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Stoke season one to remember
Stoke fans are no strangers to the ill-informed reporting of their club from much of the established press since their return to the spotlight, so it came as little surprise that those who spent years deriding former manager Tony Pulis would be so quick to attack the fans as they started to do the same towards the end of his tenure in the Potteries.
- Whittaker: Stoke City – Pride of the Midlands
"Be careful what you wish for," they said with a tone that suggested they might actually know what they were talking about. The name of Charlton kept being thrown into the mix as an example of another club who wanted more; "look what happened to them" they would scoff. That the situations were entirely different and the comparisons ridiculous did little to quell the rising tide of support for a manager they so loved to criticise in previous years. That worn-out platitude would be repeated by almost every commentator who probably knew little of what was actually going on as they jumped on the bandwagon of attacking the Stoke supporters who likely did.
Once Pulis and Stoke parted company, and Mark Hughes was instated as manager, the Potters quickly became most newspapers' favoured prediction for a bottom three place. However, what actually transpired was something very different: A Premier League campaign that turned out to be the side's most successful in their history as Hughes transformed the club both on and off the pitch. The task he was set was ambitious for a club the size of Stoke; to take them into regular top-ten contention but do so with a fraction of the money available to Pulis, and in doing so move the club towards of position of self-sustainability.
Nevertheless, he set about his work quietly and brought in a number of signings to help plug some of the gaps in the squad, most notably at left back which saw the arrivals of Erik Pieters and Marc Muniesa. In his quiet yet authoritative interviews, he would continually talk about moving the club on, playing up the fans' hopes instead of knocking them down; expectation was no longer a dirty word, it was positively encouraged. What took place on the pitch was a whole new ball game that was alien to fans and players alike. The stands started to erupt with cries to get the ball forward; such was the indoctrination of the previous ways of playing.
It was a slow but sure progression for the side; the manager and players were clearly still learning about one other as they strived to find the balance needed between attack and defence -- between new system and old. Things really started to tick around the time of the January transfer window with the introduction of much needed pace in the shape of Peter Odemwingie. His impact coupled with Jon Walters' suspension and Marko Arnautovic's coming of age in the Premier League meant that Stoke were starting to attack with purpose and winning games not just comfortably, but convincingly.
Added to that winning combination in recent weeks has been Oussama Assaidi, culminating in the dropping of Peter Crouch and a front four lining up against Fulham that had Stoke fans feeling an emotion they haven't for a number of years: Excitement. That front four tore shreds into the Fulham back-line in Stoke's most complete attacking performance since their promotion: four Hughes signings working in tandem and personifying his positivity in approach. The 4-1 win was the perfect send-off from the most exciting season yet at the Britannia, one which saw more home points than any other before it in this league.
The record breaking doesn't stop there though. Stoke now head into their last game of the season against West Brom on 47 points, their highest ever return from a Premier League season; in 10th position, their highest ever placing. Add to that the fact that they also finish the season as the top side in the Midlands for the first time in their long history and the scale of improvement Hughes has overseen is there for all to see -- or at least it is for those who want to.
Be careful what you wish for indeed.


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AFAIK there were a few minor hitches. One of the cameras on the first stage went out and they had trouble telling if it had splashed down or not. Also, the weather was a hassle (as it should have launched yesterday
Another hitch, only reported on Fox, was that after it landed in the ocean the booster section was captured by Somali pirates and is currently being held for ransom...
I don't put a lot of faith in what the media gets wind of with regard to space technology.
Especially 'media' articles that can't keep tense consistent through five paragraphs. It's not like this guy is editing War and Peace.
It is now safe to get off my lawn.
The main article was posted before launch, I think the first paragraph is an addendum put in after the thing launched.
This is also the NASA that is facing such intense political pressure to justify the continuation of its manned spaceflight program -- and the NASA that Feynman slammed for its veneer-over-veracity attitude surrounding the Challenger disaster.
Maybe they've changed their tune; maybe not.
This is also the NASA that is facing such intense political pressure to justify the continuation of its manned spaceflight program -- and the NASA that Feynman slammed for its veneer-over-veracity attitude surrounding the Challenger disaster.
Unfortunately that idiotic attitude advocated by Feynman-- "never take risks" -- is pervasive through NASA, and avoiding risk-taking is now NASA's standard operating procedure.
Unfortunately, "taking risks" is exactly what NASA should be doing. You cannot progress without taking some risks.
I don't know any way to get around this problem-- any program funded by Congress is going to be incredibly risk-averse, because the one thing that they cannot stand is bad publicity.
Yeager's comment was that when an Air Force test pilot is killed, they name a street at Edwards after him, and go on with the program. When an astronaut dies, they shut down the program for two years and congress holds hearings.
Feynman's attitude wasn't "never take risks", it was "Don't take stupid risks, and don't lie to yourself about what the actual risks are".
Risks are one thing. Unnecessary risks are another. If someone warns you "those O-rings are not safe," you fix them. If someone warns you "this debris falling may damage tiles which should be inspected," you do something about it. There are going to be PLENTY of risks associated with manned spaceflight about which you do not have detailed prior knowledge. That's no reason to be careless when you have a problem staring you in the face.
I hope it really was fantastic. A lot of people put a lot of time into this thing. But this thing is so politicized, I'm not holding my breath.
Ok, I am not a space nerd but I enjoy rockets and think they're cool to watch. That said, I watched the thing take off and it looked like any other damn rocket that has ever taken off before. Personally, while I'm glad we're retiring the Shuttle, I thought they were a whole lot fucking cooler than this rocket. I really feel like we've regressed to the 1960s.
I wish we would back a design like Skylon. Now that would be something to get really excited about and it would fill even the general population with a sense of awe to inspire a whole new generation of space exploration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org]
Yeah sense of awe, as in WTF... the skylon is unrealistic for the following reasons:
1) Looking at the wikipedia article, first off, 50% faster than blackbird engines is a pure pipe dream. Material science has not improved enough for turbine blades to survive that, and the intakes required to decelerate incoming air to subsonic will either be too heavy, or impossible, or not distribute airflow evenly enough, etc etc. Tech and cad design help some, but not enough.
2) Second wiki article problem, twice the size (twice the wing area?) but three times the weight, that things going to be a real handful at take off.
3) The sabre engine probably will not work, as the designer himself only gives it a TRL of 2 or 3. By his own admission, that's right up there with warp drive proposals and telekinesis. The ISP is too low, the T/W is too low. Following the old 6-6-6 rule, whats wrong with 6% bigger fuel tanks and an off the shelf engine?
(The 6-6-6 rule is mach 6 (good f-ing luck) at 60Kfeet up (difficult to impossible for an air breathing engine) gets you a whopping 6% of the way to orbit)
Great. First we bomb the moon, looking for water. [slashdot.org] Then we bomb the Atlantic Ocean. Were we looking for Moons?
Of course, the liftoff was NASA's Image of the Day [nasa.gov] (full sized image linked). The Image of the Day page is here [nasa.gov]. Two more images of the day of the Aries:
Ares I-X at the Launch Pad [nasa.gov]
Building the Aries [nasa.gov]
There are sure to be more pictures of Aries the rest of the week. That site has some amazing photos.
What's with the negative waves man? I watched it. It did exactly what they said it was supposed to. So I guess it's still criticize NASA time around here. BTW minor stuff is expected.
Did a search for Lawn darts... best picture ever http://www.core77.com/blog/images/vanbezooyen_core77_worsttoys.jpg [core77.com]
The upper stage was not a real upper stage.
Which, after watching this video, [foxnews.com] makes me wonder how the upper stage is supposed to behave. I noticed it spun off axis after separation. That seems a little strange to me.
Note: Yes, I watched it on Fox News. I've noticed that they actually have decent coverage of NASA.
They will probably do all that, but the big thing in this flight was to characterize the structural dynamics -frequencies and amount of the flexing of the structure. They did that by doing programmed attitude changes that put forces on the structure, and then use accelerometers and gyros to see how much flex there was, at what frequencies it happens, and how quickly it damped out. Those things are all critical for both stress analysis, and control system design.
They did that by doing programmed attitude changes that put forces on the structure
I'm sorry ground control, I can't do that.
They did that by doing programmed attitude changes that put forces on the structure
I'm sorry ground control, I can't do that.
Listen, mister! I don't want to hear any more of your back-talk. You change that attitude or there will be hell to pay!
There are quite a lot of tests planned over the next few years - Today was first stage performance / guidance / separation & recovery testing - the rest of the rocket was just a mock-up.
... four years between missions? We went from nothing to the Moon in under ten years; it's taking us four years between test launches of something that we've done before?
Oh, yes -- I'm aware of that. That's not a criticism of NASA -- it's a criticism of the United States' screwed-up way of doing things. We spend $600 billion annually on the military, and the Iraq war will cost $2.5 trillion when all is said and done
My nation is pathetic.
... four years between missions?
They pick up considerably after that; the first manned mission is the following year.
We went from nothing to the Moon in under ten years; it's taking us four years between test launches of something that we've done before?
September 12, 1962. President John F. Kennedy says "We choose to go to the Moon [historyplace.com]". Nine years later Alan Shepard is playing gold at Fra Mauro.
Fast forward to 2009, when President Barry Obama says "Well, I guess you can go to the Moon, but I can't pay for it. Maybe you could go to an asteroid or play some chess instead." NASA starts looking for loose change in the couch to finance the next test launch.
"So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space."
...just not today, so maybe we should wait and rest and look behind us for a while, until that darn economy fixes itself.
according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Constellation_missions [wikipedia.org] the next mission is Ares 1-Y, in 2013, a full first stage, a real second stage, testing high altitude abort.
Actually, even prior to the Augustine Committee's report (which suggests using commercial crew instead of the Ares I for most of its options), NASA was already planning to delete the Ares I-Y launch [flightglobal.com] to try to speed up the Ares I development schedule. Also, the table (with NASA-provided figures) in general should be taken with a large grain of salt -- even though NASA's public estimate is that the first Ares I launch will be in 2014, the independent assessment [nasa.gov] by the Augustine Committee estimated that due to
Ares 1-Y-not?
Ok here is my question...
They are excited about things that other countries like Russia have been doing for decades? Huh? Progress? I will gladly be corrected, but it just seems to me that this is a step backwards in comparison to the stuff that they were doing before...
My grandfather fell out of a tree when he was 45 years old and powdered his hip and femur. He wasn't able to walk for a year after that.
You can imagine he was pretty excited when he took his first halting step after a year of immobility.
This is sort of like the US space program.
Ok here is my question...
They are excited about things that other countries like Russia have been doing for decades? Huh? Progress? I will gladly be corrected, but it just seems to me that this is a step backwards in comparison to the stuff that they were doing before...
Russia has NOT been launching Atlas rockets for decades.
The US has been doing it for decades too. But new rocket designs are always at least a bit dicey.
They are excited about things that other countries like Russia have been doing for decades? Huh? Progress?
Technically speaking, the US has been able to build new human-capable rockets for decades as well, with the Atlas V, Delta IV, and SpaceX Falcon 9 (scheduled for later this year). The difference is that those are private companies. This has been NASA's first newly designed rocket launched in ~30 years (albeit a suborbital rocket), although one wonders if it's truly necessary for NASA to spend $35-$45 billion to try to duplicate the capability already provided by US companies.
It's been quite a while since the U.S. developed a new man-rated booster. In the last decades, we have learned a LOT about spacecraft. Unfortunately, what we learned is that something like the space shuttle is nowhere as maintenance free as we thought/hoped and is fantastically more expensive.
Since we can't build a Saturn V anymore (we'd have to substitute enough obsolete parts that it would be a new design anyway) and we know building a new shuttle is too expensive, it is good to see that manned spaceflight has a future in some form in the U.S.
Ares and Orion are take two on a reusable spacecraft now that we have a better idea what parts are practical to reuse and what parts aren't.
Unlike the Soyuz rocket, Ares includes reusable components. The use of solid fueled 1st stage is expected to make it safer and easier to prep for launch. Things get more interesting once the 2nd stage is ready. It may not sound like much but the engine re-start capability is a big deal.
It's not really a step backwards so much as a lateral step away from a dead-end branch that seemed like a good idea at the time. Manned space flight isn't actually out of the experimental stage yet (and certainly wasn't when the space shuttle was designed). Sometimes progress in experimental engineering looks like a step back at first glance.
it would have done, had it been real and full of rocket fuel. As far as I can tell, because it wasn't a proper 'seperation' (ie, once the bolts were seperated there was prolonged contact), allowing for some slight jostling, meaning the upper stage and the lower stage collided at some point and probably caused the cartwheeling.
But I'm not a scientist, so don't take my word for it
There was no rocket attached to the simulator and hence no method to stabalize it's flight, at least that I what I assumed.
The upper stage was clearly hit by the first stage and left tumbling after the separation. In the NASA feed, they had several minutes of continued video from the upper stage with a cartwheeling background, but I'm assuming that it had no attitude control. Glad nobody was riding in it.
The booster is supposed to tumble after separation, that is its design. Look at its closest twin, the Shuttle SRBs, and you will notice that they tumble immediately after they are separated.
That is by design. On the shuttle,
The SRB's continue to ascend in a slow, tumbling motion for about 75 seconds after SRB separation, to a maximum altitude of about 220,000 feet. The SRB's then begin to quickly fall toward the Atlantic Ocean.
The Ares SRB derivative uses a very similar system. That in mind, 1st stage tumbling is okay.
As for second stage tumbling, that was almost certainly due to being an unpowered can, for all intents and purposes. While the mockup used in today's flight has the same mass and aerodynamic shape as the real thing, it does not have thrust.
There may also have been some contact, and it is there that something could well be learned. Could be that a stronger retro motor is needed on the second stage coupled with a stronger sep motor on the 2nd. That will come out in the reports that will be filed later.
This was a test, after all, and a good one: it proved that Ares can fly. It flew quite well for some time, and it looked smoother than we may have expected. No obvious pogo-ing, for example.
This was a test, after all, and a good one: it proved that Ares can fly. It flew quite well for some time, and it looked smoother than we may have expected. No obvious pogo-ing, for example.
Actually it proved that a Space Shuttle SRB coupled with Atlas V avionics and a Peacekeeper missile's roll control can fly. The Ares I is actually an entirely different vehicle with almost nothing in common with what flew today, so it unfortunately doesn't answer questions with regards to things like the pogo-ing effect you describe. I'm sure it was an interesting education experience for NASA in how to design a launch vehicle, though.
I'm an aerospace engineer - I work on planes, but the concepts are familiar and common.
The upper stage DID tumble immediately. The other three aerospace engineers and test pilots watching with me also immediately said "That didn't look right."
The high-zoom ground tracking camera and onboard cameras showed it much better during the replays, where it's clear the separation wasn't as clean as it should have been. But it did not look like the stages hit each other.
It appeared that not all eight of the retro-rockets fired. They were designed to slow the first stage enough to separate the two stages, before the "tumble rockets" fired. From the footage, the retro-rocket flame is visibly asymmetrical. It appeared that only a few of the retro-rockets fired on one side of the aft skirt fairing. As a result, I suspect that the initial separation was not purely fore-aft, but included a healthy rotational component which nudged the second "dummy" stage in a similar slow tumble.
Some comments on this board say "no worries"; the second stage was just an unpowered dummy mass, and the tumble would have been stopped by the final design's engine. Not completely true. They need a clean, non-rotational separation before the second stage engine fires and can fully stabilize the flight path. So the tumble will DEFINITELY concern the engineers.
Finally, don't worry too much about the onboard cameras cutting in and out. Speaking from personal experience in the flight test industry, telemetry is no trivial matter, and downlinking gigabits/sec of data and video is no small feat. Minor mis-alignments in antenna angle can cause momentary signal dropout. Strong jolts (stage burnout, etc.) can also jostle wiring and cause interruptions.
Despite this tumble, the flight appeared to be overall a great success. As the launch director noted to his crew shortly after the flight, the only real delays on the first launch of a very complicated test vehicle were weather-induced (plus the small matter of a fabric probe cover sock that snagged on something yesterday). All in all, I'm quite impressed.
NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight [google.com].
Moon... Ares I... Yeah, let us know how that works out for you.
Gee.. That's nice....
I wish NASA would do one of several things:
1. Concentrate on robotic missions and other non-manned science.
2. Put together a serious push for a Mars mission.
Things that I feel are an utter waste of time and money:
1. Going back to the moon purely to go back.
2. LEO (Low earth orbit) projects and questionable ISS science fair projects.
Put together a real push for Mars and get people excited about science and technology again. Or make a real effort in exo-planet research and searching for l
Well, the way I see it the Ares I is all about a heavy lifting body. That's somthing the shuttle really wasn't ever really capeable of. So to that end I'm very happy.
Going back to the moon isn't simply to say we could. We no longer have all the experianced people from the 60's and early 70's who ran the first Apollo missions. If we can't make it back to the moon then there is no reason to try for mars. To do a mars mission properly, we have to make sure we still can make it to the moon.
Between ARES for Lift
No, Ares V is the heavy lift rocket. Ares I is just for crew launch, low earth orbit stuff.
Sad to say, NASA, for the most part has become another government bureaucracy.
NASA has always been "another government bureaucracy". The difference between the 60's and now: in the 60's, we had 1) a clear goal to aim for, and 2) sufficient funding to achieve the goal. In recent years we've had neither of these things... and that's not NASA's fault, it's the fault of Congress and the President.
And regarding the space elevator: the laughter has died down, and been replaced with... nothing. That's because there's nothing to talk about. We still don't have the technology to produce carbon nanofibers in anything like the lengths that would be required to build it. Nor do we know if other technical obstacles to building one can be overcome. Nor do we have even the slightest idea what it would cost (and won't until we solve the first two issues). And if you don't know the cost, you can't evaluate whether it's more cost effective than just using rockets. All of which means there's no basis to proceed with a project.
I was watching the launch with my kids on NASATV, and just when the stages separated, the leading stage started to tumble, and NASATV went black. When they came back in 20 seconds or so, they were following the larger stage on its descent.
I have to say, the supersonic vapor plume around the rocket during acceleration was awesome. I said to my kids, "look, they just broke the sound barrier," and the announcer came on with "passing Mach 1".
Very cool looking rocket, more narrow exhaust plume than I'm used to seeing, interesting angled ascent (it didn't go up straight vertically like a shuttle). We like to rag on NASA, but if this is really a an under-3-year project, who am I to cast stones?
The blackout was one of the telemetry cameras failing. They mentioned this in one of the press releases.
I agree though, very elegant looking rocket, and damn was it fast.
I believe the trajectory was in part due to the fact that they weren't trying to reach orbit, they were just going to 21 miles and letting it fall back to earth over the Atlantic.
Some items to note:
(I largely copied this from a comment I made yesterday, but it still seems pertinent)
Given that this test, while useful, didn't actually use any of the components of a man-rated Ares I, I'm not that excited.
Ares I will use a new 5 segment Solid Rocket Booster (SRB), this was the good old STS 4 segment SRB.
Ares I will use the J2-x powered upper stage, this was a weight equivalent mock-up.
Ares I will use the Orion capsule and it's engine to finish up the orbit, again, just a mock-up with right szie and weight.
Ares I flight control software not built yet, but that's ok, as the hardware it will guide wasn't here either.
You know when the car companies build a clay mock up of that new model? That's about where this Ares I-x test was. Baby steps are ok, but I was hoping for more return on investment.
So I'm annoyed that the test program hasn't progressed further, but in reality, this is rocket science, and at least they got the thing off the ground in a reasonable fashion. The problems here go a lot further than my unease that NCSA isn't that far along for the time and money they've already spent. Here's a list of issues that they still have to face in making this a viable launch system:
What's the lifting capacity of the ARES I? 25mt? That was the declared goal. 24 mt? That was a compromise when other issues crept in. 20 mt? Where the current design is, but Ares I needs 25 mt of lift for an Orion capsule with safety features and lunar capability for 4 crew, and doesn't have it.
Also, when is the Ares I scheduled to fly with the Orion capsule, even in a non-man-rated test? 2013, as NCSA originally planned? 2016 as the Augustine commission recently claimed?? Before the Space shuttle stops flying? Before the ISS is de-orbited? Be nice for NCSA to have a way to get our astronauts to the ISS without "borrowing a Soyuz."
More importantly, how much has NCSA spent on the development of the Ares I to date? 5 billion? 6 billion? They still have to finish the 5 segment SRB design and tests, the J-2x Upper stage engine and tests, the new upper stage and tests and the Orion capsule and tests before any manned flights can take place. That's got to be another $5 billion easy. All this to get the lift capacity of an Atlas V or a Delta IV heavy and a theoretical better safety rating.
Lastly, one reason the Ares I was chosen was that it was supposed to be safer for the crew than any alternative. But there's this- http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/death-knell-for-nasas-ares-roc.html [newscientist.com]. I feel sorry for the hard-working engineers at NCSA, and I hope that the new management can get them back on track with a better design.
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Who is the big winner in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's traffic jam?
Hillary Clinton, of course.
While the nation's media totally turned its attention to the embattled New Jersey governor and the traffic disaster at the George Washington Bridge, Hillary Clinton skated.
Before the meltdown in New Jersey over the vindictive shutdown of lanes onto the bridge by the Christie administration, plotted to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., Christie had been riding high in the polls.
He was not only leading all other Republicans in the presidential polls, he was tied with heavily favored Democrat Hillary Clinton, the darling of the liberal establishment media.
Then the story broke in former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' book "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War" that Hillary Clinton, as a presidential candidate running against fellow U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, changed her position on President George Bush's 20,000-troop surge in Iraq to appease liberals before the Iowa caucuses. Clinton had previously voted in favor of Bush's resolution of going to war with Iraq.
Gates, in his soon to be published book, wrote of a White House meeting with President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton that disturbed him.
"Hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. ... The president conceded vaguely that (his) opposition to the Iraq surge had been political.
What saddened Gates, and what should be of concern to all Americans, is the image of two leading American politicians using the war, where many young Americans were being killed and maimed, as a political football to get a leg up on winning the presidency.
And the damning revelation is not coming from some right-wing nutjob, but from Gates, a distinguished public servant who was not only the lone Republican holdover by Obama from the Bush administration, but who worked for eight presidents, was director of the CIA, and holds a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history.
Ordinarily, Clinton's remarks, which have not been refuted either by her or the president, would have made for a big story, coming on the heels of criticism for her deception and mishandling of the killings of four Americans at the consulate in Benghazi when she was secretary of state.
This was followed by her cold and indifferent remarks about those deaths before a congressional committee at which she famously said, "What difference at this point does it make" whether the men killed were victims of a planned terrorist attack or a spontaneous demonstration fueled by an anti-Islamist video.
But the liberal cheerleaders of the national press corps were not very much interested in the Clinton story, and no effort has been made to catch up and grill the elusive former first lady. She is, after all, such a favorite of the left-wing media that going after her would be like going after Madonna -- the original one.
No sooner did the Chris Christie traffic-jam story break than the media said, "Hillary who?" Reporters from everywhere descended on the New Jersey governor so fast that you might have thought he had been caught lying about Benghazi.
The Clinton story simply disappeared, lost under the avalanche of Christie coverage.
Think what you will about Christie and the personal role he may or may not have played in the shutting down of those lanes. When the story broke, he took action right away.
Unlike most politicians, Christie at least had the courage to stand up in front of the press for almost two hours and answer any and all questions about the revenge traffic jam, instead of hiding behind press releases or staffers. He acted. Even Christie's critics, of which there are many, were impressed with that.
And there is something refreshing for the public to see a politician humble himself in front of the world the way Christie humbled himself. Obama should try it. It would be more therapeutic than golf.
But it is almost impossible to imagine Obama or Clinton meeting the press in such a fashion to be grilled for two hours about Benghazi, for instance, or about anything else that has taken place in Obama's failed, scandal-ridden, miserable presidency.
Reporters were tough on Christie, a Republican, as they should have been. But when it comes to Obama or Clinton, they act like star-struck adolescents seeking autographs.
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What a great story and insights this article contains. With lessons for us all in leadership, marketing, and social change.
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To participate in the sport of cross-country skiing, you need to either purchase or rent equipment. Nordic equipment is not cheap, but it is a lot less expensive than that used for downhill skiing. You can outfit yourself for skiing for less than $200, the price of some "starter" packages offered in sporting good stores. "If you expect to stay with the sport, however, you should spend more and obtain better gear," says J. V. Peacock, owner of The Outpost in Mishawaka, Indiana. Getting top-of-the-line equipment could double your cost, admits Peacock. Here's what you need:
Skis: Cross-country skis are skinnier than their downhill counterparts and considerably lighter. And also less expensive; a downhill skier would spend $500 for the starter package mentioned above. They also come in a variety of designs depending on the type of skiing you plan to do: in-track (classic) skiing or skating. (See: The Two Techniques.) Skaters use skis that are short and flat, better for their sideways strides. Classic skiers use cambered skis, bowed in the middle, so that when you weight one ski it grabs the snow, allowing you to push off into the next stride. Veteran skiers wax their skis to get more grip and push, but as a beginning skier, you're probably better off choosing "waxless" skis, grooved on the bottoms in various patterns to achieve the same effect as wax.
Boots: Cross-country boots serve two important functions. One, they keep your feet dry and warm. Two, they provide a system that connects the boot to the ski. Ski boot designers have made tremendous improvements in their models in recent years. Most better boots have inner linings that will keep your feet snug on even the coldest days. And the best ones fit as comfortably as running shoes. Cross-country ski boots connect to the skis only at the toes, which allows the heel to rise off the ski so you can extend your glide. Grooves on the bottoms of the boots fit over ridges on the binding to permit better control in curves. To insure that you will enjoy this sport, be willing to spend a bit more money on a good pair of boots.
Poles: Downhill skiers use poles for balance, but cross-country skiers also use poles to propel themselves down the trails. If you want to become a complete skier, you need to use your upper body muscles as well as your legs. Aluminum poles are cheapest, but various fiberglass poles are lighter, although they're also more expensive. If you're skiing in a 55-K race like the Birkebeiner, you'll need light poles to avoid end-of-the-race fatigue. For the average beginner, a few extra ounces of weight probably makes little difference.
Don't rush to the sporting good store and outfit yourself in equipment before taking your first glide on snow. You will be able to make more intelligent equipment choices after skiing a few times in rental equipment and seeing what other skiers use. Most Nordic Centers provide rental equipment.
While buying ski-specific equipment, don't overlook your clothing needs. Cross-country skiers from an earlier generation wore knickers and long socks plus wool sweaters. You're more liable to see skiers today clad in various synthetic materials that wick moisture away from their bodies. Skiers layer their clothing, adding or shedding layers as temperatures drop or rise. In this respect, they function like runners in winter, except runners copied the skier's attire. Most important on cold days are a knit cap to prevent heat from escaping the body and mittens, rather than fingered gloves, to keep your hands warm.
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|Ski Technique
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- Patrick C. Steptoe : laparoscopy, sterilization, the test-tube baby, and mass media (1998)
- In the late 1950s, Patrick C. Steptoe, a British gynecologist, established contact with Palmer of Paris and Frangenheim of Wuppertal, Germany, and studied laparoscopic technique under the tutelage of these pioneers. Despite the negative attitude among his colleagues, Steptoe soon became one of the most innovative researchers in the field of abdominal endoscopy, particularly laparoscopic sterilization. In the late 1960s, Steptoe began working with Robert Edwards, an embryologist, and launched an in-vitro fertilization project obtaining eggs by means of laparoscopy. Both researchers experienced years of frustration, disappointment, ethical and scientific criticism as well as a difficult relationship with the mass media. Finally, in July 1978, Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England. Like many of his colleagues in the 1950s and 1960s, Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988), a gynecologist in Oldham, Great Britain, was concerned about the number of unnecessary laparotomies. Unfortunately, the Oldham group of hospitals was not a university clinic and Steptoe had scanty opportunity to develop his own research. In the late 1950s, he searched the medical literature for an alternative form of examination and came across publications about Decker's culdoscopy, the vaginal approach to view the abdomen. Since this method was not widespread in England, Steptoe, in 1958, went to Montreal, Boston, and New York in order to observe and learn the practical use of culdoscopy. However, Steptoe left America disappointed.
- Kurt Semm and the fight against skepticism : endoscopic hemostasis, laparoscopic appendectomy, and Semm's impact on the "laparoscopic revolution" (1998)
- In the 1970s, Semm developed thermocoagulation, adapted the Roeder Loop, and further invented extra- and intracoporeal endoscopic knotting to achieve endoscopic hemostasis. His numerous technical inventions, especially the electronic insufflator, allowed more complex operations to be performed laparoscopically. His technique, however, was not quickly adopted by the surgical community. When the first fully laparoscopic appendectomy was carried out by Semm in 1980, a veritable storm broke loose. In the opinion of many prominent surgeons, Semm exaggerated the problem of adhesions, and laparoscopic technique itself was regarded as very dangerous. Misunderstood by medical scientists, Semm displayed an ability to force his ideas through despite skepticism and suspicion. He realized that endoscopic surgery had tremendous potential, and promoted laparoscopic technique not only in his field of gynecology but among general surgeons as well. In 1985, Muhe, of Boblingen, Germany, used Semm's technique to remove the first gallbladder in the world laparoscopically. Three years later when Semm presented a videotape of his laparoscopic appendectomy in Baltimore, he gave impetus to McKernan and Save of Marietta. Georgia, to carry out the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the United States.
- Kurt Semm and an automatic insufflator (1998)
- Work on tubal insufflation marked the beginning of Kurt Semm's (b. 1927) scientific career. In the early 1960s, he directed his attention to the fact that, from a technical standpoint, tubal insufflation was similar to creating pneumoperitoneum. In the mid-1960s, Semm - himself a gynecologist - invested his time and financial resources and risked his university career to develop an automatic abdominal insufflation device. Later he tried it out in the Clinic for Internal Medicine. Since, at that time, the term "laparoscopy" had negative connotations associated with it, Semm formulated a new term "pelviscopy." In 1967, Semm presented his invention to Melvin Cohen, an American pioneer of gynecological laparoscopy, at the meeting of the American Fertility Society, held in Washington.
- Erich Mühe and the rejection of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (1985) : a surgeon ahead of his time (1998)
- During the early 1980s, news of Semm's laparoscopic appendectomy was rippling through German medical circles. Erich Mühe, fascinated by Semm's technique and spurred by successes of the Erlangen endoscopists, came up with the idea of laparoscopic removal of gallstones. In 1984, Mühe had already worked out the details of an operative laparoscope, the "Galloscope," and on September 12, 1985, he carried out the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Later, he modified his technique and operated through a trocar sleeve. Finally, he designed an "open laparoscope" with a circular light. By March 1987, Mühe had conducted 97 endoscopic gallbladder removals. He published information about his technique at the Congress of the German Surgical Society (April 1986) and at other surgical meetings in Germany. His concept, however, was ignored. In the middle of the 1980s, the surgical community was still not prepared for the era of "minimally invasive therapy." Erich Mühe was a surgeon ahead of his time.


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Tribeca Movie Review: Benji
With so many basketball films out there, does the world really need another one? Yes, it does. Benji looks back at 1984's number one high school baller in the United States: Ben Wilson. The Chicago teenager represents hope and potential for a city that struggles with violence and drugs. Directors Coodie and Chike, who have put together music videos for the likes of Kanye West and Christina Aguilera, intertwine the Midwest metropolis with the life of the young Wilson.
The movie establishes early on the tragic fate of the talented Wilson, but rather than mourn the heartbreaking death, Benji focuses on the story of how he became a Chicago celebrity. Coodie and Chike rely on testimony from friends of the basketball player, and Wilson has numerous friends to paint a picture of the 6' 7" guard. Some of these friends include notable names such as singer/songwriter R. Kelly, NBA player Juwan Howard and talent scout Bob Gibson.
Even though the audience knows it's coming, the two gunshots that halted the promising future of Ben Wilson still come as a devastating shock. When discussing the aftermath of the death, Coodie and Chike continue to provide an upbeat tone by attempting to focus on the positive impact Wilson's life had on the city. His passing leads to stricter gun laws and raises awareness nationwide about the issues threatening one of the largest cities in the United States.
With little game footage captured of the high school sensation, the filmmakers have to find creative ways to tell the story by using more than just interviews. Coodie and Chike successfully utilize an animated, comic-book style to put together some of the documentary's most important moments. One example is with the reenactment of the murder; by taking this lighter approach, the directors paint the picture of what happens without unnecessary gore.
Benji is sure to please whether or not you are a basketball fan, as the inspiring story of the young athlete captivates the audience. This riveting tale, mixed with the creativity of Coodie and Chike, makes the documentary a film that cannot be missed.
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India is a veritable catalog of airline industry woes. Persistent operating losses, strikes, grounded airplanes, inadequate air and surface infrastructure, high-cost fuel, multiple taxation issues—all have been the bane of the country's aviation sector.
While India is the ninth-largest national airline market in the world, it ought to be much larger, and both industry executives and aviation officials know it.
"Aviation [is] a vital tool that could be used to fuel economic growth," a Civil Aviation Ministry official acknowledges. He says the ministry is seeking to increase outlays in the federal budget to develop the aviation infrastructure in smaller cities and stabilize the debt-ridden national carrier, Air India.
It is one sign that India is making a concerted effort to remove at least some of the obstacles to growth of its airline industry. Estimates suggest that domestic traffic in India will reach 160-180 million passengers annually in the next 10 years and international traffic will exceed 80 million passengers per year, up from the current 60 million domestic and 40 million international passengers.
According to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) forecast for 2012-16, India's domestic air travel market should be among the top five globally, experiencing the second-highest growth rate over that period. But it will not happen automatically.
"Building the future for a successful aviation sector must begin with solving the well-cataloged problems of airlines in India today," says Tony Tyler, director general and CEO of IATA.
"The sector is growing, but not profitably. Airline losses approached $2 billion in the year ended March 2012, after losing $3.5 billion over the previous three years," Tyler says. "With some relief in oil prices and capacity rationalization, the red ink may recede slightly. But the crisis continues. All the network carriers are struggling financially." State-run Air India is on life support and private carrier Kingfisher Airlines is on the brink of death.
A lot has changed in the past decade, mainly with the rise of low-cost carriers (LCC). From almost nothing in 2003-04, the domestic market share of LCCs, including the low-cost arms of full-service carriers, today exceeds 70%. And the LCCs believe they have just begun to develop a huge potential market.
But first, there is need for airports that will complement the no-frills model. As one airline official says, "There is great scope for a new dimension for India civil aviation in connecting to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities [because of] rapid urbanization of the country and the emergence of several smaller towns as industry and business centers."
The government agrees that the future of Indian aviation is in smaller cities. Ajit Singh, the minister of civil aviation, says the development of low-cost airports is the most important component of the ministry's effort to improve connectivity across India.
The government has engaged Deloitte as a consultant to identify the factors inhibiting the growth of domestic connectivity and suggest steps to correct them. That will likely include enhancement of helicopter operations and construction of heliports to serve less populated areas, including religious and tourist sites.
The Civil Aviation Ministry's Vision 2020 plan emphasizes development of the country's infrastructure and aims for user-friendly airports to handle as many as 280 million passengers per year by 2020.
"One of the key challenges will be to ensure that Indian airports function with the same efficiency as international hubs," says one airline official.
Buoyed by the success of the public-private partnership (PPP) model in airport development, the government plans to invest $30 billion in the next 10 years and modernize more existing airports.
Airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), Hyderabad and Cochin are being placed in PPPs now. A new terminal is under construction at Mumbai airport, with international operations set to begin by August and a second phase, for domestic operations, to be ready by August 2014. The existing greenfield airport at Bengaluru is undergoing expansion to meet the growing capacity demand.
The Airports Authority of India has undertaken expansion and upgrading of airports at Kolkata and Chennai. And the government has approved 15 more airports under the Greenfield Airports Policy, most of which are being developed in PPPs, the ministry official details.
However, skeptics question the authority's abilities to manage infrastructure growth. They say that of the 115 airports run by the authority, only 71 are commercially operational. The rest are closed, mainly because they have proved to be economically unviable.
The ministry official cites examples of companies such as Regional Airport-Holdings International Ltd. (RAHI), which has revealed plans to develop India's regional aviation market, starting with two airport projects. Over the next five years, RAHI has plans to invest $700 million in more than 15 aviation infrastructure and services projects.
In addition to the model agreement to develop greenfield airports under the PPP model, the government has also allowed 100% foreign direct investment, under the automatic route.
"The PPP model for developing greenfield airports as well as upgrading existing airports has provided the opportunity to develop integrated airport cities on the lines of Dubai and Hong Kong," says Promananda Elangbam, marketing manager at Bangalore International Airport Ltd.
Meanwhile, although there is an unprecedented increase in traffic and demand, almost all Indian carriers are in the red. Operating costs are daunting, propelled by high fuel costs and taxes, and debts are soaring.
The government, for its part, opened up foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian carriers to airlines abroad and is allowing direct importation of aviation fuel.
"Permitting FDI by foreign airlines was a right step for Indian aviation, as it requires resources for expansion to connect Tier 2 and 3 cities with metros and foreign destinations," says R. Neelakantan, chief financial officer of no-frills airline SpiceJet.
Clearly, the air travel market in India has room for expansion. India is estimated to have one aircraft for every 2.89 million people, which is minuscule in comparison to one for every 1.14 million in China, 0.96 million in Indonesia, 0.89 million in the Philippines and 0.63 million in Brazil.
Boeing estimates that Indian carriers will require 1,450 new aircraft worth $175 billion to cope with increasing passenger traffic over the next 20 years.
Despite such forecasts and India's attempts to foster its aviation sector, some policies threaten to nip growth in the bud.
Fuel constitutes 40-50% of Indian airlines' operating expenses. A major contributor to the high fuel prices is the 4-30% value-added tax levied by various state governments. Efforts are under way to persuade Indian state governments to reduce their taxes. Carriers also complain about India's service taxes on air tickets and landing and navigation fees.
IATA's Tyler says the fundamental problem is that India has a fragmentary approach to aviation policy that does not connect the dots in the value chain. "A coordinated 'India Inc.' approach that addresses the central challenges of infrastructure, costs, and taxes is urgently required," Tyler says.
If India can establish a coherent aviation policy, the sector's advocates point out, the economic and social benefits that derive from improved competitiveness and air connectivity would be enormous. The aviation industry accounts for close to 0.5% of Indian gross domestic product and 1.7 million high-productivity jobs. IATA estimates that the value added by each employee in air transport services in India is approximately 10 times higher than the Indian average.


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Next is Curacao. This is a stunning satin turquoise sheath with gathered pleats on one side. It's made extremely well and has a loose fit. The scarf is the perfect touch for the fashion. The black espadrille wedges are OK but I choose not to use them. We have the pearl drops again. The straw hat shown is not how the hat actually appears. It's very tall in the crown and sticks up so high that it looks like a Mexican sombrero. In his photo, Craig has pushed the hat in at the top to deal with this issue.
__________My version is wearing Integrity sunglasses and earrings. Her handbag is a replica Hermes Birken from La Boutique POM.
My third outfit is Chica Chica. Again the construction is flawless. The pretty and feminine white blouse has a very loose fit which causes a problem. The high waist of the pants is slim-fitting as it should be and there is too much fabric from the blouse to make it easy to put on and have the pants fit properly. It keeps the pants from being pulled up as high as they could be. The wedges appear again as do the ubiquitous pearl earrings. The straw hat has the same issues at described above. I don't like that the photos don't show the hats as they really are.
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The point of this blog every week is to recap the good and the bad following a Hurricanes game. I will do that again this week after UM's 45-17 loss to Florida State, but I'm starting with a much broader point of view:
THE BIG QUESTION... Was Saturday's blowout loss to the Seminoles just an ugly loss/growing pain? Or, was it a loud affirmation Randy Shannon and his staff are simply not up to the challenge of getting this program turned around?
> The Hurricanes played their worst game of the season -- and probably their worst since they were manhandled by Oklahoma 51-13 in Shannon's second game as a coach in 2007. The defense gave up 298 yards rushing, produced no sacks, one turnover (forgot about Vaughn Telemaque's INT) and its leader (Colin McCarthy) picked up a really dumb penalty on a late hit. The offense produced only 17 points and for the second week in a row failed to complete even half of its passes. The special teams had a horrendous day on kickoff coverage and Matt Bosher once again had a field goal attempt go wrong. The players weren't the only ones who didn't get the job done. Mark Whipple and Jon Lovett, second year coordinators at UM, were taken to school by Jimbo Fisher and his staff in just their sixth game together. Afterward, UM coach Randy Shannon shouldered some of the blame.
If there is one positive from Saturday's game -- and believe me there is only one -- it is that the Hurricanes can still turn things around, win their division, play for an Atlantic Coast Conference title and potentially play in a BCS Bowl game. But the real question here isn't if the Canes can do that. They can. The ACC is putrid and right now nobody in the Coastal Division is that much better than UM. The real questions: Why were the Canes embarrassed by a Florida State that was 7-6 a year ago? Why are the Canes, in the fourth season under Shannon, still struggling to even be among the Top 25 teams in the nation?
With Saturday's loss, UM fell to 3-8 against ranked opponents under Shannon and 24-19 overall. Larry Coker went 53-9 and won a national title before he was fired in 2006. Coker's record against Top 25 ranked teams was 18-13. Add those numbers up and it makes UM only 21-21 vs. ranked teams since the start of the 2001. Greatness? This once proud program is fighting just to be mediocre.
Shannon, who signed a four-year extension before this season, can still turn things around. He can still do what he's done the past few years and finish with a better record than he did the year before. Mathematically he can. But after Saturday's whooping, are we really confident that will happen? Those wins at Pittsburgh and Clemson aren't nearly as sexy as we thought they were. Both of those teams are now 2-3. What about the rest of that "easy schedule?" Does anyone really believe North Carolina and Butch Davis are just going to roll over when they come to Sun Life Stadium in two weeks? Is Virginia Tech, which lost to an FCS school, going to come in unprepared under Frank Beamer? How about that trip to Atlanta in late November? You think Georgia Tech won't be a better football team?
College football isn't what it used to be. We know that. Parity paints itself all over the Top 25. Boise State, TCU, Utah -- they're all Top 25 teams from non-BCS conferences.
But is it really unfair to ask this program to be at the top of a mediocre ACC with one of the richest areas for talent in the country in its backyard? Is it too much to ask them to show up prepared and enthusiastic about a national television showdown with its biggest rival? The 2008 recruiting class, tabbed No. 1 by ESPN, is in its third year at UM. Those five-star high school seniors aren't babies anymore. They've been through at least two springs and three summers with trainer Andreu Swasey. Physically, they're supposed to be able to play at a high level, not get pushed around like they were Saturday by players from Florida State who had just as many stars next to their names as they did coming out of high school.
Can any coach or player on this team explain why missed tackles is still an issue, why this team still looks still terrible on kickoff and punt coverage, why they're still getting beat up front by opposing teams on both sides of the ball, and why they're still thin at positions like quarterback, tight end, defensive tackle and linebacker?
Better yet, can anyone explain the regression of the passing game when just a year ago people were talking about Jacory Harris as a Heisman candidate and his receivers as possibly the best unit in the country? It's certainly not a question of talent or having the time to coach 'em up.
The bottomline is this team isn't playing at the level it should. Individually, the list of players not meeting expectations in terms of growth and potential far exceeds those who are blossoming into better players. For every Sean Spence, Brandon Harris, Damien Berry and Leonard Hankerson, there are players like Ben Jones, Jeremy Lewis, Kendall Thompkins, Tommy Streeter and John Calhoun who have been at UM for three years and still haven't seen the field. Those aren't Coker's recruits.
Blame the players for not delivering. But can we also point the finger at Shannon for a few things, too? Like, why doesn't Jacory Harris have a backup quarterback who could fill in now that he's hurt and struggling? Why is Harris being asked to play with an injured left shoulder, a sore groin and gimpy hamstrings? Why isn't A.J. Highsmith capable of filling in? If Highsmith isn't a capable quarterback, why didn't the Canes go out and find someone to backup Harris when Robert Marve and two other quarterbacks bolted?
Why, in the last four years, has the Hurricanes' only reliable tight end been a converted basketball player? Why are Sean Spence and Ramon Buchanon the only reliable linebackers this program has been able to bring in over the last four years and make better? Why can a guy like Sam Shields, who was a disappointment in his college career, go undrafted and all of a sudden become a starting cornerback for the Green Bay Packers? Can anyone explain to me how Willie Williams and Arthur Brown went from being the No. 1 high school linebackers in the nation to not doing a darn thing in this program? I still can't understand it.
I could go on (I haven't even really touched recruiting), but I hope I've made my point. Four years into Shannon's run as coach there are still a lot of troubling questions and trends that haven't been resolved. Again, things can turn around. Hope shouldn't be lost. There is talent here. There is opportunity. Shannon isn't a stranger to winning. He's been around it. He's been a part of it. Now, he has to make it happen as a head coach.
And if he doesn't, if the Canes stagger down the stretch, will anything be done? You would like to think the clock is ticking, that expectations would be higher than this for a program that has won five national titles. But it seems like nobody at Miami is really keeping score of wins and losses anymore except the fans and boosters. Good GPAs and clean police records appear to count a lot more than touchdowns and field goals. That's probably the way it should be. But it just sounds strange for a program that spent 20 jubilant years collecting championships and loading up on swagger to be satisfied with mediocrity on the field. And it makes you wonder if the Canes will ever be great again.
> Senior Damien Berry had a costly first half fumble in Saturday's loss that led to an FSU touchdown. But he responded by finishing with 101 yards on 20 carries. He also had a 26-yard touchdown run. Berry has fumbled once in 180 carries at UM. That's a pretty good percentage.
> For a team that spent extra time last week catching passes, the Hurricanes are still a team plagued by the drops. Unofficially, I've counted 30 drops in UM's first five games. That's six a game. Turn half of those into completions and Jacory Harris' 52.4 completion percentage isn't the worst in the ACC among starting quarterbacks.
> Chris Thompson's 90-yard touchdown run at the end of the game was the longest against UM in team history. I don't want to accuse the Canes of quitting, but right before his 90-yard burst, Thompson had a 50-yard run called back by a holding penalty. The 90-yard run? That came on the same exact run to the same exact side on the very next play.
> Since his punt return for a touchdown against Ohio State, Travis Benjamin has fielded six punts and returned them for a total of 14 yards.
> Special teams ace Cory Nelms didn't play Saturday against Florida State. He's good. But do you mean to tell me he would have made up for Florida State starting a pair of drives at the UM 45 and 43 yard lines? Is Nelms' absence really the reason Greg Reid and the Seminoles (who came in with the worst kickoff return unit in the country statistically) had a field day? Seems to me like there are bigger problems than the absence of a former walk-on.
> Almost forgot -- how about some props for safety Vaughn Telemaque? His first career pick was about the only highlight for the Canes defense. But he got it.


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Big Sky football kicks off Sept. 22
THE CHALLENGE OF THE 2012 season for third-year head football coach Nigel Burton and his team is to finally break through the top of the Big Sky Conference and into the NCAA playoffs. The Vikings climbed to third place in 2011, finishing 7-4 overall, 5-3 in the Big Sky Conference.
The team takes on new Big Sky Conference team Southern Utah at home in JELD-WEN field at 5:05 p.m. on September 22 for its first conference play. The Vikings also host Idaho State, October 6; Northern Colorado, November 3; and Eastern Washington, November 17 in league games. Big Sky road games include Northern Arizona, September 29; Cal Poly, October 20; UC Davis, October 27; and Montana State, November 10.
Photo caption: Junior punter Thomas Duyndam and other members of the Viking special team performed brilliantly in 2011. Photo by Nick Fochtman.
PORTLAND STATE ATHLETICS will introduce new members to its Hall of Fame during halftime at the October 6 Viking football game. Representing the outstanding history of athletics at Portland State is the 1962 Viking baseball team (pictured here), which was a NAIA national runner-up; career-hitting second baseman and pitcher Jim Dunn; PSU's first-ever Big Sky Basketball Player of the Year Seamus Boxley; second all-time leading rusher Ryan Fuqua; 2005 Big Sky Conference Golfer of the Year and three-time team champion, Sarah Tiller; and PSU's longest tenure and most winning football coach, Tim Walsh.
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Jason Stipp: I'm Jason Stipp for Morningstar.
Investors have until April 15 to fully fund an IRA for the 2013 tax year, which may be easier said than done for some investors.
Luckily, three Morningstar strategists--Christine Benz, Josh Peters, and Ben Johnson--are here to offer their top ideas for your IRA.
Christine Benz: One core fund I really like for an IRA is Vanguard Balanced Index. It's the ultimate utilitarian boring fund. Those types of funds can be really effective building blocks in investor portfolios for a couple of key reasons.
One is that there are moving parts going on behind the scenes, but investors don't tend to see the highs and lows in the portfolio. So, they tend not to react by mistiming their purchases and sales.
The other thing I like about any sort of balanced product that regularly gets back to a fixed asset allocation is that at those times the fund is rebalancing, the investor may not feel like doing that rebalancing themselves. Think back to 2008, for example. If you had this or some other type of balanced fund in your portfolio, the fund was quietly buying stocks for you at a time when you probably didn't feel like buying stocks yourself. And over time, that sort of contrarian effect that you can get through regular rebalancing can be very, very beneficial.
One of the reasons I like this particular fund is that its costs are very low, and it's really minimalist. It invests about 60% of the portfolio in a total stock market index, and the other 40% is in a total bond market tracker.
It doesn't include international exposure. If you want that in your portfolio, you will have to add it separately, but otherwise I think it's a nice, sturdy, core, all-in-one fund that you can safely add to over a period of years.
A more opportunistic IRA pick is Tweedy, Browne Global Value, but you could also hold as a core fund in an IRA as well. Its recent performance hasn't looked that great. It's had a couple of things dragging on performance. For one thing, the managers have had quite a bit of cash, because they haven't been able to find a lot to buy. They have also been building out a position in energy stocks, which have underperformed recently. And they also tend to hedge their [foreign currency] exposure, which has hurt it recently as well.
So near-term performance won't be too exciting, but I do like what this fund has to offer for the long term. For one thing, it has a really experienced management team. They are looking for companies that they think look inexpensive currently, and they are looking for quality franchises. So in a lot of ways, it's a Warren Buffett-type strategy in play here.
I like that their focus is on foreign stocks, which are arguably more attractively valued than U.S. companies right now. For people who are concerned about putting money to work in the U.S. stock market because they think that U.S. stocks are potentially a little bit overvalued, a fund like this could make a lot of sense.
Josh Peters: One of my all-time favorite stocks is also one of my top IRA picks this year. It's a company called Realty Income; the ticker symbol is O.
This is a very simple real estate business. They will typically purchase a piece of real estate, usually a single tenant retail property, from the operator of the store, and then lease it back to that owner over 15 to 20 years. It's a relatively straightforward financing transaction.
But Realty Income makes sure that even if the tenant's parent company, some big retailer that might be burdened with a lot of debt and could potentially have some financial difficulties down the road, that that specific location, that individual retail store, continues to generate enough income within its four walls to cover those rent payments. So even if the tenant passes through bankruptcy, which happens a fair amount of the time during recessions, Realty Income still gets the vast majority of the rent that it's owed.
This stock typically yields around 5%, plus or minus. It's actually been yielding a little bit more than that recently, and over the long run, we expect it to grow its dividend 4% or 5% a year. And as a REIT, there is actually an advantage to owning this stock in an IRA. REIT dividends are taxed as ordinary income--not at the lower 15% or 20% top marginal rate that would apply to qualified dividends in a taxable account.
So if you have the opportunity to own a REIT like Realty Income in an IRA, you are actually going to be a little bit better off from a tax perspective by sheltering that higher tax rate income within your tax-deferred account.
My second pick hails from the energy sector, where lots and lots of investors really like master limited partnerships or MLPs. One of the most important things you need to know about an MLP, though, is that it's generally not suitable to be held in an IRA. The type of income that master limited partnerships provide is considered non-passive income and can cause all kinds of headaches--including additional taxables for your IRA--if you own enough and collect enough income from master limited partnerships.
But while that might seem to shut MLPs out of people's IRAs, there are other avenues for getting exposure within a tax-deferred account, and Spectra Energy Corporation, ticker symbol SE, is also one of my favorites. It does operate a master limited partnership called Spectra Energy Partners--it's a security I like, but I wouldn't own it in an IRA. But Spectra Energy Corporation, as the general partner of Spectra Energy Partners, is a tax-paying corporation, and the dividends that it pays are qualified for those low tax rates. Also, it doesn't present any of the unfriendly tax consequences for somebody's IRA.
The yield on Spectra Energy Corporation is a little bit lower--about 1 percentage point lower than SEP, the partnership. But because of its leverage, the type of leverage it has in that general partner relationship with Spectra Energy Partners, we expect its dividend to grow about 2 percentage points faster over the next couple of years. So even though you give up a percentage point in yield--a yield in the high 3% range as opposed to the mid- to high-4% range--you should more than make up for it with extra dividend growth.
Ben Johnson: Warren Buffett has said that it's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. My strategic pick, the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Fund, ticker VIG, represents a portfolio of wonderful companies trading at what our equity analysts currently believe to be fair prices.
VIG targets U.S.-listed firms that have raised their annual dividends for at least 10 years running. Additionally, embedded in the index methodology is a bit of secret sauce that looks to weed out some firms that could potentially cut their dividends at some point in the future. The result is a portfolio of very high-quality companies: Companies that are profitable, cash-generative, have squeaky clean balance sheets--all bits of evidence that point to the existence of an economic moat, or a durable competitive advantage.
Indeed if you look at the underlying portfolio of securities that VIG holds, we see that 94% of its assets are invested in stocks of companies that Morningstar analysts deem to have an economic moat.
And last but certainly not least, this fund is dirt cheap. At just 10 basis points, its annual expense ratio is extremely low by virtually any standard.
My opportunistic pick is a very risky one, best suited for those with very strong stomachs and very long time horizons. iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets Fund, ticker IEMG, offers a very broad and very low-cost way to access emerging-markets stocks. Emerging-markets stocks suffered in 2013 and have stumbled out of the gates again in 2014. For the week ending Feb. 14, emerging-markets equity funds had witnessed 16 consecutive weeks of outflows. This clearly is a contrarian play.
IEMG differs from some of its predecessors in that it offers a much broader exposure to emerging-markets stocks. Its underlying benchmark seeks to cover 99% of the investable market capitalization of emerging-market equities. Its parent index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, looks to cover about 85% of the investable market capitalization of these various markets. This broadening of the portfolio offers greater exposure to smaller-cap names, which in turn could ratchet up the volatility of the fund a bit relative to those funds tracking its parent. But simultaneously, it offers better exposure to those firms that are more firmly entrenched in their local markets and more likely to benefit from local growth trends.
What's more, with an expense ratio of 18 basis points, this fund is extremely cheap relative to both other ETFs as well as traditional actively managed mutual funds in the diversified emerging-markets category.
All told, I think this fund is an interesting option for risk-tolerant investors who are looking to add emerging-markets equity exposure.


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The Bangor (Maine) Daily News recently featured the Pratt & Whitney North Berwick Parts Center in its business section. The North Berwick plant, the largest manufacturing facility under one roof in Maine, makes commercial parts, military parts and does some aftermarket work.
The story describes how the North Berwick facility has invested in its operations in an effort to remain competitive and to prepare for the future. Our favorite quote comes from Steve Howe, a communications manager:
"We bring high school groups in here and they're amazed that this is manufacturing. We're not making hub caps — this is high-tech."
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ELMHURST, Ill. – First-year Peter Passalino (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) finished off a breakaway opportunity in extra time to lift the Carleton College men's soccer team to a 2-1 double-overtime triumph over Elmhurst College.
"The conditions were rough out there today," said Carleton coach Bob Carlson. "It was hot and humid, and after playing a rough, physical game on Saturday to turn around and play another physically taxing game 23 hours later was draining. The guys played really hard."
Carleton (2-0) traded shots with Elmhurst (0-1) for most of the first half. James Neher's (Sr./Mahtomedi, Minn./Mahtomedi) diving save in the 24th minute kept the game scoreless until the host BlueJays drew first blood in the 42nd minute. Following a corner kick, Austin Haas volleyed a long pass straight from the top of the box into the net.
The Knights responded quickly in the second half. In the 54th minute, an Elmhurst handball just outside their 18 set the stage for a Knights free kick. Veteran player Will Corcoran (Sr./Mahtomedi, Minn./Mahtomedi) opted for a quick restart on the direct free kick, curving the ball around the defensive wall and into the corner of the net, leveling the score.
Both teams had chances to pull away near the end of regulation. Corcoran's shot bounced off the post in the 85th minute, and Neher turned aside two solid Elmhurst scoring chances before a Bluejay header sailed just high, sending the match to extra time.
It wasn't until midway through second overtime that the game would be decided. In the 106th minute, rookie Riley Phelps (Bowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green) played a ball behind the Elmhurst defensive line, where Passalino collected the ball and buried it in the corner of the net to record his first collegiate goal and end the match.
The Knights' season-opening road trip continues next Sunday, Sept. 8 when Carleton travels to Duluth, Minn. to take on the College of St. Scholastica a 4:30 p.m. The Saints led the NCAA in scoring a season ago, but the Knights posted a 2-0 victory last October.


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OK. I just wasn't sure.I really have no experience with trains. I've never even lived in a city that had a really usable public transportation system. I would love to say that I would never dream of changing a baby on a train but as soon as I do, I will end up with my grandson, on a train, with the contents of his diaper leaking all over me and the person next to me. I'll have no choice but to change him and wipe down the entire train car with the 7 half dried out wipes left in his diaper bag and then I'll feel like a huge hypocrite! Seriously, with DD, speed was an issue. 15 minutes would be about 14 minutes too long! But since we were traveling by car, it didn't bother anyone.
If at all possible, I think the parent should prepare ahead of time for long rides on public transportation. Change the baby as close to departure as possible, feed the baby foods that will bind her up (just a little--not so much that it causes constipation), things like that. I also carry plastic bags with me wherever I go. I will do everything in my power not to have to change a baby in front of other people. It grosses me out when it's other people's kids.That said, sometimes things just happen. Sometimes a diaper has to get changed, even when you're in front of other people. I have to see adults who drool on themselves and shout obscenities on the bus, adults who have terrible body odor, bad breath, black teeth and greasy hair. Sometimes they can't help it; other times they're perfectly sane adults in full control of their faculties. It's unpleasant, but I don't get angry (well, maybe a little if it's someone who could control it if he chose to, but it's hard to tell that just by looking); it's just a part of living in a world with other people.
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had to root for the man who beat him.
The only chance for Northwestern's Herbert to wrestle for an Olympic medal in the 185-pound freestyle class Saturday was to have
Sharif Sharifov make the final.
That is what happened, giving Herbert a shot at bronze from the loser's bracket.
But he lost to Turkey's Ibrahim Bolukbasi in a repechage.
The two other U.S. wrestlers in action Saturday,
(132 pounds) and
(264.5), both advanced to bronze-medal matches.
Sharifov, the reigning world champion, beat Herbert 4-1, 6-0 Saturday at ExCeL Arena in a quarterfinal match that ended amid controversy, as Herbert's coaches protested the referee's decision that gave Sharifov six points in quick sequence.
"We did everything we could to get a clarification," said Sean Bormet, Herbert's coach.
Bormet said he thought Herbert should have been ahead 3-2 after the flurry, which took place 43 seconds into the round. As soon as one wrestler gets a six-point lead, the round is his.
"I don't know if I would say politics are involved," Bormet said. "It's the way they saw the calls. Sometimes it's a lot of circumstances, sometimes they are seeing from different angles, sometimes it just doesn't make sense."
And this time?
"It doesn't make sense," Bormet said. "To get to this point in this level of tournament and have a match decided on a lot of unanswered circumstances is difficult and disappointing."
A late rally had carried
to a first-round victory. In that match, Herbert lost the first round and trailed Cuba's Humberto Arencibia by a point with 11 seconds left in the third round when he scored the decisive takedown to advance.
With his friends and family waving yellow "terrible towels" in homage to their Pittsburgh area roots, Herbert lost the first round 4-1, then took the second 8-0, nearly pinning Arencibia twice. Although the third round ended in a tie, Herbert advanced by having scored last.
Herbert had beaten Arencibia for the gold medal at the 2011
Herbert, 2009 world silver medalist, came into the match with a 2-0 record against Sharifov, although they did not meet in 2011. The Azerbaijani beat U.S. wrestling great Carl Sanderson in the second round of the 2011 worlds.
"Jake has had great preparation," said Zeke Jones, USA Wrestling's national freestyle coach. We had him wrestle a lot of foreigners last week. That will make a big difference. He needed to get that foreign feel in competition. That will pay off at the end."
Wrestling has a blind draw, meaning the top two in a weight class can meet in the first round. Herbert is in the tougher half of the bracket.


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DURHAM, N.H. - Lindsey Minton (Richardson, Texas) made 28 saves to record her fourth shutout of the season and Nicole Gifford (Peterborough, Ontario) broke a scoreless tie with 6:12 remaining in the game to lift the University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team to Saturday afternoon's 1-0 non-conference victory against Dartmouth College at the Whittemore Center.
UNH ended an eight-game losing streak to improve to 9-10-0 while Dartmouth, which had not been shut out this season and entered the game ranked No. 10 nationally in offense (3.20 goals per game), lost its fourth consecutive game to fall to 6-5-0.
Minton, who has seven shutouts in her career, made double-digit saves in both the second (13) and third (10) periods. DC counterpart Whitney Woodcox was credited with 16 saves.
UNH recorded a 6-5 shot advantage in the scoreless first period in which the Big Green tallied four of its shots on three power-play opportunities. The 'Cats generated the best scoring chance - a shorthanded bid - of the opening stanza with just over two minutes remaining. Kristine Horn (Utica, Mich.) deflected a pass in the high slot and raced behind the defense to receive the long outlet pass from Raylen Dziengelewski (Southwick, Mass.). Horn skated down the slot and attempted to tuck a forehand inside the left post, but Woodcox stuffed the low shot with her right leg pad.
The Big Green produced an excellent shorthanded chance in the opening minutes of the second period in a 2-on-2 rush. Jessica Gagner, cutting down the slot, one-timed Sasha Nanji's pass from the right circle but Minton extended her left leg pad to block aside the shot.
With 4:30 to play in the middle stanza, a DC defenseman lost her balance - and the puck - in the slot of the Big Green defensive zone. Kristina Lavoie (Fonthill, Ontario) swept in from the left circle to corral the loose puck and her attempt to lift a shot inside the right post was thwarted by Woodcox.
New Hampshire went on its third power play of the period - fourth of the game - at 19:11 of the second period. Moments later, Courtney Birchard (Mississauga, Ontario) fed a pass across the slot to an unmarked Dziengelewski in the upper-left circle. Woodcox stopped her initial shot and denied Dziengelewski once again off the rebound in the low slot to keep the game scoreless heading into the second intermission.
Dartmouth's penalty carried into the third period and moments after exiting the penalty box, Jenna Hobeika had a breakaway opportunity. Hobeika pulled the puck to her backhand as she shifted towards the right post, but Minton was in position to direct the shot away with her glove.
UNH went on its sixth power play at 11:42 and although the 'Cats did not net a power-play goal, they scored six seconds after it elapsed to take a 1-0 lead. Courtney Sheary (Melrose, Mass.) corralled the puck at the right point and centered a pass to Kailey Chappell (Pickering, Ontario) in the high slot. Chappell's low blast through traffic was stopped by Woodcox but Gifford, positioned in front of the net, grabbed the puck off the rebound and lifted a shot inside the right post at 13:48.
DC pulled Woodcox in favor of an extra skater with 63 seconds remaining in the game and its sustained pressure in the offensive zone produced one shot by Amanda Trunzo that was blocked by Dziengelewski, another by Hobeika that went wide of the cage and one by Nanji from the right circle that Minton controlled with 35 seconds on the clock.
The Big Green called time out at that point and controlled the ensuing faceoff. With 18 seconds on the clock, Chappell deflected an attempted pass from the slot to the left boards. Arielle O'Neill (St Catharines, Ontario) chipped the puck out of the zone to the other end of the ice, and the visitors were unable to reenter the offensive zone in the waning seconds.
UNH's fourth-ranked penalty kill kept Dartmouth's 10th-ranked power play (20.0% entering the game) scoreless on six opportunities. The 'Cats were also 0-for-6 on the power play.
New Hampshire returns to action Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 at home against Northeastern University. Game time at the Whittemore Center is 2 p.m.