text: Meet a Specialist: Lucia Sobrin, M.D., MPH As a dually trained retina and uveitis specialist, Dr. Lucia Sobrin has unique expertise diagnosing and treating rare and complicated eye disorders that affect the middle (uvea) and back (retina) portions of the eye. "Several years ago," Dr. Sobrin reflected, "there were no treatments for some of these eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In recent years, advancements in translating bench-to-bedside research–some of which have happened right here at Mass. Eye and Ear—have allowed us to develop new procedures and therapies for AMD, which are helping to restore and preserve sight in many people." Dr. Sobrin, a full-time clinician scientist with the Uveitis and Retina Services at Mass. Eye and Ear, cares deeply for her patients and feels deep gratitude when she can make a big impact on their vision in a simple and fast way. "Treating an acute episode of anterior uveitis is one example," she said. "Steroid drops usually work quickly to alleviate pain and improve the patient's vision. That's what I call instant gratification—for the patient and for me!" Uveitis is the term for a range of inflammatory diseases that can result from many causes, including injuries, infections, autoimmune disorders and systematic diseases. Other patients who suffer from chronic eye disease, such as those with AMD, might require long-term care. Most AMD patients, for example, come in to Mass. Eye and Ear monthly to receive eye injections that often help slow or reverse progression of the disease. According to Dr. Sobrin, "Though the treatment duration for patients with chronic diseases is much longer, building relationships with these patients and helping them navigate long-term care is so gratifying." Her patients, also, are appreciative of this long-term commitment to their vision health. One patient—a 37-year-old male with lupus—came to see her after many frustrating conversations with other doctors, who were limited by their lack of knowledge about his condition. Lupus is a rare, chronic, inflammatory disease that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. Inflammation caused by lupus can affect many different body systems—including the eyes. The patient sought out Dr. Sobrin because she understood the complexity of his eye disorder and, specifically, how his lupus was affecting his vision. Expertly trained to diagnose and treat complicated cases of eye inflammation and uveitis, Dr. Sobrin created a treatment program with her patient that involved not only medication adjustments and laser treatments, but also surgery to remove excess retinal fluid. Within two years, the patient's vision had stabilized and the inflammation decreased. "It was a long haul for him," reflected Dr. Sobrin. "But we were able to control his lupus and he was able to go back to work, which was simply not possible before. It was a complicated process with many steps, and completely worth it. Now, he has his health and his eyesight." When not in the clinic, Dr. Sobrin—a Department of Ophthalmology Scholar at Mass. Eye and Ear—conducts research on the genetics of diabetic retinopathy in African Americans. Diabetic retinopathy is a common, blinding complication of diabetes, which seems to develop more often, and progress faster, in African Americans compared to other racial groups. Through collaboration with the Jackson Heart Study and the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. Sobrin hopes to identify genes and other risk factors of the disease, so that she will be better able to counsel African Americans about their chances of developing retinopathy. As a member of the Harvard Ophthalmology Diabetic Eye Disease Center of Excellence and the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear, Dr. Sobrin expresses high hopes that great advancements are on the near horizon. "If genes associated with diabetic retinopathy are found, they may provide information for developing new treatments for diabetic retinopathy," she said, "and that's good news for people everywhere." Conversationally fluent in French and Spanish, Dr. Sobrin completed her Ophthalmology residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in 2003, a Medical and Surgical Retina fellowship at Mass. Eye and Ear in 2005, and a uveitis and ocular immunology fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institute in 2006. She also received her Master of Public Health Degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. She shares her in-depth knowledge of rare and complex cases with uveitis and retina fellows as well as ophthalmology residents. Contact Dr. Sobrin's office at 617-573-4279. View Dr. Sobrin's online bio for more information. Request an appointment. Contact Us Today! 617-523-7900


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I knew the NISE Net was special. But even I did not expect this. Only one day after the Nano Bite e-newsletter went out, I am happy to announce that we have our first ever nano sestina. I am verklempt.
And the special honor of Nano Poet Laureate goes to Anders Liljeholm. Anders has previously contributed shorter poetic works on nano themes to the Nano Bite, but I feel with this sestina, he's able to explore these themes in much more depth. Congratulations Anders.
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by Anders Liljeholm
Want to learn about the latest technology?
The big thing now is very small.
Just ride on the elevator
And talk to nanoscientists.
Medical applications are my favorite choice.
It could lead to a cure for cancer.
Of course, nanotechnology could be a cancer
On the environment if we use the wrong technology.
There's a wrong and a right choice
And the differences can be very small.
We shouldn't trust the scientists
To on their own take the right elevator.
We might someday take a ride on a space elevator
Wearing nanosunscreen so we don't get cancer.
It's not just up to the scientists
What we do with this new technology.
It's expensive to build something big from things so small
So we all have to participate in the choice.
If I had a choice
I'd go for a ride on the space elevator
From up there the Earth would look so small
Human cities spreading across it like a cancer
Everyday built with new technology
Invented by curious and hardworking scientists.
We have a lot to thank for scientists
They've given us a giant choice
Should we take their new technology,
Or toss it down the shaft of an elevator?
It could heal us or give us cancer
Even though it's very small.
The world today seems rather small.
Every nation has its scientists.
Working on climate change, swine flu and cancer
Hopefully these problems can be solved by choice.
For now we are trapped in a slowly warming elevator.
Created by our own technology.
The planet is made small by our social choice.
Are there better things for scientists to make than a giant elevator?
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Development plans for Ubuntu 7.10 (codenamed Gutsy Gibbon) were announced last night on the Ubuntu development mailing list. Scheduled for official release in late October, Gutsy Gibbon will include version 2.6.22 of the Linux kernel, GNOME 2.20, and Xorg 7.3. Kubuntu 7.10 will feature KDE 3.5.7 and offer optional packages for KDE 4.0 RC2. Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition will feature some nice additions, including support for Novell's AppArmor security framework.
Ubuntu 7.10 will be the first Ubuntu release to offer a complete mobile and embedded edition built with the Hildon user interface components, which are also used by the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet's Maemo platform. The Ubuntu mobile and embedded edition is most likely intended for use on upcoming portable computing devices being developed by Intel. This will also be the first Ubuntu release to include compositing support by default by fully integrating Compiz Fusion, a window manager that merges elements of Compiz and Beryl.
Xorg 7.3, which includes RandR 1.2 and supports hotplugging for monitors and input devices, will vastly simplify Xorg configuration in Ubuntu 7.10 and significantly reduce the need for manual xorg.conf manipulation for some users. Ubuntu 7.10 will also include a new graphical display configuration utility that aims to reduce the complexity of configuring support for two displays. Unfortunately, users who want to run more than two displays by using multiple video cards will have to continue to manage their configuration by hand and endure the serious deficiencies of Xinerama, which still isn't compatible with RandR.
Tribe 1 (the first Ubuntu 7.10 development prerelease) was officially released on June 7th. According to the official release schedule, Tribe 2 is officially scheduled for release late this month shortly after the Debian import freeze. Additional Tribe prereleases will be issued at the rate of one or two per month until October. Assuming that circumstances don't necessitate a deviation from the schedule, Ubuntu 7.10 release candidates will be available mid-October and the final official release is scheduled to take place on October 18.
Favored by prominent hardware companies like Dell and Intel, Ubuntu is rapidly becoming one of the most important distributions in the Linux ecosystem. The addition of the new mobile and embedded edition in the 7.10 release represents the next major step in Ubuntu's evolution and portends broader Ubuntu adoption in the context of portable computing.


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Microsoft's not the only company pushing out updates for Windows Phones, Nokia will also be introducing new software for the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. The new version (reported as 1232.5957.1308.00xx) includes further performance and stability improvements for supported hardware, as well as enhancements to the display during a call and with automatic brightness adjustment. The Lumia 620 is also receiving some love too.
The Lumia 620 will receive an update (also in the pipeline - 1030.6407.1308.00xx), which will include improved touch behaviour and enhancements to system stability and camera image quality, such as corrected camera exposure when flash is used in bright conditions.
When can consumers look to receive said updates? It's noted that Nokia has started to deliver both updates now, so be sure to remain alert to notifications.
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YUANGUDUI, China (Reuters) - For Chen Qiuyang, the new Chinese leadership that formally takes over this month can radically improve her life by doing just one thing: providing running water in her village in a remote corner of the northwestern province of Gansu.
"We have to carry water from the well on our shoulders several times day. It's exhausting," Chen, who looked older than her 28 years, said in Yuangudui village, resting on a stool outside her home after completing another trip to the well.
Communist Party chief Xi Jinping takes over as China's new president during the annual meeting of parliament beginning on Tuesday and bridging the widening income gap in the vast nation is one of his foremost challenges.
Xi has effectively been running China since assuming leadership of the party and military - where real power lies - in November, and has already projected a more relaxed, softer image than his stern predecessor Hu Jintao.
But there will be pressure on him to tackle problems accumulated during Hu's era like inequality and pervasive corruption, which have given rise to often violent outbursts in the world's second-biggest economy, sending shivers through the party.
Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao will likely address these issues in his last "state of the nation" report at the National People's Congress to nearly 3,000 delegates, whose ranks include CEOs, generals, political leaders and Tibetan monks - as well as some of China's richest businessmen.
China now has 317 billionaires, a fifth of the total number in the world, and is on track to overtake the United States as the largest luxury car market by 2016.
Yet the United Nations says 13 percent of China's 1.3 billion population, or about 170 million people, still live on less than $1.25 a day.
While parliament is a regimented show of unity that affirms rather than criticizes policies, income redistribution is likely to be a hot topic, along with other issues like ministry restructuring, corruption and the environment.
In January, the State Council, or cabinet, issued a new fiscal framework designed to make rich individuals and state corporations contribute more to government coffers and strengthen a social security net for those at the bottom.
But tackling China's wealth gap will need more than just taxes. Analysts say state-owned enterprises will have to be privatized and the household registration, or hukou, system that prevents migrants from enjoying the benefits of urban citizens, will have to be dismantled.
"Fiscal reforms and changes to let private firms advance and the state retreat will decide whether this round of reforms can succeed," said Xia Bin, an economist at the cabinet think-tank Development Research Centre and a former central bank adviser.
"There is definitely no way out," he wrote in the latest edition of China Finance, a magazine published by the central bank.
Many groups have said they will make sure that message is heard at the parliament, even though the session typically acts more as a talking shop for decisions already made by the party rather than approving new laws. On its closing day it will formally vote in Xi as the new president and Li Keqiang as new premier.
A group of private businessmen will meet on the sidelines to push for privatization of state firms, which they view as a "vital second round of reforms", according to a person knowledgeable about their plans.
A separate forum for private steel producers will air grievances about preferential loan access for state firms, even though the state firms were less profitable than their more flexible cousins in last year's volatile steel market.
The champions of the private sector argue that private firms generate nearly 60 percent of China's economic growth and 75 percent of jobs.
Favoring state firms that thrive on political connections rather than market discipline skews the economy, undermining future competitiveness, they say.
Some export-oriented companies have ceased manufacturing and are simply speculating in property or the grey finance market.
"Private firms are having a hard time," said Xu Qing, general manager of Zhongbohong Urban Development Co, a unit of privately owned property and investment firm Boao Hungkai Enterprise Group in Guangzhou.
"I believe top leaders have seen the problems and I'm cautiously optimistic about reforms."
Without reforms, China is at risk of falling into the "middle income trap" after three decades of breakneck growth, the World Bank warned last year.
Growth in the world's second-biggest economy slowed in 2012 to a 13-year low, albeit at a 7.8 percent rate that is the envy of other major economies.
The annual economic growth target is likely to be set at 7.5 percent for this year, the same as in 2012.
Many analysts believe China's growth will be nearer 5 percent than 10 percent by the end of this decade without reform, making it even harder to tackle the gap between the rich and the poor.
China's Gini co-efficient, a measure of social inequality, stands at 0.474 according to official estimates, well above the 0.4 level that analysts view as the point at which social tensions may come to a head.
A 0 score on the Gini scale denotes perfect equality and 1.0 complete inequality.
For now, such statistics are a long way from Yuangudui, where government support boils down to repaving rutted roads, building latrines and subsidizing planting of potatoes, a cash crop.
But the villagers are fully conscious of the inequality plaguing China, even if some of them had never heard of Xi Jinping before he showed up last month on a visit.
Most young people have left for the provincial capital of Lanzhou, where they can make 1,000 yuan ($160) a month as construction workers, far more than the income from farming.
"The rich get richer while we in the village are getting poorer," said Guo Lianying, 32, holding out his hands to symbolize the growing gap.
"This is a problem the general secretary has to solve," he added, using Xi's formal title as Communist Party boss.
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text: Fungo golf is a game involving two or more players in which they use fungo bats and baseballs and their object is to hit certain objects at a field. Fungo golf is played very similar to golf, where the player with the fewest strokes after a certain number of holes (typically nine or eighteen) wins the game. While there is no concrete history of how fungo golf was created, it has spread throughout America as a popular game especially with baseball players and coaches.


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1-25-11 Winter Caravan, Tarentum PA
The Pirates' Winter Caravan, which is a series of stops leading up the Piratefest, rolled into Dick's Sporting Good in Tarentum PA on Tuesday.
Andrew McCutchen, Evan Meek and Ross Ohlendorf were the Pirates' players in this Caravan Group.
We arrived at 6:05 and got into the already lengthy line.
The players sat down around 6:15 and began signing player cards to give away to fans.
Around 6:25 or so, Pirates color commentator Bob Walk addressed the crowd. It was rather bush league that he wasn't even given a microphone. This Dick's Sporting Goods was very under prepared. Last year at the Dick's Sporting Goods in Washington, the Pirates were welcomed with music and a video board which was dedicated the Pirates behind the players. This Dick's couldn't even provide a mic.
Here's some of Bob Walk's speech from my vantage point in line:
After about an hour or so in line, we finally got up to the table.
Evan Meek:
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Andrew McCutchen:
Evan Meek recognized me immediately from ballhawking and asked me how many baseballs I ended the season with and if I had won the ballhawking league. He brought Ross Ohlendorf into the conversation also. Ross asked me who the most graceful shagger during BP was. I told him that he definitely gives the most effort. Ross goes all out in BP making full out running catches.
I didn't talk to Andrew McCutchen. I had him sign a baseball but that was it. He seemed like he didn't really want to be there. If you watch the below video at 39 seconds, you'll see him blatantly and impatiently rolling his eyes as he waits for a fan to move from Ohlendorf to him.
That was pretty much it. We each got three balls signed and then headed off into the mall to walk around for a bit. The highlight of the rest of the night was watching dogs try to figure out a way around their barrier in the pet store:
and playing with a little dog.
We were tempted to get him, but didn't.
This would be the only stop for me on the Pirates Winter Caravan. I've been kind of out of the loop about stuff going on this winter and actually went to Uniontown to see the Pirates, but went on the WRONG DAY! So, we drove for about an hour for nothing. I got confused because I looked at the schedule about a week before. It was so embarrassing. It wasn't a wasted trip though.
We went to Cucumber Falls in Ohiopyle, one of my favorite parks.
The falls had completely frozen over.
It was an ice world.
Of course, much to the dismay of others, I just had to go down to the bottom of the falls, thereby risking falling just to take a couple videos of the falls.
We checked out a couple other parts of the park before calling it a day.
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A number of events and ceremonies will honor veterans this weekend, beginning Saturday and continuing through Memorial Day on Monday.
A number of events and ceremonies will honor veterans this weekend, beginning Saturday and continuing through Memorial Day on Monday.
The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America, along with the New Bern Young Marines, will salute active duty military and veterans Saturday morning at the National Cemetery in New Bern.
The 9 a.m. program will be followed by scouts placing American flags on all the graves.
Also Saturday, the first Red, White & Blue 5K is set for Denson Memorial Park in Taberna.
Registration is at 7 a.m. and the race begins an hour later.
Participants also can register on the web at sportoften.com. All proceeds from the race go to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
Organizers hope for 100 to 200 runners at the Red, White & Blue 5K.
Traditional Memorial Day ceremonies are slated Monday in New Bern and Bayboro.
The Craven County Veteran�s Council holds its annual Memorial Day program at 11 a.m.on Monday at the National Cemetery. It is located at 1711 National Ave. in New Bern.
The public is welcome. Marine Sgt. Maj. Holly C. Prafke will be the featured speaker.
A color guard, rifle team and bugler from Cherry Point air station also will participate in the ceremony. The Havelock Community Band will provide the music.
Bringing a lawn chair is recommended. For more information, call Warren Murphy at 229-1998 or Andrea Becton at 342-7720.
Memorial Day services on Monday at the Pamlico County Courthouse in Bayboro begin at 10 a.m.
The Veterans Council Honor Guard will post the colors, raise the flag and then lower it to half-staff in honor of deceased veterans.
The event has three organizations taking part: American Legion Posts 200 and 238, along with the Disabled American Veterans.
Each chapter of the VFW and the DAV will lay a wreath at the monument on Courthouse Square, along with a member of the Women�s Auxiliary.
Family members wishing to lay a wreath in memoriam for a deceased veteran are welcome.
At the end of the ceremony, Taps will be played and there will be a 21-gun salute.
Army Col. Trevathan Nathaniel McCarther will be the speaker. He will be introduced by his wife, Gloria.
He joined the Army in 1967 and went to Vietnam in 1969. He served with the Military Assistance Command Vietnam as advisor to a Vietnamese Infantry Battalion. Later, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in Staten Island, N.Y. He went to flight school training in Texasand was assigned to the 82nd Aviation Battalion in 1972. In 1976, he was assigned to Korea. He later attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
In 1982, he became an assistant professor of Military Science at North Carolina A&T State University and Elon University.


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With contract negotiations stalled, union workers at University of California hospitals, including UC San Diego Medical Center, say they will vote next week on whether to strike.
The strike talk started Friday with a statement from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents about 13,000 employees at university medical facilities across the state.
That includes 2,061 technical workers, from respiratory technicians to licensed vocational nurses, who work alongside registered nurses and doctors in caring for patients at UC San Diego.
The university attributes the current strike talk to a refusal by the union "to agree to UC's pension reforms," which require employees to pay a larger percentage of their incomes toward pensions starting July 1.
UC lists pay increases of "up to 3.5 percent for the next four years" on top of 5 percent pay increases that union members have received each of the last two years as part of the benefit package offered in negotiations.
"Thus far, AFSCME has rejected all of UC's proposals and is demanding higher wage increases and lower payments for benefits as compared to other UC employees," the university said in a statement.
But the union says just the opposite.
"UC Medical Centers have offered their front line care workers cuts in total compensation," the union said in its statement.
The union is also focusing on the pay and benefits paid to top executives. The union says that, according to its own research, UC has spent $100 million more on management payroll from 2009 to 2012. That extra spending, the union argues, includes growth in pension expenses.
"Some of them take home double the benefit that the governor takes home," said union President Kathryn Lybarger.
The union's statement indicates it will ask its membership statewide to vote on a strike between April 30 and May 2. The union has not specified a specific strike date or duration.
The same union last went on strike in 2008 with service workers, from custodians to landscape workers, picketing hospitals including UC San Diego in June of that year. Temporary workers were brought in to temporarily replace the picketers.
The two sides traded pointed statements Friday afternoon, accusing each other of putting patient care at risk.
"Clearly, if this were to happen, it would have negative repercussions on patient care, which we are striving to avoid. Our patients should not be used as union bargaining chips," said UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein in an email.
The union accused the university of making cuts to staffing that put fewer workers at the bedside.
"A strike would certainly be painful for our members. It is clearly a last resort. But, if we are pushed to that point, we will have no other choice," Lybarger said.


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- Page 1 Panasonic Viera TX-P42VT30 Review
- Page 2 Connections Aplenty And An Impressive Picture Review
- Page 3 3D Heroics And A Few Minor Niggles Review
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The P42VT30 scores highly for its connectivity. It's both expansive – including four v1.4 HDMIs, three USBs, a LAN port, and the play/record SD card slot – and handily arranged so that every socket can be accessed from the side or bottom, to aid wall mounting. It's notable, too, that the screen is so skinny that one or two connections can only be accessed via included 'downsizing' adaptors.
The last thing to point out about the P42VT30's features is that it's very multimedia savvy. Its compatibility with Panasonic's Viera Connect platform provides access to such online services as Skype, the BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Eurosport, AceTrax and YouTube (with many more apps and services coming soon). It can play files from DLNA PCs on its network, meanwhile, as well as video (including DivX HD), photo or music files from USB drives or SD cards.
First impressions of the P42VT30 in action elicit precisely the gasps of 'wow' we'd been hoping for. Especially since the set's black level response is not only palpably better than even that of the P50GT30, but also the richest and deepest we've seen since Pioneer's KURO sets.
Obviously, this isn't the first time we've drawn comparisons between Panasonic TVs and the legendary but sadly now extinct Pioneer KUROs. But with the P42VT30, the comparison is particularly justified, since we'd say the depth of its black levels really does finally tally with that of the last KURO set we tested. Dark scenes contain areas of blackness that really can look as black as the bezel around the screen, or the inky darkness of a blacked-out room.
Not surprisingly, this has a terrific impact on the TV's portrayal of films, in particular, where extreme contrast ranges and really dark sequences are routine. Remember, too, that thanks to plasma's self-emissive nature, the almost infinitely deep black levels can sit side by side with rich colours and punchy whites, without the usual contrast, brightness and backlight uniformity compromises you get with LCD/LED technology.
The P42VT30's pictures are also stunningly detailed and sharp with HD material, with the high contrast range serving to underline the image's crispness and texture. As you'd expect, this helps the set produce impressively finely delineated colour tones and blends too, and colours additionally look pleasingly vibrant and fully saturated. Though it did seem to us that colours on the P42VT30 weren't quite as vibrant as those of the P50GT30.
The P42VT30 handles motion well for the most part too. Naturally, there's none of the blurring that you get with LCD TVs thanks to plasma's more or less instant response time, and judder is generally well contained. There can be some jerking – or perhaps more accurately, double imaging – with 50Hz PAL material, but this is only seriously distracting under very specific circumstances, such as when a camera pans over the lines of a football pitch. Plus you can reduce the problem considerably if it's troubling you via the set's Intelligent Frame Creation system – though if you do this, make sure the frame interpolation isn't set any higher than its Mid setting if you don't want pictures to start looking painfully processed.
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Crime and mayhem plus a bit of insanity mix for audience discomfort and laughter next week in Magnolia Hall as Sun City Community Theatre brings "Arsenic and Old Lace" to the stage.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10, 11 and 12 as well as a 2 p.m. Nov. 12 matinee. Bob McCloskey plays the part of Janathan Brewster in the classic comedy about the Brewster Clan - a family where insanity runs rampant - and the nasty habit of two elderly sisters played by Anrose Perlstein and Maya White. The sisters like to kill lonely old men as an act of charity. They then have the unfortunate gentlemen callers buried by a demented nephew who is convinced he is Teddy Roosevelt, digging the Panama Canal in their Brooklyn brownstone basement.
To add to the mayhem, there is a young fiancée, bodies stashed in the window seat. The cast includes Bob Taylor, Ed Phelps, Carol Wrobleski, Roscoe Sandlin, Joe Panzerino, Max Clements, Ron Vaughn, Mike Stallone, Larry Dellavecchia, Ralph Spiegel and Bert Cayer. It is directed by Wendell MacNeal.
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May 08, 2014
Robert Pirtle '14 will be the student speaker at the College of Arts and Sciences commencement on May 10. A committee of seniors, staff, and faculty selected Pirtle, a physics major from Harwich, Massachusetts, during the annual Senior Speaker Competition.
We talked with Pirtle about his time at Lewis & Clark and how a liberal arts education has prepared him for the future.
What are some of your reflections on your college experience?
I have had a really amazing time at Lewis & Clark. I can't imagine a better place to have spent the last four years. I love everyone I've met, and everything I've done—or, if I didn't love it, I'm at least grateful for the opportunity. I am really going to miss this place.
What are your happiest recollections of your time at Lewis & Clark?
It's hard to condense four years into only a few words. My a cappella group, Momo and the Coop, is one of the first things that comes to mind. When singing with them, I can think of nothing but what's happening right then and there. Going abroad to Chile was incredible. I also can't help but think of my professors and how amazing and dedicated they are. Also, many of my favorite moments were spent sitting with my friends and enjoying each other's company.
What made you want to come to Lewis & Clark?
It's a funny story because this is the only school I applied to west of the Mississippi, and I only did so as an excuse to visit the Pacific Northwest. I heard about how beautiful and great it was here. I visited for a week in April and it was awesome. I fell in love with all of the people and the area and decided to move 3,000 miles away from the only place I'd ever really known. Also, I realized I wanted a small school. Most of the other schools I applied to were big, East Coast technical colleges where I'd study physics and math and only ever physics and math, surrounded by people doing the exact same thing. The liberal arts are the way to go.
Besides singing with Momo and the Coop, were you involved with any extracurricular activities during your time here?
Phew! Too many. I also sing with Cappella Nova. I was on the Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB), and am a teacher's assistant in a physics lab. I was really involved with the slam poetry club during my first two years at Lewis & Clark. Also, I led an Alternative Spring Break program to El Salvador this past March.
What was your favorite class? How did it expand your knowledge?
Again, I have too many! My top two are probably Thermodynamics with Michael Broide and Computer Graphics with Jeff Ely. Other classes I loved were Electromagnetism, Calculus IV, Spanish conversation, Philosophical Methods, Jerry Harp's Exploration and Discovery section…I could go on.
The thing I learned about in Thermodynamics that really changed my perspective was entropy, the idea that things tend to happen in the way they are most likely to happen. It's awe-inspiring because one of the only assumptions you make is that anything is possible. There are just infinitely more ways for my room to be messy than there are for it to be organized, so it's usually pretty messy.
How has your time here helped you grow as an individual?
Again, it's hard to sum up the experiences of four years briefly, and that growth is still happening. I'm certainly much more mature than I was as a first-year student. But I'm also very much the same. My time at L&C has given me the opportunity to view my life in reference to everyone around me. I would like to think I'm a lot less selfish and more caring towards others. Since being here, I've learned even more about how much I don't know, too—which my dad's always said a good measure of intelligence. I'm learning that I know less and less every day.
What message do you hope to convey to your fellow graduates at commencement?
I just want everyone to appreciate the day. We've all done a lot to get here and we should take a moment to really treasure our accomplishments. But then I also want to get everyone excited! I don't really anticipate people remembering most of what I say, but hopefully they'll take away feelings of gratitude, jubilation, and wonder.
What do you think you'll do after college?
I'm headed back to Massachusetts for at least the summer. I'll be taking the GREs and applying to graduate programs in physics between now and next fall. I'm hoping to sort out my priorities and maybe do some traveling or get a job. I've always wanted my serious endgame to be going into space, but I'm just taking it one thing at a time.


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Ella Anna Heidemann, 97, of Decatur, Ill., died March 20 at Fair Havens Christian Home, Decatur, Ill. Ella was born Nov. 29, 1915, in Tampa to John and Helena (Ottensmeier) Backhus.
She married Arthur Frederick Heidemann on Nov. 9, 1941, in Tampa. He preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her parents, one sister, and five brothers.
She is survived byfour children, Ellen Hill of Algonquin, Ill., Albert Heidemann of Aurora, Ill., and Jenette Heidemann and Dewayne Heidemann, both of Decatur; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Alma Meyer and Frieda Bentz, both of Tampa; and three brothers, Harry Backhus of Leavenworth, John Backhus of Enterprise, and Wilbert Backhus of Tampa.
Funeral services were March 25 at Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home, Decatur. Visitation was before the service. Burial was in Lutheran Cemetery, Decatur.
A memorial fund has been established for St. John's Lutheran Church, Tampa.


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This wool is offered in fat quarter yard increments.
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Before dyeing, the wool measured 18" long by approximately 30" wide.
If you order multiple fat quarters, we will endeavor to send you larger pieces if available. However, if your project requires larger pieces than noted above, please contact our custom orders desk and we'll do our best to make it happen.
These measurements are taken before the wool is dyed. The dye process generally shrinks the wool about 10%. You will need to figure amounts accordingly when placing your order. Because dye lots & fabric availability may vary, please purchase adequate amounts to complete your project...we can't guarantee that reorders of a particular color will be an exact match in either color or fabric.
In The Merry Hooker Woolens dye studio, we honor the slow and labor-intensive process necessary to obtain richly dyed woolens with good colorfastness, colors that permeate into the core of the fabrics and a soft hand that make them a pleasure to work with. We don't rush the wool and we don't subscribe to the "hurry up" method of dyeing.
Our wool is soaked in a bath of water and a wetting agent for at least 24 hours to make certain that the fibers are completely saturated. To ensure colorfastness, each dye bath is brought to the proper temperature and simmered with the appropriate mordant for at least one hour. After dyeing, we add our lanolin-based fine wool soak to the dye bath and allow it to cool completely, usually overnight. Once it's completely cooled, the wool is removed from the dye bath, dried and fulled in the dryer.
Our hand dyed woolens come to you ready to use in your chosen craft with no additional processing necessary.
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Israel's cabinet next week will consider a bill that would require non-Jewish candidates for Israeli citizenship to pledge allegiance to the country as a Jewish state.
The bill, backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls for an amendment to Israel's citizenship law to include "a Jewish and democratic state" in a mandatory oath of loyalty.
In addition to kicking up accusations of discrimination against the country's Arab minority, observers suggested the proposal is timed to push Israel's diplomatic campaign to force the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a condition for a peace accord.
"There is an agenda here," says Yedidia Stern, a law professor at Bar Ilan University and vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute. "The agenda is to push in the face of everybody how serious we are about the definition" of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
Mr. Netanyahu's office announced its endorsement of the amendment just as US, Israeli, and Palestinian negotiators are struggling to resolve a dispute over settlement expansion that has Palestinian leaders threatening to abandon direct negotiations.
Israeli journalists asked the prime minister Thursday if his support for the bill was meant to buy the support of ultranationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who failed to pass a controversial loyalty oath for Arab citizens, for an extension of a moratorium on new housing in the West Bank.
Bigger plans?
Though Netanyahu demurred, he did say that significance of the revised loyalty oath is part of something bigger
"There is a very great struggle today to nullify and blur the character of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and to say that it doesn't belong to the Jewish people on a national basis," said Netanyahu. "I think that the struggle on this issue, both on an international and a domestic level, is a necessary struggle."
Ever since Netanyahu first threw his support behind creating a Palestinian state in 2009, Israel has pursued a demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a state of the Jewish people as part of the negotiations. The Palestinians have resisted, arguing that the issue is solely a domestic one.
The amendment was made public at a sensitive diplomatic juncture. On Friday and Saturday, the Arab League is expected to issue a statement regarding the future of Palestinian participation in the peace talks after Israel ended a moratorium on settlement building. There have been intensified diplomatic contacts over the last two weeks to avoid a breakdown of the talks.
"There are direct talks with the Palestinians and they are refusing to recognizing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, in contrast to the UN in 1948," says Tal Nahum, the spokesman for Foreign Minister Lieberman's political party, Yisrael Beiteinu. "It's very important for us that the rest of the world will recognize Israel as a Jewish state … This is what this amendment is for."
Are Israel's Jewish and democratic identities in conflict?
Israelis have become more alarmed in recent years at what many here consider a growing campaign internationally to delegitimize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.
The country's one-fifth Arab minority sees the amendment to the citizenship law as new evidence that there is a conflict between Israel's dual identity as Jewish and democratic. There has been growing support among Palestinians for the so-called "one state" solution, which would essentially give everyone living in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel citizenship in one country, which would end the exclusive Jewish character of the state.
Jaffar Farah, the director of the Israeli civil rights group Mossawa, noted that the bill would have little practical impact because family members of Israeli Arabs have been barred from becoming naturalized citizens under legislation passed during the height of the Palestinian uprising. Still, that doesn't ease the sense of injury.
"This is a dictatorship of the majority," he says. "We see this as part of the delegitimization campaign against our existence in Israel, which is led by the current government since it was established."
Law Professor Stern says it's reasonable for Israel to require naturalized citizens to recite such a pledge because Israel's quasi-constitutional Basic Laws mention the country's identity as a Jewish and democratic state. What is problematic, he said, is enforcing that requirement solely on non-Jews. Under Israel's Law of Return, Jewish requests for citizenship are granted automatically.
"In order to make it totally kosher we need to demand the same kind of pledge of everyone," he says. "If we want people to commit to a set of values, what does it make a difference whether they are Jewish or not?"


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DL Abu Lamin of Fort Scott JC, KS is at his home in Fayetteville, NC for the holiday and will leave for Kansas on Monday. Before then hopes to make another visit to USC, this time with his mother, if he can get it set up. Lamin realizes most of the coaches are away on vacation but he plans to contact Deke Adams Thursday to see if he can come in on Friday.
Lamin made an official visit to USC last month and declared the Gamecocks his favorite afterwards. "I still feel the same but anything can really happen," Lamin said. "I definitely still like the Gamecocks and I definitely plan on being a Gamecock, hopefully."
Lamin has more visits on the horizon. He is looking at an official visit to Georgia July 12th, and he is set to visit Arkansas July 19th. He also plans to visit Tennessee before his season or during his bye week and Kentucky is trying to get him in for a visit. He has also been to Florida for an official visit.
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• 200g flour
• 2 Tbs caster sugar
• 120g cold butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 eggs
• 100g caster sugar
• 3 lemons, zest and juice
• 150ml cream
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Place flour, sugar, butter and egg yolk into a processor and blitz until well combined and your dough is formed. Place on to a lightly floured bench. Roll until 5mm thickness and cut shapes to fit tins. Line pastry with baking paper and beans and blind bake for 10 minutes.
3. Turn oven down to 160C.
4. In a bowl, beat eggs and sugar until well combined. Add lemon and cream and mix well. Pour into tins and bake for 10 to 15 minutes until just set.
5. Serve with some of your favourite fruit, and optional candied lemon.


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The 2017 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is powered by a 2.1L turbo-diesel BlueTEC engine. The 4-cylinder unit makes 161 horsepower and 265 pound-feet of torque. The optional 3.0L turbo-diesel BlueTEC V6 engine makes 188 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque -- the latter figure explains the Sprinter's surprisingly good acceleration, even with a full load. The four-cylinder engine is mated to a 7-speed automatic transmission, while the V6 is paired with a 5-speed automatic. Mercedes-Benz says that the powertrain gets 30 percent better fuel economy than a comparable gasoline engine and complies with the most up-to-date emissions standards from the EPA and California Air Resources Board.
The Sprinter's upright body, with nearly vertical side walls and a rather low loading floor, is incredibly spacious inside, leaving several feet above most occupants' heads and plenty of legroom no matter the row. There's a choice between standard and high-roof models, as well as a 144-inch or 170-inch wheelbase, and with the taller body, occupants up to 6'-4" can stand in the cabin. There are four rows of seating, with the capability to carry up to 12 passengers. Entry and exit are quite easy, thanks to a wide-opening sliding door that opens to an amazing 4'-3" wide and six feet high. The standard rear doors open 270 degrees for easy cargo loading as well.
The Sprinter has an instrument panel that's a little more car-like than other full-size vans, but its seating position is quite upright. Overall, the Sprinter drives with a more confident, planted cornering feel than might be expected from such a tall vehicle. That's thanks to an independent, coil-spring front suspension and rack-and-pinion steering. Four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes with brake assist and 16-inch wheels are standard.
Adaptive ESP, a special stability control system that uses Load Adaptive Control to adjust to the load being carried, is standard on all Sprinter Passenger Van models. Several safety technologies have been carried over from Mercedes' passenger car side, including Collision Prevention Assist, Blind Spot Assist, Highbeam Assist and Lane Keeping Assist. Side thorax front airbags and side-curtain bags are available, and they are standard on 2500 and 3500 models.
Standard features on the Sprinter Passenger Van include a tilt and telescopic steering wheel, automatic climate control, front-seat armrests and power front windows. In addition to the V6, options include cruise control, roof rails, a self-leveling system, bi-xenon HID headlamps, a heated windshield, auxiliary rear heating and a rearview camera system. Available Park Assist helps drivers to safely back the vehicle into position. A number of packages are also offered, including a Cold Climate Package, Mobility Package and Trailer Hitch Package. So equipped, the Sprinter can tow up to 5,000 pounds.
Right now, it's only for Europe.
This mild-hybrid powertrain is anything but mild.
The E-Class still puts luxury first, but a new mild-hybrid powertrain gives it serious vim.
A more than worthy follow-up to the disappointing CLA-Class, Mercedes' newest entry-level luxury sedan is now one of our favorites in its class.
We'll also see the production version of the EQV electric van.
The program has the unfortunate name of Chark.
You can thank European noise regulations for the result.
It'll be put to use at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.


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Happ, 27, made an impressive jump from the Phillies bullpen to starter in late May, by posting a record of 12-4 with an ERA of 2.93. Drafted by the Phillies in the third round of the 2004 June draft (92nd overall), this season Happ struck out 119 batters in 166 innings pitched and posted two shutouts. In 2008, the 66 native of Peru, IL, finished second in the International League in strikeouts, with 151, and averaged 10.1 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched.
Beckham, 23, was drafted by Chicago in the 2008 June draft and made the jump to the Majors a quick one. He impressed his AL peers in short-order after making his season debut on June 4, and in just 103 games for the White Sox, he finished with 14 home runs, 63 RBI, 28 doubles and a .270 batting average. In 2008, Beckham attended the University of Georgia, where be batted .411 with 28 homers and 77 RBI, becoming the first Bulldog to hit over .400 since 1982. He finished the 2008 season tied for first among NCAA Division I home run leaders and was second in runs (97) and total bases (221).
To listen to a podcast of todays Players Choice Awards announcements, please click here: http://search.espn.go.com/mike-and-mike/
Players Choice Awards annually recognize the best player, pitcher, rookie and comeback player in each league. The Player of the Year and Marvin Miller Man of the Year awards bestow top honors without regard to league. Balloting of all Major League players for the Players Choice Awards was conducted in September under the supervision of accounting firm KPMG.
Each 2009 Players Choice Award winner will recommend the charity of his choice to receive a grant from the Major League Baseball Players Trust. Since 1992, the Players Trust has contributed more than $3.5 million dollars to charities around the world in honor of Players Choice Award winners.
The 2009 Players Choice Awards finalists are [winners in bold & underlined]:
American League:
Outstanding Player: Derek Jeter (NY Yankees), Joe Mauer (Minnesota), Kendry Morales (LA Angels of Anaheim)
Outstanding Pitcher: Roy Halladay (Toronto), Zack Greinke (Kansas City), CC Sabathia (NY Yankees)
Outstanding Rookie: Elvis Andrus (Texas), Gordon Beckham (Chicago White Sox), Jeff Niemann (Tampa Bay)
Comeback Player: Russell Branyon (Seattle), Aaron Hill (Toronto), Scott Podsednik (Chicago White Sox)
National League:
Outstanding Player: Prince Fielder (Milwaukee), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida)
Outstanding Pitcher: Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Tim Lincecum (San Francisco), Adam Wainwright (St. Louis)
Outstanding Rookie: Chris Coghlan (Florida), Tommy Hanson (Atlanta), J.A. Happ (Philadelphia)
Comeback Player: Aaron Boone (Houston), Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Nick Johnson (Florida)
Either League:
Player of Year: Joe Mauer (Minnesota), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida)
Man of the Year: Curtis Granderson (Detroit), Torii Hunter (LA Angeles of Anaheim), Albert Pujols (St. Louis)
ESPN Radios broadcast schedule for the 2009 Players Choice Awards:
Monday, October 26 AL & NL Outstanding Rookies Winners: Gordon Beckham (AL)/J.A. Happ (NL)
Tuesday, October 27 AL & NL Comeback Players
Wednesday, October 28 AL & NL Outstanding Pitchers
Thursday, October 29 AL & NL Outstanding Players
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Picture: Sugarland 46th Annual CMA Awards Inside Bridgestone Arena In Nashville Tennessee, USA - 01.11.12
Sugarland star Kristian Bush has given his actress pal Lucy Hale's music career a big boost by co-writing a handful of songs for her debut album.
The Pretty Little Liars star is currently gearing up to release a country album after signing a deal with label bosses at Hollywood Records.
The 23 year old tells the Associated Press, "(The album) is something I wanted to do way before Pretty Little Liars or anything. I grew up singing, and acting sort of came up along the way... (Recording) is a lot of weekends, it's a lot of long nights but I'm so passionate about it... I'm just really excited."
Hale has recruited the Stay hitmaker to collaborate with her in the studio, and Bush is convinced country fans will love her music.
He says, "I would drive around in the car with her... and she always flips the station to the country station and always sings along louder than the radio. I'm like, 'How do you know that song? I don't even know that song. I've just heard of (the band) Florida Georgia Line. How did you get that? Did you get an advance copy?' She just obsessively listens. Nothing creates a better writer or an artist than a great listener."
Hale is hoping the country music community will give her a chance to prove herself, insisting, "Once you get in the circle of country music, you're in and they will stay with you for life. It's just going over the hurdle of getting in there because they don't just let anyone in. Look at the careers. You don't make one album. You make 25 albums. They're just behind your back always."


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My Felicity. Ah, I truly love this hat! it is nicer than a traditional beanie because it doesn't feel like it is squeezing my melon and yet it covers my head and ears so that the cold wind can not come knockin'.
My mods for this one were:
cast on 80 on size 7 circulars and knit pattern till 3 inches, increase to 90 stitches knit till total 5 !inches, increase to 100 stitches and knit 4 more rounds, increase to 110 stitches and knit 4 more rounds, increase to 120 stitches and knit 4 more rounds and then begin the decrease as written beginning with knit 10, k2tog. around. Finished and loved.
What is your favorite hat this year for winter wear?
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La Barette. I'm not talking about the hair clip or the barretta — the square cap worn by clergy men.
Instead I'm referring to a type of rugby played by women in France in the 1920s. As opposed to 7s, it was 10 players on each side and instead of tackling there was tough blocking.
I've found that for women, rugby was played behind "closed doors" in the 19th century and likely in Ireland.1 But it did not surprise me that the lady ruggers, as with most sports predominately played by men, were not met with full support.
However, I was surprised when one night of late searching (read: procrastination) I came across a collection of photos from Frédéric Humbert's Flikr account and his website — www.rugby-pioneers.com. They captured a time when women in France were playing barette and how society editorialized — perhaps sensationalized — the sport.
With Frédéric's permission I've shared some of those images here with you. And since you're my captive audience, I'll also share what I find striking about each image. I invite you to tell me which image you like best too!
Fabien Fabiano "rugby féminin" in Fantasio 1924
With the help of Google Translate and my one semester of high school French, I believe the illustration says the following: "'Press on through the melee,' shouted the Captain. But as his friend looks she is again a beauty."
First what an awesome word — melee. "It refers to disorganized close combat involving a group of fighters."2
To the outsider I'm sure rugby, especially the scrum or ruck, may look disorganized. And I have to wonder if Fabiano is either making fun of our Captain as she is applying lipstick while the other team has won the ball showcasing her as a poor athlete or highlighting a societal view of how women should always strive to be feminine.
Or both.
Erotic Rugby by Armand Vallée
This piece may be one of my favorites. Barette is supposed to be solely tough blocking but this illustration shows full on tackling. And as a result of said tackling the women are exposing their bottoms and as with the player with the ball she has one breast fully exposed. Yet she cannot be bothered to cover herself or she'll risk losing the game for her team. She's the antithesis of Fabiano's "Captain."
Something about this image is savage and it thrills me.
The title suggests that the game is "erotic" but only the women in the stands are "aroused." Some are whooping for the team (or perhaps for women sports), others are leaning in for a better look and some appear to be in awe. The men in attendance are stoic and not amused.
I find humor in this image as I wonder how many men have secretly and not-so-secretly fantasized about cat fights between women turning in to something more. To quote Jerry Seinfield: "Men think if women are grabbing and clawing at each other, there's a chance they might somehow, you know… kiss."
Apparently, not the men pictured here.
Fémina Sport à Bordeaux en 1923
Courtesy of Google Translate: "The coach and referee Mr. Andrew Theuriet framed by the captain of the Cadets of Gascony and Dubarry Miss Femina Sport captain, Miss Curabet."
André Theuriet was an Olympic swimmer and participated in 1908 Olympics in London in freestyle swimming. He was two-time finalist in the rugby championship in France in 1911 and 1913. He was also the co-founder of the first school of rugby in France established in 1924.
This picture was taken as part of a match in Bordeaux in 1923.3
Despite Theuriet's many accomplishments the women have larger smiles and I would go so far as to say that these women may have been beaming with pride to be pictured with him but moreso for what they represented as women athletes.
Hirondelles v Lille 1924
I believe, again thanks to Google Translate, this caption says the following: "A Regional Barette Match at Elizabeth Stadium/Femina-Swallows beat Lille Rugby Club by 20 points to 0. We see a Parisian on the offensive that threw the disturbance to the Lille."
Um, ok, so that last bit doesn't quite make sense but the jist is that the Lille Rugby Club got stomped this game. I also like the juxtaposition of this photograph to Vallée's illustration. No roaring fans to be found in the seats and no disrobed lady ruggers on the field.
Les Sportives | Journal Illustre Feminin
Here the Lille Rugby Club is pictured in an illustrated newspaper dedicated to women's sports. They are described as valiant. I would say that any player who decides to play rugby is "adventurous" — one of the synonyms but these women were certainly "bold" as I'm sure they must have received a lot of criticism for choosing a sport that isn't feminine.
Women's Sports Federation of France
The Fédération Française Sportive Féminine (FFSF) was founded by Alice Milliat in 1921 "in response to the refusal of the IAAF [International Olympic Committee] to include women's track and field athletics events in the 1924 Olympic Games."4
Milliat was "met with a deadlock of several leaders including that of Baron de Coubertin, vehemently opposed to women's sports."5
Vehemently opposed — the words make my skin crawl. I admire Milliat for finding her own way and I'm sure the Barette champions who received this were also proud of their combined achievements.
If you have been as enthralled with all this as I have, please watch this video of "Barette / Women Rugby in 1928".


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- Cast By : Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson
- Category : Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who divorced her husband Tom after she caught him cheating on her, takes the train to work daily. She fantasizes about the relationship of her neighbours, Scott and Megan Hipwell, during her commute. That all changes when she witnesses something from the train window and Megan is missing, presumed dead.


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Why would the Chicago Tribune, where well-documented fact is the basic of everything we do, run a nationally recognized contest for original short fiction?
How did the Chicago Tribune come to run a nationally recognized contest for original short fiction? That's a question we have been asked every year for nearly a quarter century since launching our annual Nelson Algren Short Story contest.
In "Chicago: City on the Make," Algren's prose poem to the place he so passionately loved and chronicled, Algren pays homage to the Chicagoans who came "(f)rom the forgotten battlegrounds on the other side of the billboards, on the other side of the TV commercials, the other side of the headlines."
Fiction helps us make sense of a world in which horrible things happen--children on a school bus are killed, and their parents try to pick up the pieces, or a teen is killed by schoolmates while others watch from a distance. This is a world that all but defies imagination, where lovers and friends, criminals and victims, enemies and allies, traitors and confidantes engage with other on the page, and elevate the everyday of life into art.
In the Nelson Algren contest, we try to create a perfect world, in which all stories are treated equally. Names and addresses are removed and numbers are assigned to each submission, so we do not privilege well-known authors. Stories are subjected to an elaborate judging system with which Algren would have had no patience. We can boast that we've published some of the first work of authors like Louise Erdrich or Julia Glass who've gone on to the bestseller list, and every year we think of some our judges who've since left this world, George Plimpton, Studs Terkel and Eudora Welty.
We're enormously proud of Printers Row Journal, our 24-page weekly literary supplement, available by subscription, and delighted that it has provided us with an opportunity to expand the Algren contest. While we've previously awarded only four prizes in the past, now we will award one winner, three finalists and six runners-up.
Those 10 stories will then be published in our Printers Row Journal Fiction insert, allowing us to share more widely some of the best fiction writing today.
Stories are due by Feb. 1. Details can be found via printersrowjournal.com. And readers should get ready for our Printers Row Lit Fest (June 8-9), when we'll announce the winners.
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I scaled down the recipe (one might say I halved the recipe; this is from the CIA Baking book. see original post for more info) to yield about 3 pounds of dough. This may sound like a lot of dough, but it gets used quickly. If you do have leftover dough, you could refrigerate or freeze for later use. This makes really great tart dough, for those of you who like fresh fruit tarts.
8 ounces (2 sticks) butter
1 pound of sugar
2 eggs
1.5 pounds of flour
Cream together butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time. Slowly incorporate all of the flour. Be sure not to over mix, just be sure that all of the ingredients are combined.
Cover, and chill until cool to the touch.
Use plenty of flour underneath dough when rolling it out. However, too much flour will prevent it from sticking together. You should be able to roll out pressed together scraps 2-3 times. Remember, chilled dough is easier to handle.


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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
PEPPERGRASS, PEPPERWORTAnnual to shrub; hairs 0 or simple
Leaves: basal not rosetted, generally petioled, entire to pinnately lobed; cauline short-petioled to sessile, sometimes clasping or surrounding stem
Flower small; sepals erect or spreading, oblong to ovate, shed early or persistent; petals linear to obovate, generally white, rarely yellowish, sometimes bristle-like or 0; stamens 6, 4, or 2
Fruit dehiscent, oblong to elliptic or obcordate, flat perpendicular to septum; pedicel cylindric or flat, winged or not
Seeds 1 per chamber, gelatinous when wetted; wing narrow or 0; embryonic root at back of 1 cotyledon, rarely at edges of both
Species in genus: ± 175 species: ± worldwide
Etymology: (Greek: little scale, from fruit)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1936 Madroño 3:265300]
L. densiflorum Schrad.Annual, biennial
Stem generally 1, erect, branched above, 13(4) dm; hairs minute, flat, obtuse
Leaves: basal rosetted, 310 cm, toothed to pinnately lobed; cauline entire to lobed, upper sessile, not clasping stem
Flower: sepals ± 1 mm; petals 0, rarely vestigial, white; stamens 2(4)
Fruit ± 2.53.5 mm, oblong-obovate; hairs 0 or minute; valve tips rounded; pedicel ± ascending, slender, generally < ± 2 X wider than thick; style ± 0
Seed generally margined or winged
Ecology: Sandy soils, plains, slopes, generally disturbed sites
Elevation: < 1800 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, n High Sierra Nevada, Great Central Valley, South Coast, Great Basin Floristic Province, Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, Canada, e US
Varieties difficult.
var. ramosum (A. Nelson) Thell.Annual
Fruit ± 3.5 mm, glabrous; pedicel flat on upper, lower sides, ± 2 X wider than thick
Ecology: Sandy soils, slopes, flats, sagebrush
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: to Wyoming, Arizona
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Why Hadoop? (Part 1)
Part 1
If you have been a regular reader of just about any technology blog or publication over the last year you'd be hard-pressed to have not heard about big data and especially the excitement (some might argue hype) surrounding Hadoop. Big data is becoming big business, and the buzz around it is building commensurately. What began as a specialized solution to a unique problem faced by the largest of Web 2.0 search engines and social media outlets – namely the need to ingest, store and analyze vast amounts of semi- or unstructured data in a fast, efficient, cost-effective and reliable manner that challenges traditional relational database management and storage approaches – has expanded in scope across nearly every industry vertical and trickled out into a wide variety of IT shops, from small technology startups to large enterprises. Big business has taken note, and major industry players such as IBM, Oracle, EMC, and Cisco have all begun investing directly in this space. But why has Hadoop itself proved so popular, and how has it solved some of the limitations of traditional structured relational database management systems (RDBMS) and associated SAN/NAS storage designs?
In the Part 1 of this blog I'll start by taking a closer look at some of those problems, and tomorrow in Part 2 I'll show how Hadoop addresses them.
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are asking complex questions of their data to gain a competitive advantage: retail companies want to be able to track changes in brand sentiment from online sources like Facebook and Twitter and react to them rapidly; financial services firms want to scour large swaths of transaction data to detect fraud patterns; power companies ingest terabytes of data from millions of smart meters generating data every hour in hopes of uncovering new efficiencies in billing and delivery. As a result, developers and data analysts are demanding fast access to as large and "pure" a data set as possible, taxing the limits of traditional software and infrastructure and exposing the following technology challenges:
- CPU horsepower/density continues to outpace spinning disk performance. As compute power tracks Moore's Law and spinning disk capacities continue to advance at a rapid pace, we're still stuck with relatively low bandwidth from a given spindle – maybe 150 MB/s sequential read throughput out of an enterprise-class SAS 15k RPM drive, or 80 MB/s out of a slower/cheaper/more dense 7.2k RPM SATA disk. A common solution to the bandwidth limit of a single hard disk spindle is to add more spindles and parallelize the read and write operations. SAN and NAS systems became hugely popular by providing far more spindles than a single server could hold internally and relatively fast access to them over a fibrechannel or Ethernet fabric. This separation of compute from storage works well as long as your application doesn't need to read or write very large amounts of data very quickly, where bottlenecks in the fabric, server, or storage array can arise. However, with big data-scale applications addressing terabyte- and even petabyte-sized working sets, this compute/storage performance imbalance often leaves the compute starved of data in traditional SAN/NAS-based RDBMS architectures.
- The explosion of data, especially the unstructured or semi-structured variety, taxes traditional systems' scalability. Customers are struggling to manage and analyze the massive influx of data from a variety of sources: system and network event logs, application clickstream data, sensor data from robots on the manufacturing floor, and other human-generated and especially machine-generated data sources. In many cases these data are being simply thrown away for lack of an effective means of capturing, storing, and analyzing them. RDBMS's with their comparatively rigid data models and transactional focus can be cumbersome for developers to adapt to the varying data types and flexible analysis models required of these data sets.
- The need to scale out horizontally to overcome the processing and availability limitations of a single or small number of monolithic servers presents complex distributed computing challenges. A given database node can only be so big before it can't handle the compute needs of the applications trying to access its data, and before it becomes too big to fail. Splitting the compute demands across multiple servers can address both performance and availability concerns, in much the same way that parallelizing I/O across multiple spindles in a RAID set can help aggregate throughput and improve reliability. But all of that distribution and parallelization comes at a cost – writing performant, distributed applications is difficult business and places its own demands on the network, compute, and storage for concurrency, synchronization, locking, and especially failure and recovery. Historically it's been painful for developers to have to reinvent the distributed application wheel with each new app.
Acknowledging these difficulties with the traditional RDMBS+SAN/NAS model, a new breed of applications and underlying data management frameworks have emerged over the last decade intending to handle the needs of big data sets in a cost-effective and timely manner. Hadoop has become one of the most popular choices for big data problems, as it was purpose-built to address these shortcomings. In Part 2 of this post, I'll take a closer look at how Hadoop works in this context.
Update: Cisco's own Jacob Rapp will be speaking at HadoopWorld in NYC next week. See you there! http://www.hadoopworld.com/session/hadoop-networkcompute-architecture-considerations/
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I am not sure Hadoop in its current form will play a big role in bigdata analytics. Signs of that are in the way it is being evolved to support NAS/SAN, out of JVM (i.e. no code mobility or scale out) and support for structured data.
What is really catching on in industry in IMHO is the value of analytics at all levels Invocation (API, Messaging), Datastore (structured and unstructed) and Execution (mostly moving to VM).
Given the emergence of distributed storage technologies such as distributed database and filesystem, and distributed computing technologies such as hadoop implementation. Do you think Cisco data center and storage products need to support them at the infrastructural (NX-OS/IOS level) or it is already there?
Excellent post and agree on all count. Do you think traditional RDBMS and SAN/NAS models will eventually have big data system integration by default and perhaps you will see a converged data set systems?
At what limit RDBMS will not be efficient? Does Hadoop have application in telecom field especially 3G and 4G, from the operator point of view and not from end user point of view?
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Jihad Daouk


text: Etihad Airways switches flights to new Queen Alia Airport, Amman 11 مارس 2013 10:18 Etihad Airways has announced that from March 10 the airline's double-daily flights from Abu Dhabi will operate to Amman's new Queen Alia International Airport. Captain Richard Hill, Etihad Airways' Chief Operations Officer, said: "We believe moving to the new airport is a positive step which will continue to meet our guests' expectations of travelling with the world's leading airline."The new airport is designed to accommodate the rapid increase in passenger numbers and is expected to almost triple the airport's capacity. The terminal, designed by Foster + Partners, is 103,000 sqm and should increase capacity by 60% to nearly twelve million passengers per year. Etihad Flight EY 513 departs Abu Dhabi daily at 08:10, and arrives in Amman at 10:40. Etihad's second daily flight, EY 515, flight departs Abu Dhabi at 13:00 and arrives in Amman at 15:40. The daily return flight, EY 514, departs Amman at 11:25 and arrives in Abu Dhabi Airport at 15:15, while EY 516 departs at 16:30 and arrives in Abu Dhabi at 20:20. An upgraded range of facilities and services has been introduced at the new airport, including larger check-in areas and newly designed retail and dining outlets. Upgrades to the baggage handling system and security areas have also been made. Etihad Airways is the first foreign airline to begin operations to and from the new Queen Alia Airport. The UAE flag carrier started operations from Abu Dhabi to the Jordanian capital in December 2003. انضموا إلينا انضموا لصفحتنا في فيسبوك شاهدونا زوروا قناة الاتحاد للطيران في يوتيوب تابعونا الاتحاد للطيران (العربي)


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It's been fun following the Tangerine Tango trail since it was chosen as Pantone's 2012 Color of the Year. It is everywhere, except in my house. Try as I might, I could not get the oranges to co-exist with the colors in my home. Not every design trend is going to work in your home, so just like in fashion, there are many trends to choose from.
Experimenting with current trends is an excellent way to freshen up your space. Accessories can be an inexpensive and easy way to test the waters of your favorite trend. Adding the new with the old, and mixing it up with your sentimental favorites, is what makes a house a home.
Here are three examples of current home decor trends and how you can make them work in your home.
Color-blocking which has been so popular in the fab world of fashion made the leap into decor. Work with three of your favorite colors and see where it takes you. If you start adding more colors you can end up with a home decor disaster.
An inexpensive and easy way to add color is to paint to the back of open cupboards or bookcases. In the examples shown above, you would only need a pint or quart of paint for each color. You can also gather "like colored" items from around your home and group them together in an energized color-blocked collection.*
Buy fabric in your favorite colors for accent pillows and a DIY steal-the-show shower curtain.
I love how color-blocking was used in this living room with neutral walls and neutral furniture: the rug, stack of green books, draperies, ottoman cushion, and the luscious green pillows. It all works for me.
Here color-blocking is used in the artwork, rug, side chairs, and accent pillows. The finish of the coffee table also reflects the colors of the entire room.
Nautical is crazy popular right now for the home. The traditional nautical colors of red, white, and blue, paired with tailored stripes, gives off the clean, crisp vibe I love. Make a total commitment with one of Pottery Barn's six nautical themed bedrooms, or accessorize with the simple, yet fetching, "You anchor me" piece of artwork.
Benjamin Moore Harbor Haze and Spellbound paint colors were used in this bright and cheery space.
If the style of your home doesn't lend itself to the sea, desk accessories, anchor pillows, sea shells, wooden ships or knot artwork are smaller pieces you can work into your home decor.
Shagreen (shuh-green) – before last year I don't remember ever seeing this word in print. The Pink Chandelier tells the story:
Much to the chagrin of most sharks and rays, their skin, shagreen, has been used on decorative items and furniture since ancient times. Egyptians adored its pearly texture and Japanese samurais used it on the handles of their swords. Louis XV and Madame Pompadour were huge fans of the luminescent, pebbly leather and had exquisite wig boxes covered in it. During the Art Deco period, furniture and boxes were commonly upholstered with shagreen and dyed in soft pastel shades. Today, shagreen is still coveted and used on luxurious furniture and decorative objects because of its amazing texture that is reminiscent of tiny beads. Luckily for sharks and rays, faux shagreen is an alternative option and unless you are an expert, it's hard to tell the difference.
Faux shagreen wallcovering from Hirshfield's Design Studio
Kathy and Greg (Hirshfield's Design Studio) tell me shagreen was very, very popular at High Point Market this past 2012 spring, showing up on furniture, accessories, wallets, bar carts, and lamp bases to name a few. Kathy also told me it's desirous to have a shagreen covered item with the larger white spots on it.
Vintage Pirite Shagreen Commode or Chest
Ann Sacks black shagreen tiles…the real deal.
When I am looking to add a little luxe glamour to my interiors, I look to a shagreen-finished object like a tray, accent table or box…The Pink Chandelier
This is a trend that is building momentum; in the next six months we'll be seeing more shagreen products mass marketed. I would love a shagreen box to hold all the remote controls, and I would consider a lamp with a shagreen base. Shagreen covered items add another layer of texture and interest to a room.
Just like with fashion not all trends will work for you. Your home should be comfortable and reflect your personal style, but yet don't be afraid to freshen it up every so often. You've gotten rid of your mom/dad jeans, haven't you? Maybe that valance in your kitchen needs to go…oh wait, that's my valance that needs to go!
*Half painted walls another form of color-blocking?
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Victoria Azarenka triumphed in an incident-packed final against Li Na to successfully defend her Australian Open title yesterday.
After a scrappy match marked by boos for Azarenka, a break for Australia Day fireworks and two painful falls for China's Li, the Belarussian top seed dissolved in tears when she sealed the 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win.
Li required two medical timeouts after twice twisting her left ankle and also banging her head on the court after falling, in a match interrupted for nine minutes at a crucial stage by the fireworks.
Azarenka also overcame a pro-Li crowd that was clearly unimpressed by her controversial medical timeout in the semi-finals, which she took after blowing five match points.
It was a gutsy effort from the 23-year-old as she came back from a set down and sealed it on her first match point to clinch her second Grand Slam title.
"It's been a real long two weeks," Azarenka said. "I will always keep very special memories of this court. It will be in my heart forever. The last thing I want to say is, happy Australia Day everybody."
Meanwhile Li will count herself desperately unlucky after she twisted her ankle in the second set, and then went over heavily on it again after the fireworks, banging her head and appearing dazed before continuing.
"Congratulations to Victoria," said Li, who had tears in her eyes after the match. "Fantastic result here for two years, so well done."
Li then thanked her coaching team.
"Thanks to the team, two weeks ago I really had to say I hate my team because they pushed me a lot," Li said. "But I think it's not bad, so I should shut up and continue."
"So, I know I'm not young, I still have to say I'm looking forward to next year," she said.
Li, 30, first twisted her left ankle while leading 6-4, 1-3. She hobbled to her courtside chair for the ankle to be strapped.
Leading 2-1 in the third set, and playing the first point after the fireworks display, Li again tumbled over on the ankle, hitting the back of her head on the playing surface.
Li started the match with a double fault in a portent of the struggles to come for both players on serve. Out of 29 games, there were 16 breaks and Li finished the match with 57 unforced errors.
Li had the majority of the crowd support as spectators cheered errors and double faults from Azarenka. One even mocked the loud hooting sound she makes when she hits a shot.
Azarenka won games and points to muted applause, but held firm.
Azarenka won only four points in her first three service games and when a backhand from Li kissed the line, the Chinese player led 4-2 in the first set. Her eighth winner of the match, a scorching forehand, put her 5-2 ahead.
Serving for the set at 5-3, four unforced errors from Li earned Azarenka a reprieve, but yet another service break gave Li the first set.
Azarenka skipped to a 3-0 lead in the second set, but wild forehands helped Li peg back the deficit. Li won five straight points after her first medical timeout, for treatment on her ankle, but Azarenka snuck ahead 4-2.
Moving freely despite thick strapping on her ankle, Li levelled at 4-4. Azarenka was loudly booed when she angrily swatted a ball away, but she ran through the next two games, holding to love to level the match at a set apiece.
When they resumed the third set after the fireworks, Li again fell and required medical treatment.