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When Ed Charbonneau and Erica Berven decided to buy their first home, they had a vision in mind: Atomic Ranch, as in the Space Age-era houses that have become the height of retro chic to a new generation of homeowners.
"I had a subscription to Atomic Ranch magazine," said Berven, who also remembers admiring the interiors on TV's "The Jetsons" and "The Brady Bunch" and thinking, "That's the coolest thing ever."
The couple found their own Atomic Ranch-style house in St. Louis Park. Built in 1954, it had some distinctive original features, including a butterfly roof with dramatic eaves and a tapering stone fireplace in the living room.
But the house also retained some not-so-desirable relics from the '50s, including a tiny kitchen — "the size of a twin bed," Berven said. (That's typical of the era, when kitchens were built just big enough for one housewife to do her work and were separated from the main living area.)
The couple's kitchen had been updated over the years but it was far from functional.
"It had been fixed so many times it was permanently broken," Charbonneau said.
After living in the house for several years, the couple decided it was time to make some major improvements. Fortunately, they had an expert in the family: Charbonneau's Uncle Daryl is local architect Daryl Hansen (www.architectur-rugs.com).
Charbonneau, a muralist and instructor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, had collaborated with his uncle on art projects in the past and had commissioned one of Hansen's distinctive custom rugs, in pastel hues inspired by '50s tiles Berven had collected. "The opportunity to work with Daryl was something I dreamed about," Charbonneau said.
Hansen appreciated the vintage home's quality construction and '50s aesthetic. "I'm more of a modernist, and that was the beginning of modernism and open floor plans," he said.
The couple had a large lot, with plenty of space for a big rear addition, but decided against it. "I didn't want a gigantic kitchen," Berven said. "I wanted to work within the existing footprint."
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Fortunately, ranch-style houses lend themselves to creative reworking of space because their floor plans are more free-flowing, less compartmentalized than houses from earlier decades, said Hansen. He developed three different schemes for remodeling the house.
"I didn't know how far they wanted to go," he said. "They picked the most open of the three," which included removing two interior walls. "That changed the relationship of everything."
Hansen decided to "bring the dining area out into the living space," by designing a custom table and built-in bench. To produce it, he turned to woodworker Chad Johnson, a trusted longtime collaborator. With Johnson on board, Hansen felt confident adding detail to his design, including inlays of decorative leopard wood.
The cabinets are "customized Ikea" — stock beech cabinets to which Johnson added curved corner pieces for displaying some of the couple's colorful Fiestaware and vintage collectibles.
All in the family
Placement of the microwave — "the much-discussed microwave chamber," according to Charbonneau — became a hot topic within the extended family. "The uncles and cousins spent hours talking about how to make this shape," he said. "We moved it around like a jigsaw puzzle," finally finding a space by borrowing from the bathroom closet behind it.
When it came time to install the millwork, Uncle Daryl came over with his toolbelt. "I knew where every piece went," he said.
"He's so precise," Charbonneau said.
Hansen also added a skylight in the work area to bring light into the kitchen, and designed a modernist metal railing to replace the wall that once separated the living area from the stairs to the lower level.
To complete the updated vibe, the couple added vintage lighting and furniture, abstract paintings by Charbonneau and retro collectibles. "I like the kitschy stuff," Berven said. (They've turned their porch into an exuberantly decorated tiki bar.)
The makeover has dramatically changed the way the couple live in their home, they said. They used to spend a lot of time in their basement. "Now we live here [on the main level]," Berven said.
They cook a lot more often. And their home has become a gathering spot for the extended family, including the Saturday After Thanksgiving Party, a tradition invented by Berven. Even with a crowd, there's now space to maneuver in the kitchen, she marveled. "Daryl knows exactly how many butts fit into a space."


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Some positive news for a change, regarding the status on the protection of animals within the NWT.
An excerpt from a recent correspondence received in July from the Justice Minister, Hon. Jackson Lafferty confirms that: "the Department of Justice is working with other Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) departments towards the goal of introducing new animal protection legislation. The government has committed to bringing forward this legislation during the life of the 16th Assembly. "
As cited in the correspondence received from Mr. Lafferty, a number of issues are being examined, "including the legislative model to adopt", as well as just how much consultation in the area is required, and which department will be responsible for this new piece of legislation. I had submitted Provincial Animal Protection Acts from across Canada to the GNWT as template examples many months ago. Mr. Lafferty continued to state that the legilsation is "appropriately balanced", thereby protecting animals from individuals who would cause intentional harm to them while still allowing animals to be used for food and not to intefere with hunting and fishing practices. Quite understandable.
The recently received correspondence from the Minister of MACA, Hon. R. McLeod cited that: MACA is currently "moving forward with planned amendments to the Dog Act" which thus far are "limited to protecting only dogs" thereby addressing "immediate concerns regarding the protection of dogs, until more comphrehensive animal protection legislation is implemented."
This is definitely a pro-active step in the right direction and I must commend the GNWT for looking at the big picture.
Referencing Mr. McLeod's correspondence, consultation with the GNWT staff and interdepartmental/inter-government counterparts will be part of this overall process and I have been given assurance that MACA officials are currently doing just that.
The initial Petitions and Letters aimed towards the goal of Animal Protection legislation here in the NWT, I began over eighteen months ago. It has been a time consuming and often heart-breaking journey towards this end.
There is a light at the end of that Tunnel and thus far it appears to be shining brighter.
Please continue to support the progress being made by the GNWT towards this goal as well as those who continue to speak for the animals.
A very special Thank You goes to the Animal Defense League of Canada who have been of enormous support and encouragement to me from the very beginning. Special Thanks to all of those others from across Canada and globally who have spoken out in support of this new legislation and in support of my continued work.
To reference the Discussion Paper on Amendments to the Dog Act, please view a prior post in the Archives.

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Distributing your LWJGL Application
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To create a batch file for Windows or a shell script for Unix, it should look like so:
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You will still have to setup the classpath like in previous option for both ways.
- If you want everything in 1 JAR file, the JarSplice tool will create a single executable jar from all your jars and at the same time include the native files inside.
- Java Web Start is deployment technology created originally by Sun and is shipped and installed with all Oracle Java run times. It allows java to run a jnlp (xml) file and start your application. Where its setup correctly it can allow launching an external java application directly from a web browser.
- Getdown is an alternative to Java Web Start and considered by many to be superior. GetDown is a deployment system which aims to provide a system for downloading and installing a collection of files on a user's machine and upgrading those files as needed. Though just any collection of files would do, Getdown is mainly intended for the distribution and maintenance of the collection of files that make up an application. It is used by some of the high profile LWJGL game companies like ThreeRings and OddLabs to distribute their games.
- There are a number of tools available to automatically create platform specific executable files for you such as Launch4J, JSmooth or Exe4J to create .EXE files for windows or JarSplice to create Windows EXE files, OS X APP Bundles or Linux ShellScripts.
- Installer Software - These are Installer/Setup programs that are executables themselves and will install applications on the system they are run on, some are cross-platform while others are designed for a specific platform. They usually guide users through the installation procedure with a set of dialogs and instruction screens. You can use these to create installers for LWJGL applications and if required also embedded the JRE with them. Some examples include NSIS, lzPack, InstallBuilder, etc. A full list of Installers can be found here.
- Compiling LWJGL Application to native code. This method will compile your java code to native code and provide you a proper native executable binary (unlike the above tools which just wrap executables that work like a batch script and still use java). However there are many advantages and disadvantages to compiling java to native code. The two common tools to achieving this are the free GCJ compiler or the commercial Excelsior Jet (free for for non-commercial or reduced price for smaller companies) application. Both can be made to work with LWJGL.


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Today is Tsiknopempti in Greece. A loose translation would be 'Burnt Thursday' or 'Barbecue Thursday' - tsikno means the smell of burnt and grilled meat and pempti means Thursday.
Tsiknopempti is traditionally held on the Thursday which is 11 days before Clean Monday, the beginning of Lent. As you will have gathered, it is a day of meat eating and wherever you go you will smell the smoke and meat from barbecue being held in all the households.
Here in Corfu we have an additional tradition on Tsiknopempti. It is called Corfiot Petegoletsia or 'gossip'. It's a kind of street theatre held in the centre of the old town with amateurs taking the part of women from old Corfu on the small balconies of the old buildings and gossiping to each other in the local dialect. At the end of the performance songs are sung in the street.
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- J. Lee said...
I really like Greek food but am fairly limited. Do you know some good Greek recipes for vegetarians? Or with seafood?
- 27 February 2011 at 19:18
- symposio said...
Actually there are some really delicious Greek vegetarian dishes. I would recommend that you download our e-book Greek Vegetarian Recipes - http://realgreekrecipes.blogspot.com/p/greek-vegetarian-recipes.html
For seafood recipes, just go to Categories on the right side bar of the blog and choose Seafood.
Many thanks!
- 1 March 2011 at 08:00
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With growth in the digital realm happening so often, so does the desire to develop big-screen epics with mythological creatures at the core. We've got hobbits, aliens, supersmart apes, and now Jack the Giant Slayer adds a community of giants to the list, too. Whether you're into the film's promo material or not, one thing Jack clearly has going for it is that, unlike werewolves, vampires and witches, giants are relatively untapped and new.
Hopefully Bryan Singer manages to use this fresher subject matter to hit it big with critics, fans and the box office, but regardless of Jack's level of success, these other underused creatures still have the potential to become cinematic gold themselves.
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The Philadelphia Eagles locked up their final draft pick when they signed first-round selection Marcus Smith II on Monday.
As with all first-round picks, it's a four-year deal with a fifth-year team option.
The Eagles turned some heads when they selected the outside linebacker with the No. 26 overall pick. (NFL Media's Daniel Jeremiah was of the few -- if not only -- draft prognosticators to predict Smith would end up in the first round.)
The 6-foot-3 Smith is athletic with good pass-rush ability and a quick first step. Questions about his readiness to contribute this season caused fans to be less than thrilled when they heard Smith's name called.
Smith has begun OTAs working behind starting linebacker Connor Barwin learning the Eagles' "Jack" role (the more versatile of the two outside positions in the Eagles' 3-4 base defense) as well as some reps in the "Predator" role.
As with everything in Philly these days, Smith's future is in Chip Kelly's hands.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" picks the best receiver group in the NFL, and goes deep previewing the season with Bucky Brooks.


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The careers of Orson Welles and Charles Chaplin briefly intersected in the early 1940s, not long after "boy genius" Welles arrived in Hollywood and superstar Chaplin made his first film with dialogue, 1940's boldly political The Great Dictator. The extent to which Verdoux represents Welles' ideas depends on whom one believes of two men known for stretching the truth. What's agreed upon is that Welles approached Chaplin with the idea of the former directing the latter in a film based on the exploits of French serial killer Henri Landru, a real-life "Bluebeard." Staunchly opposed to acting for another director, Chaplin convinced Welles to hand over the idea, and Welles ultimately signed papers granting him the credit "From an idea by Orson Welles" and a fee of $5000. Welles later claimed that the finished film deviates very little from his own screenplay; as Chaplin would have it, he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay himself (though his usually thorough archives are conspicuously inconclusive on the point of Verdoux's script development).
Whatever the truth in this matter, Monsieur Verdoux can boast a screenplay with a highly unusual moral complexity and a deeply philosophical bent. These are not terms one associates with a mass entertainment, which would have been the expectation of the 1947 following years of unqualified Chaplin hits (that the film flopped in America directly corresponded with Chaplin's entanglement in the "Red Scare," which led to boycotts and bad publicity). In its basic plot, Monsieur Verdoux poses challenge enough as a black "comedy of murders" (though Arsenic and Old Lace set precedent three years earlier): Landru surrogate Henri Verdoux (Chaplin) marries old maids and dowagers, secures their financial holdings, then knocks them off and disposes of the bodies, staying one step ahead of their families and the authorities. Once an "honest bank clerk," Verdoux pursues his new line of work ostensibly to support his wife and child, but that's a rationale that, like just about everything in the film, raises more questions than answers.
Beyond the obvious fact that murder is the most extreme method of income imaginable—far afield from that old ethical quandary about stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's family—Verdoux's home life evinces no whiff of desperation. Instead, we see an otherwise comfortable, undemanding wife and child pining for a regularly absent husband and father, a point underscored by Verdoux's family appearing in but one scene. The film's most consistent audio-visual motif is a transitional shot of a racing train, always accompanied by the same anxious strain of music: Verdoux's life is defined by entirely self-serving escapism (until it isn't—eventually the wheels cease to indicate literal movement, and slyly begin to symbolize the God-like wheels of justice grinding away).
When finally facing the music, Verdoux indicts society: "As a mass killer," he notes, "I am an amateur by comparison" to nations and, by implication, corporate interests. Later, he adds, "Wars, conflict—it's all business. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero." (By setting the story circa the Great Depression, Chaplin both contextualizes Verdoux within the filmmaker's oeuvre of class-conscious survivalism, and makes his anti-hero prophetic about the mass murder that brought WWII to a close.) In his murdering prime, Verdoux asserts, "This is a ruthless world, and one must be ruthless to cope with it," but for all his artful dodging, in the end Verdoux implicitly accepts personal responsibility for his crime, seemingly out of a nihilistic fatalism. By the end of a film that, in its quietest moments, contemplates the very reason for living, its hero can hardly think of one.
Yes, Verdoux is a film that name-drops Schopenhauer, but it's also damn funny, with a brilliant physical and, yes, verbal performance by Chaplin, comic bits that would fit right into one of his silent classics (Verdoux's lightning-quick efficiency at money-counting, a subtle take directly into the camera that amusingly concretizes Verdoux's conspiracy with the audience), and several ingeniously designed farcical sequences. Particularly memorable for their comedic impact are the scenes pitting Verdoux against intended victim Annabella Bonheur, a blithely braying wife played with relish (and ace timing) by Martha Raye.
And yet the film's defining scenes aren't comic at all but melancholic: two extended dialogues between Verdoux and Marilyn Nash's "The Girl." Between the two scenes, the magnetic Nash elegantly executes her character's penchant for personal gestures but also her quiet moral devolution. In the first scene, silver-tongued devil Verdoux, holding the upper hand, is surprised to find goodness in a fellow traveler; in the second, their power positions and, perhaps, their moral authority have reversed. For all of Monsieur Verdoux's moral shadow-play, Chaplin's knack for wistful sentiment gives the film a strong undercurrent, pithily expressed by The Girl: "Yet life is wonderful." To the last taste, the last rays of moonlight or sunshine, the last breath.
Criterion gives Monsieur Verdoux its best-yet home-video presentation with a lovely hi-def transfer and excellent bonus features. Other than some early-glimpsed vertical lines at left of frame (which, surprisingly, proved resistant to Criterion's digital cleanup), the picture quality proves outstanding. Grain is natural but unobtrusive, and contrast resolves the picture nicely, with pleasing black level. Most impressive for fans of the film will be the improved detail and texture within the image, taking home viewing of the film as close as it's yet been to theatrical exhibition. The English LPCM 1.0 track proves faithful and entirely satisfactory, losing no nuance of Chaplin's crisp diction and insinuating score.
The bonus features retain the most significant extra from the MK2 DVD edition circa 2004: Bernard Eisenschitz's documentary "Chaplin Today—Monsieur Verdoux" (27:01, HD). Director Claude Chabrol and actor Norman Lloyd appear in this excellent overview of the film's origins, historical context, and Chaplin's technique.
The newly produced "Charlie Chaplin and the American Press" (24:54, HD) proves equally fascinating: an overview of Chaplin's career in film, as traced through newspaper clippings. Kate Guyonvarch—Director of the Charlie Chaplin company Roy Export—and Charles Maland, author of Chaplin and American Culture, contribute separate interviews illustrated liberally with shots of archival newspapers and scrapbooks .
A 1997 audio interview with actress "Marilyn Nash" (8:05, HD), by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, comes accompanied by film stills.
Eight "Radio Ads" (6:15, HD) include"A Modern French Bluebeard," "This Merchant of Death," "A Warning," "For Women Without A Sense of Humor," "Lady, Can You Take a Dare?", "The Top Picture of the Year," "The Suave, Sinister Lady-Killer" and "Remember - It's a Comedy." Three "Trailers" (8:38, HD) for Monsieur Verdoux hail from France, Germany and the United States.
And, as ever, Criterion supplies fascinating liner notes, in a booklet including credits, tech specs, film stills and illustrations, and three essays: vintage pieces by critic André Bazin and Chaplin himself, as well as an essay by critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.
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Women in Practice essay: Barbara Weiss
The buzzword, these days, is 'confidence'.
In the disarray caused by the current recession, we are constantly reminded that confidence, more than anything else, will ultimately determine the outcome of this turbulent time. Consumer confidence, government confidence, investor confidence… Without confidence, it is impossible to think of recovery. And yet this intangible, whimsical and elusive ingredient remains, when lacking, one of the most difficult to generate and sustain.
It is therefore concerning – and indeed frustrating – to conclude, after many long years of reflection on the subject, that in parallel with the economy, confidence and self-confidence are possibly the greatest determinants for women in their rate of success within the still very masculine world of the architectural profession.
While my generation of women architects, graduating in the late 1970s, saw themselves as a small, privileged, elite cohort destined to infiltrate a hostile and largely uncharted territory, it is obvious to current observers that the glossy new generation of young female architects populating today's offices is, on the whole, endowed with a new and impressive sense of worth, entitlement and pride in its own professionalism.
Still basking in the – now sadly fading – memories of boom times, when practices were fighting over too few available graduates and salaries were rapidly becoming unaffordable, these successful young women mostly hail from egalitarian academic experiences that saw them excel, often surpassing their male counterparts, and from families where mothers were more often than not already employed in some sort of work activity.
However, cracks in this patina of equality of ambition start appearing when you look at the next few rungs up the career ladder. As many a young woman laments, even if her sex is now much better represented in practice than formerly, the vast majority of project architects and associates are still typically male. Salaries for men are often higher, responsibilities demanded of them and challenges offered to them greater, with career advancement training being much more readily available to the 'boys'.
While the profession itself does not do enough to monitor and curtail this culture of sexism in its midst, things only get worse when one considers this inequality at the top of the profession, and what might be in store for an ambitious young woman architect aiming at starting her own practice, braving the world of clients, consultants and planners.
As founder and director of a 15-strong, woman-led practice that has existed for nearly 25 years, it is my conviction that there has been, during all these years, an almost impenetrable glass ceiling capping the opportunities afforded to our type and size of office.
Even if, by now, women practices' own measure of self-worth has risen considerably, nurtured by years of experience and unflinching determination, it is still incredibly difficult to find clients who are willing to match such newly found self-confidence with their own confidence in such practices.
There is a definite sense that women are still typecast as good at interiors (colours and cushions!), houses, maybe even – giddy thought – designing nurseries or primary schools. Most developers do not feel comfortable instructing a woman-led practice, whether to design a project with a large budget or one for which it has no previous track record of the specific typology in hand. Similar caution is not often displayed when instructing male counterparts, as ambitious and inexperienced young turks are seen constantly jostling for position in the rush to become overnight the next great thing to watch.
What we, women architects need is a cultural sea-change among existing commissioning clients; we also need a new generation of women clients who will believe in other women; and we need more women architects that can prove, with their excellent work, that generic preconceptions against them are outdated.
2011 marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and generated widespread debate about the female perspective across many professions. It is fitting, and extremely encouraging, that three women have recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, that Christine Lagarde is head of the IMF, and that there are women in power in countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil and Germany.
In architecture too, things are evolving; every year more and more women chip away at the unfathomable glass ceiling, design larger buildings, win competitions, run the RIBA and become new role models. Their example, and the part they play in mentoring other women, do much to dispel historic insecurities and build self-confidence. There is a lot that still needs to happen, but the feeling fortunately is that the clocks cannot be turned back.
Barbara Weiss founded Barbara Weiss Architects in 1987
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Palm Beach County has been experiencing a rash in violence against animals over the last few months, the latest incident involving a Chihuahua that had its head nearly cut off.
Chichi, a 2-year-old Chihuahua belonging to a family in West Boca, was discovered in his owner's backyard Saturday morning.
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It appears that somebody entered the backyard, reached into his doghouse as Chichi cowered in the corner and pulled him out – using a sharp instrument to slice his throat.
"It appears the wounds are consistent with a knife," said Capt. David Walesky of the Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control.
"It doesn't appear to be an animal attack."
One neighbor said he saw a man wearing only boxer shorts standing outside Chichi's owners' house at 5 a.m.
There were also two additional animal abuse incidents over the weekend, including one that left a cat dead, Walesky said. All three incidents appear to be unrelated.
Walesky will release more details on the other two incidents on Monday.
"It's bizarre to have three major cases in one weekend, but we've seen a significant spike in violence against animals over the last few months."
Walesky, who has been working at Animal Care and Control for 14 years, said he has never seen anything like it.
Over the last three months, he has responded to a multitude of cases involving violence against animals including:
- A man picking up a dog belonging to his girlfriend's mother and rolling it down the hallway like a bowling ball.
- A 12-year-old boy picking up his family's Chihuahua and slamming it against the wall in a fit of rage.
- A man repeatedly bashing his pit bull with a pipe to the point where it suffered brain trauma.
Palm Beach deputies made arrests in the three above cases, which is only a fraction of what has occurred in the last few months.
"Maybe people are stressed out over the economy or their relationships and they are taking it out on their animals," Walesky said.
"I've been here 14 years and this is the most significant case load I've seen."
Last month, a series of cat mutilations in Miami led to the arrest of a teenager accused of using surgical tools to kill and torture the cats.


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DENVER, Colo. (October 4, 2012) – In addition to the amazing food that will be available this weekend at NOLA Motorsports Park for the Triumph Big Kahuna New Orleans presented by Dunlop Tire and LeoVince, M1 PowerSports will also be bringing in a number of local musical acts to entertain the crowds. This weekend's event is the final round of the 2012 GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing schedule and is on track to become one of the biggest motorsports events in the South.
On Saturday, the following acts will be on site:
- On Saturday, the world famous Roots of Music youth marching band will start a new tradition of leading out fans into the fan walk. This critically acclaimed music education program for middle-school students in New Orleans was recently tapped to play in the 2013 Rose Bowl parade, and this is a great opportunity to enjoy their impressive show. Tap your feet and hum the beat to the sounds of this true southern marching band.
- June Yamagishi is on tap to perform the National Anthem on his electric guitar during Saturday's opening ceremonies. This R&B, Blues, and Jazz musician is no stranger to New Orleans. After revolutionizing the Jazz scene in his homeland of Japan, June relocated to the birthplace of the music he has spent his career performing, New Orleans LA. Upon his arrival, he linked up with some of New Orleans's finest to record "Together Again – Blues in New Orleans." He also appeared on the HBO series "Treme" in 2011, bringing his career to the big screen on the episode "Santa Claus do you ever get the Blues." Look forward to hearing the southern twang as June delivers the national anthem this weekend.
- The Krewe of the Rolling Elvi was established in 2003, paying homage to Mr. Elvis Aaron Presley in the most fitting way possible: on scooters during Mardi Gras. All of their members dress up as various versions of The King, and, as with most royalty, they do not walk; they ride motorized scooters. These mobile entertainers are very excited to be participating in the inaugural M1 PowerSports and GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing event in New Orleans. It allows them to share their love of all things Elvis, Motors and Fun. With the festive atmosphere, and non-stop action on the track, this event is exactly what the King would have loved to do between Concerts. They plan to come out and bring that same Rock 'N' Roll fun and entertainment to the racing fans on Saturday.
Sunday's entertainment offerings will be bolstered by the following acts:
- Tione Johnson will perform Sunday's National Anthem. Tione is a 12 year old native of New Orleans, who began singing at age 4. Her first big performance came when she was just 8 years old, singing the National Anthem for the New Orleans Hornets/San Antonio Spurs playoffs series. It landed her a feature story on the front page of the Sunday's Times Picayune and ultimately her first national appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. She appeared on Ellen three more times after her stellar performance, including Ellen's Even Bigger Really Big Show in Las Vegas. Known as "The Little Girl with the BIG voice," Tione has been a local favorite at events around New Orleans as a featured artist including The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Gentilly Fest, Pontchartrain Park Festival, Paul Sanchez's Nine Lives CD (Threadhead Records), New Orleans Saints games, numerous conventions and local theater productions of Annie and The Wiz. She has written and recorded original music for her first single, "Dance, Shake" and is currently working in the studio on her upcoming album.
- Since forming in 2007, The Revivalists have earned their standing among the best original bands in New Orleans. The group's combination of danceable rock and soulful songwriting (and brilliantivity) comes to life through a meticulously crafted and ever-evolving live performance. The band has been instrumental in the growth of New Orleans' burgeoning indie rock scene, and they have achieved success and notoriety in the city's competitive musical landscape.
- The 610 Stompers were born in the summer of 2009, just as The Saints began their march to the Superbowl. As fate would have it, the Stompers were baptized in the twin crucibles of the now famous "Buddy D" parade and the "Lombardi Gras" Superbowl Parade" – their first two public performances. From there they have gone on to perform in Mardi Gras parades, at Hornets games, on local television and radio, and we've lent a hand to many charitable organizations in their fundraising efforts. They've even danced on the "Tonight Show." The 610 Stompers is a diverse group of ordinary men, from their 20s to their 60s. Composed of doctors, lawyers, professionals, laborers, students, teachers, and parents the music fuels their desire and together they jive and create dance moves sure to entertain our viewers for this weekend.
Entertainment options are being added by the day, parking and paddock access are both FREE. Special motorcycle-only parking areas will be located in the center of the paddock and include FREE coat and helmet check. This will be the entertainment offering of the year, so don't miss out!
This weekend's Triumph Big Kahuna New Orleans presented by Dunlop Tire and LeoVince will close out the GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing season at America's newest motorsports facility, NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, La. For more information and to get tickets, please visit http://www.m1powersports.com.
About M1 PowerSports, formerly M1 Entertainment: A Denver-based company, M1 PowerSports has been working in motorsports for over 16 years. Originally spawned from Daniels Corporation under the name FAST, the fledgling company was heavily involved in television production for car and motorcycle racing. With the birth of Speedvision, FAST morphed into Race Promotion Management (RPM) and is now operating as M1 PowerSports with many of the same staff still in place. We still sell advertising for Speed, sell merchandise under the brand Moto 1 and promote our own events, keeping us busy year-round! For more information, please call 303-377-3278 or email email@example.com.


text: People stood in line to vote on Election Day 2012 at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center in Apex, N.C. Gerry Broome/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerry Broome/AP It's All Politics Blacks' Election-Day Waits Nearly Double Those Of Whites, But Why? April 9, 2013 On Election Day 2012, black voters waited on average nearly twice as long to vote as did whites. The wait time for Hispanics fell in between. While race may have played a role, a researcher suggests geography did, too.


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Why Berlin's startup scene is growing
Entrepreneurs SoundCloud CEO calls it a 'great intersection of art and technology'
(01-28) 12:49 PST San Francisco -- When Alexander Ljung, chief executive of SoundCloud, was starting the audio-sharing service in 2008, he needed to decide where he'd set up his company's headquarters. He considered Stockholm, where he was living at the time, but after touring many European cities, decided on Berlin.
"It's this great intersection of art and technology," he says over a cup of coffee in SoMa, praising the German capital's counterculture vibe. "The mainstream is to do things differently."
SoundCloud now has 170 employees with offices in Bulgaria, London and San Francisco. The music, interviews, podcasts and audio files that users post to the service reach about 180 million people every month and it's become one of the darlings of Berlin's small but growing startup scene.
Germany has a powerful economy. The World Bank Group ranked it 20th among 185 countries in terms of "ease of doing business." Despite that, and despite the country's longtime engineering prowess, the startup tech scene is still somewhat subdued. A number of issues prevent entrepreneurs there from really breaking out, from risk-averse investors to a lack of Silicon Valley-trained talent.
Few women
A report from Venture Village, which examines more than 50,000 startups around the globe and is based in Berlin, ranked the city - the only German city listed - 15th out of 20 major cities as a locale to start a tech company, just behind Moscow. The report noted that only 3 percent of Berlin's entrepreneurs were female and that, among the cities surveyed, it had the smallest percentage of entrepreneurs who had ever lived and worked in Silicon Valley.
Some of this is changing for what's becoming known as "Silicon Allee." Google recently invested $1.3 million in a large office facility in Berlin dubbed the Factory (in a nod to Andy Warhol), a spot designed to bring tech entrepreneurs together in one place. Mountain View's Mozilla, maker of the Firefox Web browser, will open an office and join SoundCloud and a handful of other startups in the new facility this year.
And local entrepreneurs banded together earlier this month to wave a flag to international investors with hy!Berlin, a conference aimed at shifting the mind-set in Berlin regarding startups.
Rare career path
While the idea of founding a tech company is commonplace in the Bay Area, it's still a relatively rare career path in Berlin, says hy!Berlin organizer and entrepreneur Aydo Schosswald. Most talented engineers head for big corporations.
Additionally, hy!Berlin aimed to show off Berlin's vibrant social and music scene. "Every second guy (here) is a DJ," Schosswald jokes.
But more pragmatically, the event focused on attracting foreign investment. The guest list featured such Silicon Valley heavyweights as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and 500 Startups founder Paul Singh.
"What really matters to the founders (in Berlin) is reach and access to capital," Schosswald notes.
Benedikt Lehnert, CMO of 6Wunderkinder, a Berlin company that makes the popular organization software Wunderlist, notes that one of the major challenges his company has faced is getting to that "next level" of business.
6Wunderkinder has been focused primarily on growing its user base. London's Atomico Ventures (run by a co-founder of Skype) gave it an initial round of funding. As it plans its next round, it expects it will need to seek funding in the United States.
"That's the harder part in Europe; that next round of growth," he says.
Financial focus
Part of this, he believes, is a difference in strategic mind-set. Most Silicon Valley startups are encouraged, initially, to focus on acquiring users. Later, the company can figure out how to make money. Instagram, for instance, had tens of millions of users, but no revenue, when Facebook bought the company for $715 million last year.
Lehnert notes that while this strategy is normal for valley investors, European investors are far more conservative.
"I wouldn't say risk-averse, but it's hard to describe," he says. "They aren't focused on user growth; they're focused on the chances of monetization."
6Wunderkinder plans on opening a U.S. office this year to get closer to investor capital, but not all German companies feel the need to look for funding right away.
Christian Springub, CEO of Jimdo, a company with headquarters in Hamburg that provides Web-hosting services, went through the process of raising capital only to turn down offers he received.
He wanted to keep his company free from investor expectations that he sees as over the top and not necessarily in the long-term interests of his business.
"In my eyes, the Silicon Valley investor market is a little too crazy," he says.
Yet he agrees that the mentality at home isn't completely helpful either. "European investors don't take enough risks and that slows things down in Europe."
Visa woes
SoundCloud's Ljung advises fellow European entrepreneurs against searching for gold out west too quickly. They should establish their business and product first, then worry about setting up shop in Silicon Valley. Funding issues aside, Ljung says a large part of his reasoning is due to the paperwork.
SoundCloud likes to hire from abroad, and for them, the German regulations on hiring are a breeze. Staffing his San Francisco office, which now numbers 15 employees, wasn't as smooth.
"I was surprised by how hard it was to get running," he says. "The U.S. is missing out massively because of the visa situation," he says.
Of the last 100 people SoundCloud hired in the past year, 48 relocated to SoundCloud's offices around the world - but mostly in Berlin.
Startup Act 2.0
Ljung's concerns could change if Congress takes up the Startup Act 2.0. A bipartisan bill that lost steam amid last year's elections, it would open up thousands of visas to foreign entrepreneurs and college students so they could keep their talents in the U.S. after graduating.
One of the key provisions would create 75,000 visas for foreign entrepreneurs - provided they have an H-1B visa or a degree in a science or math-related field, along with $100,000 in funding and two employees. That would let them operate a business for three years; after that time, if the business is successful, they could apply for more permanent status.
An October study from the Kauffman Foundation found that from 2006 to 2012, immigrant founders of tech companies employed about 560,000 people and generated $63 billion in sales across the U.S.
One of the biggest concerns with the stringent visa laws has been foreign students getting high-powered degrees at places like UC Berkeley or Stanford, but then taking those skills back to their home countries because they couldn't get a work visa.
The Kauffman study examined this "reverse brain drain" and noted that the percentage of immigrant entrepreneurs, in both Silicon Valley and across the country, dropped for the first time in decades.
Tech backing
The startup bill has support from members of both parties, business leaders, trade groups and tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
But it does have opponents. The Center for Immigration Reform dismissed the bill as developed by tech industry lobbyists. The AFL-CIO objected to the idea of the visas being contingent on specialized knowledge. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who supported the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, noted "startup visas" were susceptible to fraud.
As the U.S. continues to debate how open its borders should be to tech specialists, the rest of the world will continue to develop great engineers and entrepreneurs. Berlin, say startup successes like Ljung and Lehnert, will certainly welcome them with open arms.
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A suicidal Vietnam veteran facing deportation straddled himself over a ledge on a South Florida highway ramp with a rope around his neck in an hours-long standoff before surrendering to authorities Monday morning.
As police negotiators tried to keep 59-year-old Fredy Gutierrez from jumping, the vet told officers he wanted to speak with NBC 6 reporter Willard Shepard, an Air Force officer who had been in combat over Iraq.
"As I was driving to the police command center this morning, I was able to communicate with Mr. Gutierrez through the police negotiator who had him on the phone," Shepard said. "It was very clear Gutierrez had reached a point where he couldn't take it anymore and later said to me he prepared to die today."
Shepard said that he spoke to Gutierrez in military terms as he was on the phone with him, trying to make him see that taking his own life or harming other wouldn't improve his situation and would only make matters worse for his family.
"I spoke to him in military terms, telling him that the Air Force jets were on the way to provide the Army close air support – a reference to war scenarios where the Army ground troops can no longer fend off an enemy attack," Shepard said.
He told Gutierrez not to take action until he arrived at the scene.
"I had some sense of relief when Gutierrez acknowledged my message to him and the police negotiator indicated Gutierrez understood," Shepard said.
There were two things on Gutierrez's mind that drove him to publicly threaten suicide. First, Gutierrez said he has felt a lack of support from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The second is his immigration status. Documents show the U.S. government awarded Gutierrez for his valor in Vietnam at the age of 18 in 1972. The Colombian native, who has been in the U.S. since he was 4 years old, applied for citizenship a year later, but he has yet to receive it.
While Gutierrez was still on the highway ledge, Shepard asked Hollywood immigration lawyer Angel Arias to speak with Gutierrez about his legal troubles. Arias said police negotiators had him on speakerphone with Gutierrez for about five minutes during the ordeal. He tried to quell his fears of deportation as police officers addressed his issues with the VA.
"Pretty much when I was talking to him, I kept it with the legal aspect of it and tried not to get involved with any other area," Arias said. "He told me his case is on appeal, that he lost his case in February of this year at an immigration court in Miami."
Then Gutierrez revealed he had spent nearly $50,000 in legal fees trying to fight his case. That's when Arias offered to represent him pro bono.
"At first he was hesitant about it," Arias said. "I represent someone I took to the Supreme Court that I didn't charge a dime. We won that case. When I told him that he started to relax a little bit."
A Navy and National Army Guard veteran himself, Arias said the experience was not completely nervewracking for him.
"I guess because most of my clients come to me with the same type of issues ... they're just not on a ledge," Arias said. "It was kind of different. Being a veteran myself it was a different Veterans Day."
After Gutierrez surrendered to police, nearly three hours after the standoff began, he was taken to the police station where Shepard offered advice on the VA.
Gutierrez also revealed what he was thinking in the moments before he got onto that highway ledge.
"In the hour I spent with him after that surrender, he told me that he had been up all night, didn't say anything to his wife about his plans and picked the location for the standoff with police, while out on one of his air conditioning jobs," Shepard said.
In the end, Gutierrez will not face charges and is headed for a mental evaluation. Arias will review his documents Tuesday to see what legal help he can offer.
"By the end of the ordeal he said he felt much better that he wasn't being arrested for a crime," Shepard said.


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By Brendan DeMelle • Friday, August 21, 2009 - 11:27
Like a bad habit, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has dropped Bonner & Associates, the Astroturf lobbying firm led by Jack Bonner, whose "white collar sweatshop" forged at least a dozen letters to Congressmembers urging them to vote against the Waxman-Markey climate bill.
While ACCCE continues to claim that "this was an isolated incident involving the wrongdoing of someone working for a subcontractor" – an excuse first put forward by Jack Bonner, who blamed a rogue temporary employee for the forgeries – Congress is investigating the extent to which Bonner and ACCCE went to mislead lawmakers.
The fake letters were sent to at least three Democratic Congressmembers, and claimed to represent opposition to the climate legislation from nine different groups, including senior citizens' organizations, Hispanic and women's advocacy groups, and the NAACP. So far, investigators have confirmed 13 forged letters sent to the three lawmakers, and dozens more letters are currently being probed to determine if they were authentic messages or more of Bonner's forgeries.
The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), has asked ACCCE to come clean about the letter writing campaign. Despite the fact that ACCCE learned about Bonner's forgeries two days before the critical vote on Waxman-Markey, the coal lobby group failed to notify the lawmakers who received the fake letters until long after the vote. Two of the three recipients, Pennsylvania Democratic Reps. Kathy Dahlkemper and Chris Carney, voted against the legislation, while the third, Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello, voted for it.
"The deliberate inaction prior to the House vote and the extended silence after the vote—some 40 days after ACCCE knew what had happened—raises serious concerns," Rep. Markey wrote in a letter to ACCCE President and CEO Stephen L. Miller earlier this month.
Bonner & Associates has a long record of shady Astroturf work on behalf of many polluting industries, pharmaceutical companies and Big Tobacco. Jack Bonner founded the firm in 1984 after a career in GOP politics, and built a reputation as the go-to Astroturf specialist, capable of creating the illusion of grassroots support for his corporate clients' positions on a wide array of policy matters.
Senior Center, Inc., a Virginia elderly services group, says it felt "victimized" by the Bonner forgery on its letterhead. NAACP representatives say they were "appalled" by the forged letter sent on their behalf by Bonner, and are "diametrically opposed" to its message. NAACP Senior Vice President for Advocacy Hilary O. Shelton, said the Bonner forgery scheme "begs the question of how many times have they done this, to deceive the United States Congress."
Chairman Markey and the Congress need to continue investigating ACCCE's entire operation to see how many other instances of potential fraud and misrepresentation may exist. Climate change poses a major national security threat to the U.S., as DeSmogBlog reported yesterday, and America needs to have an honest debate over how to craft a legislative action plan to confront the climate and energy challenges. Forgery and Astroturf tricks have no place in that honest debate, and those responsible for these shenanigans should be held accountable.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
SO, who do they hire next?
And do we know anything of Bonner's other clients?
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Alleged list of Bonner's other clients
A comment on:
Congress Discovers Another Forged Advocacy Letter
Rather helpfully gives this list, but there is no further information given apart from that below:
Bonner and Associates has for a long, long time labored under a rather dark cloud in terms of reputation. They have long been an employer of last resort. Anyone managing to get fired by an enterprise on this level should just leave town. Catch the next bus back to Podunk.
That being said Bonner was just a sub-contractor. I hear the ACCCE phoney front group is the brainchild of a third rate gang of hacks out of Alexandria run by yet another crazy alcoholic closeted pedo tethered to no moral or ideological hitching post. "We're in it only for the money, honey! The whole thing is fake and the following should be very proud of their association:
Allegheny Energy, Inc.
Alliance Coal, LLC
Alstom Power
AMEREN Corporation
American Electric Power
Arch Coal, Inc.
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Berwind Natural Resources Corporation
BHP Billiton
BNSF Railway
Buckeye Industrial Mining Co.
Buckeye Power, Inc.
Bucyrus International, Inc.
Caterpillar Incorporated
Chevron Mining Inc.
CONSOL Energy Inc.
Consumers Energy
Crounse Corporation
CSX Corp.
Drummond Company, Incorporated
DTE Energy (Detroit Edison)
Duke Energy Corporation
E.ON U.S. Foundation Coal Corp.
Freightcar America, Inc.
GE Energy
International Coal Group
Jennmar Corporation
Joy Global Mining
Midwest Generation
Mirant Corporation
Murray Energy Corporation
Natural Resource Partners L.P. Norfolk Southern Co.
Oglethorpe Power Corporation
Peabody Energy Corp.
Progress Energy, Incorporated
Seminole Electric Cooperative
SEP Corporation (Sunflower Electric)
Southern Company
Tri-state Generation & Transmission Assn. Inc.
Union Pacific Railroad
Western Fuels Association
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I certainly don't recognise some of these, but a number are familiar. Some might deem this a list of the usual suspects! For example, at least two feature in the IREA letter.
IREA Quote ** my emphasis
…,There are other groups that are interested in the issue of global warming and the concerns about its costs. Koch industries is working with other large corporations, including *AEP* and the *Southern Company* on possibly financing a film that would counteract 'An inconvenient Truth'. Koch has also decided to finance a coalition that very likely will be administered throughout the National Association of Manufacturers…,
IREA Endquote
Hope this helps,
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Thanks; useful
I recognize a fair number of them.
Most are no surprise.
The list is at ACCCE.
Maybe DeSMogBlog would like to poke Jeff Immelt about GE Energy, which is odd, since I think Immelt & GE are actually quite serious about ecomagination, i.e., as best as I can tell, that isn't greenwashing alone.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Murray Energy Corporation is not on the list
Murray Energy Corporation is a member of ACCCE, but is not on the list quoted originally. I don't know if it means anything or not.
Hope this is useful,
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The marquee event of the fall rowing season takes place this weekend, as the Radcliffe and Harvard lightweight and heavyweight crews compete in the 47th Head Of The Charles Regatta, the world's largest two-day rowing event.
About the Regatta
A total of 8,868 athletes are scheduled to compete as part of 1,953 entries in this year's 61 HOCR events, all right on Harvard's doorstep. Those competitors will range from ages 14 to 84 and represent 34 states and 19 countries as they travel the three-mile, upstream coursefrom the Boston University Boathouse to Artesani Park in Brighton.
The boats will cross under seven bridges on their way. The penultimate span is the Lars Anderson bridge, which connects Boston and Cambridge between Harvard's Weld and Newell Boathouses. Approximately 300,000 spectators and 1,400 volunteers are expected to be on hand to take in all the action.
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Live results and live video are available at the links above.
Harvard/Radcliffe at the 2011 HOCR
Current and former Harvard and Radcliffe athletes and coaches will compete as part of at least 27 different entries in this year's regatta. A full regatta schedule is available here. Below are the Harvard/Radcliffe entries as well as select alumni:
Saturday (Times are event start times, not individual boat start times)
9:46 a.m. – Women's senior-master eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae, bow No. 15
11:08 a.m. – Men's alumni eights: HVL+ Boat Club, bow No. 27
11:24 a.m. – Women's alumnae eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae, bow No. 8
12:18 p.m. – Men's club fours: Harvard lightweight crew, bow No. 6
1:11 p.m. – Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A, bow No. 1
1:11 p.m. – Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B, bow No. 3
1:11 p.m. – Men's club eights: Harvard lightweight crew, bow No. 20
1:26 p.m. – Women's club eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew, bow No. 6
1:54 p.m. – Women's master doubles: Texas Rowing Center/Cambridge Boat Club (Linda Muri and Lindsay Burns Barber '87), bow No. 2
3:07 p.m. – Men's championship doubles: USRowing Training Center – Oklahoma City (Austin Meyer and Andrew Campbell), bow No. 20
12:40 p.m. – Women's lightweight singles: Lizzy Bates '11, bow No. 24
2:24 p.m. – Men's championship fours: Harvard heavyweight crew, bow No. 4
2:24 p.m. – Men's championship fours: Harvard lightweight crew, bow No. 6
2:31 p.m. – Women's championship fours: Radcliffe heavyweight crew, bow No. 3
2:45 p.m. – Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A, bow No. 2
2:45 p.m. – Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B, bow No. 9
2:45 p.m. – Men's championship eights: Riverside Boat Club (includes Daniel Kettler '07), bow No. 31
2:45 p.m. – Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew C, bow No. 33
2:58 p.m. – Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew A, bow No. 14
2:58 p.m. – Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew B, bow No. 18
4:02 p.m. – Men's lightweight fours: Harvard lightweight crew, bow No. 8
4:11 p.m. – Women's lightweight fours: Radcliffe lightweight crew, bow No. 7
4:27 p.m. – Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew A, bow No. 3
4:27 p.m. – Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew B, bow No. 4
4:27 p.m. – Men's lightweight eights: USRowing (including Will Newell '11), bow No. 10
4:35 p.m. – Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew A, bow No. 3
4:35 p.m. – Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew B, bow No. 6
Alumni who are not listed, please let us know by emailing here, that you're competing.
The HOCR was first held on Oct. 16, 1965. The race was established by Cambridge Boat Club members D'Arcy MacMahon, Howard McIntyre and Jack Vincent, with the advice of Harvard sculling instructor Ernest Arlett. Arlett proposed that a "head-of-the-river" race similar in tradition to races held in his native England, be held on the Charles River. "Head" races, a class of regattas, are generally three miles long. Boats race against each other and the clock, starting sequentially approximately fifteen seconds apart. Winners of each race receive the honorary title of "Head of the River" or, in this case, "Head Of The Charles."
The first HOCR featured nearly 100 competitors, all in singles, and has grown consistently since. The 2011 edition features 36 more entries than last year and one more event than in 2010, the trunk/arms mixed double.
Harvard and Radcliffe teams have won 39 HOCR championships, a number that does not include student-athletes, coaches and alumni racing as individuals or representing their clubs and countries. The most recent title is the Crimson's championship in the club eights event last year, the third time in four years Harvard has won that race.
The Crimson has won the championship eights event twice, in 1969 and '77. The Harvard heavyweights placed second to Washington last year. Harvard has won the lightweights eights race five times and placed two boats among the top four finishers last year. Radcliffe won the championships eights title in 1973 and the lightweight fours crown in 2004. A full list of past winners is available here.
Last Season
With five top-four finishes, the Harvard men captured the MacMahon Cup Regatta Point Trophy for the most total points by any club, school, college or university at the 2010 Head Of The Charles. The Crimson heavyweights finished less than two seconds back of Washington in the championship eights. A day earlier, Harvard defeated 41 other boats to win the club eights event, with the heavyweight freshmen placing third.
Harvard crews took third and fourth place in the lightweight eights, while the lightweight four finished ninth.
The Radcliffe heavyweights put four top athletes in the championship fours race and earned a fourth-place finish, less than two seconds behind the pace of third-place Riverside Boat Club.
The Black and White lightweight varsity eight placed third in the women's lightweight eights, finishing more than a half-minute ahead of the fourth-place crew.