008) Application of the Experience Curve to price trends in medical devices: Implications for product development and marketing strategies. Journal of Medical Marketing, 8 (3). p. 241. [Journal article]
FitzGibbon, F, Meenan, BJ, Brown, A and Dixon, D (2008) User Perspectives of Cardiac Marker Point-of-Care Testing for Hospital-Based Chest Pain Diagnosis. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology, 7 (2). p. 47. [Journal article]
Brown, A, Meenan, BJ and Young, T (2007) Marketing innovation medical device prices follow the experience curve. Journal of Medical Marketing, 7 (3). pp. 203-212. [Journal article]
Dixon, D, Brown, A, Meenan, BJ and Eatock, J (2006) Experiences of new product development in the medical device industry. Medical Device Technology, 17 (3). pp. 20-22. [Journal article]
Analog Devices Inc. (2004) Semiconductor wafer comprising micro-machined components. [Patent]
Analod Devices Inc (2002) Semiconductor wafer comprising micro-machined components and a method for fabricating the semiconductor wafer. [Patent]
Analog Devices Inc. (2000) Method for forming a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device formed by the method. [Patent]
This list was generated on Tue Nov 19 01:40:50 2019 GMT.


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This presents a serious shock hazard, which may lead to a serious accident. The equipment-grounding conductor isn't continuous, and live wires are exposed at ankle level.
Per 300.10 of the 2002 NEC, "Metal raceways, cable armor, and other metal enclosures for conductors shall be metallically joined together into a continuous electric conductor and shall be connected to all boxes, fittings, and cabinets so as to provide effective electrical continuity."
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Founded more than 130 years ago, the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of St. Louis had been housed in various downtown buildings. After several decades, the JCC moved toward the western suburban edge of the city. Primarily a cultural and educational institution with a couple of basketball courts, the JCC did not offer much else in the way of fitness facilities.
That all changed in 2009 when the organization opened two fitness complexes—one in Chesterfield and the other in Creve Coeur—offering an estimated 95,000 square feet of facilities, including indoor and outdoor pools, a water park, multiple gymnasiums and athletic fields, group and individual exercise rooms, numerous classes and training sessions, a spa center and—as the organization's website states—"all the cardio equipment, exercise equipment and free weights you could ever need."
"Fitness has completely changed the energy of our center," says James Pedersen, fitness director of the St. Louis JCC. "We decided we needed to do something to bring some new energy to our organization. Our demographics had been shown to be among the older individuals. Youth would come to play basketball but then go elsewhere for fitness. We revived a dying organization and have become a center not only of the Jewish community but of the community as a whole."
In the two years since the addition of the new fitness facilities, the center has almost tripled its membership, Pedersen says. In addition, it increased its health and wellness revenue from $997,000 in 2008 to $1.5 million in 2010, according to the JCC's 990 forms filed with the IRS.
But what may help JCCs across the country retain members is wellness, not just fitness. The JCC Association, a New York-based consulting group to JCCs, formed a task force three years ago to look at how JCCs could better serve their members, especially as loyalty was no longer the primary driver for membership at JCC fitness centers. The result was a wellness and retention program, Discover @ the JCC, that the group will begin offering to JCCs this fall.
Discover @ the JCC brings all the programming at full-service JCCs (those with fitness, early childhood programming and camps) under one holistic umbrella focusing on wellness, says Steve Becker, vice president of health and wellness services at the JCC Association. Discover @ the JCC can even be implemented at certain levels in JCCs that are not full-service.
"We took the traditional mind/body/spirit model of wellness and expanded it to include social, cultural, rehabilitative, financial, vocational, social action, environmental and all the things that were going on in the JCC, and try and connect it through fitness because in most cases, fitness is still the biggest driver in the JCCs in terms of membership participation," Becker says.
Fitness may be the biggest driver in membership participation, but early childhood programming is what often draws members back to the JCC. The flip side is that the largest dropoff in membership is when the 5-year-olds graduate and the whole family leaves the JCC, Becker says. The hope is to engage those parents in other JCC programming so they want to stay after their children graduate.
"One of the things we learned is that if we can engage a member in more than two programs in the JCC, their likelihood of retaining membership is over 95 percent," Becker says. "So that is one of the drivers for us to get them to think about the JCC outside of just early childhood."
That is part of the reason the initial program under the Discover initiative, Discover CATCH, was put in place. CATCH, or Coordinated Approach to Child Health, is a childhood obesity prevention program developed in the early 1990s by the University of Texas Public Health Department that is now in 9,000 schools and after-school programs. The department created an early childhood version that was used in Head Start programs, but the JCC Association was given permission to create its own pilot with it.
The CATCH program promotes a range of healthy activities to build children's fitness, strength and self-esteem. CATCH targets multiple aspects of early childhood programs and involves classroom and physical education teachers, food service staff, students' families and the broader JCC community in a range of health-promoting activities for children. JCCs in Akron, OH; Austin, TX; Boston; Milwaukee; West Hartford, CT; and Wilmington, DE, are piloting the program.
"The pilots doing it are loving it," Becker says. "They are seeing results right away. It's physical, it's nutritional and there's a parent education component to it. With the help of JCC Association professionals, it's all now through a Jewish lens."
Once Discover CATCH is beyond the pilot stage at the end of this school year, the JCC Association will focus on reaching more demographics, likely beginning with Baby Boomers, Becker says.
The Discover initiative includes an incentive program that rewards members for more than going to the fitness center at the JCC; it rewards them for getting involved in other parts of the JCC—from attending a book club to signing up for a basketball program.
"So we want them to think about using the whole JCC in order to take advantage of the fitness opportunities," Becker says. "It goes back to that whole idea of engaging your members and getting them to think about using the JCC for more than just a treadmill."
Club One, a San Francisco-based club company and club management business that manages some JCC fitness and wellness offerings, is providing the software platform and many of the wellness components for the Discover @ the JCC program. Club One also is providing marketing in the form of newsletters and webinars on wellness topics.
"Fitness is a core business for the JCCs," says Dan Burns, director of community and medical fitness centers for Club One. "The Jewish culture talks about health of the mind and body and spirit. It is also a community culture, so both fitness and wellness are expanding as concepts that apply to the community as a whole. The big trend is not just traditional fitness but also wellness, not just weight training but a lot more education, more classes, more on what members can do to help themselves and better themselves."
The JCC Association began implementing the Discover program two years ago as a pilot and Discover CATCH one year ago, so the programs are too new to determine whether they are improving retention, Becker says, but he added that results should be available next year.
Regardless of the results, the Discover program focuses again on one of the first missions of JCCs: community. Although the original focus of JCCs 150 years ago was to provide social services to help immigrant Jews settle in America, they quickly became places where Jews could meet and socialize.
The social element and sense of community may be two of the reasons that JCCs survived the recession with few casualties, Becker says. During that same time, new JCCs have opened, and more facilities are opening soon in Princeton, NJ; Miami Beach, FL; and Chandler, AZ.
"So there is growth going on," Becker says. "Over the last five years, it's been to the plus side."
With a new push toward wellness under one umbrella initiative, the hope is that this growth will continue for the JCCs.


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How to Knit Stripes
You can knit stripes in any size or scale, taking advantage of their versatility to highlight or disguise different figure traits. They can also be used to set off other areas of color and texture. Stripes often add just the right amount of interest when incorporated into designs where other color knitting techniques would be too busy or distracting.
Join and carry alternate strands
Once you know how to add and carry different colors, making stripes in any pattern is easy. Make a weaver's knot to join the new color as follows:
With the new color, make a slipknot, and pass the old color through it.
Pass the whole skein of the old color through the slipknot if you don't want to break the working strand.
Snug the slipknot up next to the work where you want the new color to begin.
Gently tug the ends of the slipknot apart until the old color pops through (b).
Carry (strand loosely upward on the wrong side) the unused color as you knit with the new color so the old one will be close by when you are ready to switch back to it.
To avoid weaving in extra yarn tails, you can change to a new color without breaking off the old one.
After changing colors, carry the unused strand loosely up the back of the work and twist it around the current color to anchor it to the wrong side of the piece.
The act of twisting the prior color around the current one is known as tacking. Tack the unused strand at the side edge of the piece every two rows when working flat, or at any interval you choose when working circularly.
Knitting stripes in ribbing
Ribbing and other stitch patterns comprised of adjacent knit and purl stitches present a special challenge to stripe-knitters. This simple technique will keep the colors in your ribbed stripes sharp.
When changing colors in ribbing, the new color can create unsightly purl bumps that are visible on the public side of the work.
Rather than maintain the ribbing stitch pattern (in this case, k1, p1) on the color-change row, knit all the stitches in that row. Change back to the stitch pattern on the following row.
Knit circular stripes with jogless rounds
Circular-knit tubes are made up of rounds rather than rows. Knitted rounds spiral one on top of another rather than stacking evenly as rows do. This characteristic of circular knitting causes "jogs" where the color changes in stripes are visible. There are several ways to make the jogs less noticeable. This section shows two of them.
Here you can see what happens when changing stripe colors in circular knitting. Each time a new round begins with a new color, you can see a stair-step or "jog" in the knitting.
These stripes were knit using a technique to minimize the appearance of the jogs.
Knit one stitch from the prior round
This technique for minimizing jogs is especially useful for very narrow stripes. The first stripe is complete, with one full round of the second stripe knitted.
Pick up last st of prev color and place it on left needle, right next to first st of new color.
Knit the last st and the first st together.
The jog will be visually softened and minimized. Blocking the piece at the end of knitting helps make the jog even less noticeable.
When planning stripes, take your construction technique into account. If you will be knitting flat, choose stripes with rows in multiples of 2. For circular knitting, stripes in any number of rows will work.
Slip one stitch
Another way to disguise jogs is to slip one stitch. This technique makes jogs in wide stripes nearly invisible.
When you come back to the beginning of the round, slip the first stitch to the right needle purlwise, without actually knitting it.
Yarns with both elasticity and tooth (surface fuzz that grips itself), such as 100% wool, make it easier to disguise jogs. Superwash wool and slippery fibers can be less forgiving.


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U.S., Philippines Hail Military Pact
Deal Allows U.S. Troops Access to Military Bases for Longer Durations
MANILA—U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III hailed a new chapter in their countries' relationship Monday, saying that a defense agreement allowing a greater American military presence here would promote regional stability.
But as they trumpeted the 10-year-deal to permit U.S. troops access to the Asian country's military bases for longer durations, both leaders were quick to say that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement was not intended to be a response to China....


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Ready, set, drill: NASA's Curiosity rover being readied to begin drilling into a Martian rock
MARS – Scientists have zeroed in on a Martian target for the Curiosity rover to drill into: A rock outcrop as flat as a pool table that's expected to yield fresh insight into the red planet's history.
Running a tad behind schedule, Curiosity was due to arrive at the site in the next several days. After an inspection of the surroundings, the car-size rover will test its drill for the first time "probably in the next two weeks," project manager Richard Cook of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Tuesday.
The highly anticipated drilling has been billed as the most complex engineering task since the acrobatic landing inside a Martian crater last summer. Curiosity is on a quest to determine whether environmental conditions could have been favorable for microbes.
By boring into a rock and transferring the powder to the rover's onboard chemistry lab and other instruments, scientists should get a better handle on the region's mineral and chemical makeup.
"We're thrilled, and we can't wait to get drilling," said project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology.
Previous rovers Opportunity and Spirit carried a grinding tool that peeled away rock layers. Curiosity is capable of drilling down several inches to collect a sample from the interior -- a first on Mars.
Opportunity is still operating on the surface of Mars, but Spirit lost contact with Earth in 2010.
Since the $2.5 billion Curiosity mission launched in 2011, engineers have been troubleshooting an issue with the rover's drill in which flakes of Teflon can break off and get mixed with the rock samples. Cook said the contamination should not affect the mission.
"We are reasonably confident that it's something that we'll be able to work our way around," he said.
As the most high-tech interplanetary rover, Curiosity has been on a slow streak since its action-packed arrival. Grotzinger said the pace of the mission was "100 percent discovery-driven" and can't be rushed.
Already, Curiosity has lingered longer than expected at its current location because scientists have been captivated by the sedimentary rocks that differ from the pebbles found at the landing site. After some last-minute studies, the rover will head to the rock outcrop dubbed "John Klein" after a mission team member who died in 2011.
Curiosity's ultimate goal is to drive to the base of Mount Sharp, a six-month journey with no stops. The plan is to begin the road trip after drilling is complete with pauses along the way.


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With an array of siding styles, called profiles, offered in a vast array of colors, Napco vinyl siding makes it easy to achieve a unique look for your home. But what about the trim? Napco makes it easy to find your match, with a complete line of aluminum trim and exterior finishings and much more. Design truly is in the details, and with Napco, it's easy to surround your home with a completely custom-designed look. And, because a Napco exterior is virtually maintenance-free, what's not to love?


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Q: My fish are jumping out of my water garden. Is there any reason for this? How do I get them to stop? – Several Customers
A: Fish will jump out of the water for what seems to be no reason at all, but sometimes that isn't the truth. One reason for this jumping is lethal ammonia levels. As fish excrete waste, ammonia levels begin to rise and if sufficient nitrifying bacteria are not present within your filter to breakdown this ammonia, it can become extremely deadly for fish. Constant high levels of ammonia will cause burns on the fish's gills, thus causing them to want to jump out of the water to escape the pain. If your fish are jumping out of the pond, immediately test for high ammonia levels using an ammonia test kit. Doing a 20% to 25% water change as well as adding beneficial bacteria will help to bring ammonia levels down.
Another possible reason, is low oxygen levels. Usually the fish will seem to gasp for air on the water's surface but they have been known to also jump out of the water as well. Use an oxygen test kit to test for proper oxygen levels and make sure during the warmer months of the year you have an aeration system running in your water garden. Another cause of low oxygen levels is after using an algaecide to kill off algae. When algae dies it takes oxygen from the water. If there is an abundance of algae and all of it is killed off in one treatment, there is a possibility for the oxygen levels to get extremely low. Doing a 20% to 25% water change is a quick short-term fix to get fresher, oxygenized water into the water garden.
As the above happens, the stress level of the fish can rise, it is always a good idea to add pond salt to your water garden. Pond salt will help the fish calm down as well as help to protect them against common fish diseases.
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Unlike her fictional vice presidential counterparts on "Scandal" and "House of Cards," Selina Meyer, the title character of the HBO comedy "Veep," hasn't killed anyone – yet.
Selina, as embodied by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is propelled by a mix of outrage and frustration that manifests not in murder, but in strings of hilariously profane insults. It seems sometimes that everyone around her – fellow pols, her ex-husband, her bumbling staff – is out to unravel her presidential ambitions, intentionally or otherwise.
As she summed up Washington life in last season's finest printable line: "If you're not at the table, you're probably on the menu. And I will not be eaten."
Selina's growing hunger for power is poised to provide new comic fodder as the one of the best – and certainly the funniest – of the current White House-centered shows returns Sunday for a third season with the Veep's long-term presidential run atop the menu.
The last we saw Selina, she staggered off a wild rollercoaster ride, thanks to the unseen, scandal-embroiled president, who decided not to seek a second term, changed his mind and changed it back again.
The flip-flops gave Louis-Dreyfus an opportunity to show off some comic acrobatics, both wordlessly and with expertly delivered verbal barrages. Scenes where she allows herself a moment of silent unabashed joy in a White House supply closet and later furiously screams into a throw pillow in her office proved highlights of a show whose strongest trait is rapid-fire dialogue.
Louis-Dreyfus puts to use skills she honed on "Seinfeld," which, like "Veep," transcended mere sitcom fare. "Veep" plays at times like a far more neurotic, far less idealistic and preachy comic take on "The West Wing." The political fights and slights Selina faces largely are petty, unlike the life-and-death machinations of "Scandal" and "House of Cards."
"Veep," with its parade of human foibles and mishaps – Selina, who wants to shatter the glass ceiling, accidentally walked through a glass door – wins points for realism and relatability.
Case in point: the final scene of last season, when Selina buoyantly escorts some school kids on a West Wing tour, after the learning the president has cleared the way for her candidacy in an election two years away.
"When I grow up, I want to be vice president, just like you!" an adolescent girl gushes.
"Oh no, you don't – you want to be president," Selina admonishes her.
As we await Selina's presidential run – or stumble – check out a promo for Season 3 below:


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Steamed Rice CakeOctober 21, 2008
Another one of my "hop back to traditional goodies" post 😛 These certainly brings back memories! Yum! Was suppose to purchase Glutinous rice flour to make more Ang Koo Kueh, but by mistake, Mummy bought 2 packets of Rice Flour!
Since i have 2 packets on hand to play with, i started to hunt and for recipes, and spotted this on <Chow Times>
1st thought >> "Must make!"
2nd thought >> "Must eat them with that orange-colored sugar"
LOL, i seriously dunnoe what is the name of this sugar. =X anyone able to help here? 😛
I had mine together with some sweet coconut fillings as well =D
Only regret is that……….
i should have made some in pink! :X


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Student Address by Ilana Spector '11
As I stand here thinking of what I would like to say to the Class of 2011, faculty, family and friends within the Brandeis community on the day of Commencement, ideas flood my mind. How I would feel today is a question that has existed and lingered in my mind since freshman year. Would I be nervous? Excited? Proud? Would I have regrets? And how can I express all that Brandeis has taught and given me through a Commencement speech?
Well, I can't and I am not even going to attempt to try. Brandeis and its community have given me more than I am even aware of, and trying to teach or impress is not my goal today. Instead, I am going to be real. I am going to read the speech that I typed in the Goldfarb Library, and I am going to tell you what is on my mind and in my heart in the hopes it might evoke any reaction in you, for you, to help ease the process of graduating and excite you for the world we are all about to enter together.
As graduation approaches, feelings of elation, pride and anxiety do surround me. They creep up on me when I least expect it, at the school cafeteria I find myself amused by the same food I have been eating for the past four years, wondering where my 2:00 a.m. snacks will come from in the real world. The map of this campus, its hilly snow-filled winters, ice-crystal trees, colorful falls and gorgeous springs calm me. I know where I am going… whether it is to the top of Rabb, Usdan or Sherman, and where I have been — Massell, the Castle, the Village, the Mods, Shapiro, the gym. There is a quiet satisfaction I feel from having known so well so many locations within a place where I am surrounded by familiar faces. It is Brandeis. And it has been a great home.
Brandeis professors have pushed me to question. Brandeis students have pushed me to search for answers. I have philosophized about life… maybe more than necessary: why we are here, what we should make of this world, how to find happiness.
I have questioned morality — different theories of ethical behavior within an egalitarian or utilitarian framework. I have questioned justice — what it means to live in a just society, and whether or not the U.S. justice system provides us with a fair process or a flawed method which we all simply have come to embrace. Pondering and questioning, ideally, leads one to act. Today, on a day we will remember without much clarity, I beg of you this question.
Question the world you enter and the places you go. Question the people you meet and the systems you become a part of. Consider them, fully. Get to know their perspective, their side. Embrace a different viewpoint. And then stand in the middle between your old and your new perspectives and choose the one which reflects the true you. Choose the side which you can almost objectively believe in time and again without any outside factors pushing you towards a decision, but with all outside factors taken into consideration. Choose the
path — the job, the life, the location and the company which simply feels right. Act from your heart and you will always be right.
Brandeis has taught me open-mindedness. It has opened a world for me and all of its students in which awkwardness is the norm and normality is unusual. It has allowed us to recreate identities for ourselves outside the confines of the small towns many of us came from and be surrounded by the most unique special and talented group of people in the world. Okay, I am bias, but certainly a progressive and open forum in which every individual is appreciated is a sacred community. Hold onto this mentality. Take it as a goodie-bag as you leave this school. Do not forget that people as kind, courageous and wonderful as your classmates truly exist.
Keep them alive on a daily basis as you may walk in separate directions, by keeping yourself open-minded, considerate and unique. Do not lose your sparkle because the world might sometimes seem dimmer. And do not lose youthful curiosity to the ease of conformity. Stay in touch! The world is almost too interconnected, which is something which frankly disturbs me. But I would prefer that, and keeping as many of you as possible in my life, to the contrary.
From the moment I stepped onto this campus at admitted students' day, I noticed one major reason why I loved this school, aside from my delusional belief — with the owl mascot and the castle — that Brandeis was actually Hogwarts, and I was going to learn magic here; and that was pajamas. People here were relaxed. They went to lunch in slippers but class in jeans, and they spoke with confidence and drilled their professors for a full (instead of accepting a partial) understanding of the coursework. This atmosphere fostered a reality in which the bottom line suggested, that no matter what, we are all okay. It is okay if you are up three nights in a row crunching for exams or writing papers and ordering Dragon Chef. And it is okay if you work tirelessly but you still could have done better. Here, we could fall on our faces but be helped up by friends who again reassured us, that as long as we simply are, we are okay.
The world is overwhelming. Scary. And at times, unkind. But we, here and now, are better than okay. We are leaving a fabulous fantasy bubble with diploma in hand, a ticket to our future which does not expire. Brandeis showed us that life is more of a game than anything else. We made it from freshman level to sophomore level to junior level to senior level — and just because we won this game (seniors let me hear you!) does not mean that it is game over. The world will be full of hurdles and obstacles to climb, duck under or jump over — but even though it may feel like you have lost all of your lives and your saves are all gone, every day is a new opportunity to re-start and succeed.
As an avid Pac-Man player, I have realized that even if you have the skill to succeed, sometimes a blue blob that was going to give you points will in fact turn into a monster and eat you. In other words, skill seems to prove much less important than drive. Once you have done your research and learned the rules of whatever field you plan on entering, whether it be medicine or research, journalism or art, performance or mathematics, business or law… you can then use that, your own will, discipline and persistence to excel. That combined with intellect is a fierce combination. And you will excel. You can always shift gears or directions, but the optimism and fearlessness you might feel today will always exist deep inside yourself. Today, on the day of your graduation, of our graduation, I hope we can access this feeling with full heartedness and exhilaration for the next levels.
From the bottom of my heart to yours, I wish you all the very best of luck as your Brandeis achievements come to fruition in a world which continues to be a game and in which you continue to succeed. I feel so grateful to have known and grown so much from all of you. Congratulations to the Class of 2011. We did it!


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Bolton replaced its two outdated, inefficient 1999 snowcats with new Prinoth models in 2008 and 2011. These new groomers have decreased diesel usage by 40-80 gallons a day because they are faster, have a higher pushing power and horsepower. The Prinoths are equipped with new CAT C-9 motors that have much better emissions rating, tier 3. The two old snowcats that were replaced by the Prothoths were rated a tier 0 and the other three snowcats in Bolton's fleet are rated at tier 1 efficiency.
The use of snowcats varies from season to season depending on the weather conditions but Bolton attempts to use the Prinoth snowcats as much as possible. The performance of the Prinoth snowcats can be clearly seen through fuel savings. Approximately 10,000 less gallons of fuel have been used for the snowcats during the 2011-2012 season! Each cat is also equipped with a computer system making their mileage, RPM and fuel usage much easier to track.


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To recreationally shrimp, a person will need basic and saltwater licenses. To use a trawl, a person will additionally need a gear license for a trawl which can be purchased at any license issuing facility.
Grand Isle Beach closed out to 500' May to September by Commission action.
Shrimping areas in Louisiana are divided into inshore waters, the offshore territorial sea and the federal Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The line (shrimp line) that separates inside waters from outside territorial waters generally follows the coastline, although there are some exceptions. For specific boundary locations check with your local Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Agent. Maps of the shrimp line are available at a charge of $10 per map by writing the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 2021 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 400, New Orleans, LA 70122. Please specify which area of the coast you are interested in. The line that separates state territorial waters from the EEZ generally follows the Louisiana coast three miles from shore. For specific boundary locations, particularly in the Grand Isle and Marsh Island area, you should contact your local Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Agent. For management purposes, both state inside and state outside territorial waters are divided into three shrimp management zones:
Zone 1: extends from the Louisiana/ Mississippi state line to the eastern shore of South Pass of the Mississippi River.
Zone 2: extends from the eastern shore of South Pass of the Mississippi River to the western shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island.
Zone 3: extends from the western shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island to the Louisiana/ Texas state line.
NOTE: Restricted areas exist within WMAs, refuges and other areas which may be closed to certain gear types or methods of fishing. Consult your local Wildlife and Fisheries Office or Enforcement Agent and the WMA section of this pamphlet.
Night shrimping, between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, is prohibited in Vermilion Bay, East and West Cote Blanche Bays, and Atchafalaya Bay, from the western shore of Vermilion Bay to the western shore of the Atchafalaya River and the Atchafalaya River Ship Channel out to Eugene Island as described by the inside-outside line in R.S. 56:495.
Taking shrimp with saltwater trawls from May 1 - Sept. 15 each year is prohibited in state waters on the south side of Grand Isle from Caminada Pass to Barataria Pass in Jefferson Parish, from the southeast side of the Caminada bridge to the northwest side of Barataria Pass at Fort Livingston, extending from the beach side of Grand Isle to a distance of 500 feet beyond the shoreline into the Gulf of Mexico.
No person shall trawl over any privately leased bedding grounds or oyster propagating place which is staked off, marked or posted as required by law or regulation. Trawling is prohibited in Lake Maurepas and that portion of Lake Pontchartrain from the shoreline to 1.25 miles out from the Jefferson/ Orleans Parish line east to the eastern shore of South Point, from South Point to North Shore along the railroad bridge west from North Shore to Goose Point.
Trawling is prohibited between the railroad bridge and Interstate 10 in Lake Pontchartrain. Trawling at night is prohibited in Cameron Parish sections of Calcasieu Lake, the Black Lake Bayou System, Grand Bayou and Little Burten's Ditch. Trawling at night is prohibited in Grand Lake and White Lake. Trawls are prohibited in the waters of Bayou Judge Perez (Bayou Hermitage) from its entrance into Lake Judge Perez (Bayou Hermitage) to Devils Bayou, a distance of approximately one mile, located in Plaquemines Parish. Trawling north of the LA Highway 631 Bridge at Des Allemands, Louisiana, and in Lake Des Allemands, its streams and tributaries, is prohibited. Trawling is prohibited in the cove immediately adjacent to Cypremort Point State Park landward of a line from Blue Point to Cypremort Point to the shoreline.
Trawls cannot be used for any purpose in state waters during closed season. Shrimp seasons are flexible and are fixed by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission based upon biological and technical data relative to shrimp populations in Louisiana waters. Generally, the spring inshore season will begin in early to mid May and may extend into July. The fall inshore season usually begins near mid-August and typically extends into December. The shrimp season in Louisiana's outside territorial waters is generally open year round EXCEPT for a closed season in portions of state outside waters which may be set during the late winter to early spring months usually beginning in December or January and extending into March or April. The shrimp season in the federal waters of the Gulf outside (south) of Louisiana's territorial waters is usually open all year; these waters are controlled by the federal government. A federal shrimp vessel permit is required for all vessels fishing shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico EEZ.
Information concerning federal shrimp vessel permits, Turtle Excluder Device (TED) and Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD) requirements and exemptions can be obtained by contacting the National Marine Fisheries Service at (727) 824-5312 for TEDs or (727) 824-5305 for BRDs or at: www.nmfs.noaa.gov.
Size Limit
There is no size limit on any saltwater shrimp taken during the spring open season nor is there any size limit on brown shrimp or seabobs taken during any open season in Louisiana. There is, however, a minimum possession count on white shrimp taken in either inside or outside (offshore) waters of Louisiana of 100 count (whole shrimp per pound). This size restriction applies to the taking or possession of such shrimp aboard a vessel, EXCEPT during the period from Oct. 15 through the third Monday in December when there shall be no possession count on white shrimp taken or possessed. When more than 50 percent by weight of the shrimp taken or possessed is seabobs or brown shrimp, then the maximum allowable amount of undersized white shrimp taken or possessed shall not exceed 10 percent by weight of the total shrimp taken or possessed.
Methods of Taking
During open seasons, saltwater shrimp may be taken with trawls or cast nets and by no other means. Bait shrimp may be taken at any time, even during the closed season, with cast nets less than 8.5 feet in radius, hand operated dip nets with a diameter not to exceed three feet, bait traps, and bait seines less than 30 feet with a maximum mesh size of 1/4 inch bar, 1/2 inch stretched mesh which are manually operated on foot only. Cast Nets, Dip Nets, Bait Seines: A recreational angler may use dip nets, bait seines, and cast nets not to exceed 8.5 feet in radius, but shall not take at anytime more than 50 pounds of shrimp during closed season and 100 pounds of shrimp per day during the open season, in the aggregate, per day per boat or vehicle, regardless of the number of persons thereon, provided the shrimp taken are used for bait or for the fisherman's own consumption and are not sold, traded or otherwise permitted to enter into commerce. Certain WMAs and state or federal refuges may have different rules, consult local LDWF office or Enforcement Agent for specifics.
Trawls: Trawls cannot have a mesh size less than 5/8 inch bar or 1.25 inches stretched. In Zone 2 from the western shore of the Atchafalaya River to the western shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island, mesh size must not be less than 3/4 inch bar or 1.5 inches stretched during the fall inshore shrimp season. No net or beam trawl used for taking fish or shrimp from the saltwater areas of the state shall be left unattended, as defined in R.S. 56:8(102) except such legal nets or trawls which are attached to a wharf at a camp and which are tagged with a department tag issued in conjunction with the gear being used.
During the open shrimping seasons, trawls 25 feet and less may be used for recreational purposes; recreational shrimpers using trawls 16 feet in length or less are limited to 100 pounds (heads on) of shrimp per boat per day, and recreational shrimpers using trawls exceeding 16 feet but not exceeding 25 feet in length are limited to no more than 250 pounds of (headson) shrimp per day per boat, provided the shrimp taken are used for bait or the fisherman's own consumption and are not sold, traded or otherwise permitted to enter commerce. A recreational trawl license is required.


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2014 Kia Sorento Improves NHTSA Safety Test Ratings
The Kia Sorento midsize crossover got more than just a face-lift for the 2014 model year -- the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given the 2014 Sorento an overall five-star rating, up from the 2013 model's four-star overall rating.
With all NHTSA safety tests rated out of five stars, the front- and all-wheel-drive 2014 Kia Sorento got five stars in the overall, frontal crash, and side crash, categories, with a four-star performance in the rollover test. The pre-refresh 2013 Sorento was rated four stars in the overall, frontal crash, and rollover categories, with a five-star rating in the side crash test. The 2014 Kia Sorento is an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick.
Aside from the refreshed body, the 2014 Kia Sorento also offers a more powerful V-6 (an I-4 is standard), revised suspension tuning, and an SX Limited trim level that includes a FlexSteer selectable steering system, HID headlights, 19-inch chrome wheels, and Nappa leather seat trim.
We weren't impressed with the pre-refresh Kia Sorento, but in a First Test of a 2014 Sorento SX V-6 as well as a review of a 2014 Sorento EX, the crossover performed a bit better. Through the first eight months of 2013, Kia Sorento sales are off six percent, with 73,531 units sold making it the third-most-popular Kia, behind the Soul and Optima, in that order.
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NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships; Final Day Recap
March 7, 2009
Johnson City, Tenn. - Azusa Pacific University (Calif.) captured its third straight men's national title while Wayland Baptist University (Tex.) was crowned the women's champion for the second consecutive year on the final day of competition at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships in the minidome on the campus of East Tennessee State University on Saturday. After winning last year's men's national title by just ¾ of point, Azusa Pacific had a more comfortable winning margin (23.50) this year, by racking up 78.50 points, to defeat runner-up Dickinson State University (N.D.), which tallied 55 points. In a thrilling women's finish, Wayland Baptist posted 68 points to defeat runner-up Azusa Pacific, which chalked up 67 points, by just a single point. It marked the second straight year that the Wayland Baptist women edged Azusa Pacific by one point for the title.
In the final women's event of the championships, Oklahoma Baptist University pocketed the 4x400-meter relay victory with a winning time of 3:47.35. Azusa Pacific, needing a third-place finish or better in the event to earn the women's team national title, finished fourth and was edged by Wayland Baptist by one point for the women's crown.
In the sprints, Kimberly Smith of Wayland Baptist earned the women's 60-meter dash title as she posted a winning time of 7.37 seconds. Johnnie Nabors of Union College (Ky.) took the men's championship in the 60 meters in 6.80 seconds. Virgil Mitchell of Doane College (Neb.) pocketed the 60-meter hurdles in a new indoor national record time of 7.93 seconds, breaking his own mark of 7.94 that he set in the semifinals on Friday. The women's 60-meter hurdles went to Zora Golcevska of Azusa Pacific in 8.76 seconds.
Kimberly Smith of Wayland Baptist blazed down the track to capture her second straight women's 200-meter dash national title in 24.34 seconds while Ramon Miller of Dickinson State won the men's 200 meters in a time of 20.97 seconds. In the 400-meter dash, Dickonson State's Miller became a "three-peat" champion in the event as he won in a time of 46.98 seconds while Marissa Moseley of Oklahoma Baptist collected the women's title in 54.85 seconds.
Brandee Means of Langston University (Okla.) earned the women's 600-meter title with a time of 1:31.09 while Mario McCottrell of Langston won the men's title in 1:18.62. In the 800-meter finals, Helen Crofts of Simon Fraser University (B.C.) captured the women's crown in 2:12.11 while Oklahoma Baptist's Andre Thomas took the men's title in 1:50.52.
In 1000-meter action, Beth McCubbin of Embry-Riddle University (Fla.) ran a time of 2:55.81 to repeat as the women's champion while Josh Wayland of Oklahoma Christian University earned the men's title in 2:26.45. The 3000-meter women's championship was captured by Caroline Karunde of Wayland Baptist in a time of 9:42.60 with the men's title going to Aron Rono of Azusa Pacific who won the event for the second straight year in a time of 8:14.92.
Cedarville University's (Ohio) Nicole Santos emerged as the victor in the women's 5000-meter final in 17:15.31 while Paul Robinson of Malone University (Ohio) won the men's 5000 meters at 14:42.92.
In the men's one-mile final, Aron Rono of Azusa Pacific completed a staggering fourth straight NAIA indoor national title as he broke a 13-year-old record to win in 4:03.74, besting the old mark of 4:03.88 set by James Njoroge of Taylor University (Ind.). He became just the third four-time champion in any event in NAIA indoor nationals history. The women's one-mile title went to Jaime Canterbury of Azusa Pacific who clocked a time of 4:53.65.
In field event finals on Saturday, Aubrey Baxter of Black Hills State University (S.D.) won the women's shot put with a toss of 54' 4.5" while Chad Smith of Concordia University (Calif.) took the men's title with a throw of 60' 3.75". Zhulieta Mechkarska of Lindenwood University (Mo.) captured the women's triple jump crown in 39' 8.00" while Illiyan Chamov of Lindenwood earned his third straight title in the men's event with a leap of 50'7.25". In the women's high jump, Katie Bartels of Doane College (Neb.) took the title at 5'7" and in the men's pole vault, Jordan Savidge of Azusa Pacific emerged with the crown after clearing a height of 16' 8.75".
In the relays, the Azusa Pacific men took the distance medley relay national title in convincing fashion in a new record time of 9:50.88, breaking the old record of 9:56.48 set by California Baptist University in 1998. In all, 12 records were broken at the Championships. The women's DMR national title went to Simon Fraser who won in a time of 12:05.97. In the final men's event of the day, Dickinson State won the 4x400-meter relay in a time of 3:13.17.
The women's Outstanding Performer of the Meet was Aubrey Baxter from Black Hills State as she took first in the shot put and in the weight throw, breaking her own meet record in the weight, with a toss 64'11.25". The men's Outstanding Performer of the Meet was Aron Rono from Azusa Pacific who took first in the mile, with a new championship record of 4:03.74, first in the 3000 meters and ran on the winning distance medley relay, which set a new championship record of 9:50.88.
The Most Valuable Performer Award, given to one male and one female athlete based on total points scored in national meet competition, went to Natasha Miller of Biola University (Calif.) on the women's side as she scored 22 points overall, winning the pentathlon with a new meet record of 3943 points, taking fourth in the 60-meter hurdles, fourth in the high jump, fifth in the triple jump, running on the 2nd place distance medley relay and also competing in the long jump. The men's Most Valuable Performer was Ramone Miller from Dickinson State who scored 22.5 points, taking first place in the 200 meters, first in the 400 meters and anchoring the winning 4x400 meter relay.
In addition, the Men's Coach of the Year honor went to Kevin Reid of Azusa Pacific while the Women's Coach of the year was earned by Brian Whitlock of Wayland Baptist.


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Our Ride the Wave programme has helped our members surf the choppy seas of economic uncertainty. Our business breakfasts are an inspirational start to the day. Bite-sized Learning has demystified those things in business that many of us find eternally puzzling, like pricing, finding good clients (and getting rid of bad ones), or pitching for work.
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The light gray yarn comes from the South African angora goat and is here offered in its finest, summer kid version. The cloth was woven in England by renowned mill Taylor & Lodge, which has occupied its Rashcliffe Mills factory in Huddersfield, on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, since its founding in 1883.
Mr James' suits feature "natural shoulders", which he developed exclusively for his jackets. These employ as slim a pad as possible and use only natural fibres. Light roping on the sleeve-head makes the overall line significantly sharper.
Although the suit jacket features a nipped waist, its cut is generous enough for most body shapes. This means that the jacket's shape appears more pronounced than it actually is - a slimming illusion created by using high side vents. "High arm holes allow for maximum movement whilst making you aware of what you are wearing so that you stand straight," adds Mr James.
The fabric used for this suit is composed of 40 per cent wool and an unusually high 60 per cent mohair. The mohair makes the material cool to the touch, bestowing the cloth with a crisp, dry feel and slight lustre. Astonishingly crease-resistant, this suit is perfect for formal summer frolics, and "looks great against a bride's ivory dress at the altar," notes Mr James.
Mr James always recommends flat-fronted suit trousers, which he believes creates a slimming effect. The leg shape tapers gently to a 22 cm bottom, thereby gently lengthening the silhouette.
Mr James started his bespoke tailoring business on London's Savile Row in 1992. He had no backing and only £10,000, but by blowing a fresh breeze of modernity onto the legendary street with his slimmer-cut suits, innovative take on traditional high-quality fabrics and brighter aesthetic, Mr James soon had a hit on his hands. "At the time, the big, baggy suits of high fashion brands were what people were wearing head-to-toe," recalls Mr James. "I wanted to go back to something classic and English. We brought back small waists and higher arm holes and fitted cuts. Good tailoring, for us, was about wearing something discreet, not about noticing a label."


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Today Jody and I celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary. Eight years ago, we said our vows and made promises to each other that have certainly been challenged at times. You know when you say your vows that at some point the honeymoon is going to end and that you will face challenges as a couple, but you never really know when those challenges will arise or how you and your partner will respond when they do.
Over the past few months, we've seen more than our fair share of "in sickness" rather than "in health" and, as a result, more "bad times" than "good." Yet through it all, our love for each other has remained strong. I'm so thankful I have a husband who supports me even when I'm not at my best.
Today we celebrate our love and our commitment to each other and I am thankful for my husband for honoring his commitment to me, even though I don't always make things easy.
Tomorrow we will face another challenge together as a couple – one no one can really prepare you for and one you hope you don't ever have to experience. We're putting the older of our two dogs, Ellie, to sleep tomorrow afternoon. It's been a tough decision for us, but her health has been failing for a while now and we believe it is for the best. Jody and I are going with her for the process, while the kiddos will be staying at a friend's house.
I explained to Ava that Ellie is going to the spirit world tomorrow and she asked if she is going to die and I said yes. She said, "we need to give her all of our kindness today." And I agreed. She pet Ellie and said she will miss her and then went about playing. I think she will be OK. I hope the rest of us can be as accepting.
Please keep us, the kids, Ellie, and our other dog Maggie in your thoughts tomorrow. Thank you.


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Strolling through the Place Des Vosges, Anne Strasberg admired the majestic brick buildings bordering the square, the orange and crimson leaves blanketing the ground, the children bursting with excitement as they rode a carousel.
"It's one of the squares of Paris that people know about and love," Strasberg, a native of the French capital, said. "I come to see the beauty, the harmony."
Strasberg carries this whimsical, wide-eyed view everywhere she goes, from the plazas of Paris to the villages of backcountry Connecticut. It is a perspective that shines through her work, a collection of folk art paintings on view in a new exhibition at the Les Beaux Arts Gallery in Greenwich.
"Aux Quatre Coins du Monde" ("Around The World") features more than 30 landscapes that serve as a de facto travelogue of Strasberg's globetrotting excursions. Each painting is illustrative of the artist's joie de vivre -- in the purity of color, attention to detail and vibrancy of her subjects.
"I put my heart and soul into my paintings," said Strasberg, who is self-taught. "It's like when you are a young person and you see everything with a pure perspective."
Making her first big splash at an exhibition at Le Coup au Coeur gallery in Paris in 1983, Strasberg went on to exhibit her work in France, Japan, Israel, Spain and the United States. This year, she opened Anne Strasberg's La P'tite Galerie at 555 8th Ave. in New York City.
"Aux Quatre" marks the artist's fourth solo show at the Les Beaux Arts Gallery at Round Hill Community Church. For Strasberg, a career in art was hardly guaranteed. Although she wanted to pursue painting from a young age, her parents encouraged her to enroll in technical school. It was only after seeing the world with her husband, American theater director John Strasberg, that she committed herself to painting.
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Les Beaux Arts Gallery at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. "Aux Quatre Coins Du Monde" through Wednesday, Jan. 8. Sunday, 11 a.m.-noon; Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 203-869-1091, roundhillcommunitychurch.org.
Strasberg may have been born and raised in Paris, but her sense of child-like wonder has flourished in foreign lands. The United States has proven fertile ground for her creativity.
"I have paintings of the Amish country, of New York's Rockefeller Center, of the countryside in Connecticut, of the desert in Santa Fe," she said. "I love the country because it's beautiful, and the landscapes are so big. It really captures my imagination."
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Game 108: Rangers at Blue Jays pregame
Texas (48-60) at Toronto (53-54)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Frank Catalanotto, LF
Ian Kinsler, 2B
Michael Young, SS
Marlon Byrd, CF
Jason Botts, DH
Nelson Cruz, RF
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, 1B
Gerald Laird, C
Ramon Vazquez, 3B
PITCHING: RHP Kevin Millwood (7-9, 5.95 ERA)
Reed Johnson, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Alex Rios, RF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay (11-5, 4.04 ERA)
NOTES: As you've likely read in multiple places, Toronto designated SS Royce Clayton for assignment, which means the club has 10 days to either trade, release or reassign the 37-year-old infielder. To take his spot on the roster, Toronto purchased the contract of infielder Ray Olmedo, whose primary position is short, but who can fill in occasionally at second base and third. … RHP A.J. Burnett will indded make a Minor League rehab start on Monday with Triple-A Syracuse, who will be visiting Ottawa. Burnett will only make one rehab start before being activated from the DL for Toronto's upcoming series in Kansas City. He'll take the ball on eiter Saturday (Jesse Litsch's day) or on Sunday (Josh Towers' day). Toronto hasn't decided whose spot Burnett will take, yet. … Prior to the game, the Jays announced that they claimed INF Hector Luna off waivers from Cleveland. No word yet if he's reporting to Toronto or Triple-A. … At the ballpark on Friday was former Jay John Mayberry, who spent the 1978-82 seasons with Toronto. Mayberry was on had for the Jays' Flashback Friday promotion. … Also, for those in the comment field who were batting around the idea of Reed Johnson moving to short, it ain't happening. But, along those lines, it will be interesting to see what the club does this offseason to make room for Adam Lind.
entering Friday
1. Boston 66-42 (–)
2. New York 58-50 (8)
3. Toronto 53-54 (12.5)
4. Baltimore 50-57 (15.5)
5. Tampa Bay 41-66 (24.5)
entering Friday
1. Cleveland 61-47 (–)
2. Seattle 59-47 (1)
3. New York 58-50 (3)
4. Minnesota 55-52 (5.5)
5. Toronto 53-54 (7.5)
POLL: OK, so this isn't baseball related, but my wife and I are contemplating going to see either The Simpsons Movie or Bourne Ultimatum this weekend, and undoubtedly we will see both in the coming weeks. So, my question is which should we see first this weekend? Simpsons Movie has been out for a little while, so I'm sure some of you have seen it. Bourne came out today I believe, so I'll be impressed if there's any reviews until later tonight. Thoughts?
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My pick would be Bourne I'm an action nut so is my wife.
Although I'm a huge Simpsons' fan, I really haven't found the show to be as funny for several years now. So I guess I'd go for Bourne, but who knows? Maybe Matt Groening pulled out all the stops for the movie….
Hey Jordan, I saw the Simpsons movie yesterday and Bourne Ultimatum today. While I loved the simpsons movie…I was blown away with how awesome Bourne was. It wraps the whole series up nicely and the car chases alone are worth the price of admission.
Speed on the bases not much good [Rios] if you don't know how to use it,A double play that never should have happend.
Hill best second baseman in the game today.
If Olmedo can insert his minor league stats into a major league roll we have a shortstop "But if he plays like he did in cinci.well Santos is waiting in the wings,I for one hope he makes it.
Can you imagine if you were a ball player and you were going to learn great moves from Johnny Mac it would have to be the thrill of a lifetime.
You have to choose Bourne. Love those movies. So much action and you have to love that.
Jays should sweep the hapless Texas Rangers. That is one team that is light years away from contending. There g.m. has done a poor job there. Trading away Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez, not too smart. Also signing Kevin Millwood to a 50 milion dollar deal over 5 years. Millwood never saw a buffet he didn't like. Jays should score at least 25 runs this weekend.
Sounds like the Jays want to get Lind going everyday in 08. I hope the Jays don't deal Johnson away, he is one of those guys you have to have on the team. You win with a guy like Reed Johnson. I don't know this but I am willing to bet and say he is one of the more popular guys and one the most respected guys on that team. Just a hunch.
No way we deal Johnson; Lind will be the 4th outfielder in 2008.
I think the Rangers did well on the deals they did at trade deadline. It won't help tem this year but it will in 2008-2009.
bosox You have to be right about Johnson he comes to the ballpark to play and play hard every day if the rest of the players played the way he does I dont think we would be at 500 today.
I think they are going to trade him this winter or is he a free agent????.
As a blue jay fan I want to see lind in left field and I want to keep Johnson but we can't have everything.
Nice game tonight
Although, I must tell you guys, I tnink the batters know what Halliday is throwing. I'd like to see him pitch with Thigpen calling the game-there's something wrong here and I'm not sure what it is.
Clearly, it's un-Holiday like to continually give up runs in the first 2-3 innings-it's like the batters know what's coming.
When you review the pitches that break 6-10 inches-its almost unthinkable that guys can hit them as easly as they do. Theres sometihning wrong here and I have no idea wht it is.
Comments please!!!!!!
Johnson is not a free agent and there's no way the Jays trade him.
The likely caee is both of them with Stairs gone.
Halliday has changed his style it will take time to perfect it,I bet by next year he will have it down pat and will be deadly cy young for sure he may still win it this year but it will be tough.
The bullpen did a good job again tonight it was a nice win.
I'm pretty sure Johnson is a free agent at the end of this season. TSN's website seems to indicate he signed a one year contract at the beginning of this season:
Considering that he's been injured this year and that 2006 was a career year for him (and maybe an anomaly), there's no guarantee the Jays will resign Johnson. I personally hope they do, because he's got a hustling attitude that the Jays sorely need and he's also the closest thing they have to a lead-off hitter.
Read Johnson is not a free agent and legiable for free agency for about 3 more seasons…
So maybe he can't change teams, but his contract is up for re-negotiation at the end of the year? If that's so, the Jays can probably sign him for a reasonably cheap price, because injured players don't usually demand much of a raise….
Johnson is probably arbritration eligible at the end of the year. He'll get a raise if he is arbritration eligible, not a huge pay-raise but he'll get one. Johnson is a pefect guy at the top of the order, nice on base % and he plays the game hard and all out.
And I just read the Jays dropped Howie Clark for Hector Luna. What's with all this cycling through utility infielders? First Jason Smith, then Clark, now Luna and Olmedo? Aren't all these guys pretty much the same player, or are the Jays just constantly looking for fresh blood and a hot bat?
Personally I don't like this deal. Luna is a serious defensive liability with 21 errors in 83 games. He's already 27 so, why dump Clark for this guy.
It does seem like an odd move, but I guess it had something to do with Clark slumping at the plate (he went 1 for 21 in July) and the fact that he's no spring chicken himself (he's 33).
That's interesting about Luna's errors this year. Maybe he's been trying a new position? Because I checked his Major League stats, and he made only 22 errors in 243 career games. That's not great, but definitely better than 21 errors in 83 games!
Maybe Olmedo's supposed to be the defensive guy off the bench and Luna's the hitter? I know that's a stretch, but I guess in the long run it doesn't really matter — they're all pretty much the same kind of player.
Also, from the stats I've seen, looks like Luna has had better success hitting for a higher average in the Majors than Clark. He are his stats:
And I'm loving that I'm so desperate for Jays' news that I'm dissecting the acquisition of a utility infielder….
here's his stats at Buffalo


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Georja: The Two Foscari (I due Foscari) by Giuseppe Verdi is now playing at the LA Opera with none other than the maestro, Placido Domingo himself, in the title role. This is a smashing performance and production in every way. Kudos to the LA Opera for dragging out a little seen piece of Verdi for all to enjoy and creating such a total masterpiece with the production, and to director Thaddeus Strassberger for putting it all together.
Gerald: The Two Foscari tells the story of the Doge, ruler of Venice in the 1400s, and his son, who has been trapped in political intrigues and accused of crimes against the state. The father, Francesco Foscari (Placido Domingo) is an old man, having held power for an amazing thirty-four years. But he is answerable to the supreme dictates of the Council of Ten, whose judgments are deemed to be infallible. The son, Jacopo (Francesco Meli), is an ambitious hothead who has been exiled to Crete by the Council and now returns to undergo torture and stand judgment on a charge he trumped up himself just so he could come home to see his wife and children one more time. It's not a complicated plot: Jacopo's wife Lucrezia (Marina Poplavskaya) pleads with the Doge to defy the Council to save Jacopo. But even though he claims to love his son, the old politician is unswerving in what he sees as his duty to the state.
Georja: The musical sequences and lyrical pieces are vigorous and exciting. The orchestra conducted by John Conlon is in top form. There are haunting choral numbers of all male chorus and then all female members . There are fantastic duets with Domingo and Meli as his son. Meli is handsome and his voice is strong and lyrical. I especially enjoyed hearing arias sung by a true Italian who adds all the tiny vocal flourishes and trills.
And to top off the musical feast we are treated to Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya who hit the opera scene with a big splash in 2006 and hasn't looked back. She is a powerhouse who perfectly balances the almost entirely male cast and enchants with her arias and duets. I would say she is the operatic equivalent of Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton put together in a young and beautiful form. Her voice is so strong. And our dear Domingo is also powerful in his 150th role – the most of any tenor ever and still going strong.
The staging is original, brilliant, and haunting. Congratulations to scenic designer Kevin Knight. It is a dark and dank feeling like the dark story it holds and the dank feelings of a water town of Venice. And at the same time it is a tribute to Venice, the most powerful city state of its time in 1457. The pervading imagery of the ocean with all its unstoppable strength echoes the themes of the play.
Gerald: This story is creepy and fraught with malevolence, and this new Los Angeles production is literally dark and unrelentingly gloomy. The result is a palpable chill up the spine and a reminder of just how stunning only opera can be. The bizarre and imaginatively conceived sets are a maze of crosswalks and bridges set at odd angles, along with ironclad torture chamber and a nightmarish carnival demon, a gigantic Satan's head. The chilling effect is driven home in one tableau after another as our spectacular LA Opera chorus serves alternately as the stately and implacable ruling class and then as the crazed carnival rabble cavorting in the street.
Georja: The costumes are exquisite thanks to costumer Mattie Ullrich. The aristocratic dresses, especially, truly looked to be museum pieces. Tall lanky blonde Marina was like a beautiful peacock on the stage in her flowing yet very specifically period gowns. The chorus was startling in its Inquisition-like robes and the nuns were an image in their eccentric looking habits.
Gerald: Georja has commented that this production is masterful and flawless, and I agree completely. The puzzling topic is the story itself, and unfortunately Giuseppe Verdi isn't around to give an interview. (We'd also want to invite Lord Byron, who wrote the historical play on which it is based.) It's not just the simplicity of the doomed plot that's striking, but the almost total lack of moral choice or action. The Doge insists on holding to his duty to the state, and shameful death is the result for both he and his son. The infallible state goes on, no respecter of persons no matter how influential, and we're reminded that human societies ultimately will do whatever is necessary to perpetuate themselves
Georja: I Due Foscari, for all its many charms, is an opera which has been rarely mounted. In a way, it's not hard to see why. The story of a powerful doge whose son is exiled by decree of the "Council of Ten." And he feels he is powerless to help his son. So committed is he to his role as political leader that it sabotages his paternal and human feelings. As a person who does not courageously speak out and let the chips fall where they may, he disappoints. Although he is passionate, he seems tepid.
And yet if one examines the culture and history of the time where the Council's law is considered "infallible" and the impotence that can inflict on a personal level, one can imagine the feeling of unstoppable fate that was prevalent at the time. Like a Greek tragedy. And yet to a modern audience we want to root for the Doge to do whatever it takes to save his son.
Gerald: There is no romantic hero here to inspire us or to take bold new action. Fate has a lock on our lives, and all we can do is sing songs of lament. The Foscaris are historical figures, and no doubt Verdi's audience in the 1840s had been taught this legacy in school. Perhaps they better understood the price and the consequences of authoritarian rule. To a modern audience, it's both baffling and infuriating. Stirring those emotions is the essential thrill of experiencing this rarely performed opera.
Georja: Since the doge is not heroic, it makes for a less cut and dry and a more interesting character. It requires some thinking to understand where he is coming from. As such it is also a more complex piece than one would think. I for one am fully grateful to be able to go on this operatic journey and give full recommendation for it.
Georja Umano is an actor and animal advocate.
Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels.
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Opera About Walt Disney Refused Permission To Use Disney Images
from the don't-do-as-you-would-be-done-by dept
Techdirt has noted before the hypocrisy of Disney in refusing to allow others to draw on its creativity in the same way that it has drawn on the art and ideas of the past. Here's another example, but this time it's an opera that's had difficulties:
A British-designed and directed opera about Walt Disney which premieres in Spain this month before coming to London has been forced to tell the great cartoonist's story without any of the images of the characters that made him a household name. Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy, not to mention Mickey Mouse himself, will not be appearing on stage with the singers.
Rather weirdly (sour grapes?), the artistic director of the English National Opera, which will perform the opera in London, says that "we would probably not have used the real Disney characters in the production even if we had been allowed to," so in practice Disney's refusal hasn't turned out to be a big problem. But there's still an interesting issue here.
The Perfect American, the latest work by the acclaimed composer Philip Glass, concentrates on the last years of Disney's life, when he lay dying of lung cancer while planning to have his body frozen. It portrays Disney as a megalomaniac with McCarthyite, racist and misogynist tendencies, so it is clear why the global entertainment corporation has denied rights.
As Techdirt has discussed before, the famous "Mickey Mouse Curve" shows how copyright extensions always seem to come through just as Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain. So it's not entirely impossible that Disney will be pushing for yet another extension fairly soon, and for more after that.
What that means in practice is that creators of works like the Philip Glass opera presenting Walt Disney in a less than totally flattering light are likely to find themselves unable to use any of the iconic Disney images beyond what is permitted by fair use. And so a crucial facet of modern culture will not be available for artists to build upon as they wish for the foreseeable future -- hardly how the copyright bargain of a time-limited government-enforced monopoly in exchange for releasing works into the public domain is supposed to work.
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One head-spinning piece of President Obama's state of the union address was his call for 100,000 new teachers. The president said:
"And over the next ten years, with so many Baby Boomers retiring from our classrooms, we want to prepare 100,000 new teachers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. In fact, to every young person listening tonight who's contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child – become a teacher. Your country needs you."
That sounds great. But here's the problem. School districts in California -- and in many other states -- have been laying off teachers, thousands of teachers, and likely will have to lay off more as governments make cutbacks. So why should young people who have a choice of professions choose teaching?
Obama doesn't answer the question, of course. And certainly, despite the layoffs, the country needs more and better science and math teachers. The problem, of course, is that it is young teachers who get laid off first in most American school districts -- because layoffs are done by seniority because of union rules. So a call for more teachers in these times only becomes credible if it's linked to blowing up seniority rules. Obama, to his credit, has been willing to take on teachers' unions even though they are an important part of the Democratic base. But he hasn't gone that far.


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