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LOS ANGELES - A team of four MBA students from UCLA's Anderson School of Management has been awarded a $250,000 venture capital investment as the winner of this year's annual Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Venture Challenge business plan competition. The state wide competition included candidates from schools such as Stanford, UC Berkeley, CalTech and USC. The winning UCLA Anderson team, Precision Reproduction LLC, will commercialize a patented medical device and procedure for in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
Each year DFJ, the leading early stage venture capital firm, and its California affiliates, DFJ Frontier and Zone Ventures, invite winners of California college- and university-sponsored business plan competitions to compete in the DFJ Venture Challenge. Precision Reproduction recently won UCLA Anderson's Knapp Venture Competition, sponsored by the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Now in its 25th year, the student-run Knapp Venture Competition has given over 1,600 UCLA Anderson students a unique experience that has been instrumental in launching numerous businesses including stamps.com, Message Rite and Auditude.
"Being part of the UCLA Anderson community and having the resources of the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has provided us with so many opportunities," said team leader Greg Samson ('07). "We are particularly excited about working with DFJ - and grateful to them for sharing in our vision."
UCLA Anderson team members Samson, Jeff Kendig ('06), Ben Koff ('06) and Sanjaya Mohottala ('07) created a business plan for Precision Reproduction, which developed and patented a device and procedure for IVF that improves success rates and reduces health risks for both the mother and the child. Unlike the traditional method of IVF, their new method gives doctors the control to consistently deliver an embryo to an ideal implantation site, eliminating the risk of ectopic pregnancy.
Precision Reproduction was chosen from 15 competing teams by a panel of judges comprised of partners of DFJ, DFJ Frontier and Zone Ventures.
"DFJ's success is partly a result of our willingness to think and behave non-traditionally," said Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "The DFJ Venture Challenge provides us with access to great business plans and talented entrepreneurs, and it provides the competing teams with a unique forum to engage with venture capitalists who have their checkbooks open."
In addition to the award, a venture capitalist from one of the three funds may join the winner's board of directors, providing valuable business guidance and other assistance.
About Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the leader in seed and early-stage venture capital, typically serving as a startup's first outside source of financing. Founded in 1985, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has created a global network of affiliated venture funds with approximately $3.5 billion in capital commitments and offices in the major technology centers around the world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has proven expertise in identifying and helping extraordinary entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 35,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.
About the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, a recognized leader in entrepreneurial education, oversees all teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities related to entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Price Center strives to provide academic and extracurricular experiences that advance both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.


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What is so hard to understand about that?
Then we have that account info filed away in a folder in our Outlook Express by name of account and can look at past emails sent out regarding that account. Not fun to be tossed on an account that you have never seen NOR ever received an email on. Sounds like business to me.
They are still hiring if you change your mind.
Also, I am working part-time for Encompass. The account I am on also uses ExText, and I would not hestitate to recommend Encompass to anyon either. I feel fortunate to have found 2 great companies.
If you want IC work, I am also still working on a limited basis for CardioScribes. It is just cardiology transcription and the work is easy. Their platform is Wordscript, which is a Word-based platform, VERY easy to use. However, I really prefer employee status now, plus with the above 2 jobs, I will be making about 1 cent more per line plus having benefits and my taxes taken out.
If you go somewhere else, or if you decide to stay where you are, good luck!
Too much filling in of demographics, which has been stated many times here before. You wouldn't believe what you have to do before you even type a single word in the report.
If you make it to 1200 lines a day with them, please shout it on this board, cause it's a real rarity and quite an accomplishment to do that. Pay not that great either.
As far as I know they don't have an account in CA, but they do have a teaching hospital in NC and it is horrible. The sound quality of the dictation is bad. The account is very challenging because of all the specialities at a teaching hospital. I have 20 year's experience but every day there was new terminology. There are also so many doctors, residents, interns that you rarely have the same doctors so getting used to the dictators is difficult. Also every July you get an influx of dozens of new dictators. I didn't work on this account very often because they kept switching me to another account that behind all the time.
They have a weird pay system too and many people have complained that they just could not get lines or make any money. They are also in the process of training women in Trinidad to do transcription, so the work will be going there before too long.
They do have a teaching hospital account located in CA. I worked on that account for the year I was with them. It was a challenge for me with the formatting they use (abbreviations allowed in diagnoses - basically all the things we were taught not to do were acceptable and mandatory). The dictation quality was good and the few ESLs they had were tolerable. I wouldn't recommend the account for a newbie though, just too much info to take in at once.
I wouldn't put too much faith in this company. As stated, they are training women in Trinidad and not doubt all the work will be going there shortly.
How slow is slow, are you able to meet your line requirements?
as a ME and MT; it was okay. IMO I kind of find it a bit tedious, but you can produce more lines with it. Of course the pay is not as much as it is for MT work. If I was to continue with the ME work I think the pay was 0.06+/line (dont remember the exact amount, but know it was 0.06). HTH


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I am not an atheist. Or at least, not yet. I'm not sure. I am growing, and trying to learn about what is true.
I am a recent college grad. I studied physics and minored in writing. I spent some time in 2010 on a mission trip to a remote village in Africa, in part because I wanted to strengthen my faith, and it seemed to work at first. I saw God working there in new ways, and I learned a lot about seeking God, seeing God, and trusting in God. While surrounded by other missionaries and cut off from much of the rest of the world, I was absolutely convinced that I had found the right way to live. Even though I didn't agree with everything the mission organization believed, I did think I'd found a true faith in God.
But when I came back from missions, I came back to my old life. I started reading the news online again, and I ended up running across atheist blogs. I found that I could relate to those experiences—I seemed to have more in common with the former Christian who left the faith than with Christian apologists. I found that atheist arguments made more sense and were much less refutable than Christian apologetics. Worse, I began to see that some of the problems we'd had on the mission field could be better explained by assuming there was no god.
I had never seen hard evidence that there is no God. But in all my time in remote Africa, giving my all and wholly devoting myself to God, I had never seen anything that would have happened differently if there was no god. No unexplained miracles, no prophesies or revelations, nothing at all without a material explanation.
There are many reasons I would call myself an atheist. I will try to list the biggest ones on my other blog, and in the future write more regarding each topic. I still can't decide if I will do most of my blogging on this site or at Wordpress.
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Thanks Kris. You are absolutely right that you can't prove a negative. The important thing you said is to keep at it for any length of time. So often we want everything to become clear, a quick and simple answer, an equation that holds everything, a showdown on the mountain between prophets. Lifelong seeking takes more work, but really, what else can you do?
I think, to a great extent, atheists don't have better answers, because theist answers are designed to make you feel good about people that are in whatever church you happen to be a part of.
Atheists have better questions, and the answers to those questions, though sometimes uncomfortable, lead to a clearer, more comprehensive path to truth. Without a supernatural driver in place, everything makes a lot of sense.
Enjoy TA.
@Physeter, where were you at in Africa?
I'm an occasional wandering theist that a few here graciously put up with, and a physicist by trade. I can sympathize with your views on Christian apologists; I find them unsatisfying. To be honest, I think most are just ninnies.
I would humbly suggest that if you were looking for miracles, prophecies, or revelations you were looking in the wrong place for God. There is one big thing that was different in the Africa you visited because of God. A huge thing, actually.
You were there.
Someone who was not a part of their tribe, not a part of their nation, who had nothing whatsoever to gain from giving up their time and wealth was half way around the world helping strangers just because a belief in God inspired him enough to care.
In the history of human behavior, on a continent where tribal warfare is endemic and ethnic cleansing a regular occurrence, from a nation that in living memory felt people of different skin color were inferior and should be kept legally separate - that IS a miracle.
Hi Physeter,
As long as you keep searching for what is true, you'll keep learning and you'll keep growing. It's not a matter of where you want to go, or where you want to be, if you search for the truth you'll be in for a memorable ride for sure.
Being a theist or an atheist doesn't change who you are, or your value as a human being, that is still decided by the good (and bad) that you bring to this world. So, no matter where your search will lead you, if you honestly seek the truth, I can only applaud your courage!
On a sidenote, I too went to Africa a long time ago, although I went there as an Economy student to help build a local CallCentre, I went there quite young and naive with optimistic ideals, I came back somewhat disillusioned, a whole lot less optimistic, but a lot wiser (I hope).
Losing something is not always a real "loss".
I am curious about your time in Africa--do you mind sharing how you saw God working? I have heard this phrase a lot, both during my time in church and afterwards, but I am never quite sure what it means. How did you see God? How did you know it was God that you were seeing? (I'm not trying to bust you out on anything, I am genuinely wondering about your experience.)
I spent some time transitioning from religion into atheism, as well. It was a rough road at times because I felt that I wanted to believe but couldn't. I will be following your blog with interest.
I live in a country South Africa that was devide on the colour of a person skin, I am still waiting to see the mirracle happen, 19 years later and we some of the highest rape, murder and violant crime statistics in the world more people are murderd in South Africa in a year than in the apartheid era. And then we are not even going to talk about HIV infections and people that die from TB every year, hospitals that was used as training hospitals such as the Baragwaneth Hospital and others that were amongst the worlds best hospitals, the African people now call the place of death, as they are filthy, no bedding all stolen, tap, pipes anything copper stolen. Apartheid was one of the most horrible things ever , but I am still waiting to see the mirracle.
And concerning mission work in other countrys, I thing that is bull ! Here we have school children going to Taiwan to do mission work and asking public for donations as these poor people that they are gpoing to don't even have chairs to sit on, while in there own back yard people are living is the most horrific conditions,high rates of fetal alchol sindrome, neglect and abuse.
Welcome to TA. Enjoy. This is a very personal journey that you're on. Take it at your own pace...
@Jenni-- Part of my "faith journey" as I went into missionary training and then into the field was that I decided to put my doubts aside and see if faith would work. And, while in that "self-reinforcing" atmosphere, it seemed to. Part of what I learned was that you can see things through the eyes of faith. That is, you can see an occurrence, and think about how god is working in that even though there is also a rational, non-supernatural explanation as well.
It is hard to describe what exactly I mean by seeing God at work. When I got back, I began to think that I'd been fooling myself; I was just training myself to interpret things as though they were god. When I was there, it felt like I was opening my eyes, choosing to see god at work even if it wasn't obvious, and that felt like a good thing at the time.
Just hearing African people's stories of how they had been changed by God. How they weren't afraid of spirits and magic curses anymore because they found Jesus. (Pretty much everyone in that part of Africa believes in spirits and magic.) It was in little things I thought God was leading me to do -- like to visit a certain person, or to start teaching English classes. It was in how I was given an "African name" seemingly at random, but which contained a message that was very encouraging to my specific situation.
And I know how ridiculous it sounds to post things like this on an atheist forum. Of course it looks completely made-up here. It looks obvious that it was all just wishful thinking. I'm inclined to agree, and that's why I'm here, but that doesn't change that at the time it felt meaningful, and important. It felt like, God isn't doing anything that proves he exists here, but if you know how to look you can see him anyway. It was like there was something more beautiful going on just beneath the surface.
@Professor Bob -- Thanks for your input, I like to hear from everybody on here.
"I would humbly suggest that if you were looking for miracles, prophecies, or revelations you were looking in the wrong place for God."
I was looking, but I was also trying to give up my preconceived notions. Part of me was saying I want to see miracles, but the other part of me was moving in the direction of "I'll believe no matter what I see here." My prayer was usually not "God, prove you exist here," but "God, show me what it is you are doing, and what you want me to do, no matter how different it is from what I expect."
I was trying to meet God on his own terms, instead of mine.
But yes, I did hope to see God at work a little more clearly. When I saw how the African Christians fight amongst themselves, I knew they were only human like us American Christians, but I did wonder why the Holy Spirit didn't help out a bit more. When we prayed for healing for the woman who was recovering from a stoke, or the woman who was in intense pain from a scorpion sting, I really hoped to see healing, not because it would make me feel good to know there was a God, but because the people needed the help. We were taught that God could do healings, just like he did in the bible, and I really thought remote Africa with little proper medical care was where God would do big miracles.
And I would disagree with you that me going there was the real miracle. I understand that a miracle is something done by God, that shows the working of the deity in the world, not just something that people come up with. This kind of 'miracle' could be done by Christians, by Mormons, by Muslims, by Scientologists, by secular humanists -- even by Nazis, if they were looking for Nazism converts. If you are willing to throw your belief behind anybody who is eager to win followers, you're going to run into trouble quick.
Plus, I did not do them that much good there. I didn't bring medical expertise, or build them a new building that they needed. I couldn't help teach school, even though they're destitute for good teachers there. I spent much of my time with people asking me for things, or asking me why I wouldn't give them something. Too many white people want to just travel over there and give handouts instead of giving tools the Africans can use to build themselves up, so that's what they ask for. I don't think my time over there was completely wasted, and I'm sure some of the people saw the good in me you were talking about, but I wouldn't call it a miracle. It was a perfectly natural result of circumstances.
It is often a "light bulb" moment for many when they realise that they no longer (have to) believe in any gods. The mind-set that theism creates takes some time to recover from. Faith is bolstered on an emotional level by its constant reinforcement from other theists. It only works at the group level where your biases are confirmed each day which means you never have the time to question any doubts that you have.
It is only when someone is removed from the flock that they can spend time analysing their beliefs and whatever doubts they may have. This is also why Theists or at least those in charge of the flock dislike "doubt" so much. It is the work of the devil and you need to pray it away. God is testing you because he loves you. That keeps it on an emotional level rather than answering any intellectual questions anyone might want resolved.
Devoting so much time and effort into establishing a strong faith (becoming more deluded) gives people an emotional high and any challenge to its not being real is met with contempt. The "arrogant Atheist syndrome" as I call it. Then one day you realise it is all BS. It is gone in a second. But it reverberates for months afterwards. That is because there is often an emotional vacuum left that faith used to fill. It takes time and courage and some patience to move away from looking at the world where a god pulls all the strings to one where he does not exist, which of course he does not.
It takes time to learn how to think critically. It is a skill. It is what separates us from the other animals. It can be confusing for a while because we thought we had all the answers and that the "Truth" was crystal clear. God did it and that was that. Once we become atheists we come to the realisation that we need to look for answers elsewhere. This is why Atheists are keen on Science. We can see it provides a method of discovering answers to the big questions in life without being godmatic (my word) about it. We are compelled to seek out knowledge, to ask questions and to search for answers. That takes time and effort. Don't worry if all the answers don't arrive in one go. That is ok because we have our whole lives to do this. It is what a part of life is all about.
Theists don't understand this. How could they when they already have all the answers. If they did they would be Atheists! You are already free. All you need do now is continue to learn how to Think Atheist.


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What's more, it's going for free right now but only for the next 72 hours, after which it will be raised to $0.99—so snatch it up!
For those curious as to why Locksider is a solid choice for your lockscreen wallpaper management, we'll give you a few. Locksider just doesn't stream in images from a site that are then "forced" onto your lockscreen. Instead, images are hand picked and curated, resulting in designs that are formatted to look good on your lockscreen.
That means things are sized appropriately for high resolution, your time/date area is not obscured and the image just looks respectable. If you just pull in images from a stream, you don't know what you're getting…lower resolution, formatted wrong, things off centered etc.
With Locksider, you also get to choose some categories with a ton of variety, including Today, Cool, Geeky, Abstract, Nature and Mellow. Finally, you can also choose the frequency of updates, incorporating once a day, twice a day, every four hours and every hour options, giving you quite a bit of flexibility.
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SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Padres are ready to promote Josh Byrnes to general manager if Jed Hoyer leaves for the Chicago Cubs, three people with knowledge of the situation said Thursday.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because no deals have been announced.
Last week, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that Theo Epstein has agreed to a contract with the Cubs with a year left on his general manager contract in Boston. The person said compensation must be worked out.
ESPNChicago.com reported Thursday that Epstein will be the Cubs' president of baseball operations and Hoyer the GM.
The Padres would then promote Byrnes, the senior vice-president of baseball operations. He is a former GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Byrnes said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday evening that he couldn't discuss the situation. "Hopefully we'll know soon," he said.
Reached by phone, Hoyer said: "I'm not commenting on anything."
Byrnes and Hoyer both worked under Epstein in Boston.
Byrnes was hired as GM of the Diamondbacks in November 2005, when Jeff Moorad was one of Arizona's top executives. Byrnes and manager A.J. Hinch were fired by the Diamondbacks on July 1, 2010.
In March 2009, a group headed by Moorad began its purchase of the Padres on an installment plan. Moorad fired Kevin Towers after the 2009 season and hired Hoyer away from the Red Sox.
The Padres went 90-72 in 2010, leading the NL West for much of the season before stumbling in September and missing the playoffs. After Hoyer traded three-time all-star slugger Adrian Gonzalez to the Red Sox for three prospects and outfielder Eric Patterson in December, the Padres struggled badly and finished last in the division at 71-91.
The Diamondbacks, who hired Towers as GM late in the 2010 season, won the division this season.
Hinch was hired as the Padres' vice-president of professional scouting in September 2010. He was promoted to vice-president-assistant GM general last month. He could get promoted again if Jason McLeod goes with Hoyer to the Cubs. McLeod, who oversees amateur scouting and player development, is close with Epstein, his former boss in Boston.
If promoted, Byrnes will work with a player payroll of between $53 million and US$55 million — one of the smallest in the majors. It'll be his turn to try to field a team suited to Petco Park, a pitcher-friendly ballyard where runs are hard to come by.


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Top 5 Adventure Picks
The Top 5 Adventure Activities in Wintery Lake Taupo
Now that the holidays are over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief as the little people return to school. Time to set about planning a holiday for the adults - and let's face it, after two weeks of entertaining the kids or coping with the bustling crowds, a weekend away is in order.
My top 5 winter getaway picks of this iconic destination, Lake Taupo, are:
Tongariro Crossing
Take the extra challenge of completing New Zealand's most popular one-day hike and do it in the snow with Adrift Outdoors. It's a real challenge to complete this walk in winter so it is best done with an experienced guide from Adrift Outdoors. Pack your winter woollies because trekking across active volcanoes in deepest winter is not for the faint of heart, but the epic vistas and turquoise lakes, steaming vents and jagged rocks will make you feel like you've been to the moon and back.
Ski or Board Mt Ruapehu
If you are a snow bunny at heart or merely someone with a thirst for adrenalin sport, what better than a romantic or action packed ski weekend? With Whakapapa's fantastic learner area, Turoa's longest vertical descent in Australasia or backcountry badness at Tukino there is something here for all. Topped off with lodge-like accommodation in Ohakune or the unforgettable Chateau Tongariro, a weekend of the white stuff is calling.
White Water Rafting
Plenty more of the white stuff here too but slighter wetter in design. Rafting is available all year round. An exhilarating way to spend a day, riding the big rapids with a whoop of joy, floating through peaceful countryside and spotting trout, rafting caters for all levels of comfort and with a nice thick wetsuit to keep you warm, you will barely feel the cold. Finish off with a natural hot spa and you'll wonder why it took you this long to have a go.
Don't squirm because I said Skydiving. It really is AMAZING. Get your thermals on and head out to the airfield. Choose from 12,000 or 15,000ft and then throw yourself out of a perfectly good plane. It is frightening, your palms will be sweaty but the adrenalin rush will stop you from feeling the cold with this Bucket Lister you just have to tick. If the stuffy office is getting you stir crazy and it's time to free the soul, become a fresh air fiend and enjoy panoramic views of the Central Plateau and steaming volcanoes as you do it.
Bungy or Swing
This is the "adventure" segment! Get your winter thrills cliff-side and take the plunge with a bungy jump or swing. If it's time you set yourself a personal challenge, conquered that fear of heights or just had a weekend away with the lads or lasses, then get your freak on and bounce around on a piece of elastic for thrills and spills. Placed over the scenic Waikato River, you'll enjoy splendid views down river as you aim to touch the water. If vertical descents don't do it for you, make like a kid once more and swing in style, foot-first. Here you'll pendulum on a rope whilst enjoying that lose-your-stomach feeling over the picturesque riverbed.
Taupo is a winter adventure wonderland. Just because the temperature drops doesn't mean the adventure stops!!


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DAMM SCM Meet report!
by, November 16th, 2013 at 01:27 PM (958 Views)
Here's how I did! These should all make top ten!
50 fly 31.00
50 free #1: 28.67
50 free #2: 28.39
50 back: 33.2
I swam next to Stewart Carroll in the 50 back and 100 IM! I swam between him and another really fast guy in the 100IM. I think they went 1:02, 1:04, so I thought I was sucking big time. But lo, I turned around and saw the 1:12, which was super strong and better than I was expecting for my 5th event!
I'm a bit bummed about the 50 frees, as I thought I could go faster. It is so hard getting up in the pool where I practice. Motivation is a bit tough!
I am hoping to go 24.99 or better at the local A meet in 3 weeks. I'm going to swim a "full" line up - 100 back/50 free; 100 fly/100 free. That is tough for me as I don't swim 100's but all I need are solid A times, so the times should be very do-able.
Wish me luck on 24.99!!!!!!!!!!!


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The Algren Awards process is rigorous and fair. There is no fee to enter a story, and judges do not see the writers' names until winners have been selected. After several stages of an elaborate process, a panel of three judges determines the winners. Past judges have included George Plimpton, Studs Terkel and Eudora Welty.
The stories by this year's Algren winner and finalists, who were announced in June, will appear in our Printers Row Journal Fiction booklets, beginning with Sunday's edition. These stories are the best of the best. The writers are warriors of truth, looking for the stories behind the headlines, the truths we had not yet encountered but are so necessary to live a rich life. We hope they enrich yours.
2012 Nelson Algren Short Story Awards Winner, appearing with Sunday's Printers Row Journal
"Everything Is Going to Be Okay" by Jeremy T. Wilson. Raised in Georgia, Wilson has called Chicago home since 2001. He is a tutor and writing teacher with organizations such as 826Chi. His fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and Third Coast.
Finalists, appearing with future Printers Row Journals
"The Far Turn" by Kelly Luce. A James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Luce grew up in Brookfield and graduated from Northwestern University. Her fiction has previously appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Southern Review.
"The Letter" by Kimberly Elkins. Elkins, who lives in Cambridge, Mass., graduated from Duke University and has a master's degree in fiction from Boston University. Her work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly and Best American New Voices.
"No One Noticed the Moon Was Defaced" by Jennie Lin. Lin, who lives in San Francisco, grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Her fiction has been published, or is forthcoming, in The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train and Zyzzyva.
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Astros search for spark after falling in Oakland
OAKLAND -- The consensus in the Astros' clubhouse on Sunday afternoon was the team has simply not lived up to its expectations through the first 19 games of the season.
Not that anyone thought the Astros would contend in the rugged American League West at this stage of their rebuilding process, but they were expected to take a step forward this season based on the experience their youngsters received last year and the additions that were made.View Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- The consensus in the Astros' clubhouse on Sunday afternoon was the team has simply not lived up to its expectations through the first 19 games of the season.
Not that anyone thought the Astros would contend in the rugged American League West at this stage of their rebuilding process, but they were expected to take a step forward this season based on the experience their youngsters received last year and the additions that were made.View Full Game Coverage
After the A's polished off a three-game sweep with a 4-1 win at the O.co Coliseum that was the Astros' seventh consecutive loss, Houston manager Bo Porter and some of his players expressed frustration and surprise at starting 5-14 for the second season in a row.
"It doesn't matter if it's the beginning of the year, middle of the year or end of the year, losing is always frustrating," Porter said. "We have an underperforming team right now. When you underperform and you make the mistakes we make, that's going to be the result."
Astros catcher Jason Castro was asked if he was surprised the team has gotten off to another slow start.
"I think we're definitely an improved team," he said. "We'll show it. It's still early. We're not worried, obviously. We're going about our business the way we know how to and will keep doing our work, and we'll start turning the tides here shortly."
Veteran pitcher Jerome Williams, who allowed two runs on five hits in three innings in relief, said the team needs to keep grinding.
"You look at the talent in this room, and we can compete with anybody," he said. "It's just not clicking. It's just got to click. Just have everything work at one time, and it will be fine."
The Astros were held to five hits, scoring a run in the fourth on a homer by Marwin Gonzalez. Jose Altuve led off the game with a bloop double, Dexter Fowler had an infield hit off starting pitcher Jesse Chavez's glove, and Gonzalez and George Springer added singles.
Houston went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position Sunday and 4-for-26 in the series. They are hitting .149 in those situations this year.
"Hitting with men in scoring position, you have to be able to use the whole field," Porter said. "Again, when you get a pitch in those situations, you can't miss it. You take it. You can't foul it off, you can't swing and miss."
The Astros' best chance to add to their lone run came in the seventh, when they had runners at second and third with two outs for Castro, who flied out to left against reliever Sean Doolittle to finish an 0-for-3 day.
"We're close," Castro said. "We're getting guys on and need to get those timely hits. That's all it comes down to."
Astros starter Brad Peacock, a former A's farmhand, threw quite well in his first start of the season. He needed 83 pitches to work five innings and allowed five hits and two runs on Josh Donaldson's homer in the first. Donaldson went 3-for-4 with three extra-base hits and drove in three runs.
"I knew I was going to be on a pitch limit and just tried to get to five innings," Peacock (0-2) said. "I felt great today, though."
Chavez (1-0) allowed four hits and one run while striking out six, five of which came in a six-batter span between the fourth and sixth innings. He became the first pitcher in A's history on the Opening Day roster to allow one earned run or fewer in each of his first four starts while throwing at least six innings.
"It was just one of those days that I had to work," Chavez said. "We'd like them to all go that way like the first three did, but today was one of those days where I had to make pitches and see pretty much what I was made of as a starter. Fortunately today it worked out and our defense played great."
Springer singled to left in the first inning and has hit safely in each of his first five Major League games. The right fielder also made a spectacular diving catch in the first inning to run down a Coco Crisp popup near the right-field line.
"We just need to stick together and go out there and play hard," he said. "If we go down, we're going to go down swinging."
Castro, the team's leader, said the effort and preparation are still there.
"That's something you're never not going to see from us," he said. "We're going to put in the effort. The outcome might not be there all the time. It's tough when collectively we started off a little slow, but the effort is going to be there. Guys are putting in extra work trying to get through it, and that's all we can ask for."
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Next time you want to say you're too busy, you don't have what it takes, or your life is just too crazy to be able to train for an IRONMAN, think about Kyrsten Sinema. That would be U.S. Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, the one with four degrees who is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University. Not a day goes by that Sinema doesn't look at her life and thank her lucky stars that she made it to where she is now—she is living proof that hard work and determination will get you pretty much anywhere.
Sinema graduated from high school at age 16, despite the fact that for much of her childhood her family lived in incredible poverty, including two years of living in a deserted gas station without running water or electricity. Hard work and determination got Sinema the scholarship that allowed her to go to college for the first of those four degrees she's since earned. On Sunday, that same hard work and dedication got her across the finish line at IRONMAN Arizona.
The congresswoman's IRONMAN achievement is even more impressive though; a year ago the 37-year-old couldn't swim. Well, OK, she could dog paddle. After years of running marathons and competing in relay at the Soma half-distance race in Tempe, Sinema decided that it was time to take on the challenge of a triathlon. She hired Olympic gold-medalist Misty Hyman to teach her how to swim and spent her first lessons literally learning how to put her face in the water and blow bubbles. "Misty mostly trains kids, who I figured were about my level," Sinema jokes.
Once she figured the stroke out, Sinema had one more obstacle to overcome: her fear of swimming in open water. During her first few triathlons Sinema found herself panicking in the water and would finish the swim on her back. Anne Wilson, one of her coaches from Camelback Coaching, took her to different lakes and practiced with her until she overcame her fear. "She helped me to manage my panic so I could do the front crawl," Sinema says. "For me that was the biggest challenge, that real fear I had for swimming."
After a life spent overcoming challenges, Sinema has still found her IRONMAN journey an enlightening one. Here are some of the tips she can pass on from her experience this year
Kyrsten Sinema's triathlon tips
Fitting it in is really about discipline and hard work. "You have to have a real commitment to overcome challenges that come up while you're training and you have to create a plan and stick to the plan even when you don't want to."
She does her training... "Very early in the morning. Sometimes I finish my training before the sun even comes up."
If you follow your plan and put in the hours you will get to the finish line. "I train seven days a week. Monday through Friday I do between one and two hours. On the weekends I do my really long training. Saturdays would get up to between six and a half or seven hours and my run training would get up to four hours."
It comes as no surprise that Sinema feels very strongly about fundraising through her racing. She raised money for the Desert States Charitable Foundation through her race in Arizona.
"I really feel like my story is that of the American dream," she says. "Overcoming challenges combined with people helping each other. I've been helped along my whole life. When my family was homeless and hungry, people gave us food and clothes. When it was time to go to college, the government gave me funding through programs, and my university gave me a scholarship."
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I am delighted to be named the winner of the 2012 everywoman in Technology Awards Rising Star of the Year Award, which is awarded to a woman aged under 26 who is excelling in her technology career. No one was more surprised than me to hear the news and I'd like to congratulate the other 3 finalists in my category.
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And this is precisely the problem. Although 47% of the UK workforce is female, only 18% of IT & Telecoms professionals are female and this is down from 22% in 2001. And as I discussed in my earlier blog, I think one of the biggest challenges that we face is that girls, particularly, those at school think that technology equals science and geeks and they think they need an engineering degree to enter the world of technology. When I went back to my old school, St George's Ascot, the present girls didn't realise the variety of careers in a technology company – Communications, Marketing, Legal, HR, Sales, Engineering, Project Managers, Program Managers, Researchers…the list goes on and on.
In my mind, one of the key strengths of the technology industry is its diversity – the range of people who have different degrees, have worked for different companies and come from different backgrounds. It makes it a much more exciting place to work and a creative place of work because you can draw on this diversity to fuel innovation and creativity in our work. We need science and technology graduates in the technology company but we also need other graduates from the arts, languages and humanities departments.
We need to do more to attract young women into the technology sector. When young women are deciding on their future careers and the subjects they are going to take to help them on their journey, this is our insertion point for us. This is where we provide our strong and visible female role models to assist in career talks, this is where we showcase the range of opportunities in a technology sector, this is where we show how creative the IT industry is.
2012 is our year. Let's change that 22% into 47%….
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Schaumburg science teacher invited to State of the Union
Michelle Burke never thought teaching science and running a technology education program at Addams Junior High School in Schaumburg would earn her a seat at the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill.
But it has.
Burke will be the guest of 8th District Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth at next Tuesday's presidential address in Washington, D.C.
"Never in a million years!" she marveled.
Burke met Duckworth when the congresswoman attended a Addams Junior High FUSE event last October. FUSE is a specific science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) program developed by Northwestern University.
Burke said Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 has been a strong supporter of STEAM, and so has Duckworth.
Duckworth, meanwhile, said her October meeting with Burke provided the first spark of an idea about whom to have as her guest at the State of the Union.
"She just struck me by how enthusiastic she was and the connection she had with the students," Duckworth said.
The congresswoman added that she knows how important the work of teachers like Burke is. Traveling her district, she regularly talks with business owners who say they can't find enough workers with the appropriate technical and engineering skills.
Without teachers like Burke showing kids the interesting and fun aspects of these disciplines, America will fall behind in the 21st century, Duckworth said.
"It's less rote memorization these days," Duckworth added. "These kids are learning by doing. They're building robots."
Burke will fly to Washington on Monday and spend nearly the entire day with Duckworth as her guest at various preliminary events before the evening State of the Union address.
Duckworth said she expects the day to be a memorable one for Burke, remembering her own first time at a State of the Union address as the guest of Sen. Dick Durbin.
While Burke doesn't know everything that happened behind the scenes leading to her invitation, she just knows how shocked she was when District 54 Assistant Superintendent Nick Meyers told her last week.
As for how her students reacted -- Burke hadn't even told them as of noon Wednesday. She wanted to make absolutely certain there were no mistakes or miscommunication first, but she considers the recent arrival of her plane ticket to be a good sign.
Burke said there's almost no comparison between her own amount of exposure to technology and engineering instruction in junior high to what her own students receive both in class and through FUSE.
Rocketry and robotics are suddenly cool to a generation of children -- both girls and boys -- who recognize such skills and know-how as the key to a successful future.
Burke has taught in District 54 for 13 years. When she was preparing to be a teacher, she gravitated naturally to the subject of science, Burke said.
"I just innately love the content and I've always been a problem-solver," Burke said.


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Since its founding in 1903, the Association of German Architects (BDA) has been committed to elevating and improving the function and meaning of architecture in service of society and the environment.
BDA Activities
The BDA promotes a planning and building culture that aims to enrich residential space and improve quality of life through functionally and aesthetically designed buildings, squares and cities. The BDA mediates between clients and architects in order to support an autonomous planning culture free of outside influence and advocates for broader use of open architectural competitions. The association is also committed to assuring high-quality education for the next generation of architects and urban planners.
The BDA communicates its objectives on the national level via annual public events like the Berliner Gespräch (Berlin Discussion) and BDA-Tag (BDA Day) along with numerous topical events, public forums and publications.
Regional Presence
One of the BDA's particular strengths is its nationwide presence: Regional Associations in all 16 German states are supplemented by various regional subgroups. Through critical debate of planning and construction issues, the awarding of numerous prizes and various additional activities – lectures, exhibitions, workshops, publications – these BDA associations work hard to promote a continuous discussion of local Baukultur.
BDA Magazine: der architekt
In the bimonthly magazine der architekt, experts from around the world discuss architecture, architectural theory and urban planning with a particular focus on interdisciplinary approaches. Technical research reports on planning processes and implementation add an applied dimension to the magazine. derarchitektbda.de
DAZ – German Centre for Architecture
DAZ is a think-tank, a place for exchange, transmission and debate. In workshops, exhibitions, talks, film nights and book presentations, architects, city planners, artists, citizens, users and critics come together to discuss current issues in architecture, spatial production and urban life.
"Who makes the city?" asks Creative Director Matthias Böttger in 2016. How can social objectives and formal synthesis, robust responsibility and fragile creativity be combined? How can speculative practice change architecture? Architecture´s task is not only to provide solutions, but to name and describe new challenges. Architecture provides no definitive answers, but remains open for questions – you are cordially invited to share and discuss!
DAZ is an initiative of the Association of German Architects, BDA. As an independent forum, the DAZ is responsible for the content and financing of its own program.
Website (english): www.daz.deDAZ Newsletter (english):Registration via www.daz.de
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Since 1903, the BDA has brought together independent architects and urban planners distinguished by the exceptional quality of their work, their personal integrity and collegiality and their shared commitment to Baukultur and professional performance. All members are appointed by the Regional Associations.
The more than 5,000 members of the BDA are among the leading independent architects in Germany. Their track record of success speaks for itself: every third Euro invested in German construction is invested in a project involving a BDA architect.
The BDA appoints only members whose character and work meet strict criteria; appointment in the BDA is both an honour and a recognition of high-quality work.
Full membership requires the following:
Civil architects, salaried architects and other types of professionals – German or foreign – can be appointed Associate Members.
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Data base of full and associate BDA members
Both Full Members and Associate Members may be appointed Honorary Members in recognition of their extraordinary service to the BDA, as may individuals who are not members of the BDA.
All decisions regarding BDA membership are made by the Regional Associations.
The regional associations are part of the national BDA (Bundesverband), which, in turn, is part of the Architects' Council of Europe (ACE) and the International Union of Architects (UIA).
Honorary Members
Gunnel Adlercreutz
Hans Albert Ahrens
Svend Algren
William Alsop
Tadao Ando
Stephane Beel
Jan Benthem
Werner Blaser
Jacques Blumer
Ricardo Bofill
Oriol Bohigas Guardiola
Mario Botta
Santiago Calatrava Valls
David Chipperfield
Kees W. Christiaanse
Krzysztof Chwalibóg
Jo Coenen
Mels Crouwel
Pi de Bruijn
Pierre de Meuron
Christian de Portzamparc
Roger Diener
Peter Eisenman
Norman Robert Foster
Dieter Fremerey
Franz Füeg
Aurelio Galfetti
Karl Ganser
Frank O. Gehry
Ivano Gianola
Volker Giencke
Ernst Gisel
Giorgio Grassi
Vittorio Gregotti
Nicholas Grimshaw
Robert Haussmann
Trix Haussmann-Högl
Herman Hertzberger
Jacques Herzog
Wilhelm Holzbauer
Sir Michael Hopkins
Theo Hotz
Arata Isozaki
Toyo Ito
Olaf Jacobsen
Helmut Jahn
Klaus Kada
Thomas Kleine
Remment L. Koolhaas
Steffen Kragh
Rob Krier
Anton Kriesis
Lucien Kroll
David Mackay
Fumihiko Maki
Richard Meier
Rafael Moneo
Adolfo Natalini
Jean Nouvel
Eoin O'Cofaigh
I. M. Pei
Gustav Peichl
Dominique Perrault
Renzo Piano
Boris Podrecca
Wolf D. Prix
Bruno Reichlin
Richard Rogers
Frank Rainer Schmidt
Willi Schoebel
Denise Scott-Brown
Alvaro Siza
Vladimir Slapeta
Luigi Snozzi
Helmut Swiczinsky
Shin Takamatsu
Rolf Rickard Thies
Stanley Tigermann
Niels A. Torp
Erhard Tränkner
Bernard Tschumi
Kim Utzon
Ben van Berkel
Erick van Egeraat
Robert Venturi
Ulrich S. von Altenstadt
Carel Weeber
Otto Weitling
Michael Wilford
Eberhard H. Zeidler
Peter Zumthor
Deceased Honorary Members
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Günter Behnisch †
Max Bobran †
Jerzy Buszkiewicz †
Günther Domenig †
Sverre Fehn †
Knud Friis †
Reinhard Gieselmann †
John Alex Gordon †
Zaha M. Hadid †
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John Hejduk †
Hans Hollein †
Francoise Hélène Jourda †
Imre Makovecz †
Max Meid †
Hervé Nourissat †
Timo Penttilä †
Pedro Ramirez Vâzquez †
Nikolaus Rosiny †
Hans Joachim Scheel †
Dolf Schnebli †
Günter Schudnagies †
Werner Schumann †
Jørn Utzon †
Claude Vasconi †
Hans Busso von Busse †
Peter C. von Seidlein †
Eberhard Zell †
The national BDA structure mirrors that of the Federal Republic of Germany: each of the 16 federal states has a registered Regional Association, each of which, in turn, belongs to the national BDA (Bundesverband) based in Berlin. All told, the BDA has about 4,500 Full Members and 500 Associate Members.
The BDA defines quality standards in architecture through several awards: On the national level, the "Große BDA Preis" (BDA Grand Award) honors a lifetime achievement of an architect. The "Große Nike" (Grand Nike) honors the collaboration of architects with their clients for an outstanding design or construction. The "BDA-Preis für Architekturkritik" (Architectural Critic Award) honors a journalist for his outstanding critics on architectural and urban planning issues. In collaboration with the Polish Architectural Association SARP, the BDA supports the young generation of architects by awarding a career grant. The 16 BDA regional associations honor architecture of excellence at the regional level and support particularly talented students and graduates of architecture with scholarships. Additional information in German is available here.
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It was a game that was not only closer than the final score, but a better game than might have been expected between two teams struggling for wins and fighting to avoid finishing last in the Onslow County Classic.
It was a game that was not only closer than the final score, but a better game than might have been expected between two teams struggling for wins and fighting to avoid finishing last in the Onslow County Classic.
White Oak used a late surge and rode a balanced offensive attack to beat Lejeune 66-43 in the seventh-place game in the annual holiday boys� basketball tournament at Jacksonville High School.
�Both teams are working to try to get better fundamentally and try to get better as a team,� WOHS coach Chris Grimes said. �You can see that those growing pains were indeed in display tonight.
�But also when the teams were doing something successfully the confidence from the success grew and spread. We were just fortunate enough to maybe have a little more confidence and a little more skill on our side.�
White Oak, which had 13 players score, was led by Kendall White�s 13 points and 8 rebounds. Elu Riley added 11 points and a game-high 13 rebounds. Lejeune was led by Jamaz Richardson with 15 points and Dax Sammut with 12 points and 7 rebounds.
�My guys play hard,� Lejeune first-year coach Joey Malott said. �It�s unfortunate. (But) I still think my kids (are) better than the record shows. I believe each of my kids when I think about them and look at them can take anybody.�
White Oak (3-9) led by as many as 15, the last time at 46-31 late in the third quarter. But the Devilpups (1-11) rallied behind consecutive 3-pointers by Sammut to within 46-40 with 5:37 left in the game.
After White Oak�s Antione Robinson made one of two foul shots and Lejeune turned the ball over, Cody Babineaux was called for a foul and then a technical for slamming the ball to the court. Robinson made all four foul shots with 5:16 left to give White Oak a 51-40 lead. Lejeune never got closer.
�We kind of got lucky,� Grimes said. �Antione Robinson is one of our better free throw shooters. � To go 4-for-4 in that situation that�s good. It�s crazy, but made free throws builds confidence � (and then) momentum�s on your side.�
Grimes didn�t have to tell Malott that.
�We get within six and then you lose your cool and all of sudden you put them up double digits again on one bad decision,� Malott said. �You could just feel it. You work hard so hard to get into it and then something like that happens. Man, sometimes it just sucks the wind out of you.�
Lejeune 14 11 7 11 � 43
White Oak 15 19 12 20 � 66
Richardson 15, Sammut 12, Evans 7, Babineaux 4, Bodine 3, Murdock 2. Totals� 18 4-11 43
White 13, Riley 11, Robinson 9, White 8, Waters 4, Snowden 4, Garrison 4, Aa. Christoff 3, McClendon 2, Harris 2, Barton 2, Sloane 2, Jobe 2. Totals� 25 14-22 66
3-Point Goals� L 3 (Sammut 2, Bodine 1). WO 2 (Garrison 1, Aa. Christoff 1). Rebounds� L 27 (Sammut 7, Evanss 7, Bodine 6). WO 43 (Riley 13, White 8). RECORDS� L 1-11. WO 3-9.


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Gartner names Deloitte a global challenger in Oracle Application Management Services
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New York, 21 February 2013 — Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) is pleased to announce that Gartner has positioned Deloitte as a challenger in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) is pleased to announce that Gartner has positioned Deloitte as a challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Oracle Application Management Service Providers worldwide.
Challengers, defined by Gartner, "execute well at present for the portfolio of work they select, but they have a less well-defined view of the market's direction. They may be "upcoming" vendors, but they might not be aggressive and proactive enough in preparing for the future."
"We believe Deloitte's positioning in the Oracle application services space is very positive. Deloitte member firms are glad to be recognized for their current services as well as future potential. Deloitte's vision is to be the market standard for excellence in talent, price, value, outcomes, and innovation in delivering AMS and ADM services across the globe. This is an important focus area for us and we continue to make significant investments in this space to realize our vision," said Larry Calabro, Global AMS Leader, DTTL.
To access a full copy of this report.
Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Oracle Application Management Service Providers, Worldwide Christopher Ambrose, Gilbert van der Heiden, Helen Huntley, 20 December, 2012
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Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
Astronomers have discovered a clump of 73 quasars that spans four billion light years at its widest point -- that's like 40,000 Milky Way galaxies lined end-to-end. The only problem? Theory says the quasar cluster is too big to exist. Astronomer Gerard Williger and reporter Ron Cowen discuss this cosmological oddity, and other news about the cosmos.


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Please Note: Temple's summer issue was discontinued in 2014.
SPRING 2015 Issue
- Cover StoryWe pick Temple's top tweeters to follow for their insights and expertise.
- ResearchTemple researchers take a major step toward finding a cure for HIV.
- AlumniKris Dreessen, SMC '93, left her job and got rid of her possessions to embark on a world tour.
- StudentsTemple mentors bond with grade-school students through learning disabilities.
- Campus VoicePepón Osorio, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Community Art, explores school closings in his new work.
- Alumni SpotlightGreg Harris, CLA '89, is president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
WINTER 2015 Issue
- Cover StoryA Temple researcher fights cancer—and for the future of Naples, Italy.
- StudentsA Temple program benefits adults with intellectual disabilities—and their student mentors.
- AlumniAn alumna proves that testing is not always the best measure of student performance.
- CommunityThe Kornberg School of Dentistry links low-income children in North Philadelphia with preventive den
- Campus VoiceJondhi Harrell, Class of 2015, founded the Center for Returning Citizens to address the problem of r
- Alumni SpotlightElizabeth Silver, LAW '08, is the author of 2013's 'The Execution of Noa P.
FALL 2014 Issue
- Cover StorySeparated by four decades, Owls fight for government transparency.
- StudentsUndergraduates use research training to improve lives.
- CommunitySociety's views on sexuality have evolved—and so have Temple's.
- ResearchDance Chair Sherril Dodds examines subcultural dance.
- Campus VoiceJamie Bracey, EDU '07, '11, works to diversify STEM.
- Alumni SpotlightDan Baker, EDU '72, is the voice of the Phillies.


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So it's the last few days before I fly out to LA for the opening of the group show at CAVE gallery. It's great to be showing at CAVE again – they did such a good job with my last show there back in December '10 (man, time goes sooooo fast).
The show opens March 10th and is on view through April 7th and I'm honoured to be showing alongside John Park and Christopher Cuseo with 6 new paintings.
I'm really excited about the show and the new pieces. I approached it wanting to produce a cohesive body of work and worked through a bunch of stuff in my Moleskine before settling on an idea. Working around a theme of "Threads" I'm really stoked with how they've turned out. 3 of the pieces are also a lot larger than I've painted previously so I was working a little bit outside of my comfort zone!
And as my Moleskine was such an intrinsic part of the process, I thought it would be cool to mark the show by giving away one of the graphite studies done in preparation for the show. I'll be announcing details over the next 2 or 3 days, so if you want a chance to get your hands on a unique piece of OG art watch this space, or better still, sign up for updates through my site at www.craww.com
Yay for free stuff!
Here's a taste of the new work, "Faith":


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House Speaker Tim Miley and his leadership team are forming a Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development work group with the intent of it becoming a standing committee focusing on those issues when the regular legislative session begins Jan. 8. The work group will travel the state beginning in December through the end of the year to hold panel discussions in different regions regarding how to stimulate small business growth and encourage entrepreneurship.
"We will work collaboratively with people at the local level to hear from as many small business owners and entrepreneurs as possible," Miley said. "We want to know what hurdles they may have faced on their way to success and what hurdles they might still face today. As as legislative body, we want to remove as many hurdles as we can to allow small business to flourish. This tour will also be a great opportunity to showcase these successful individuals as inspirations to others in their communities with similar ambitions."
The biparisan work group will be made up of members that currently run a successful small business or have run one successfully in the past. Kanawha Delegate Doug Skaff, owner and managing partner of Building & Remodeling Warehouse in Nitro, will chair the committee. Delegate Bill Hartman, a retired insurance company owner from Randolph County and Delegate Jason Barrett, the 31-year-old owner of a restaurant in Berkeley County, will be Co-Vice Chairmen of the committee. House Majority Leader Harry Keith White, Bank of Mingo board chairman, will also serve on the committee.
Speaker Miley, who will be an ex officio, non-voting member of the committee, said he has talked to dozens of House members who are also small business owners about this undertaking and there is a great deal of bipartisan interest in serving on the committee. He intends to announce the full membership in the next two weeks, so the committee can begin meeting and touring the state in December.


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Ladies, you can ditch the platinum and the silver; it appears that gold is making a comeback. And not just in the jewelry you wear, but in the water you drink.
A few days ago we did a post on lithium in tap water and its link to prolonged life in roundworms and in humans. In conjunction with this discovery, we posed the question, "what if the fountain of youth came out of your tap?" (We were joking, of course.) Since then, we've learned that there is water – supposedly sourced from natural springs and processed through layers of rock formed over 200 million years ago, located in Nova Scotia – that was actually praised as a fountain of youth and healing spring, 500 years ago.
What's more: a Canadian company has stepped forward, claiming to have filtered this water through gold. Their special gold-filtering process results in a deluxe mineral water, with a discernible flavor, that contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, chlorine, hydrocarbonates, sulphates, silica and total dissolved solids in various quantities. The company is planning to make this water a new line of bottled water, called Gize – the only golden mineral water in the world. They will not release the details of the size or purity of the gold filter, which can produce 11,000 liters of water an hour. Small bottles (200 mL) will be sold for 5 Euro, approximately $7 USD, and large bottles (750 mL) will be sold for 15 Euro, or nearly $21 USD. Given that the water probably contains a few tiny gold particles, it's surprising that it wouldn't sell for more. The company is expecting it to get good demand from luxury spas and hotels.
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Heli-sking and ski touring in Queenstown and Mt Cook, New Zealand
New Zealand's mountains provide some of the best heli-skiing and ski touring in the world.
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On Monday we started the New Zealand Heli-skiing season with powder skiing and boarding in the North Harris Mountains. After the avalanche beacon safety briefing we loaded into the helicopter for our flight into the North Harris Mountains. From the helicopter
Even as a guide it's always exciting stepping out of the helicopter on the summit of a mountain knowing that you are about to ski down from the drop off point. The highest point we ski from today was the summit of Craigroysten. From the helicopter drop off point the terrain drops steeply away behind us towards the large glaciers and mountains of the Mt Aspiring National park. In front of us is an untouched powder field, perfect skiing and no tracks in front of us.
Despite the slow start to winter there are great conditions at present in the high alpine terrain with our helicopters able to reach the high altitude powder fields of the North Harris Mountains. The recent storms bringing snow to low levels in Queenstown have deposited 20cm of snow with no wind affect in our heli-skiing terrain with good snow coverage from 2300m down to around 1600m. We have enjoyed great powder skiing and boarding and perfect weather since the storm has cleared.
The heli-skiing in New Zealand is world class. I have worked as a mountain and ski guide in BC Canada, Japan, the Himalayas, and Alaksa as well as many other areas throughout the world and I am very fond of our own mountains and the skiing that they provide. Something that makes New Zealand unique is that all of our heli-skiing terrain is in the high alpine with no tree skiing. Everyone that I have ever skied with in the New Zealand has always been impressed not only by the skiing but also by the incredible scenery provided by the mountains that set the stage for heli-skiing in NZ.
Another way to enjoy the skiing and boarding is backcountry skiing and ski touring, or split boarding if you are a snow boarder. A good option is to be dropped by helicopter at the top of a heli-sking run. After skiing the run you then skin, or climb with touring and split boarding gear to another summit for another run. The goal is to ski as much powder as possible. Usually three or four runs is possible depending on your fitness levels. This is a great combination of getting some exercise in the mountains and then enjoying the rewards at the top with a ski run. If you are a good skier or boarder it is possible to ski from the summit of some of New Zealand's 3000m peaks. It is possible to do multi-day trips based from a high mountain hut or a tent camp and then fly out at the end of the trip.
Check out the options for heli-skiing and helicopter accessed ski touring in the high mountains in Queenstown and Mt Cook at queenstownmountainholidays.com