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CONCORD — Clint Bowyer, a usual Chase for the Sprint Cup championship participant, had to earn a spot into the $1 million Sprint All-Star Race.
CONCORD — Clint Bowyer, a usual Chase for the Sprint Cup championship participant, had to earn a spot into the $1 million Sprint All-Star Race.
It wasn't a surprise when he won Friday night's Sprint Showdown to earn an automatic transfer into the main event.
The upset Friday night went to Josh Wise, the stunning winner of the fan vote. Powered by the online community at Reddit and fans who support him through the digital currency Dogecoin, Wise beat out favorite Danica Patrick to earn his first berth in the All-Star race.
"Man, that's unreal. I can't believe that," Wise said. "I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. This is huge for me and my team."
It's also a big deal for NASCAR, which has seen a surge in popularity among the Millennial Generation because of Wise.
A movement began on Reddit early in the season behind a 16-year-old who was impressed by Wise's effort with underfunded Phil Parsons Racing.
Denis Pavel of Niles, Illinois, noticed Wise had a strong run at Bristol in a car in desperate need of sponsorship. Pavel thought of past fundraisers he'd seen on Reddit, and helped raise enough Dogecoin currency to sponsor Wise's car at Talladega.
The movement then switched to get him into the All-Star race.
"I didn't even know what Reddit was," Bowyer told Wise after the race. "That fan vote is a cool thing, and for you, your community, to beat Danica out is saying something, so good job."
Wise initially seemed stunned by the act and lauded the online community for getting behind NASCAR.
"This is kind of a big deal for our sport, I felt like, because it's a lot of young kids and people from around the world," Wise said. "I've had the chance to interact with a lot of them, and there's a lot of people who had never watched a NASCAR race who have now watched several, so it's a pretty cool deal."
But as fans on Twitter, another social media platform, grumbled that the Wise vote was rigged by computer-generated votes from Reddit, Wise dismissed the potential controversy.
"I don't necessarily care what people say about it," he said.
"People vote and whoever has the most wins. That's all I have to say about that."
Making it into Saturday night's race ensures a $70,000 payday for Phil Parsons Racing, which wouldn't have gotten into the All-Star race without the fan vote. Wise finished 18th in the 23-car field. It's bonus money for a cash-strapped team.
"I am stoked for Phil Parsons Racing in general about this," Wise said. "Phil really took a leap of faith in just saying we're racing this year, we're going to do whatever it takes to race, and that's what we've been doing. Obviously, all that little bit of funding helps. But I think probably what's more valuable than that is the exposure that's coming from it."
He'll have a tough time pulling off another big surprise Saturday night in a field full of 19 race winners, Bowyer and AJ Allmendinger, who finished second in the Showdown to earn the other transfer spot.
Bowyer found himself in the Showdown because he failed to win a race last season, when he was ranked second most of the year. He wasn't all that pleased to be racing Friday night for the right to be in the All-Star race.
"I wasn't very thrilled about being in this race," he said. "We haven't run well, haven't run where we're capable of running, and it's been frustrating. It's a humbling sport. It always has been. I'm a big boy. If this is where we are, we've got to go out there and race hard and qualify into that race and become an all-star."
Now he likes his chances on Saturday night when 22 drivers will race for fun and a $1 million prize.
"I really do believe, I'm not just saying this because I'm in the position, if you can qualify into the All-Star Race from this qualifying race, it could be an advantage," Bowyer said. "Every time we have these night races, whether it's the All-Star Race or any night race for that matter, we're practicing during the day, completely different set of circumstances for the race, and that's 40 laps of practice with what we're going to see tomorrow night for one million dollar — make you holler."
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September 28, 2005
G158: Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 2
Edgar says he's made enough outs this year (home run, double, two walks), but no one else in the lineup does much of anything. Boston leaves seven guys on base in the first five innings, and 11 overall.
New York edges Baltimore 2-1 -- we're one game out in the East -- but Tampa shuts out Cleveland 1-0 -- so we're still tied for the WC.
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I keep telling myself "At least Cleveland lost" over and over to make myself feel better.
It's not working.
Of all the nights for Arroyo to be terrible...he'd been great all month and on his final start of the (regular) season, he has NOTHING. Ugh. And Clement has been knocked around by the Jays all season long, so I'm not holding out much hope for tomorrow either. [Sigh]
Well, at least maybe Edgar's haters will finally shut up for awhile. He picked a damn fine week to get hot...too bad a lot of the others aren't helping him out.
Not much else to say except; "Go Orioles! Go Devil Rays!"
- September 28, 2005 at 8:51 PM
- Robin said...
How does this Blue Jay team take us to task so often?
Is our pitching THAT bad?
How do we win every Arroyo start this month but THIS one?
And is Lilly THAT good? Our batters look like they are doing mental calculus while at the plate.
4 more... MUST WIN
- September 28, 2005 at 9:09 PM
We're gone, nuf ced. Time to find a new hobby.
- September 28, 2005 at 11:22 PM
- From the Vined Smithy said...
Ah, sean, you were around last season, weren't you? Don't give up hope yet! Right after tonight's game, I wanted to pack it all in, too. Now, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's game. Fucking Blue Jays.
Though as I said on Soxaholix, I'd almost rather they just give up the ghost and lose from here on so I can start mourning and quit having pain.
I don't think this team will win the Series, but some nice Yankee-eliminating would be a good balm for that.
- September 28, 2005 at 11:38 PM
- laura k said...
We're gone, nuf ced. Time to find a new hobby.
I hope this was just venting! I would think last year would teach us all a lesson about quitting.
Hey! The word verification thingy is giving me "soxfev". Just add ER! :)
- September 29, 2005 at 6:45 AM
Wildcard schmildcard. I want the division. Pardon my French, but I'm sick and fucking tired of backing into the playoffs.
- September 29, 2005 at 7:00 AM
People! People! Don't Panic. So Ted Lilly has the Sox number. But there is much reason to be joyful. 1) Lenny DeNardo proved that, as we thought, there were some options in the pen not named Chad. As a lefty, he, not The Golden Child, should fill out the post season pen. 2) I refuse to believe that a 34 year-old putz like Aaron Small is going to go 10-0. The Yankees were unbelievably lucky with him and Chacon, but even luck must yield to the laws of the universe. He's a journeyman who just finished the streak of his life, not the second-coming of Catfish Hunter. The O's will beat him. They are playing like a major league team again. 3) The Sox WILL win the Division ("You WILL make the sacond shot!" Gene Hackman, HOOSIERS), but the Wild Card has its strategic advantages...it means playing the ChiSox, who are really a .500 team that had a lucky start, instead of the Indians, who are much more dangerous...at least until they play the Sox in the ALCS.
That said, I now firmly believe that Arroyo is not a pressure pitcher, and belongs in the post season pen, and that there is no longer any doubt Kevin Millar's pathetic mediocrity this year is a millstone that has cost the team 4-5 games in the standings. Bye Kevin..we love ya man, and we're grateful, but you stayed too long at the dance...
- September 29, 2005 at 7:11 AM
i'm going with this as the reason for bronson sucking.
- September 29, 2005 at 7:15 AM
- allan said...
In the interest of fairness, I'll say that I had no problem with when Francona pulled Brandon.
You could say he stayed with him one batter too long -- the walk to Adams -- but that's it.
The first inning is the first inning. And the Sox got one run back on ER's HR and trailed 2-1.
A two-out walk in the second. Fine.
The Third: HR, single, K, HR. Obviously not good, and a clear sign that a short leash (and a ready pen) was needed. Arroyo's last 13 pitches had been strikes, though, and only 3 had been hit fair. DiNardo was up at this point. Arroyo got the next 2 guys.
In the fourth, he walked Gross and then Hill singled. DiNardo was up again here. It didn't look like he was warming at the start of the inning, so perhaps F-Cat was the first batter he really was ready to face.
DiNardo pitched well, as did Delcarmen. ... Could they have helped in earlier games if Tito had acknowledged their existence? Perhaps. We'll never know.
- September 29, 2005 at 8:47 AM
Don't forget to pull for those Tigers. That 3 game series @ CLE over the weekend has to matter for the White Sox, or they'll roll over and then we have no fallback plan.
I've been waiting for about a month to see DiNardo used in a meaningful spot (7th inning) Maybe last night will give Tito some confidence. Him and Papelbon would be a better combo than the sidearming specialists.
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I guess that is a more acceptable term than characterizing females as *itches and *hores, much like some of the music performers he and his wife admire and/or invite to the WH.
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What did you pay for Harry Potter?
I prevailed upon a young friend (cash and control of the remote was involved) to let me read her HP6 this Sunday. I noticed the retail price was $29.99. I also noticed it broke my toe when I dropped it after falling asleep on page 47 so I assume the thing wasn't cheap to ship.
Retail price doesn't mean much these days. I wonder what the price really was for people who coughed up cash. Dig out those receipts! Let me know!
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Miss Snark,
Yawn, Harry Potter. The Indy Bookstore that I manage sold Harry Potter at full price. And to those loyal customers who bought specifically from us even though the chain in town and the other big box nearby was practically giving it away, we presented them a $5.00 Gift Certificate at the time of purchase as a thank you.
There was some discussion about this among management about this decision. Your response?
- 7/31/2005
I paid $17 and change at BandN. I reserved a copy but discovered that was irrelevant. There were copies for all. I later realized I could have paind $15 across the street at BJs (a Northeast regional equivalent of Costco), but my kids wouldn't have made out with free posters, Harry potter glasses and wristbands with 7-16-05 on them. I feel twinges of guilt about my lack of indy bookstore patronage. Should I feel guilt about BandN because of Amazon? (somewhat off-topic: some of these indy bookstores are a bit querky. Does the legendary Odyssey bookstore in South Hadley, Mass. still organize its books by publisher? Not conducive to browsing on a topic, yet unlike BandN they would run an account on you simply on your name and address and a handshake.)
- 8/01/2005
- Ellen said...
$15.76 at Sam's Club. The cheapest price I found anywhere:-). I can't imagine that anyone would pay full price for it when it's so easy to find it for much, much less.
- 8/01/2005
- Kitty said...
Wegman's supermarket is selling them for, I think, $17 (give or take).
- 8/01/2005
Library. I got on the reserve list about six months before it came out and was number 8 on the list. The library got one copy right away and 11 additional copies within a week.
- 8/01/2005
$14.26 or .62 on my twice-annual foray into the hell that is Walmart. Gawd, I hate that place.
I'm an HP fan, I admit it, albeit a lagging one. As soon as I finish Order of the Phoenix, I'll read it.
- 8/01/2005
- Rene said...
DH paid $24 at a children's bookstore, but it included a $7 "Harry Potter" breakfast for my son.
- 8/01/2005
- Gabrielle said...
About 16€ from Amazon France, then I saw it in the supermarket for about 12€--and selling like hotcakes, even though it's the English version. No French version for a while yet.
- 8/01/2005
- Crystal* said...
$16 at Wally World. Not bad at all.
- 8/01/2005
- Linda said...
$16 and some change from B&N online. I could have gotten it at Costco for $15 and change, but I didn't know that when I placed my order at B&N. :)
- 8/01/2005
Didn't pay a cent. Didn't buy the thing. Yet still can't escape it.
Fantasy for the fantastically-challenged.
- 8/01/2005
In the UK, some supermarkets discounted it by 70%, affecting the quarterly profits of book chains such as Ottakers, whose discounts (around 25%) did not compete.
I doubt if anyone in this country paid anything close to full price.
- 8/02/2005
- Jack Ruttan said...
Pretty ghastly. Actually, it would be nice if the independents could make a bit of money from this, so they can survive and actually stock some good books, but all the big box chain stores and supermarkets are using it as a loss leader, so I guess to hell with them.
- 8/02/2005
Far too much, as I was in the airport the day after it came out and was desperate to read it on the plane. So I ended up paying over 20 US dollars, as everything is so expensive in airports.
And then when I got home I discovered that my parents had bought one for me as a welcome-home present. Oops.
- 1/31/2007
- Rachel Green said...
10.99 UK pounds, the night before it was oficially released, at an independant bookstore running a Harry Potter party.
- 1/31/2007
- Susan Helene Gottfried said...
Too freaking much, given the quality that was delivered.
(actually, The Tour Manager pre-ordered through Buy.com at a discount, but it didn't arrive on release date as promised, so we ponied up full price at our local indie. So yes, we wound up with two copies of a disappointing book.)
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From the start, Schlafly was a tireless worker. She paid for her education at Washington University in St. Louis in part by test-firing machine guns in a World War II ordnance plant, and she wrote her own speeches and planned her own speaking engagements during two unsuccessful bids for a congressional seat. Feminists were quick to point out that Schlafly's own life as a political activist and public speaker was far from the path that she championed for women.
But Schlafly countered that she had never meant for women to abandon a public life--just that the duties of wife and mother should come first. "I have canceled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much," she told Time magazine in 1978. And in a 2006 New York Times interview, she insisted that she never left her family overnight. "I'd drive out to give a speech, and sometimes I'd bring a nursing baby with me," she recalled. "There was always someone outside willing to take care of a baby rather than listen to a long lecture."
What's Wrong With Equal Rights for Women? began as an 1972 essay in her newsletter The Phyllis Schlafly Report, but she quickly adapted it for speeches and debates on behalf of STOP ERA, a group founded by Schlafly. What can you learn from the speech?
- Tell me something I don't know. When Schlafly first wrote the speech, the ERA had been passed by Congress and the idea of women's rights was gaining mainstream acceptance. But Schlafly delivered a very different--and attention-grabbing--message: "The truth is that American women never had it so good," she declared. "Why should we lower ourselves to 'equal rights' when we already have the status of special privilege?"
- The rule of three. Examine the speech, and you'll see that Schlafly uses a time-honored tradition of breaking down her argument against the ERA into three simple ideas: Women are already privileged because they bear children, because they receive special respect in a "Christian Age of Chivalry," and because the male inventors of the washing machine and frozen peas have relieved women of onerous work.
- Us and Them. Throughout her speaking career, Schlafly has done a remarkable job of identifying with her audience and speaking of "us" against a carefully-defined "them." In her What's Wrong speeches, she made it clear that the era's feminists did not speak for all women.
Schlafly was also keenly aware of how a woman's appearance could affect her credibility as a speaker. She held workshops with local chapters of STOP ERA to prepare women to debate and testify at public hearings. She emphasized good grooming, makeup and colors that look good on television--and poise and smiles in the face of an attack.
Still publishing and still consistent in her theme, Schlafly this year co-authored The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say.
Freelance writer Becky Ham contributed this edition of Famous Speech Friday. Photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr stream.
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Anthropology stands at the crossroads of the humanities and social sciences. It is the comparative science of human thought, experience, and behavior in all its social forms. Blending core commitments to deep empirical analysis, to field and archival research techniques, and to advancing social theory; anthropology is one of the most vibrant and diverse fields of research in the human sciences, today.
Anthropology is a discipline that encompasses many subjects of study, all related to understanding human beings and their cultures. For undergraduates, the emphasis is on a comprehensive exposure to the range of interests that anthropologists pursue in their research.
The Department of Anthropology's doctoral program offers advanced training in social/cultural anthropology and archaeology. Regardless of a student's field of specialization, the department believes that the best scholarship emerges from a collaborative, rather than competitive, model of training.
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A recent grad returns to campus to revive the past and leaves renewed for the future. by Cornell Woodson '09, former SGA president
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Reclaimed bricks and alternatives
The character of bricks with an aged look may be ideal for use in a certain type of home. These bricks may have been reclaimed from demolished houses, however, they are often newly produced facing bricks with a "reclaimed" appearance. There may be various reasons why a home-owner or architect has opted for a new variant. The price is usually more favourable, assured availability and most importantly, the quality of this type of facing brick is guaranteed by the manufacturer.
Tumbled versus aged
The most familiar technique is to tumble bricks. As the name suggests, with this technique the fired bricks are tumbled in a drum. This causes the bricks to bump against each other and become "damaged", resulting in chipped corners and edges. At the same time, a mortar paste is sprayed on to the bricks surfaces to acquire a weathered appearance. All well-known brick manufacturers offer a range of tumbled bricks. However, Vandersanden Group has a different approach. We do not tumble, we age. What's in a name, you may ask. But, there is a very important difference.
The advantages of the Nostalgie process
Vandersanden Group has incorporated the automated tumble technique into its manufacturing process. We do not tumble the fired bricks; we use unfired bricks which are ready to go into the kiln. This offers two important advantages: unfired bricks are not as hard as fired bricks. The corners and edges do not get damaged during the tumbling process, they are merely bruised and rounded. Also, the mortar paste is fired onto the brick surface, including the rounded edges, during the subsequent firing process. The result is an aged brick that looks more natural and has a much greater resemblance to a reclaimed brick. This range is called "Nostalgie".
Patented and certified
Vandersanden Group has obtained a patent for this ageing technique. As a result, our innovation is protected and cannot be copied by other manufacturers. For architects and home-owners this means an additional guarantee of quality. As ageing occurs during the manufacturing process, the same quality standards apply to our aged bricks as to all our other products. They are tested in exactly the same way, within the framework of the relevant quality standards, such as BENOR and CE. They have the attractive look of reclaimed bricks plus the guaranteed quality of new bricks. So there are only advantages to these bricks.


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It's a regular weekend sight everywhere around Southern California. Cyclists in colorful jerseys racing up and down the foothills, riding along busy streets and bike paths, circling the Rose Bowl and challenging their abilities with rides in the Angeles and San Bernardino national forests.
Some of the best cyclists in the world will experience some of those same roads starting Friday. That's when the ninth annual Amgen Tour of California enters Southern California for its final three stages in its eight-day tour.
"The sport is growing by leaps and bounds in America," said Texan Lawson Craddock, who is among the tour's leaders. "There are at least 20 grand tour stage winners in this race. It's really strong and it tells you how much people love and think of this sport in America. It's getting a lot more exposure."
The 710.2-mile road race has arguably become the best in the U.S. The famed Giro d'Italia is running concurrently and numerous Tour de France winners, including 2012 champion Bradley Wiggins, multi-Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish and two-time reigning Tour de France sprint champion Peter Sagan have opted to compete in California.
"I've witnessed the development (of the Amgen Tour of California) from a very good start to an awesome event every year so I come back," said German Jens Voigt, 42, who is the oldest rider in the race.
The sixth stage starts in Santa Clarita on Friday with a 94.4-mile race from old town Newhall to Mountain High's 7,200-foot North Resort. The cyclists return to Santa Clarita on Saturday with a Town Center Mall start and 88.7-mile ride over the Angeles National Forest to Pasadena City Hall. It is the sixth time in the last seven years that Santa Clarita has held a stage, and the second consecutive year the city has held two stages in the same year.
The final race of the event, Stage 8, will feature a three-loop 76.1-mile race starting at Townsgate Road in Thousand Oaks and going through the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Santa Clarita stages start at 11:45 a.m. and the Thousand Oaks stage starts at 8:45 a.m. Stages 6 and 7 should finish at about 3:30 p.m. and Stage 8 at noon. There will be festivals and exhibits at both the start and finish lines.
"We're lucky enough to have two stages just like last year," said Russell Sypowicz, an economic development associate for Santa Clarita. "Based on our location, the community's general interest, having it is nothing but a positive experience."
The Pasadena finish will be at City Hall for the first time. Riders will cross the Colorado Street Bridge and have three circuits through Old Pasadena, sometimes known as "Old Town."
"It's going to be a very busy day and obviously warm," Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO Mike Ross said. "Going to Old Pasadena was the whole goal. The idea of bringing it to downtown with the shops and restaurants is exciting."
Before Saturday's race finish, all cyclists can ride, skate or walk on the 2.7-mile circuit course from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Kaiser Permanente Ride, Roll and Stroll.
"One the biggest requests our fans make year after year is the opportunity to ride on the Amgen Tour of California course like the pros," said Kristin Bachochin, the executive director of the tour and the senior vice president of AEG Sports. "This year in Pasadena, they'll get to do just that."
Thousand Oaks City Manager Andrew Powers said that he expects between 20,000 and 25,000 people in the start-finish area on Sunday.
"We think six times around on loops is much more enjoyable for the fans," he said of the stage, which will be broadcast on national TV by NBC. "We have been stressing to get there early and to plan ahead because parking will be at a premium."
Friday's stage will start in Newhall for the first time. It will feature four King of the Mountain races within the stage, Bouquet Canyon to Spunky Canyon and Mount Emma to the mountaintop finish. There will also be a sprint race from Leona Valley to Palmdale. Saturday's stage has sprints in Acton and the Old Town circuit course and King of Mountain races from Millcreek Summit to Upper Big Tujunga Canyon. Sunday's stage has sprints at the start-finish line and King of the Mountain competitions at the Rock Store climb on Mulholland Drive.


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The corridor begins in the Grand Staircase Tower at the fifth floor level. It goes around The Quad and passes the Prefects' bathroom. It leads to the Fifth Floor Hospital Tower Corridor and then to the fifth floor balcony of the Clock Tower[1] The corridor also spans off into other rooms, one of which is the Music Classroom.
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The USD 11 million Oviedo Automatic Parking System solved the severe parking shortage at the expanding Oviedo Shopping Mall in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. Designed by Estaco, a Colombian engineering company dedicated to the design, manufacture, and assembly of metal structures, the unmanned parking facility provided slots for 210 vertically stacked vehicles within an existing concrete building. Earning regulatory approval for the unprecedented design was a major challenge.
Estaco used STAAD.Pro to simulate design scenarios in which the metal building and its electro-mechanical components could be installed without compromising the concrete building's structural integrity. An integrated model of the metal and concrete structures validated the scheme for concrete reinforcement, steel structure erection, and metal-concrete connection. STAAD.Pro produced the models required for the stringent third-party reviews and certifications.
The intelligent parking system allows shoppers to leave their vehicles in compartments that are automatically stacked and stored until their return. The innovative design met expectations for cost, operational speed, and safety. As the first of its kind in Colombia, the system demonstrated world-class engineering using advanced applications such as STAAD.Pro. Estaco subsequently completed five similar projects, creating a new product line for the company.
Estaco used STAAD.Pro to develop the designs for concrete reinforcements, then synchronized the structural analysis with the engineering applications used to develop the designs for the metal systems. Integrating the concrete and metal designs in a single model provided insight into the effects of the constructed building on the existing foundations and columns. The integrated model also facilitated third-party reviews and design validation.
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RAND Aging Studies in the Developing World Series
Investigator(s): RAND Corporation
This series was designed by RAND and the surveys were carried out by RAND in collaboration with others in three developing nations: Guatemala, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The surveys were undertaken to investigate topic areas such as the health of women and children, fertility, family structure, economic status, and community life in these nations. The data were collected at the household, individual, and community level. The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF: ICPSR 2344) was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process. It was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The survey was conducted in 60 communities within the departments (geopolitical units) of Chimaltenango, Suchitepequez, Totonicapan, and Jalapa in Guatemala. The EGSF is the result of a collaboration among three institutions: the Instituto de Nutricion de Centroamerica y Panama (INCAP), RAND Corporation, and Princeton University. It consists of an individual survey and a community-provider survey. The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS: ICPSR 6706), a major survey conducted in Indonesia by the RAND Corporation and Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, was supported with funds from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ford Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO). The IFLS covers a sample of 7,224 households spread across 13 provinces on the islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi, encompassing about 83 percent of the Indonesian population and much of its heterogeneity. In addition, extensive community and facility data are also provided. Data were obtained from the village leaders and heads of the village women's groups in 321 enumeration areas and from communities around 20 schools and health facilities. The survey focuses on broad areas of fertility, family planning, infant and child health and survival, education, migration, and employment, as well as the economic and social functioning of the older population. The Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS) was conducted in 1976-1977 (MFLS-1: ICPSR 6170) and in 1988-1989 (MFLS-2: ICPSR 9805) by the RAND Corporation in collaboration initially with the Department of Statistics of the Government of Malaysia and subsequently with the National Population and Family Development Board (NPFDB) of Malaysia and the Survey Research Malaysia, Sdn. Bhd. It was funded with grants from the United States National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Aging, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Questions were asked to provide data for estimating the magnitude of key economic and biomedical relationships affecting birth spacing, family size, and breastfeeding patterns of families. The goal was to identify factors amenable to public policy influence that directly or indirectly affect fertility outcomes. A total of 1,262 households in 52 communities that were selected to be representative of Peninsular Malaysia were interviewed in 1976 (MFLS-1). MFLS-2 consists of 926 of those MFLS-1 households (the "Panel" sample) and a subset of adult children from those original households (the "Children" sample), as well as new samples of 2,184 women aged 18-49 (the "New" sample), and 1,357 older Malaysians aged 50 and older (the "Senior" sample), drawn from 398 communities representative of Peninsular Malaysia in 1988. The overall purpose of the data collection was to study household behavior in diverse settings during a period of rapid demographic and socioeconomic change.


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When Ernest Burton died in 1925, the trustees recognized that he was the last member of the original generation of faculty members who could serve as chief executive. Looking for a new president outside the University for the first time, the trustees sought someone young and energetic, having solid credentials and commitment to research, but with strong sympathies for students and able to make effective public appearances.
After considering a number of well-known university and college presidents, the trustees found their man a short distance north in Madison, Wisconsin. Charles Max Mason, a mathematical physicist at the University of Wisconsin, had little experience in university administration, but received high praise from his faculty colleagues. He had managed a huge research team during World War I to develop submarine detectors. And, he was a vigorous competitor on the golf course, to the surprise and delight of some of the University's benefactors.
Mason grew up in Madison and attended the University of Wisconsin. He was a champion high-jumper, enjoyed sailing, canoeing, and skating, played bridge and billiards, and later learned to play the violin. In college he took an interest in mathematics, and after teaching high school for a year in Beloit, travelled to Göttingen to study for his doctorate with David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the early twentieth century. When he presented an elegant solution for his dissertation topic in only two pages, Hilbert said it was not sufficient to earn a degree and gave him a more difficult problem. After several months of work, Mason saw the solution in a dream one night and wrote it up when he awoke.
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The Bachelor of Music in Music Composition is a professional degree preparing qualified students for work in the music industry and/or graduate study. The program provides three years of applied lessons in a primary instrument and three years of intensive study in composition, during which students participate in weekly seminars that focus on analysis and the evaluation of undergraduate compositions. The program includes a strong foundation in music theory and music history. Performance of contemporary music is emphasized. The four years of study culminates with a composition recital that presents a multi-movement or large-form composition for an ensemble. Composition majors are also required to perform recitals in their applied area (vocal or instrumental).
Applicants are required to audition for admission into this program.
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Students must interview with the music composition faculty at the end of the first year of music study and maintain a grade of B or better in all music theory and aural skills in order to be admitted to and remain in the composition program. Full acceptance to the program requires a jury before the composition faculty in which works written as part of the second year composition class are presented for consideration.
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Another emerging market bear. GMO's founder Jeremy Grantham has a good track record*. He called the recent crisis correctly in a timely manner. FT reports:
His candidates for potential bubbles are emerging markets and commodities. The former is a no-brainer: "it's correct; they will have better GDP [growth]". He does not think valuations will go as high as in Japan or on internet stocks, but a 50 per cent premium is possible. "Let's say the market at 15 [price/earnings ratio] and these guys at 22.5."
Should investors try to grab a piece of that, or steer clear? Mr Grantham would personally like to join in, "as an individual". But he is not certain it is a good policy. The question is, "if you want to buy bargains, when do you knowingly overpay a bit, because you see a queue of people outside ready to buy?
"We haven't settled that internally. We like the idea of exclusively playing the long-term winning bets. Why mess around with the secondary considerations?"
The question is even harder to answer with regard to commodities. The story here is "we're running out of everything" but it is a long-run story beyond the time horizon of most clients. Investors can probably make money, "but the tricky problem is overpaying upfront. The price has shifted.Those with a genuine 10-20-year horizon "should own people who own the resources", because there is no money in processing, only in ownership.
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His GMO forecasts rank asset classes in order of expected real return, and Mr Grantham is particularly pleased with the 10-year forecast ending December 2009.
This had US Reits (real estate investment trusts) at the top of the list followed by emerging market equities, and the S&P 500 at the bottom in 11th place. In the event, emerging market equities did best, returning 8.1 per cent a year after inflation (the forecast was 7.8 per cent), Reits were third with 7.4 per cent (10.0 per cent), and the S&P was last with -3.5 per cent (-1.9 per cent). The ranking of the assets in between was almost spot on. The probability of getting that right by chance was 1 in 550,000, says Mr Grantham.


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Young Money's Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Tyga got together to film the visuals for "Senile".
Young Money just released their new project, Rise Of An Empire this week, and it's set up to do decent numbers. While the album generally doesn't feature too many appearances from the label's biggest artists, the lead single, "Senile" finds Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Tyga coming together.
The track is getting the visual treatment as well, as evidenced by the respective Instagrams of the rappers involved. The photos find Lil Wayne posing for a mock-up of an unlikely family portrait, while Nicki Minaj rocks a leather Moschino get-up.
"@moschino Fresh off the runway with custom made panties to fit my big fat ego…. lol," Nicki wrote on her Instagram.
Birdman, Euro and Mack Maine were also at the shoot. Check out the photos in the gallery above, and look out for the video in the near future.
Update: Nicki has posted some new photos on her Instagram from the shoot, which feature the rapper dressed up in full "Chola" gear. Look out for the video very soon.


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Bruce Cassidy Sr. says he is selling his 17,000-square-foot home there because it doesn't have enough room for his show dogs
The Concession may be in rebound mode, but the tony golf course's majority owner may not be there to see it.
Bruce Cassidy Sr. says the prospective sale of his mansion there is the result of his life — and not the slow-selling community — going to the dogs.
Seems that Cassidy's wife, Cindy, would rather live in Lakewood Ranch's Polo Club, because the couple's home there on 14 acres provides space aplenty for her Weimaraner show dogs.
Cassidy's Concession home measures 17,000 square feet — not including another 12,000-square-foot screened plaza. The 8499 Lindrick Lane property is being listed for sale at $16.5 million by Stacy Haas-Goodwin, of Coldwell Banker.
As for the dogs, the Cassidys are serious about them. This year, one of the couple's dogs, Jimmie, was the top male Weimaraner at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual dog show.
"He has won just about everything there is" on the dog-show circuit, Bruce Cassidy says.
But dogs need space to run, and at The Polo Club, the Cassidys have two fenced acres just for that purpose. While the dogs had an abundant kennel in their Concession home, the yard is much smaller.
"We fell in love with the 14 acres and wide-open spaces," said Bruce Cassidy.
Cassidy insists his move will not affect operations at the Concession golf club, whose course was designed by legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus.
Cassidy has invested considerable money recently, in fact, to make the course more forgiving for average players, while continuing to punish scratch golfers for hitting the ball where they shouldn't.
"I have a passion for The Concession, especially the golf club," said Cassidy, whose son, Bruce Jr., is its general manager.
Cassidy, an avid golfer and former owner of an Ohio mining company, purchased a majority interest in the golf course from developer Kevin Daves in October 2009.
"The house in Concession was a dream house," said Cassidy. "We built the house to our specs, so it was a tough decision; we love the place out there. But for what my wife is into . . . we decided to come back to the house at the Polo Club."


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CHARLES PLYMELL was born in a converted chicken coop on the high plains of Finney County, Kansas in 1935, during one of the blackest dust storms of that period. His father was a cowboy born in the Oklahoma Territory; his mother of Plains Indian descent. He dropped out of high school after 9th grade and drifted through most all of the western states, picking up odd jobs along the way. Heavily steeped in jazz, race music, and country, he ran the "Benzedrine Highway" between Los Angeles and Kansas City during the so-called hipster years that spawned the beat generation.
In 1963, he located to San Francisco, where he roomed with Allen Ginsburg and Neal Cassady, writing, making films, and creating collages. He had a profound impact on underground comix when he published Zap Comix in 1969, his own printing press. Although he is linked to comic artists R. Crumb and S. Clay Wilson, and to beat poets including Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, his own work is unaffected by that of his peers. Experiencing Plymell means taking a wild ride through his personal landscape, dredged in rhythm n' blues, hillbilly holler, and the lonesome wail of the real America.
Author, artist, poet, publisher, and ultimate motorhead, Plymell has forged a path without giving up an iota of his attitude, creed, or spirit. He simply defies gravity.
Plymell opposes the National Endowment for the Arts—he sees it as a politicized, unjust system feeding on its own mediocrity and self-contradiction. He has never received any funding from any federal, state, or academic agency to pursue his creativity-- this, despite the fact that he has engineered a poetic attitude that has never been duplicated.
Now, for the first time ever, Kicks Books delivers a select stash of Plymell's earliest hi-octane works in a truly hip "hip pocket paperback". Catch white-line fever on the BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY with the irresistible, unstoppable, incredible -- Charles Plymell.
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text: In an effort to establish a leading position in the emerging enterprise Windows NT and Windows 2000 (Win2K) data center market, IBM announced today its completion of a merger agreement to purchase Sequent Computer Systems, a 2500-person company in Beaverton, Oregon. Sequent is a leader in large-scale NT and heterogeneous NT/UNIX multiprocessor system deployments worldwide. IBM offered $18 per share of Sequent common stock, for a total value of $810 million. Sequent shareholders will vote on this offer later this week. If the shareholders approve this offer, regulators will have 60 to 90 days to give their approval. Bob Stephenson, IBM senior vice president and group executive, IBM Server Group, said, "Sequent brings some unique skills to enterprise-class computing. Sequent is a leader in Windows NT and UNIX interoperability. NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) will be a defining technology for early twenty-first century UNIX and NT servers. When we talk to our enterprise customers, they tell us that managing heterogeneous operating systems is one of their enterprise's most pressing issues." "Increasingly, customers want servers that can scale quickly to manage unpredictable workloads or spikes in online traffic. NUMA is an elegant solution, combining industry-leading scalability and excellent manageability," Stephenson said. "IBM sees this purchase as complementary to our Netfinity and RS/6000 offerings. With this merger, we will offer our customers the most complete and comprehensive server product line available, offering everything from PC-based servers through supercomputers." IBM and Sequent became technology partners a few years ago when the two companies were founding members of Project Monterey. Project Monterey is an IBM-led initiative to build an architecture that spans Intel and PowerPC platforms and creates a high-volume, enterprise-ready commercial UNIX OS. Both IBM and Sequent were developing NUMA technology separately to support this initiative. Sequent's NUMA technologies are unique. Using NUMA, Sequent systems can run up to 64 Intel processors in one system. Sequent plans to expand this number to 256 processors in the near future. Sequent customers can even run NT on one set of processors and run UNIX on the other processors in the same Sequent system and manage both OSs from a central location. Many of the world's largest e-business-related applications, databases, data warehouses, application environments, and business intelligence applications run on Sequent servers often running Oracle as software. By acquiring Sequent, IBM can more effectively position its DB2 product in this market. After leaving Intel 16 years ago to form Sequent, Casey Powell, chairman and CEO of Sequent, was asked about the timing of the IBM merger considering the emerging NT and UNIX data center market that Sequent targets. Powell said, "This merger addresses the two pressing needs that Sequent has: size and software availability. It will give us reach through the IBM sales force. Sequent has a window of opportunity with NUMA-Q. This merger helps us leverage that opportunity. We find that our technologies are very complementary; rarely do we compete with IBM. We have very similar cultures, common competitive goals, and we both have the same viewpoint of the data center." Sequent pioneered the first large-scale SMP computers, shipping the first systems in January 1984 using commodity processors operating within one OS image. Sequent servers have become a favorite with data centers and large enterprise deployments because they don't force the customer to decide whether to run NT or UNIX alone, or force the customer to budget hardware purchases for each OS. As organizational needs change, Sequent's systems can accommodate migrating processor activity from one OS to another, and often back again. Sequent's product offerings include the NUMACenter for UNIX and NT, which uses Pentium Xeon processors. The hardware is a managed environment for middleware, databases, backup, and other management tools. The system uses the NUMA-Q architecture and Advanced Detection Availability Manager (ADAM), and Sequent often sells the system bundled with software and hardware components from Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, CLARiiON, and Computer Associates. Sequent also sells the NUMA-Q 1000 (for UNIX and NT) as a midrange data center server and the NTX 2000 (for NT) with up to eight Pentium Pro processors. IBM's sales force will directly sell Sequent's servers. Sequent also has a solutions business, adding software and services to its hardware products. Sequent sells into several markets, including customer relationship management, call centers, decision support/data warehousing, and enterprise resource planning. The company has a related professional services and customer services business. Clearly Sequent will leverage IBM's existing services group, IBM Global Services, which at $40 billion is the largest computer services organization in the world--a benefit that should provide a big boost for Sequent servers in the developing data center marketplace.


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- TED now has an iPhone app that's similar to its iPad application. Now while you're mobile, you can request talks by subject or by length, listen to "TED radio" in a continual stream of talks, share talks with your social media pals, and more. Get the app here.
- TEDxWomen took place December 1 and is already posting videos. It's a treasure trove of eloquent women speakers and eloquent speakers about women's issues. You've got to love Gloria Steinem's line: "I was in a taxi the other day and I didn't have my iPhone so I tried thinking instead." She's just one of an impressive lineup of speakers from this daylong event.
- The first wave of TEDMED videos from the 2010 conference are online, talking about big challenges and new findings in health and medicine. I was fortunate to attend this TEDMED, and am happy to share one of my favorite talks, by Pfizer Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Freda Lewis-Hall. She proposes getting beyond your typical networks to build networks for meta-collaboration, and at about the 15:46 mark, reveals one of her personal motivations in improving health care: Her grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's. In a brilliant moment of audience engagement, she asks the audience in one third of the room to raise their hands to show the proportion of the population that will eventually suffer from age-related dementia--then tells the other two-thirds of the audience that they represent the people who'll be taking care of them. Watch the talk in the video below:
Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Apps and video updates from TED, TEDxWomen and TEDMED
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Today (5 April), I was asked by a colleague:
The "climategate" emails and the recent responses to them have been generating a lot of discussion on the environmental anthropology listserve. ... Do you have any thoughts on this ... - who can speak for or against the science? Who is legitimate?
My first reaction to this is that anyone can speak for or against the science - it's a free country. But not all opinions are equal! I've already posted a blog about "climategate" - see here for my take. I see no reason to discredit the IPCC consensus because a few participants engaged in some questionable behavior. With the microscope of media scrutiny comes the very real risk of losing sight of the forest in focusing on only a few trees within that forest.
But considering the issue from a broader perspective, I offer the following thoughts:
In any specialized subdomain within the broad spectrum of meteorologists (a category within which I would put climatologists), the number of folks whose work is within that subdomain can vary considerably, depending on the topic. Given the obvious importance of global climate change and its funding situation over the past 15 years or so, I suspect there's a fairly large number of folks who would be considered the global climate change science "illuminati" regarding the topic. At least large in comparison to the topics in which I specialize.
People in research tend to migrate toward where the money is allocated. Those who migrate into a subdomain from somewhere else might be considered "carpetbaggers" by the illuminati. This may be unfairly derogatory - it's quite possible that someone coming in from outside eventually can make important contributions, despite having not started within the field. However, I know of no one who has become rich by being a carpetbagger in some research subdomain. It's difficult to become rich via science research grants, which typically earmark most of the funds for "overhead" paid to the research institution housing the researcher(s), supporting students, buying necessary research tools, travel support, page charges for publications, etc. And scientist-invesigator salaries are determined by the housing institution. Research grants mostly are not a big bag of money placed in the hands of a researcher without any strings; no-strings cash awards are prizes (e.g., the Nobel prize) for important research accomplishments, not grants for work yet to be done.
I know a few of the global climate change science illuminati - they include Drs. David Karoly and Susan Solomon. Because I know these people, it is inconceivable to me that they would have been participants in some sort of cabal designed to line their pockets with gold and/or to deceive the public into supporting political actions based on that science that are not in the public interest.
I also know several folks who would not be considered as members of the global climate change science illuminati, but are contributing via their expertise in other specialties that are relevant to the general topic of global (and regional) climate change - such as severe storms, tropical cyclones, etc. In fact, some of them are contributors to the development of the IPCC consensus but would not be considered specialists in global climate change science, per se. They likely work with those who are amongst the illuminati, naturally, and so might be privy to more information than those of us who are directly working the global climate change specialists. Our own Dr. Harold Brooks falls within this group. To suggest that he is becoming rich or seeking to gain power for some evil purpose is preposterous in the extreme!!
The question is not one of black-and-white legitimacy, although it's pretty evident to me that many of the more vocal (in public) "deniers" have at most only a limited basis for claiming any credibility in the topic. For example, Dr. Bill Gray, a notable denier, is a tropical cyclone specialist. His opinion is roughly comparable to mine: not a specialist in global climate change, but a respected contributor in a domain that is at least connected with global climate change.
It's both puzzling and disturbing to me that Dr. Gray would choose to seek to discredit the work and reputations of those who are specialists in global climate change. Frankly, I see his expressed views as bordering on becoming unethical, in part because he has chosen to carry on his criticisms via the media, and because he questions their motives for supporting the IPCC consensus. To suggest that the scientists associated with the IPCC reports are misrepresenting the science for personal gain or to foster some political agenda is getting uncomfortably close to slander/libel, unless it can be proven (presumably in a court of law) that an individual engaged in a conspiracy to defraud or mislead the public, or misspent public funds. Dr. Gray has a professional obligation to avoid seeking to discredit his colleagues in the way he has been doing so, in my opinion. It's one thing for some media demagogue to engage in such things - it's quite another for a science professional to do so, in the absence of compelling evidence for misconduct.
I note that although I'm questioning the legitimacy of Dr. Gray's methods via a public medium, I have not impugned his motives (which are unknown to me), nor am I suggesting that he actually has engaged in slander/libel. I'm simply expressing my concern about the actions of a respected colleague, in the context of discussing what is and what is not appropriate for a science professional to do.
The public side of this debate obviously is horribly polarized, with posturing and propaganda on both sides, unfortunately. The debates of substance are being carried on at scientific conferences, workshops, and in the refereed journals, away from the public eye and typically opaque to the media. What goes on that is visible to the public is simply a grotesque caricature of the real scientific process, for the most part. Scientists tend not to be very good at PR because they're too busy doing science. This is an unfortunate by-product of being passionate about something - you tend to neglect other things. Those participating in the scientific process are those who have a legitimate claim to having their statements be regarded as most substantial.
For instance, I believe that my opinions on this matter have considerably less substance than those of the global climate change illuminati, but considerably more substance than those of media demagogues, the general public, and non-meteorologists. I know a thing or two about atmospheric physics and have had at least some contact with real global climate change scientists, who have enlightened me regarding some parts of the argument. I have no logical claim to seek to overthrow the IPCC consensus until such time as I become a participant in the process and have established my credibility in that domain, via the process of publishing research results in refereed journals. Since that's not likely to happen, I will defer to the experts. I believe most of the critics of global climate change science should do the same.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Climategate ... an update
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A decade-long effort to clean up a 206-year-old copper mine in the Vermont town of Strafford is nearing an end and community members now have to decide what to do with the area that was once the Elizabeth Mine.
Where once there was an area colored a sickly orange, there is now a grassy expanse.
The Environmental Protection Agency's Ed Hathaway, who has overseen the Superfund cleanup of the property, says workers have finished sealing 45-acres of metallic tailings beneath a plastic cap that's since been covered with topsoil.
The Valley News reports the plastic prevents water and oxygen from reaching the metals. Federal officials will continue to monitor the site for several more years. After that, the state will assume responsibility.


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Liberty News
Intense training pays off for skiers, snowboarders in historic competition
Liberty University's Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre made its mark in the ski and snowboard world on Saturday, Dec. 3 when it hosted Trails 2 Rails, the first event of its kind to take people who had never been on a slope before and turn them into competitive skiers and snowboarders.
"It's the first time it's ever been done in ski and snowboard history, in the country or even in the world, that we're aware of," said Drew Sherwood, manager of Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre, the university's year-round ski slope that is the only facility in North America made of Snowflex, a synthetic material that simulates the effects of snow.
More than 400 students tried out for Trails 2 Rails at the beginning of the semester and were narrowed down to 18 participants. They trained for two months – three days a week – with a certified instructor.
"In just two months, going from never skiing or snowboarding to performing in a contest is unheard of," Sherwood said. "Just to see the progression shows how well Snowflex really works and how blessed we are as a university to have this event in our backyard."
|The DeMoss Rail Jam and Trails 2 Rails competition was held Saturday, Dec. 3 at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre.
He said Snowflex allows skiers and snowboarders to progress twice as fast as they would at other ski resorts.
"Our facility offers consistent run. It never changes with snow or icy surfaces."
Jeremy Ganse, a freshman exercise science major, was the winner of the Trails 2 Rails competition, and walked away with $800 worth of gear and a love for the sport of snowboarding.
"It's a lot of fun being able to snowboard. … You can have the opportunity to ride for free because you're a student here, and just get really good," said Ganse, who added he also practiced on his own two hours every day. "… I'm going to keep riding. I'm going to try jumps now instead of rails. I can't wait."
Freshman Tyler Knopp said the experience was worthwhile.
"Not knowing how to do anything (when trying out) and then being in such a big competition like this … was very nerve-wracking … but I learned to love it, and I wouldn't want to do anything else."
Sherwood said the event was so successful, they will offer it again next semester with all new participants and a focus on jumps. They are also hoping to offer a similar experience for area high school students.
Trails 2 Rails was followed by the second annual DeMoss Rail Jam, featuring expert skiers and snowboarders competing for cash and prizes. (Last year, snow was brought in to the steps of the Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center for the competition, but due to warm weather this year, the event was moved to the Snowflex Centre.)
More than 40 competitors showed off their best tricks, including members of Liberty's Freestyle Team and riders from Lynchburg College, Roanoke College and Virginia Tech.
The next competition at the Snowflex Centre will be the College Freestyle Series on Feb. 4, 2012.
Trails 2 Rails Results
Winner – Jeremy Ganse
Top Female – Rachel Wensley
DeMoss Rail Jam Results
1st Zach Huff (Liberty student)
2nd Austin Leonard (Boone, N.C.)
3rd Luke Fosse (Lynchburg)
1st Ross Rowan (Boone, N.C.)
2nd Matt Rogers (member of Liberty's Freestyle Team)
3rd Tanner Sinclair (Boone, N.C.)


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The Value of Coastal Ecosystemsby -
The sandy beaches, rocky shorelines, water, and waves of coastal areas are perhaps most readily associated with recreation and natural beauty. Coastal ecosystems, however, have an economic value beyond their aesthetic benefit, supporting human lives and livelihoods through the provision of food and materials, nutrient cycling, waste processing, and other essential goods and services.
By one estimation, the combined global value of goods and services from coastal ecosystems is over US$12 trillion annually (1997 dollars; Costanza et al., 1997)--a figure larger than the United States' Gross Domestic Product in 2004. Yet many of these services are not explicitly priced in world markets, leaving governments, businesses, and individuals with few incentives to maintain them.
Ecosystem Services and The Relative Contributions of Different Coastal System Subtypes.
Larger circles represent a higher relative magnitude.
Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
The current state of coastal ecosystems was thoroughly documented in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a five-year study involving more than 1,300 experts in 95 countries. The study identified coastal ecosystems as "among the most productive yet highly threatened systems in the world" (MA, Coastal Systems). Population growth and technological advances have fueled an unprecedented and unsustainable exploitation of coastal resources in the past century. The MA revealed dramatic declines in the overall health of many different types of coastal ecosystems: coral reefs, mangroves, and estuaries (all discussed below) as well as marshes, dunes, deltas, seagrass beds, and kelp forests.


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While in D.C., we went to the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday afternoon. I hadn't been there since singing with my choir from St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover, NH, at the bishop's invitation, on New Hampshire Day at least ten years ago -- and a memorable experience that was!
This time we arrived at about 3:30 p.m., before the 4:00 service of Evensong. And just as happens in the Montreal cathedral where I now sing, the choir of Men and Trebles (boys, in this case) was finishing their rehearsal as we walked up the long aisle of the nave.
While my friends looked around, I went up into the side chapel where the choir members were putting on their white surplices and waiting until it was time to begin the processional. I went up to one friendly-looking fellow and asked some questions about their schedule, and very soon we were deep into a happy conversation about lifelong choir singing, liturgical repertoire, Benjamin Britten, and the differences and similarities between the musical life of our two cathedrals.
Then I saw my friends starting to come up the chancel steps into the choir loft and realized we were going to be able to sit in the stalls: a treat that sometimes happens in big cathedrals. As it turned out, I ended up right next to the choir, facing the conductor, and across from the organ, so I could hear the performance and watch the director almost as if I were singing myself. Some of the young boys had absolutely beautiful, clear voices, and the men were professional and supportive, singing the tenor and bass parts. It was extremely interesting to watch and listen to another top-flight choir in action -- and, if I can be permitted a little bit of self-praise, it made me realize how very good our choir and our director really are.
There was netting above us throughout the space; we learned that this was a precautionary measureto catch any loose mortar, as restoration work proceeds on the damage caused by the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck the Washington area on August 23, 2011. The cathedral sustained quite a bit of damage but has been declared structurally sound.
After the service, which filled me with happiness and peace after a very busy weekend (that's what can happen when you aren't performing!) I visited some of the other side chapels, and took some photographs of favorite windows. Aren't they gorgeous?
All the windows in the cathedral are modern, and they are just as beautiful to me as the stained glass of Chartres or Notre Dame. The cathedral "is a privately-owned and operated non-profit organization that receives no federal or national church funding," and while it is staffed by Episcopal Church clergy and follows Episcopal/Anglican liturgical tradition, it is ecumenical in spirit. They try hard to make everyone feel welcome, and the architecture, carvings, windows, ironwork, art, and gardens -- many of which commemorate history and people from our own times -- are all well worth seeing.
Earlier that same day, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, there had been a Blessing of the Animals. In this press photo, Rev. Baylor blesses a pet mouse:
The vision statement of the cathedral is this:
The National Cathedral will be a catalyst for spiritual harmony in our nation, renewal in the churches, reconciliation among faiths, and compassion in our world.


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Leave to the Brits to create essential gear for any activity. Leave it to the Italians to recognize its essential beauty and wear it as a style statement. It was the former who created the business uniform, the latter who pronounced it cool. Now, the famous Italian fashion sense is embracing the British biker jacket -- specifically the highly technical jackets made by the venerable firm of Belstaff, which has been producing sporting clothes from leather and oilskins (and now high-tech fabrics) since 1924.
It's not an anomaly that the cool set should be in motorcycle jackets. The curiosity is that the jackets of choice are so purpose-built for sport, instead of playing up the fear factor. These aren't the young-tough-black-leather-jackets-with-an-eagle-back that starred in so many tawdry American biker movies of the '50s and '60s. Young Italians are showing up at Bellini bars wearing jackets meant for track racers and mud bike riders. It's as if they'd just come off a hard day of two-wheel competition or a ride through river rapids, instead of a Hell's Angels run on a hapless remote town. But, of course, they've done neither.
The Belstaff jacket of choice is the Trialmaster ($249.95), long on pockets, flaps, zippers, closures and padding, but short on the boisterous color adornments that inform most of its other jackets. It's not a jacket for the portly. Trim-cut and padded for protection against a spill on asphalt, it's perfect to accentuate the slight Tuscan build. Italians wear it in leather, but it's presently available here only in a high-tech nylon. (According to Belstaff North America, the demand for the leather model may soon entice the company to offer it in the States.)
Fashion aside, Belstaff is known to the true motorcycle set in the United States for its preeminent function. The company also makes boots, gloves, pants and luggage for biking. Some come in camouflage and in Kevlar. Now that's serious.
But as any Italian will point out: it's also very cool.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A new charge has been added against a man awaiting a murder trial in the killing of a Ponte Vedra Beach woman in 2010.
Joseph Roberts is accused of killing 45-year-old Brittany Tavar (pictured below).
The new charge against him stems from an incident in September in which deputies said he assaulted fellow St. Johns County jail inmate Richard Edsall, who apparently had become a witness in the case.
Roberts was arrested in Seattle three months after Tavar's killing. He confessed to beating Tavar with a hammer and stabbing her, deputies said.
Roberts, a transient who had been living with Tavar, had made a DVD for her to use in a court case in which she was involved, an ongoing dispute with a neighbor.
Tavar and Roberts got into a fight over the DVD, and he killed her, deputies said.
Investigators found Tavar's body after they said Roberts confessed to killing her.


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Oracle Mobile Cloud Service starts with a premise: You probably don't want the hotshot mobile developers you hired to spend a ton of time worrying about back-end systems.
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So Oracle Mobile Cloud Service lets your IT team bring together the things mobile developers need from your enterprise architecture, like data sources and system integrations, and makes sure they are "presented to mobile developers in a way that makes sense to them," said Kaj van de Loo, Oracle vice president of development, in a recent webcast.
Meanwhile, said van de Loo, enterprise architects use the same platform to ensure the mobile application is part of the overall enterprise IT strategy and not another one-off, ad hoc mobile app.
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is a single platform that enables IT managers, business leaders, and mobile developers to work together to plan, build, and fine-tune the mobile app.
Here's how it works: When a business unit requests a new mobile app, IT managers use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service to give mobile developers easy access to services like user management, offline data, push notification, and storage. "Everything they think the developer needs to build their client app is in one place," said van de Loo. These services are presented as application programming interfaces (APIs), which are very familiar to mobile developers.
This is a very powerful concept—that the mobile developer does not need to go on a scavenger hunt around the enterprise to figure out where to get data and other resources. It's all in one place.
—Oracle Vice President Kaj van de Loo
Mobile developers can explore a catalog of APIs that have been prepared for them by IT managers. If the developers don't see what they need, they can sketch out what they want. Oracle Mobile Cloud Service produces a mock API so the developer can continue working while the enterprise developers use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service to view specifications and build out new back-end connectors.
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service also gives mobile developers easy access to data storage that's been secured and segmented. "This is a very powerful concept—that the mobile developer does not need to go on a scavenger hunt around the enterprise to figure out where to get data and other resources," van de Loo said. "It's all in one place. And managed centrally."
Choices for client-side technologies, which run on smartphones, tablets, watches, and other devices, are left squarely up to the mobile developer, said van de Loo. They can use Oracle's own Mobile Application Framework, or any other client development tools, native or cross-platform, such as Xamarin for C# developers."
On the enterprise side, Oracle Mobile Cloud Service provides a platform that lets enterprise architects, service developers, and back-end developers collect and format information from their vast enterprise infrastructure and present it to mobile developers. "The enterprise developers can secure [the services they share with mobile developers], they can make sure that everything performs and scales as needed for a true enterprise mobile solution," said van de Loo.
Once customers or employees are using the app in the real world, enterprise developers can continue to fine-tune it by monitoring API calls, response times, and other performance metrics. "With the short lifecycle of mobile apps," said van de Loo, "these analytics give you the exact information you need to design the next iteration."
Finally, for business unit leaders, who are probably paying for all this mobile development, Oracle Mobile Cloud Service lets them see when and how people are using their application. "How many users have signed up this week? How many are active? Where are they from?" said van de Loo. "Oracle Mobile Cloud Service helps business users drill down and analyze usage data."
What's unique about Mobile Cloud Service, said van de Loo, is that it provides complete lifecycle management of the mobile app and "lets mobile developers be mobile developers," while it also caters to enterprise developers so "they can implement a mobile strategy and make sure everything is secure, everything scales."
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