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Wow!! Yes, cc often acts similar to pancreatic and lung, so MAYBE??? Let's hope so!
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Thanks for these Gavin, it looks very interesting. I wish they would trial it on some cc patients.
I'm printing this out and bringing it to my onc appt in 3 weeks. I hope EVERYONE makes some noise about this. If it's as good/promising as it sounds, we need trials soon!! No 10 year waiting period... We don't have time for that.
Yay Kris, great plan! Do let us know what your onc says - i'm very intrigued.
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Voters in the German state of Hesse are voting after a campaign that was highlighted by vicious attacks against Turkish immigrants. Sparked by the virulent anti-immigrant rantings of Roland Koch, the electorate has been told all problems in Hesse are the result of the presence of young Turkish immigrants who commit crimes and cause fear among people. There are about one million immigrants in Hesse and at least 250,000 are Turks. It is estimated 40,000 Turks have obtained the right to vote and they undoubtely will support candidates who oppose the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Koch.
Perhaps, it is time for Turkish immigrants to Germany to learn the lesson that immigrants to America grasped over a hundred years ago. Register to vote, get involved in politics, run people from your group for public office and gain electoral clout that forces those in authority to listen to your concerns. Immigrants who stand on the side and refuse to engage in political action only damage their own interests. Vote and the Roland Kochs of Germany will be silenced.


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James vs. Philpott will be a great fight. Seen Philpott twice now and both times has looked awesome but think Simba has the advantage on the feet and his wrestling will be good enough to keep it there.
Out of the three fights announced so far looks like it's going to be a great night and awesome way to cap off the year. If have enough funds after bought all my Xmas presents might see if i can make the trip over. I bet Dublin is awesome on New Year.
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When the University of St. Thomas began its athletics program nearly a decade ago, women's volleyball was the first sport added. Since its introduction the program has seen its share of success and setbacks, most notably the back-to-back conference champions' titles earned between 2008-2010. Now, alumna Keanne Burt '10 who was captain of the squad during those formative years will lead a new generation of UST volleyball players to success, this time as a coach.
"I am very excited to welcome Coach Keanne Burt back to the University and the UST athletics department," said Todd Smith, director of athletics. "Keanne was a terrific player who was a great leader on and off the court. I always thought she would be a really good volleyball coach. It is a compliment to our faculty and coaches to have one of our own alums return to lead a team. When she recruits student athletes for us she will be able to tell them she knows exactly what it takes to succeed as a student athlete at St. Thomas."
As a Celt, Burt majored in education and earned a minor in history while leading the team to two conference championships. As the team's libero, Burt was selected first team all-conference and named defensive player of the year for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. During this time she coached children of all ages for the Texas Thunder Volleyball Club.
After graduation, Burt coached at her high school alma mater where she led the Hargrave High School Lady Falcons volleyball team to two top 10 ranking in Texas 3A play. During Burt's time at Hargrave, the Lady Falcons volleyball program had their most successful season in the school's history, advancing to the regional tournament. Earning a winning record of 52-16 in two years, Burt was named the All-Area and Southeast Texas coach of the year.
As she begins at UST, Burt is looking for athletes who are strong on the court and in the classroom.
"I am looking for well-rounded athletes," Burt said. "It goes back to that work ethic, and that is important on the court and in the classroom. There are so many life skills and life lessons that you learn from being in sports, especially team sports."
Burt leapt at the opportunity to return to St. Thomas - coaching at a collegiate level has long been a dream of hers - and is excited to give back to the St. Thomas community.
"I am looking forward to getting pugged back into the University," Burt said. "There are so many people who are still here from when I was a student and that speaks for itself, that this is a good place to work and that people enjoy what they are doing here."
Burt is excited to start building the team camaraderie and looks forward to the start of the 2014-2015 season that begins in August.
"I am really excited and eager to start working with the girls and elevate their level of play. That is really the main goal, to keep improving and building on each practice and each game. We would like to see nationals within the next 2 to 3 years."
The University of St. Thomas competes in the Red River Athletic Conference within the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. During the 2014-2015 season UST will have student athletes competing in men's and women's soccer, men's and women's golf, men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball.
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'"There's no question that Buffalo is a big thorn in our side because they play such a patient game. For us to win, we can't afford to give an 80-85% effort. We have to make sure that we're all giving 100%."'
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We look up to pioneers in truly exceptional customer service— Nordstrom, Intuit, Zappos. But in a world where everyone from cable companies to cell phone providers claim customer service as priority number one, it's hard to stand out. If you've ever been given a four hour window for a cable installation or had to press 13 different buttons only to be told that you'll need to be transferred, you know what I mean.
We knew that offering the very best customer service experience possible would be a tough promise to live up to, but we made it one of our six core company values anyway. We like difficult problems. If you can figure them out, they're the hardest for other people to copy.
In the end, we took a very simple approach to how we would treat customers: figure out what the customer values most, and then deliver just that in an over-the-top experience.
For example, we sell stationery, announcements and invitations, including birth announcements to wedding invitations and holiday cards. These special occasion products are meant to convey some of the happiest moments in your life, so for decades customers walked into stores where they customized their stationery with the help of staff members who made perfection and attention to detail their highest priorities.
Then companies like Tiny Prints offered the ability to take that in-store experience online and receive the same products lightning fast and at lower prices without sacrificing quality. But we wanted more. We wanted our shopping experience to be faster, cheaper, higher quality AND with better customer service. We achieved the last by building our own personalization technology to put the power of customization into the hands of customers. Now they could shop from anywhere, anytime, without ever waiting in line.
But beyond that, a key decision we made to differentiate us from everyone else was to recognize that customers are human. Stationery is purchased in bulk—50, 75, 100 or more at a time. So if you make a typo, grammatical error or common mistake like leaving off where to RSVP for a party, you would get 50, 75, 100 or more copies of that mistake. And the worst part is that the minute you check out from our competitors' websites, your order is stuck in an automated queue that cannot be stopped.
We decided that was unacceptable if we were going to be leaders in service. Humans make mistakes, and since we enabled customers to build their products exactly the way they want, we decided to take full accountability for their work. It makes sense when you think about it. We see millions of cards each year, so we are experts in language, etiquette, design, photos and much more. While a customer may customize a special occasion product a few times a year, we do it all day, every day, all year long.
That's why rather than having our orders go from web to print, we funnel our orders from the web to HUMANS to print. We review every single line for typos, grammar, proper etiquette, photo quality, typography enhancement opportunities and much more. We have binders as thick as telephone books to train our experts to look out for our customers. And it's not just one human—it's as many as necessary to get the order perfect. After all, even our humans make mistakes.
That's what really sets us apart, and why I'm so proud of the customer service we offer today. It might cost a little more, but in the end it's worth it to me to have perfection be a part of our brand promise.


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Emilio Pucci Fall 2011
Just how smoldering can the hot chick Peter Dundas is designing for at Emilio Pucci get? Positively volcanic, it seems. Except, it's another kind of topographical phenomenon Dundas is surveying this autumn—the peaks and valleys of the Tyrolean mountains (not to mention, the kind of fantastical landscapes that belong in the land of Grimm's fairy tales, apparently). It explains why, amongst all the brilliant embroidered, encrusted, and generally all-around embellished knee-length lace and velvet dresses that mapped the body out in contoured, corseted lines (a hyper-glam take on evening that has been noticeably absent almost everywhere else this season), Dundas can manage to make the dirndl, that full skirt beloved of hausfraus from Innsbruck to Linz, look pretty darn hot, too. It came high at the waist in loden suede, with an Austrian mountain sweater sporting some nontraditional corset lacing at the back; or in black, worn with a soft, romantic black silk and lace blouse with billowing sleeves, making for a surprisingly effortless, not to mention chic, way to dress for night. Dundas went walkabout in the Tyrol in daylight hours, too, with loden coats encrusted with jet beading and a belt punctuated with ebony cameos, or worn with a damson bow-neck shirt and lean magenta crop pants, part of the strong color story—robin's egg blue, burgundy, a golden yellow—he was telling here.
Occasionally, it has to be said, he looked like he might stumble down from the summit. Only Prince Charming can ever pull off—or should pull on, for that matter—velvet breeches. And the collection didn't need the styling trick of the traditional feathered loden hat to locate his inspiration; high on a hill, a lonely goatherd is surely missing his. Yet, those aside, what really came through here is the genuine frisson of sexed-up glamour that was once the sine qua non of Milan and now seems in rather short supply in this city; in Dundas's capable hands, Pucci absolutely sizzles with it. And he has managed to turn up the temperature even more by deftly incorporating the house's print heritage—rendered particularly well on velvet, as well as the trademark silk jersey—into his vision of what and where Pucci should be. Which is to say, at the very peak.


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Five years ago we supplied the concrete for an elevated slab that was later covered with vinyl composition floor tiles. We recently got a letter from the building owner telling us that the floor tiles were coming loose and that the flooring installer had inspected the problem, measured the pH at the surface, and found that it exceeded 9. A representative from the manufacturer of the tile and tile adhesive told the installer that the high pH had eaten the adhesive away in 5 years, causing the flooring failure. The manufacturer seems to be placing the blame on our concrete.
The building owner contacted us and asked how to treat the concrete so the problem wouldn't recur if the tiles were removed and replaced. What information can we give the owner?
First, you should explain to the owner that concrete is by nature a high-pH material. The pore water in newly placed concrete can have a pH as high as 12 to 13 because a significant amount of calcium hydroxide is produced as a byproduct of cement hydration. Smaller amounts of sodium and potassium hydroxide are also present. After a floor surface cures, atmospheric carbon dioxide reacts with some of the calcium hydroxide, which may reduce the pH to somewhere around 9, but generally not much lower because the absolute low pH for fully carbonated concrete is about 8.4, and seldom is concrete fully carbonated. Thus it isn't surprising that the installer measured a pH above 9.
The problem may also be related to moisture vapor coming to the concrete surface and carrying dissolved alkalis with it. This can result in an accumulation of high-pH water immediately beneath the tile, causing the adhesive failure. The important point to note here is that adhesives must be compatible with the surface they're placed on, so when making adhesives to be used on concrete, the flooring manufacturers need to design them to perform in a high-pH environment.


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Celebrate summer with 'Ultimate Picnic' at the Eagle-Vail Community Garden
July 27, 2012
This summer, the culinary staff at Grouse Mountain Grill in Beaver Creek has gotten its hands dirty tending two 4-foot-by-16-foot raised garden beds at the Eagle-Vail Community Garden. While growing Swiss chard, greens and potatoes and much more for the restaurant, the staff couldn't help but notice some other busy gardeners working at a neighboring garden bed.
Eagle County School's "Students in Transition" program is also growing vegetables at the community garden. The program helps students with disabilities transition from school to post-secondary education, vocational training, integrated employment and independent living so they can lead a life they prefer and be an active community member.
Inspired by the students and the teachers' hard work and dedication, Grouse Mountain Grill Executive Chef David Gutowski wanted to give back to the program to help it succeed even more.
On Aug. 15, Grouse Mountain Grill presents "the ultimate picnic" dinner at the Eagle-Vail Community Garden and all proceeds benefit the Students in Transition program. The menu will feature fresh produce harvested from Grouse Mountain Grill's garden, as well as other locally sourced products. Dinner will be served family style at a long communal table.
Dinner begins at 6 p.m. with passed hors d'oeuvres: Crispy pork belly and house made tomato jam, big eye tuna with cucumber relish and caramelized onion and goat cheese tart on a bed of micro arugula. Up next is a salad of palisade tomato and string beans, topped with Jumpin' Good Goat feta from Buena Vista and aged sherry vinegar. The main act is roasted Colorado leg of lamb, served with a confit of fingerling potatoes, Olathe sweet corn, Swiss chard from Grouse Mountain Grill's garden and roasted baby carrots. To end the summer celebration, Grouse will serve a Palisade peach crumble for dessert with blueberry creme fraiche swirl ice cream.
Chef Gutowski and the service staff are donating their time for the event, while Grouse Mountain Grill is donating the food and supplies. It's a BYOB affaire, but bottle openers, ice, water and glassware will be available. Dinner is $75 and reservations are required. Call or e-mail 970-949-0600 x 102 or email@example.com.


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The CRU hack: Context
This is a continuation of the last thread which is getting a little unwieldy. The emails cover a 13 year period in which many things happened, and very few people are up to speed on some of the long-buried issues. So to save some time, I've pulled a few bits out of the comment thread that shed some light on some of the context which is missing in some of the discussion of various emails.
- Trenberth: You need to read his recent paper on quantifying the current changes in the Earth's energy budget to realise why he is concerned about our inability currently to track small year-to-year variations in the radiative fluxes.
- Wigley: The concern with sea surface temperatures in the 1940s stems from the paper by Thompson et al (2007) which identified a spurious discontinuity in ocean temperatures. The impact of this has not yet been fully corrected for in the HadSST data set, but people still want to assess what impact it might have on any work that used the original data.
- Climate Research and peer-review: You should read about the issues from the editors (Claire Goodess, Hans von Storch) who resigned because of a breakdown of the peer review process at that journal, that came to light with the particularly egregious (and well-publicised) paper by Soon and Baliunas (2003). The publisher's assessment is here.
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'Sabres fans will have a better idea how management views the team's playoff chances in the coming hours. Trading veterans for draft picks would indicate an emphasis on the future, while acquiring contributors for the last 14 games would signal a desire to make a playoff run.'
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Top Five Athletes
1. Braxton Miller: You can't argue that Braxton Miller was the biggest star of the year in Ohio State athletics – well, not named Urban Meyer. After leading the Buckeyes to a 12-0 record, Miller just missed out on making the Heisman Trophy ceremony in his sophomore year. The Big Ten MVP after accounting for 28 touchdowns on the year, Miller showed the Buckeye football team is in good hands for years going forward.
2. Logan Stieber: The 133-pound wrestler lost only twice on the year, sweeping through the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments in March on the way to titles in his redshirt freshman season. Stieber is a perfect 15-0 to start the 2012-13 season, as well, and has won every match with bonus points. He could be on the way to one of the great all-time college careers.
3. Christina Manning: What else was there for the senior track star to do in 2012? Manning won the national championship in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA indoor meet and then captured the 100 hurdles at the outdoor meet. She also claimed All-America honors in the indoor 60-meter dash and the outdoor 4x100 relay. Manning was also dominant at the Big Ten outdoor meet, winning three events.
4. Zain Shaito: The fencer was named Ohio State's Male Athlete of the Year for the 2011-12 season; a national championship and Olympic appearance will do that for you. Shaito won the men's foil title at the NCAA championships and then represented Lebanon at the Summer Games in London. Not a bad year for the native of Texas.
5. Samantha Prahalis: An All-American and finalist for the Wade Trophy and the Lieberman Award, the senior point guard capped a fantastic career for the Buckeyes by winning the Big Ten Player of the Year Award. A first-round WNBA draft pick, Prahalis finished her career in 2012 as the Big Ten's all-time assists leader and placed fourth in the all-time OSU scoring list.
Top Five Teams
1. Football: Hey, it's Ohio State. Some other teams had great years, but the "great state of Ohio" is all about its gridiron squad, and the 12-0 season had by the Buckeyes means the football team gets the top spot. It was just the sixth undefeated and untied season in more than 120 years of playing football, and for that, the Buckeyes should be saluted.
2. Fencing: You can't argue with a national championship, and that's what the Buckeyes achieved in St. John Arena in March. Vladimir Nazlymov's fencers won the fourth NCAA title in school history, dominating the field on the way to a 21-point victory over Princeton. Shaito and women's epee athlete Katarzyna Dabrowa captured individual national titles as well.
3. Synchronized swimming: Again, you can't beat a national championship, even in a sport that is not sponsored by the NCAA. Still, the Buckeyes added to their long legacy in the sport with their 28th national crown. Yuliya Maryanko was the individual high point winner at the national meet. Head coach Linda Lichter-Witter retired after the season with 11 U.S. collegiate titles and four straight crowns.
4. Wrestling: After a really rough 2011 campaign, the Buckeyes bounced back to take fifth at the national tournament in 2012 under Tom Ryan. In addition to Stieber's national crown, the Buckeyes saw Cam Tessari (fourth place), Nick Heflin (fifth) and Hunter Stieber (sixth) earn All-America honors. Stieber also had international success and the Buckeyes restarted the fall campaign with an undefeated dual mark and Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite crown.
5. Men's tennis: The Buckeyes had another strong year under Ty Tucker, reaching the NCAA quarterfinals despite seeing a 92-match Big Ten winning streak end in the conference championship. OSU also kept alive its home winning streak, which got up to 146 at season's end. There were also individual accolades, as the doubles pair of Chase Buchanan and Blaz Rola won the NCAA championship and Peter Kobelt won the ITA Midwest regional in fall play.
Top Five Plays
1. Braxton Miller's juke at Penn State: Ohio State fans won't soon forget the play that best illustrated the standout quarterbacks moves in 2012, a 1-yard touchdown run that gave the Buckeyes a 21-10 lead at Penn State. Miller looked dead to rights in the backfield on third-and-goal even after having the presence of mind to pull the handoff from Carlos Hyde's stomach, but one Xbox juke later, he was past Gerald Hodges. From there, Miller leaped into the end zone over two players for the spectacular score.
2. The Ball fumble: The stage was set for a moment Wisconsin fans would never forget. After staging a persistent comeback from an early 14-0 deficit in Camp Randall Stadium, the Badgers had fourth down from the 1 late while facing a 14-7 deficit. In addition, running back Montee Ball was one touchdown away from setting the NCAA all-time record. It looked to all the world that Ball would set the record, but as he tried to jump over the pile and into the end zone, he was met by Ryan Shazier and Etienne Sabino, causing the ball to pop directly into the arms of OSU safety Christian Bryant. OSU ended up winning the game in overtime, and the goal-line stand remains one of the indelible images of a perfect season.
3. Purdue for two: Ohio State was in danger of seeing its undefeated gridiron season end vs. Purdue, but Kenneth Guiton brought the Buckeyes back with a last-gasp drive that ended with a 2-yard touchdown to Chris Fields. But Ohio State still needed a two-point conversion to tie the game, and Guiton masterfully ran a throwback pass to Jeff Heuerman for the points needed to make it 22-22 with three seconds to play. Guiton rolled right, waited for Heuerman to slip off a block and hit the tight end in the end zone for the score.
4. Stieber's takedown: The star grappler fell behind early to top-seeded Oklahoma State wrestler Jordan Oliver in the first period of the national championship match at 133 pounds but came back to knot the score at 2. Near the midway point of the second period, he was able to snag Oliver's left leg then finally was able to take him down near the 20-second mark, sweeping out the right leg and spinning to the top position to take a 4-2 lead. When he limited Oliver to only a one-point escape in the third period, Stieber was a national champion.
5. William Buford's shot to beat Michigan State: All year, Ohio State fans wondered if senior William Buford would have a defining moment. He waited until about the last chance to make it. The Toledo native made a jumper with one second to go in the last regular season game of the year, giving Ohio State a 72-70 win over Michigan State in the Breslin Center. The buzzer beater from near the arc overturned a huge early MSU lead and clinched a share of the Big Ten title for OSU.
Top Five Disappointments
1. The NCAA tournament loss to Kansas: The men's basketball team led Kansas throughout its Final Four game only to see the Jayhawks come back from a 13-point deficit to take a 64-62 victory. The season overall was a success, but the Buckeyes missed out on giving a loaded Kentucky team a run for its money in the national championship game.
2. The men's hockey team's collapse: The Buckeyes were 14-4-1 and ranked second in the nation when the calendar turned to 2012. It looked like the team was in line for a possible CCHA championship and trip to the NCAA tournament, but the team won only one of the last 16 games of the year and lost in the first round of the league tournament. Head coach Mark Osiecki has the team on the right track, but the ending to the campaign was a downer for Buckeye fans who became interested in the hockey team after its hot start.
3. The women's basketball NCAA tournament loss: The Buckeyes, who finished second in the Big Ten, groused about being given a No. 8 seed in the postseason event with undefeated Baylor and star Brittney Griner looming in the second round. Instead, Prahalis saw her OSU career end with a 69-65 loss in the first round to Florida in Bowling Green.
4. John Simon missing the Michigan game: Head coach Urban Meyer called the senior defensive end the heart and soul of the Buckeye team repeatedly during the season, but Simon – coming off a legendary four-sack performance at Wisconsin – was unable to play because of a knee injury. The Buckeyes played well in his honor in the win vs. Michigan, but seeing one of the most impactful players in recent OSU history walk across the field on Senior Day was disappointing to say the least.
5. Losing senior associate athletic directors Pat Chun and Ben Jay: Both became athletic directors, with Chun being hired at Florida Atlantic in July and Jay being tabbed to take over Hawaii's program in December. The moves were obviously great for the two administrators, but Ohio State lost some hard-to-replace individuals.
Top Five Under-The-Radar Performances
1. Buchanan and Rola sweep: The men's tennis stars didn't just win the NCAA championship in doubles at the end of the season, they dominated the field during the 2011-12 season. Buchanan and Rola won the two fall national titles then swept to the NCAA victory in May. The two All-Americans became the first tandem in the nation to win all three of those titles in the same academic year, finished 36-4 overall and were 14-0 in tournament play on the year.
2. Tiffany Cameron's season: The women's soccer senior from Mississauga, Ontario, wanted to set the school record for career goals in her final year. Entering the campaign, she needed 16 goals to do so – three more than any Ohio State player had ever scored. All Cameron did was finish with 21 tallies, obliterating the school one-year record and the all-time mark while leading the Buckeyes to the Big Ten championship.
3. Samantha Prahalis' home finale: The senior point guard finished her career in Value City Arena in style, to put it lightly. "Pistol Pete with a Ponytail" lived up to her name on Senior Night, setting the program record with 42 points in her final home contest to lead the Buckeyes to a win over Minnesota. Prahalis made 15 of 27 shots, 7 of 12 threes, and dished four assists with six rebounds.
4. One boat dominates: The First Varsity Four isn't the sexiest boat when it comes to NCAA rowing, but the Buckeyes had by far the best 1V4 in the nation in 2012. The Buckeyes' crew of coxswain Alexandra Sawatzki, Taylore Urban, Katie King, Stephanie Johnson and Emily Ralph beat Virginia by two seconds in the national championship race, earning the NCAA gold medal and helping the overall team to a fifth-place national finish.
5. Hjelle is jellin': The men's hockey goaltender had an amazing start to the 2012-13 season. Even though the Buckeyes struggled to a 7-8-3 start, Hjelle was almost unbeatable in net, placing second in the nation in goals-against average (1.43) and third in save percentage (.951). He was named the CCHA goaltender of the month in November when he allowed just three goals in six games, going 3-1-1.
Top Five Cool Moments
1. Ryan Shazier shines in No. 48: Honoring a high school friend who passed away, the OSU star linebacker had the No. 48 put on his white road jersey for the Buckeyes' game at Penn State. Shazier then went out and dominated in Gary Curtis' memory, finishing with eight tackles, two sacks and a pick-six that changed the game early in the third quarter. The TD, returned 17 yards for a touchdown on the third play of the half, gave OSU a 14-7 lead it would not give up.
2. Bob Knight inducted: The legendary coach hadn't quite gotten his due over the years from Ohio State – largely because of his affiliation with basketball rival Indiana – but the university has gone about righting that in recent years. The biggest honor came in 2012 when Knight was inducted into the school's Varsity 'O' Athletics Hall of Fame. The legendary coach, a reserve on Ohio State's great early 1960s teams, was honored for his contributions to athletics over the years.
3. Devin Smith's catch: The OSU wideout's grab was so good that even though it happened week one, it was later named college football's play of the year. Ohio State struggled in the first quarter of the Meyer era against Miami, but Smith ignited a blowout win when he skied for a one-handed grab of a Miller pass in the right side of the end zone. The 23-yard score drew audible gasps in the press box and elated the Buckeye crowd, setting off a big win and a big season.
4. The band's video game show: It's not called TBDBITL for nothing. The Ohio State University Marching Band wowed Ohio Stadium and the nation with its halftime performance during the Nebraska football game Oct. 6. The video game-themed show featured music and clips from both classic and newer games, and it featured such scenes as a galloping horse and an Ohio State flag being raised on Bowser's castle after the Princess was saved from the Michigan-themed lair. The nine-plus-minute show was so cool it was watched more than 10 million times on Youtube.
5. A Scarlet and Gray Olympics: In the end, 11 current or former Ohio State athletes competed at the London Olympics over the summer, including Shaito and his sister, Mona, and junior rifle shooter Amanda Furrer. Two stars included former soccer player Roger Espinoza, who led his Honduras team to an upset of Spain and the quarterfinals of the men's tournament, and Canadian swimmer Samantha Cheverton, who finished fourth on a relay, celebrated a birthday in London and got engaged.
Top Ten Stories
We'll leave you waiting for this one. Check out the top 10 stories of the year in the upcoming print edition of Buckeye Sports Bulletin as we do our annual Year in Review story based on the votes of the entire BSB staff.
In Memoriam
While this piece was mostly a celebration of the year that was, we must mention the passing of a number of individuals associated with Ohio State athletics during the calendar year. Associate athletic director Bill Jones, sports information legend D.C. Koehl, former men's basketball player Brent Darby, former football player Jason Winrow, former football player Don Steinberg and others should be remembered.


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The University of Utah is eliminating a high-ranking position dedicated to commercializing the school's ideas and research, one move in a set of "significant" changes announced Friday.
Former Vice President for Technology Venture Development Jack Brittain will return to a professor's chair at the end of a sabbatical this summer. Technology commercialization faculty and staff will report to Thomas Parks, a vice president who oversees all research at the school.
The U. is also retooling its process to give outside business people more influence. A new external advisory board will include an attorney, investors and entrepreneurs from around the country, chaired by Richard K. Koehn, a former U. vice president turned CEO.
"Based on their experience in the business sector, they'll act as advisers through the process of technology commercialization," said U. spokesman Keith Sterling.
The school will also create a seven-member internal steering committee that includes U. faculty members from business, medicine and engineering. "They want to have many voices at the table," Sterling said.
The U. became the most prolific school in the country for creating new startups under Brittain, but questions arose about whether some were only shell companies and about the difficulty of the school's licensing process.
Brittain, a management professor by training, stepped down nearly a year ago after seven years at the helm. He took a paid leave of absence from his $424,000-a-year vice-presidential job on July 1 to explore the creation of a new student entrepreneurship and commercialization institute.
Brittain could not be reached Friday for comment. When he returns, he's expected to have a role with the Lassonde Entrepreneur Center, which already offers programs for student entrepreneurship. His new title will be Pierre Lassonde Presidential Endowed Professor.
His new salary wasn't available Friday, but "he'll no longer have a position on the cabinet, so that will see a reduction in compensation," Sterling said.
Brittain was promoted to vice president in 2005 as the U. ramped up its potentially lucrative efforts to get its ideas and research into the marketplace. Along with licensing, the office pursued the less-common path of creating bare-bones companies headquartered at the university, saying it allowed them to pursue federal and start-up money more quickly. But critics say the method could create conflicts of interest and antagonize other entrepreneurs. Some business people also said the U.'s research licensing process was too slow and onerous.
U. President David Pershing said the changes announced Friday will improve the process.
"I believe it is essential we establish an effective structure that will provide the support faculty, staff and students deserve while also ensuring that university technologies are being commercialized for the good of the state," he said in a statement.
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New technology venture committees at the U.
External Advisory Board:
James Dreyfous, managing director of Pelion Venture Partners
Jeffrey A. Fink, managing director of Gambel Oaks Advisors
Mary Merchant, Partner at law firm Ballard Spahr
Taft Price, general partner, Dominion Ventures and University of Utah trustee
Chair: Richard K. Koehn, president and CEO of SentrX Animal Care Inc. and former U. VP for research
Internal Steering Committee:
Troy D'Ambrosio, director of the Pierre Lassonde Institute
Eric Eddings, associate dean for research, College of Engineering
John Langell, director of the Center for Medical Innovation, School of Medicine)
Dean Li, vice dean for research, School of Medicine
Dennis Owens, associate general counsel
Bryan Ritchie, associate vice president and director, Technology Commercialization Office
Florian Solzbacher, professor, College of Engineering
Chair: Glenn Prestwich, presidential professor of Medicinal Chemistry and leader of the University's Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars group
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Fifty years later, Rosemary Baron still remembers where, when and how she learned the awful news about John F. Kennedy the nation's first and only Catholic president.
"We were just changing classes and the president of our college came through the halls," said Baron, then a student at Mary Manse College, a Catholic institution, in Toledo, Ohio. "I said, 'You sure don't look like yourself.' She said, 'Our president has just been shot.' "
Kennedy's assassination remains a collective memory, one etched forever by shock and grief in the minds of Americans who heard the news Nov. 22, 1963, of the fatal attack on their young, vibrant leader.
Just 55 days earlier, Kennedy had visited Utah, where he was welcomed by more than 100,000 residents along a parade route in Salt Lake City. He gave a speech at the LDS Tabernacle that centered on the dangers of isolationism while invoking images of the Mormon pioneers as exemplars of America's best qualities: courage, patience, faith, self-reliance, perseverance and "above all, an unflagging determination to see the right prevail."
But that fall day Utahns, like the rest of the country and the world, were sent reeling.
Six Clearfield High students touring The Salt Lake Tribune's newsroom were standing next to the teletype machine as the first bulletin reporting the Texas shooting came across the wire.
Gerry Callahan, then in 12th grade, was attending an assembly at Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Salt Lake City. Like Baron's, Callahan's reaction to the news went beyond his faith connection to Kennedy.
"I remember the principal ... stepping out and interrupting the assembly and announcing John Kennedy had been shot," said Callahan, now 66 and a professor of pathology and English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. "I remember, for the first time, feeling a lot more vulnerable than I had felt as a U.S. citizen before that. For the first time, I felt this was a very different world than I imagined it to be."
When Kennedy's death was confirmed, state offices closed. Salt Lake City schools let out early. People grouped around television sets and radios for the latest updates. An estimated 1,000 callers swamped The Tribune's telephone switchboard, asking in "obvious disbelief" whether the news was true.
And the bells at the Cathedral of the Madeleine tolled for 15 minutes.
Leap of faith • Kennedy's election three years earlier was seen as a game changer as the nation bridged a religious, psychological and cultural chasm, smoothing the way for future minority candidates and causes.
"It is hard for people to realize how much anti-Catholic sentiment there was in the United States, even as late as 1960," said Michael Lyons, associate professor political science at Utah State University. "There was a level of excitement and drama about this for Catholic Americans and, I think, also for the black community, who turned out heavily [for Kennedy]."
The Massachusetts senator solicited support of African-American voters, Lyons explained, by asserting that the election of the first Catholic commander in chief could help propel the political advancement of all minorities.
"It was a tremendously important landmark, in my view," Lyons said, "and because the fears of anti-Catholic voters were not realized and because Kennedy was such a charismatic president, it is easy to forget how horribly controversial the idea of a Catholic president was and how it divided the country."
Kennedy confronted the issue head-on in a historic speech Sept. 12, 1960, to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, a group comprised of Protestant ministers.
Protestants in particular had questioned whether Kennedy would be able to act independently of his church the same question posed more recently, if less vociferously, to Mitt Romney, a member of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, during his two failed presidential bids.
Kennedy first listed the core issues at the heart of the 1960 election: communism's spread, war, hunger, despair, poverty, aging, access to health care and the country's failure to keep up in the space race. Those issues, he conceded, had been overshadowed by questions about his faith and now forced him to "state once again not what kind of church I believe in for that should be important only to me but what kind of America I believe in."
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote," Kennedy said. "Where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
He believed, Kennedy said, in an America where there was no religious intolerance.
"I am not the Catholic candidate for president," he said. "I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me."
Mitt's moment • Romney echoed those words in 2007, when he delivered a speech on faith at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. Romney directly invoked Kennedy, "another candidate from Massachusetts."
"Like him, I am an American running for president," Romney said. "I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith."
Five years later, the former governor of Massachusetts became the first Mormon to head a major party ticket. When he picked U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, to be his running mate, reported USA Today, the two formed the first Republican ticket without a Protestant in more than 150 years.
Protestant numbers are slipping across the nation, according to Pew Research Center polling, but, at 48 percent, they still represent by far the largest chunk of the nation's Christians. Catholics account for about 22 percent.
In the 1960 race against then-Vice President Richard Nixon, Kennedy locked up 78 percent of the Catholic vote a significant upswing in support for a Democratic candidate. In 1956, the party's presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, netted 51 percent of the Catholic vote.
The election of a president who shared their faith "was a momentous achievement for a group that had a much higher level of minority self-consciousness than Catholic voters have today," Lyons said, a "very important threshold point."
Callahan was in ninth grade and remembers how on Election Day "the nuns were all atwitter that a Catholic had been elected when people said that was impossible. It's sort of like it's one of your own, one of my team who got the top prize, that kind of thing."
Kennedy's presidency sharpened Callahan's idealism. But his death set in motion doubts about America that only deepened with the political assassinations and war that followed.
Dee Rowland, then a young mother living in Cheyenne, Wyo., viewed Kennedy's election no so much as a religious triumph but as a hopeful signal that the nation was now sophisticated enough "that someone that diverse could be president, that we had gotten beyond some prejudices."
Then came Dallas.
Policies over piety • Rowland, sitting down to feed her baby, had a radio tuned to a classical station when the news flash interrupted the program. She and a neighbor spent the rest of the afternoon listening to updates.
"It seemed like something that happened in past history and couldn't happen in that day and age," said Rowland, former government liaison for the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. "It was so stunning."
Three days after the shooting, as the 35th president was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, Mormon apostle Harold B. Lee, captured the mood of the country and the spirit of the slain leader with this remark:
"A nation in mourning is something to evidence," Lee said. "There is but one heart, and it is indeed heavy and sad. There are no party lines in the country today. There is no creed. There is no color. There are no poor and no wealthy. All weep unashamedly together. We mourn as a national family."
Callahan remembers Judge Memorial canceling classes and students gathering at the school instead to watch the funeral on television. Among the indelible moments: the horse-drawn caisson carrying Kennedy's flag-draped casket to the cemetery; Jacqueline Kennedy, the president's wife, gracefully grasping the hands of their children, Caroline and John Jr.; Kennedy's tiny son saluting his father's coffin.
Kennedy paved the way, in Lyons' view, for a Romney candidacy focused on policy, not piety. It was not the landmark that Barack Obama achieved in 2008, he added, but "it's of almost equal significance."
Back then, though, some who shared Kennedy's religious roots identified with him more because of his progressive views.
"I was young, I was optimistic, I was hopeful," said Baron, 70, who moved to Utah 34 years ago and is a retired school principal. "I loved him. I admired him not just because he was Catholic and I was also, but because he brought hope and optimism to our nation."
What drew her to the president was his "youthful presence and invigorating way of inspiring people," Baron said, especially with his vision for a future when equal rights and civil rights were givens.
"Civil rights were at the forefront of what he had done and the work he was doing," she said. And, yes, Kennedy left an imprint on her own career.
During her 43 years as an educator, Baron was "always cognizant of the civil rights of people. My work, particularly in the Salt Lake area, was recognizing students from low-income and refugee families, always looking for ways we could better address their needs in public education."
As Kennedy strived to show, those are issues important enough to unite a country with a tapestry of creeds Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Baptist, Muslim, Mormon, believer and nonbeliever.
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Seattle Zam project here, Deunan Shiruba. I have a theory for those two mysterious "butt pillows" that you can just see in the spinning Zam picture, under the skirt.
Have you noticed that whenever we make a Zam outfit, the vest works itself free in the back and pops out?
But in the movie, the actress runs for minutes and minutes, continuous shot, and it doesn't!
I think those butt pillows are possibly WEIGHTS. I think they are extensions on the bottom of the back of the vest to keep it down. They double as sitting cushions (we know how comfy that leather skirt is, don't we?).
It's a theory.
Since I've already completed my vest, I'm using a "belting" or a "belt stiffener" in the sides to hold it straight. I might experiment with velcro in the back to hold the vest in place, but it might rip loose when under tension from bending over or sitting. Experiments continue.
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software designed to block visual distractions on a computer so that it is easier to concentrate on what you are doing
'Perhaps every once in a while we should all dip a calming toe into a simpler working life. That's the idea behind zenware – offbeat software applications that deliberately eschew the busy, complex interfaces that most of us tend to use all the time.'GIGAOM 28th January 2008
As I sit here writing this article, there are so many distractions on my screen trying to lure me away from my goal. I could check or send emails, take a contemplative look at the photos on my desktop wallpaper, grab a quick social media fix … and so the list goes on. But what if there was software available that helped me concentrate by eliminating all those magnets for my attention, so that all I could see on my screen was the task in hand? This is the philosophy behind an emerging technology known as zenware.
the goal of zenware is to eliminate all those fancy bits and pieces clamouring for our attention, many of which might look fun but are superfluous to our actual needs when we are working
In a market of fierce competition and the perpetual need to come up with something distinctive, software design has become increasingly complex. Designers have felt compelled to provide an ever-expanding pile of features in a visually appealing way – a whole set of bells and whistles which we're immediately drawn towards when we fire up an application. The new concept of zenware is an antidote to all that. Its goal is to eliminate all those fancy bits and pieces clamouring for our attention, many of which might look fun but are superfluous to our actual needs when we are working.
An example of zenware is an application for writers called WriteRoom, which overlays a screen with black and blocks out everything else, effectively eliminating all distractions and having a simple, core function of being a word processor. You can see an example here.
If like me, you're old enough to be a digital immigrant, it may seem like we've come full circle – I can definitely remember the days when 'computers' were actually just, and only just, word processors displaying green on black text! But what's interesting about the zenware idea is that it represents the desire to shift attention away from software and its 'wonderful' features and move instead towards the user and their needs as a human being. Zenware is one embodiment of a wider concept sometimes now described as conscious/contemplative computing or calming technology. The idea here is of technology which fosters, rather than disturbs, the peace, and helps us to stay calm and focused. Other inventions include smartphone/tablet apps to help you meditate into a state of concentration, browser apps that obscure everything apart from what the user is viewing, screen apps that dim the glare in synchronization with daylight, and even mobile phone apps which allow a group of people to collectively disable their mobile phones during a meal or conversation. Taking inspiration from expressions such as slow travel and slow food, this embryonic movement towards a kind of 'technological tranquillity' has also been dubbed the slow web.
The term zenware dates back to the early nineties, when it was used as a general reference to software that has a calming effect. The zen- component relates of course to Zen, a form of Buddhism originally developed in Japan which is based on the idea that spiritual knowledge comes by emptying the mind of thoughts and focusing on only one thing at a time.
Original use of expressions such as contemplative computing and the slow web is associated with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Stanford University technologist and author of a recent book entitled The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul (Little, Brown, September 2013).
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Liberty paintball big game on the 16th...
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 04:24 PM
I show up at a field that I never been to before for some rec-play wearing cargo pants with a t-shirt....carrying a old mech Spyder and two pringle potato chip cans for pods shoved in the pants pockets. The stares are priceless and after the first game or so you get to see the grins from the ref and players who know....priceless.
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Still can't get over that move we pulled off !
That was a great time, got to go again at least once before winter.
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That was a great time, got to go again at least once before winter.
TechPB to the front!
You can look at it all you want on way your back to the staging area after getting hit by a wall of paint from my Victory =)
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Experts duke it out over the cost of windpower
By Barbara Kessler
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In case you read an article in The Economist about how nuclear power and the most advanced type of natural gas generation would be the most affordable ways to replace coal-fired power plants — more affordable than wind and solar power — you need to know that the reply on behalf of wind rushed in quickly.
Writing in Forbes (take that venerable Economist!), Amory Lovins, founder of the clean-energy advocating Rocky Mountain Institute, says The Economist's analysis, in sum, blows.
Lovins' response to the article by Charles R. Frank Jr., a non-resident senior economist with the Brookings Institute (see Frank's blog in case you cannot access The Economist piece), is measured and polite, but unequivocal: The Economist article is based on old or erroneous data and deeply flawed.
Lovins and colleague Titiaan Palazzi reworked The Economist's model, using accurate and current data to produce a counter analysis.
The Lovins/Palazzi model found that the far from being the most affordable ways to generate energy to displace dirty coal-fired plants, nuclear and natural gas-fired plants were the most expensive; and they weren't even factoring in the cost of carbon pollution.
Hydropower and wind power were most cost-effective energy generators, Lovins writes.
"Instead of gas combined-cycle and nuclear plants' offering the greatest net benefit from displacing coal plants, followed by hydro, wind, and last of all solar, the ranks reversed [in the Lovins/Palazzi analysis]. The new, correct, story: first hydro (on his purely economic assumptions), then wind, solar, gas, and last of all nuclear—still omitting efficiency, which beats them all," Lovins explains in the Forbes column.
Why buy Lovins' analysis over Frank's? Both of these think tank men have impressive resumes. Frank (Phd, Princeton) has worked at the State Department, GE Capital and at Salomon Brothers (long before the latest financial meltdown). Lovins, a physicist, did not finish at Oxford but has 10 honorary doctorates, a shelf of books he's authored and founded the influential Rocky Mountain Institute.
Perhaps more importantly, Lovins, has spent his entire career, starting in the 1970s, assessing energy options, evaluating sustainable alternatives and crafting energy policy.
You can download the full RMI response analysis here.
This isn't the first time experts have sparred over the costs and benefits of energy options, and it does raise a question about where the politics of their respective institutions.
The Rocky Mountain Institute champions green energy because it fits its mission of driving "the efficient and restorative use of resources." You can read more about its goals here.
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AMES, Iowa – Through 4-H, Iowa youth can become involved in many unique educational experiences that prepare them to be effective leaders, productive citizens, outstanding communicators and successful learners. A wide spectrum of opportunities span from statewide programs, such as the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference, to local summer camps and workshops in every county. One program 4-H offers to young people, Adobe Youth Voices, allows youth to build skills in technology, particularly media.
The Adobe Foundation created Adobe Youth Voices to empower young people to create multimedia stories that highlight an issue they care about and identify solutions in an effort to foster creativity and a passion for making a difference in their local communities. The program is offered in five Iowa communities: Muscatine, Waverly, New Hampton, Spirit Lake and Waterloo. The program uses the Adobe Creative Suite to put digital storytelling in the hands of youth.
Youth in these communities were encouraged to address issues in the communities through the media they developed. Over the two years the program took place, the youth developed media such as videos, websites and fliers to address topics such as senior health, stereotyping others, human trafficking and more.
"We applied for and began this program in Iowa to help inform youth of the technologies available to them, and to have them use this technology to help change their communities," said Dan Lane, a 4-H youth program specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
As part of the Adobe Youth Voices program, participating youth were invited to Iowa State University to learn about careers and opportunities that are available in these program areas, said Lane.
"We wanted to celebrate the young peoples' involvement with Adobe Youth Voices, but we also wanted to provide them a link to the Iowa State University campus. Once youth are on campus, they can see themselves learning on campus," said Lane.
Sixty-three youth visited campus, including one young man, Jordan Downing. His experiences on campus sparked an interest in future education and career options, acording to his mother.
"I was getting worried that Jordan's hopes and dreams of becoming a professional athlete were not going to be followed up with a 'plan B,'" said Amber Downing. "After his visit to campus, he was so excited. He shared about the college and all the different fields he found out about and was interested in. He never had an interest in talking about careers before, so this opportunity was a wonderful start for him."
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Amid the hyperbolic statements attempting to parallel athletic competition with war, members of the DeMatha and LaSalle lacrosse programs are receiving a lesson from their respective coaches this week in dedication, commitment and the meaning of sacrifice.
Friday afternoon at Navy/Marine Corps Stadium, the two teams will meet in the first Travis Manion-Brendan Looney Memorial Lacrosse Game in recognition of the two soldiers, best friends that lost their lives in the line of duty. They are now laid to rest together in Arlington National Cemetery.
"The message I'm trying to get across is that wins and losses are important in the short term, but I want them to know there is a whole world out there that where they need to make sacrifices," said DeMatha head coach Scott Morrison. "There are other people out there that are doing it for a greater cause."
LT (SEAL) Brendan Looney's father and two brothers also attended DeMatha, and his mother works in the school's development office. His cousin Michael Parker will play for Stags' Friday night. One of the most heralded football players to come out of the program didn't play lacrosse until he attended the Naval Academy, when he picked up a stick as defensive midfielder, helping guide the team to a Final Four appearance in 2004.
This past October, he was killed in a helicopter crash over Afghanistan. The whole football team and many others with ties to the program and the school attended his funeral, according to Morrison. The coach began talking to his team about Looney on Wednesday at practice and will show the team some clips of him playing prior to the Friday's game.
LaSalle head coach Bill Leahy also has a video presentation planned for his team to teach the players about the Travis Manion. Leahy recalls an occasion when a hotheaded player lost his temper, directing his frustration toward the official. Aggressively marching in the direction of the referee, it was Manion that ran him down and put him in what Leahy described as, "some sort of wrestling hold," to quell the tensions.
With a laugh, Leahy said, "but that was Travis. He really saved us all there from something that could have been much worse."
Manion was killed in 2007 when he threw himself over another soldier to protect him from sniper fire. Leahy received the news on a phone call from one of his assistant coaches after practice.
"At first I was shocked. I thought, 'Not Travis!' But then when you hear the story, you realize that he is a hero, and that is very much Travis," Leahy said. "There was no way he wasn't going to cover that young man. Just like there was no way he'd ever not get back on the mat or go back out on the field. There was no quit in the kid."
Friday's game will go on before Navy hosts Maryland at 7 p.m. All proceeds from the game will go to the Travis Manion Foundation, which assists wounded veterans and the families of fallen soldiers.
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Ok. I am trying to save a bit of cash on this costume (Jodo Kast) So I was going to try my hand at the WOF Fett gauntlet plans. I started on the right side first. I have most of it done. And I must say it does not look that crapy
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I have no idea how to make the stuff that goes into what looks to be the flame thrower sleeve. So if any one has pointers or pics or tips of what they did, that would be great.
2nd. After it is made. (I used 1mm thick plastic) what do I do next. I have seen some people use bondo on it. If so what is the best kind to use (is there more then 1 type I have no fracking clue) and do I just kinda paint it on in a way over the parts so it is not gooped all over it.
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Obama Has a Mandate – but with Whom?
posted at 6:42 pm on September 21, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
President Barack H. Obama was all over the broadcast map yesterday, reading the usual litany of whoppers, floppers, and gobstoppers that flows from the Teleprompter of the United States. (TOTUS — I picture an object like a Dalek from Dr. Who… "Exterminate! Exterminate!")
Having nothing better to do (I mislaid my toenail clipper), I read an article quoting some of what our august president said this September.
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Here is one of my favorites, where Obama argues in favor of an individual mandate for every American to have health insurance:
"What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you any more than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance," Mr. Obama said on ABC's "This Week." "People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that, if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs."
I have already accepted the arguments against such an individual mandate; but even back when I reluctantly accepted it, I never made an argument as foolish as this one. How dumb is it? Let me count just a few of the ways:
No, Mr. President; it's not true that "everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance." Only those people who (a) drive, (b) drive on the public roads, and (c) own a car have to buy auto insurance; that constitutes a lot less than ("everybody" minus "just about"). The remainder (children, non-drivers, those that drive only on private land, those that only borrow other people's cars because they can't afford one of their own) do not have to buy automobile insurance.
But under ObamaCare, everybody in America must buy insurance (or have it bought for them), no exceptions.
Even when you are required to buy auto insurance, you don't have to buy insurance to protect yourself, unless you live in a state that requires vile and disgusting "no fault" insurance. In any other state, you only need to buy insurance for damage you cause to other people. If you don't want to insure against damage to your own car — or your own body — that's up to you.
But under ObamaCare, the mandate applies entirely to insurance to protect you, yourself from damage to you, yourself. It wouldn't cover any damage you cause to someone else… just yourself.
Even in states that "require" insurance, you generally can opt out of the insurance mandate by posting a bond of some certain amount.
But under ObamaCare — fugeddaboudit. You won't be able to opt out of the mandate just by posting a bond… or having a medical savings account (MSA), or catastrophic care, or what have you. In fact, you (or your employer) will almost certainly have to buy a gold-plated health insurance policy that covers everything, including abortions, fertility treatments, STD treatment, homeopathic treatment, acupuncture, colon cleansing, tooth whitening, and mental health care (which you may need after paying your premium each month).
Note, you won't be able to use any of that stuff, or any other specialized care (including anesthesiology — what could go wrong?), because of rationing — cf. Canada. But by golly, at least you'll be covered!
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Here's the next burst of risible rhetoric:
And now, the insurance mandate is being criticized by lawmakers and Americans who say that the cost of coverage will amount to a new tax that would violate the president's campaign pledge against imposing new taxes on Americans who make under $250,000….
"My critics say everything is a tax increase," Mr. Obama said on "This Week." "For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase."
Huh; it'll sure feel like a tax. The feds will say, "Either you spend several hundred dollars per year buying the insurance we tell you to buy, or else you pay a fine of several hundred dollars." If it walks and squawks like a tax…
Technically, it's not extortion if Guido says, "You got a nice place here; sure would be a shame if anything happened to it." But I think everybody knows what Guido (and his capo) really mean.
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Here's the last. It's not exactly an argument about health-care reform but rather about criticism of health-care reform; and it masquerades as a defense of such critics. But its absurdity lies not in the actual words but in the hidden meaning behind them:
Mr. Obama also said Sunday that he doesn't agree with recent comments from former President Jimmy Carter that "an overwhelming portion" of the criticism over health care is based on the president's race.
"This debate that is taking place is not about race. It's about people being worried about how our government should operate," he said. "I do think we all have an obligation to try to conduct this conversation in a very civil way."
Allow me to quote from a very much more reliable narrator, Michael Barone:
I would submit that the president's call for an end to "bickering" and the charges of racism by some of his supporters are the natural reflex of people who are not used to hearing people disagree with them and who are determined to shut them up.
This comes naturally to liberals educated in our great colleges and universities, so many of which have speech codes whose primary aim is to prevent the expression of certain conservative ideas and which are commonly deployed for that purpose….
Similarly, the "mainstream media" — the old-line broadcast networks, The New York Times, etc. — present a politically correct picture of the world. The result is that liberals can live in a cocoon, an America in which seldom is heard a discouraging word….
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned us that there's a danger that intense rhetoric can provoke violence, and no decent person wants to see harm come to our president or other leaders. But it's interesting that the two most violent incidents at this summer's town hall meetings came when a union thug beat up a 65-year-old black conservative in Missouri and when a liberal protester bit off part of a man's finger in California.
The absurdity of Obama's argument above is that he still maintains the fiction — delusion? — that both sides are equally responsible for the "incivility;" I dispute that utterly. One side is saying, "Hey, let's debate this revolutionary rewrite of the entire American health-care system… before Congress votes on it."
The other side is saying something very different: "Shut up," he explained.
Jokeses and hoaxes
It amazes me just how many truly, deeply unintelligent things this alleged genius says — says and defends, to the bitter end. If I didn't know better, having been instructed by so many important people in government, in the Democrat Party, and in the sundry elite liberal media, I could almost begin to believe that we may not have as bright an Obamacle as we ordered.
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I am a 17 year old student from Leicestershire in the UK studying Graphic design. I have decided to base my new project around zines. For this I have to acquire lots and lots of zines, and information about them, but unfortunately as I am a penny-less student, this has become increasingly difficult. This is where you come in (cheeky, I know, but you don't ask, you don't get right?), I could really do with people sending me some of their zines to use in my project, and would thoroughly appreciate if any of you could help me out?
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White snow fell gently and quietly on the ground. Lights strewn around the front porch looked like miniscule bright stars which had fallen from the sky. A fully decorated tree stood proudly in the window as wrapped presents lay lazily underneath.
A scene such as this was more than common in most homes back in the 1970s. But this was no ordinary home: This was a Muslim home, my home.
My earliest memories of growing up in a small southern Indiana town remind me of how I was raised as a Muslim girl. My parents, immigrants from Pakistan, always instilled in me the understanding and love for my religion and made sure I knew who I was.
But in these teachings, I also was taught to understand and respect people of other faiths. For example, every Christmas my mother would put up a tree and invited our non-Muslim and Muslim friends to help decorate. She would serve homemade desserts, hot chocolate and even some Pakistani dishes to our guests.
I loved this about my mom. She was teaching me the importance of inviting others into our home during Christmas to learn, to share, to grow as Muslims. By doing so I wasn't losing anything from my own faith. In fact, I was gaining the perspective that the principals of humanity across all faiths are universal.
Over the years, my Christian friends always asked me what Islam says about Jesus and Christmas. My response was that though Muslims do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, he is a very special prophet who is the Spirit and the Word of God.
The account of his holy birth from the Virgin Mary and the miracles of his life are described in the Quran as well: "Behold! The angels said: 'O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus. The son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and of the company of those nearest to God. He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be of the righteous." Chapter 3: Verses 45-46.
Additionally, Jesus is mentioned in the Quran more than 25 times while the Prophet Mohammad is mentioned by name four times. In Islam, the status given to the Virgin Mary is higher than all the women in this world and in the world hereafter. Similar to Christian teaching, Islam tells us that Jesus ascended to heaven and will return at the end of times.
As I raise my own children today, we talk about the importance of Christmas to us.
Just as my mother did, I too put up a Christmas tree, make festive food and invite dear friends. We talk about the role of Jesus in Islam. We talk about what Christmas teaches us: to give, to love, to care, to share, to respect and to understand.
To me, no matter what faith you possess, the spirit of Christmas has a lesson to teach us all.
Tehmina Haider is an Elizabethtown resident.
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Re: Importing large file into table and calculating takes a long time. How to improve efficiency?
Thanks Bob for your suggestions. I certainly like the Map and Norm functions and I knew there had to be a better way to convert from hex to decimal.
You were right about your assumption about not defining dataX, dataY, and dataZ, I had left those out by mistake from the code I included in my original question.
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where there is a decimal point when the value is zero. So I added the following to the import function to replace all occurrences of "0.":