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LOUISVILLE, KY -- The Westminster Blue Jays resorted to fouling in the final seconds of the game, giving the Spalding Golden Eagles the advantage. The Blue Jays were not able to take hold of the game, losing 66-68 and breaking their eight game win streak.
The Blue Jays grabbed the quick 5-0 lead of the game, and kept a steady lead throughout the first half. With 1:59 left in the half, the Golden Eagle's hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 24.
The Blue Jays fought to keep the lead, but the Golden Eagle's grabbed the 28-26 lead with just six seconds left to head into halftime.
The Blue Jays came out of halftime and a jump shot from Taylor Allen tied the game up 30-30. They could not grab ahold of the lead, and the Golden Eagles slowly pulled ahead. With 13:49 left to go in the game, the Blue Jays were down by eight points (34-42).
The Blue Jays rallied back and within three minutes, and a layup from Joe Prophet, they were down by three. They kept battling and with 5:52 on the clock they grabbed their first lead of the second half (55-54). The Blue Jays kept the lead until the Golden Eagles hit a three with just over a minute of play left (61-62).
Joe James hit a layup to grab the lead back, but the Golden Eagles went on a 6-0 run, going 4-4 on their free throws, to leave only five seconds on the clock. James hit a three at the buzzer, but it did not give them enough. They lost 66-68.
The Blue Jays went 14-15 on free throws and went 37% from the field. Prophet led the Blue Jays with 21 points, followed by James and Robbie Burroughs with 13 points. Prophet and Allen grabbed five rebounds and James grabbed five steals.
The Blue Jays come home for their final conference match up against Principia College on Tuesday, February 19th. Four seniors will be honored as the Blue Jays celebrate senior night.


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Right-wingers like Matt Drudge and Michelle Malkin are terribly upset that President Obama had children at a photo opp yesterday about gun violence in America.
In fact, the President was joined by four children who wrote him letters after Sandy Hook, so they were relevant to the event:
Malkin called the photo opp "child abuse." Whereas Drudge likened it to Hitler and Stalin using children as props in photos and drawings. Drudge even showed images of Hitler and Stalin with kids to get the point across.
Which got me wondering: What other nazi tyrants used children as props in presidential photo opps?
And here are some more:
Comrade Mitt Romney, and again, and again, and again.
Comrade George W. Bush, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
And here's Comrades Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Reagan (again), Harding, W. Bush (again), Clinton, Reagan (yet again), Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hoover, Coolidge, Garfield, Taft, HW Bush, and Lincoln.
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The place is up for sale if you're interested. Only $35 million. Wonder if they'd install a lift as part of the terms. [Yahoo]


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Sights and Stories from an Afternoon in Cooperstown
The Yankees have finally hit a little bit of a hot streak, winning three in a row this week to pull to within three and a half games of the first place Toronto Blue Jays in the AL East. Last night Derek Jeter turned back the clock with three hits and two RBIs, while some clutch play on both sides of the field from Jacoby Ellsbury led the Bronx Broskis to a 6-3 win over Robin$on Cano and the Seattle Mariners to complete the sweep.
Tonight they'll look to keep the ball rolling at O.Co Coliseum against the AL West-leading Oakland A's.
While the Yankees are contending, yesterday, before their win over the Ms, my friends and I took a trip up to Cooperstown to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It marked my third trip to the baseball Mecca, and my first since July 3, 2010.
I figured I would share some pictures, tell some stories, and give my two cents on yesterday's getaway – and the shenanigans that ensued.
First of all, living downstate, a drive up north is humbling to say the least. As most of us are used to cities and overpopulated areas, you learn quickly by a drive through the country that things are different; farms and wastelands abound, and you pass houses on back roads that look as if they're owned by Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
My friends and I passed the time accordingly, however. We sang songs (notably "December, 1963") and told inside jokes to make the three hour trip seemingly go by faster. It took a little while but we finally made it to Main St. around 3 p.m.
The first thing I noticed were the banners hanging up outside the Hall, complete with the images of those who will be inducted at the end of next month. I had to take an obligatory picture of the banner with Joe Torre's face on it. What kind of Yankee fan would I be if I didn't?
When we walked in to get our admission tickets, we were told that yesterday was in fact the 75th anniversary of the Museum's opening. We were then given a special (and free!) keychain in honor of the day.
Torre's image (as well as a few of his baseball mementos) was on display right as we walked in – such is the tradition of the Museum. I remember my first trip to Cooperstown in 2007, giant almost Fathead-like pictures of Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn were in the same location, along with some of their baseball knick-knacks. (Ripken and Gwynn were the '07 honorees).
After that we checked out the room dedicated to the Negro Leagues. The great number 42 Jackie Robinson's jersey was on display – and evidence of how difficult he and the rest of the African American players had it back then.
There were also exhibits dedicated to the Ladies' Leagues; showcased were the uniforms Geena Davis and Rosie O'Donnell wore in A League of Their Own.
We then made our way around. There were plenty of artifacts from the days of old, specifically the days of Yankee past – which is what I was primarily aiming to get pictures of. Unfortunately the legendary Babe Ruth Room was closed for renovations, but his uniform was still on display. Lou Gehrig's locker and belongings were also out, in addition to Phil Rizzuto's Ray Hickock Award, one of Yogi Berra's MVPs, and Mickey Mantle's locker.
I also found this scale model of Wrigley Field pretty neat.
Then we got into the good stuff: artifacts from the Yankee Dynasty of the late 1990s, with some 2009 memories even exhibited. Among them some photos, Jeter's spikes from 1998 and jersey from 1996; and his helmet from 2000 Subway/World Series, one of David Cone's jerseys from 1999 (I believe it was the one he wore during his perfecto), Mariano Rivera's cap from the '09 Fall Classic, and the 1996 World Series trophy.
In the locker room of the Hall of Fame, treasures from recent memories are shown off. In the Yankee locker was Rivera's cap from last year's All-Star Game at Citi Field, Andy Pettitte's hat from the '09 World Series, and Hideki Matsui's bat from the '09 World Series.
The jersey Jeter was wearing when he whacked his 500th career double was also in the Yankee locker, and the jersey Alex Rodriguez was wearing when he whacked his 500th career double – Jeter and A-Rod are the only teammates in history to accomplish the feat in the same year (Jeter notched his 500th career two-base hit on May 3, 2012, and A-Rod reached 500 doubles on May 21, 2012).
We also noticed the Seattle Mariners' card. Read the number of championships and weep, Cano.
We then journeyed into a few different rooms with lots of pictures. Most of them speak for themselves.
I also decided to give Big Papi a piece of my mind.
I stumbled across this, too:
Reading it made me proud to be a reporter, although it puts a lot into perspective, what with the advent of Twitter and live-tweeting games in this day and age.
The "Baseball at the Movies" exhibit is one of my favorites at the Hall. Kevin Costner's jersey from Bull Durham was there, along with a no. 61 jersey Billy Crystal donated from his movie, 61*, about the famous home run chase during the 1961 season between Mantle and Roger Maris.
I also loved how John Fogerty's original draft of "Centerfield" which is (in my opinion) baseball's unofficial National Anthem, was there. I didn't notice that the previous two times I visited.
From there we went to the Promised Land: the plaque room. I tried to snap pictures of all the Yankees I could. Ruth's lifelike statute rightfully is located in the plaque room, which I also got a picture of.
After that we went into the room with all of the World Series rings in it. I managed to take some shots of the '96, '98-00 and '09 Yankee bling, although I'm unsure why the 1999 ring was upside down.
From there we left the Museum, making sure we saw everything there was to see, then took a walk about town. The rustic, old school, small town feel of Cooperstown is just amazing – and using the word 'amazing' it underselling it in a huge way. You have to live it and go there for yourself to truly appreciate it.
We took a jaunt over to Doubleday Field, hoping there might be a game going on, but the weather was uncooperative to say the least. We were the lone pilgrims at the "birthplace of baseball." Literally.
And, living in the year 2014, we had to take a selfie. Quota filled.
We left town afterward and took a tour of the OmmeGang Brewery right outside of town. I'm pretty sure my friend Alicia Barnhart over at "Ballparks on a Budget" would appreciate this part of the trip!
The tour wasn't that long, but we wound up staying for the tasting. The beer was delicious; it left me with a bit of a buzz, though my friends suffered no ill effects from drinking. Needless to say the ride home was interesting with a lightweight like myself riding as a passenger.
Overall, it was a fun day. I do think we rushed the trip a little bit; we didn't take a full, complete day like last time, but it's Cooperstown. Some never make it in their lifetime to this historic landmark town.
But me – I can now say I've been there three times. And I'm sure at some point I'll go again, because it gets better and better every time.


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This year, I was excited to hear a presentation by keynote speaker Ginger Lewman (follow her on Twitter @GingerLewman). Ginger asked great questions:
"Are we transforming curriculum with technology or are we substituting digital worksheets for paper worksheets?" This helped me reflect about my role as a library media specialist and technology consultant. I can help teachers enhance curriculum in their classroom with technology... In what ways am I doing this? (something we should all ponder as school librarians)
"How do we ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn outside of our walls?"
My three biggest takeaways from SWOW:
Genius Hour
Ginger explained that this comes from Google's 20% time for their employees. Students can use designated "Genius Hour" time to explore/ create projects of their choosing. The library is a great place to try this since we have so many resources for students to utilize. I love the idea of encouraging learners to come up with solutions to problems. The school library is a perfect spot to research and experiment! I want to try this soon!
Educational Video Games
I attended a session by Chad Freeman on this topic. Chad is a teacher at Ashdown High School in Ashdown, Arkansas. He challenged my thinking on gaming by discussing why people game. The main reasons being that the best games are complex and engaging. Video gamers also receive instant feedback and are encouraged to try again (something we should adopt in all aspects of education). Chad provided names of some excellent games for classroom use:
Minecraft EDU
Cities Skylines
I have forwarded information about Cities Skylines to our Civics teachers. This game looks like an excellent opportunity to have learners develop a virtual local government and build/ maintain a city. I will have to examine the other games as time permits! This is an ever emerging way to engage our learners in a video game environment.
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Live Internet Radio and Podcasting
I really enjoyed the session about Internet Broadcasting led by Arkansas educators Jeff Madlock and David Henderson (on Twitter @edutechguys)! They discussed the many ways that teachers can broadcast from their classroom. Jeff and David presented many different possibilities for podcasting in the classroom. Among these were class reviews, class discussions, class presentations, school news, and interviews. Jeff (@jmadlock) and David (@davidinark) have a regular podcast where they interview educators. You can listen to their previous broadcasts here.
Some of the websites with free options (with the opportunity for expanded paid plans) they presented:
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Mixlr.com (users can broadcast 1 hour sessions for free, longer periods require paid plan)
Spreaker.com (users can broadcast 1 hour sessions for free, longer periods require paid plan)
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One afternoon this past spring, at the public library on Main Street in Bozeman, Montana, I sat in a room with 10 or so other people and watched a video projected on a screen. It was a TED Talk: a speech given the previous March at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, California, and then posted to the organization's website, TED.com.
In the video, Eric Whitacre, a classical composer and conductor with blond surfer-dude hair, describes an online experiment he'd recently carried out. He posted the sheet music for one of his popular choral works, as well as a video of him conducting the work as a piano played along. Then he invited singers around the globe to perform their parts—soprano, alto, tenor, bass—in front of their own webcams. After hundreds of people responded with videos, Whitacre arranged them into a simulation of a real-life choir, with himself in front conducting. While showing this odd choral facsimile to the TED crowd, Whitacre explains that he was "moved to tears" when he first saw it—these singers "on their own desert islands, sending electronic messages in bottles to each other." At that moment I turned to see the woman sitting next to me, a stern-faced Montanan in a dust-colored anorak, drying her own eyes.
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When we think about digital communities today, we often visualize them in just this way, as online analogs of physical gatherings—as improvements, even, on their real-life counterparts, since Internet gatherings can bridge massive distances at minuscule cost while dispensing with all those sticky real-world inconveniences. And indeed, it's tempting to see the recent evolution of TED itself in a similar light: By putting its talks online in 2006, what was previously a members-only affair—an annual Davos-like conclave of wealthy Silicon Valley and Hollywood types—suddenly became an enormous and almost democratic cultural force, reaching millions of viewers around the world.
The move online has undeniably transformed TED (the letters stand for Technology, Entertainment, Design) from a conference company into something more like a media company. Increasingly, the true audience for TED Talks is not the in-person throng but people staring at screens far from Long Beach. Much as we now use the word crowd (crowdsourcing, crowdfunding) to liken online collaboration to its physical analog, it's tempting to consider TED, like Eric Whitacre's choir, as a conference in a primarily virtual sense, with million-strong bleacherfuls of disembodied viewers twinkling in and out behind the real-life back row.
The truth, however, is far more interesting. Free online access is just one of two major initiatives that TED has undertaken to engage a wider audience. The other is fully physical and has equally changed the character of the organization. That initiative, called TEDx, began in 2008 as a way to bring TED-like gatherings to smaller communities. It quickly spread to cities and towns around the globe—1,300 so far, in 134 countries, hosting more than 800,000 people in total, many times more than have ever attended an official TED event. The video viewing I attended at the Bozeman library was not some random screening; it was an overflow simulcast of the inaugural TEDxBozeman, which had sold out its tickets in six days. Each event is required to show at least two videos from TED.com, but the rest of the speakers are in person, often local, creating a TED-style experience for places where "ideas conference" isn't even part of the lexicon.
TED does place some restrictions on the independent organizers. The TEDx logo renders the x like an asterisk, with a tagline below that reads "x = independently organized TED event." But in practice, TED has put its entire reputation in the hands of these organizers, if only because they're so entrepreneurial and so plugged into their communities. These local showrunners recruit speakers unknown to TED central and coach them on how to present their ideas. The resulting one-day conferences draw huge crowds. For most of the world now, and even for most of the United States, these events are TED.
Chris Anderson (no relation to the editor of this magazine), a former media executive who has run TED since 2001, sees both TEDx and TED.com as in keeping with a larger philosophy of "radical openness." But putting media online is a standard practice, whereas these satellite events have taken Anderson into entirely uncharted territory: He has given his nationally known brand away to thousands of complete unknowns, spawning independent TED events in cities and towns all around the world. Can "big ideas" really cover that much ground?
Oversight of this unprecedented experiment has been entrusted to Lara Stein, 46, a genial yet commanding South African who works out of TED's headquarters in Lower Manhattan. After moving to the United States as a college student to study dance, Stein wound up staying on and becoming a successful entertainment executive while still in her twenties; she worked stints at Boston public TV station WGBH, at the Lifetime cable network, and at Microsoft, where she was instrumental in launching its short-lived Microsoft Multimedia Productions in 1996. Along the way, she developed a deep devotion to TED, attending six times during the 1990s and never looking back. "I wouldn't take a job unless they'd agree to send me," she says with a laugh.
Beyond her management experience and her TED bona fides, there's a curious theme to Stein's résumé that makes her particularly suited to ride herd as director of TEDx—and that also helps to explain the surprisingly expansive path the program has taken. One of Stein's first jobs in Hollywood was at the animation company Nelvana, where she was responsible for licensing such properties as the Care Bears, Babar, and Tales From the Cryptkeeper, working out agreements to make anything from socks to shirts to DVDs. Eventually she moved over to Marvel Comics to work in a similar capacity. This experience seems to have greatly influenced the relationship between TED and its TEDx organizers. The creators of the satellite conferences aren't volunteers; they're licensees, who are given latitude to put together events on their own terms, including (with permission) the ability to accept sponsorships and to charge admission of up to $100 per ticket for recouping costs.
It's impossible to overstate how much this autonomy, this sense of ownership, has shaped the evolution of TEDx. Reading the CVs of organizers, and especially meeting them in person, one finds they have a very different character from the volunteer coordinators or open source contributors of the world. Instead, they're wheeler-dealer types: entrepreneurs, marketing consultants, supreme self-branders, the sorts of people who intuitively understand how running a TED-style event in their local community might serve not merely to educate that community but also to win considerable influence for them within it. "You talk to them," Stein says, "and they're all like mini-Chrises"—miniature versions of Chris Anderson.
The ground rules for the organizers are fairly simple. First they need to apply for a license under a unique name. Having other TEDxes established in your city is no obstacle: San Francisco, for example, has more than 15 licensees within the city limits, from TEDxPresidio to TEDxMission. Manhattan has more than 30. Stein estimates that she receives 120 applications per week, of which she rejects only around 30 percent. Once approved, the licensee (or licensees—many TEDxes are run by small groups) is free to program the event as they wish, with a few basic restrictions. One fundamental rule, true of TED as well, is that no sponsors are allowed to display logos onstage, and no one, neither sponsor nor speaker, is allowed to sell anything during the performance. Organizers who have been to TED can sell as many tickets as they like, but everyone else has to limit their crowds to 100 people.
In practice, the message that these are independently run events is often lost. One TEDx organizer in Kansas City tells the story of a passerby who saw her tote bag from an official TED conference and wondered aloud why she hadn't gotten one too: Hadn't she been to TED herself, just the other week? Stein and her crew have designed the program and its branding to balance exactly, perhaps uncomfortably, on this knife-edge of misperception. But it's a balance that works, because it allows the online talks and the real-world offshoots to feed off one another. The TED Talk phenomenon online has primed the audience, but it's also clear, based on the demand, that the online talks simply aren't enough. When TED comes to their town, people want to go see it in the flesh.
Why do audiences need TEDx when they have TED.com? That is, at a time when we can get the best of everything remotely, what's the point of having in-person events? The opportunity to shake real people's hands, get drunk with them, perhaps hook up with them, all on the corporate expense account—no doubt those motivations can explain the ongoing appeal of, say, South by Southwest or various other industry-wide bacchanals. But they're hardly the prime motivator to attend TEDx events, strictly one-day conferences that happen right in your hometown. For the most part the audiences come, watch, and leave. If they were looking for an injection of TED-like "big ideas," they'd have been far better off perusing TED.com. Yet the crowds flock to TEDx events, and the organizers vie to put them on at zero profit. Why?
A professor of strategy and innovation at London's Cass Business School, Joseph Lampel is one of the few academics who study conferences and in-person gatherings. In collaboration with Alan Meyer of the University of Oregon, he has developed a phrase—field-configuring event—to describe the role that gatherings play in the information age. A few years back, the two men edited a special issue of the Journal of Management Studies to show the breadth of the concept. Papers from scholars in very different disciplines all used this same basic idea to discuss the importance of physical gatherings in fields from literature to medicine to politics. Despite the fact that these fields all have their own media (trade journals, newsletters, etc.) to inform them, the gatherings cut through the flurry of information to set priorities, to confer status, to codify collective judgments.
The Internet has made it easier for people to exchange views and information. But since it lets everyone seek out just the media they want, Lampel says, the Internet has actually made it harder for people from different niches to get on the same page. At a basic level, the physicality of conferences acts as a sort of brute-force filter: Not only is the programming relatively limited compared with the infinite buffet of the online world, but the relatively high switching costs (getting up from your chair, walking across a convention center) mean you wind up listening to—and drawing unexpected inspiration from—talks you might otherwise have chosen to miss. Physical gatherings help to focus our minds by monopolizing our attention, by curtailing our choices. "The Internet is not good at allowing for what I call the predictable unpredictability," Lampel says.
In Lampel and Meyer's view, the "fields" that events help configure can also include a city's conception of itself. A classic example in this regard is the Olympics. One paper in their special issue, by Boston College professor Mary Ann Glynn, described the role that the 1996 Summer Games played in the economic development efforts of Atlanta. Hosting the games helped reconfigure the power relationships in the region in fascinating ways—local business executives, by stepping up to support the bid early on, wound up benefiting later through the connections they made with the corporations that come in as sponsors and organizers. Being home to an Olympics really does tend to establish or cement a city's world-class status, to outsiders and (perhaps more important) to insiders.
TEDx is hardly the Olympics, of course, but it can play a notably similar role at a far smaller expense. It's a special event that comes to town and focuses everyone—organizers, local businesses and media, the audience—on the town's own talent, its potential, its shared sense of itself.
Two days before TEDx Bozeman, the core volunteers meet at the offices of Classic Ink, a local design and marketing agency, to discuss final preparations. It's an enthusiastic bunch, though they don't hide how harried they are; staggering in late, they slouch wearily down on an L-shaped sectional with the righteous air of the overworked and unpaid. "Next year, we should start eight months ahead of time," grouses Steve Spence, a master's student in film from Ireland who's coordinating all the A/V for the event.
Most of the volunteers present are, like Spence, twentysomethings with some connection to the flagship campus of Montana State University, which is located here in Bozeman. The license holders both fit that description, though they're a bit of an odd couple. The straitlaced one is Ken Fichtler, a 27-year-old Montana native who studied business management at MSU and now works in marketing at nearby Lattice Materials, which sells silicon and germanium to manufacturers; his unpredictable foil is Danny Schotthoefer, 31, who works at Classic Ink as an interactive marketing coordinator.
If Fichtler's path, as an up-and-coming marketing pro out of the local university, represents a very typical one toward becoming a TEDx organizer, Schotthoefer's has been an unlikely journey indeed. A troubled and low-achieving high school student in Oregon, he considered seminary after graduation but joined the Navy instead. He wound up working 17-hour days on an aircraft carrier as an ordnanceman, loading bombs and missiles into F-18 Hornets. After his military commitment ran out in 2004, he went to school to be an ad copywriter, only to find, on graduation, that the recession had made jobs in traditional advertising nearly nonexistent. So he started getting interested in social media; after relocating with his fiancée and infant daughter to Bozeman in 2008, he began working odd stints at two digital agencies in town: 8 am to 5 pm at one, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the other. When a friend from high school grabbed the license for TEDxBoulder, Schotthoefer set his sights on bringing it to Bozeman. He signed up Ken and then scoped out a venue and started lining up speakers. The two set only one requirement: All the speakers needed to have some deep connection to Montana.
Looking at a small community through a TEDx lens can be a genuinely transformative act. That's especially true in college towns like Bozeman, those minor cities with not-quite-elite universities, places where the most ambitious collegians leave after graduation and the most ambitious high schoolers head to college someplace else entirely. At a time when the Internet lets you get your ideas from anywhere, it's easy for locals to slip into thinking their hometown is not so very far from nowhere. But actually stop to think about individual people in your town—professors, entrepreneurs, advocates—who do important work and think important thoughts, and suddenly your perspective changes. Go on to imagine 20 of those people together in a room and your nowhere can begin to look like somewhere very interesting.
Schotthoefer, Fichtler, and crew approached their task as just that kind of dinner party. They asked David Sands, an MSU plant pathologist, to discuss the possible role of bacteria as a cause of rain. They brought on Florence Dunkel, an entomologist, to speak about the nutritional, environmental, and culinary arguments for eating bugs—or, as she calls them, "land shrimp." From Missoula came the University of Montana's Jakki Mohr, who studies how biological innovations can be applied to human organizations. From the local high schools came a talk about educational gamification from a science teacher and two short, deeply personal talks from students. A few entrepreneurs kicked in addresses about their ideas and ventures: a locally sourced construction firm, an all-American T-shirt company.
The live audience was just 100 people, many of whom the organizers knew. But there were three simulcast locations, at the public library (where I would walk over to watch the third of the day's four sessions), at MSU, and at Bozeman High School. Plus, there was streaming video, afvailable anywhere in the world but aimed at Montanans in other cities, who might tune in to watch their own "local" talent. Then there were the videos of the talk, which would get uploaded to YouTube. And there was always a chance that a TEDxBozeman video might wind up on TED.com. That initial local audience could hypothetically turn very, very big—and that potentiality can make all the difference to how speakers see their role.
At the appointed hour, TEDxBozeman did start off a tad bit wobbly. Schotthoefer's opening remarks were tense as he barked to the crowd to move forward and fill in the empty seats. Volunteers ran up and down the aisles like maniacs even as the program was beginning. But the crowd moved up, the speakers spoke, and everyone seemed to leave happy, including me. It was a classic case of predictable unpredictability: I wouldn't have clicked a link to watch many of these talks, at least not based on a short description, but being obliged to watch them—trusting the organizers that these speakers would tell me something about Montana, and also something about the world—there were few I wasn't glad to have seen.
When you think about "big ideas" from the top down, as a lucrative industry of never-ending thought provocation, an obvious critique suggests itself: How big can all these ideas really be? How many big ideas are there, anyway? Scanning through isolated videos on TED.com, one can undeniably find some cravenness at play, as all those CEOs, self-styled gurus, and lecture-circuit fixtures spin out their sometimes vacuous bits of ideation.
But consider the TEDx process from the bottom up and it's impossible not to admire what it can coax out of speakers who are far from the lecture circuit. "There's this massive battle for the world's attention," says Chris Anderson in response to TED's critics. "Many of the world's best ideas sit there unknown, ignored because people don't know how to communicate them. Is a TED Talk the same as a scientific paper? Of course it's not. But is it 'dumbed down'? No, it's not that either. People who say TED Talks are 'too emotional' are confused about the emotion that's at play. The emotion that works is passion. You can't communicate an idea unless you show that it matters to you."
It's telling, the ways in which the spirit of the TEDx experiment has seeped out into the rest of the organization. In 2013, half the speakers on the main stage at TED will be programmed through a talent search, fed by tryouts in 14 TEDx-style events on six different continents. For all the inherent elitism of the "thought-leader conference" as a concept, TED is genuinely trying to broaden its pool of thinkers—off and on the stage. And the way it's accomplishing that is by opening stages all around the world.
As gauzy as this may sound, there really is some idea that underpins whatever it is that each of us does, and there's some narrative (whether our own or someone else's) that helps convey it to others. By bringing speakers out of their specialties, by teaching them to talk to everyone, TEDxes are helping speakers connect with audiences, and helping audiences in turn to connect ideas inside their own minds. That is, they're adding to our store of stories—and it's hard to think of a much better reason to get together than that.
Bill Wasik (@billwasik)* is a senior editor at* Wired. He wrote about technology-enabled riots in issue 20.01.


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Denise Richards is returning to the small screen.
The actress and mother of two, whose reality show on E! got the boot last year, has signed on to play the recurring role of Debra, ex-wife of Marty Daniels, on Spike TV's "Blue Mountain State."
With the second season of "Blue Mountain State" set to premiere on Oct. 20, Richards' character will debut in the third episode, according to Access Hollywood.
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The "Wild Things" star's past roles also include portraying Dr. Christmas Jones in "The World is Not Enough," and guest spots on shows like "Friends," and "Melrose Place."
Richards' most recent TV appearances include reality show stints on "Dancing With the Stars," and her E! show "Denise Richard's: It's Complicated."


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Research and Technology Development
Future missions require new technologies to meet the challenges of higher performance, reduced costs and new concepts such as autonomous space systems or 'Internet in Space'. This requires a strong focus on research and technology (R&T) development.
At ESA, we apply advanced technologies to improve the design and performance of our ground systems, just like we do with our satellites. We have a wealth of experience in the engineering of complex hardware and software systems, and we support European industrial competitiveness by sharing our R&T know-how.
On Earth, the ground segment serves as the gateway to access, control and exploit these new space systems – and provide services and return on investment for European scientists, industry and citizens.
What we do
As part of a growing range of ground-segment R&T activities, we conduct:
- Studies as well as development and demonstration activities within ESA and in cooperation with European national and other EU bodies;
- Intensive networking with R&T partners for joint research and technology initiatives;
- Close coordination with the Agency's internal TECNET work groups as part of ESA's end-to-end space technology R&D management process; space technology R&D management process;
- Dissemination of innovative satellite operations concepts between ESA and national agencies and other partners;
- Strengthening of ESA as a host for centres of excellence in selected areas such as Space Situational Awareness, navigation and flight dynamics.
We maintain close contact and share knowledge with European and international space actors, including national agencies and R&T partners in academia and industry.
How we do it
We regularly place contracts with European space agencies, industrial partners and academia for studies and concept development. These are aimed at identifying and validating innovative solutions for improving how we develop ground segments and related infrastructure.
For example, we have initiated a number of studies related to 'Internet in Space', a new approach for data networks in space, where information is distributed in a decentralised and much more efficient way, making use of redundant data links as in the terrestrial Internet.
This will allow not only data to be transmitted much more efficiently, but also the development of a new space-data systems network in cooperation with multiple private and public space operators.
We also share what we learn with European partners, ensuring that know-how, best practises and innovative concepts can be adopted by industry and other space-faring entities.
A good example for focused R&T is Estrack, ESA's Deep Space Antenna (DSA) tracking stations.
The giant 35 m-diameter dish antennas need highly sophisticated amplifiers to produce the high-power signals to be transmitted from Earth to spacecraft orbiting hundreds of millions of kilometres away in our Solar System, and, in the other direction, the amplification to detect the faint signals coming back to Earth from Mars, Venus or other exploration targets.
ESA conducts research on high-performance/low-noise amplifiers, making use of specific semiconductor technologies under cryogenic temperatures.
Estrack ground stations
Typically, a new generation of amplifiers is brought into operation at the Agency's 35m deep-space stations after basic technology studies, followed by a period of infrastructure development to adopt them for our specific use.
These activities are carried out with European research laboratories and industry, who of course benefit by access to ESA's technology for their own products and services.
Artificial intelligence tools
In another example, engineers at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are conducting research on advanced methods for satellite monitoring, problem diagnosis and mission planning. This includes using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to operate satellites or robots most efficiently.
The research results have not only been implemented in spacecraft software systems at ESOC, but it is also helping Europe's non-space industry.
At one large pharmaceutical company, it was possible to apply AI tools originally developed for the monitoring and diagnostics of space missions to development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products.
Reinhold Bertrand
ESA/ESOC Darmstadt, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)6151-90-2658
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Advocate & Solicitor
Commissioner for Oaths
Notary Public
Barrister-At-Law (United Kingdom)
Chia Boon Teck graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, in 1993 as its top foreign student and amongst the top 5% in the Faculty of Law, and awarded the Herbert Smith Prize in Commercial Law.
Mr Chia was called to the English Bar (Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom) as a Barrister-At-Law in 1994, and he was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1995. Mr Chia is a Litigator and his areas of practice include administrative law, banking & finance matters, civil & commercial litigation, company law, construction litigation, corporate debt recovery, corporate litigation, criminal litigation, defamation, directors & shareholders' disputes, employment law, immigration matters, insolvency, landlord & tenant disputes, matrimonial matters, medical negligence claims, military court martials, partnership disputes, property disputes, Strata Titles matters, and vehicle & industrial accident claims.
In practice for the past 24 years, Mr Chia has been involved in many high-profile cases.
Mr Chia co-chaired a Law Society committee in 2005 that liaised with the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Home Affairs to improve the criminal justice system, particularly, in respect of accused persons' treatment and access to defense counsel whilst in police custody as well as the prosecution's disclosure of documents in criminal trials which culminated in amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code in 2010. In 2006, Mr Chia again co-chaired another Law Society committee to liaise with the Ministry of Law and the Attorney-General's Chambers to address the relevance and scope of capital punishment in contemporary Singapore which led to landmark changes in the law in 2012. In 2007, Mr Chia was also a member of a Law Society ad hoc committee that presented a submission to the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Home Affairs in response to the Government's proposed changes to the Penal Code which resulted in the passing of the new Penal Code in 2011.
Mr Chia's publications include the Singapore Chapter for Global Legal Insights: Litigation & Dispute Resolution 2018 and the Singapore Chapter for Global Legal Insights: Bribery & Corruption 2019.
Mr Chia will be speaking at the 2019 Singapore Financial Crime Prevention Symposium on 23 May 2019. More information can be found here.
I was anxious when my Australian client became in need of urgent legal assistance in Singapore.
I was referred to Chia Wong Chambers LLC by a Singapore colleague. From my very first email exchange with Mr Chia,
I felt confident that my client was being properly represented by a firm whose principal lawyer knew the
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disappointed each time. I am very happy to have found Mr Chia, finally, who has given me confidence
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one gets oneself involved in a criminal case. Mr Chia, is not just a legal counsel but a counsellor.
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who are persuasive in speech and writing. They are well versed in litigation matters and their
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Mr John Baey / General Manager, Abterra Ltd
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Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance theory strongly suggests that cellular bioluminescence (which in humans ranges from ultraviolet to infrared) is both personal and transpersonal. In other words, not only is the individual human "networked" with DNA light emitters and receptors; it appears our entire species is morphogenetically networked much like individual cells that form a larger biological entity: humanity. This assertion has been substantiated by the Gariaev group, whose findings liken DNA not just to a holographic biocomputer but to a "biological Internet" that links all human beings. Many native wisdom traditions are based on an equivalent understanding of the universe (human inhabitants included) as a single living being intelligently networked like a biological organism.
Rupert Sheldrake – Morphic Fields and Cosmic Consciousness
Biophotons And The Universal Light Code
Light Body and DNA ~~ THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT
DNA 'perfect for digital storage'


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Nicely done here from jsonline's Tyler Dunne. Read up on this OLB prospect Bruce Irvin from West Virginia. While he had some impressive stats in college, the thing that clearly stands out to me is that this 6'2″, 245 pound dude apparently runs a 4.4 in the 40. (You know we're in combine mode when 40 times are being thrown about.) For an OLB, 4.4 is unreal. This is as fast as guys like Nick Collins, and if you count his 4.37 40 time in junior college, as fast as guys like Tramon Williams. Quality coverage of TEs or even WRs might be a possibility for a guy like this. And having another relentless, super fast pass rusher opposite Mathews sounds like a dream scenario.
Sounds like the kind of player that might be worth trading up for.


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This weekend I again ran upon trails that I hadn't visited before.
Early Saturday morning I headed over to the Blue Hill Trail where I normally run. As Topaz and I began to run up the trail I saw the Ranger pull into the lot. Forget this. I'm going somewhere else, I thought to myself. I didn't want to be hasseled by him anymore. I turned around and ran back to the car. As we passed him he asked if I had yet mailed my fine. I looked at him, made eye contact, and continued running toward my car. The fine isn't due until the 22nd, it's $250 and I really don't need this guy on my case anymore.
I drove north a few miles looking for a trail had I had come across before. After Topaz and I jumped out of the car I saw the sign "no admitance from March 1 to August 1' foiled again. A few more stops with the same results.
Let's get out of the Wildlife Refuge!
I decided to park at a Grant Aid Trail near home. There were a few mile of muddy snowmobile trails, a few miles of horse trails and it fizzled out. I looked at my watch. Well, we ran a whopping 11 miles. Not quiet the mileage I was looking for before heading to the Twins game, but it was something. Too much time wasted driving along looking for trail.
Quick shower, quickly make french toast for Steve and the boys and we were off to catch the Northstar Train. We decided since we had no errands to run before or after the Twins game we would ride the Northstar Train. The train begins in Big Lake, stops in Elk River, Anoka, Coon Rapids and Fridley enroute to Target Field in Minneapolis. From Target Field one can catch the Hiawatha Line to the airport, Mall of America and whatnot. I think I may take it when I fly out to Chicago in a few weeks.
I was amazed when we pulled into the Northstar lot and it was full. We stood in line to get our 'family pass' a two- way travel voucher for $17 and boarded the train. We were able to get a booth next to the window for four so that we could enjoy the view . By the time we reached Coon Rapids the train was standing room only. We were full! What a great way to travel to Minneapolis. No traffic, no parking costs, easy breezy.
Unfortanately the Twins lost to the Orioles (but won the second game of the double header and the game on Sunday) 3-7. Even with a loss the afternoon at Target Field was a blast. This field is really top notch. We absolutely love it. Hopefully the next game we attend has a winning outcome!
Trails. I didn't really know where to run on Sunday. I didn't want to go to Blue Hill and I didn't want to drive all over the Twin Cities again. I wanted to run near home, on trail, not road and I wanted to take Topaz. I decided to check out the summer trails of Lake Maria State Park. I have run the snowshoe trails here as I coach snowshoe classes here but have never run upon the summer trails.
I filled a few gallons of water, heed and grabbed some gels. I wanted to start early before it became too warm for Topaz so I left before 5. My plan was to run 30 miles for the day, but wasn't sure what Topaz would be up for. I'd run whatever I could with him and finish up on road or treadmill at home. I began in long pants, gloves and long sleeved shirt as it was 28F and there was snow on the ground. By the end of the run I was in shorts and a short-sleeved top.
The park was beautiful. There are many lakes within the 2000 acres and a handful of ponds. The trails meander over rolling hills, some steep with great lookouts over the city of Monticello. This park holds one of the few remaining stands of the "Big Woods," a maple, oak and basswood forest that once covered part of southern Minnesota.
Backpack sites, located on remote lakes and ponds throughout the park, are one to two miles from the trailhead parking. New log camper cabins, located near lakes and ponds, provide bunk beds for six people and a table and benches for campers who want more of the comforts than a tent may provide.
The park lies in the St. Croix Moraine which was formed during the last glacier, the Wisconsin Age.
I loved the rolling terrain. The trails were soft dirt with a few roots and lots of leaves. The ferns, leaves and wildflowers were opening and just beautiful.
I didn't see one other person! I couldn't believe it. I saw two cars in the lot and two tents in a backpack site and that was it.
We ran a 7 mile loop around the park and then a 3 mile trail around the end of Lake Maria. There were plenty of lakes for Topaz to cool off and drink from. I had parked the car in the center of the park so I was able to come back for a refill or change of clothes when necessary.
After 10 miles I changed into shorts and had a gel and banana, refilled a bottle and removed my gloves. It was warming up nicely.
Topaz was doing fine. My hamstrings were getting a workout as I haven't been running hills in forever but the hills didn't seem to bother him. I set off for another trail, this one an 8 miler. It was absolutely beautiful! The terrain reminded me of the race in WI-the Glacial Trail. Lots of constant rolling hills, beautiful outcrops and great views.
We headed back to the car for a refill and I noticed 4 huge horse trailers had arrived. I never saw any of the horses on the trail but they were out there somewhere.
Because it was a cool morning Topaz was doing fine. He wasn't lagging at all he full of more energy than I, so we kept on moving. We ran the first 10 mile section again, again just thrilled with the course and the views. This time we came upon many deer and two fox.
After a last quick dip in the lake for Topaz and a bottle of water for me, we headed back home.
Lake Maria State Park is a real nice park for running with miles of trail, beautiful lakes, awesome views. We'll definitely be back!


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Tickets for the annual Hope College Christmas Vespers remain available. The traditional holiday concert will be presented on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2. Tickets are available for the 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2 performances.
The tickets are sold thru the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is located between Ninth and 11th streets at 222 Fairbanks Ave. Tickets are $10 each. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets will not be sold at the services.
Christmas Vespers was first held on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. The services feature a variety of Hope instrumental and vocal groups as well as the college's historic Skinner organ.
The Christmas Vespers services will take place in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, located on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden held its annual Nobel awards ceremony on Monday attended by laureates, royals and the Who's Who of Swedish society with little evidence of the cost-cutting forced upon it by a downturn in the global economy.
More than 1,200 glittering guests - women in elegant gowns and men in white tie and tails - gingerly made their way over slippery snow and ice to the Nobel dinner in Stockholm City Hall to dine, chat and hear Nobel literature winner Mo Yan and other laureates speak at Sweden's most prestigious social event.
Mo did his best to again steer clear of human rights issues after refusing last week to publicly back a petition by fellow laureates to free jailed compatriot and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
"I am well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world," Mo said in a translated speech that was prepared in advance and distributed to guests at the banquet.
Although organizers talked of unspecified reductions in the expenditure on a night which cost 20 million Swedish crowns ($3 million) last year, frugality was not a feature that stood out among the fine French wines, cuisine from top Swedish chefs and the trapeze artists who entertained diners between courses.
"There have been some cuts," Nobel Foundation Executive Director Lars Heikensten told reporters ahead of the banquet, but refusing to give any details. "You will not notice them."
For more than a century, the foundation has managed the roughly $450 million capital that forms the base for the awards, donated in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. But in recent years returns have suffered amid the global crisis.
"We are in this forever and we should safeguard it (the prize)," said Heikensten, a former Swedish central bank chief known for reducing staff during his tenure.
The awards are now worth $1.2 million each, down from around $1.5 million in recent years.
Still, Monday evening's festivities at Stockholm's City Hall - itself decorated with 11 kg of gold leaf - were never likely to be spartan.
Details of a menu, which included Joseph Perrier Cuvée Royale Champagne and pheasant with chanterelle mushrooms, were only revealed minutes before the food was served. Guests at the event touted as one of the world's biggest set dinners ate from some 7,000 pieces of porcelain using 10,000 items of silverware and drank from 5,400 glasses.
There was also a fair share of bling on show, from jewel encrusted handbags to glittering tiaras, as Sweden's small and influential political and business elite jettisoned its famed egalitarian image to hobnob with diplomats and political leaders from around the globe.
The strict dress code - white tie and tails for men and gowns for women - was complemented by a similarly strict code of behavior.
Toasting, for example, is done Swedish style: raise your glass, look your table companions in the eyes, swing the glass in the air ever so slightly - no clinking - sip and repeat eye contact before setting the glass down.
However, the formal setting did not dissuade guests from having an after-dinner boogie on the dance floor to the music of Swedish pop group ABBA and other hits played by a live band.
Neighboring Norway was expected to have Australian pop-princess Kylie Minogue perform as the European Union receives this year's Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on Monday.
The EU's win raised a few eyebrows when announced in October.
($1 = 6.6344 Swedish crowns)
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**Edited to add: Well, it seems my last post was somehow the culprit, so I've taken it down. Guess we'll have to do without the picture of the Fuzzy Feet! I'll try to show them to you when they're felted!
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It is no secret today that we are facing a planetary environmental emergency, endangering most species on the planet, including our own, and that this impending catastrophe has its roots in the capitalist economic system. Nevertheless, the extreme dangers that capitalism inherently poses to the environment are often inadequately understood, giving rise to the belief that it is possible to create a new "natural capitalism" or "climate capitalism" in which the system is turned from being the enemy of the environment into its savior.1 The chief problem with all such views is that they underestimate the cumulative threat to humanity and the earth arising from the existing relations of production. Indeed, the full enormity of the planetary ecological crisis, I shall contend, can only be understood from a standpoint informed by the Marxian critique of capitalism.
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The ecological critique generated by twentieth-century monopoly capital theory—the bare outlines of which I have sought to present here—only adds additional force to Marx's classical ecological critique of capitalism. Every day we are destroying more and more public wealth—air, water, land, ecosystems, species—in the pursuit of private riches, which turns consumption into a mere adjunct to accumulation, thereby taking on more distorted and destructive forms.
The metabolic rift in the relation of humanity to the earth that Marx described in the nineteenth century has now evolved into multiple ecological rifts transgressing the boundaries between humanity and the planet. It is not just the scale of production but even more the structure of production that is at fault in today's version of the capitalist Raubbau. "Such is the dialectic of historical process," Baran wrote, "that within the framework of monopoly capitalism the most abominable, the most destructive features of the capitalist order become the very foundations of its continuing existence—just as slavery was the conditio sine qua non of its emergence."40
It is the historic need to combat the absolute destructiveness of the system of capital at this stage—replacing it, as Marx envisioned, with a society of substantive equality and ecological sustainability—which, I am convinced, constitutes the essential meaning of revolution in our time.
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Here it is: Combating "the absolute destructiviness" of the western market economy and free enterprise is "the essential meaning" of the Marxist revolution "in or time". The present system should be replaced with "a society of substantive equality and ecological sustainibility". Sounds familiar, doesn´t it?
Flashback May 2011:
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for fundamental changes in humanity's resource consumption patterns and values, saying the planet's natural environment is under unprecedented pressure with far-reaching social and economic consequences
"Our excessive use and consumption and production patterns are no longer sustainable".
Flashback November 2009
Neither Bellamy, nor Ban Ki-moon or R.K. Pachauri mention that there already are countries where "a new value system" has replaced the old one - North Korea and Kuba. One kind of wonders why they choose not to bring up these beacons of hope for humanity as models for us to follow?


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This kit allows students to investigate circuits and systems based on the popular PIC microcontroller. The solution focuses on system construction with a pre-programmed PIC carrier that includes eight programs selectable by hardware switches. The work can be extended to include programming of PIC microcontrollers using flowcharts with the free Flowcode demo software. The kit includes component carriers, base board, power supply, and storage trays.
Topics that can be learned with this kit include Switch inputs, Sensors and sensor circuits, Digital comparators, Driving transducers, Output transducers, DC motor speed control, and Open/closed loop control.
Students can progress further in the subject by using the Flowcode software to design a program, simulate the program's operation, and then download it to the microcontroller via USB. The unit has four I/O connections which can be programmed to be either inputs or outputs.
The electronic components are usually visible on the underside of the carrier (unless this would compromise safety or circuit behavior), so students also learn the appearance of many common electronic components. Where it is necessary to interact with a circuit element (for example, light sensors), the component will be mounted above the carrier, but there will still be a circuit symbol printed alongside it.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The writing was perhaps already on the wall for Bo Xilai, the controversial former top official of China's southwestern city of Chongqing, when he appeared at last year's parliamentary meeting, alternately chastened and combative.
In earlier annual sessions of parliament, Bo had swept in, all smiles and lanky grace, preceded by a wave of TV cameras and popping flashbulbs. This time he was uncharacteristically restrained.
Bo rolled his eyes at repeated questions from foreign reporters about a scandal involving then-vice mayor Wang Lijun, and the normally effusive state media and parliament delegates kept their distance.
Wang, who doubled as the city's police chief before his downfall, went to ground in the U.S. Consulate in nearby Chengdu in February last year until he was coaxed out and placed under investigation.
"I certainly never expected this," Bo said of Wang's flight. "I felt that it happened extremely suddenly."
News of his own change of fortune came just as suddenly.
A few days after his news conference in March last year, a terse report from the official Xinhua news agency announced that Beijing had sacked Bo from his post, all but snuffing out his chances of rising to the top echelons of the Communist Party.
Now Bo, 64, faces life in jail after being found guilty on all counts on charges of corruption, accepting bribes and abuse, though he can be expected to appeal.
Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, and Wang were jailed last year over China's biggest political scandal in years, triggered by the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in November 2011, a crime for which Gu was convicted.
After first helping Gu evade suspicion of poisoning Heywood, Wang hushed up evidence of the murder, according to the official account of Wang's trial. In late January 2012, Wang confronted Bo with the allegation that Gu was suspected of killing Heywood.
But Wang was "angrily rebuked and had his ears boxed".
After Bo was sacked, he disappeared from public view, resurfacing only at his dramatic five-day trial last month, where he offered a spirited defense of the charges against him, and denounced both Wang and Gu, whose testimony was used against him.
"He has a vile character, spreading rumors here and muddying the waters," Bo said of Wang, according to the official court transcript. Gu, Bo said, is "insane, often tells lies".
As the outspoken Chongqing party chief, Bo had mounted a daring bid for the nation's top political body, the party's Politburo Standing Committee.
He captured national attention with a crackdown on organized crime and corrupt police officers in Chongqing, China's teeming wartime capital, and brought about stronger economic growth. But he also alienated political peers.
An anti-mafia campaign netted thousands of people and tapped into popular anger over the corruption and collusion that has accompanied China's economic boom.
"Fighting organized crime is for the sake of letting the people enjoy peace and creating a clean social environment in Chongqing," Bo said at his parliamentary news briefing, defending his record. "We are sure of ourselves and free of regrets."
Bo, a former China commerce minister and mayor of the northeastern port city of Dalian where he wooed foreign investors, once had a flair for the dramatic.
His directness and independent streak impressed foreigners but annoyed peers, who prefer to rule through backdoor consensus and often stilted slogans. Analysts noted that no one in the top leadership publicly praised Bo or the crackdown on organized crime.
Then-Premier Wen Jiabao told his annual news conference last year that Chongqing's leadership should reflect on the Wang Lijun incident, and also obliquely criticized Bo's drive to revive songs and culture from the heyday of Mao's Communist revolution.
Bo is a son of late vice-premier Bo Yibo, making the younger Bo a "princeling" - a child of an incumbent, retired or late national leader.
His wife was a lawyer and their son, Bo Guagua, was educated at an elite British private school before going on to study at Oxford and Harvard universities. The younger Bo's Facebook photos from parties caused their own Internet stir in China.
While wooing investors, Bo also envisioned low-cost housing for rural poor and migrant laborers, designed to appeal to then-President Hu Jintao's goal of creating a "harmonious society".
He called his vision "Peaceful Chongqing." It included text messages with Maoist slogans, and singing old-style revolutionary songs by civil servants, who also had to adopt poor families and staff petition offices where citizens can complain.
But Bo had difficulty shaking off the suspicion of some critics, both inside and outside the country, that he was more concerned with his own rise than that of China.
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1 1/2 lb frozen green beans
1 can (box) condensed soup (chicken or mushroom)
1/4 c milk
salt and pepper
1 t paprika
1 t gf soy sauce
1 onion, sliced thin
2 T rice flour or corn starch
2 T olive oil
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