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LeBron James proving to be a winner in business, too
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and LeBron James seem like an odd couple.
But James' friendship with the second richest man in the United States tells the story of another side of the Miami Heat superstar. As focused as James has been on his goal of winning NBA championships, he's just as driven off the court about building a business empire and breaking the billion-dollar mark, an accomplishment golfer Tiger Woods was the first athlete to achieve.
"You have to get to know him," Buffett said. "LeBron's not initially really talkative. He's savvy. He's smart about financial matters. It's amazing to me the maturity he exhibits. I know that if I had been famous at that age, I would have had trouble keeping my feet on the ground."
Those are pretty big compliments coming from Buffett, the world's leading investment guru, who at 82 could easily be the grandfather of James, 27. Yet the age difference and James' lack of a college degree haven't been a barrier to a friendship that includes Buffett providing occasional business advice.
Buffett isn't the only high-profile executive James counts as a friend. You'll find him in the company of people as diverse as Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, Hollywood producer Tom Werner, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and music mogul Jay-Z. It was actually James who introduced Heat owner and Carnival Chief Executive Micky Arison to Ballmer.
At an investment conference a few years ago attended by chief executives from some of the largest Fortune 500 companies, Buffett says his friend James could more than hold his own.
"People were more interested in meeting him than in meeting me," Buffett said. "He doesn't need me to introduce him, that's for sure."
Coming off the best season of his career, James needs no introduction to corporate America. The NBA's most valuable player had his pick of endorsement offers and business opportunities as the Heat sets out to defend its championship. The first new deal puts James as a brand ambassador for Samsung's new cellphone, the Galaxy Note II. Ads featuring James launched during the Heat's opener this week.
"It's really LeBron's world right now," said Bob Dorfman, executive creative director of Baker Street Advertising in San Francisco and the author of the Sports Marketing Report, who estimates any deals James signs will be a minimum of $1 million a year with a five-year term.
James was the fourth-highest paid athlete in the world last year with an annual income of $53 million — a number that would have been 20 percent higher without the salary cut for the strike-shortened season, according to Forbes. The majority of Lebron's earnings — $40 million — comes from endorsements and business contracts with a high-profile roster that includes Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
The only athletes ranked higher than James on the Forbes list are boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, followed by Woods. James edged tennis player Roger Federer and Lakers star Kobe Bryant — previously the NBA's top earner.
James' income is clearly on the upswing. Brands like winners, and it doesn't hurt that James resides in a top media market like Miami. The Samsung deal is the first of what is expected to be a series of new endorsements and business deals.
"I picked Samsung because it's all about innovating," James said in a promotional video for the product launch. "That's what I've always been about — doing something that's different."
Industry experts see potential opportunities for rounding out James' endorsement profile in the areas of automobiles, financial services, retail and consumer products or packaged goods.
"He's arguably the most marketable athlete currently in the U.S. because he brings the most long-term value," said Robert Tuchman, president of Goviva, a sports and entertainment company. "I don't think there's anyone you can compare him to right now … he's perceived as a really good guy and a winner."
Before the Samsung deal was finalized, James downplayed any speculation about what he might have in the works.
"I've got a lot going on right now," James said. "I'm not looking for too many new opportunities — unless it's a good one."
When it comes to making those decisions, any potential opportunities will be closely scrutinized by James and his team.
"They've got to be right for me, my brand and who I am," James said during training camp.
Crafting the image for his brand is an area where James has taken a personal — and sometimes non-traditional — approach. Toward the end of his second year in the NBA he fired his agent and in 2006 established his own marketing firm. In charge of his business ventures since then has been LRMR Marketing, a moniker drawn from the initials of LeBron James and his three childhood buddies, Randy Mims, Maverick Carter and Richard Paul. At the helm has been Carter, a former Nike employee, in charge of building James' burgeoning business.
"LeBron has always paid attention to how wealth is created," said Steve Stoute, a friend of James as well as CEO and co-founder of Translation Advertising, which specializes in the multicultural market. "He understands that it's not enough to be good on the court and put your money in the hands of somebody. You actively need to participate in the vision of your wealth and what you want to be after basketball."
Unlike many athletes, James made it clear early on that he prefers equity deals, not just endorsements. One of James' most heralded deals: the 2011 partnership with Fenway Sports Group that gave him a minority ownership stake in the British soccer club Liverpool.
James' business ventures include a partnership with American Signature furniture and Beats by Dr. Dre, plus an ownership stake in Cannondale bikes. He's an investor in two local start-ups: PureBrands, the Boca Raton company that launched Sheets energy strips, and UNKNWN, a lifestyle store in Aventura Mall launched by some of his old Cleveland buddies.
It's not unusual to see James investing in products he uses himself or views as a void in the market. The Powerbeats earphones grew out of James' need for a product to withstand his workouts. Sheets offers the natural pick me up James and other athletes seek during games. UNKNWN features a collection of the brands the fashion-conscious James wears himself, plus limited-edition collections of his Nike shoes.
If you happen to luck out, you might find James ringing up customers behind the cash register in Aventura or moving boxes in the store room.
"He's very hands-on and part of all of our creative decisions," said Chris Julian, one of the partners in UNKNWN. "That's what makes him a modern business man."
As a leader in social media and an icon to fans, all it takes is a tweet from James to send an item flying off the shelves at UNKNWN. With more than six million followers on Twitter and more than 12 million likes on Facebook, James has an impressive reach. That's why Carmex lip balm signed a partnership deal with James' personal website.
Industry experts agree that James and others are leading the way in these new business paradigms, much the same way Michael Jordan created the roadmap for athletes in business.
"LeBron knows he's got the potential to move product, so why not be able to benefit from that in every way you can," said Scott Becher, managing director of the sports and entertainment practice at Zimmerman Advertising in Fort Lauderdale. "Your upside is dramatically higher when you've got skin in the game."
James' biggest endorsement deal is with Nike, which signed him to a $90 million contract initially when he entered the NBA, with an extension in 2010 that now pays him more than $10 million a year.
Industry reports estimate James' McDonald's deals ring up $4 million a year, while Coca-Cola pays him $16 million over six years to represent Sprite and Powerade. Add to that $6 million from Upper Deck over a five-year span. That doesn't include deals with State Farm, Dunkin' Brands in Asia, luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet or the newest deal with Samsung.
James has the top selling shoe and jersey this year. Nike sold $90 million in LeBron shoes wholesale last year, which translates into about $175 million in retail sales, said Matt Powell, an analyst with SportsOneSource. While LeBron's sales are about double what Bryant sold, they're still a fraction of the $1 billion Jordan sold last year.
But James is breaking other records with Nike's launch of the LeBron X this fall, with prices ranging from $180 to $270. At the top range, the LeBron X+ is the most expensive shoe on the market with technology to measure an athlete's performance.
Brands like Nike are attracted to James because of his global star power.
"We know LeBron is a special talent," said Brian Strong, a Nike spokesman. "He connects with the consumer."
Nowhere is that more evident than on the Miami Heat's recent trip to China. James was mobbed by adoring fans chanting his name like a rock star. This was James' ninth visit to the country and his second in the last month.
In-between two exhibition games, James crammed in a busy schedule of promotional appearances. On his last day in Shanghai, James posed for pictures with Sprite's newly designed aluminum can featuring his image. Then he was quickly shuttled across town for an event with Dunkin' Brands, where he answered questions from kids, engaged in a chopsticks contest and sunk a few baskets.
James' Dunkin' deal, which was announced in March, involves his role as a brand ambassador for Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins in China, Taiwan, South Korea and India.
James' ability to connect with consumers is often most evident when he is interacting with kids like at the Dunkin' event where 9- and 10-year-olds got to interview their idol. One asked James how he came to be so tall.
"I ate my vegetables when I was a kid," said James, who is 6-8, 250 pounds.
James, a famously health-conscious eater, now must try to convince kids to eat doughnuts and ice cream. "It's very exciting for me," James said. "I have two young boys that love ice cream and doughnuts."
The success James enjoyed on the court last season has gone a long way toward repairing his marketability, which was damaged in the summer of 2010 after the hyped, televised announcement of his decision to leave Cleveland for Miami as a free agent. Overnight he went from beloved to vilified. Some of that baggage lingers.
James' Q scores, considered one of the most widely used measures of the consumer appeal of a brand or celebrity, have still not returned to the levels they were before "The Decision." James' positive Q score today is 17 — smack in the middle of the pack of sports personalities. That's down from his peak of 24 in early 2010 but up from 14 after James' popularity tanked in August 2010. Athletes with the highest Q scores currently are Michael Jordan and NFL quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees.
"Maybe winning another championship and some positive PR will help," said Henry Schafer, executive vice president of Q Scores. "Winning isn't everything when it comes to your public image. A lot has to do with the way you connect to the public. It can take a long time to get back to the lofty heights when you fall."
Miami Herald staff writer Joseph Goodman contributed to this report.


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Honeywell in It for the Long Haul with Its Partners
It's All About the Relationships, Long-term Commitment and Give and Take
When Andrew D'Amelio, Honeywell Process Solutions' new VP of sales for the Americas and co-chaiman of the User Input Subcommittee, talks about the company's vision of "partnership," he could be talking about a good marriage. First of all, that partner has to be a special person. "We can't be this kind of partner with everyone. We have thousands and thousands of customers. We don't have the time or the resources. You don't have the time to do this with every vendor either," D'Amelio said.
But when you find those special people, it becomes worthwhile to develop such a partnership. That first takes time—many years—and being the kind of partner that special person wants to stick with.
D'Amelio used that observation to segue into an audience-participation game at this week's Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas conference where he asked people who had attended more than five, 10, 15, 20 or 25 HUGs to stand. There were quite a few in each category. It is these kinds of long-term relationships that Honeywell is speaking about when it talks about partnerships, D'Amelio said.
But such partnerships take more than time. A strong relationship is fundamental to their success, said Amelio, one where both partners know each other—their concerns, their requirements, their quirks, their likes and dislikes—very well. Open, honest give and take is part of the equation.
Shared values are critical to such a partnership too. Both partners have to agree on their mutual goals and how to achieve them.
At the same time, each partner needs to bring unique skill sets to the partnership. "There's no point in having 100% agreement," said Amelio. "You want to partner with somebody who challenges you."
Here Amelio challenged his audience to think outside the box when dealing with Honeywell. "We're a big company, with more than 130,000 employees," he said, adding that there's much more to Honeywell than its Process Systems Division. "Sometimes we may have expertise in another area that we can leverage to arrive at a solution."
Commitment is also crucial to any partnership. Here D'Amelio promised, "We want to be there in both good times and bad. We will not abandon a partner or leave him in the lurch."
He added, "This means sharing the risks and the rewards." When things go well, both Honeywell and its partners benefit. When they go badly, both bear some of the cost.
Honesty and push-back are part of a strong partnership. D'Amelio told the story of a "less-than-perfect" implementation with a customer. During the post mortem it became clear that for its own reasons, the customer had not implemented certain parts of the solution—a decision which complicated the implementation and added to the risks. The customer asked the crucial question, "Why didn't you tell us that this might happen?"
"I took that lesson very seriously," said D'Amelio.
As a wrap-up to his presentation, D'Amelio outlined his own ongoing priorities for developing these kinds of strong partnerships with the users gathered at HUG:
- Spend more time with customers. "We want to be there for our customers when we're needed," said D'Amelio.
- Impart more knowledge. "We want to make sure our customers have all the information they need to make informed decisions."
- Provide more training. "We want our people and our end users to have every opportunity to upgrade their skills and knowledge to ensure ongoing success."
- Help customers achieve one or both of these goals: Reduce costs and increase output. "Every project must do one of these two things," said Amelio. "These goals are what help you build your business case for the C suite."
- Offer world-class lifecycle management. "We want to offer a gradual implementation strategy," says D'Amelio. "We don't encourage rip and replace in most circumstances."
Finally, said D'Amelio, partnership is about staying the course. "You can't just walk away at the end of a project. We want to be there for you for the long haul."


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Summit County Community Notes: 4-5-2013
Summit Music and Arts welcomes the return of Duo Esprit, a harp and viola group, at 4 p.m. on Sunday at Lord of the Mountains, 56 Highway. 6 in Dillon.
The program "Esprit Encore!" – performed by Ann Marie Liss, harp, and Basil Vendryes, viola – will feature music of Ferrante, Malloy, Kehn, Goldfinger and Berg (all written for Duo Esprit), as well as music of Vaughan Williams, Chopin, Gershwin and Bridge. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Call (970) 468-6809 or visit summitmusicandarts.org.
The Douglas Mendel Cambodian Relief Fund is having a fundraiser at Ollie's in Breckenridge from 7-10 p.m. on April 4 to raise $4,000 for an engine rebuild for the firetruck the group donated for use in Cambodia. Please come enjoy an evening of fun and bidding on 65 silent-auction items from local restaurants and businesses.
Swan Center Outreach is hosting a new volunteer training class from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. Come learn what it means to be a part of the Swan Center team. Swan Center Outreach provides leadership and self-awareness programs with rescued horses that empower and support youth and adults in the achievement of their life goals, while demonstrating the educational, therapeutic and spiritual values of a loving relationship with animals. The center is located on a beautiful 300-acre ranch in the Lower Blue River Valley just 15 minutes north of Silverthorne. To sign up, visit http://www.swancenter.org.
Parents who would like to visit Summit County Preschool for summer and fall enrollment are invited to an enrollment open house from 10 a.m. to noon and from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, April 25. Stop in during those times to visit classrooms, meet our teachers and complete paperwork for enrollment. Refreshments will be provided and all of your questions about SCP will be answered!
Advocates for Victims of Assault is hosting a Black Tie Bingo event from 6-10 p.m on Saturday, April 6 at the Elks Lodge in Silverthorne. Tickets are $50, or you can buy a table of eight for $350.
The Alliance for Historical Preservation is seeking local crafters for a July 4 show in Frisco. Booth spaces are available for $150 for a two- or three-day show. Call (970) 370-5726 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for further information.
The Frisco Recreation Department is offering a variety of summer sports camps and Frisco Fun Club, a summer day camp. In-person registration opens for Frisco Fun Club from 5-7p.m. on Monday, April 8 at the Frisco Day Lodge.
The Alpine Earth Center in Silverthorne is screening "Dirt! The Movie" at 4 p.m. on April 14 and 6 p.m. on April 17. For this movie, presenters will be Sherie Sobke, from Alpine Earth Center, and Jen Santry, from High Country Conservation Center. Upcoming movies: "Dirt! The Movie," "The Greater Good," "Catching Babies," "Genetic Roulette," "Thrive," "Beautiful Truth," "Cats of Mirikitani" and "Law of Similars." The fee is $5.
Help High Country Conservation Center honor Summit County's deserving individuals, businesses and volunteers at this year's Party for Planet being held on Earth Day, Monday, April 22. The Green Scene Awards are a great way to recognize someone you know who has been an environmental inspiration to you and others. Visit http://www.highcountryconservation.org for details and a nomination form. All nominations are due by April 16.
The 2013 Seedling Trees for Conservation program is wrapping up for the season. Seedlings are grown at the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery in Fort Collins and are made available to Summit County property owners through the Colorado State University Extension office in Frisco. Orders for seedlings must be received by the office on or before Friday, April 12. Seedlings will be delivered to Frisco for pick-up on May 1 and 2. For more information or to download an order form, visit the http://www.co.summit.co.us/Extension, or call the extension office at (970) 668-3595.
Are you looking for service opportunities in Summit County? Domus Pacis Family Respite is a local nonprofit that provides respites or getaways to families dealing with all stages of cancer. Domus Pacis is looking for new volunteers to help bake and prepare meals for families who are visiting Summit County and taking a break from their day-to-day dealings with cancer. If you are interested in cooking, helping out in the office, or if you have another special talent you would like to share with us, please contact Meredith Long at email@example.com or (970) 547-4745.
Learn how to buy a house from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 13 in the Buffalo Mountain Room at the County Commons in Frisco. You will learn the basics, from A to Z, of what it takes to purchase a home. The class is free and is sponsored by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, and put on by the Summit Combined Housing Authority with help from local volunteers who will walk you through the lending process, real estate transaction, title company portion and home inspection. To register, call Joy at (970) 423-7041 or email email@example.com to register for this great class.
Registration is now open for the 37th annual Salomon Run the Rockies weekend on June 8-9. Registration is available online at http://www.RuntheRockies.com. Current discounted prices are $50 for the half marathon and $40 for the 10K. The trail race registration is $40 for the 5K and 10K. Prices go up May 1st. Day-of registration will be available for both races. Registration for the road race on June 8 is available at the Frisco Recreation Building, located at Third Avenue and Main Street, between 6-8 a.m. The 5K and 10K trail race day-of registration will be available at the Frisco Day Lodge from 7-8 a.m. on Sunday, June 9. For more information, please contact Linsey Kach at (970) 668-9133 or email@example.com.
The Breckenridge Heritage Alliance is seeking nominations for the second annual Theobald Award to recognize outstanding contributions to the history of the Breckenridge area. The award will identify a person, business or project that exemplifies the town's commitment to historic preservation, celebrates the history of Breckenridge in a unique way, demonstrates leadership and volunteerism, or both, for historic preservation and heritage tourism, and uncovers new facts or stories about Breckenridge's history. Visit breckheritage.com for more information. The deadline for nominations is April 19. The award ceremony will take place late summer 2013.
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DevOps has its source in agile software development, and it is an explicit aspect of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework. As a result there is a collection of agile development strategies which enable effective DevOps throughout the agile delivery lifecycle. These strategies include:
- Initial requirements envisioning. Disciplined agile teams invest time at the beginning of the project to identify the high-level scope in a light-weight, collaborative manner. This includes common operations requirements such as the need to backup and restore data sources, to instrument the solution so that it can be monitored in real time by operations staff, or to architect the solution in a modular manner to enable easier deployment.
- Initial architecture envisioning. Disciplined agile teams will also identify a viable architectural strategy which reflects the requirements of their stakeholders and your organization's overall architectural strategy (hence the need to work closely with your enterprise architects and operations staff). One goal is to ensure that the team is building (or buying) a solution which will work well with the existing operational infrastructure and to begin negotiating any infrastructural changes (such as deploying new technologies) early in the project. Another goal is to ensure that operations-oriented requirements are addressed by the architecture from the very start.
- Initial release planning. As part of release planning the disciplined agile team works closely with their operations group to identify potential release windows to aim for, any release blackout periods to avoid, and the need for operations-oriented milestone reviews later in the lifecycle (if appropriate).
- Active stakeholder participation. Disciplined agile teams work closely with their stakeholders, including both operations and support staff, all the way through the lifecycle to ensure that their evolving needs are understood.
- Continuous integration (CI). This is a common technical agile practice where the solution is built/compiled, regression tested, and maybe even run through code analysis tools. CI promotes greater quality which in turn enables easier releases into production.
- Parallel independent testing. For enterprise-class development or at scale, particularly when the domain or technology is very complex or in regulatory environments, disciplined agile team will find they need to support their whole team testing efforts with an independent test team running in parallel to the development team. These testing issues often include validation of non-functional requirements – such as security, performance, and availability concerns – and around production system integration. All of these issues are of clear importance for operations departments.
- Continuous deployment. With this practice you automate the promotion of your working solution between environments. By automating as much of the deployment effort as possible, and by running it often, the development team increases the chance of a successful deployment and thereby reduces the risk to the operations environment. Note that deployment into production is generally not automatic, as this is an important decision to be made by your operations/release manager(s).
- Continuous documentation. With this practice supporting documentation, including operations and support documentation, is evolved throughout the lifecycle in concert with the development of new functionality.
- Production release planning. This is the subset of your release planning efforts which focuses on the activities required to deploy into production.
- Production readiness reviews. There should be at least one review, performed by the person(s) responsible for your operations environment, before the solution is deployed into production. The more critical the system, the more product readiness reviews may be required.
- End-of-lifecycle testing. Minimally you will need to run your full automated regression test suite against your baselined code once construction ends. There may also be manual acceptance reviews or testing to be performed, and any appropriate fixing and retesting required to ensure that the solution is truly ready for production.
There's more to it though than simply adopting some good practices. Your process must also embrace several supporting philosophies. The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework not only adopts the practices listed above, and more, but it also promotes several philosophies which enable DevOps:
- Delivery teams should be enterprise aware, that they should work with people such as operations staff and enterprise architects to understand and work towards a common operational infrastructure for your organization.
- Operations and support people should be recognized as key stakeholders of the solution being worked on.
- The delivery team should focus on solutions over software. Software is clearly important, but we will often provide new or upgraded hardware, supporting documentation (including operations and support procedures), change the business/operational processes that stakeholders follow, and even help change the organizational structure in which our stakeholders work.
- Your process should include an explicit governance strategy. Effective governance strategies motivate and enable development teams to leverage and enhance the existing infrastructure, follow existing organizational conventions, and work closely with enterprise teams – all of which help to streamline operations and support of the delivered solutions.
For more detail about this topic, I think that you will find the article I wrote for the December 2011 issue of Cutter IT Journal entitled "Disciplined Agile Delivery and Collaborative DevOps" to be of value.


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Oscar(R) Nominees Steven Ascher And Jeanne Jordan Filmed
Documentary Over Course Of Six Years
Painter Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career when she promised her mother, Ethel, that she would take care of her mentally disabled sister, Renee. Years later, following Ethel's death, that promise came due.
Filmed over the course of six years, the compelling HBO2 documentary RAISING RENEE chronicles Beverly McIver's efforts to make good on her promise when it debuts WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO2. A testament to the power of family bonds, this thought-provoking film is produced and directed by Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan (the Oscar(R)-nominated "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern").
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Marked by drama, humor and unexpected twists, RAISING RENEE begins in 2003, as Beverly McIver is savoring opening night of her first solo art show in New York, joined by her mother, Ethel, and mentally disabled sister, Renee, a 43-year-old who functions at the level of a third grader. When Ethel dies the next year, Beverly's pledge to care for Renee is put to the test.
Beverly grew up in a Greensboro, NC housing project with her sisters, Renee and Roni, and their mother, Ethel, who singlehandedly raised them while working as a maid for white families. Segregation in Greensboro was notorious: When Beverly was 17, an anti-KKK rally resulted in five people being shot dead by the Klan in front of the McIvers' home. Though most of her relatives stayed in the area, Beverly's talent led to fellowships in New York and a professorship at Arizona State University. The politics of race would inform her art, and she vowed never to live in the South again.
Renee had lived with Ethel her whole life, making colorful potholders and doing good deeds with her mother. After Ethel's death from cancer, Beverly moved Renee to Arizona to live with her. She was concerned that this added responsibility would end her life as an artist, but Renee was happy to be with her sister.
After a few years, Beverly decided she needed help caring for her sister, so she and Renee moved back to North Carolina, where she has been offered a position at North Carolina Central University, to be closer to their sister Roni and her family.
Though her sister seemed happy, Beverly worried that Renee was at home much more than when she lived with their mother. In fall 2009, shortly after Renee turned 50, an opportunity arose for her to live independently in an assisted-living apartment complex, something that was unthinkable when their mother was alive. Renee's astonishing response to this challenge at age 50 raises key questions about disability and ability.
Beverly McIver is currently the Suntrust Endowed Chair Professor of Art at North Carolina Central University. Her work is in the collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among other institutions, and has been reviewed in Art News, Art in America and the New York Times. Critic Irving Sandler has described McIver's art as a merger of "personal confession and social commentary, photography and painting, and realism and expressionism."
Husband and wife team Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan have been making documentary and fiction films for more than 20 years. Their feature documentaries include 1995's "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern," which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance, the Prix Italia, and Peabody and IDA awards, and received an Academy Award(R) nomination. Their documentary "So Much So Fast" premiered at Sundance and was broadcast worldwide.
RAISING RENEE was produced and directed by Jeanne Jordan & Steven Ascher; cinematography and sound, Steven Ascher; editing, Jeanne Jordan; music by Sheldon Mirowitz. For HBO: supervising producer, Lisa Heller; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.


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Leaders in research, entrepreneurs, and key policymakers from industry, academia, and government will convene at the 2013 Summit on Energy Efficiency, May 1 2. Hosted by UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency, the Summit provides a forum for a critical dialogue about how advancements in materials science and technology can meet future energy needs through efficiency improvements.
"We are all aware of the energy crisis that we as a society are facing. The goal of the Summit is to gather experts and policy leaders, discuss the latest science and technology for energy efficiency and renewable energy, and to stimulate everyone to think in new ways," said Dr. John Bowers, Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency.
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STAMFORD -- Metro-North Railroad is reviewing its advertising policies after the latest controversial billboard linking Islam to terrorist attacks that currently appear at a handful of New Haven Line stations.
The series of billboards paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative are the latest chapter in an ongoing battle of trackside messages financed by advocacy groups on opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The current ad campaign posted at five Connecticut stations on the New Haven Line -- Greenwich, Cos Cob, Noroton Heights, Darien and South Norwalk -- include the slogan "It's not Islamophobia, It's Islamorealism," in red lettering on a black background. Above the slogan the poster lists the number 19,250, the purported number of terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic extremists since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Pamela Geller, a blogger who runs the AFDI and paid $10,000 for the ads attributed the number of attacks cited to a list compiled by TheReligionofPeace.com, a website which publishes a list of acts of violence it includes under the umbrella of Islamic terrorism including the killing of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and various other murders.
"I hope people will gain a new understanding of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat," Geller said.
Geller said the ads, which will run through Sept. 2 were bought to counter a round of platform advertisements critical of Israel that were financed by retired Wall Street broker Henry Clifford of the Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine, she said in an email exchange.
That advertisement showed a two-color map of Israel labeled "Palestinian Loss of Land -- 1946 to 2010" showing the gradual transfer of land from Palestine to Israel through the decades long conflict, and citing an estimate by the United Nations that categorizes 4.7 million Palestinians as refugees.
Clifford, an 83-year-old Essex man who purchased the ads for $25,000 said that he is trying to present the plight of Palestinians which he feels is often downplayed in the U.S. "Our posters show historical information without any editorial comment," Clifford said. "I am not currently planning any ads but I am considering options to definitely do something additional in the future."
Geller said she didn't think the advertisement unfairly linked the larger religion of Islam with those who commit terror attacks but did say by and large peaceful Muslims should reform Islam to dissociate themselves from terrorists who present themselves the true proponents of Islam.
"The ad simply states a fact," Geller wrote. " There have been well over 19,000 jihad terror attacks since 9/11. Nowhere does the ad say that all Muslims endorse them -- the idea that it does is media fabrication."
In a statement, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the parent organization of Metro-North said it is currently considering revising its policy on non-commercial viewpoint advertisements.
"The MTA sells advertising space to raise revenue to support mass transit operations. MTA's existing policy for ads carried on subways, buses and trains permits both commercial and non-commercial paid advertisements," the MTA statement read. " The MTA does not decide whether to allow a proposed advertisement based upon its viewpoint and the MTA does not endorse the viewpoint in this or any other paid advertisement. MTA is currently reviewing its policy of accepting non-commercial viewpoint advertisements."
Last month U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer issued an injunction finding the MTA violated Geller and the AFDI's free speech rights by rejecting an earlier advertisement it considered discriminatory against members of the Muslim religion.
In the ruling Engelmayer found that the MTA's policy to prohibit advertisements it considered "demeaning to individuals or a group of individuals," inhibited AFDI's right to express their opinion publicly.
At the Darien rail station, Jonathan Suarez, 31, said he thought that advertisements whether pro-Israel or Palestinian were inappropriate for display along the rail tracks.
"If it's upsetting people I'm not surprised," Suarez said. "I don't think its appropriate to be putting up those types of advertisements on controversial subjects."
Simone Harris, of Norwalk, who commutes into the Darien station said the advertisement taken out by Geller's group seemed inflammatory, but said it and the pro-Palestinian advertisements were just examples of a wider lack of civility in public debate.
At the Greenwich station, the ad has been ripped in half.
"They shouldn't have it up because all it does is add to an environment where everybody is mad and fighting each other," Harris said. "All it seems to do is insult and upset people and if people want to have their view respected they should show respect."
Shahzad Khawaja, a Stamford Muslim said that Geller's advertisement was unfair, and that the terms "jihad" and "Sharia" have been misrepresented by the media to be associated with terrorist violence and unenlightened attitudes.
"This is the time to bridge the gap between Islam and the West and not to create tensions," Khawaja said. "Our Stamford Muslim community believes in giving back and we do projects to serve mankind selflessly."
At the South Norwalk station on Monday night, Tom Grehan, a commuter said that he believed that the advertisements were protected free speech.
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We're days away from the wildly anticipated release of "Eclipse," the third film in the box-office busting "Twilight" series. Meanwhile the franchise's vampire stud and leading man Robert Pattinson has just gotten around to really watching the first film.
Pattinson admitted as much at the film's press day and said "Twilight" left him a little confused.
"I just saw "Twilight on TV for the first time a couple of days ago," he said -- a semi-shocking revelation considering he's about to start shooting the fourth book.
"Even when I was watching Twilight the other day, now when I've seen it, you kind of need to read the book to get it," he added. "I was like, 'what?'"
"And I'm in it."
Pattinson added that he did speak the commentary for the film for the "Twilight" DVD release, so clearly he watched some of it at that point. But this was clearly the first time he really took it all in.
Other than feeling slightly lost, the shy mega-star was also surprised he had the brass to put his songs on the first soundtrack. He insisted that if he knew how big the movies would be, and the accompanying soundtracks, he never would have agreed to expose himself like that.
"It's bizarre I actually had those songs in the movie," he said. "I'm kind of amazed Catherine (Hardwicke, the director of the first) did it. It shows how none of us thought it was going to be so massive."
It also means he realizes the dizzying heights he's at now. Which means he won't be putting any more soundtrack songs up anytime soon. People are actually watching these things.
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Did Baltimore Raven receiver Lee Evans catch a 19-yard TD pass from QB Joe Flacco with 24-seconds remaining in yesterday's AFC Championship game against the New England Patriot's in Foxborough? Or was the ball stripped by Patriot's cornerback Sterling Moore? Obviously, since it is the Patriots headed to Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI to take on the New York Giants in a replay of the 2007 title game, the officials ruled it an incomplete pass.
The call was granted even greater significance when, with the Pats leading 23-20, Raven's placekicker Billy Cundiff undeniably duck-hooked what would have been the game-tying 32-yard field goal on an ensuing snap, ending the Raven's season, and ensuring him induction into the NFL's Hall of Pain alongside Buffalo Bill placekicker Scott Norwood whose missed 47-yard field goal at the end of Super Bowl XXV against the New York Giants led to four consecutive Super Bowl losses for the Bills. At least Norwood's kick barely missed from a long distance. Cundiff's malard wasn't even within quacking distance from all but gimme range for a pro.
But let's return to the matter of the Lee Evans catch/non-catch. With slow motion replay now in place, it is possible to autopsy NFL plays to a degree which is both beyond the scope of the human eye to resolve at game speed, and at the same time, to alter almost any call beyond the comfort level of even the most die-hard fan to accept.
When dissected in super slo-mo, Evans can be seen cradling Flacco's back-shoulder pass as he lands on his right foot, but just as his left foot is contacting the ground, the Patriot's savior, Sterling Moore, chops the pigskin from his grasp, sending it harmlessly to the ground. According to the NFL rule, "If a player controls the ball while in the end zone, both feet, or any part of his body other than his hands, must be completely on the ground before losing control, or the pass is incomplete." By that reading, the replay can be whatever you want it to be. What does "completely" mean in that context? At what point is completely complete? And that's the problem. Even definitive replay isn't definitive. And don't get me started on holding calls or pass interference, much less New England's original gift, the Tuck Rule from the Raider's game ten years ago which made what looked like an obvious fumble by Tom Brady somehow become an incomplete pass leading to Adam Vinatieri's game-winning, snow-blinded 45-yard field goal which sent the Pats off to their first of three Super Bowl titles. Continue reading


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Case Study #1
TwHP Lessons, State Standards, and Teaching Techniques
By Leska Foster, 5th Grade Teacher
Holz Elementary School, Charleston, West Virginia
The following is a case study by Leska Foster, teacher, in using the Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike lesson plan.
• Getting Started
• Setting the Stage
• Locating the Site
• Determining the Facts
• Visual Evidence
• Putting It All Together
• Getting Started
• Setting the Stage
• Locating the Site
• Determining the Facts
• Visual Evidence
• Putting It All Together
Elementary teachers' days are packed with items on our to-do list. The most important of these is seeing that our students are receiving the best education that we, as their teachers, can provide them. Because of the many subjects that we are required to teach during the school day, it simply makes sense, when feasible, to incorporate lessons that will cover our state and federal requirements.
(Reprinted with permission, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
One such method is the incorporation of Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plans. By focusing on just one of the many TwHP lesson plans available to teachers, this case study will present some ideas for classroom teachers to incorporate TwHP lessons into their curriculum. In this lesson, Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike, students learn how the Klondike Gold Rush fits into the broader context of gold rushes in American History, and also investigate how buildings help tell the stories of a community's past.
In the school system where I teach, our classrooms are being fitted with Smartboards. If you do not have access to a Smartboard or a computer and data projector, using transparencies and an overhead projector will work as well.
Step 1: Getting Started
One of the first activities included in the Skagway lesson is a primary source photo of a street in Skagway, Alaska, in 1897. This photo is the lesson's Getting Started image. I use the introductory photos from this section of the TwHP lessons to spark a discussion among my students. I first ask them to make a list of what they see in the picture, looking for as many details as possible. Once they have completed that task, either independently or with a partner, then as a class we discuss the elements that they have found. TwHP includes a Photo Analysis Worksheet that will work with any of the pictures in TwHP lessons, but I have found that a simple list on some chart paper, blackboard, or whiteboard will do just fine as well. Using the questions on the analysis sheet can guide the classroom discussion and usually will lead to other observations by the students.
Step 2:Setting the Stage
Once we have looked at the first photo and temporarily finished our discussion, we then move on to the next part of the lesson. The beauty of the TwHP lessons is that you, as the classroom teacher, can chose which parts of the lesson you want to incorporate into your classroom. Not all parts of the lesson have to be used – find what works for you and your teaching style and then go from there. Setting the Stage is the next section and I usually reserve it for myself. It has valuable background information that I will share with the students as we work our way through the lesson.
Step 3: Locating the Site
One aspect of the TwHP lessons that I'm particularly fond of is the number of graphic sources that are included in each lesson. The Skagway lesson starts off with two maps, which for elementary students is a treat. After we have discussed the introductory paragraph, we then move to Map 1: Routes from Seattle to the Klondike gold fields and Map 2: Chilkoot and White Pass Trails. I typically download the maps by themselves to eliminate the distraction of the words on the page. I use TwHP's map questions from a "teacher" copy of the lessons that I've printed out and keep at hand while I'm teaching. For those students who have a difficult time reading, having just the maps on the screen makes it easier for them to understand the lesson.
(Map 2: Chilkoot Trail, Heritage to the Klondike, published by Lost Moose, The Yukon Publishers)
For Map 1, we discuss first what continent this is on (don't laugh – some elementary students are just now figuring out where they are!), then the countries that they can see on the map, and finally any other details that may strike their fancy. Once we've spent 3-5 minutes discussing the generalities, we move to the questions that accompany the map. This helps to develop the background that the students need to have in their minds as we begin the readings.
For Map 2, I explain that this is a close-up view of the first map. If possible, I bring up Google Earth and show them what the area looks like currently. Once they see the two maps and begin to superimpose one on top of the other in their minds, they begin to make connections as to the geography and lay of the land. Again, I use the "teacher" copy I printed off ahead of time for discussion questions.
Step 4:Determining the Facts
There are three readings available with this lesson. Since I'm teaching fifth grade students, I will choose which of the three readings that I feel will meet my teaching needs. Typically Reading 1 is the one that I go with most often as it usually includes a great deal of background information.
The second way I use these readings is to pass them out in class and spend one class period (usually about 30 minutes) reading and discussing them together as a class. My decision about how to use the readings depends on the group of children that I have each year. Some years I have more auditory learners than visual learners and they need to cover the material in class. Other years, it's the other way around. Feel free to experiment and see what works best for you. Use the parts of the lesson that best fit your needs. Don't worry about not using something from one of the TwHP lessons.
Reading 2 in the Skagway lesson includes some good information as well, so we follow the same process again as Reading 1, although we may reverse what we did from the day before. If I sent home the first reading, then we'll read this one in class and vice-versa. As always, I keep a copy of the entire lesson with me and use it as my teacher's guide during this entire process.
Reading 3 can be used as a formative assessment if you need one or you can assign it for a homework assignment. Sometimes I can cover all three readings, but not often. I usually am able to get to one, maybe two, of the readings, but very rarely am I able to get to all of them. One of the nice things about the TwHP lessons is that they include primary source documents. On our spring state testing, our students have to look at a number of primary sources and then answer questions using those sources. Practicing with the TwHP lessons helps to prepare them for those questions on our test.
Step 5: Visual Evidence
Photo 3
(National Park Service)
After the readings section is the Visual Evidence section. Here you will find several documents that you can use in a variety of ways. Again, only rarely will I use all of the graphic sources found in this section; instead, I'll pick out just the ones that I need to meet my West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives (CSOs) and now the Common Core Standards.
Photo 1 is an overview of Skagway and would be a good general discussion opener. This can be a wrap-up to the classroom discussion from earlier in the week. Again, I download just the picture and store it on my drive for easy access in the classroom. The resolution of the single photo is also at a higher level which will allow more details to show up onscreen.
Photo 2 is the same one that was used to start the lesson—that is, in the Getting Started Section. Again, depending on the class, I sometimes have gone back and reviewed it, but typically do not.
Drawing 1 is one that I would spend more time on to show the progression of the house as it went through the various stages of growth. Creating a timeline of Skagway's growth to go along with the growth of the house can be interesting for the students to see.
Photo 3 ties in well with Drawing 1 as it shows from ground level what the house looked like at the end of the final additions.
Photo 4
(Photo by David H. Curl, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park)
I would use Photos 4, 5, and 6 if time allows. Elementary teachers have a great deal of content to cover in a year's time and even though we might like to spend more time on a given topic, time constraints won't allow us that luxury. These photos can be used as a formative assessment at the end of the lesson or just as additional information for the students. You can project these on a screen and have a brief class discussion about each of them if you choose. Being the creative creatures that we are, teachers can find even more ways to use these photos than those I have suggested.
Step 6: Putting It All Together
The last two sections are probably some of my most favorite out of all of the various parts of the TwHP lessons. Putting It All Together and Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike – Supplementary Resources are full of ideas for student projects. If you are looking for student project ideas, any of these lessons will have these suggestions at the end of each lesson.
Under the Putting It All Together section, there usually two or more project ideas for students. I have discovered that across the TwHP lessons, the first project usually is more grade-level appropriate for my upper-elementary students than the rest. Those are the ones that I turn to first and then if I need something more challenging for my students, I'll look at the rest of the choices to see what might be best.
The Supplementary Resources page(s) is another resource TwHP provides that I enjoy sharing with my students. At our school, we are fortunate to have both a true computer lab and also a mobile lab stocked with laptops. The sources found on this last page have some good additional websites to send your students to for more information. If your school has a website, and especially if you have a page on the school's website, loading some of these sites on it for your students to access during your lab time, at home, or in class is a nice change for the children. These sites are also good for end-of-the-day, waiting-on-the-buses time to enrich and expand their knowledge.
These are just a few ideas on how I've incorporated TwHP lessons in my classroom. Feel free to experiment with just one lesson and see how that goes. Then from there, move on to another one and build your teaching library with some excellent teaching resources. The children will thank you!
Read how Leska answers the question, Why Use TwHP? When Opportunity Knocks . . .
Read Case Study #2: Reading / Language Arts Integration Activities


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In an advanced society like the U.S., where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social cognition and psychology, and organizational behavior, Framed by Gender identifies the general processes through which gender as a principle of inequality rewrites itself into new forms of social and economic organization.
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I am so very stuck on how this character outsmarts a nemesis. I'd go write the other story, but I'm stuck on how those characters outsmart their nemesis.
Basically, I have made the critical error of trying to write stories about people being smart, which means I have to be smart.
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This is my assignment on English class. I must put the commas when necessary. Could you check, or tell me where should be a commas, please?
1. Yes( , ) Icarus flew like a bird ( , )but he lived to regret it.
2.In the middle of serious speechon poverty ( , )the senator suddenly recited a tasteless poem a bawdy limerick.
3.Suzanne called Brent packed her belongings said her goodbyes ( , ) and moved to her place.
4.The computer ( , ) an extremely useful tool has advanced a long way in just a few years.
5.I am sorry if I hurt your feelings Aaron. ( NO COMMAS?)
6.A new baseball glove( , ) was after all a luxury.
7. Begining on July 1( , ) 1863( , ) the Civil War battle that took place at Guttysburg Pennsylvania ( , )was probably the most decisive battle of the war.
8. Made by the noted German director Wim Wenders, Paris Texas was set in an actual town in Lamar Country Texas with a population of 23( , )242.
9. My youngest sister( , ) who is a paleontologist( , ) showed me her collection of skulls.
10. Although the storm brought high winds it did no damage. ( NO COMMAS?)
Hi, Although I am not a teacher, I can tell you that I think you have 1 and 9 correct. I am not sure about sentence 5.
Here are some hints:
In sentence 3 Suzanne does four separate things
In sentences 2 and 4 you have one out of two commas correct
Sentences 7 and 8 - always put a comma between the City and State and between the County and State
Sentences 6 and 10 - put the comma where you would naturally pause when you read the sentence


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Show that $(\log(1+x))^2\le x$ and that $(\log(1+x))^2\le x^2$ for all $x\ge0$.
Both of these inequalities seem to be true, judging from plotting these functions with a grapher.
Can you help me get started? Can this be done by other means than with some painful Taylor series approaches?
Update. The latter inequality seems trivial, given $\log(1+x)\le x$, since we can just square both sides. So it seems like the first inequality is the non-trivial one.


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A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, he is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?
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With 32 breweries and upwards of 100 beers to try at last weekend's Breckenridge Beer Festival, it was hard to select a few shining stars. Different palates gravitate toward different styles, so here's a range of delicious offerings that had me coming back for seconds (or thirds) throughout the day.
I used this beer to bribe a few friends into helping me pack up a moving truck recently, but after cracking a can, I regretted sharing. I was happy to see it poured at the beer festival and didn't hesitate to get another taste. This pale ale is brewed with coriander for a slightly fruity citrus aroma and flavor followed by a big, hoppy hit.
Upslope won its first medal for this beer in 2009 at the Great American Beer Festival when the brewery was only 10 months old, and it's been unleashed in a limited release for us to enjoy all over again.
Jimmy Walker at Breckenridge Brewing Co. created this peppery IPA for Colorado Craft Beer Week and saved a bit for the beer-hungry hordes at the Breckenridge Beer Festival. The vast majority of chili beers start with a lighter base, a lager or a light ale, which allows the chili flavor to blast through without much support. Choosing an IPA as the base makes for a more complex, aromatic beer with the same great smoky-hot hit.
If you see Jimmy around town, let him know that this beer is fantastic and add your voice to my request that he brew it again in the summer. It would pair great with barbecue or burgers and a sunny day on the Breck Brewery patio.
I tried this beer for the first time at a beer dinner at the Vail Ale House before revisiting it at the Breck Beer Fest. The dinner featured a whole lot of courses paired with a whole lot of beers, and this was the culminating pint. The brew was infused into the whipped cream that topped a chocolate espresso panna cotta, and the combination of that dish and that beer created the most lovely sugar rush to end a big meal.
This seasonal stout is dark, rich and malty, with a strong chocolate flavor and a hint of mint. Imagine making soup out of Thin Mint cookies and straining them into a can, and you end up with Vernal Menthe. It's definitely a sipping beverage, and one or two cans would be enough to sate all but the most severe sweet tooth.
Boulevard wasn't actually pouring 80 Acre at the beer festival. I know this column is dedicated to high points of that event, and I could write at length about my love for one of Boulevard's flagship beers, the Unfiltered Wheat, which they were pouring. But this beer is so bright and beautiful that I had to plug it here.
I tried this beer for the first time on the Front Range, but Patrick Brady, Colorado sales rep for Boulevard, said 80 Acre should be appearing on a few taps around the county in the near future. This beer is a hybrid of an IPA and a wheat, with a hoppy aroma and a smooth, effervescent mouth feel. You could call it a slightly sweet IPA or a lightly bitter wheat, but neither of those descriptions quite fits. It makes my mouth happy, and I'm excited for 80 Acre to having its coming out party in the high country very soon.
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When life is fair, Beaufort County Council will reread Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and ponder the words of Juliet when she said, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
At a series of meetings this past Monday, there were a number of issues that were to be discussed and hopefully a decision would be reached on each one. Some of the issues were whether or not to refinance about $30 million in debt obligations in order to take advantage of declining interest rates, the final approval of the Beaufort County School District's proposed budget that could include an increase to the millage rate and finally the gut wrenching, soul searching need to name a proposed walking trail to be constructed mainly within the county.
Now decision making is said to be one of the defining characteristics of leadership. Making decisions is what managers and leaders are paid to do. In the course of their daylong deliberations, these three issues took up about three hours of their time. Decisions on two of these issues were made in about 30 minutes, but the other two and a half hours were spent in what in boxing is known as a no-decision to be carried over for a month to allow for additional public hearings and more deliberations. That holdover, as you may have guessed, was the naming of the proposed trail.
However I could somewhat understand the lack of a decision if there were a few dozen potential names from which to choose. But there were only two, the Spanish Moss Trail or the Magnolia Line Rail Trail, this wasn't the splitting of the atom they were to decide, pick one, majority vote rules, move on to important county business, just not debating the Hilton Head Airport anymore.
Arguments were made that the old abandoned railway line would not encompass the entire route of the trail, maybe not, but honoring a relic of a past mode of transportation has a certain rationale.
On the other hand, Spanish Moss can be somewhat attractive early in its life cycle and the folks proposing that name have raised and expended around $10,000 in their efforts to get this trail funded and built. However, Spanish Moss will not be along the entire length of the trail either I suspect and besides when I see it hanging majestically from a large oak tree I picture that tree 10 years from now devoid of leaves and on the brink of death from lack of the moisture the moss appears to deny the tree.
In the end, I don't really care; call it the Magnolia Moss Trail, locally it will probably always be referred to, by what it really will be, the walking trail.
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Any Motor Maids here? Ladies that haven't heard of this organization, please check it out! Motor Maids rock! Convention this year is in Spartansburg, SC!
Any Motor Maids here? Ladies that haven't heard of this organization, please check it out! Motor Maids rock! Convention this year is in Spartansburg, SC!
09 HP2 Sport: '06 K12R; '09 Buell XB9SX
In 1940 Motor Maids, Inc. was established as a women's motorcycling organization in North America. It is the first and oldest continuously operated women's motorcycling organization.
With approximately 1,200 members across the United States and Canada, the Motor Maids are a diverse group of women motorcyclists united through a passion for riding while fostering a positive image and promoting safe riding skills.
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I am a member of that wonderful organization--Very rich in history and great ladies that love each other and share their passion of riding. Since being a member I have ridden to the west coast three times for Conventions, Canada, Maine, and many areas beyond.-member since 2005. One great thing is the diversity of the women who are members-from 16 to 90 years of age,all occupations-authors, bike builders, motorcycle speed record holders, mothers, grandmothers, soldiers,and on and on. Thanks for taking note of us. One of the things that sets up apart from others-besides being the oldest organized ladies riding group-is that we ride!! One must own and ride their bike to vote and have a voice at Convention. Most of us make it an adventure and do touring on the way.
I went to the Motor Maids web site and couldn't find any information about local chapters. I belonged to Women on Wheels for years but found that most of the members didn't ride very much. I'd be interested in checking out MM. Is there a chapter in the northern Illinois area?
2007 R1200RT, gone
2009 R1200RT, gone
I've been a member for a year now and I LOVE IT!! I went to the convention in Michigan this past July and had a grand time. I met THEE most wonderful women. It's empowering!
If you still have trouble getting a hold of the district director, please email me and I'll investigate further.
Happy Trails!
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Ah, well!
She remains in touch with some of the members, and went on a Partitour of Europe with a group of fellow Motor Maids in 1992..........Rod.
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Also consider looking into Women on Wheels. They are celebrating 30 years. I've been a member for 3 years. It's great to be part of a national women's group, but the local groups do vary - some are very active & unfortunately some are not. But give them a look.
Women In The Wind is another international women's riding organization that has been around 30 + years. We have a chapter here in WA state, you can find the chapters on the website.
Life is short - eat dessert first!
I looked into Women on Wheels many years ago and was put off by the number very obviously "masculine" women and all the members of the particular club I visited rode H-Ds. Loud ones at that. So I didn't pursue that either. But that was a long time ago and I was newly single after the dissolution of a 17-year marriage.
My personal issues of associating with any group that is strongly H-D is definitely a hindrance but is rooted in very real and negative life experiences and I don't care to repeat them. It limits me because the H-D population here in New England is huge and they run the gamut of those who are all-inclusive riders to those who overtly condescend to those who do not ride a H-D. Then there are the ones who ride with colors..... However, I have to admit that on my first ride of this season it was a real hoot to pass lone H-D male riders, wave to them, see their look of astonishment, and then watch in the rearview mirror as they turned their head to look back at me. I was laughing.
All that said, I wish there was a women's BMW club.
Keep the shiney side up!
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I am not new to BMWMOA, just new to this forum.
I am one of those riders who own and ride both a Beemer and a Harley.
I quit the HOG chapter 12 years ago because of the attitudes of most Harley riders:
"if it ain't a V-twin, then it's crap", or " is that a sewing machine you're ridin, there?" to which I proudly replied: "yes its a German sewing machine, and will outrun that Milwaukee tractor any day!"
While Motor Maids and other women's groups have history, they lack the hard core riders that we, the BMW community, have.
There are Harley riders who do ride alot, long distance. I see them in the middle of nowhere all the time.
We could start a all womens online riders group as adjunct to BMWMOA: like Ladies of Harley is to H.O.G. sort of.
keep ridin, and don't let the HD clones get you down!!!
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Even better than stopping a rider in Sedalia, volunteer. You will meet so many new friends!
I do belong to a "lady rider group" locally but I usually just meet them for the monthly dinners, I don't usually ride with them, but they are a very nice group.
I've met riders from all over the country and I have yet to meet one that "snubbed" me. They are usually very nice.
Have fun with your MM group, I've always heard nice things about them.
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Tinnitus suppression by cochlear implant and its brain imaging
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Tinnitus is an unpleasant auditory sensation without an external auditory source and can be suppressed by a masking sound. Some patients feel a transient suppression of tinnitus even after the masking sound has stopped. This phenomenon is called residual inhibition of tinnitus. Although the underlying mechanism of residual inhibition is thought to involve the central nervous system, this mechanism has not been examined in a neuroimaging study. Moreover, the cortical mechanism of tinnitus in cochlear implant (CI) users, who are representative of patients with tinnitus, has not been studied. In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate brain activation in three tinnitus patients, who were post-lingually deaf CI users and experienced residual inhibition, and six normal controls. Tinnitus patients were selected from the answers of questionnaires about tinnitus. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured and compared under the following three conditions: with tinnitus (T), during noise-sound stimulation (masking effect) (M), and during the residual inhibition of tinnitus (R). The anterior middle- and superior- temporal gyri (Brodmann areas 21 and 38) were activated mainly on the right side during residual inhibition in the patients. The cerebellum was activated during the tinnitus and masking conditions of the patients, however, it was not activated during residual inhibition. No significant rCBF change was observed in the normal controls. Our findings indicate that the right-dominant activation of the anterior temporal cortex is likely related to residual inhibition and reflects the tonal and non-verbal characteristics of tinnitus. The lack of cerebellar activation during the residual inhibition presumably indicates the interruption of the tinnitus-related auditory signal in the central nervous system. The present findings benefit our understanding of the central mechanism of tinnitus and could be important for the clinical management of tinnitus in patients.


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