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Uluru (Ayer's Rock), Central Australia
Many tourists climb the rock, which, besides being both extremely strenuous and ignorant of the culture of the local aborigines, only affords a view of the surrounding desert. I believe the walk around the base provides many more spectacular views of the rock.
Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), Central Australia
After an interesting hike through this fascinating rocky landscape, we crested a spectacular lookout that looks down over the area into which we hiked next. We continued ahead and left around the back of the mountains to complete a circuit.
Our house in Spring
Our house in Spring, viewed from the corner of our garden. All three of our newly planted fruit trees have just started to blossom. You can also see the new outdoor setting we bought to fit the verandah.
Fire at Wilson's Prom
My friend Neil and I visited Wilson's Prom on the weekend, only to happen upon a fire in one of the old accommodation huts. It was fortunate the weather was partly rainy, as this could otherwise have easily spread and devastated the surrounding bush of this beautiful national park.
Ian's ankle injury
Coming down a flight of stairs at full pelt, I missed my footing and rolled my ankle really severely. Although not broken, I'd torn two ligaments and some bone. The sports injury specialist said it was the worst ankle injury he'd ever seen where the bone
Ian's healed ankle
By comparison, here's a photo of my more or less healed and somewhat slimmer ankle today. The comparison would have been even greater had I taken a picture when my ankle was at its worst; I recall my leg somewhat resembling that of an elephant!
Sunset on our beach in Chelsea
With Summer just beginning, this spectacular sunset was perhaps a promise of the balmy evenings we'd soon be spending on our local beach in Chelsea, Victoria.
Kangaroo at sunset at Wilson's Prom
We took a sunset walk at Wilson's Promontory, a huge national park at the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland. This kangaroo looked right at home and quite camouflaged in amongst the long grass.
Dinie Fieggen at 76 years old
On Mum's 76th birthday, I took a quick, candid photo at a restaurant. This turned out to be one of the best photos of Mum, who always appeared uncomfortable having her photo taken.
Fieggen family reunion
For the first time in 20 years, we had the whole of the original Australian branch of the Fieggen family together again at their home in Edithvale, Victoria. This photo shows Mum and Dad, five children, three spouses and seven grand-children.
South Gippsland hills in morning mist
Driving through South Gippsland is always beautiful, with spectacular views of rolling hills. This chilly morning saw just the upper parts of the hills peeking out from a low blanket of mist.
Our back garden in Spring
Spring in our back garden in Chelsea, Victoria. Our fruit trees are always bursting with new life, promising yet another great harvest of delicious home-grown fruit, from which we make our home-made jams.
Boat sheds on Edithvale beach
Group of boat sheds on nearby Edithvale beach, including Dad's shed (3rd from the left in the big photo). Hundreds of these colourful wooden sheds line Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia.
Smoke haze at Edithvale beach
Victoria's 2006 bushfire season was really bad, with smoke extending through much of the state. Here, the evening sun glows eerily through the haze at nearby Edithale beach.
Pincushion Hakea flower
I found this fascinating flower on a tree in Chelsea during one of our walks. It looks a bit like a firework going off!
Happy lemon in fruit bowl
After a storm, we collected several fallen lemons and put them into our fruit bowl. Imagine my surprise to find this "happy lemon" the next day when the bruises appeared. This was
Damselfly on oleander leaf
I'm always fascinated by the beatutiful wings on damselflies and dragonflies. This one perched nicely on an oleander leaf in our front garden, perfect for photographing against the blue sky.
Ian's T.V. interview for "A Current Affair"
After the release of my book, "Laces", I was interviewed for the Australian T.V. program "A Current Affair". Here's me with the interviewer, Brady Halls, plus the cameraman, Steve (whom we reckon looks like Aussie actor Bryan Brown).
Inge rescuing whales on King Island
On our arrival on King Island, we learned that there had been a mass whale beaching overnight. We spent a remarkable, exhausting day helping countless islanders lug buckets of water to keep the living ones hydrated. All those whales that had been found alive were eventually rescued!
Heart shaped coffee stain
I've never been one to interpret anything from tea leaves (particularly since tea bags were invented!) but this heart shaped coffee stain caught my imagination.
Long Swamp flooded by recent rains
Following a decade-long drought in Australia, it was amazing to at last see Long Swamp in our nearby Braeside Park filled with water, giving the old gum trees a much needed drink.
Ian with Huntsman spider
Don't freak out! Huntsman spiders, although pretty large, are fairly placid and non-agressive. I found this beauty indoors, so I gently coaxed it onto my hand and took it outside to live in our garden and (hopefully) kill insects.
Departing Melbourne on ferry to Tasmania
Departing Melbourne on the overnight ferry to Tasmania, it was still light enough to capture this nice evening shot of Station Pier and the Melbourne city skyline.
Crepuscular ray along Bass Highway
Crepuscular rays occur when shafts of light are visible passing through haze. We spotted this single ray, seemingly like a massive searchlight, along the Bass Highway in southern Victoria.
Churchill Island reflections
Despite rather inclement weather on our car trip down to Churchill Island, we were surprised to see these amazing reflections in the surprisingly calm waters surrounding the island.
Calm morning swim at Chelsea beach
On a beautiful warm January morning, conditions were perfect for a morning swim at our local beach in Chelsea, with the water totally calm.
Globe lamp reflection
A shiny globe lamp in a building foyer in Frankston provided an opportunity for an interesting reflected self-portrait of Ian and Inge.
Blue Spotted Hawker dragonfly
On a very hot day in January, this large dragonfly sheltering in a shady corner of our back yard allowed me to come close enough to take a great photo.
Filming with David Rees for Nat. Geo. Channel
The National Geographic Channel flew me to New York, U.S.A., to appear in the T.V. program "Going Deep with David Rees". Here we're at David's house, where he'll be filmed after having his shoelaces optimized for cycling.
Chelsea plane crash
Our quiet suburb was rocked by a light plane crash in a laneway just behind the main shopping district. The pilot, unfortunately, did not survive.
U.K. Wedding of Tammy & Jon
We flew to the U.K. for the wedding of Inge's daughter, Tammy, to her partner, Jon. The ceremony was in the beautiful historic town of Canterbury.
Ian with PLGRM film crew
I spent a morning as Professor Shoelace being filmed around the streets of Melbourne with the crew from PLGRM. After filming, we posed for a group photo.
Christmas tree made of thongs / flip-flops
Australians do have a warped view of Christmas, possibly because it's Summer in December in the Southern Hemisphere. In Melbourne, I spotted this amusing Christmas tree made out of thongs / flip-flops!
Ian with stick insect / Phasmid
While pruning a half dead tree in our front yard, I noticed one twig moving and discovered this stick insect / Phasmid. It measured at least 150 mm (6 inches) long and felt very strange walking up my arm!
Kookaburra in tree
On holiday in Loch Sport, Victoria, this beautiful kookaburra allowed me near enough to take a detailed close-up photo.
Paddle board at Chelsea beach
Calm waters for paddle boarding at our local Chelsea beach on the last day of 2015. Even the dog appeared envious!
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 4, 2012) – Three U.S. men's beach volleyball teams have advanced to the second round of elimination at the Shanghai Grand Slam in China, the first grand slam event on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour.
The top-seeded U.S. team of Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), No. 8-seeded Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and 14th-ranked Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) all won their pools on Friday.
Meanwhile, the U.S. women's team of Misty May-Treanor (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh (San Jose, Calif.), seeded fourth, finished tied for ninth after losing in the second round. Fifth-ranked Jen Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) finished tied for fifth after losing in the third round.
Gibb and Rosenthal, who are in a battle with Fuerbringer and Lucena for the second U.S. men's beach volleyball berth at the 2012 Olympic Games, won their final pool play match on Friday, 19-21, 24-22, 15-10 in 56 minutes over Netherlands' third-ranked Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil.
"All the teams out here are tough," Rosenthal said in an FIVB press release, "but we're into the ninth position and have the chance to move further on. It was a hell of a job by my partner to hang in there. He was getting up and getting to the line and played really well."
Both teams pushed each other hard throughout the match and even when Rosenthal and Gibb went 14-10 ahead in the final set, Skarlund and Spinnangr twice fought back to cancel out two match points before winning the tie.
"We just needed to pass the ball and side out," Rosenthal continued. "At 14-10 you're still pretty good, but anything can happen out there."
Twelve months ago the duo was on the podium with the silver medal round their necks after they had lost the final to Rogers and Dalhausser.
However, despite starting to find their best form, they say that they will have to be at their best to record a similar result in 2012.
"All the other teams are good out here," Rosenthal said. "One day you can beat anybody and one day you can lose to anybody. Everybody is good, you just come out and try and play your game.
"We're in a good position. We're still alive and good moving forward."
With a 2-1 pool play record, Gibb and Rosenthal advanced to Saturday's second round where they will face Brazil's fourth-seeded Ricardo Santos and Pedro Cunha.
Dalhausser and Rogers won their final pool play match on Friday, 21-19, 13-21, 15-11 in 55 minutes over Germany's 16th-seeded Hase Klemperer and Eric Koreng. With a perfect 3-0 pool play record, they will face Italy's 15th-seeded Nicolai Paolo and Daniele Lupo in the second round.
Fuerbringer and Lucena won their final pool play match on Friday over China's ninth-seeded Linyin Xu and Penggen Wu, 21-18, 21-19 in 50 minutes.
The U.S. pair went 2-1 in pool play and will take on Switzerland's No. 21-seeded Sascha Heyer and Sebastian Chevallier in the second round on Saturday.
The U.S. men's team of Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), who had to qualify for the main draw and were seeded 29th, lost their final pool play match on Friday to Latvia's 20th-seeded Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins, 21-15, 21-19 in 39 minutes.
The U.S. pair advanced to the first round where it fell to Brazil's fifth-ranked Pedro Salgado and Marcio Araujo, 21-18, 21-16 in 37 minutes. The finished tied for 17th.
In the women's bracket, May-Treanor and Walsh lost in the second round to Spain's 16th-ranked Liliana Fernández Steiner and Elsa Baquerizo Mcmillan, 21-13, 14-21, 15-10 in 43 minutes. The finish the tournament tied for ninth.
Kessy and Ross won their second-round match over Australia's 24th-ranked Natalie Cook and Tamsin Hinchley, 21-19, 21-17 in 43 minutes. But in the third round, the U.S. team ran into Brazil's third-ranked Juliana Felisberta Da Silva and Larissa Franca and fell, 21-17, 16-21, 18-16 in 53 minutes.
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Govbarney wrote:Good game thanks to a tweet from Mr. Telich , I found the game online near the end. Im going to call it now and say the Horizon gets two teams in the tourney this year (CSU and Detroit).
Question: better conference A10 or Horizon?
If Butler steps up, may be 3 teams. Detroit is nasty this year. Def the 1 team that scares me in the Horizon, even though we always suck against Butler


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Sometimes, art can seem overwhelming. Deciphering themes behind the masters like Picasso, exploring the frenetic speed of the Italian futurists or simply taking in the kitschy boldness of American pop art can cause some consternation for those uneducated in the medium. Luckily, the Boca Museum of Art has devised a way to sneak in a little art education in while sipping on some vino.
Each month from October through March, the Boca Museum will lead a themed wine tasting related to traveling exhibitions, pieces from the permanent collection and seasonal sentiments. Called "The Art of Wine," the event will feature a curated selection of wine from sommelier Stephanie Miskew chosen either for region or varietal to pair with a gallery tour led by the museum's curators. Be it a selection of Italian wines as you explore the works of Italian futurists or an in-depth tasting of New Mexico's Gruet Winery as you examine the exhibition dedicated to the Santa Fe Art Colony, each tasting and tour will leave you better equipped to discuss art and wine.
- The Art of Wine embarks on select Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m. each month, starting in October and ending in March.
- Each tour includes wine tasting, a selection of chesses to sample and a curated tour of select works in the museum.
- Tickets cost $40 ($35 for members). Reservations are required; to RSVP, call 561-392-2500 ext. 208 or visit bocamuseum.org/wine.
The Art of Wine schedule and themes are as follows:
October 16—Explore the wines of New Mexico's Gruet Winery and the art of the Santa Fe art colony. In association with the traveling exhibit "Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony."
November 20—Homage to fromage: Learn the secrets to entertaining with winning wine and cheese pairings.
December 18—Picasso and the wines of Spain. The tour will examine pieces from Pablo Picasso in the Dr. and Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection.
January 29—American pop art and America's house of sparkling wine: Schramsberg Vineyards. In appreciation to the visiting exhibit "Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Wesiman Art Foundation" and the museum's long-term gallery installation "Grooms Room."
February 19—Italian futurists and wines from Italy.
March 19—Spring Fling: Explore wines that pair with the fresh flavors and colors of spring.


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NMU women's basketball team controls its own postseason destiny
MARQUETTE – The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team not only finds itself in the midst of a four-game losing streak with three games to play, but on the outside looking in concerning the GLIAC Tournament picture.
Despite not winning a game since a Feb. 2 upset of Michigan Tech in Marquette, the Wildcats still control their own postseason destiny, though.
For head coach Troy Mattson, if his Wildcats win, they're in.
"We're basically in the playoffs right now," Mattson said. "We need to win to get in. The good thing is we have two home games. We play well at home. Our team feels confident playing at home."
If Northern wants to extend its 2012-13 season and return to the GLIAC Tournament, it must top Lake Superior State at 7:30 tonight and Northwood at 3 p.m. Saturday in the final weekend of basketball at the Berry Events Center in Marquette.
LSSU (4-15 in GLIAC, 5-18 overall) has the second-worst record in the conference, though NMU (8-11, 11-12) only topped the rival Lakers by six, 58-52, in Sault Ste. Marie on Jan. 24.
"(LSSU) has played everybody tough. They're just having a tough time winning games," Mattson said.
Northwood (9-10, 11-14) leads the Wildcats by a game in the GLIAC standings after beating the 'Cats, 65-52, in Midland on Jan. 26.
The Timberwolves and Saginaw Valley State (9-10, 11-12) currently hold the final two spots in the GLIAC tournament, but must play each other on the final day of the regular season on March 2 in Midland.
NMU and Tiffin (8-11, 11-12) are tied for ninth overall in the league, though the Dragons beat the Wildcats 75-63 on Dec. 18 in Ohio.
Tiffin closes the year against Lake Erie College, Ashland and Ohio Dominican, while NMU wraps up the regular season on March 2 at Michigan Tech.
Northwood also has Tech on its schedule this weekend, while SVSU hosts Grand Valley State tonight and travels to Ferris State on Saturday.
The Cardinals topped the Wildcats a week ago downstate in overtime, 81-77, for a season split. It was the second of back-to-back OT losses NMU suffered in its four-game skid.
"We're out there with freshmen and sophomores and we haven't been in this situation before with this group," Mattson said. "You got two overtime losses, we led both games with a minute to go. We pull those games out and we're sitting in the playoffs already."
A pair of sophomore guards continue to lead Northern in scoring with Alyssa Colla averaging 13.2 points per game and Lauren Gruber 12 per contest.
Freshman Nea Makela leads the 'Cats in rebounding, averaging 6.4 boards per game.
Makela nabbed eight rebounds against LSSU earlier in the year and led the Wildcats in scoring with 15 points.
Colla totaled 14 points, sophomore Abbey DeBruin 12 and Gruber 11 points and eight boards.
In the loss at Northwood, DeBruin, Colla and Gruber all finished with nine points. Sophomore Brooke Coenen was the only Wildcat to score in double figures, coming off the bench for 11 points.
"Northwood's a challenge," Mattson said. "They have very fast and aggressive guards. If there's something that bothers us, that's smaller, quicker guards that are able to get in the paint.
"(The Timberwolves) are playing for the same thing we are playing for," he added. "That game, if we were to beat Lake Superior, and then we play Northwood, we're both playing for that slot. It's going to be a do-or-die game probably."
Matt Wellens can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 252. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mattwellens.


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By DIANE STEINLE
Published May 9, 2007
The pioneers who settled Florida were a tough bunch. They had to brave mosquitoes, snakes, bears in the woods, heat, humidity, disease and isolation.
They didn't know nuthin'. Living in Florida in 2007 is really scary.
Are you tough enough for it?
Today's Floridians are enduring a boatload of fearsome problems, any one of which would make some people anxious.
Think about it.
Hurricane season is less than four weeks away, and the scientists who study these things say they see indicators that this season could be a bad one.
Because of past hurricanes, homeowners insurance rates have soared so high that some people are going uninsured. Or their insurance companies have canceled them, so they must pray that the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will have enough money to cover their losses if a storm hits.
Some Floridians - mostly those who own businesses or second homes here - are facing big property tax bills because property values escalated so much in the past several years and those properties aren't protected by the Save Our Homes cap.
The double whammy of rising taxes and soaring property insurance has driven the cost of owning a home so high that many have been forced to put their homes on the market - just as the housing market went cold, buyers disappeared and home prices began to plummet. Those who can't find a buyer or some way to continue to pay their mortgage face foreclosure. Florida is now one of the top states for foreclosures.
Oh well, if you can't afford home ownership anymore, you can just rent, right? The trouble is that rents are escalating - a two-bedroom unit costs more in rent than some people's mortgages - because landlords face those same high insurance and tax bills and because a fair percentage of Tampa Bay area apartments converted to condominiums during the late, great condominium boom.
Well, if you can't pay market rents, you can probably qualify for a local government's affordable housing program or get a federal Section 8 housing voucher.
Uh-oh. Those affordable housing programs might not be around much longer. The Florida Legislature is preparing to force local governments to cut their tax revenue collections - legislators call it tax reform - and city and county governments say they will have no choice but to chop expenditures for nonessentials such as recreation and arts and yes, even affordable housing programs. And those Section 8 vouchers? Well, the feds still hand them out, but the waiting list for an apartment is so long that you could wind up homeless before you land one.
Not to worry, there's a nice tent city in St. Petersburg. Oh, wait, that's gone too.
I've changed my mind. Let's not think about it.
Instead, let's focus on this: It's springtime in Florida. The jacaranda and bottlebrush trees are blooming. The trees are full of birds. The sun is warm, palm trees are framed against a bright blue sky, and you can slip more than a toe into the Gulf of Mexico without shivering. The parks are full of picnicking families, boats are plying the waterways, and the soccer and baseball fields are covered with sweaty children playing their hearts out.
In my front yard, the gardenia bush I could never get to bloom has exploded with creamy white blossoms so numerous that the leaves of the plant seem to have disappeared. And the fragrance is out of this world.
Yes, in Florida our problems are many, but we still enjoy abundant gifts.
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Health officials are warning Southern Oregonians to update their dogs' distemper vaccinations because an outbreak of the virus has been found in the local fox population. Wildlife biologists have fielded more than a dozen calls in the past two weeks regarding gray foxes displaying strange behavior. The virus has already been confirmed in two gray foxes found dead in Ashland and one in Medford. Previous outbreaks of distemper occurred locally in raccoons in the 1990s and 2000s.


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The new Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint & Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris CDs has me thinking about other one-off duo albums.
Both of these are great, but some others I think are great include:
Eric Clapton/B.B. King - Riding With the King
Neil Young/Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball
Tony Bennett/k.d. Lang - What a Wonderful World
Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis - You Win Again
Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris - Western Wall - The Tuscon Sessions
What are some of your favorites? And try to keep it to entire albums recorded by two artists that don't normally record together. (In other words no Simon & Garfunkel, etc.)


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QUEENS—The New York Power Authority (NYPA)
today (Monday) contributed $2,000 for the construction of a "literacy
garden" at P.S. 84, an elementary school in Astoria. Assembly Member
Michael N. Gianaris requested the funds from NYPA on behalf of P.S. 84.
"Helping to make the environment a better place is
a commitment the Power Authority shares with the students, families,
teachers, administrators and local residents in the P.S. 84 community,"
said Joseph Leary, director, Public and Governmental Affairs, NYPA, at a
Monday afternoon event to mark the donation. "P.S. 84 should be
applauded for taking so seriously its responsibility to improve the
learning environment through the literacy garden, just like the Power
Authority takes its responsibility to improve air quality seriously
through initiatives including our new Astoria facility, which will be
among the cleanest power plants in New York City."
"I wish there had
been a literacy garden when I attended P.S. 84," said Assembly Member
Gianaris. "The garden will help beautify the school and the neighborhood
and provide students with a better learning experience by giving them a
more exciting school environment in which to learn, and make their
school experience a better one."
"We are sincerely thankful to Assembly Member
Michael Gianaris and the New York Power Authority for getting this
project beyond the planning stage. Having graduated from this school
himself, its wonderful to see the pride that Assemblyman Gianaris and so
many other community members including the New York Power Authority have
for this great school," said Tony Loverso, assistant principal, The
Steinway School, P.S. 84.
The literacy garden will expand the school's
teaching venues by adding at least one outdoor classroom. Students and
teachers will use the literacy garden for a wide variety of activities
including read-aloud story time, and scientific exploration and
observation. The garden will be larger than many of the 103 year-old
classrooms at P.S. 84. This will give students the opportunity to
spread out with their materials during instructional time.
By using some of the planting materials commonly
used when the P.S. 84 school building was constructed, the literacy
garden will pay homage to the character of the building. Also,
architectural landscaping techniques will be subtly incorporated into
the existing topography to further enhance the beauty of this landmark
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materials while all work will be done, at no cost, through the volunteer
efforts of the community, parents, students, and the school's teachers
and administrators.
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various parts of the state and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of
transmission lines. ■ NYPA uses no tax money and incurs no state debt.
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January 25, 2005
Kenneth A. Shaw, 55
Services: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Helen Catholic Church in Portales.
Mr. Kenneth A. Shaw, 55, of Portales, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005, in Orlando, Fla.
He was born on Jan. 28, 1949, in Raton, to Lorene and James A. Shaw. He graduated from Roy High School in 1965. He then came to Portales to attend the university and graduated with a degree in education in 1969. He earned his master's degree in the mid-1970s. His first teaching job was on an Indian reservation where he remained two years. In 1972 he moved to Texico where he taught and later became a school principal. In 1992 he became high school principal and athletic director for the Dora Schools. In 1995 he moved to Roy to become the superintendent of schools. He retired in 2001 after 31 years in education. Soon after retiring he went to work for Cutler Repaving, where he was superintendent of traffic control. He had been working on a job in Florida just a week at the time of his death. On Aug. 11, 1973, in Albuquerque he married Maxine Lujan. His hobbies included fishing and hunting. Family members said he especially liked fly fishing in Cimarron Canyon.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Kenneth Shaw of Portales; two daughters, Natasha Shaw of Perrysburg, Ohio, and Amber Shaw of Portales; a grandchild, Dawson Shaw; a brother, Gary Shaw of Edgewood; and a sister, Regina Lee of San Diego.
A rosary service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Helen Catholic Church in Portales.
Father Tobin Hitt will officiate the services.
Burial will be at Roy Cemetery.
Family and friends will gather at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Roy Gymnasium.
Pallbearers are Scott Parker, Pat Romero, John Mahoney, Kevin Zamora, Roger Tompkins and Greg Martin.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (April 18, 2011) – Ricky Stanfield has worked on some of America's critical defense and science projects over the past 20 years, including Army tactical hardware, Navy missile-flight tests and payload development for NASA's sounding rockets.
Now, the Northrop Grumman Corp. engineer is applying that real-world experience in the classroom, where he teaches a course on fluid mechanics at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
"I was a relentless builder of things growing up," Stanfield said. "It all started with Lego sets and model kits."
Fluid mechanics is the study of liquids and gases under stationary and moving conditions. Students who major in mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering will likely encounter fluid motion issues when designing cars, medical equipment and duct systems, to name a few.
"Fluid mechanics is very difficult," said Derek Cooper, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering major at UMES. "But Dr. Stanfield definitely makes it easier to comprehend."
Northrop Grumman relocated its engineering and fabrication operation from Virginia to Somerset County in 2010 to support a U.S. Navy contract. Stanfield is engineering director and deputy program manager at the facility in the Princess Anne Industrial Park.
"Part of the attraction to moving to Princess Anne for me was the chance to teach at UMES," said Stanfield, who once considered teaching high school physics. This spring, he teaches a with two mechanical and two aerospace engineering majors.
Stanfield graduated from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a minor in mathematics and secondary education.
"Longwood is about the same size as UMES," he said. "I enjoyed attending a smaller college since it gave me the chance to be more involved with the college itself. Those were leadership experiences that I have been able to apply in my career."
Stanfield's first job was with the Department of the Army, where he worked as a physicist for 10 years.
"I worked on landmine countermeasures and tactical deception systems," he said. "Despite my title, they were using me more as a mechanical engineer than as a physicist, so I steered my graduate studies in that direction."
The New Jersey native, who grew up in an Air Force family, earned a Master of Science in engineering and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
"I attended all of my graduate school classes while working full time and raising a growing family, so I understand the pressures that non-traditional students have when balancing school, work, and family," Dr. Stanfield said.
Stanfield specialized in structure-borne acoustics and vibrations while attending graduate school at Catholic University.
"My dissertation focused on the use of axisymmetric shell finite element models to predict vibration in the airframes of sounding rockets," he said. "I also studied the use of passive vibration control techniques to manage these vibrations."
Stanfield – who is married to his wife of 22 years, Theresa, and has two teenagers – has worked for Northrop Grumman for 12 years. In the community, he volunteers as an assistant scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America; a referee for the American Youth Soccer Organization; and as a coordinator of the Chincoteague Island YMCA runner's group. He also is a marathon runner.
He also serves as chairman of the university's new Engineering Advisory Committee, a panel of 19 professionals and educators who provide input on the engineering curriculum, educational objectives, as well as industry trends and graduate placement
Stanfield says he would like to continue teaching the fast-paced fluid mechanics course at UMES, which includes advanced mathematics such as differential equations and integral calculus. This coming fall, he anticipates teaching an upper-level engineering course in computational methods.
Next time someone says, "It's not rocket science," check with Stanfield's students. The answer might surprise.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (54 votes).
In short: Great organisation, friendly and great potential for PB.Date of review: July 3, 2005
In short: Very enjoyable, well organised, with a challenging hill finish.Date of review: July 3, 2005
In short: Superb race in Stunning Scenary !!In full: We had a really great time at this race last year. The late summer afternoon start was cool and scenic (and Best of all - it allowed you a whole day to Carbo Load!! The crowds were encouraging and the pub down the road made some of the worlds best chips - perfect after a race with a pint and your mates. My Favorite race of the year !Date of review: April 28, 2005
In short: Did this for the 1st time last year, really enjoyed it. Big crowd at the last bend spur you on!Date of review: April 2, 2005
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"Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things. One: Stop us in our tracks. Two: force us to get creative."
Amy Purdy lost both her legs when she was 19. Ten years later she won two gold medals as a pro snowboarder.
"Would I ever want to change my situation? No."
"Our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders. In our minds we can do anything. It's believing. And facing our fears head-on."
"Our challenges and limitations are blessings, magnificent gifts that can ignite our imagination and make us go further."


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Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Thursday, March 19, 2015
The School of Graduate Studies is celebrating our annual Graduate Student Appreciation Week, March 22-28! Please go to the link below for more information. Some of the highlights include a GA and supervisor reception, Free student/family swimming and rock wall climbing, Free coffee and mini-massages in Atwood, a Graduate Student Social at Brother's Bar and Grill, several personal and professional development workshops, student, friends and family/partner bowling and billiards, candy, and lots of prizes.


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Even though spring is just beginning, many celebrities are heading to the altar to tie the knot, including Josh Lucas. The actor recently announced that he and his new wife, Jessica, have exchanged vows as they await the arrival of their first child, according to US Weekly. Pictures have yet to be released of the wedding, but perhaps Mrs. Lucas sported tube mascara and liquid eyeliner to make her day truly perfect!
While it helps to be married to a celebrity and have an ample amount of cash to spend on your big day, you can still make your wedding flawless by sporting the right makeup.
If you want to look just as hot as Josh Lucas' wife when you walk down the aisle, pick up the liquid eyeliner and tube mascara from blinc. The liquid eyeliner can give you a dramatic look that will last throughout the day, even if a few happy tears are shed.
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Being as this is my first blog, I wanted to take the time to introduce myself and the type of work I am doing with Human Touch®. I've spent the past 30 years researching and exploring the effects of sound and low frequency vibration as a healing tool in my practice. I've been a musician and composer since I was 12 years old and a Chiropractic Physician since 1980. Soon after I was in practice, I began experimenting with specific frequencies to make Chiropractic adjustments with sound. My approach was to target specific vertebrae with precise tones that could resonate that bone like a wine glass. The success of this attempt set the course of my life from that time until now.
My work with sound has evolved over the decades to its present form which involves the combination of a number of sound techniques applied to the body, the nervous system and the brain. I use the Human Touch Perfect Chair® as a core component in this process and retro-fit the chair with specially designed low frequency transducers which can introduce vibration frequencies directly into the cells of the body. The sensation is like nothing you have ever experienced before – a full body cellular massage with sound vibration.
I use a number of medical monitoring devices to show me how the body is functioning and where it is imbalanced and not functioning normally. I use EEG to study the brainwaves and current state of consciousness and a system called Real-Time Heart Rate Variability (RT-HRV) to show how the master control system of the body is balanced and functioning. This master control system is called the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and includes the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nerves with nerve branches to every organ and gland in the body. The Sympathetic Nervous System is activated during the "fight / flight" response and the Parasympathetic is activated during rest, digestion and recuperation. This system should normally be in a neutral "zero stress" state called Homeostasis. Most of the patients I see are stuck in the fight/ flight mode with the Sympathetic Nervous System chronically dominant. My work involves tuning highly specific sound frequencies, delivered through the sound modified Perfect Chair, which can cause the imbalanced ANS to go into its Homeostasis point of zero stress.
Regular sessions on the Sound Perfect Chair re-educate the ANS to strengthen its Homeostasis ability which in turn rebalances all the systems in the body the ANS controls. Since the ANS controls all systems in the body, balancing this system tends to cause global body responses and the alleviation of many types of symptoms of disease.
I believe the word disease really does say it all. Homeostasis is the ultimate state of ease in the body in which all of the body's resources are available and at maximum efficiency of its energy and balance. Chronic lack of balance in the ANS and continual loss of homeostasis equals a chronic "lack of ease" or disease and all the symptoms that begin to spin out from this condition. Once this state of imbalance at the core goes on for too long, tissue begins to break down and the body enters into a state of pathology.
I searched for over a year for the ideal type of chair in which to build my sound system into for delivering the sound frequencies to the body for my healing technique. The day I saw the Perfect Chair® I knew this was what I had been looking for.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (538 votes).
In short: Not as hilly as I thought!In full: Awesome support in places. Industrial areas were quite depressing and demoralising. Not as hilly as I was led to believe but definitely not flat. Trouble getting to the loo beforehand, was nowhere near enough toilets. Also seemed endless barriers cutting off access to the start. I arrived at 8.30 as the traffic was also quite bad I ended up leaving my car at Centertainment and walking down (regretted the walk back!)Water stations good placement, found it tricky drinking from a cup so tipped it over my head. Sponges were handy as well.All in all an enjoyable first half marathon for me!Date of review: May 27, 2012
In short: Great atmosphere on Ecclesall Road - but poor facilities managementIn full: FIrst half. Why were there taped off areas before the race where runners needed to go back and forth between ? Also there was a lack of loo facilities for so many people. Maybe they should have stuck to the original 5k entry limit, was glad I wasn't a lady tbh.Date of review: May 27, 2012
Date of review: October 16, 2011
In short: Champion just championIn full: Struggled in the heat and humidity in this testing undulating course.Enjoyed the route the Don valley stadium start and finish was good however getting out of the stadium was a nightmare, not properly signposted and lack of marshals at the end. Good crowd support, confused as to running above the crowd at the end when doing a loop of the stadium and only getting 70 meters of glory on the track. Surely a lap of the track with the crowd cheering you on would be better? Half full cups of water were a problem especially when the heat was bad.Date of review: June 1, 2011
In short: A disappointing 3rd Sheffield Half for meIn full: Sheffield 2009 was where I first spotted runners from the club that I later joined, so it'll always have a special place in my heart, hence why I was doing it for the third year in a row. We were flying on holiday at 7pm that night so my husband wasn't delighted I still intended to do it, but I had thought it was worth it...Sadly I have to echo what many other people are saying about some of the organisation this year. The lack of toilets compounded by the poorly sign-posted layout inside and out meant I missed lining up for the start and had to jump over the barrier, luckily crossing the start when only 2 mins had passed on the clock. No warm up and a terrible sense of dread meant I didn't start in the best state. I don't mind cups as I wouldn't have wanted to carry a bottle, but the stations were not ready and not quick enough so I decided not to drink a couple of times when maybe I should have. It was lucky the date moved as normally the weather is far hotter in April. I was disappointed and annoyed, like a few other runners, to find that the sports drink station wasn't there and none at the end either. This isn't a cheap race and we were promised this is the literature as in previous years, and people had built them into their race plans. It feels like the organisers just being greedy at the expense of the runners, which is a real shame. There are lots of good bits though - despite my horror start I did a course PB, the supporters and marshalls are wonderful and generous with their time and the medals are ace! Why not lose the t-shirt and decrease the entry fee though?I'm still feeling rather disappointed by this so it won't be one that I automatically sign up for next year.Date of review: May 31, 2011
In short: Enjoyed it, but could be betterIn full: I enjoyed this race - 2nd time I've done it - and found the uphill drags demanding in places, but nothing too bad.Support on Eccleshall Rd was great, its just a shame there wasn't more in the City overall.My wife ran this race for the first time, and she was just under 2 hrs, and at the end said 'Never again' - I didn't have a problem with the water stations, but she said where she was in the race, she had to wait for water/cups as there wasn't enough set up for the 'middle of the pack runners', on what was a humid day.I enjoyed finishing in the stadium, but the tee shirt was nothing special, but I've got to say I'd do this event again - as long as the entry price doesn't go up anymore!!Date of review: May 12, 2011
In short: Best race I have ever done!In full: You can't really fault the Sheffield half, it has everything: Excellent organisation, closed roads, good mixture of hills and flats, stadium start/finish and most of all, amazing crowd support. I finished in 1:20:11 this year for 20th place and can honestly say it is the most enjoyable race I have ever done. Credit to the course planners for picking a fantastic route, and a big thanks to the residents of Sheffield for cheering every runner onj every step of the way.Will I be back next year? Of course!Date of review: May 12, 2011
In short: i had a disaster In full: i had a disaster i got massive blisters on my right foot that burst. i was NOT wearing anything NEW.i will be back next year for revengeDate of review: May 11, 2011
In short: Very warm but fortunately largely flat! Great crowds on Eccleshall Road. Lots of fun.Date of review: May 11, 2011
In short: A bit dull in parts, but excellent support around the turn. Mainly flat.In full: Starts (and finishes) at the Don Valley stadium, which is always nice - makes you feel like a 'proper' athlete, and good for spectators. Well organised generally. The exit is a little crammed, but nothing excessive, and once out of the stadium, there is a slight downhill, and then into a flat run into the town centre. Unfortunately, this a little dull - through industrial East Sheffield, and a little lacking in support there. Once into the town centre proper, the support picked up, and once past the Sheffield United ground, the crowds were linig the streets, particularly on Eccleshall Road around the turn. Once round and heading back, decent support back into the town centre, but the last 3 and a half miles or so are back to the more industrial part, and support was more patchy (though really appreciated when we got it). The finish is a little hard - you can see the stadium quite a long way before you get there, and you have to run past and round the back before you get in it. Then it is along the top of the far terracing, back out briefly and back in for the finishing straight. Sorted! Other aspects: water stations - cups are really not that helpful, but the water sponge station was good. Goody bag - hmmmm: T-shirt fairly bog standard, a cereal bar, a charity badge (?), and an offer for a gym. Not really up to standard. Marshalling was very good, and very supportive. I'll do it again, though!Date of review: May 11, 2011
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STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Norwegian police say a knife-wielding man hijacked a bus and killed three people on board, including the bus driver.
Police in western Norway say the suspect, described as a man in his 50s, has been arrested.
Police spokesman Odd Arve Solvag says the fire department responded to the incident Monday at first in the belief that it was an accident. They apprehended the man who was later arrested by police.
The motive was not immediately clear.
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House nixes bonding bill
MARSHALL – With the 2013 legislative session's days numbered, the prospects of a bonding bill took a hit Friday afternoon when the Minnesota House defeated an $800 million construction projects bill.
To pass, the bill required a super-majority of 81 votes; it got 76. Three Republicans, including District 16A Rep. Chris Swedzinski of Ghent, joined all Democrats in support of the bill.
The city of Marshall requested $4 million for the new regional amateur sports complex. Supporters of the $12.9 million, 80,000 square-foot sports complex that will be build regardless of the bonding outcome have twice been denied $4 million in bonding requests.
"It would be nice to see a revised bill that would include the Marshall project, but there's no way of knowing that," Marshall Mayor Bob Byrnes said Friday.
Swedzinski said he voted in favor of the bill because he knows all the work the city of Marshall has put into the sports complex project. Still, he wasn't sure enough Republicans would cross over to pass it. He said the chances are slim an alternative bill will be put into play considering all the other issues facing the Legislature and criticized the DFL for spending time on proposed pay increases for legislators.
"I think there is potentially time to do something (on bonding)," he said. "I think it would've made a big difference if there wasn't so much desire to make a political statement about the bill."
Byrnes said there are three scenarios that could still play out in the limited time left in the session.
"One scenario is it's done; the bill didn't pass and if there's not an alternate bill brought forward, then there's no bill for the Senate to consider," he said. "The second is there will be an alternative bill that would garner the votes required, a minimalistic bill that would only include Capitol renovation and some emergency response requests. The third scenario is a reduced-size bill that would still include investment projects around the state."
The amateur sports complex was included in the House version of the Capital Investment bill earlier this session as part of what was then an $858 million capital investment bill.
The bonding bill is a true wild card in this year's session. As in other years, there are a number of high-priced economic development projects seeking bonding, but to date, the only sure thing, the one thing legislators have agreed on paying for, is Capitol renovation, which made up a little more than one-eighth of the $800 million bill that failed Friday.
"We're really in kind of a wait-and-see situation," said Byrnes. "The outlook right now does not look good, but you hate to say it's over until it's done."
Byrnes said freeing up bonding dollars for projects like Marshall's would result in job creation around the state and that the cost of borrowing is currently perhaps as low as it's ever going to be.
Byrnes was encouraged by the fact that three Republicans crossed party lines to vote in favor of the bill.
"The fact that Representative Swedzinski voted for it does mean there is some attention given to the importance of investment projects and it's not just a partisan issue," he said.
The Legislature, which has yet to finalize budget or tax bills, adjourns at midnight Monday.
Long fight forecast over daycare union bill
ST. PAUL (AP) – Nearly 100 amendments await Minnesota House lawmakers if they move ahead as planned on a bill that could lead to unionization of in-home day care providers and personal care attendants.
The volume foreshadows a long fight should the House brings the bill up on Saturday as planned. The Legislature has until midnight Monday to finish its session, including passage of the next state budget.
The debate on a companion Senate bill stretched 17 hours earlier in the week.
The bill is part of an effort by two service employee unions to organize in the personal care industries. It would set up a possible vote among certain providers. Supporters say it will give providers greater leverage in bargaining for state reimbursement rates. Critics see it as a grab for union dues.
Senate backs U of M, MNSCU tuition freezes
ST. PAUL (AP) – The Minnesota Senate voted to freeze tuition rates at the state's public colleges and universities for the next two years.
The Senate passed a state higher education budget by a bipartisan, 44-22 vote on Friday that includes a $250 million spending increase. More than half the increase goes to pay for the tuition freezes at University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities campuses. The bill also includes new money to increase the number of students who get state grants to help pay for college.
The bill also makes children of immigrants who are undocumented eligible for resident tuition rates at state colleges and universities.
Republicans who voted against the bill say the University of Minnesota hasn't demonstrated responsible use of taxpayer dollars.
The bill awaits a final vote in the House.


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Develop a gameplan: the Adaptive Game vs. the Planned Game
This page is based on parts of a presentation by rugby guru Pierre Villepreux from the FIRA website and a presentation of him I found on the Internet. I am very fortunately to have met Pierre several times now and participate in his lectures of the game. You can download a copy the FIRA presentation in French and English here.
Rather then just repeat that presentation I have put the hihglights on this page. Below you have lots of references to related material.
One can question the method of coaching rugby....
Definition of decision making for rugby
Definition of decision-making: the capacity of the player to execute an action following some conscious [or unconscious!] tactical or strategical choice.
Definition of rugby:
A game, which includes both confrontation (with the opposition) and collaboration (within the team), in which two opposing teams fight to gain possession of the ball, with the aim of scoring against the opposition, as a result of their individual and collective efforts.
It is the relationship between attack and defence, and the way in which these two alternate with eachother in the course of the game, which lends a particular sense to this definition of the game. This requires that every player must learn to interact not only with his team-mates but do this in relation to the actions and reactions of the opposition.
These three most important rules / aspect of our game influence how we play the game:
- Where to score: the defense has to cover the width of the field;
- Not passing forward (off-side): the confrontation between attackers and defenders;
- Releasing the ball after the tackle: the contest for possession;
Our definition of tactical skill is the ability of the player to perform appropriately in open play. Open play is defined as the movement of the players and the ball once set play is over and the players and the ball are moving on the field. Most of the time the players have very little time to make these tactical decisions, you have to train your players on such a way that they become unconscious.
Strategic skill is the ability of a player to make the right choices and to perform from set play (scrum / lineout / penalty / kick-off / drop-out). In these situations there is more time to think about a general gameplan and conscious decisions are made.
The Pierre Villepreux presentation on which this page is based deals with:
- The learning process for the adaptive game
- Different learning models, the one that suits learning the adaptive game
- How to develop the ability of the player to adapt
- Why to start the learning process with general or open play?
- The process of decision-making
- Principles of attack a defense
- Tactical problems in today's game
Make a choice: Which style of rugby you wish to play?
First you have to decide what style of rugby you want to play. Pierre Villepreux distinguishes two styles: the Adaptive - and the Planned Game.
The Learning Process, problems arising?
How to deal with this Adaptive Game and have a learning process that allows the players to be trained? How to give them the appropriate tools to develop both an individual and a collective game? And how to build the game, based on the potential of the individual player and the group?
The ultimate aim of coaching is to develop the teams capacities for adaptation. To train creative players while allowing them the freedom to play an adaptative game in which they are responsible and willing to take initiative.
The learning process (training method) is based on learning using the game itself:
The different methods
There are different methods used to coach the game of rugby:
- Technical approach / analytical way. The acquisition by all the players on the team of an ever-increasing number of individual technical skills, with no relation to the reality of the opposition.
- Free play: no restrictions, let the players explore.
- The development of each player's tactical understanding of game situations, in direct relation to the actions and reactions of the opposition. Learning using the game: competitions + prescribed exercises
How to develop the ability of rugby players to adapt?
One of the primary roles of the coach is to create for the players game-like practices which will help them to better analyse all the problems posed by the defence. All players need some common "code" to help them read the game in a similar fashion, especially in open play. The objective is to enable players to apply this code at game speed. This provides the players with a set of consistent reference points and enables them to analyse the characteristics of the various situations in the game. Once the players have acquired this code, they are able to do the following:
- To analyse simultaneously any problem presented by the defence.
- To anticipate what will, happen next.
- To choose an appropriate action as quickly as possible.
The player will then be able to move into the best position to be able to participate in whatever individual or collective action is going on.
Types of play
In open play, the number of basic situations is relatively few and includes the following:
- When the defence is grouped together, the obvious choice for both the ball carrier and the support players is to go wide.
- When the defence is spread across the field, both ball carrier and support players must try to penetrate.
The coach's task is to help both the ball carrier and the support players to come to a similar conclusion about what to do, at any given moment, in light of their perception of what is happening in front of them. This means that every player:
- can perceive how the defending players are arranged on the field, at any given moment;
- can perceive his own position in the attacking alignment and can get into a position to be effective according to the needs of the moment (close support, wide support, immediate intervention, delayed intervention).
So the coach must create practices for the players, which cover all the possible situations of the game:
- in open play (15 v 15)
- unit play (forwards against forwards, backs against back, etcetera)
- individual play (2 v 2, 2 v 1, 1 v 1)
Rugby Team Play
In a general team sense when there is open play, this means that the players must understand how the disposition of the defence changes in response to the movement of the attacking players (15 v 15):
- penetration causes the defence to come closer together and be concentrated in a small area close to the ball
- attack out wide causes the defence to spread across the field
If penetration has really caused the opposition defence to be concentrated in a relatively small area, then all the conditions are favourable to attacking out wide.
Conversely, wide attack creates the conditions favourable for penetration through the resulting gaps created in the defence.
Rugby Unit Play
The unit play includes, for example, forwards against forwards, backs against backs forwards against backs and vice versa.
Rugby Individual Play
For the individual player, this means the capacity to recognize all the specific situations in the game which involve a small number of players, for example 4v4, 4v3, 3v3, 3v2, 2v2, 2v1, etcetera.
This ability of the player to situate himself in the diverse movements of the players and of the ball, and to take into account the disposition of the defence is the essential principle of decision-making during the game.
How to develop?
How to develop the tactical capacities of attacking players in a game situation where the ball carrier does the decision making: players have to understand they can belong to different "families" and have te (re)act accordingly:
- Players who carry the ball
- Players inside the ball, late arrivers
- Players outside, early arrivers
- Players in the deep axis
The "why" before the "how"
Work on the tactical understanding of the player, then on the technical and positional details will fit in.
[The Rijks Universiteit Groningen called this development cognitive behavior, declarative knowledge before procedural knowlegde, Martin]
The are lots of things to consider in order to make the right decision, the above diagram also shows the process of seeing what is in front of you, recognise the pattern, decide and act upon it. [Note: with our focus on the the technical aspects of the game we only work on the last bit; Martin]
Why start the learning process with general play?
1. It allows players to be confronted with all the situations:
- from the general (team against team)
- to the individual (1 vs. 1)
2. It allows players to work from the simple to the more complex. By changing the elements:
- time
- space
- numbers of players
- distribution of players in attack and defence
In the General Play we look for:
- adaptability
- creativity and variety of actions
- accuracy and efficiency in skill
The process of decision-making in rugby
It is useful to recall our use of the terms tactical and strategical:
- Tactical: the ability of the player to perform appropriately in situations where there is some uncertainty about the outcome (e.g. in general play);
- Strategical: the ability of the player to make the right choices in Situations where the positions of the players involved is evident (e.g. in scrum and Lineout).
Principle to attack a defence
Go to play where it's easy to play! Think about specific roles in relation to the ball and ball carrier:
- Role of ball carrier
- Role of the support near the ball
- Role of the support more distant from the ball
Focus of the attacking team is how to maintain the going forwards with lateral passing to avoid the lateral movement of the cover defence?
- Which game do youwant to play?
- What type of players are required to play it?
- What type of training for your players?
Tommorow's players will, in order to break down organised defences, will have to learn to play at a higher pace and to read the game quicker and have a greater variety of skills.
Very important: to see and understand the immediate action and anticipate the most effective option before the opposition can respond.
- to choose the appropriate skill
- to utilise good technique
- to change the option if necessary
And...to raise this tactical - and technical aspects the player will also have to simultaneously:
- develop fitness levels
- master emotional pressure
- develop mental strength
in the moving game the players' specialist rol becomes less relevant.
Related topics are:
- Skill Acquisition and "Rugby Sense", by Jeff Hollier, more about this learning process and conscious / unconscious decision making.
- The Planned - vs. the Adaptive Game style of play.
- The need for "Plays/set moves".
- Pierre at the Rugby Heroes website.


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Agreed. BML and Wanderlust are certainly in the top 10 of Paul's post Beatles stuff. Top 20 of all his stuff combined, for sure . . .
By the way. Does "1882" mean "1985"?
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SAULT STE. MARIE – American Legion State Commander Thomas Brown of Oscoda, accompanied by American Legion Auxiliary State President Mary Anne Yuncker of Cedar Springs and Sons of The American Legion State Commander Rodney Tolbert of St. Joseph, will lead an official visit to 18 Upper Peninsula posts, units and squadrons beginning Sunday with Sault Ste. Marie Post 3. Iron River Post 17 will conclude the tour Jan. 18-19 as hosts to the 2013 Upper Peninsula Mid-Winter Conference of American Legion Posts.
The week long annual excursion provides the "American Legion Family" state leadership, the means to personally assess veterans' and community programs with Upper Peninsula representatives of more than 7,000 Legion members, 3,000 Auxiliary members, and 1,500 SAL members. In addition to Sault Ste. Marie and Iron River, tour stops will be at Newberry, Munising, Little Lake, Marquette, Greenwood, Iron Mountain, Crystal Falls, Lanse, Baraga, Lake Linden, Bergland, Wakefield, Watersmeet, and Stambaugh. The leaders will also make official visits to the D.J. Jacobetti State Home for Veterans in Marquette Monday, and Iron Mountain's Oscar Johnson VA Medical Center Tuesday.
Commander Brown, the elected head of Michigan's 85,000 Legionnaires, is retired from the U.S. Air Force service. His home post is Oscoda Post 274. Yuncker, representing more than 30,000 auxiliaires, is a member of Cedar Springs Unit 287. SAL Commander Tolbert represents nearly 14,000 Sons, and is from St. Joseph Squadron 49.
With 2.4 million members, the American Legion is the largest war veterans organization in the nation. Nationally, the 1 million member American Legion Auxiliary is the largest women's patriotic organization.
Folk dance at Fortune Lake
CRYSTAL FALLS – Autoharp performer Bryan Bowers will perform a concert at the Second Sunday Folk Dance at 4 p.m. Sunday in Crystal Falls.
Hosts will be Bette and Dean Premo (White Water) performing a short set along with Carrie, Emma, and Susan Dlutkowski. After the concert, snacks and beverages will be served and the dance portion of the evening begins with Bette Premo and The Front Parlor Dance Band until 7 p.m.
Fiddler Bob Arthur will lead an Old-time Music Jam Session starting at 1 p.m. at the Dining Hall. Admission is $7 for adults, and free to ages 14 and younger.
Those who would like to sponsor the folk dance with a tax-deductable donation may call Bette Premo at 906-822-7889. The Fortune Lake Camp is located between Iron River and Crystal Falls.
Lodging is available at Fortune Lake Camp. For lodging reservations, call 906-875-3697.


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Ortiz runs singletrack on the Wulfsohn Ranch Trail, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Photo by David Clifford.
"I'm going back to get my butt kicked by Ellie Greenwood" is how Ortiz described her chances, and she seemed to believe that. But while her comeback, humility and super-mom lifestyle make for an inspiring tale, do not let it obscure the unvarnished rawness that defines Ortiz: a 5-foot-3, 105-pound pit bull who intimidates her opponents and has been known to berate inferior teammates in public; who is terrified by how much pain she can inflict on her body, but enamored with her ability to inflict it; who once ran a full season with a broken hip.
Contrary to what her tendencies lead you to believe, Ortiz is not consumed by winning. She is consumed by maximizing her potential, possessed by it almost. A social runner who trains every day with slower friends, she does not know what occurs on race day, only that something does. And she cannot always control her transformation. "It just happens," she says.
"She flips a switch," says her husband, Mike. "I've told her before: 'You treat this like a blood sport.'"
That has not been the case forever. Ortiz has run every day for most of her life, but she's only been competing for a fraction of that time, less than a decade at the elite level. She grew up in Wheat Ridge, a Denver suburb, where she led her high-school cross-country team to a state championship. But she quit racing after that, opting to party at Florida State.
It wasn't until her mid-30s that she got back into competition.
At the urging of Mike, who is the executive director of the Vail Recreation District and oversees most of the area's trail races, Ortiz entered the Vail Half Marathon in the mid-1990s (she and Mike cannot recall the exact year) and took second after leading much of the race. She returned the next year and won.
In 2002, she decided to try and qualify for the U.S. Mountain Running Team. After learning she needed to win one of that year's three selection races, Ortiz hedged her bets and entered all three. She turned heads when she swept them, clinching the first of three straight national titles and five appearances on the U.S. Team. "She's very hard on herself," says longtime team manager Nancy Hobbs. "But she also loves running more than anyone I've ever met." Her mountain-running career peaked with an eighth-place finish at the 2003 world championships (with a fractured hip) and a masters world title in 2004.
Two years later, Ortiz suffered the first of two potentially career-ending injuries. She ruptured her plantar fascia less than a mile into the world-championship race and ran the rest of the way in searing pain, finishing 11th. The damage was severe enough that one doctor told her: "If you keep running, you're going to end up deformed."
Ortiz was so upset by those words that she bought a bike later that day, resigned to quit running and become a cyclist. But a second opinion discounted the first, allowing her to keep running. She lost some of her top-end speed due to the injury, which was crucial for the quick-burst, five-mile courses on the mountain circuit. For the first time, she began to consider longer races.
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One day in early 2007, Ortiz—then known primarily as a five- to 10-mile specialist and snowshoe national champion who could climb like a Sherpa (she won the Pikes Peak Ascent four times and the Marathon once)—came home and told Mike she was going to try an ultra. She figured she could sustain her speed over a greater distance, even if there wasn't as much of it to begin with. After winning the Desert RATS 25-miler in Fruita, Colorado, she made her 50-mile debut at White River 50-Mile Endurance Run in Crystal Mountain, Washington—the USATF trail national championship—where only Kimball's course record was faster than Ortiz's debut (8:17).
It marked the start of an extraordinary stretch: Over the next four years, Ortiz entered 17 ultras and won 13 of them, finishing second in the other four. Yet very little has changed for her at home, aside from upping her mileage.
In particular, she still runs near her hometown of Eagle, Colorado, with the same group of local badasses, a tight-knit crew who have raced with or paced Ortiz at some of her biggest victories. Not only is it a fast group—most of them have finished in the top-20 percent of an ultra before—but they have also raised their kids and navigated life's trials together. Ortiz is their unquestioned leader; she pushes the pace and picks the steepest courses. She also runs through migraines and, according to them, never shows a wink of exhaustion despite getting only four hours of sleep each night.
Apparently, she is also part camel. "We all get mad at her," says Megan Morrissey, who runs with Ortiz five times a week. "'Anita, you're going to be out for 30 miles; you need some water.' And she'll be, like, 'No, it's OK; I drank some before I left.'"
Ortiz's best friend, Katie Mazzia, happens to be a dietician. She plans Ortiz's race-day nutrition and runs with her almost every day. "I try to get through to her," says Mazzia. "I try to give her the science behind drinking water: 'You're really being mean to your muscles.' If I'm going out with her, she'll bring it. If I'm not, she won't. But you know what? It probably makes her tougher."
Ortiz, for her part, jokingly calls Mazzia "Cautious Katie." When I ask why she doesn't believe in hydrating, Ortiz says, "I do. I mean, I drink water. I just don't think people need it as much and as often as they're led to believe. I feel like you can train yourself to need less."
And still keep your performance as high? "Well, if you're in a really hard race, you have to be smart; you have to fuel. But training and stuff? It's got to be four hours before I'm going to take water."


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In keeping with the University's mission of service, the Adrian Dominican School of Education's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) International launched its first annual Month of Service this past February. The PDK Month of Service was open to the Barry community as well as PDK members.
The community service projects included volunteering at the Art Studio Miami where students assisted elementary school children with a "Tree of Life" art project at a community festival celebrating Black History Month. Volunteers also visited and played bingo with the Mt. Sinai Nursing Home residents. The last service project was with the Urban Paradise Guild where volunteers worked to start a community garden in Lemon City.
PDK Month of Service coordinator, Dr. Heidi Whitford said, "Service is one of the pillars of PDK. It was great that students had a variety of community service options. They were all great organizations!" Dr. Whitford volunteered at the Urban Paradise Guild with PDK member, Nichole Londono and Barry students, Belawn Bright and Johan Diaz (pictured). Nichole Londono said, "I loved that this experience allowed me to get my hands dirty and truly be a part of the change. It was refreshing to be guided by such knowledgeable people who know so much about Mother Nature and a real treat to hear their wealth of information."
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A beautiful creation by the talented Jean Crawford who surely captivated his audience as well as us over at HSD with this gorgeous slick bob hairstyle. Parted at the center and flat ironed down giving it a nice outwards curvy volume this cut is not only beautiful on the runway but also a great everyday look.
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While the Nevada legislature has not yet approved any laws specifically addressing smart grids, the state legislature has passed legislation focusing on net-metering in 1997, and amended several times since 1997. It also established contractual methods for entering into solar and wind easements in 1995. The solar and wind easements were then revised in 2009. (SB 114) [2, 3]
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved Time-of-Use rates for residential and business customers by 2005. The Commission had established demand response through load management by 2007. Commission had approved distributed generator rates by 2009. [4, 5, 6]
"In January 2007, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission issued an Order closing a proceeding it opened in consideration of whether to adopt PURPA Standard 14 ("Time-Based Metering and Communications") as enacted in EPACT 2005. In the Order, the Commission stated the following:
"…time-based metering could allow customers to play a more meaningful role in managing their energy use and costs, the feasibility of using and/or requiring such in this State is still being undertaken. Before implementing additional regulations, the Commission will evaluate the research and cost/benefit analyses that are currently being performed by Sierra [Sierra Pacific Power Company] and NPC [Nevada Power Company]."
Sierra Pacific and Nevada Power submitted their analyses in March 2007. In April 2007, the Commission directed the two companies to do further research." [1]
Time-of-Use rates break the cost for electricity into seasonal periods with demand and energy priced on-peak or off-peak.
Demand response though load management allows the company to de-energized specific electrical equipment of the customer's.
Distributed generators include qualifying cogeneration, small power production facilities and net metered installations.
Nevada Power Company
- Nevada Power Company Northern Nevada Rates
- Nevada Power Company Southern Nevada Rates
- PNM Rates
See the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) for information on consumer-owned Cooperatives: http://www.nreca.org/members/MemberDirectory/Pages/default.aspx
Nevada offers special improvement districts, property tax abatement for green buildings with solar, and a renewable energy rebate program for solar.
More information can be found in the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=NV
State Energy Office:
- The Nevada State Office of Energy
State Authority Dealing with Energy Regulation:
- Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
- Docket Search: http://pucweb1.state.nv.us/puc2/Dktinfo.aspx?Util=Electric
Nevada Revised Statutes
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=NV
[1] Demand Response and Smart Metering Policy Actions Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005: A Summary for State Officials, Prepared by the U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee for The National Council on Electricity Policy, Fall 2008. URL: http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/NCEP_Demand_Response_1208.pdf
[2] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Nevada – Net Metering, 12/14/2009. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=NV04R&re=1&ee=1
[3] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Nevada Solar and Wind Easements, 06/03/2010. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=NV03R&re=1&ee=1
[4] NVEnergy, Northern Nevada – Electric Rate Schedules. URL: http://www.nvenergy.com/company/rates/nnv/electric/schedules/
[5] NVEnergy, Southern Nevada –Rate Schedules. URL: http://www.nvenergy.com/company/rates/snv/schedules/
[6] PNM, Electricity Rates. URL: http://www.pnm.com/regulatory/electricity_legacy.htm


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It's The Perfect Time To Start Pruning
It's almost that time of year – time to get outside and start your landscaping work. It's hard to believe you can start landscaping when you look outside and see all the snow, but in reality it is the perfect time to start your pruning.
Correct pruning is an essential maintenance practice for trees and shrubs in the home landscape – yet many homeowners are very apprehensive to make that first cut. Pruning is not difficult if you understand the basics: why, when and how to prune.
First it's important to know what pruning is and why do it. Pruning is simply the removal of plant parts that are not required, are no longer effective or are of no use to the plant. It is necessary in order to improve the health, value or beauty of the plant as well as to prevent damage to life and property.
As Master Gardeners, one of the most asked about topics is when to prune. Generally speaking, the best time of year to prune is now, late winter to early spring, before the season's growth begins.
The exceptions to this are the spring-flowering shrubs that bloom on last year's growth, such as lilac, forsythia and rhododendrons. Pruning of these should be done immediately after bloom. The only time pruning should be done in summer is to remove dead, diseased or damaged limbs.
Here are a few fun sayings to help you remember when to prune:
How to prune correctly is another hot topic and the foremost one preventing homeowners from even starting. Using the correct tools for the size of the job is key to pruning as well as using clean and sharp tools. The main thing to remember when cutting is to remove as much of the branch as possible without damaging the trunk or stem.
The size of the limb you are removing will determine the type of cut you do. Small branches that are easily cut in one snip should be cut at a 45-degree angle just above an active bud. Larger branches may require the three-cut method to prevent injury.
Don't let the fear of making a wrong cut stop you from pruning. The best way to learn how to prune is practice. Pick up a dead branch and cut away, and before you know it you will be a pruning all-star; your trees and shrubs will be the envy of everyone on your block.
For more information and diagrams on pruning techniques, please see the publications listed at the end of this article. Better yet, if you have always wanted to prune your trees and shrubs but have been hesitant to start, the Master Gardeners are hosting a free pruning workshop on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 9-11 a.m. at the Frank Bratt Ag Center in Jamestown to help ease your fears. Certified arborist Andy Post will help you build your pruning skills and answer any questions you have. He is the owner of A.P. Tree Care and specializes in enhancing tree preservation and maintenance practices.
Space is limited; registration is required by calling or emailing Betsy Burgeson at 664-9502, ext. 204 or "mailto:email@example.com">firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information on pruning, please see the following publications:
"Shrub Pruning Calendar" by Virginia Cooperative Extension: pubs.ext.vt.edu/
"Pruning Ornamental Trees and Shrubs" by Purdue University Cooperative Extension: www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/ho-4.pdf
"Pruning: An illustrated Guide to Pruning Ornamental Trees & Shrubs" found on the following website: blogs.cornell.edu/horticulture/trees-shrubs/
The mission of the Chautauqua County Master Gardener Program is to educate and serve the community, utilizing university and research-based horticultural information. Volunteers are from the community who have successfully completed 50-plus hours of Cornell-approved training and volunteer a minimum of 50 hours per year.
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WELCOMEI have put together this website to capture and share some of my RFID related electronic projects. I initiated each of these projects in an attempt to help myself understand the technologies that are used in various 125 Khz proximity based access control systems and cards. Since there are numerous vendors who manufacture proximity based reader and card products, my efforts have been focussed on the some of the more popular and widely used products in the marketplace.
It should be noted that most proximity cards use proprietary encoding techniques and data formats such that they are usually not interchangeable with other vendors products. As as result, the projects described herein have only been designed to operate with proximity credentials that use Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation including products from HID, Northern Computers (now Honeywell), IEI, Keyscan and a few others.
All information contained herein has been obtained either through publicly available websites or through some extensive amount of reverse engineering activities on my part. I do not work for any company that manufactures RFID related products nor have I ever signed a non-disclosure agreement with any RFID related manufacturer. My preliminary research has indicated that all of the applicable patents related to the technology used in my projects are no longer active.
That being said, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of any of the information presented herein except to say that what I have built actually works .... so some of my data must be accurate.
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