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On Friday night, we met SR's parents at La Quinta in Madison, WI. They drove from Chicago after flying in from Denmark. We had such a fun night and, of course, went to bed late and I hadn't slept well in nights for various reasons. So when we woke up for the run Saturday morning, my body just wasn't in to it.
We somehow convinced SR's dad to run the 10k with us (and actually he seemed pretty excited about it). The step-kids were signed up for a 1 mile kid race. Step-daughter was probably the most nervous of all of us. I remember well being in grade school and being forced to run a mile. That was some sort of cruel torture in my mind. I would lie awake nights beforehand and dread running that mile. So, overall, I was impressed with their good attitudes.
The 10k race was a winding course through a neighborhood and a park. SR and I warmed up a bit. When we warm up, SR insists on running just a little ahead of me. Just close enough so people know I'm there with him, but far enough away so I don't break into his pre-race zone (he's never said this out loud, of course).
We didn't have too much time for a warm-up. We lined up with the 5k and 10k runners. There were all of these super-fast looking women. You know the type. The right clothes, the right pony tail, the right giggle, etc. They all lined up on the 5k side. I breathed a sigh of relief. I needed to win the one to impress SR's parents. The time didn't matter. I just needed to win (that was a big enough task since I've only won one race before).
So we started off and it was very cold and surprisingly hard to breathe. Then almost immediately there was a big hill. There were no females around me that I could see, though. But then, someone with long hair showed up in the corner of my eye. Ah, it was all over. But then, no, either this was the most androgynous and muscular female I'd ever seen or it was just another guy. A guy it was. Another sigh.
I listened to the same song over and over as we wound through and up and down in this neighborhood. That was "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga. An annoying song that makes me feel like running quickly. There was just no passing by me or other guys around me.
I looked at my watch at the mile markers and each one was about 6:45. I wasn't overly happy with that, but I wanted to keep another gear ready in case a feminine creature crept up behind me.
I passed one guy I had run with the entire time. Then there was a really big hill. I got embarrassingly winded.
With one mile left, there were still no females behind me (how could this be with nearly 100 10k runners?). Oh well, I turned it up a small notch and saw SR, his mom, the kids and The Lorax before I crossed the finish line. First female, time of 42:02. Not too bad, but not my best effort either.
SR also came in first with a time of just under 35 minutes. Wow! With all the hills and everything. SR later told me that after we had both come in, his mom started crying. I guess she's happy that two crazy people like us have found each other. You must understand that I don't really know SR's parents that well, so nothing was more important to me that day.
We watched SR's dad come in, winning the 60+ category. And, as he crossed the finish line, we accidentally missed the start of the kids 1 mile race. So we raced up to the start with the kids. Step-daughter and I ran together. She kept a really even pace, passing one kid after another. She only briefly stopped twice. SR later commented that she had seen us run so many races and heard us talk strategy so she knew what to do by osmosis. Step son on the other hand alternated between sprinting and stopping for various distractions and walking off the course. Oh, well. They were both so proud at the finish.
So we all got our award plaques and the announcer called it a family "clean sweep." What a fun morning.
Monday, 20 October 2008
10k race
5 comments:
- SteveQ said...
What's with all these Danes winning races here? A guy can't even run a little 10K without one flying in to win his age class ;)
Stepdaughter sounds like the natural athlete, but I bet stepson has a wicked blog when he grows up!
- 20 October 2008 at 18:17
- Danni said...
I love it! AWESOME!!! Man, winning a race on a bad day. It's ridiculous you know :p
- 20 October 2008 at 18:27
- Heather said...
A family race day...
omg did your heart just explode with pride? That's awesome
Congrats on the great win!!
- 21 October 2008 at 02:05
- Bec said...
I have to say, I love the photo with the entire family and SR is just beaming at his family. What a treasure you have...
- 21 October 2008 at 09:48
- Abbie said...
That picture of you and the Bois? Adorable! I can't believe how cute he is... those little cheeks. :) Congrats on your win. That is so amazing! I would love to win a race someday.
- 24 October 2008 at 16:34
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On my book tour's first leg (don't worry, there are more dates), I found myself in Portland, OR--a delightful city for foodies if ever there was one.
There were plenty of delicious new spots, both brick and mortar and of the food truck variety, that I wanted to try. With limited time and obligations filling my time, it was tough to make it to many, but--and I was assured by more than one person--you've gotta go to Blue Star Donuts.
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Here I am with a donut. If I look a little windblown, it's because I don't always let things like brushing my hair slow me down, preferring to head directly to the donut shop upon waking.
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You're really voting for Barack Obama? His name scares me, she said.
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One of my favorite songs from the '80s* took on a whole new meaning when I heard it on the way home. The song speaks to the spirit of Barack Obama and his supporters. The video clips give you perspective on what should and should not be feared. Please watch it, dance along if you'd like, and use the links below to get more information. Your fellow citizens will appreciate you for doing that.
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The Environment Agency declared this week official drought zones in numerous English counties and warned that water shortages could last until Christmas.Farmers are rethinking the management of planting root crops and water provision for their cattle. Beyond our borders, water scarcity affects more than 2.7 billion people. In several regions, poverty, drought, and war prevent access to safe water. Mostly women and children spend a good part of their day hauling water. Safe drinking water is a daily health threat for millions of children. Water is described as the 'oil' of the future and it is likely that wars will be fought over it. So beyond environmental, health and social factors there is a moral and political dimension. Water provision in much of the world is a matter of justice.
The scarcity of water asks questions about our individual and communal stewardship. Professor Arjen Hoekstra created the idea of the 'water footprint', an indicator of both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. For example, the water footprint of a soy burger is about 160 litres, whereas that of a beef burger is about 1,000 litres. Professor Hoekstra said: "Water problems are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy. Many countries have significantly externalised their water footprint, importing water-intensive goods from elsewhere. This puts pressure on the water resources in the exporting regions, where too often mechanisms for wise water governance and conservation are lacking. Not only governments, but also consumers, businesses and civil society communities can play a role in achieving a better management of water resources."
Water was a precious commodity in the region where Jesus lived. Interestingly, his conversation with the woman at the well is the most extensive recorded dialogue. The introduction that "…he had to go through Samaria", does not refer to a geographical route but rather to his missionary thrust. Samaritans were among the marginalised groups in society; ethnic and religious outcasts. Subverting the gender, social and religious dynamics, he engages this Samaritan woman in a conversation about living water. She may have expected Jesus to point her to an underground stream, which would have been an invaluable source. However, he speaks of the living water that will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:4-26).
The prophet Jeremiah refers to God as the "spring of living water". Yet, the people have forsaken him and have dug their own broken cisterns that cannot hold water. The effects of such brokenness are all around us. In this season of drought and leakage, we see a call for the living water of God to flow into conversations across boundaries and borders.
God's promise that He will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground is reflected in Jesus' encounter with this woman. As their conversation progresses, he describes the true worshipers who will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. The well of life in Christ affects all aspects of life, restoring the individual and communal cisterns. Beyond the spiritual life, it will address hosepipe-bans, consumption, global markets, boycotting of products and effective international diplomacy. It causes justice to roll down like a river, righteousness like a never-ending stream.
As we follow in His footsteps may we leave an alternative 'water footprint' and see a well of salvation spring up.
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Kaspersky Lab has discovered the first ever Android malware app that appears to have been designed not to attack the host smartphone but any PCs it is subsequently connected to.
Discovered on Google Play (yes, Play hosts malware despite Google's attempts to clean it up), targeting Russian-speakers disguised as a memory-killer utility, innocent downloaders will end up with three malware files on any SD card plugged into their smartphones.
Any PC that connects to the phone while in USB emulation mode (which treats attached smartphone drives as external disks) and old enough not to disallow Windows Autorun, will end up being hit with Backdoor.MSIL.Ssucl.a.
It's a novel route to attack a PC but why engineer malware to do it?
Strangely, the primary purpose of the malware is to record any audio detected by the PC's microphone, saving this to a file that is then uploaded to a server in an encrypted format.
The malware also takes complete control of the smartphone but that could be a secondary activity.
"Generally speaking, saving autorun.inf and a PE file to a flash drive is one of the most unsophisticated ways of distributing malware," said a baffled Kaspersky Lab researcher, Victor Chebyshev.
"At the same time, doing this using a smartphone and then waiting for the smartphone to connect to a PC is a completely new attack vector.
The dependence on Autorun strong suggested that the malware was deliberately looking for victims running versions of Windows prior to 7, a declining population in countries such as the UK and US but still remarkably in former Soviet republics.
Google has removed the two apps associated with the attack from Play but not before it was downloaded by several thousand users.
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Despite the pouring rain 30 Seconds to Mars was unstoppable in giving us fans one great epic concert!
Truly one Closer to the Edge Concert! Wohoo!! No regrets being there!
I even got the chance to 'rub elbows' with celebrities like Vice Ganda, Mark something of PGT 1, Kean Cipriano and Jasmin Curtis, who were just in front of me! San ka pa? haha!
Thanks to Jared, Shannon and Tomo for one effin awesome show!
Please don't ever consider the idea of disbanding!
I will end up this post by Jared's opening line to the crowd:
Here are the pictures!
The tracks they played!
1. Escape 2. A Beautiful Lie 3. Attack 4. Search And Destroy 5. This Is War 6. 100 Suns 7. Call To Arms 8. L490 9. Hurricane 10. Alibi 11. The Kill 12. Night Of The Hunter 13. Closer To The Edge 14. Kings And Queens
Here's a video of the Last Song "kings and queens"
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Idina Menzel Performs 'Let It Go' With Jimmy Fallon and The Roots [Video]
Last night (March 3), Jimmy Fallon brought another of his well-known segments to 'The Tonight Show.' The comedian and his house band, the Roots, gathered together to perform 'Let It Go' with Idina Menzel.
There's no doubt that the Tony award-winning actress brought the house down with her performance at the Oscars on March 2, but we love this stripped-down version of the song as well. Idina still showed off her incredible vocals — and while playing the triangle!
Watch Idina, Jimmy and the Roots rock out in the video above.


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The Mountain Goats
Matthew E. White
Varsity Theater
1308 4th Street SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
Doors 7:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM
This event is 18 and over
The Mountain Goats' first recordings were covers of songs by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. These recordings were made in employee housing at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California - the same town which, perhaps not coincidentally, gave Metallica to the world. A tape of these early sessions, which used the roaring static sound of late-night TV test patterns as percussion/incidental noise but were otherwise a capella, still exists. The inscription on the spine of the tape reads THE MOUNTAIN GOATS/BLEATING WILDLY: A VERSION OF FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS. No-one will ever hear this tape in any form.
Throughout the early 90s, the Mountain Goats developed their style. What this means is "John started learning how to write songs." There were two albums and a limited amount of touring done by the lineup that solidified during this time - John and Rachel played twice in San Francisco, twice in Chicago, twice in New York City, and once each in Columbus, Newpaltz, Cambridge, Providence, Northampton, Nijmegen, Koln, Utrecht, Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. There were about a dozen shows in southern California, too. Around the end of this period, they made an EP called Nine Black Poppies, and then John moved to Chicago.
After making a few albums which were mainly solo endeavors with occasional guests, John called Peter Hughes, who'd joined him on bass for two tours of continental Europe in '95 and '96. "I'm signing to 4AD," he said. "You busy?" Peter was in fact busy, but not that busy. They recorded Tallahassee, toured themselves sick, recorded We Shall All Be Healed, toured some more, made the Sunset Tree, toured like French bicyclists, made Get Lonely in 2006 and then kept right on touring. You know how some people can't stop collecting Precious Moments figurines? John and Peter are kind of like that, except with tours.
Most bios attempt to describe the music made by the band they're profiling, and to compare it favorably to the work of giants in the field. This isn't that kind of bio. The general musical framework within which the Mountain Goats have worked for ten-plus years has been acoustic guitar, bass, and voice. The lyrics are central to the whole enterprise. Many of the songs involve desperate characters who've found themselves in some trouble and want to moan about it a little before taking their lumps. The sexual tension between characters in your average Mountain Goats song could split the atom if the power could be harnessed, but it can't, so forget it. Now you know what we know. Go forth and sin no more.
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The line dance is a dance with repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines, all facing the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time. Line dancing's popularity grew out of the 1970's, when the country-western dance continued to explore and develop this form of dancing.
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A positive answer to the following question would be very helpful in understanding the evaluation of differential cohomology classes on chains.
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and $c$ be a smooth $p$-chain in $M$, i.e. a finite linear combination of smoothly parametrized singular $p$ simplices. Let $|c|\subseteq M$ denote the support of the chain defined as a union of the simplices.
Here is the question: Does there exists an open subset $U\subseteq M$ such that $|c|\subseteq U$ and $H^{q}(U,\mathbb{Z})=0$ for all $q\ge p+1$ (real coefficients would be sufficient in the application.


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- I attended the genealogy and heraldry congreso presented by the Instituto Peruano de Investigaciones Genealogicas
- Met with adiministrators from the Archivo General de Peru
- Presented a class at the Seminario Internacional - Implementacion de technologia avanzada en los archivos. Presented by the Archivo General de Peru
1) XIV Reunion Americana de Genealogia - Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencias Genealogicas y Heraldicas (sorry, I'm on my laptop and can't get the accent marks to work) - This was an interesting conference. I have never attended one like it before. The presenters were mainly academics from all over Latin America and Spain, and their presentations were mainly on pre 1650 research. The ponencias were only 15 minutes long followed by 5-10 minutes of questions. I found a handful of them to be very interesting, especially the one that asked the question: "Why do we do genealogy?" It was an interesting perspective, and the presenter actually ended by asking the question to the audience. The answers varied, but were very interesting. I could write for days about this conference, but will only say that it was an interesting experience. It looks like the next one will be in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2009)...nothing is final, so stay tuned if you are interested in attending.
2) Meetings with the AGN - I learned a lot about Peru civil registration, some of which is not found in any books that I have read on the topic of Hispanic genealogy. Lima (the city of, and it's districts) have civil registration records dating back to 1857. The same should hold true for any municipios that existed in 1857. You can find these records in the municipio where your ancestor was born, married, or died. Starting in 1875 copies of the civil registration books were sent to each regional archive. The AGN (Archivo General de la Nacion) has civil registration books for Lima city beginning with this date. The records from 1875 to 1900 can be found in the Archivo Historico (branch of the AGN), and those after 1900 are located in the AGN itself (all the way to the present). Outside of Lima, for example in the region of Cuzco (regions are equivalent to U.S. States) all civil registration records after 1875 should be in the regional archive of Cuzco, because that's when the duplication of the records began. Before that date you will need to check with each municipio.
I also learned a little more about the marriage petitions or expedientes matrimoniales created by the civil government. Each couple getting married had to present a couple of records in order to get married. These expediente packets include: baptisms (or birth certificate), death record of previous spouse (if anyone was previously married), and other notarized material ensuring that the couple had met all the prerequisites to marry. These records are great supplements to the actual marriage records. The AGN had some of these records, but you may also want to contact the municipio where your ancestors married.
3) Seminario Internacional - The AGN asked FamilySearch to do a two evening conference at the Archivo Historico. We talked about the different technologies that FamilySearch uses to digitize record collections. It was a fun conference and full of people. The first night we estimated 250+ people attended the conference. As you can see by the picture there was standing room only.


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Pond & Lake Q & A
Q: How do I prevent my pond from clouding up when it rains? – Dave in Missouri
A; When the skies cloud up and the rain starts to fall, it's almost a guarantee that your farm pond or lake will cloud up, too. Muddy runoff, along with nutrients like grass clippings, twigs, trees, livestock waste, yard and farm fertilizers drain into the water, feeding the dreaded algae and triggering a bloom. Before you know it, your pristine pond turns into a cloudy green mess.
With some preventative steps, however, this can be avoided. Try these tips to keep your pond clean and clear when the rain starts falling:
Install a pond-wide aeration system: By churning and roiling the water in your lake with a Pond Aeration System, the sediment and debris disperses throughout the water column, allowing the beneficial bacteria, like those found in PondClear™, to consume it and get rid of it. The aeration system also breathes life-giving oxygen into the water, which your fish and pond inhabitants will appreciate!
Create a fertilizer-free ring around the pond: Sure, some fertilizer may make its way into your pond, especially if it's on a farm or near livestock, but if you establish a perimeter around the pond that you leave fertilizer-free, it will cut down on the nutrient load going into the water and feeding the algae. You can also try using organic or low-phosphorus fertilizers.
Boost your beneficial bacteria: When you know rainfall is in the forecast, add some natural beneficial bacteria, in anticipation of the storm. The bacteria will become established and ready to gobble through nitrates, breaking down fish waste, leaves and other organics that accumulate in the pond and naturally improving the water clarity.
Don't despair when the skies turn stormy. With some planning, you can have a pristine pond all year long despite what the weather forecaster predicts!
POND TALK: What do you do to prevent cloudy water in your pond or lake when it rains?
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|However, the drug is also quite toxic and has a number of disturbing cardiac and central nervous system side effects.
|Buy Clenbuterol at human-grade-steroids.com clenbuterol hydrochloride is a beta 2-adrenergic agonist. Stimulation of the beta 2-adrenergic receptors results in smooth muscle relaxation and this property has been widely used to treat asthma (relax bronchial smooth muscles). It has the ability to clear the nasal passages and dilate the bronchus which makes breathing easier. Clenbuterol is very similar to ephedrine or amphetamine in its actions. However, it is much longer lasting than ephedrine. Its sympathetic agonist properties can lead to increased stimulation of the central nervous system, elevate the blood pressure and also has the ability to metabolize body fat and protein.
|The ability to dilate the bronchioles and relax smooth muscle has led to its therapeutic use in treating asthma and slowing of premature labor contractions. Other effects of Clenbuterol include increasing the heart rate, muscle tremors, sweating, anxiety, hyperactivity and extreme alertness.
The average daily dose of Clenbuterol is anywhere from 20-60 micrograms. Anything more than 100 micrograms can lead to side effects. Once Clenbuterol is ingested, it is rapidly absorbed from the stomach and remains in the body for 1-2 days. Because of the slowed excretion, the drug can remain the body for a long time and potentate its side effects
In some European countries, Clenbuterol is used for the treatment of asthma. A prescription is required to obtain the drug. It is available as a tablet and syrup. The recommended dosage should not exceed more than 100 ug per day.
|In the U.S., Clenbuterol is not approved for clinical use in humans; however, it is approved for use in veterinary medicine. In 1998, the FDA approved a syrup formulation of Clenbuterol-for the treatment of airway obstruction in horses. This product is strictly for use in horses and not for any other animal. Yet illicit use of the drug is common in the farming industry where pigs are fed the drug to make them lean and fleshy.
Off Label Use
|Clenbuterol is not a drug of abuse for the regular drug addict who prefers cocaine or heroine. Clenbuterol has a selective clientele- those who are into sports and those who want to lose weight. However, it is a myth to believe that only men abuse Clenbuterol. There is a lot of evidence that female athletes are also heavily involved in the use of Clenbuterol. Unlike other anabolic steroids, the drug does not have any masculanizing effects and is preferred by the females. Many professional athletes have tested positive for Clenbuterol and have faced both suspensions and monetary penalties.
The other individuals who regularly consume Clenbuterol are those who would like to lose weight. The internet is inundated with sites which cater to the hype that Clenbuterol is the ultimate weight loss agent. This has led to the off label use of Clenbuterol as a weight loss drug by many individuals. All the reports of weight loss are anecdotal. Clenbuterol is also widely used by many athletes to decrease body fat and increase lean muscle mass. The abuse of the drug is widespread among high school and college athletes, amateurs and professional athletes. The drug is introduced into an exercise training regimen as a weight loss aid. The majority of people buy the drug from either the health store or obtain it illegally. The majority of these individuals consume an average of 60-100 ug/day. To obtain results quickly, many of the athletes take a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs such as growth hormone, anabolic steroids and various other herbs.
Howerver, there is no scientific evidence that Clenbuterol can help individuals lose weight. Because the body builders and athletes take multiple drugs. it has been very difficult to know which one is responsible for this beneficial effect.
Use in Animals
|Unfortunately, Clebuterol is also illegally used by many individuals in the agriculture and farming industry. In Europe and Asia, many farmers frequently inject their animals with Clenbuterol to increase muscle mass. It has been shown that Clebuterol can selectively reduce the fat and increase the lean muscle mass of animals-thus increasing profits. However, there have been several incidences of poisoning in humans who have consumed animals fed Clenbuterol.
Side Effects
|Many experts in the field of sports medicine agree that Clenbuterol is not very dangerous- at least not like cocaine or amphetamine. For the healthy individual who does not take excessively high doses, the chances of developing a complication are rare. However, those individuals who have a prior heart problem or a fast heart rate should refrain from taking this drug. Often the drug can cause a significant lowering of blood pressure, anxiety and sweating. And in such cases a visit to the hospital is highly recommended. One should be aware that clenbuterol has also been associated with violent behavior, mood changes, depression, paranoia and a few deaths have been reported from damage to the heart.
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Today we signed our new wills and had to go to a town about 30 miles from us and there was my first HF :D I was kinda selfish, I bought 25 packages of carpet cutter blades @$1.79 x 20% off. I wasn't a complete pig, I left about 15 more, plus several of the actual carpet cutters. And I bought 3 of the small suction cups, also on sale, plus the big suction cup, which I feel like I ought to use getting out of the tub, I'm always worried about falling. I also bought a rubber mallet, of course! DH got some terminals, we got some free thing a clamp of some kind :roll: they claimed it was worth $10, I donnkno, looked pretty useless to us, but hey, it was free.
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June 7, 2005
Honorable Richard B. Cheney
President of the Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Mr. President:
I am pleased to submit for your consideration the enclosed legislative proposal entitled the "Higher Education Act Reform Amendments of 2005." This proposal would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to implement changes proposed in the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Budget. An identical letter is being sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The proposed legislation is a comprehensive package of reforms that would make the student loan programs more efficient, cost-effective vehicles for helping students finance their postsecondary education and would produce $7.2 billion in mandatory spending savings over the five-year period FY 2006-2010. In addition, the Administration's proposal would restore the Federal Pell Grant program to a firm financial footing and pave the way for future expansion by eliminating the $4.3 billion shortfall and increasing the maximum Federal Pell Grant award by $100 in each of the next five years. The proposal would provide mandatory funding for these purposes, while keeping the base funding for the Federal Pell Grant program discretionary.
On April 28, Congress adopted the FY 2006 budget resolution that would produce $35 billion in mandatory savings over five years, including savings from reforming the student loan programs. In addition, the budget resolution accommodates the elimination of the $4.3 billion shortfall, includes a mechanism to prevent the creation of a future shortfall, and assumes a $100 increase in the maximum award for FY 2006 funded with discretionary appropriations. The Administration supports this approach to retiring the shortfall, as well as the resolution's commitment to fund a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant in FY 2006. We look forward to working with Congress to provide the Budget's proposed $4,150 maximum award in FY 2006 within the context of the budget resolution, as well as to provide the remaining $400 increase by FY 2010.
The legislative proposal would significantly restructure the student loan programs to increase student benefits, reduce costs through expanded risk-sharing, and revise the consolidation loan program to ensure all borrowers, whether in school or in the workplace, have access to a common set of benefits.
Taken together, these proposals address two key Administration objectives: (1) to help achieve the House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee mandatory spending reductions set forth in the budget resolution; and (2) to increase the Pell Grant maximum award and other benefits for student loan borrowers, including increased Stafford loan limits, maintaining low-cost variable interest rate loans, and expanding borrower repayment options. The Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to enact legislation this year that achieves both these objectives.
Over the next five years, we project these Higher Education Act Reform Amendments will save $11.8 billion in the student loan programs, and will increase Federal Pell Grant outlays by nearly $4.6 billion to increase the maximum award. Overall, these amendments would produce over $7.2 billion in net outlay savings from the student aid programs.
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We look forward to working with you and your colleagues to ensure that these reforms are enacted quickly to achieve the spending restraint called for in the President's Budget and the budget resolution and so that postsecondary students can begin to benefit from these proposals in the fall of 2006.
The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection to the submission of this proposal to the Congress, and that its enactment would be in accord with the program of the President.
Margaret Spellings
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National TV Dates Picked
It's that time of the year when the holiday bells are being replaced by the holiday bills.
January in baseball generally means the banquet circuit with spring training coming the following month. February 12 is day one of meetings for Ruben and Charlie and their staffs. It will take place on the second floor of the one-year-old Carpenter Field clubhouse. That's not far away.
Ruben is receiving the Hometown Hero award from the Anti-Defamation League for his work in promoting diversity in sports. The banquet is January 11 at the HUB at the Cira Centre. More about other banquets later this month.
This month also means that FOX and ESPN Sunday Night have selected their national television dates. As you may well imagine, the Phillies will be big. ESPN has selected two Sunday dates and the Phillies are in a pool for three other dates.
FOX has picked five games at Citizens Bank Park and four on the road. One of the Fox Saturdays is May 21, a 7:10 p.m. prime telecast against the Rangers. Wouldn't that be something if Cliff Lee started that game?
A complete list of all the national TV dates can be found on the schedule on this site.


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Expressing the love you feel for your partner is important. When you say "I love you" you become more aware of that feeling. You commit yourself to it and accept the responsibility of pampering it, protecting it, feeding it. And when your partner listens to those words on your lips he feels appreciated, valued, and safe. Experience the same desire to give and receive love, to strengthen their union.
It is always a good time to express love, because those words are never spent, just the opposite.
But it can also be romantic and fun to find new, unexpected, original ways to tell our love how much we love him. It is not necessary to do anything spectacular, just to get him or she moved. Here are some ideas:
- Tell them in writing. Feelings are not always easy to express loudly. Many people are limited by shyness or lack of habit when it comes to undressing their hearts. But when we write it is different. Without urgency or pressure, with time to reflect, erase and add, connect with our hearts, words flow pure and free. And also, the love letter or email you write will be forever.
- Recognize what he does for you or for the good of the relationship, and remind him of the qualities you like about him or her. When we take time with someone, we take things for granted. That attenuates passion and romanticism, but fortunately these can be recovered.
Remember why your partner fell in love with you and why you feel happy, despite the ups and downs and the problems that I am with you. Tell her. Thank him for the daily gestures. Share with him or her how lucky you feel because they are together.
- Tell your story. Choose your best photos together and make a presentation, a blog, a book or an album of photos printed in the traditional way.
Add texts that speak of your common history: how you met, what made you fall in love with the other, what makes you stay united in the good and the bad … This is a precious gift and it does not cost money, but it has an incalculable sentimental value. It is ideal to share not only with the couple, but also with your loved ones: children, close friends, parents, etc. You can even hang it on the internet to inspire other people.
- Give her something special. Like what? Well something he always wanted to have when he was small or small but his parents never gave it to him or could not afford it. Or that whim that you know you'd like to give yourself but you never decide because you think it's too eccentric or selfish. You can also give her your time, doing with him or with her something that you know she would love to do with you although you have always resisted because you did not feel like much. You may find that it is more fun or interesting than it seems. And if not, you will have made him happy by sharing his hobbies for a while.
- Play together. Love must be romantic, but it does not have to be solemn or boring. Your partner will love having unexpected and fun details with him or her.
They are simple gestures that brighten the heart and put us in touch with the children and teenagers we were. For example: leave affectionate notes or postcards in the briefcase or in the windshield of your car. Invent a game so you can guess the clues until you find the final surprise. Take it on a trip, skate, ride a bike, eat a sandwich and a drink in the park or at the zoo.


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2013 Daktronics-NAIA Women?s Tennis Scholar Athletes Announced
May 17, 2013
MOBILE, Ala. - The NAIA has announced that 119 women's tennis student-athletes have been named 2013 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Five schools, Biola (Calif.), Georgetown (Ky.), Goshen (Ind.), Olivet Nazarene (Ill.), St. Francis (Ill.) lead all institutions with four members each.
In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.
2013 Daktronics-NAIA Women's Tennis Scholar-Athletes


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WebSync Error - WebSync does not show my training computer even if it has been activated
WebSync does not show training computer even if it has been activated.
Note that it takes a moment before training computer appears in the list. If the training computer is not shown in the list within 15 seconds, try following for troubleshooting.
Solution 1: Set your training computer to Connect mode and press Start/OK button twice.
Right-click/secondary click WebSync icon on taskbar/menu bar and select Synchronize.
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Close WebSync; right-click/secondary click WebSync icon on taskbar/menu bar and select Exit WebSync.
Go to Start → (Settings →) Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services.
Check that Polar Daemon is running and the status is Started.
If the status is not started, click Polar Daemon and 'Start the service'. If Daemon is already running (Started), click 'Restart the service'.
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Click Cancel button to close the window.
Go to Finder → Applications → Utilities → Activity Monitor → select All processes from the drop-down list.
Check that polard is in the list of running processes.
If the polard is not in the list of running processes, close the WebSync by secondary clicking the WebSync icon on the menu bar and selecting Exit WebSync.
Restart Polar Daemon. To restart Polar Daemon you need to run two commands in Terminal. Start Applications → Utilities → Terminal. To stop Polar Daemon which is already running, write a command "sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/fi.polar.polard.plist" and press enter. Enter your password when required. If Polar Daemon is not running, "Error unloading" message appears. Ignore this error message. Write "sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/fi.polar.polard.plist" and press enter to run Polar Daemon.


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"Still small voice, an unintentional double exposure" Scanned Image. Photographed , ca1945, Farmville, VA. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
"Still small voice, an unintentional double exposure" Scanned Image. Photographed , ca1945, Farmville, VA. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
"Please do not write on the graffiti" Digital Image. Photographed , 24 January 2009, Denver, CO Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #5-Another generation of Cheeks comes to Mangum
Prompt: Talk about your genealogy adventures while on vacation. Doesn't everyone plan a little genealogy visit during vacation? Take your readers along for the ride.
I haven't gotten to do as many of these as I intended. In fact this is the first one of the weekly prompts that I've had time to post. So much for good intentions. A couple of years ago, my older brother who lives in SC came back to Oklahoma for Christmas along with his wife and two grandchildren. He doesn't get back this way very often so we tried to do as much as possible in the few days he was here. One of the thing he really wanted to do was visit our father's hometown, Mangum (Capitol of Greer County), OK. The "Capitol" thing is something I will have to explain later. So two days after Christmas in 2007, we set out. Our party consisted of my brother, my two sisters, myself, our four spouses, a daughter of one sister, and the two grandchildren.
Just north of town is the farm where our great grandfather Cheek homesteaded before 1903. We have never been able to do more than see it from the road. One of these days I will find out who owns it and get permission to go out to the farm house.
If you are in Mangum at lunch time there is only one option-the Hamburger Inn- right on the Square.
We were a little late for lunch and they were going to close soon so we had to chose from a limited menu. But we had a great time and enjoyed examining the antiques? collectables? memorabilia? junk? on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the tables, etc.
One of the group went exploring and came back saying, "You all have got to see this." Most of the tables had old copies of the Mangum Star covered with plastic along with other items from the past. And one of the papers from World War 2 had a front page story about officers from Mangum in the 45th Infantry Division. Among the officers was our father, Captain James Edmon Cheek.
Dad is the second from the left. That find was certainly worth the price of gas for the trip.
Our next stop was the Old Greer County Museum.
This is one of the truly unique, local museums in the country. It is housed in the old hospital building, staffed totally by volunteers, and filled with the treasured artifacts of hundreds of families and communities. Each of the old patient rooms is sponsored by a different family, community, or organization. For more information about the museum go to their website at http://www.oldgreercountymuseum.com/index.html
The picture at the top of the article was taken on the stairs at the museum by one of the friendly staff. The real find at the museum was in a back room where they had hundreds of old photographs and negatives from the Fike Studio, an regular part of Mangum life for many years. During one of our stays we lived next door to the Fikes and my brother and I spent many hours playing with their daughter, Susan. To tell the whole story of the museum is way outside the scope of this article, but I promise a follow-up not too far in the future.
Of course no visit to Mangum is complete without going to the cemetery. We no longer have any relatives living in Mangum but we do have a lot of them in Riverside Cemetery.
Our great grandparents, Robert Bruce and Carrie Savannah Cheek who are in the blog's header picture.
Notice that the stone includes not only Robert and Carrie, but also Robert's sister, Columbia Cheek.
Our grandparents, Marion and Anna Cheek.
There are many more Cheeks in the cemetery but I don't want to neglect our mother's family, some of whom also lived in Mangum. But only her mother and one of our uncles is buried there.
Her name was originally Paralee Tennessee Lancaster. She married an Orand, then a Bex, and then a Smith and decided she liked Pauline better than Paralee.
If you are ever in Mangum when the lake is down it is obligatory on your way out of town to stop and see the remains of the town of Lugert which was covered when they built the lake. But this being Southwestern Oklahoma, the town reappears from time to time like Brigadoon.
Look carefully and you can see the foundation and floor of one of the houses. When we got down to it we discovered it had a cellar but after a little digging, we decided we were just not equipped to do a "dig."
It was a great trip which give my brother and I the chance to relive a lot of old memories. Our sisters are both much younger and never lived in Mangum or knew very many of our relatives who lived there. But it is a very important part of our family history and I was glad to be able to share it with another generation of Cheeks and with you.
"MLC Auditorium Flood." Digital Image. Photographed , 3 January 2005. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
I look forward to the Smile-for-the-camera Carnivals because of
the challenge of selecting just the right picture(s) for the category. I regret that time constraints have made me miss the last few. This time it really was easy and I didn't have to look very deep into the family archives. In fact the picture was as close as the top of the page. My header picture, a family portrait of my great grandfather Robert Bruce Cheek's family takin in Mangum, Oklahoma Territory, around 1903. There are many more pictures in my treasury that would fit, but I have always been fascinated by the sartorial contrasts in this family portrait.
The patriarch is wearing an obviously well-worn standard suit of the era. The mother, Carrie Savanah Adams Cheek, obviously took a little more time to get ready for the photographer, what doesn't show with her hands folded across her lap, is the presence of the final member of the family, Roy Bruce, who will be born later in the year. The stars are obviously big brother, Joseph Marion (my grandfather) and big sister, Bertie Columbia. They are definitely stylin'. The other boys are not too impressed with the whole process and would obviously prefer to be somewhere else. I really like the haphazard buttoning of the jacket on my great uncle Robert Luther. Unfortunately a few years later he would be killed in France in "the war to end all wars." The best dressed of all may be the doll held by Annabelle, but I just couldn't enlarge enough to be sure.
I am eagerly anticipating the next carnival.
"Hope." Digital Image. Photographed by Richard O. Cheek, 22 January 2009. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.


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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages rose Friday as better-than-expected manufacturing and consumer sentiment data trumped the President's warnings about the economic impact of $85 billion in automatic spending cuts. The Dow once again moved towards its all-time high of 14,164 as the VIX fear gauge fell 1.87%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35.17 points, or 0.25%, at 14,089.66. The blue-chip index closed up 0.64% for the week. The S&P 500 was up 3.52 points, or 0.23%, at 1,518.2, and finished the five-day period up 0.17%. The Nasdaq was up 9.55 points, or 0.3%, at 3,169.74. The tech-heavy index rose 0.25% for this week. Despite the recent strength, Hugh Anderson, HighTower's Las Vegas managing director and partner said his team is telling its clients that the market remains in a secular bear market, where risk- taking isn't being adequately compensated. "Like it or not we are in a Fed-driven market which has distorted normal market behavior as it relates to valuations and market cycles," he said. "Periods of low volatility like we've enjoyed for the last six months are followed by periods of higher volatility, so be prepared." Anderson said that insider sales have been 12 times greater than insider buys of late and that negative earnings guidance is four times more frequent than positive earnings guidance in the most recent quarter. "Data points like this tend not to shine as brightly as a market that has enjoyed a rally without a 10% correction for over 500 days." Sector action was mixed in the broader market. Transportation, healthcare and services shares were among those edging higher. Energy, basic materials, capital goods and conglomerates were retreating. Volumes totaled 3.67 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange and 1.86 billion shares on the Nasdaq. Advancers were edging decliners by a ratio of 1.3-to-1 on the Big Board and the Nasdaq. President Barack Obama met with lawmakers Friday morning in a last-ditch attempt to avoid the sequester, but failed to reach a compromise. This came after the U.S. Senate Thursday failed to find a way to avert the cuts. Two bills, one from Republicans and the other sponsored by Democrats, didn't garner sufficient support. During a live broadcast of a press conference following the meeting, Obama continued to lament that the sequester would hurt GDP and jobs growth. He added that he did not want to see the sequester replaced with worse, arbitrary cuts and emphasized the need for a balanced approach to deficit reduction. Widespread spending cuts are now set to kick in at midnight. UBS economists expect that a delayed compromise will be reached in the coming weeks, which Gareth Berry, a currency strategist at UBS, said should limit the economic fallout. A raft of U.S. economic data was released Friday. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing survey rose to 54.2 in February from 53.1 in January; the estimate was 52.4. It was the strongest reading since June 2011. "The better-than-expected February ISM manufacturing data as well as the upbeat comments from the survey's respondents included in the accompanying report point to activity and sentiment improving during the first quarter of 2013," said David Onyett-Jeffries, an economist at RBC Economics. The final read on the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was 77.6 for February, above expectations that the level would stay at the preliminary reading of 76.3, and higher than January's average of 73.8. Construction spending for January fell 2.1%, according to the Census Bureau. That compares with the prediction of a 0.5% uptick after an upwardly revised increase of 1.1% in December and an upward revision to 1.9% for November. Onyett-Jeffries noted that the sizable upward revisions were "softening the blow" of the weak January reading. "Construction spending data are lagging indicators of activity in the sector and we believe the usefulness of this report is largely limited to evaluating the impact of construction on GDP," said John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros, founders of research firm RDQ Economics. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that personal income levels in January fell 3.6% after rising 2.6% the previous month. Economists expected personal income levels in January to fall 2.4%. Personal spending levels increased 0.2%, after a downwardly revised 0.1% rise the prior month. Expectations were for an uptick of 0.2%. Looking at inflation, the headline PCE price index ticked up 0.1% after being flat in December. It was forecast to have ticked up 0.2%. 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The FTSE 100 in London finished up 0.28% and the DAX in Germany fell 0.43% as U.K. manufacturing unexpectedly shrank in February and eurozone manufacturing PMI numbers continued to show contraction in January. The eurozone jobless rate, meanwhile, rose to a record 11.9%. Gold for April delivery fell $5.80 to settle at $1,572.30 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while April crude oil futures slumped $1.37 to close at $90.68 a barrel. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was increasing by 8/32, diluting the yield to 1.852%. The dollar was popping 0.41%, according to the U.S. dollar index. In corporate news, Best Buy ( BBY), the consumer-electronics chain, ended talks with founder Richard Schulze over a deal in which he and a group of buyout firms proposed to take a minority stake in the company in exchange for three seats on the board, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. 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Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Box of Peggy's Birth Cards
I've decided to post these cards on my blog in hopes that descendants of the senders will discover the posts. Then perhaps they will contact me so that I can send them the originals. Or perhaps an organization will request the collection as a whole. From my brief first look I can tell this is going to be a fascinating journey.
Cousin Peggy was born Margaret Ann Peterson on June 3, 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was born to renowned University of Pittsburgh English Professor, Edwin Lewis Peterson. Professor Peterson, author of Penns Woods West (1959), had a reputation as a writer's writer. He inspired a generation of American authors who came up through the ranks of his classroom. His classroom was in the Early American Room at Pitt. My mother told me years later after his death the Early American Room was no longer open to the pubic. But my mom was a determined woman and as the niece of Professor Peterson she would not be kept out. She said the holes were still in the walls or floors were she and Peggy as children peaked through while the professor was lecturing. While I don't have a living memory of "Uncle Petie", his legacy impacted me growing up and I was always awed and inspired by the man who corresponded with Ernest Hemingway.
Peggy's mother was Helen Naomi Silver. One of the three Silver sisters. My great aunt Helen was refined and well traveled. She spoiled me when I came to visit. She would give me secret gifts that only the two of us were to know about. They were always exotic gifts such as pencils with Chinamen and tassels on top. Little treasures only a child could adore. One year she gave me her passport travel case. She had no idea what she was setting into motion with that gift. Little did she know that someday I would follow much too closely in her footsteps.
Peggy was an only child. She was a magical, mystical cousin. We didn't see her very often. As an artist she seemed to me, a child, to be very Bohemian. One year in Philadelphia she took all the kids of my generation to the Museum of Art. She wore a t-shirt that showed all the bones and muscles and tendons of the torso. It was quirky moments like these that left me with brief but fanciful memories of Peggy. My mother took the traditional path in life – getting married, having children and becoming a housewife. Despite their lifestyle differences, Mom and Peggy remained close throughout their lives. Long phone calls helped shave the distance between Connecticut and Spain, San Francisco, Missouri or where ever Peggy happened to be.
When Peggy died in 2002, much too young at 62, she left behind her art and a cousin who mourned to see her go. How do we honor the lives of those who don't leave behind flesh and blood to carry on their genes? We remember them and in those memories we continue to celebrate their lives. Though my memories of Peggy are few, I am excited about the journey of rediscovering her. And discovering the people who celebrated the birth of her life many years ago.
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Congratulations on your first blog post. I look forward to seeing the cards.ReplyDelete
Thanks too for sharing the story of Peggy and her special place in your family.
Thanks, Marian, yuor first blog post was very interesting. Carry on!ReplyDelete
Great post, and a wonderful idea to attempt to find owners for the collection!ReplyDelete
You make me wish I had known Peggy and her father the "Professor". I find it very fascinating that he corresponded with Hemmingway. Does the correspondence still exist?ReplyDelete
Great post & welcome to the wide world of genea-blogging!
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Great start on your blog. I liked the mini-bios and can't wait to see the birth cards.ReplyDelete
Off to a super start, Marian. More! More!ReplyDelete
Great start, Marian! Welcome to the ranks of theReplyDelete
Very nice indeed. Looking forward to reading more. I love your home page and title.ReplyDelete


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The Crimson celebrates its victory over Cincinnati to advance to the NCAA tournament third round (Gil Talbot).
SPOKANE, Wash. – Siyani Chambers scored five of his 11 points in the final 1:58 to lift the 12th-seeded Harvard men's basketball team to a 61-57 win over fifth-seeded Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Harvard will now face No. 4 Michigan State on Saturday, March 22 at 8:40 p.m. EST live on TNT.
With the win, Harvard improves to 27-4 overall, setting a new program record for wins in a season. The Crimson also becomes the first Ivy League team to win an NCAA tournament game in consecutive seasons since Princeton did so in 1983 and 1984.
Wesley Saunders finished with a team-high 12 points and four assists, with Chambers and Laurent Rivard each contributing 11. Chambers was just 2-of-10 from the floor, but connected when the team needed it most to put Harvard ahead 56-53 with 1:58 on the clock. Rivard was 3-of-5 from three-point range and matched his season-high with five boards.
Sean Kilpatrick led all scorers with 18 points while Justin Jackson added 13 points and 11 boards. The Bearcats, which entered the game ranked 15th in the Associated Press Top 25 and 14th in the USA Today Coaches Poll, shot just 36.8 percent from the floor.
The two teams started quickly, connecting on 5-of-9 shots to begin the game. Kyle Casey brought the crowd to its feet with a tomahawk slam, but Cincinnati came right back with a jumper by Shaquille Thomas for a 6-5 edge. Scoring slowed as the squads combined to go 0-of-11 over the next three-plus minutes, with Wesley Saunders' free throw to even things at 6-6 the only point scored. Brandyn Curry ended the spell with a three-pointer, and after a rainbow three by Chambers the Crimson held a 12-6 lead.
Steve Moundou-Missi drove the baseline for a reverse layup, and Curry beat the shot clock with a one-handed trey to push the score to 19-11. Rivard followed up with a three of his own, but after a dunk by Thomas and triple by Kilpatrick the Bearcats had pulled to within four, 22-18.
Kilpatrick followed an Evan Cummins layup with his second three-pointer, and Troy Caupain picked off a Saunders pass to make it a one-point game, 24-23. Saunders answered with a two-handed dunk as he drove the lane, and Rivard connected from long range to regain a 29-25 advantage. Moundou-Missi went over Jackson for a slam, before a third trey by Rivard gave Harvard a 34-29 lead. Chambers added a pair of free throws, sending the Crimson into the break on top 36-29.
Harvard shot 6-of-11 from three in the first half, including a 3-of-3 performance by Rivard. The Bearcats, meanwhile, went just 11-of-31 from the floor despite an 11-point half for Kilpatrick.
The teams traded blows to begin the second half, with Moundou-Missi's two-handed slam moving the score to 42-33. Cincinnati used a 10-3 spurt to pull back within two, 45-43, but Saunders made an acrobatic move at the rim to cup the ball around a defender for a 48-43 lead. Curry found Cummins for a bucket and 50-43 margin, but a second surge cut the Bearcats deficit to 51-49.
Saunders kept Cincinnati at arm's length with a turnaround jumper, before a pair of Troy Caupain free throws made it a 54-53 game with 3:12 remaining. Harvard kept coming, however, and outscored the Bearcats 7-3 in the final 1:58, with Chambers accounting for five points to seal the victory.
Game Notes: Appearing in its third-straight NCAA tournament, Harvard won its second NCAA tournament game in school history … Harvard has won its first game at the tournament two-straight seasons … It was a 14-seed last year when it earned the program's first postseason victory, a 68-62 win over third-seeded New Mexico in the second round … The Crimson has a 2-4 all-time record in the NCAA tournament … Harvard improves to 4-6 against ranked opponents in the last five years … Harvard has a nine-game winning streak and has won of 13 of its last 14 contests … The Crimson's 27 victories have set the program record for wins in a single season; previously was 26 set in the 2011-12 season … Wesley Saunders, the Ivy League Player of the Year, is 10 points away from joining the 1,000-point club at Harvard … Head coach Tommy Amaker is four wins away (143) from second on the all-time wins list at Harvard … Harvard is 15-0 this season when holding opponents to fewer than 60 points, and 14-0 when opponents shoot under 40.0 percent … The Crimson is 5-0 this season on a neutral court and 25-2 when leading at halftime.