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Allisports Press Release:
Southeastern Pennsylvania's High Point Raceway was the site of the fourth round of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, on Saturday, for the 36th annual FMF High Point National. One week after claiming his first win of the season, Ryan Dungey, of Belle Plaine, Minn., grabbed his second straight 450 Class victory with a 1-1 moto sweep. In the 250 Class, Eli Tomac, of Cortez, Colo., became the first repeat winner in the division (2-1), emerging victorious after a captivating battle.
In the opening 450 Class moto, Mike Alessi, of Victorville, Calif., grabbed the early lead and opened a significant advantage over the field. However, following a third-place start, Dungey began to make his charge forward. At the halfway point, he made the pass on Alessi to win by nearly 20 seconds.
In Moto 2, Dungey put himself out front at the start, only to have Alessi respond before the conclusion of the opening lap and take the lead. Dungey paced his rival for half of the moto before again making his move and pulling away for the win.
"Mike (Alessi) put up a fight in both motos," said Dungey. "It was a crazy one (today). These were the toughest conditions I've experienced here, (but) the bike worked really well throughout the day. Every race (and) every championship series goes differently, so I'll keep my head down and go one race at a time. To celebrate the win is awesome; you've got to enjoy it, but its time to go to work again. You're only as good as your last race and you've got to be there every single weekend."
Alessi's pair of runner-up efforts gave him a season-best finish of second overall, while Monster Energy Kawasaki's Jake Weimer, of Rupert, Idaho, rounded out the podium in third (3-3) for the second consecutive round.
Winner of the first two rounds this season, James Stewart, of Haines City, Fla., finished fifth in the first moto aboard his Suzuki, but did not return to compete in Moto 2, still feeling the effects of a crash at the previous stop.
"Halfway through the first moto I could barely hold on," said Stewart, whose right throttle hand has been of concern. "I was struggling a bit (because) I got a bad start, but I was working my way up. I was trying to do my best to hold on and I almost fell over a few times. At this point, I came out here (and) I tried. I knew I wasn't 100 percent and I felt like I at least needed to try and do that, but I couldn't. I was still going to try and give it another shot for the second moto, but (the team) knew about my riding. We'll see what we can do maybe next weekend or in a few weeks."
Dungey extended his lead in the 450 Class standings to 42 points over Alessi, who moved into second.
In the 250 Class, Honda's Justin Barcia, of Monroe, N.Y., kicked off the day with a dominant effort in the first moto, grabbing the hole-shot and leading all 16 laps to put himself in position for a second straight overall win.
In Moto 2, KTM's Ken Roczen, of Germany, took his turn out front, grabbing the lead early and pulling away from the field. Behind him, the battle ensued for the overall win between Barcia and points leader Blake Baggett, of Grand Terrace, Calif., aboard his Kawasaki.
The two riders went bar-to-bar for most of the moto, before Baggett asserted himself into second. However, in the following laps Baggett suffered misfortune and fell out of contention. In his absence, Tomac joined the fight, eventually working his way past Barcia in the closing moments and taking the lead from Roczen, who fell and lost his lead over field, on the final lap to steal the overall from Barcia by a mere two points.
Barcia finished second (1-3), while Roczen brought home his fourth straight finish of third overall (5-2).
"That second moto was a lot of work," said Tomac. "I never really gave in and kept fighting. Kenny (Roczen) had that mistake, so I ended up getting a chance for the win and I capitalized on it. I really think it was one of the best rides I've ever had because I had to come from so far behind. I think I was about sixth or seventh out of the gate."
Baggett, who finished fourth overall (3-5), still maintains the points lead, holding a seven-point advantage over Barcia.
In the Women's Motocross Championship, Suzuki's Jessica Patterson, of Tallahassee, Fla., emerged victorious following a tough battle with Honda's Tarah Gieger, of Puerto Rico. After finishing second in the opening moto, Patterson overcame contact and a fall with Gieger while battling for the lead in Moto 2 to reclaim the top spot and secure the overall victory (2-1). Gieger overcame the incident to finish second (1-5), while Team Honda's Sayaka Kaneshiro, of Japan, posted a career best third-place finish (5-2).
The 2012 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship continues next week, with round five from Budds Creek MX Park in Mechanicsville, Md., and the Red Bull Budds Creek National on Saturday, June 16.
Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship FMF High Point National – Mt. Morris, Pa. June 9, 2012 Round 4 of 12
450 Class (Moto Finish)
1. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM (1-1) 2. Mike Alessi, Victorville, Calif., Suzuki (2-2) 3. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki (3-3) 4. Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda (4-8) 5. Davi Millsaps, Cairo, Ga., Yamaha (9-4) 6. Brett Metcalfe, Mannum, Australia, Suzuki (7-5) 7. Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Kawasaki (6-9) 8. Ryan Sipes, Vine Grove, Ky., Yamaha (12-6) 9. Nico Izzi, Rochester, Mich., Yamaha (8-10) 10. Michael Byrne, Rockhampton, Australia, Suzuki (13-7)
450 Class Championship Standings
1. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM, 186
2. Mike Alessi, Victorville, Calif., Suzuki, 144
3. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki, 141
4. Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda, 128
5. James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Suzuki, 116
6. Brett Metcalfe, Mannum, Australia, Suzuki, 114
7. Nico Izzi, Rochester, Mich., Yamaha, 95
8. Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Kawasaki, 90
9. Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Kawasaki, 84
10. Kyle Chisholm, Valrico, Fla., Kawasaki, 66
250 Class (Moto Finish)
1. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda (2-1)
2. Justin Barcia, Monroe, N.Y., Honda (1-3)
3. Ken Roczen, Apolda, Germany, KTM (5-2)
4. Blake Baggett, Grand Terrace, Calif., Kawasaki (3-5)
5. Marvin Musquin, La Reole, France, KTM (6-4)
6. Wil Hahn, Decatur, Texas, Honda (4-9)
7. Ivan Tedesco, Albuquerque, N.M., Kawasaki (7-10)
8. Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki (13-6)
9. Kyle Cunningham, Fort Worth, Texas, Yamaha (14-7)
10. Jessy Nelson, Paso Robles, Calif., Honda (10-11)
250 Class Championship Standings
1. Blake Baggett, Grand Terrace, Calif., Kawasaki, 175
2. Justin Barcia, Monroe, N.Y., Honda, 168
3. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda, 164
4. Ken Roczen, Apolda, Germany, KTM, 158
5. Marvin Musquin, La Reole, France, KTM, 117
6. Wil Hahn, Decatur, Texas, Honda, 101
7. Blake Wharton, Pilot Point, Texas, Suzuki, 87
8. Ivan Tedesco, Murrieta, Calif., Kawasaki, 86
9. Kyle Cunningham, Fort Worth, Texas, Yamaha, 86
10. Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki, 77
WMX Class (Moto Finish)
1. Jessica Patterson, Tallahassee, Fla., Suzuki (2-1)
2. Tarah Gieger, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico., Honda (1-5)
3. Sayaka Kaneshiro, Osaka, Japan, Honda (5-2)
4. Mariana Balbi, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Honda (4-3)
5. Kasie Creson, Vallejo, Calif., Honda (3-6)
6. Jacqueline Strong, Cottonwood, Ariz., KTM (7-4)
7. Marissa Markelon, Ansonia, Conn., Yamaha (6-7)
8. Sara Pettersson, Sweden, KTM (9-8)
9. Amanda Brown, Baltimore, Md., Honda (8-11)
10. Sade Allender, Sanford, Maine, Honda (11-9)
WMX Class Standings
1. Jessica Patterson, Tallahassee, Fla., Suzuki, 188
2. Tarah Gieger, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico., Honda, 155
3. Sayaka Kaneshiro, Osaka, Japan, Honda, 137
4. Mariana Balbi, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Honda, 126
5. Ashley Fiolek, St. Augustine, Fla., Honda, 125
6. Jacqueline Strong, Cottonwood, Ariz., KTM, 114
7. Kasie Creson, Vallejo, Calif., Honda, 110
8. Sara Pettersson, Sweden, KTM, 101
9. Meghan Rutledge, New South Wales, Australia, Kawasaki, 78
10. Sade Allender, Sanford, Maine, Honda, 74
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Provident Metals is part of the group that makes up Elemetal Metals, along with Elemental Mint, NTR and Ohio Precious Metals. Apparently there is a major problem taking place within Elemetal Metals that may very well bring down the entire group. For that reason and for the foreseeable future, I will not be listing any future sales posted by Provident Metals and would strongly advise anyone that might have decided to store their precious metals with them to withdraw any and everything you can as fast as you can before it's too late. Tens of Million have been lost in stored metal with Bullion Direct and Northwest Territorial Mint just to name a few of the largest online dealers in the past few years. You do not want to be next, better safe than sorry. This is not to say Provident Metals is going to be the next large dealer going out of business, but it doesn't look good at this point and it's better to beat the crowd to anything that can be removed while there is still metal to be removed if there is a problem. It's also far better to have someone try and take it back from you than to try and get something that turned to dust in a bankruptcy.
So far, I'm not aware of any problems at Provident Metals, however the group is very large and the problems seem to be much greater than the Provident Metals operation, so it could very well get swallowed up in a financial nightmare along with everyone's money and potential stored metal if it isn't properly segregated as was the case with Northwest Territorial Mint. A lot of the metal stored at NWTM was not specifically identified to an owner on a carton, so it became part of the company assets and not even tried to figure out who it might belong to or split it with those it should belong to. The Bankruptcy trustee just did a precious metals grab for his own purpose to keep the company in funds to do as he saw fit. If you have followed the Bullion Direct and NWTM bankruptcies you know what I mean when it comes to the stored metal. It didn't matter what the records showed, it only seemed to matter if someone's name was on a box of metal or not.
Doing business with Provident Metals at this time might very well be a gamble, you decide for yourself.
I've been a fan of Provident Metals for several years and have done a lot of business with them, more selling than buying.
That being said, the vast majority of all my Silver is in one ounce Northwest territorial Mint rounds, bought one to two decades before they went belly up.
You just never know what's going to bring down a bullion dealer as they will never tell you in advance.
NWTM was suppose to be running a Ponzi scheme back in the 1990's and if that was true they would never have lasted another 20 years.

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Reel World
Automotive Murder
The People Before Profit film/lecture series rolls into the Albuquerque Peace and Justice Center on Thursday, Sept. 20, with a free screening of Who Killed the Electric Car? This eye-opening documentary plays out like a carefully scripted conspiracy thriller, exploring why the once-promising electric car has gone the way of the dodo. (Like an Agatha Christie novel, there are no shortage of suspects.) Guest speaker Marcus Page will be on hand, talking about converting cars to biodiesel. Donations, of course, are welcome. The Peace and Justice Center is located at 202 Harvard SE.
Film Review
Tortilla Heaven
Miraculous masa cooks up a corny family comedy
The other shot-in-New-Mexico feature hitting theaters this weekend is a decidedly lower profile, lower budget affair than Paul Haggis' In The Valley of Elah (see the other film review in this issue). Filmed in 2001 and finally earning itself an art house release, Tortilla Heaven is a more markedly "New Mexico" film, a broadly comic morality play about small-town Southwest life.
Film Review
In The Valley of Elah
Murder mystery muddies the water of our post-Iraq world
Writer/director Paul Haggis follows up his Oscar-heavy string of assignments (Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima) with the quietly controversial, war-weary mystery In The Valley of Elah.
Idiot Box
Sexy Aliens
"Torchwood" on BBC America
"Torchwood" is the BBC's officially sanctioned, adult-oriented spin-off to "Doctor Who." Originally launched in 1963 as a sci-fi-slanted kiddy show, "Doctor Who" got the latest in a long line of reboots in 2005 courtesy of head writer/executive producer Russell T. Davies. Having served previously as writer/producer on "Queer as Folk," Davies brought a rather more mature style to the long-running BBC series. Thanks to the popularity of his work on "Doctor Who," the BBC let Davies run wild with "Torchwood."
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
"Survivor" (KRQE-13 7 p.m.) CBS strands a new bunch of survivors in a 15th season of "Survivor." This time, they're in China. As long as they stay away from the toothpaste, the cat food and the Thomas the Tank Engine toys, everything should be all right.


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Historical Studies Course Descriptions
HIST 1301 Survey of American History
(3 semester hours) An introduction to the methods of historical inquiry
focusing on the study of American history from the beginnings through
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Interdisciplinary Studies Courses Applicable to the Major in Historical Studies
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4th of July special edition! Choose a side!
Questions for discussion:
1. What's the better 4th of July food: Burgers or Hot Dogs? (Include condiments if you'd like!)
2. What is the best kind of 4th of July salad? (Potato salad? Fruit salad? Egg salad?)
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This tutorial is featuring Barry Weiss from Storage Wars an American reality television series on the A&E Network that premiered in 2010. The show features the actioneering couple of Dan Dotson and Laura Dotson, as well as buyers Barry Weiss, team of Darrell & Brandon Sheets, and the team of Jarrod Schulz & Brandi Passante, and Dave Hester. I hope you will enjoy drawing this tutorial. Please fav, show your love, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.
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Learning Outcomes
General Education (Wright State Core)
University Learning Objectives
Wright State graduates will be able to:
- communicate effectively
- demonstrate mathematical literacy
- evaluate arguments and evidence critically
- apply the methods of inquiry of the natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities
- demonstrate global and multicultural competence
- demonstrate understanding of contemporary social and ethical issues
- participate in democratic society as informed and civically engaged citizens
The Elements of the Wright State Core
The Elements of the Wright State Core are the foundational skills, the broad areas of knowledge and practice, and the global, historical, and cultural perspectives that together provide Wright State University students with the ability to negotiate their roles successfully and constructively in a changing world. Even more than in the past, graduates must be proficient writers, must be mathematically literate, and must understand the methods of inquiry of the historian, the scientist, and the humanist.
Learning Outcomes for Each Element: At the completion of the Wright State Core, a student will be able to do the following:
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1. CommunicationThe foundational skills students need in academic discourse, research, and documentation in an electronic environment
a. Adapt rhetorical processes and strategies for audience, purpose, and type of task
b. Organize and produce texts that meet the demands of specific genres, purposes, audiences, and stances
c. Employ appropriate mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling conventions
d. Find, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and synthesize appropriate source material from both print and electronic environments
e. Present focused, logical arguments that support a thesis
f. Use reliable and varied evidence to support claims, incorporate ideas from sources appropriately, and acknowledge and document the work of others appropriately
g. Use electronic environments to draft, revise, edit, and share or publish texts
2. Mathematics
The foundational skills required to use and interpret mathematics and statistics
a. Identify the various elements of a mathematical or statistical model
b. Determine the values of specific components of a mathematical/statistical model or relationships among various components
c. Apply a mathematical/statistical model to a real-world problem
d. Interpret and draw conclusions from graphical, tabular, and other numerical or statistical representations of data
e. Summarize and justify analyses of mathematical/statistical models for problems, expressing solutions using an appropriate combination of words, symbols, tables or graphs
3. Global Traditions
Historical analysis and global perspectives necessary to understand our diverse world
a. Critically describe some of the political, social or economic systems, historical, cultural or spiritual traditions, and/or technological innovations around the world
b. Demonstrate an awareness of the diversity of people or traditions in our world in ways that promote effective engagement, both locally and globally
c. Use political, social, economic, historical, cultural, spiritual or technological knowledge to evaluate contemporary issues
4. Arts/Humanities
Tools for analysis and appreciation of the arts, philosophy, and religious thought
a. Critically analyze significant creative, literary, philosophical or religious works
b. Understand and discuss the complex blend of imaginative vision, socio-cultural context, ethical values, and aesthetic judgment in creative, philosophical or religious works
c. Recognize, evaluate and respond to creative, philosophical or religious works
d. Develop appropriate and ethical applications of knowledge in the humanities or the arts
5. Social Science
Perspectives on human behavior and culture informed by the disciplines of the social sciences
a. Critically apply knowledge of social science theory and methods of inquiry to personal decisions, current issues, or global concerns
b. Explain and critique the methods of inquiry of social science disciplines
c. Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical issues involved in the acquisition or application of social science knowledge
d. Demonstrate, from a social science perspective, an understanding of the responsibilities of an informed and engaged citizen
6. Natural Science
Introductions to the scientific understanding of physical and biological phenomena
a. Understand the nature of scientific inquiry
b. Critically apply knowledge of scientific theory and methods of inquiry to evaluate information from a variety of sources
c. Distinguish between science and technology and recognize their roles in society
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This is my new foster dog Frances, she's a nice pup about 8 months or so. She's got a great people disposition, mostly good with other pets (dogs/cats). I say mostly because she's not really learned her manners and will try to take things from the other dogs and get a little "terrier" when out playing. We're slowly trying to fix it. She's not highly energetic like my two but she's got a decent tug drive. I think she would make a nice obedience prospect or agility. She's got a great little body, straight front, nice curve to the back legs, nice length of leg and neck. Her body is a little long but her back is straight. Brindle/white, 40lbs mature. She's going to grow up and be a very nice dog.
My new foster dog
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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Adorable! Looks like a little version of my Ripley!
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She's absolutely beautiful.
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Last Friday we hosted some new neighborhood friends for Pumpkin Carving. Of course, I forgot to take too many photos - which is usually the case. I feel like if I'm running around with my camera too much people will feel like their at a blog photo shoot instead of a party. I did manage to take some "before" party pictures, a couple of Emma carving and some after of her enjoying a second helping of mini s'mores (above)... right before bed.
I kept the menu really simple - classic fall and kid friendly :
- Baked Squash & Goat Cheese Dip with Pita
- Antipasto Platter of Salami, Cheese & Olives (Emma's favorites)
- Bowls of Goldfish & Pretzels
- Chili (slow braised beef chili, recipe below)
- Mac and Cheese for the Kids
Everyone loved this chili. It is the same recipe I used last year for the Beef & Butternut Chili, but I left out the Butternut and added beans to make it a more traditional chili. I slow braised stew meat along with ground beef to give it a very meaty and hearty texture.
Let the carving begin!
Emma took it very seriously - she wanted to get out all of the "punkin seeds."
I passed around my Mini S'mores for dessert - just the right size for the kiddos.
Big hit with Emma.
After everyone left, Emma worked on moving her punkin outside. Little, by little.
Uh oh, she found more seeds...
Braised Beef
serves 10
2 tablespoons of oil
3 pounds beef stew meat, 1-inch cubes
2 pounds of ground beef
2 cups chopped yellow onions
6 large garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes, crushed
2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 cups of beef broth
2 - 28 oz. cans of diced tomatoes with juice
sea salt and cracked pepper
Heat the oil in a very large pot and quickly brown the meat, in batches, on all sides. Transfer the stew meat to a separate bowl and set aside. Brown ground beef in the same pot. Add the onion and cook about 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic, chili powder, pepper flakes and cumin and saute for 1 minute. Add beef broth, tomatoes with their juice and the reserved stew meat. Reduce the heat, taste for seasoning. Season with salt and pepper as needed. Cover the pot with a tight fitting lid and simmer for 2 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. Taste and season with salt, to taste.
Here is the browned stew meat - as you can see I didn't do too good of a job getting it nice and brown with good color... still was great.
I did the onions in the same pan and they picked up all that great beefy flavor.
I love the texture this chili has - the chunks of beef are so tender after the slow braising.
I feel like Fall is flying by and I'm anxious to squeeze every moment out we can. We plan on lots of walks outside this week to gather leaves and more Halloween treat making for friends. I'll share Emma's homemade costume tomorrow, so stay tuned! I hope you have a great Halloween week!


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Animals for Adoption
Your Fork
Holiday party hints for avoiding food poisoning
Do's and
don'ts when it comes to holiday gatherings
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[December 17, 2012]
SPRINGFIELD -- Fancy dips, tempting
hors d'oeuvres and delightful desserts are some of the culinary
treats we see at holiday dinners, office parties or other
celebrations. However, those get-togethers could result in foodborne
illness if you are not careful.
"As a guest at holiday
parties, there are a couple things you can watch out for to avoid
foodborne illness. Hot foods should be hot and cold foods cold.
Bacteria will start to grow on food that should be served either
cold or hot, that is sitting out for more than a couple hours at
room temperature. You should also be cautious when eating certain
foods, such as raw oysters, egg drinks, soft-boiled eggs, steak
tartare, and rare or medium hamburger. These foods can harbor
bacteria that cause foodborne illness," said Illinois Department of
Public Health Director LaMar Hasbrouck.
Holiday hosts -- what you should do:
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Young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and those who are
ill or whose immune systems are compromised are often at higher risk
of complications due to foodborne illness.
If you or a family member develops nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
fever or abdominal cramps, you could have foodborne illness.
Symptoms can appear anywhere from 30 minutes to two weeks after
eating contaminated food. Most often, people get sick within four to
48 hours after eating contaminated food.
Some foodborne illnesses will resolve themselves without
treatment. However, if the symptoms are severe or if the person is
very young, old, pregnant or already ill, call a doctor or go to a
nearby hospital immediately. If groups of people from different
households become sick with vomiting and diarrhea, contact the local
health department.
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Day 1 Recap | Friday Timetable
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—Both of the Harvard heavyweight boats competing Thursday at the Henley Royal Regatta won their races to move on in their respective events.
Both Crimson entries won for the second straight day. In the Prince Albert Challenge Cup, Harvard's coxed four eliminated the Bath University B entry with a win by one and three-quarters lengths in their head-to-head race.
The Harvard freshman eight opened the morning with a win in the Temple Challenge Cup. The Crimson topped Durham University B by two-thirds of a length in 6:42.
"The four has advanced to being in the final four, and the freshmen have moved on to the elite eight," said Harvard freshman coach Bill Manning. "The racing gets hard fast, and tomorrow it will start getting very tough. They all raced well today and did a great job. They're all eager and ready for the next round."
The first Harvard alum to take the water representing his country was Brodie Buckland '06, rowing in a pair in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup. He and fellow Australian Will Lockwood easily defeated the pair of Wallace and Purdie from the Aberdeen Boat Club.
More alumni will begin racing Friday, when former Radcliffe All-Americans Caryn Davies '05 and Esther Lofgren '08-09 compete in a U.S. quad in the Princess Grace Challenge Cup. Henrik Rummel '09 and the United States men's eight race in the Grand Challenge Cup beginning Saturday.
The Harvard heavyweight varsity eight also begins Henley competition Friday, facing the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association. The freshman eight will take on the Yale lightweight varsity eight, and the Crimson four will have a day off from racing before facing Newcastle University Saturday.


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Plasma Themes Contest
The KDE Plasma team is inviting everyone to participate in a contest to create Plasma themes from which a select few will be chosen to be included as a part of the upcoming KDE 4.1 release. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a very visible component of the KDE project, the Plasma desktop.
A great feature of Plasma is the ability to theme components of the desktop using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs). This means there is no need for you to know C++ or any other programming language to create a great looking theme.
You only need to know how to use one of many graphics tools (e.g. Krita, Inkscape, The GIMP, Karbon, etc.) and that is all. Depending on your prowess with such tools, you can create great looking plasma themes in as little as an hour.
You can find a quick guide to creating Plasma themes in the Creating a Plasma Theme in 7 Easy Steps Techbase article.
Have fun! The Plasma Team.
Re: Let People Vote
Just a clarification: Heron is made by magaden. No reason to have Heron associated with rif-raf like me. :)
By Andrew Lake (ja... at Sat, 2008/03/22 - 5:00am
Re: Let People Vote
Huh, my apologies to magaden.
My bad, I knew I liked two of your themes, and blindly thought that the second is Heron... :)
By Ivan Čukić at Sat, 2008/03/22 - 5:00am
Re: Let People Vote
I think it is OK to have judges to decide as long as they judge not only by personal taste and accept that other people might have different taste, and select different styles that match every people's taste as far as possible. This didn't happen at the wallpaper contest when the judges selected similar photos which are, in my opinion, not suitable for being a wallpaper.
By Grósz Dániel at Sat, 2008/03/22 - 5:00am
Re: Let People Vote
why not let kde-look.org votes (or number of downloads?) be "another member of the jury" if you don't like handful of people giving ratings.
By kristjan_ at Sat, 2008/03/22 - 5:00am
Please submit some themes for grown ups
I hope so much to at last find some theme that is intersting for people aged more than 20. In all theme sets for any software, I am so bored to only find black&fire styles, or cheesy fantasy stuff. Please also submit some art for grown ups ok ?
By Dom at Sun, 2008/03/23 - 5:00am
SVG rendering
When I helped judge the SVG background contest, there was a problem. The KDE SVG rendering software wouldn't render many of them including, IIRC, some of the winners so I had to use Squiggle to judge them.
This problem shouldn't occur with Plasma themes. Please add to the rules that cool effects (including filters) that won't render with the current KDELibs shouldn't be used.
By JRT at Sun, 2008/03/23 - 5:00am
Not so many KDE 4 (.1) themes
I am just wondering... There are not so many KDE 4(.1) themes around (there are only few of them on kde-look.org). Is it difficult to create themes for KDE 4 or maybe majority of KDE users still use KDE 3?
By koki at Sun, 2008/03/23 - 5:00am
Re: Not so many KDE 4 (.1) themes
KDE4 has been around for a little over 2 months; KDE3 has been around for almost *6 years* :)
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I'm doing SL#17 The working example doesn't seem to behave as expected. Maybe I'm missing something, but as soon as the "Display Transcript button" is activated, the controls disappear and text across the top says "The following text..." but there does not appear to be any text transcript... and the only way to bring back the controls is to reload the page. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/working-examples/SL17/ReplaceAudioWith TranscriptTextTestPage.html Maybe someone else wants to look at it... Cheers David MacDonald www.eramp.com PS that's the end of my 3 but I think I will go through and check some more test files. That seems to be the tough part... I'm all for "downloadable code samples" for any working model examples. From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Wolf Schmidt Sent: March-22-11 11:44 PM To: David MacDonald; 'Loretta Guarino Reid'; 'List WAI GL' Subject: RE: Review notes for Silverlight techniques The working example for that technique is actually missing some files (images), so I am surprised you are seeing anything? I already reported that issue to Michael. You know, what might be happening is that my choice of the Ctrl+ (plus) key is actually intersecting a browser-reserved key combo that I hadn't seen on IE 8, that makes the whole browser zoom as a non Silverlight behavior. I will test this tomorrow with the browsers you mention. (I hadn't been testing with IE9 because the prerelease versions broke my Windows-Eyes install.) _____ From: firstname.lastname@example.com [firstname.lastname@example.com] on behalf of David MacDonald [email@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:35 PM To: 'Loretta Guarino Reid'; 'List WAI GL' Subject: RE: Review notes for Silverlight techniques I just did a review of SL15. * SL15: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Keyboard_Shortcuts _that_Work_Across_the_Entire_Silverlight_Application The text seems fine, given that the target audience are SilverLight programmers... no typos etc... I cannot evaluate SilverLight code. However, I downloaded the test that was on the Wiki, and although the application did zoom in and out as described, it did this on hover, as well as on mouse click and keyboard CTL+ and CTL-. And this behaviour was unexpected. Same results in both IE 9 and Firefox 3.6,.. I checked it on our draft for porting and the application only seems to display the instructions at the top of the page. http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/SL15.html The test is here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2011/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20110310/working-examples/SL15 /ApplicationLevelKeyHandlingTestPage.html or http://tinyurl.com/4azusp9 Cheers David MacDonald From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Loretta Guarino Reid Sent: March-10-11 5:24 PM To: List WAI GL Subject: Re: Review notes for Silverlight techniques Thank you, Michael. This is an enormous editing task. I'd like WG members to sign up to review different techniques, so we get complete coverage. We should review all the Silverlight technique in the next 2 weeks, so we'll be ready for more reviews when the PDF techniques are ported. Please pick 3 techniques to review. I have set up a sign-up page at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Reviews; please put your name on the items you are reviewing, so we don't duplicate effort. If you will not be able to review techniques in the next few weeks, please let me know. Loretta On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Michael Cooper <email@example.com> wrote: All the Silverlight techniques that I know of ready for porting have been moved to the Editors' Draft of WCAG 2 Techniques, http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/. I anticipate various issues with them due to errors on my part, and minor differences between the structure in the wiki and the structure we've been using for the other technologies. I enhanced our structure a bit to meet what I saw in the wiki but could have introduced various subtle errors, even into techniques we haven't touched. Here are some questions it would be helpful for you to think of as you review these. I expect different people will look at different levels of detail, but I'm hoping we can get review of all these issues from at least somebody. For reference, the set of techniques by number and the wiki page I ported them from is included at the bottom of this message. * Are there typographical or formatting errors? * Is there missing content? * Are heading levels correct, in the single-page, by-technology, and complete views? * Are the references to success criteria correct? * Are references to related techniques correct? * Are there broken links? * Are there broken images? * Is the alt text of images appropriate? * Do any images require extended descriptions? If so, what should the description be? * Most of the techniques in the wiki had test files / sample files at the bottom. In our other technologies, we've been putting links to such files at the bottom of an example, not at the bottom of the technique as a whole. Is the location of the references to such files appropriate for each technique? * References to test / example files are usually in the form of "...working example of XYZ". Is the verbiage I pulled out of the air for "XYZ" in these links ok? Note it needs to be fairly distinct, not something like "this example", because of the need to have unambiguous link text in views that have all the techniques together. * Do all the test / example files work? I modified some of them slightly to fit into a standard approach. * Is there / should there be downloadable source code for the test / example files? This is what we did for Flash. * Are code samples appropriately formatted? I took them unchanged from the wiki and didn't run any "pretty print" process on them. What would be most useful here is a complete reformatted version, rather than instructions on what needs doing, which is VERY painstaking to implement. * Are test procedures self-consistent and correct? I tweaked them a bit for consistency with our other techniques. * Some techniques (SL5, SL13, SL18, SL30, SL33) have more than one test procedure. Does the implementation of this work? There are a few things I haven't yet done, in case you notice going through: * Techniques have pointers to the success criteria / Understanding document, but I haven't added pointers in the Understanding to the new techniques yet. This will need separate review when it's done. * There is diff markup that hasn't been cleared out yet, because I'm a bit nervous of the tool that does this... This won't be seen in the Silverlight techniques, though, because they're all new. * Language-specific terms just have generic emphasis, rather than more appropriate markup / formatting. * Advisory techniques are indicated as such in the XML but this doesn't yet show up in the HTML. List of techniques to wiki pages: * SL1: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Accessing_Alternate_Audio_Tr acks_in_Silverlight_Media * SL2: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Changing_The_Visual_Focus_In dicator_in_Silverlight * SL3: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Controlling_Silverlight_Medi aElement_Audio_Volume * SL4: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Declaring_Discrete_Silverlig ht_Objects_to_Specify_Language_Parts_in_the_HTML_DOM * SL5: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Defining_a_Focusable_Image_C lass_for_Silverlight * SL6: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Defining_a_UI_Automation_Pee r_for_a_Custom_Silverlight_Control * SL7: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Designing_a_Focused_Visual_S tate_for_Custom_Silverlight_Controls * SL8: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Displaying_HelpText_in_Silve rlight_User_Interfaces * SL9: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Handling_Key_Events_to_Enabl e_Keyboard_Functionality_in_Silverlight * SL10: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Implementing_a_Submit-Form_P attern_in_Silverlight * SL11: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Pausing_or_Stopping_A_Decora tive_Silverlight_Animation * SL12: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Pausing,_Stopping,_or_Playin g_Media_in_Silverlight_MediaElements * SL13: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_A_Style_Switcher_T o_Switch_To_High_Contrast * SL14: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Custom_Control_Key _Handling_for_Keyboard_Functionality_in_Silverlight * SL15: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Keyboard_Shortcuts _that_Work_Across_the_Entire_Silverlight_Application * SL16: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Script-Embedded_Te xt_Captions_for_MediaElement_Content * SL17: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Static_Alternative _Content_for_Silverlight_Media_Playing_in_a_MediaElement#User_Agent_and_Assi stive_Technology_Support_Notes * SL18: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_Text_Equivalent_fo r_Nontext_Silverlight_Controls_With_AutomationProperties.Name * SL19: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_User_Instructions_ With_AutomationProperties.HelpText_in_Silverlight * SL20: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Relying_on_Silverlight_Autom ationPeer_Behavior_to_Set_AutomationProperties.Name * SL21: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Replacing_A_Silverlight_Time d_Animation_With_a_Nonanimated_Element * SL22: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Silverlight_and_Browser_Zoom * SL23: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_A_Style_Switcher_to_In crease_Font_Size_of_Silverlight_Text_Elements * SL24: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_AutoPlay_to_Keep_Silve rlight_Media_from_Playing_Automatically * SL25: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Controls_and_Programma tic_Focus_to_Bypass_Blocks_of_Content_in_Silverlight * SL26: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_LabeledBy_to_Associate _Labels_and_Targets_in_Silverlight * SL27: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Language/Culture_Prope rties_as_Exposed_by_Silverlight_Applications_and_Assistive_Technologies * SL28: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Separate_Text-Format_T ext_Captions_for_MediaElement_Content * SL29: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Silverlight_%22List%22 _Controls_to_Define_Blocks_that_can_be_Bypassed * SL30: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Silverlight_Control_Co mpositing_and_AutomationProperties.Name * SL31: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Silverlight_Font_Prope rties_to_Control_Text_Presentation * SL32: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Silverlight_Text_Eleme nts_for_Appropriate_Accessibility_Role * SL33: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_Well-Formed_XAML_to_De fine_a_Silverlight_User_Interface * SL34: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_Silverlight_Defaul t_Tab_Sequence_and_Altering_Tab_Sequences_With_Properties * SL35: http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_Validation_and_Val idationSummary_APIs_to_Implement_Client_Side_Forms_Validation_in_Silverlight -- Michael Cooper Web Accessibility Specialist World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative E-mail email@example.com <mailto:email@example.com> Information Page <http://www.w3.org/People/cooper/>Received on Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:51:20 UTC
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A.L. April 5, [c. 1865]. [Roxana Chapin Gerdine] to �Dear Sister� [Emily McKinstry Chapin]. West Point, [MS]. 4pp. Note: Part of the last page continues onto the front of the first page.)
Mr. G. & myself will go to see you when the country gets free of Guerrillas but they are terrible. I had rather have both armies here at once. Mr. G. wishes to be remembered to Father & you & every body that I love he says he loves- He says my kinfolks are not Yankees-"
West Point Apr. 5th"
Dear Sister
I have not heard from you at home since my arrival here but have written several letters home. I sent one a letter over a week since by Col. [Chenneworth] who will mail it in Ky to father. I sent in that letter one that Mrs. Reese wrote me. I want Aunt Eliza to send it to her mother also one from Mrs. Hoyt to be sent to her relations in Springfield. We have heard to day that Selma was burned and Gen. Chalmers Brigade badly cut up it may not be true however- John & Bob are both with Chalmers & Billy was also in the fight we have not heard from them yet. I imagine we shall be in the Yankee lines before long. then we can hear from you often. I think as soon as Mobile is taken this R. Road will be used by the Federals. so keep up good courage I am so tired of looking at and feeding


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I view the world through the lens of relationality–between, among, beyond disciplines, regions, sentience, dialects, norms, "of course" worlds, the tacit/the explicit, the fixed/the wobbly, the known/unknown/liminal. This bio means to build amity as a bridge to questions in passion-driven studies you invite me to support. My views are shaped by twinship; Baltimore for seriousness and silliness; John Waters, The Collegians, Johns Hopkins, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, A. K. Joyce, Joyce J. Scott; words; color; texture; portrayal; woods; intersectionality; creativity of intentional/activist communities; knowing that relatives in North Carolina thought us northerners; friends in New Hampshire, southerners; affluent uncles in Brazil, poor though, inexplicably, we had a refrigerator.
As a faculty member at Goddard, I have taught in the Health Arts & Sciences Program and the Individualized BA Studies Program. Currently, I guide students through the Assessment of Prior Learning process.
PhD in Art and Psychology, Union Institute and University
MS in Education: Counseling Psychology and Adult Learning, Johns Hopkins University
BA in Literature and Fine Arts, College of Notre Dame
Areas of Expertise
- Adult Learning Theory and Practice
- Public and Community Health
- Psychology/Counseling
- Conflict/Mediation
- Psychology of Dreaming, Empathy, Attachment Theory
- Women's Psychology/Health
- Arts-informed Inquiry
- Expressive Arts (Play, Sound, The Senses, Metaphor, Paradox, Difference)
- Social Cognitive Neuroscience
- Gender
Personal Statement
Do call me Sowbel (rhymes with global), those who know me well do, and I expect after working together, we will indeed know each other well. If the spelling trips you up a bit, think in terms of "sowing wild oats".
Not long ago, at a seminar run by one of my mentors, we were asked to introduce ourselves by sharing what we believed our work in the world to be—not our jobs mind you, not what our paychecks said was worthy activity, but what we believed we could and hoped to contribute to whatever we defined as the world. I loved this activity because we each pondered, then shared our deepest desires and visions for ourselves and our various communities.
My work is engaging, supporting, facilitating, motivating, challenging and sharing in the uncovering of new ideas, new capacities, new ways of perceiving, hidden fears, unexpected delights, and the fortitude for finding one's way and one's work in the world. The primary templates or archetypes that guide my actions are those of the artist, the thinker and the teacher but I believe the relational element of learning together also invokes the template of the traveler. And I love to travel (literally and metaphorically)—joining another's jaunt into some unusual place of study can be as exciting as hopping a train to a new country.
Some of my "countries" of study and practice include: empathy, emotions, moral development, attachment theory, adult learning—theory and practice, learning styles, addictions, the function of fear in learning, HIV/AIDS, complementary and alternative healing practices (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, sound, herbs, shamanic traditions, visualization, metaphor, rhythm, guided imagery and music), public health (promotion, prevention, social marketing), psychology and counseling (individual and group), human services, conflict and mediation, the psychology of dreaming, the construct of difference and the other, group facilitation, stress reduction, metaphor, tolerating paradox, women's psychology, women's health, humor, creativity and the senses, expressive arts, poetry, printmaking, painting, and drawing. Facilitating your work in any aspect of one of these "countries" or a combination of several would be a delight.
Some other "places" that might serve as locations for your inquiries, that I love and continue to visit but know in a bit less detail, include: social cognitive neuroscience, group relations, diversity and authority, post-partum depression and psychosis, gender, sex ed, pre and post-verbal trauma, empirical aesthetics, kundalini yoga, siddha yoga, vipassana meditation, house building (from living in a community that designed and built an octagon house and individual shelters—I favored a, kind of upside down basket woven with sweet-smelling ferns), ham radio (N2QNA), rock-hounding and lore, Esperanto (universal languages), and organic gardening.
Speaking of places, I was born and spent a good portion of my life straddling the Mason-Dixon line in the diverse city of Baltimore, MD. Baltimore is the home of the world's largest ball of string, independent film-maker John Waters, The Collegians–an all accordion band that had its own TV show, the Hubble telescope, and marvelous poets and writers such as Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, and A. K. Joyce. So Baltimore, with its many ethnic neighborhoods–part small town, part urban center–is a place of great seriousness and great silliness. As a result, I come well practiced in the shifting of perspective and the dialectics of difference. To my relatives in Wallace, North Carolina, we were northerners, to friends in Nashua, New Hampshire, we were southerners, and to affluent uncles in Brazil, we were poor but, inexplicably, had a refrigerator.
These shifts in perceptions and identities with their various implications, prepared me to bridge, balance and translate seemingly incompatible, opposing or unrelated disciplines and abilities. For example, I'm wild for the sciences (neuroscience, botany, endocrinology) and the arts. I've worked in both domains and I let each inform the other. I'm comfortable with formal, traditional education yet have experience as a learner and facilitator in unconventional and informal learning situations. I have experience working at, and have thought about, "jobs" (the low-wage positions we often leave off our resumes) and "professions" (the salaried positions that are given social value). I was brought up in a very conservative household and have worked in some very radical fields (for their time). I believe all aspects of who we are and what we experience, even those that seem in conflict, are ripe for discoveries. I value any setting and any study that allows as many, and hopefully all, of our parts to contribute to inquiries and goals we set for ourselves.


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"We believe that short-term forecasts of stock or bond prices are useless. The forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future."
-- Warren Buffett's letter to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)/ (BRK.B) shareholders, 1980
Forecasting prospective market levels out 12 months is an imprecise art form that requires probabilistic decision making, using imperfect information about an inherently unknowable future. Forecasting market levels out beyond 12 months is, to me, more a function of one's philosophy than an investment prediction.
But try we must (especially over the next 12 months) even despite The Oracle's protestations. It has been nearly nine months since I last published my estimate of the S&P 500's fair market value, but I am going to give it a go again this morning (with the insistence from subscriber Renato, who sent me a nice note recently).
Remembering the phrase that if you have to forecast, forecast often, I will attempt to update my fair market value every month or as circumstances change. Early this year, I expressed the view that a domestic economy incapable of reaching escape velocity would produce a challenging earnings landscape. This, to me, represented the principal enemy to the U.S. stock market for 2013 and formed the basis for my four core scenarios (economic, earnings and market valuation) that yielded my fair market value calculation.
Anemic top- and bottom- line growth in corporate sales and profits were by no means the only factors that contributed to my valuation concerns this year as was the growing evidence that aggressive monetary policy is losing its effectiveness and that our leaders are failing to address our deep-seated fiscal issues. Instead (and out of necessity), our authorities placed ever more pressure on our monetary policymakers to bear the responsibility of bringing our domestic economy out of its doldrums. After nearly five years, the results barely met a passing grade and uncovered the depth of our structural headwinds that have been ignored for so many years (e.g., disequilibrium in the jobs market, screwflation of the middle class, financial repression penalizing the savings class, etc.), and once again, the Fed has overestimated U.S. economic growth and the positive impact of trickle-down economics (through the lifting of asset prices).
Forecasting is the art of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't. While my fundamental observations (and headwinds) still seem materially correct, my assumptions for a contraction in P/E multiples were wrong-footed as were my market conclusions and S&P price targets.


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Of course the great value in going to a conference is always the interaction with the other attendees, but still it was a little disappointing.
So I thought I'd point out some tips for presenting at a conference:
- Be passionate in your delivery, no-one and I mean no-one is going to care about what you are talking about when you deliver it in a dull monotone.
- Don't let that screen saver/power saver cut out your presentation!
- Slow Down - Often people are nervous when they present, which is only natural, but it means that they have a tendency to speak far too quickly.
- Slow Down part 2 - If the language you are speaking in is not your first language, or if you know you have a strong accent, then again for the sake of clarity, slow down!
- If you're going to have graphics in your presentation, make sure they are readable when they are projected on the screen.
- Don't use complicated graphics, keep it simple! If in doubt get a Graphic Designer to take a look for you.
- Don't just repeat what are on your slides, the audience has already read them and you're adding no value.
Thankfully towards the end of the conference we had some good speakers including probably the best presentation I've ever seen at a conference. If you ever get the chance to see Simon Wardley (from Canonical) speak, then do yourself a favour and go and see him. The podcast of his talk will arrive here soon.


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Every time I try and do a search, a blank screen comes up and says..
"Safari cannot open the page because the internet connection was lost."
I can do everything else, and I do not have any internet connection issues.
I'm using an IPad if that makes any difference.
Is there something I'm doing wrong here?


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SKYPE is NOT sponsoring this story…
Yet Burn could probably not exist without Skype…No joke…Many of my relationships are virtual , on Skype…Including a very special relationship with Kaya Berne (above), who attends university classes a few hundred miles from me and yet gets all my e-mail and workshop and some Burn stuff done simply by Skype and text messaging. For example, we just finished selecting some portfolios for my upcoming workshop in Sydney in May. This is after my RIO opening at the ACP and the BURN 02 show.
Imants Krumins, who I have never met in person, and I have a Skype only relationship that has led to Imants heading up a special young photographers presentation during the upcoming HeadOn Photo Festival that envelopes all mentioned above and 140 other shows all during the month of May.
Most importantly, my morning coffee is often shared with my mother by Skype since she is all the way out in Colorado. Diego Orlando and I MUST have Skype to make Burn as did Anton Kusters and I prior in the first two years….and right NOW my entire RIO book is being produced over Skype!! yes, of course, I have real people like Diego Orlando and Eva-Maria Kunz now in Italy and on top of production and I will go to watch the presses roll, but without Skype the whole RIO book production would not exist…even today I will be looking at fonts interplayed with design for the slipcase for the interactive "book" over Skype…the picture above really does say it all…my fireside chats often really are virtual yet with very real results.
Point is, Skype SHOULD sponsor us!!
In all seriousness, YOU should sponsor us. In fact you do. WE are free to create the most interesting things if you support us. If we are free, then you are free. Come up with a great story idea and we will run it til it stops. Look at what we do because we have no strings. You make it possible for our Emerging Photographer Fund to award photographers cash grants. You make it possible for Burn 01 and 02 and upcoming 03 in print. We make these quality books, printed in Italy, and with no production cost spared as limited edition books because you support them.
Snapshot to the future: New Burn books are coming. New workshops based in my New York loft with a variety of teachers. With the assembled talents here, Burn will make stuff. Books. Movies. Whatever. If we do not know how to do it, you do. The work published here also comes from you. So in fact you are supporting you.
I try my best to make all of this so called virtual world "real". Hence our print agenda and workshops. I also try to get "out there" as much as I can to photo fests, exhibitions, galleries, etc, so I have a pretty good idea of what is going on. My close friends tell me I am often too accessible, yet I can remember as a young photographer so appreciating a moment with someone with a bit more experience than I. Pay back, pay forward.
Many thanks to all of you for your support of ideas, comments, writing, photography, and funding. Oh by the way, you might be thinking we are expanding to expand. Nope. Small boutique forever here on Burn. Promise. Trying not to grow. I do not want a job.
This is a whole new world for me. Making real friends, doing real things, from online resources that would heretofore have seemed "unreal " for me. What about you? Is the virtual world now your real world? Was Marshall McLuhan even more right than he knew?


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If I were starting a multi-million dollar company, I would do everything in my power to recruite Jeremy Lewis to run the show. He was a thrill to work with, and a great guy to boot. Jeremy is the CEO of Big Fish Games, and I recently photographed him for the May 09 cover of Seattle Business Monthly.
He seems to have found a good balance of taking business very seriously, but at the same time enjoying life with a good sense of humor. And I think that shows in these pictures. As further proof, I was intrigued by the fact that he is reading a biography on Charlie Chaplin, and drawing inspiration from Chaplin's business savvy. "In both good and bad times, he did the same thing: He made enjoyable, safe, mass-market entertainment at a great value. He was a true business leader for his times."
It takes a lot of creativity to find business inspiration from such an unlikely source as Charlie Chaplin, but I like that kind of "outside the box" thinking. Maybe we could send some of that kind of thinking to the Auto and Financial industries.
Big Fish Games is now the leader in "casual games" and they are quickly growing, despite the slumping economy.
"After netting $85 million in revenue and growing by about 70 percent last year, Big Fish doesn't appear to be slowing down. This January, Lewis says the company's subscription base grew 111 percent faster than it did in September 2008, when the stock market crashed." – Randy Woods and Julie H. Case for Seattle Business Monthly
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Editor's note: As a point of clarification, Pryor's representatives have not officially filed an appeal of his five-game suspension with the league, only a notice of their intent to appeal the suspension, according to a league source.
Oakland Raiders rookie quarterback Terrelle Pryor has reversed course and decided to appeal his five-game suspension, a league source told NFL Network's Albert Breer on Sunday.
The NFL Players Association has been informed of the action and is invited to join the appeal and lodge its objections to the discipline of Pryor.
After he was taken in the third round of August's supplemental draft, Pryor, a former standout at Ohio State, said he would not appeal a suspension handed down by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in which he was suspended for the same number of games he would have sat out had he returned to school.
Pryor gave up his final season with the Buckeyes after an investigation into the team's memorabilia-for-cash scandal that cost coach Jim Tressel his job.
Tressel was hired Friday by the Indianapolis Colts as a game-day consultant to help determine when the team should challenge plays. He has not been suspended by the NFL, although the team informed the league Monday of its decision to postpone Tressel's employment until the seventh game.
Pryor and his representatives have expressed mixed messages as to whether the quarterback would appeal his suspension.
Just days before the supplemental draft, Pryor's attorney, David Cornwell, indicated his client would appeal the ban. But after a makeshift pro day workout the following day, Pryor's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said Pryor would not appeal the suspension handed down by the league.
On the same day he was drafted by the Raiders, Pryor clouded the issue further when, in an interview at halftime of ESPN's "Monday night Football", he said he would appeal the suspension if Raiders owner Al Davis asked him to do so.
Pryor signed a four-year, $2.7 million contract with the Raiders but, under his suspension, will not be allowed to practice. Pryor was eligible to play in the preseason but did not appear in either of the Raiders' two games since he was drafted.
The Raiders released veteran Trent Edwards on Saturday, placing Pryor behind veterans Jason Campbell and Kyle Boller on the depth chart.
Pryor gave up his final season with the Buckeyes after an investigation into the team's memorabilia-for-cash scandal.
He is coming off his best season statistically at Ohio State, throwing for 2,772 yards and 27 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. He ran for 754 yards and four touchdowns while helping the Buckeyes win the Sugar Bowl.
Because Pryor is 6-foot-5, 232 pounds and was clocked at 4.36 seconds in the 40-yard dash at his pro day, there has been speculation that he eventually could play receiver or tight end in the NFL. He is starting his career at quarterback.
"The guy is big, athletic," Raiders coach Hue Jackson said. "I think he can throw it. He looks like a quarterback, feels like a quarterback, sounds like a quarterback, and I'm very excited to work with him."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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I can't watch Johan starts anymore, too depressing!ReplyDelete
Ha, great stuff, yes Johan needs to be repaired.ReplyDelete
He's got a lot of things on his mind these days, pitching not one of them.ReplyDelete
Guys go easy on Santana he will pick it up in the second half he's still an ace and has showed it many times this first half don't give up on him he will bounce back and have a big second half LETS GO METS!!!!!!ReplyDelete
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Argentina's Leonardo Mayer upset top-seeded David Ferrer of Spain 6-7 (3), 6-1, 7-6 (4) in the Hamburg Open final on Sunday to win his first ATP title.
The 46th-ranked Mayer saved five of the eight break points he faced and converted five of his seven chances to beat the seventh-ranked Spaniard in the clay court tournament.
"I can't believe it," Mayer said. "I was able to do it against Ferrer, who is one of the best players on this surface. I'm really happy and it still hasn't sunk in that I won."
Mayer had not dropped a set in five matches to reach the final, while the 32-year-old Ferrer had been bidding for his 22nd title.
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Park manager snags, relocates floating geocache boxes
GLEN ELDER — Due to flooding at Glen Elder Reservoir, locations for Glen Elder State Park's caches in the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) geocache contest have changed. The original sites are now under water, and may be for quite some time.
The park manager was able to retrieve floating geocache boxes and reset them, so geocachers can still participate in the contest. New coordinates for the first cache box are N 98° 30.065 W 98° 19.359. Geocachers with questions should phone the park office at 785-545-3345 or KDWP's Pratt Operations Office at620-672-5911.
Now in its fourth year, the KDWP geocaching contest began May 27. From then until Nov. 1, the game is to find two hidden caches at each Kansas state park, as well as a few other locations. The coordinates of one cache at each site and the official statewide KDWP Geocaching Entry Form is posted on the KDWP website,www.kdwp.state.ks.us. (Click "Other Services/Outdoor Activities/Geocaching.")
Participants use hand-held global positioning systems (GPS) to locate and open the first cache, where they will find the coordinates of the second. Upon finding the second cache, the participant signs a log sheet and takes a certificate. Participants who show the certificate to that park office will receive a park-specific location ink pen. Cachers must retain each certificate to turn in with the downloadable entry form for point verification toward prizes.


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If you're using a newer Intel-based Mac, see this article instead:
"What is a firmware password and how do I set one up?"
Apple Open Firmware Update 4.1.7 and later provide the ability to password protect computers at the firmware level (Open Firmware Password Protection). This feature is off by default. Apple provides the Open Firmware Password utility for use only with Mac OS X v10.1 and later. Apple does not endorse or provide technical support for this feature when used with earlier versions of Mac OS or with any third-party software utilities.
Intel-based Macintosh computers can be protected by firmware passwords as well. The firmware in an Intel-based computer uses Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) technology—Open Firmware is used in computers that use PowerPC processors.
Warning: Attempts to use firmware in a manner that is not explicitly endorsed by Apple may damage your computer's logic board. Any repairs that are necessary because of this damage will not be covered under the terms of the Apple One-Year Limited Warranty, AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement.
Computers compatible with Open Firmware Password Protection
Use of the Open Firmware Password Protection and the Open Firmware Password application requires an Apple computer that works with Open Firmware 4.1.7 or 4.1.8 or later, depending on the computer. To determine which version of Open Firmware is installed on your computer, open the Apple System Profiler and see the Production Information section. The Boot ROM version is also your computer's Open Firmware version. If you have an earlier version, an update would be required. A list of the latest firmware updates for various models is available.
All Intel-based Macintosh computers support firmware password protection.
The following Apple computers can use the Open Firmware Password application:
- iMac (Slot Loading) and later models of G3 iMac
- iMac (Flat Panel) and later models of G4 iMac
- iMac G5 and later models of G5 iMac
- iBook - all models, both G3- and G4-based
- eMac - all models
- PowerBook (FireWire)
- PowerBook G4 and later models of G4 PowerBook
- Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) and later models of G4 Power Mac
- Power Mac G4 Cube - all models
- Power Mac G5 and later models of G5 Power Mac
- Any Intel-based Mac
- MacBook Air: see MacBook Air: Recovering a lost EFI firmware password
|Features of Open Firmware Password Protection on PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers
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|Blocks the ability to use the "C" key to start up from an optical disc.
|Blocks the ability to use the "D" key to start up from the Diagnostic volume of the Install DVD.
|Blocks the ability to use the "N" key to start up from a NetBoot server.
|Blocks the ability to use the "T" key to start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature).
|Blocks the ability to start up in Verbose mode by pressing the Command-V key combination during startup.
|Block the ability to start up a system in Single-user mode by pressing the Command-S key combination during startup.
|Blocks a reset of Parameter RAM (PRAM) by pressing the Command-Option-P-R key combination during startup.
|Requires the password to enter commands after starting up in Open Firmware, which is done by pressing the Command-Option-O-F key combination during startup.
|Blocks the ability to start up in Safe Boot mode by pressing the Shift key during startup.
|Requires the password to use the Startup Manager, accessed by pressing the Option key during startup (see below).
Note: Firmware password protection does not prevent someone with physical access to the computer from restarting it or turning it off.
Preparing a computer to take advantage of password protection
Open Firmware Password Protection can only effectively protect a computer that enjoys some degree of physical security. To maximize the effectiveness of the firmware password, do all of the following:
- Use a secure password that contains both numerals and letters in the first eight characters.
- In the Users control panel, Accounts pane of System Preferences, or Server Admin application (whichever applies to your computer), strictly limit Admin user status to trusted personnel.
- Restrict physical access to the computer. Place the computer in a locked room, and lock the cover latch or use the security lock port.
- Only allow trusted users to start up the computer in Mac OS 9, if applicable.
- Make sure that you have selected the Mac OS X System folder for your startup device that you plan to protect.
- If your startup device is correctly selected, you should be able to select it in Startup Disk preferences, close the preference pane, and not receive a dialog box prompting you to save the changes. If you do receive this dialog, saving the changes sets your startup device.
Important: If you reset the PRAM or Open Firmware, you need to reselect your startup device prior to resetting the Open Firmware Password.
Warning: The Open Firmware Password can be reset and changed by any one of the following (except MacBook Air):
- By any administrator user, as designated in the Accounts preferences (or in Server Admin).
- Via physical access to the inside of the computer.
- When the computer is started up in Mac OS 9.
How to enable the Open Firmware Password
On any computer capable of firmware password protection (including Intel-based Macintosh computers), follow these steps:
- For Mac OS X v10.1 to v10.3.9, download and install the Open Firmware Password application, which you can get here.
For Mac OS X v10.4.x, you must use the updated version that can be copied from the software installation disc (located at /Applications/Utilities/ on the disc).
For Mac OS X v10.5.x, start from the Leopard Install DVD and choose Firmware Password Utility from the Utilities menu, then skip to step 5.
- Open the Open Firmware Password application.
- Click the icon to authenticate. Enter an administrator username and password when prompted.
- Click Change.
- Click to select the checkbox for "Require password to change Open Firmware settings", as shown below.
- Type your password in the Password and Verify fields.
- Click OK. A confirmation appears.
- Click lock icon to prevent further changes.
- Choose Quit from the application menu.


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HOUSTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Chris Carter highlighted a big third inning with a three-run homer Tuesday and the Houston Astros held off the Los Angeles Angels 7-6.
Carter's blast capped a five-run outburst that put the Astros ahead 6-3 and Houston hung on down the stretch to break a six-game losing streak in the opener of a three-game series.
Jose Altuve went 2-for-3 with a solo homer and two RBI in the victory.
Jordan Lyles (1-0), making his second start since being called up from the minors this month, allowed three runs on four hits over five innings to notch the victory.
Jose Veras recorded his third save after the Angels had scored three times against the Astros bullpen.
Los Angeles starter C.J. Wilson (3-1) struck out 12 over 6 1/3 innings but was tagged for seven runs on seven hits.
Mark Trumbo smacked a three-run homer while Alberto Callaspo added a two-run clout and Howie Kendrick supplied a solo shot for the Angels, who dropped a third straight.


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One of the things I enjoy using my Flip Pal scanner for is creating my own backgrounds. Granted, most photobook programs come with pre-loaded backgrounds, but often then don't work for the themes I want to create in my digital scrapbooks.
Using Flip Pal opens up my options and makes the books far more personal as well. Here's how it's done:
This is a roll of wrapping paper I had purchased while in Scotland
I cut a small swatch to scan (I could have flipped the scanner over and scanned a larger portion, but this was left over from my traditional scrapbooking)
Ready to scan
Scan complete!
Then once the photos were saved into the computer, it was time to crop them. I use Microsoft Office Picture Manager for ease of use, but there are dozens of photo editing programs. Use the one you are most comfortable with
I also scanned a couple of little gift tags that I had picked up along the way
This is the one I chose for my background
Then, in the photobook program, simply add the photo you have chosen for your background and click. I use PhotoInPress because of my comfort level with it and the quality of the books they produce, but you can use any photo book company that suits you.
To make the pics stand out against the back ground, and look separate from the background, I added a border to the photos. The possibilities of setting backgrounds with your Flip Pal mobile scanner are as endless as your imagination. So, start scanning!!
Enjoy the memories and keepsakes that you make with your Flip Pal. If you don't yet have a Flip Pal (they are a fantastic product - easy to use, incredibly portable, and durable), simply click the icon on the right hand side of this blog - the one that looks like this:
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Global F.I.T. Athlete Barbara Filiou will be representing Greece at the Olympic Games in Rio this year. She tells us what this experience has in store for her.
To achieve my goal of qualifying to the Olympic Games, I had to move to the Olympic Training Center of Russia, far away from my family and the people I love! For the past 2 years leading up to the 2015 World Championships, the qualifying event for the 2016 Olympic Games, I have been living and training in Russia, only going home to Athens in Greece for Christmas and the Greek National Championships. Russia has been the leading country in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics for many years, which is why I ultimately decided to moved there. The Olympic Training Center in Novogorsk is home to not only the best rhythmic gymnasts in the world, but also the best and most experienced coaches, top choreographers, and a world-class training facility specifically designed for the needs of rhythmic gymnasts. Moving to Russia has given me the opportunity to learn from the best, train amongst the best and to be in the best training facility in the world.
Rhythmic gymnastics is a tough sport and it requires many hours of very difficult daily training. I dedicated most of my time to the training, up to 8 hours per day, so as to achieve the best results. This preparation included not only work on my rhythmic gymnastics programs, but ballet training, strength and conditioning, cardio workouts and massage. In addition to the physical preparation in the Olympic Training Center, I competed in 15 to 20 competitions annually, so as to be prepared both physically and psychologically. For all athletes, being prepared mentally is just as important as being prepared physically, which is why my plan before big tournaments includes many smaller ones.
This year leading up to the Olympic Games will be a difficult one, but also one that I am looking forward to, as I strive to be better than I have ever been before. It is important that I am in perfect physical shape and in good health in order to compete at my best. Rhythmic gymnastics is an artistic sport which demands detailed choreography and synchronizing movement and harmony to music. Because of this, I need to improve and perfect every movement and every detail in each of my four programs. This will require many additional hours of hard training, a good psychological state, and taking care of my diet to ensure that my weight is stable. As far as this is concerned, Aloe Vera products are very important and will help offer the support, strength and replenishment I need when my body is exhausted from training. As I work toward my goals for the Olympic Games in Rio, I will continue my training at the Olympic Training Center in Novogorsk, Russia. This will allow me to continue to train under the best circumstances. I will also participate in many competitions which I should prepare. The schedule includes lots of travel abroad, including Grand Prix events, World Cups, the Greek National Championships and European Championships. I want to achieve the best possible results in the World Cups, which are the important events leading up to Rio, but in 2016, the most important tournament for me will be the European Championships which will take place in Holon, Israel. My goal is to be in the top 6 at this event. And finally, as I travel to Brazil in August, I aim to achieve my biggest goal, to be one of the top 12 finalists in the 2016 Olympic Games!
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It's not often that I get requests to make lessons based on characters from one of Luigi's game series. Today I will fill a request and show you "how to draw a Polterpup", step by step. These adorable doggies are exactly what they look like, ghost K-9s. These ghostly dogs are found in 'Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon' game. They aid Luigi in more ways than one. They can carry items for him like keys and gold dog bones. They can also give life back to Luigi by restoring his hit points but this can only happen if Luigi has a gold dog bone. Anyways, drawing a Polterpup is going to be exciting and fun. I know you will be amped to tackle this lesson because drawing Mario or Luigi characters always is. Adios people and enjoy.
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"I suppose the "best all-around player" argument could go like this (keep in mind this is not my argument and not one I even agree with, but one that could conceivably and logically put Walker #1 in his era): There are five traditional baseball tools: hitting (for average), hitting for power, running, playing defense, and throwing."
See Cooperstowners in Canada: Larry Walker should be the second Canadian player elected to Cooperstown.
So here is how the crude measure works:
Multiply Gold Glove awards times 30. The idea here was to scale a great player in this stat to a great player in HRs or SBs. Brooks Robinson had the most GGs among position players with 16 and 16*30 = 480, close to 500.
Divide non-HR hits by 5. If a player had 2500 non-HR hits, you get 500.
Multiply SB*HR*non-HR*GG (with the above mentioned adjustments being made for GG and non-HR). If player had no GGs, I stopped multiplying so they did not end up at zero.
For Willie Mays it was 42,129,996,480. That is way too high a number to work with. So I raised it to the .25 power. That gave him 453, a more familiar kind of number to baseball fans. But that was divided by PAs and then multiplied by 10 to get the final number. Mays then had .363 (a nice number, close to the highest all-time batting average of .366 belonging to Ty Cobb). Here is the top 25:
1 Willie Mays 0.363
2 Torii Hunter 0.362
3 Barry Bonds 0.357
4 Larry Walker 0.355
5 Ichiro Suzuki 0.352
6 Ryne Sandberg 0.349
7 Eric Davis 0.345
8 Cesar Cedeno 0.345
9 Roberto Alomar 0.337
10 Devon White 0.333
11 Andruw Jones 0.330
12 Andre Dawson 0.327
13 Garry Maddox 0.325
14 Bobby Bonds 0.316
15 Andy Van Slyke 0.313
16 Mike Schmidt 0.311
17 Ken Griffey Jr. 0.309
18 Carlos Beltran 0.302
19 Paul Blair 0.296
20 Joe Morgan 0.295
21 Marquis Grissom 0.293
22 Ivan Rodriguez 0.292
23 Dwayne Murphy 0.291
24 Bill White 0.285
25 Jimmy Rollins 0.284
If I started with his stats from 1957 on, when they started giving out Gold Gloves, Mays gets .378.


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Usman M. Bajwa August 25, 2011M A R V E L O U S, ZAW ZAW. CONGRATZ and expect seeing this again!!!
Tarun Bose August 26, 2011Congrats Zaw Zaw for your excellent finalist. A winner in my opinion. #9632620
Michelle Alton August 26, 2011This is unbelievably great work, Zaw Zaw. Congratulatons! #9634223
Merna L. Nobile August 26, 2011Great photographers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
Tarun Bose August 29, 2011Congrats for your winner, Zaw Zaw. #9640753
Usman M. Bajwa August 31, 2011C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!
f/7.1,1/6sec,Ef 17-40 f/4L,Myanmar,Meditating,25-12-2009
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