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Yes! Love this visual
Yes! Love this visual mapping and organic relationship of concepts. Fun,creative and helpful. Stimulating too!!
Fascinating and helpful.
Fascinating and helpful.
I found this fascinating and
I found this fascinating and helpful please ask Doug Neill to show us some more. Anyway he could go back and design some of these for the older shows? How about starting with the Elizabeth Alexander segment. It reminds me of a recent New Yorker article called Structure by John McPhee. With gratitude.
I enjoyed the interview and
I enjoyed the interview and found your sketch notes.while looking for.the link to hear.more of.Seths interview. I.like.your art.
Visual notes speak to me!
Visual notes speak to me! Your message reaches farther. Thank you for this important program each week.
Most Excellent! Appreciative
Most Excellent! Appreciative Inquiry uses this technique in large group dialog!
Very Inspiring. Imagine
Very Inspiring. Imagine someone saying that it's a good idea to create meaning. And thank God Krista Tippett is on the air when I am awake.
Yes! This is a great way to
Yes! This is a great way to get a visual representation of the conversations shared, take home points and idea's worth further contemplating.
I teach First Year Writing
I teach First Year Writing and several of my students have expressed difficulty in comprehending material, so I've tried to come up with some alternative ways to interact with the readings so that they feel less overwhelmed and can get something out of it - this is PERFECT. I love this, it works for me, and I definitely think it would work for them, so YES! More! This is so great! Thank you!
Yes! absolutely love this
Yes! absolutely love this Krista. helpful and fun.
I wouldn't mind. These would
I wouldn't mind. These would serve as a nice reminder to think again about some of the ideas that were brought up in the broadcast.
Yes. Exactly!
Yes. Exactly!
This would be awesome to see
This would be awesome to see for every interview! As an architecture student it reminds me of mental mapping or Kevin Lynch's concept of imageability of the physical environment, except documenting a conversation and language, not a place.
Well said. Thanks
Well said. Thanks
I love the sketchnote. I for
I love the sketchnote. I for one was able to make it through college only because taking notes helped me learn and I was always jealous of my peers who had this amazing talent of learning just by reading a book. I absolutely needed to listen and take notes. However for me reading someone else's notes is no better than reading a book as far as my learning is concerned. If I take notes it has profound meaning for me, I think because it structures the information into a concept graph that I understand. Neill is far better at making clean sketchnotes than I will ever be, but it just reminds me that if I really want to understand the deep discussions you share with us, I need to do the work of making my own graph while listening to your show.
Thank you for the quality of your productions, they have a positive impact.
When I saw this sketchnoter
When I saw this sketchnoter tweeted, I downloaded and loved the way it captured so much, so coherently and essentially. It offers a great tool for *consolidating* the interview's ideas and therefore making the ideas more accessible in day-to-day "being."
Yes, it is something I would be interested in seeing each week. Thanks for asking! Thanks, Doug Neill, for being an artist and saying, "Here, I made this." (That's an approximation of a quote I think I recall from the interview.)
Yes! I would be interested in
Yes! I would be interested in seeing more of these! I am a visual thinker. This is a great complement to the audible interview.
Please have one each week,
Please have one each week, this is a very creative way to recap . Thanks
Yes. Beautiful. Paul Soupiset
Yes. Beautiful. Paul Soupiset is also brilliant at this kind of sketch noting. It's fascinating to watch it unfold!
Maybe you could open it up to
Maybe you could open it up to other sketchbookers to get variety ...!?
I'd love to see this every
I'd love to see this every week. It's very interesting and it adds another dimension to the learning.
Trent, I think this is a
Trent, I think this is a great way to not only capture significant points in one of Krista's conversations, but also to promote that conversation before it is aired/released--the "movie poster", if you will, for a particular podcast/episode. It's also powerful that the concept of sketchnoting "On Being" started with this particular podcast...a manifestation of some of Seth's thoughts that he shared.
This is so helpful. I am
This is so helpful. I am smiling and recalling larger portions as I read the sketchnotes. I love it! Please consider adding that for a summary. It helps for some of the more important points to really sink in.
In addition to "sketching" my
In addition to "sketching" my notes I also use different colors and directions intuitively. Later when going back to my notes I find more connections in them than I recognized at first hearing.
I'm a big note taker and info
I'm a big note taker and info-vore so I find this note-taking methodology absolutely fascinating. Count me in.
No. I'd rather consider
No. I'd rather consider statements than tertiary thought processes. I have my own thought processes and rarely have time to read my own notes much less go back to look at mostly indecipherable notes written by someone else.
Yep! This is great. Reminds
Yep! This is great. Reminds me of dootleing my thoughts. Could ask others to compare how we heard things too? Will use these to listen and see how it enhances my On Being experience.
Yes. A very nice visual as
Yes. A very nice visual as reminder and "evoker".
Yes - this is a nice visual
Yes - this is a nice visual representation - and easy way to see the whole. Would also be interesting to see this in a mind map..
I adore this idea since I am
I adore this idea since I am a visually oriented person and reading something in black and white gives the words materilaization. This is a very good idea. It's Similar to RSA, but different.
I also adore listening while I'm doing something else, like working or blogging or any other thing and that's why I love ON BEING.
I wonder what my school years
I wonder what my school years would have produced if I had used a sketch pad instead of a ruled notebook in class. Yes, please consider offering this on other shows. I always find this program to be food for my personal and professional journey and this one with Seth Godin particularly so. The rich content on the website as well. I am an Episcopal priest working hard to build community that can be relevant for a new age. Our religious traditions have gold, and yet are packaged in the institutional equivalent of those horrible plastic containers that are so difficult to get into that it begins to feel like it's not worth the trouble.
Yes! Love it! Looks similar
Yes! Love it! Looks similar to my own visual note-takings, (but far more organized).
This is amazing! I would
This is amazing! I would love you to offer this each week. I write notes as quickly as I can during the show and listen to the podcast afterwards to fill in the blanks, but a visual record like this would be awesome!
Yes, but it shouldn't be
Yes, but it shouldn't be produced. It should be volunteered by listeners. Sketchnotes, done well, are a doodling art form. They are fun and helpful, but should be unprofessional.
This will be a helpful way
This will be a helpful way for me to review your conversations. It also offers another perspective on what mattered in that particular conversation. I'd appreciate these sketchnotes from Doug Neill.
Yes. I find at the end of the
Yes. I find at the end of the interviews there have been so many thought provoking moments. Something like the sketch note is a great way to refresh the brain on what some of those were.
Simplistic in so many ways.
Simplistic in so many ways. Seth doesn't address issues like equality in any meaningful way and seems to be lost in his own hope and well being.
Thanks for posting this. I do
Thanks for posting this. I do something similar when I am writing my sermons and other talks. I'd be interested in read a little theory, how-to on the process behind this.
This sketchnote taking is
This sketchnote taking is good. It has allowed me to gain an understanding of what was discussed even before I was to listen to the podcast. This is good as if I was to miss a live show particularly as I am in Australia I can determine if this is something that i would be interested in listening.
"Would this be something you,
"Would this be something you, the listener and the reader, might be interested in seeing each week?" Yes! I'm a visual-person and it hits-the-mark for me in a different and profound say than prose.
I would appreciate, however, that Mr Godin - or whomever does the sketchnoting - make a rough draft, followed by a more considered sketchnote for On Being's website. Thank you.
definitely yes, a wonderful
definitely yes, a wonderful jog to the memory for the rest of the conversation
Thanks! :)
Thanks! :)
yes. this is fun and engaging
yes. this is fun and engaging. it would be a nice addition to an already fantastic show!
I, too, am a sketch note
I, too, am a sketch note taker, though never knew it had a name. I need to have a pen or pencil, paper and write or draw, in order to listen to, and hear a speaker. I take notes, illustrate words and thoughts, etc. I have had people sitting near me at seminars tell me they were amazed & preoccupied watching what I am doing. Speakers have come up after meetings and ask to see what I was doing. I have saved some of the images for possible use in future art projects - however, they turn out to be works of art in and of themselves. No piece of paper is safe if I am nearby with a pen and needing to listen! I think sketch notes of your show would be interesting. Doodles unite!!!
Thanks for this!
Thanks for this!
Yes I would enjoy seeing a
Yes I would enjoy seeing a weekly sketchnote. This is the first time I have heard the word "sketchnote" and the first time I have seen a model of this artistic way of collecting and preserving the "footprints" of a message received. I plan to bring a pencil and pad to the next interview or lecture I hear or meeting I attend and try this myself.
This sketch note picture was
This sketch note picture was very helpful as I reviewed the podcast of Krista Tippett's interview. I think such notes would be helpful in listening to the interview the first time, but I would not be likely to sit at my computer and login to view them, as I listen to Tippett's interviews on Sunday mornings on my local NPR station, with my 2nd cup of coffee. Maybe if you produced them regularly for a while, I would change my habit, and follow on my computer. Thanks for trying this idea!
I would love to have notes
I would love to have notes such as this each week.
No question. Love it!
No question. Love it!
Yes Yes Yes! Please consider
Yes Yes Yes! Please consider posting Doug's visual notes after each "On Being!" I often urge my colleagues to listen to "On Being" podcasts, and if I had this visual to forward to them, I believe it would help anchor the ideas and increase their eagerness. Thanks for posting!
Loved the show and the
Loved the show and the Sketchnote. Really helpful, non-linear way we actual perceive the universe.
YES YES YES!! I am doing my
YES YES YES!! I am doing my own sketch notes for TONS of interviews now. I LOVE it!
YES YES YES!! I am doing my
YES YES YES!! I am doing my own sketch notes for TONS of interviews now. I LOVE it!
Yes! I am a very visual
Yes! I am a very visual learner and this a great synthesis of the main points of the conversation.
Yes, I've just started doing
Yes, I've just started doing this myself -- I didn't realize there was a name for it. I love seeing something handwritten on the screen, which I know sounds strange -- but it's somehow so human.
Yes, I've just started doing
Yes, I've just started doing this myself -- I didn't realize there was a name for it. I love seeing something handwritten on the screen, which I know sounds strange -- but it's somehow so human.
Please do include more of
Please do include more of Dougs sketchnotes.I'm a visual big-picture type and this really enhances the message. Thanks for posting it!
Yes, I've seen this as mind
Yes, I've seen this as mind mapping ~ taking notes from our own perspective and valuing our own artistic creativity.
Yes! The sketch notes are
Yes! The sketch notes are helpful. Please continue.
Thanks for all you do for us.
I'm new to On Being...Being a
I'm new to On Being...Being a visual learner, I love the sketchnote. It allows me to consider another's point of view and fill-in-the-blanks with my own experience. Thank you. Keep this one.
I would definitely like to
I would definitely like to see this feature continued. Great tool to visualize the key takeaway points from the interview.
I find the relationship
I find the relationship between the various text sizes and juxta-positioning very helpful in connecting the various ideas at a glance. yes i'd be interested in seeing more.
I am a huge fan of your show and share it often with friends and family.
thank you
I do this often and I love
I heart this. I do this myself and I love seeing other people's sketch notes!
I love Doug's work. I like
I love Doug's work. I like using it for my sermon prep. It gives a new understanding.
His notes helped me this week as I was trying to tell my husband about the interview and the notes sparked my memory.


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Air France, KLM Launch In-Flight Connectivity Trial
Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are launching trial flights featuring in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity provided by Panasonic Avionics, the company said Thursday.
The trial phase will last for the remainder of 2013, on two Boeing 777-300s, operating commercially to several long-haul destinations. According to Panasonic, the service will be distributed to passengers at an hourly rate, or for one fixed fee that covers the duration of the flight.
Passengers will be able to connect to the wireless service--via the on-bard portal or satellite Internet--at 20,000 feet, or shortly after taking off.
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More on my OlympiansPosted Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 1:53 PM
I realize it takes alot to become an Olympian, but I'm calling 'my girls' Olympians....cuz that's what they are to me. They are all winners...and I'm proud of what they do, and go thru. We all go to the measures that we need to be safe, but this blog will show, that
"The agony of defeat gets us all"
It only takes a moment to go from this
To this sequence of events.
These horses are moving pretty quick..... so changes happen in the blink of an eye.
This is one my favorite Moms in the whole world. If you look closely, you can see she is still smiling.
She does what is correct. She gets back on that pony and does it again.
"Cowgirls don't cry"
Then her daughter also re-rides.
We are lucky enough to have among us
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"World Class Teacher"
In my opinion, (and of course everyone has an opinion) you can't teach something, that you aren't willing to demonstrate by doing. We have that covered here.
Christine & Otis
This young one took a spill.... this is her back, where she landed on a rail. The pictures above, show her jumping after the crash. No Fear.
This is a young girl that has started with me in the last few weeks. She has won her first ribbons at a horse show. (last Saturday when it was COLD outside) These are her first jumps in an English Saddle.
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What you may not know is how blessed the Rusty Spurs 4-H club is to have Jessie as our horse leader. Jessie has devoted her time to our children with the only motivation behind it being to see them smile while riding their horses. Jessie has no kids in 4-H any more or grandkids, she is giving up her time because she has such a big heart. This woman is a shining example of what a I hope to become. By the way when my little student fell off and cried I had to keep from crying because she is like another one of my kids and I love her dearly.
-- Posted by CFrisbee on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 2:33 PM
Well .....who knew I could be brought to tears
Thanks Christine....
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 2:55 PM
You are right about experience. I have watched C get thrown into a jump, not a fun activity for a Mom. She did get back on, just like she urged P to do and she does the same with her girls. 4-H leaders and others who work with youth like you do are to be commended. Programs such as this can change young lives for the better. Thanks for what you do.
-- Posted by phammond on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 8:06 AM
Thank you very much for that Phammond. I do truely appreciate that. We love working with the kids, and we've both seen what it can do for a child's life.
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 2:14 PM
First off thanks for shareing my fall with the world!! J/K But I do have to agree Rusty spurs is beyond lucky to have the 3 leaders that they have. I have never met 3 people as knowledgeable as our leaders, that take the time to share it with kids that are so younge! Most adults wouldn't "waist their time". I know that my girls think Jessie, Wayne and Christine walk on water and really do pay attention to what they have to say. They have both improved 10 fold just this year and are loving every min. of it!! Thanks you guys you are the best and all that you do dosen't go unnoticed!!
-- Posted by minnie mo on Sat, Jun 5, 2010, at 9:53 PM
Hay, thanks for your comment too! The world loves seeing how you persevered against that small bit of adverity...AND how you were good natured thru the whole thing. THAT is why I posted it...the focus wasn't on the crash...but your wonderful attitude about the experience..
In the midst of adversity lies opportunity.....:Ray Hunt
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Dave Filipi presents: Rare Baseball Films—The Newsreels
Friday, July 20, 2012 6:30 p.m. Lecture Hall
Dave Filipi, Director of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, presents a new program of "Rare Baseball Films." This year's show draws on the Hearst Metrotone News Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Before television, theatrical newsreels allowed fans across the country to see ballplayers in action. This compilation, spanning five decades, includes such highlights as Stan Musial's 3,000th hit; Indians players trying to catch baseballs tossed from the top of Terminal Tower; Jackie Robinson relaxing at home; Sandy Koufax's retirement; and more! Thanks to Todd Wiener and Steven Hill, UCLA Film & Television Archive. USA, 1927–69, b&w/color, Beta SP, approx. 120 min.
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Completed in June 1996 at an original cost of $5.5 million, the stadium's permanent seating capacity is 4,419 fans. Naming rights were awarded to Harold Newman, founder of Newman Outdoor Advertising, for $1.5 million in 1998.
Dimensions are 318 feet to left field, 399 feet to left-center field, 408 to center field, 365 to right-center, and 314 down the right-field line. The surface is natural grass.
Dressing rooms are located under the stadium behind each dugout, and there is an indoor batting cage. A two-tiered press box with radio and television booths provides ample working space high above home plate between 12 spectator suites.
An LED video board measuring 26 feet wide and 13 feet high in left field is accompanied by a digital scoreboard. The stadium has superior lighting for evening and late-night games and a full-sized infield tarp for foul weather.
Newman Outdoor Field was the site of the 2000 North Central Conference tournament and the 2009 American Legion World Series. It is also home to the annual Fargo Blues Fest.
The Bison previously hosted games one mile east of campus at Jack Williams Stadium, the Fargo American Legion facility. NDSU also played on the artificial turf of former Bison football stadium Dacotah Field, and an on-campus diamond at 17th Avenue and Albrecht Boulevard that was lost to construction of the Fargodome after the 1990 baseball season.


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American Naturalism in Short Fiction
American Naturalism in Short Fiction
American literary naturalism is a literary movement that became popular in late-nineteenth-century America and is often associated with literary realism. The term naturalism was initially coined by Emile Zola, the renowned French author who is also credited as a key figure in the development of French literary naturalism. In the late nineteenth century, the literary movement became popular all over Europe, from England to Russia. American writers were particularly influenced by the British and French models and began to adapt the form to reflect American social, economic, and cultural conditions. Viewed as a combination of realism and romanticism, critics contend that the American form is heavily influenced by the concept of determinism—the theory that heredity and environment influence determine human behavior. Although naturalism is often associated with realism, which also seeks to accurately represent human existence, the two movements are differentiated by the fact that naturalism is connected to the doctrine of biological, economic, and social determinism. In their short fiction, naturalist writers strive to depict life accurately through an exploration of the causal factors that have shaped a character's life as well as a deterministic approach to the character's thoughts and actions. Therefore, instead of free will, a naturalist depicts a character's actions as determined by environmental forces.
American literary naturalism came to the forefront of popular literature during a time of tremendous cultural and economic upheaval in the United States; in the late nineteenth century, industrialization, urbanization, mechanization, and an influx of immigrants from all over the world resulted in extreme changes on the American landscape. The short fiction of American literary naturalism depicts the experiences of impoverished and uneducated people living in squalor and struggling to survive in a harsh, indifferent world. Major thematic concerns of the form include the fight for survival—man against nature and man against society; violence; the consequences of sex and sex as a commodity; the waste of individual potential because of the conditioning forces of life; and man's struggle with his animalistic, base instincts. As a result, the short stories of this literary movement are often regarded as depressing, slice-of-life documentations of sad, unfulfilled lives. A handful of significant American authors, such as Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris, utilized the form, which noticeably declined in popularity by the early twentieth century. Critics note, however, the literary movement's continuing influence on contemporary American authors.
Representative Works
Ambrose Bierce
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (short stories) 1892
Willa Cather
The Troll Garden (short stories) 1905
Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 (short stories) 1965
Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (novella) 1893
The Open Boat and Other Stories (short stories) 1898
Wounds in the Rain: A Collection of Stories Relating to the Spanish-American War of 1898 (short stories) 1900
Theodore Dreiser
Free and Other Stories (short stories) 1918
Chains (short stories) 1927
Harold Frederic
The Copperhead and Other Stories of the North During the American War 1894
Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime 1894
Harold Frederic's Stories of York State 1966
Jack London
Lost Face (short stories) 1910
When God Laughs and Other Stories (short stories) 1911
Dutch Courage and Other Stories (short stories) 1922
Frank Norris
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West (short stories) 1903
The Third Circle (short stories) 1909
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
The Four Million (short stories) 1906
The Voice of the City (short stories) 1916
Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination (short stories and drama) 1899
The Descent of Man and Other Stories (short stories) 1904
Human Nature (short stories) 1933
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
June Howard (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: Howard, June. "Preface and Casting Out the Outcast: Naturalism and the Brute." In Documents of American Realism and Naturalism, edited by Donald Pizer, pp. 386-403. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
[In the following essay, Howard discusses the defining characteristics of American literary naturalism, describing it as a literary form "that unremittingly attends to the large social questions of its period."]
The present study is a detailed reading of a single literary genre, American literary naturalism, as a distinctive response to its historical moment. As I make that statement its implications...
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Stanley Wertheim (essay date fall 1991)
SOURCE: Wertheim, Stanley. "Frank Norris and Stephen Crane: Conviction and Uncertainty." American Literary Realism 1870-1910 24, no. 1 (fall 1991): 54-62.
[In the following essay, Wertheim contrasts the naturalism of Stephen Crane and Frank Norris.]
Frank Norris and Stephen Crane met in mid-May, 1898. Norris, a fledgling correspondent for McClure's Magazine, Crane, and his bureau chief Sylvester Scovel set forth aboard the New York World's dispatch tug Three Friends to garner what news they could of the stalled war from the American battleships blockading the coast of Cuba. They anxiously awaited the arrival of the missing Spanish Atlantic...
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Louis J. Budd (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Budd, Louis J. "The American Background." In The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London, edited by Donald Pizer, pp. 21-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Budd traces the origins and development of American literary naturalism.]
Although realism and naturalism could have sprung up independently in the United States, the historical fact is that they flourished earlier in the European countries all the way eastward to Russia and that American writers were especially stimulated by British and French models. On the other hand, though a still...
(The entire section is 10728 words.)
Further Reading
Adams, Richard P. "Naturalist Fiction: 'The Open Boat'." In Stephen Crane's Career: Perspectives and Evaluations, edited by Thomas A. Gullason, pp. 421-29. New York: New York University Press, 1972.
Discusses Stephen Crane's story "The Open Boat" as a prime example of literary naturalism.
Anesko, Michael. "Recent Critical Approaches." In The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London, edited by Donald Pizer, pp. 77-94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Traces recent critical interpretations of American literary naturalism.
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Stick With What Works
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Did the market turn from good to bad overnight? Are the data bad enough to warrant selling everything? "Not at all," Jim Cramer told his "Mad Money" TV show viewers Thursday.
Cramer said that while there are indeed some things to worry about, there are also a lot of bullish macro themes that are still intact.
While the traders may be focusing on whether Google (GOOG) can hit $1,000 a share or whether Apple (AAPL) will be releasing a wristwatch, Cramer said he remains focused on what's working -- things like housing, autos, lending, aerospace, energy and, of course, mergers.
When it comes to housing, we're still not building enough homes, said Cramer, and while the traders only read the headlines of Toll Brothers (TOL) earnings, deep inside the 53-page transcript of the company's conference call investors can learn that Toll Brothers is seeing strong demand and a 57% increase in its backlog.
Autos are also selling, said Cramer, as new car builds continue to rise and used-car sales remain strong after Hurricane Sandy. As we learned from American Electric Power (AEP) earlier this week, oil and gas continues to boom in the U.S. leading to cheap energy for utilities, manufacturers and chemical companies. In the banking world, we're seeing lending picking up for commercial real estate and the banks continue to fund a big round of mergers and acquisitions.
Yes, there are concerns in the market, Cramer concluded, but not everything is bad, which is why investors need to be opportunistic and take profits in their winners and continue buying the themes that are working.
All the Stock That Fits
Cramer said he's finally turned the page on the stock of the New York Times (NYT) , admitting that after years of hating the company, now is indeed the time to be positive.
It's no secret that the newspaper stocks have been in trouble for years. As free content on the Web became the norm, newspapers struggled, and many failed, to offer a free service that also drew in enough advertisers to pay the bills. But in March 2011, the Times took a different approach, putting its premium content behind a paywall, making readers pay for the privilege of accessing the content.
That strategy, panned at the time, appears to be working, said Cramer. Paid subscribers were up 13% quarter over quarter, allowing the Times to make more money from paid circulation than it did from advertising for the first time in its history.
In addition, Cramer said the Times has been selling non-core assets, including About.com and most recently the Boston Globe , allowing it to focus on its core business -- producing quality content and charging people for it. Cramer said with this new focus, the Times may now be in a position to sell itself, something that would have never happened with so many ancillary businesses.


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Train Low. Race High. - Page 2
Into Thin Air
It's nearly impossible to dispute the physiological effects of running at altitude, and few people are more qualified to spell them out than Jack Daniels, Ph.D. Daniels is Head Distance Coach at The Center for High Altitude Training at Northern Arizona University. He has coached 31 individual NCAA National Champions and 131 All Americans. He was also named the NCAA Cross Country Coach of the Century and was the altitude consultant for the USATF team at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City (elev. 7349 feet).
There is one cold, hard, non-negotiable truth to high-altitude mountain running: there is no substitute for training high. "Outside of running on a treadmill in a pressure chamber," says Daniels, "there's not much you can do [at sea level]." But don't be discouraged—there are training and tactical options that can make a difference.
"The main issue is the higher you go the lower the barometric pressure," says Daniels. "Each liter of blood carries less oxygen than at sea level, and the amount of work you can do is less."
That is why lower-altitude runners may feel fine early in a race, but fatigue sooner than someone properly acclimatized. And the higher the altitude, the greater the effects.
Between sea level and 2000 feet, there is no difference in athletic performance, explains Daniels. In fact, the difference between running at 2000 feet and 5000 feet is not major, either, and that is welcome news to runners eyeing races in lower peaks, such as the Appalachians.
"The difference between 5000 and 7000 feet is the same as between sea level and 5000," says Daniels. "Above 10,000 feet, performance drops off real fast."
This accounts for many stories of runners performing moderately well up to a certain altitude, then hitting a wall. When they drop below that threshold, their energy returns.
Timing Is Everything
Janet Hamilton, a registered clinical exercise physiologist near Atlanta, has also studied the effects of high altitude on athletes. "If you can't get to altitude several months in advance -- that is, if you have a job and a life," she says, "your next-best choice is to run the event within 24 hours of arriving."
Here's why. At altitude, there is less oxygen being bound to the hemoglobin in red blood cells. When your body recognizes this, its response is to hyperventilate—breathe more—in an attempt to collect more oxygen. Its next effort is "hemo-concentration," where it "dumps" plasma (essentially the fluid portion of your blood). This occurs through the body's natural fluid loss at altitude.
The good news is that hemo-concentration results in a higher concentration of oxygen in the blood. The bad news is that the blood becomes more viscous, making it harder to move throughout the bloodstream—a major problem during a race.
"That process of hemo-concentration takes a little over 24 hours," says Hamilton, "And the only way the body can eventually deal with this dilemma is to slow you down."


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According to the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, approximately 400,000 U.S. military personnel are forward-stationed or rotationally deployed, or postured, around the world on any given dayincluding those involved in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to the costs of supporting ongoing combat operations, the Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars annually on its network of installations around the world that supports its overseas defense posture. In last years report on opportunities to reduce potential duplication in government programs, GAO reported that DOD should assess the costs and benefits of its overseas installations before committing to costly realignments and construction plans. For this years analysis, GAO is focusing on DODs presence in the Pacific region.
As GAO reported in May 2011, from 2006 through 2010, DOD obligated $24.6 billion to build, operate, and maintain installations in support of its defense posture in the Pacific. Additionally, the report stated that DOD is currently conducting the largest transformation of its defense posture in the Pacific since the end of World War II, including initiatives that will cost billions of dollars in resource investments and take many yearsperhaps decadesto complete. Although DODs new defense strategy identifies U.S. presence in the Pacific as important, questions have arisen about the magnitude and costs of overseas basing projects and whether DODs planned investments support a coherent and affordable strategy.
Although DOD has taken steps to improve its planning for overseas defense posture, it has not fully identified costs or provided an analysis of alternatives for basing U.S. forces in the Pacific. Having U.S. troops permanently stationed overseas provides benefitssuch as deterring aggression against U.S. alliesbut it incurs significant costs. In previous GAO reports on overseas defense posture, GAO emphasized the need for DOD to assess the costs and benefits of options for the U.S. overseas military presence before committing to costly personnel realignments and construction plans. However, in the case of DODs overseas presence in the Pacific, GAO found that comprehensive cost information is not systematically used to inform DODs planning for its overseas defense posture. As a consequence, DOD and Congress lack reasonable assurance that overseas presence in the Pacific is being planned and implemented in a cost-effective and financially sustainable way. Reliable and complete cost estimates are critical to allow analyses of alternatives and oversight by decision makers.
As GAO reported in May 2011, several evolving defense posture initiatives in the Pacific have the potential to cost the department billions of dollars. Through informed decision making based on comprehensive information and analysis of alternatives for some of its planned defense posture initiatives in that region, DOD may be able to reduce some of these costs. For example:
[1]Operation and maintenance funding provides for a large number of expenses. With respect to DOD installations, operation and maintenance funding provides for such aspects as base operation support and sustainment, restoration, and modernization of buildings and infrastructure.
[2]These costs do not include (1) supplementary funding provided to support ongoing operations, (2) costs reimbursed by tenant organization at installations in the U.S. Pacific Commands area of responsibility, and (3) personnel costs for troops stationed at installations in the U.S. Pacific Commands area of responsibility.
To provide DOD and Congress with the comprehensive defense posture cost information needed to fully evaluate investment decisions and the affordability of defense posture initiatives, GAO recommended in May 2011 that the Secretary of Defense
Additionally, in light of the United States and Japans joint statement announcing discussions to revise U.S. posture plans in the Pacific, it will be critical for DOD to develop comprehensive cost estimatesincluding estimates of operation and maintenance costsas it evaluates cost effective alternatives for the future. To facilitate congressional oversight of plans to realign U.S. defense posture in the Pacific, and to provide reasonable assurance that DOD will take all appropriate measures to mitigate financial risks and better define future requirements, the Secretary of Defense should provide Congress
By assessing alternatives, conducting comprehensive cost analyses, and providing comprehensive annual defense posture cost estimates, DOD will be in a better position to fully evaluate investment requirements, and make more informed decisions regarding the affordability of its overseas defense posture. Furthermore, congressional committees will have the appropriate financial context to determine funding needs for specific posture-related initiatives and construction programs. Cost savings or avoidance would depend on the nature of changes made to DODs plans and how DOD implements its chosen options.
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Dear editor:
One time a year I choose to see my doctor and get checked out. Now, I do this knowing that there is something coming that I do not like, the prostate check.
The doctor has always been forthcoming and thankfully uses a lubricant.
At this time of year another event occurs that I have no control over which affects all of us. Gas prices rise 20-30 cents a gallon and the oil companies blame low reserves, turmoil in the Mideast, which never ends by the way, for the hikes.
I would prefer that they would be more forthcoming like my doctor and just tell us that it is all about massive profits, greed, sticking it to the working person who wants to take a vacation.
Perhaps then the people getting screwed would know what they already know, lubrication or not.
Jack Landers


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Shwayze's Celeb Crush Is Lady Gaga
We had an interview with Shwayze and we asked him who his celeb crush was and although he did not want to offend his current girlfriend, after time, he did answer.
"Lady Gaga which is funny because a lot of people think she is really ugly, but I think she is hot!"
"She is so talented and she is a dope songwriter. I mean come on, people always wanna hate but I am going to give Gaga some love."
I couldn't agree more with Shwayze, except I don't think Gaga is ugly in the least. The full interview done by Christina T. will be featured later this week.-Dr.FB


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During the 20th century, the option for the poor or the preferential option for the poor was articulated as one of the basic principles of Catholic social teaching. For example, in Octogesima Adveniens (1971), Pope Paul VI writes:
In teaching us charity, the Gospel instructs us in the preferential respect due to the poor and the special situation they have in society: the most fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods generously at the service of others.
Yet while all Christians — not just Catholics — should express a kinship for the less fortunate, Nathan Duffy reminds us that Jesus also expressed a "special, unique concern for wealthy tax collectors."


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About the Author: Jared Banks is a Foreign Service Officer and a member of the International Migration Office in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
The U.S. government is trying to better understand the specific impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations. As part of that effort, I recently visited Senegal as a member of a Study Team on Climate Change and Migration sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, and co-coordinated by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and U.N. University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
The relationship between climate change, the environment, and migration is increasingly attracting the interest of governments, international organizations, activists, academics, and the general public, and has generated an active debate across the globe. There is consensus that climate change contributes to migration, whether through rapid-onset natural disasters or environmental changes over a longer period of time. However, it is often difficult to disaggregate the impact of climate change from other environmental factors and the response of those affected varies from country to country.
Migration obviously depends upon many factors, such as livelihood, food security, national policies, the strength of local culture and identity, political stability, degree of mobility in past livelihoods (e.g. herding vs. farming), access to health services and education, and legal mechanisms and/or illegal routes for migration. Current research indicates that environmentally induced migration most often leads to internal displacement. Migrants who are displaced by natural disasters or other environmental factors such as climate change and who cross an international border do not normally qualify as "refugees" under the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. They are difficult to distinguish from economic migrants due to the fact that much of the reason for their flight was the collapse of livelihoods precipitated by environmental factors.
The visit to Senegal provided me an opportunity to discuss this issue with policymakers in the national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, academics who are studying the phenomenon, and leaders of local communities that have been affected by displacements. The team was also able to examine first-hand the impact of environmental and climate changes at very local levels, including among fishing, herding and agricultural communities. For example, we met with the leaders of a fishing community in Camberene (near Dakar), which has experienced both an inflow and outflow of migrants.
The local imam opened the meeting with a prayer and told us the story of the founding of the community by a religious man -- a history that continues to influence the community's generally welcoming attitude toward incoming migrants, including those leaving farming communities in northern Senegal because of desertification. The community members lamented the loss of their beaches to coastal erosion, the rising sea water temperatures, and the slow decline of fishing as a sustainable livelihood. Some of the women said that it is good for young men to migrate abroad, but others lamented that migration isn't a long-term solution for the community and that the financial crisis has taught them that they cannot always count on remittances.
We also met with a community in Lebar Boye in northern Senegal where the land has become too salinated to farm because of the decreased amount of fresh water, accentuated by a dam that was built to prevent flooding. As a result, most of their children were now working in urban centers. Some farming continued in the Senegal River Valley despite the drought conditions because of a government-funded irrigation system. At one of the farms, we met two young men from Guinea Bissau who travel north to work during the dry season and then head back to Guinea Bissau during their community's farming season. Climate change and the consequences are not bound by national boundaries.
This trip was a timely reminder that the debate about climate change is not only about science or the recent meetings in Copenhagen -- it is also about the lives of real people. The challenge is to address the present and potential impact of climate change with the appropriate policies simultaneously at the global, regional, national and community levels.
Yonason in Florida writes:
You really should stop pushing what has been shown to be mistaken at best, and a scam at worst. There is NO anthropogenic climate change.
The house of cards has collapsed.
If you want people to take you seriously, you need to deal in facts, not fantasy.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Re: "The challenge is to address the present and potential impact of climate change with the appropriate policies simultaneously at the global, regional, national and community levels."
@ Jared,
If these folks had jobs planting trees they wouldn't need to migrate.
I have a real good idea why change happens, and that's when folks get moving on an idea that addresses both problems at once.
On one hand you have probably the biggest human resource problem that drawfs our own unemployment rate.
On the other, desertification requires a lot of labor to combat, and for those who do not understand yet that climate change is indeed a man made thing just look at some sat. photos( before 1980-today)
Pick a country...any country, including our own. The deforestation is pretty shocking.
Then take into account that trees support sustainable agriculture, and act like the lungs of the planet to scrub the air we breath.
Then accept the fact that any policy made by human in government can be improved upon to better serve the people.
And there you have the makings of political will to get the job done right in the halls of government.
In theory anyway.
That's just my logic talkin' whether folks take me seriously or not, I don't suppose I'll be proven wrong over time.
Unless this gets done on an "industrial scale" like the Manhattan Project with every nation involved, this emerging crisis will get a lot worse and we are now at that defining moment as to whether it will be too little, to late if not properly funded by governments and the IMF/World bank.
We have millions of refugees in squalid camps for years on end and trillions of trees to plant over the next decade, to make the difference to everyone's quality of life in time to prevent serious concequences.
The whole way we in the international community deal with population migration and refugees needs a rethink.
Best regards,
Dan S. in Washington, DC writes:
The evidence that climate change is happening is pretty concrete at this point. Whether or not humans are causing it is still questionable. I think that we can all agree that the levels of pollution are getting out of control. The United States needs to become a leader for the rest of the world in sustainable living. I think that the cap and trade system is a great way to give companies an incentive to reduce their pollution levels. This will allow US companies to continue to lead the way in innovation and profitability, while also taking the initiative to improve the current state of the environment. This will give future generation the chance to enjoy all the wonders of nature that we now take for granted.
I understand that skeptics believe US companies will lose a competitive advantage over foreign companies who are not subject to these regulations. But at some point people need to realize that natural resources are finite and once they are gone that is it. We as a country need to take the initiative to lead the rest of the world in becoming more sustainable.
Louise R. in Oregon writes:
The Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment is working to alleviate the impact of climate change on poor rural villages in Senegal through reforestation, rehabilitation of village wells, and training in the use of appropriate, locally available technologies. Find us at "http://www.createaction.org."


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Position: Middle Blocker
Height: 6-4/191 cm
Weight: 170 lbs/77 kg
Hometown: Milpitas, California
Birth Date: Nov. 23, 1982
College: Pacific
Joined Team: June 2001
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2012 - Pan American Cup (Gold). 2011 – Montreux Volley Masters (Fourth)...Pan American Cup (Bronze)...FIVB World Grand Prix (Gold)...NORCECA Championship (Gold)...FIVB World Cup (Silver). 2010 – Montreux Volley Masters (Silver Medal)...FIVB World Grand Prix (Gold Medal)...Tour of Brazil...FIVB World Championship (Fourth). 2008 - U.S. Olympic Team Exhibition for Volleyball versus Brazil...FIVB World Grand Prix (Fourth Place)...Olympic Games (Silver Medal). 2007 – Pan American Cup (Fourth Place)…World Grand Prix (Eighth Place)…NORCECA Championship (Silver Medal)...FIVB World Cup (Bronze Medal). 2006 - Pan American Cup (Fourth Place)... World Grand Prix (Seventh Place)…World Championships (Ninth Place). 2005 – Front Range Tour vs. Brazil…Pan American Cup…World Grand Prix…FIVB World Championship Qualifying Tournament (gold medal)…NORCECA Continental Championships (gold medal)…World Grand Champions Cup. 2003 – Pan American Games (Bronze Medal). 2002 – Pan American Cup (training team).
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2012 – Started five of seven matches and played in 23 sets at the Pan American Cup, helping the U.S. win the gold medal for the first time since 2003…Averaged 2.39 points per set with a .392 hitting efficiency via 1.52 kills per set…Contributed a 0.78 block average, including six blocks in the title match against Brazil. 2011 – Started all five matches of the Montreux Volley Masters, compiling 2.14 points and 0.64 digs per set with a .446 hitting efficiency…Scored 10 or more points in last four matches of the Montreux Volley Masters…Converted 11 of 15 attacks versus Germany on June 9…Started all eight matches of the Pan American Cup, averaging 2.19 points, 0.48 blocks and 0.41 digs per set…Held a .467 hitting efficiency during Pan Am Cup with 54.7 kill percent…Converted 70 percent (7-10) attacks for kills versus Cuba in bronze-medal match as part of .500 hitting efficiency and 10-point performance with three blocks…Played in seven sets with one start while serving as captain of squad that won the FIVB World Grand Prix…Scored seven points versus Peru in only start of the tournament, while adding five kills against Italy in the Final Round pool match on Aug. 25…Registered 3.00 points, 2.00 kills, 1.00 blocks and 1.50 digs per set in helping U.S. Women to the NORCECA Women's Continental Championship...Scored two kills on five attempts during FIVB World Cup victory over Kenya. 2010 – Served as captain of the U.S. team that won the silver medal at the Montreux Volley Masters…Averaged 2.59 points at the Montreux Volley Masters while starting four of the five matches and 17 of the 18 sets…Converted 56.4 percent of attacks with a .455 hitting efficiency during the Montreux Volley Masters, including a .688 hitting efficiency (12-1-16) versus Russia on June 11 leading to 16 points…Averaged 0.71 blocks during the Montreux event…Served as captain of the U.S. squad that won the FIVB World Grand Prix…Played in three sets during the World Grand Prix compiling two points versus Germany on Aug. 7 and three points versus Thailand on Aug. 14…Averaged 2.21 points per set and converted 51.2 percent of attacks while starting three of four matches on Tour of Brazil…Played in seven sets during the FIVB World Championship…Scored nine points with 7-of-11 errorless hitting in addition to two blocks in bronze medal match against Japan on Nov. 14…Scored five points in final set versus Brazil on Nov. 10, including 4-of-4 hitting. 2008 - Started versus Brazil on June and compiled six kills and match-high seven blocks in five-set victory...Started final two sets versus Brazil on June 14 and tallied three kills and three blocks...Averaged 2.71 points against Brazil, including 1.43 blocks and a .350 attack efficiency...Started eight of nine sets played in the opening preliminary weekend of the World Grand Prix...Averaged 3.11 points with 2.78 kills and 0.33 blocks per set...Compiled a .511 hitting efficiency on 45 swings and just two errors...Played a reserve role at the Olympic Games to assist the USA to a silver medal, its first medal-stand appearance since 1992...Contributed key points coming off the bench versus Venezuela on Aug. 13, which included four blocks and three kills in three sets...Added three kills and a block off the bench versus Poland on Aug. 17. Tallied six kills on 18 attacks during the Olympics to go with five blocks in six sets played (four started). 2007 – Averaged 2.40 points per set during Pan American Cup and only non-libero to play in all 25 sets…Produced 15 points, including international career-high five blocks, versus Dominican Republic on June 29…Started seven of nine matches at World Grand Prix, averaging 1.70 points per set…Attacked at a .411 clip during the World Grand Prix on 56 swings…Averaged 2.86 points per set mainly as a reserve at the NORCECA Championship…Charted 16 points with nine kills, four aces and three blocks versus Cuba in the NORCECA gold medal match on Sept. 22…Started 18 sets and three matches at the FIVB World Cup…Averaged 2.11 points, 1.47 kills and 0.58 blocks per set during the World Cup…Recorded a .386 attack percentage on 57 swings at the World Cup…Tallied a tournament-best 13 points versus Thailand on Nov. 10. 2006 – Averaged 3.33 points in 24 sets over seven matches of a tour of Italy March 22 to April 2 … Played one set versus Poland on May 26, recording one kill...Scored in every match of the Pan American Cup with 10 points against Venezuela and 13 points against Argentina...Scored 61 total points at Pan American Cup…Averaged 2.29 points per set during World Grand Prix, including 11-point matches against Dominican Republic on Aug. 16 and Brazil on Aug. 26. Produced four blocks in matches against Dominican Republic and Brazil…Played in 14 sets of the World Championships with eight individual set starts…Compiled 24 points on 18 kills and six blocks, including a personal tournament high 10 points coming off the bench against Kazakhstan on Oct. 31. 2005 – Selected as a member of the USA Women's National Team that captured the silver medal at the season-ending FIVB World Grand Champions Cup in Japan in November…The United States finished the tournament with a record of 4-1 as it earned wins over Korea, 2004 Olympic gold medalist China, Poland and Japan along the way…Earned a gold medal as Team USA won its third-straight NORCECA Continental Championship with a five-set victory over Cuba on Sept. 11…The USA Women qualified for the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup with the win…Also earned a gold medal in August at the FIVB World Championship Qualifying Tournament as the USA Women qualified for the 2006 World Championships. 2003 – Earned a bronze medal as a member of the USA Women's Pan American Games Team in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
RECENT PRO: Played for Toyota Auto Body Company in Japan's V-League in 2008…Played for Bigmat San Paolo Chieri of the Italian Serie A League in 2007. Produced a 2.10 points per set average and 52.6 kill efficiency for Chieri, which advanced to the league quarterfinals.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 2003 – Capped her brilliant career by being selected as an American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) First-Team All-American…Became the first four-time All-American in school history…Also captured Big West Conference Player of the Year honors…Named first-team All-Big West Conference for the fourth-straight season…Recorded a .340 hitting percentage with 5.63 kills, 2.09 digs and 1.20 blocks per game as a senior. 2002 – Earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Second-Team All-America honors for the second-straight year…Also earned first-team All-Big West Conference honors for the third-straight season…Averaged 4.99 kills and 1.32 blocks per game…Finishes her junior season third in the Pacific career record book in kills (1,501) and seventh in total blocks (486). 2001 – AVCA Second Team All-American…Third Team ASICS/Volleyball Magazine All-American…Led the Tigers and Big West with 601 kills, 4.73 kills per game and a .313 hitting percentage…Big West All-Conference Team…AVCA All-West Team for second year. 2000 – AVCA Second Team All-American…Volleyball Magazine Honorable Mention All-American…AVCA All-West Team and District Freshman of the Year…Broke 15-year old record for single-season hitting percentage at .402…Named Big West Freshman of the Year and First Team All-Big West…Named Big West Player of the Week twice (Oct. 9 and Nov. 20)…Had career-high 21 kills and nine digs against UCLA on Dec. 8.
PERSONAL: Born Jennifer Claire Joines on Nov. 23, 1982, in Santa Clara, Calif….Parents are David and Jody Joines…Married Chris Tamas on Aug. 22, 2009…Has a younger brother, John…Majored in communications and business at Pacific…Enjoys music, singing and dance.
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Judy L. Covert, 54, of Akron, N.Y. entered into rest Saturday (Jan.12, 2013) in Absolut Care in Gasport, N.Y. following a lengthy battle with Multiple Sclerosis.
Judy was born September 3, 1958 in Batavia, N.Y. the loving daughter of Naomi (Ewald) Covert of Akron and the late Wilbur Covert.
She was a graduate of Akron Central School class of 1976. Following high school Judy continued her education at SUNY Brockport earning a Masters Degree in History.
For several years Judy was employed in the health care industry as a Nurses Aide for several nursing homes in the area.
Before her illness forced her to stop working she was employed at the Oakwood Nursing Home in Williamsville, N.Y.
Judy was a life time member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wolcottsville. She enjoyed reading, ceramics and was an avid Beatles fan listening to their music all the time. She also enjoyed her cats she had over the years.
Besides her mother, Judy is the dear sister of Karen (late James) Keith of Akron, and Kathy (Bob) Artico of Fredonia, the cherished aunt of Kristin and Jeremy Keith, Matthew Heppner and the late Rebecca "Becky" Spoonhour. Also surviving are several great nieces and nephews along with several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 11a.m. in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 6369 Wolcottsville Road, Akron. Rev. Rod Klindzing will officiate. Family will receive friends on Monday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. in the CHILDS FUNERAL HOME, LLC 10 Eckerson Ave. Akron. Burial will be in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers expressions of sympathy would be appreciated by the family in Judy's memory to the church. www.childsfuneralhomeofakron.com


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Danica McKellar, 39, first caught the eye of America when she was 12 years old as schoolgirl Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. But instead of cashing in on TV fame when the series wrapped in 1993, she focused on her education�and numbers. The result was a degree in mathematics from UCLA and the authorship of four books�the latest is Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape�to help young women master tough mathematical concepts in middle and high school. �Math teaches your brain important problem-solving skills,� McKellar says. �The more you study math, the more your brain gets good at looking at things logically.� As someone who encourages young women to persevere, McKellar felt it was important that she practice what she preaches. So she agreed to participate on TV�s Dancing with the Stars earlier this year. �It was scary. It was taking a lot of risks. I did end up breaking a rib, but it taught me how to push through.� Even with her focus on education, McKellar continues to act. She and the cast of The Wonder Years recently gathered for a reunion for the new DVD release of the series. She had a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, guest-starred on The Big Bang Theory and starred in the Lifetime movies, Love at the Christmas Table and The Wrong Woman. This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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With the recent events in Newtown, Conn., I am compelled, as well as all of you I'm sure, to ask why? In the course of only a few minutes, 20 children, babies, along with the brave teachers protecting them, lost their lives. As previous events of other school, mall, theater shootings our hearts went out to the families affected. All of these have still seemed a world away. What happened there, even with the distance separating our communities, had to have touched us all as if it happened here.
In the months to come, I am sure you will hear more about gun control and legislation to help combat these situations. We in the Copper Country and the Keweenaw Peninsula are fortunate to have professional and dedicated public safety services. I've witnessed and do have knowledge that these public safety organizations regularly practicing responses to such emergency events.
I would expect that every location in the Keweenaw Peninsula involved with either teaching or supervising our children will assess and update their procedures in light of what happened in Connecticut. Please ensure to investigate their findings and apply them for the Keweenaw.
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In short: Excellent venue, was ideal for me, trying to return from injury but it is a strange distance.sDate of review: October 11, 2010
In short: enjoyable sunday runIn full: A good run with a nice local atmosphere. The grounds and weather were great. This definitelyshould be a 5k next year as i think it would attract more runners.Date of review: October 11, 2010
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In short: Good debut race in scenic grounds of Lytham house and very flat. Mainly off road too.Date of review: October 10, 2010
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Former SMSU 2-sport athlete Wayne Hawkins to join NSIC Hall of Fame
Wayne Hawkins, one of the most decorated athletes in Southwest Minnesota State University history, will be inducted into the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Hall of Fame July 10 in St. Cloud, the conference announced Thursday.
Hawkins was a two-sport athlete, a standout in both football and track. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the seventh round of the 1992 NFL draft, becoming only the second Mustang to be drafted, and still holds several SMSU records in both football and track.
During his senior season in 1991, Hawkins set an NAIA record with 126 catches for 1,515 yards and 18 touchdowns while also rushing for 142 yards and three touchdowns and returning one kickoff for a touchdown. He finished the year with 134 points, which stands second in school history.
A native of St. Anthony, Hawkins helped SMSU to a 9-1 record in 1991 and was named first team all-conference, first team NAIA All-America, first team AP Little All-America and Kodak College Division I All-America. He played in both the Kelly Tire Blue-Gray All-Star Classic and the East-West Shrine Football Classic, becoming the first player in SMSU history to participate in either of the games which are dominated by mostly NCAA Division I players.
In track, Hawkins was a 1991 NAIA Outdoor All-American in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes and was a 1991 NAIA Indoor All-American in the 60-yard dash. He was the NIC champion in both the 100 and 200 in 1990 and 1991, earning all-conference accolades both years.
Hawkins, who was voted SMSU Student-Athlete of the Year in 1990 and 1991, will be the 22nd individual from SMSU inducted into the NSIC Hall of Fame. This year's induction ceremony on July 10 at the Best Western Kelly Inn Inn in St. Cloud will be part of the NSIC's 14th annual Summer Kickoff event. The ceremony is to begin at 7 p.m.