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Tracey Emin says she is "thrilled" after being appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy.
The artist is perhaps best known for her installations – an unmade bed, or slogans spelled in neon lights – but has won praise for her line drawings.
Among them is her recent poster for the 2012 Paralympics, which depicts two small birds appearing to kiss.
"I'm really excited to be teaching again after so many years," said the 48-year-old in a statement.
"I hope that I can add something constructive to the Royal Academy Schools."
Emin's appointment was approved last week at a meeting of the Academy's General Assembly.
At the same time, Fiona Rae was appointed Professor of Painting and Richard Wilson was made Professor of Sculpture.
Emin and Rae are the first female professors in the history of the Academy, which was founded through a personal act of King George III in 1768.
Rae told the BBC that the institution had made a "huge leap forward from the 18th century to the 21st"
She said last week's meeting had been a one of the "most momentous events in the history of the Academy", adding that she was "totally thrilled" by both her and Emin's appointments.
They follow the election of Eileen Cooper as the head of the Royal Academy schools, a position known as Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Rae told the BBC that the members of the Academy had voted to update its laws, removing any gender bias.
'Bad hangover'
Emin works in a number of media, including needlework, watercolours, sculpture, film-making, animation and installations.
Figurative painter Diana Armfield told The Times newspaper she had seen what "I suppose are drawings" by Emin, but that she "wouldn't have thought that her talents were that way".
Reviewing her retrospective earlier this year, the Telegraph's chief art critic Richard Dormant wrote: "she can draw like an angel, albeit one with a bad hangover."
But Eliza Bonham Carter, head of the Royal Academy Schools, said Emin's "spontaneous" style was "often wrongly associated with something that is untrained".
"Her drawings are quite informal in the sense that they are about the everyday," she told the BBC.
"There's quite a beautiful use of mark, but there's not a fully worked-up, hatched, shaded, traditional objective drawing."
Emin was born in London her father Turkish Cypriot but raised in the seaside town of Margate. She earned a master's degree at the Royal College of Art and shot to fame in the 1990s as one of the leading members of the Young British Artists movement.
She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1997 with one of her best-known works, a tent embroidered with the name of Everyone I Have Slept With 1963-1995 (there were 102 names in total).
Emin became a Turner nominee in 1999, for the controversial My Bed installation, and has been seen around the world.
The artist's teaching appointment marks the culmination of a successful year.
She held a full-scale retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, opened the Turner Contemporary Gallery in her home town, and installed one of her neon signs in 10 Downing Street.


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Kendrys Morales pinch-hits for Raul Ibanez and drives in go-ahead run to back eight strong innings from Felix Hernandez. Jesus Montero also hits a two-run home run.
There's something about Felix Hernandez on the mound that brings out the best in the bat of the guy catching him.
About the only wood Jesus Montero had gotten on anything lately was the dugout bench on his backside, having sat multiple games after compiling just a .208 batting average. That was before his two-run homer in the sixth inning of a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night helped turn the tide for a Mariners team desperately seeking a clutch victory.
After stranding 13 runners in a loss Friday, then piling them up the first five innings of this one, Montero's blast to left off Joe Blanton swung the momentum of another game in which the Mariners seemed headed to defeat. An inning later, manager Eric Wedge pinch-hit for Raul Ibanez, and Kendrys Morales delivered the run-scoring single for his team's second win in three tries this series.
"I mean, that's what I wanted," Montero said. "I wanted Felix to win. I want the team to win. I don't want us to be like you're saying — we've had a hard time scoring runs. But I gave him a little help."
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Hernandez needed at least some help, despite dominating the Angels for most of his eight innings of five-hit ball while striking out seven. Chris Iannetta hit a solo homer off Hernandez in the third inning, and then the Angels added an unearned run that frame after a Montero throwing error to take a 2-0 lead.
But then, in the third, Hernandez fielded a squeeze bunt by Brendan Harris and flipped to Montero at the plate in time to nab the burly Mark Trumbo barreling in on the catcher. Hernandez went on to retire 14 in a row, getting through eight frames on just 95 pitches before Tom Wilhelmsen closed out a one-hit ninth.
Montero said he could sense the momentum change in the home dugout after his blast, a line drive that just cleared the wall. The Mariners had stranded eight runners the first five innings on the heels of Friday's debacle in which the team went 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position.
They had two on with none out in the first and the bases loaded with one out in the fifth only to come away empty in front of the 31,901 — bolstered in part by a bat giveaway to young fans. But then, after Ibanez drew a walk to put the leadoff runner on for the fourth time in six innings, Montero finally delivered.
"I was like 'Let's go! Let's go! We've got to win this,' " Montero said of his arrival back in the dugout after rounding the bases. "And we finally did it. We finally won. I feel happy because Felix won and we were down … we were like 'Give us some runs. Let's do something different.' Then, I hit the homer. I started to get the guys going and we finally won."
Wedge had stuck with Ibanez in some key at-bats this season with a left-hander on the mound only to see him strike out. But he opted to pinch-hit for him with Morales — who had gotten a night's rest — against Angels left-handed reliever Michael Roth in the seventh.
Asked about the different strategy this time, Wedge quipped: "It was a matter of having Kendrys Morales on the bench."
After that drew some brief laughter by reporters, a more serious Wedge knew he wanted to use the switch-hitting Morales right there rather than keep him for later. Had he gone to right-handed bat Jason Bay, he was worried the Angels would counter with a right-handed reliever.
"I liked the way our guys competed," Wedge said. "We still need to do a better job of stringing hits together and putting innings together."
That didn't happen until Montero came through. Montero's only other home run this season came in Hernandez's prior start.
"He came up big," Hernandez said. "It will give him more confidence to go out there and make good swings. And then Morales came up big, got a big hit."
Hernandez admitted he was more tired than usual after eight innings despite the modest pitch count. The Angels have had his number, especially at Safeco Field, where he was just 4-7 against them with a 5.02 earned-run average in 15 career starts.
Wilhelmsen gave up a one-out single to Josh Hamilton, but then retired the side with the tying run on second to seal a needed win for a club that's played much better this series than on its recent 1-5 trip.
"We've got to start somewhere," Wilhelmsen said. "And there's no better time than the present. So, hopefully, we can keep going, keep building on it. We know what we have here. We know what we're capable of. It's just a matter of putting all of those pieces together with a little help and the The King on the mound."
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The Daily Five: Best Rental Games of 2013
It feels like a sentiment that's been echoed the last few years or so, but 2013 has been a banner year for video games. Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite, and The Last of Us are all certified club bangers, and we're barely halfway through the month of July. That's crazy.
Much of the credit still goes to the so-called "lesser" games that make up the majority of what's released, because let's face facts: Not every game can be The Last of Us, but many still deserved to be played. Whether you'd pay full price on launch day for them…well, that's another story entirely.
So what do you do when there's a game that you want to play, but don't think it quite justifies forking over dozens of your hard-earned dollars? You rent or borrow it, as you would with these five games.
Remember Me
While it was a treat from an audio/visual standpoint, the inconsistent combat and iffy story led to a mixed reception for Remember Me. I happened to enjoy it quite a bit, but plenty were cold on it. I stand by my statement that it certainly deserves a look, but plunking down sixty bucks for a game this divisive is risky.
Gears of War: Judgment
Prequels in any medium are often seen with a bit of pessimism, but they're not all bad — remember X-Men Origins: Wolverine? Er, the game, not the movie.
With People Can Fly handling development over Epic Games on Gears of War: Judgment, this prequel gets an arcade feel with the way that chapters are divvied up, as well as bringing in a scoring aspect familiar to those that played the studio's excellent Bulletstorm. It's not better than any of the mainline trilogy, but worth a weekend romp with your friends.
With the developers that High Moon Studios tasked with making Deadpool being laid off right after the game was finished — and months ahead of its release — people were unsure if the game was up to snuff. Deadpool fans will find Nolan North's rendition of the character to be great, but its short length and formulaic combat make it a hard sell at full price. And if you happen to hate Deadpool as a character, than this won't change your mind.
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Burma has the dubious distinction of playing host to the world's longest-running civil war – it began with independence in 1948 and still goes on – and its most durable military dictatorship. If not for North Korea, Burma might also claim top honors in two other categories, most isolated and most xenophobic, but it could still win the prize for most misunderstood.
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Big Brother 6 HouseGuests Revealed
June 29, 2005 08:01 PM by Joe Blackmon
CBS announced today the identities of the 14 houseguests who will compete in Big Brother 6, as well as the new creative twist that will play out during the summer broadcasts. Big Brother 6 is being billed as the Summer of Secrets. There are secrets in the house, secrets in the game, and this summer — every houseguest has a secret.
For the first time, every houseguest will be entering the house and playing the game with a secret partner — someone they know from the outside world. Friends, co-workers and significant others will play the Big Brother game as secret duos. The twist is that each secret team believes that they are the only pair in the house (pairings will be revealed to TV viewers during the first live broadcast on July 14).
Each twosome knows that if they can keep their secret and end up being the last two people in the house, the winner will win $1,000,000, the biggest cash prize in Big Brother history, with the second place finisher winning $250,000. If a twosome does not make it to the final two, the winner will win $500,000.
"Big Brother" follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day. One by one, the houseguests will vote each other out of the house. At the end of three months, the last remaining houseguest will receive the grand prize.
This season, houseguests will move into a brand-new two-story home, including a built-in pool and Jacuzzi in the backyard. Like the contestants that will inhabit it, the new house is also full of secrets and surprises that will be unveiled throughout the summer.
BIG BROTHER 6 debuts on Thursday, July 7 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER 6 will be broadcast each week on Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) and Saturdays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). The Thursday broadcast, hosted by Julie Chen, will feature the live eviction of one of the houseguests.
Following are the 14 houseguests, who will compete in BIG BROTHER 6:
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Las Vegas, NV
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Beau Beasley, 25
Pembroke Pines, FL
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Ivette Corredero, 25
Miami Beach, FL
Michael Donnellan, 28
Orange County, CA
Ashlea Evans, 22
Plantation, FL
Fashion Design Student
Howie Gordon, 34
Chicago, IL
Meteorology Student
Sarah Hrejsa, 22
Chicago, IL
Retail Manager
April Lewis, 30
Dallas, TX
Pharmaceutical Sales Rep.
Eric Littmann, 36
Boston, MA
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Janelle Pierzina, 25
Miami Beach, FL
VIP Cocktail Waitress
Rachel Plencner, 33
Parker, CO
Horse Breeder
James Rhine, 29
Atlanta, GA
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Kaysar Ridha, 24
Irvine, CA
Graphic Designer
Jennifer Vasquez, 27
Plano, TX
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BIG BROTHER 6 is produced by Arnold Shapiro & Allison Grodner Productions, in association with Endemol U.S.A.
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The question is, did the episodes succeed?
In the first of the two episodes in the finale, "Ann Arbor," Frank (Mark Strong) has to struggle to keep his own sanity
The question is, did the episodes succeed?
In the first of the two episodes in the finale, "Ann Arbor," Frank (Mark Strong) has to struggle to keep his own sanity
I'd like to open this piece with "I couldn't make this stuff up," but that's not true. I could absolutely make this stuff up, but I wouldn't because it's so outrageously stupid:
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text: Penile amputation study wins Ig Nobel prize Science 15 September 13 by Duncan Geere DuckDuncan Geere / CC BY-SA 2.0 A team of researchers from Thailand who published a study on how to cope with an epidemic of penile amputations have won a coveted Ig Nobel prize for their work.The study, which dates back to 1983, made recommendations for the "surgical management" of the problem, but warned specifically that they should not be applied in cases where the penis had been partially eaten by a duck after amputation. Ducks are traditionally kept in Thai homes. The team won the public health prize.The awards, which spoof the Nobel prizes, began in 1991. Other winners included a collaboration between French and US researchers over whether the beer goggle effect also applies to oneself, and a UK team that observed both that a cow is more likely to stand up the longer it has been lying down and that once a cow stands up it's hard to predict how soon it will lie down again.The peace prize was handed to the president of Belarus for outlawing public applause and then arresting a one-armed man for the crime, and an Archaeology prize was given to a team that ascertained which bones dissolved when a dead shrew is swallowed. The medicine prize was handed to a group of researchers that assessed the effects of listening to opera on mice whose hearts had been transplanted. Finally, the physics prize was awarded to a team that found that some people could run across the surface of a pond on the moon. Latest on wired.co.uk


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This is not being tough or hard or anything like that it is plain old idiotic!! If he manages to get through the medical, which I very much doubt, not only will he be putting himself at more risk, he will be putting the other riders in the same position. It shouldn't even be a consideration. Jorge will be up to his eyes with medication so trying to race a bike is a ridiculous idea for anyone to make!!


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Kelly Matthews was one of the Utes top hitters last weekend.
March 10, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY - The Ute softball team opens its home schedule on Tuesday, March 11, with a doubleheader against Southern Utah. Action begins at 2 pm on Ute Field.
Last Time Out
The Utes traveled to Tempe, Ariz., playing five games at the Diamond Devil Invitational, including a contest against No. 1 Arizona State. Utah went 0-5 for the weekend.
Kara Foster led the team with a .385 batting average, including two home runs. Angie Boardman, who had Utah's lone hit against ASU, Diana Phillips and Kelly Matthews (both 3-for-4 in the second game against UC Davis) also played strong for Utah.
Ashley Smuda led the Utes in the circle, pitching 18 innings with 17 strikeouts. Brittany Parker, who pitched a strong game against ASU, made three starts and recorded 11 strikeouts.
Second Time Around
Utah faced Southern Utah back on Feb. 9, in St. George. The Utes had 11 hits in the 9-0 victory, with Kristie Keller going 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Sharee Fonoti was 1-for-3 with four RBI while Angie Boardman went 2-for-2 with two RBI and a walk.
In the circle, Ashley Smuda and Haili Squire combined for a one-hitter.
On Southern Utah
The Thunderbirds are 4-14 on the season and are in the middle of a six-game losing streak. Their last win came on Feb. 28 against Division II Dixie State.
Norian James leads the team with a .283 batting average. She has two triples, 13 hits and eight stolen bases.
Over The Boarderline
Junior transfer Angie Boardman has four game-winning hits this season. Her most recent came against Wichita State. With the Utes down 2-1, she hit a double with two runners on base.
She also had game-winning hits against Wisconsin (2/8), Southern Utah (2/9) and Texas State. Boardman is hitting .400 (10-of-25) with runners on base this season. In addition, she had Utah's lone hit against No. 1 Arizona State.
Phillips Watch
All-West Region and three-time all-Mountain West Conference selection Diana Phillips is nearing several career marks at Utah. She hit her 12th career triple against Texas (3/2) to tie for third all-time at Utah. Her next triple will tie her for second all-time.
Her current .353 career batting average is second all-time.
In addition, Phillips has averaged over 59 hits a season in her career (198 total hits). If she continues on the same pace in 2008 she will rank among the top five at Utah in hits.
After sitting out most of the first weekend of the season due to injury, Phillips returned to the lineup at the Kajikawa Classic, batting .375 with six hits and two doubles. She improved that at the Texas Classic two weeks later, hitting .500 (8-of-16) in five games.
Rounding The Bases
Kara Foster has hit eight of the Utes' 14 home runs this year. Staci Hemingway is second on the team with three home runs.
Two Utes have hit grand slams this year. Staci Hemingway hit one against Rhode Island (2/8) while Sharee Fonoti's came vs. Southern Utah (2/9).


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Very cool, thanks for sharing.
That's rad,,,from the Lupe all the way around the point and into the sea of cortez then back!
That is one busy shark. Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.
I saw this on Shark Men last night and am absolutely floored that this female went so far north in the Sea of Cortez.
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2012 SPAIG Award
Press release at Eli Lilly and Company
The American Statistical Association (ASA) presented its Statistical Partnership among Academia, Industry, and Government Award to Lilly and Baylor University at its annual meeting on July 31. The prestigious award, given only once each year, recognizes Lilly and Baylor for establishing a partnership to enhance pharmaceutical R&D.
Over the years, Lilly and Baylor have worked together to use Bayesian statistical and probability methods to solve preclinical and clinical problems. The partnership also has enabled Lilly to recruit top students from Baylor.
Lilly's initial collaboration with Baylor paved the way for the creation of the Lilly statistics network, which includes partnerships with other universities and consultants and companies from around the world. These collaborations have helped Lilly access statistical talent wherever it exists to help solve business and drug development problems.
The American Statistical Association (ASA) awarded the 2012 SPAIG Award to Baylor University and Eli Lilly and Company. The citation read as follows:
The SPAIG committee is pleased to inform you that you have
been selected to receive the 2012 SPAIG Award. The committee was impressed by the strong and
enduring relationship between Baylor University and Eli Lilly which has brought
methodological enhancements to both clinical and non-clinical pharmaceutical applications.
We also noted that this successful collaboration
has paved the way for partnerships between Eli Lilly and three other
universities. It is clear that this
partnership has been beneficial to both parties. The impressive number of graduate students and
faculty supported by Eli Lilly as well as the hiring of Baylor graduate
students indicates that the partnership is highly valued by both entities.
The formal award was presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego on July 31, 2012.
The SPAIG award is as follows
The American Statistical Association, through the Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG) Committee, is given in recognition of outstanding partnerships established between academe and business, industry, & government organizations–and to promote new partnerships. This award differs from other ASA awards in that it recognizes organizations instead of individuals.
Recent recipients are;
- 2002 - Iowa State University, General Motors Corporation, and the Mayo Clinic
- 2003 - Harvard University and Schering-Plough Research Institute
- 2004 - Temple University and Merck & Co.
- 2005 - NISS Affiliates (collaborations among 27 academic institutions, 9 government agencies, and 15 corporations)
- 2006 - Worcester Polytechnic Institute and National Center for Health Statistics
- 2007 - University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and National Cancer Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and Information Management System
- 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline and North Carolina State University
- 2009 - Iowa State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2010 - Pfizer and Rutgers University
Description of the SPAIG Award for the Collaborative research effort between the Department of Statistical Science at Baylor University and the Eli Lilly and Company.
The Award citation is
"In recognition of the shared vision and mutual support between Eli Lilly & Company and Baylor University in the creation of a partnership for the advancement of biopharmaceutical statistical research and the training of statistical scientists."
Brief history of the collaboration
Collaboration between Baylor and Eli Lilly and Company began in 1996 when Stacy Lindborg (then Stacy David) joined Lilly after completing her Ph.D. at Baylor. The initial project involved application of the methods Dr. Lindborg developed in her dissertation to Lilly data from an open-label comparative study involving approximately 1000 patients with Type I diabetes in a crossover design. This work was conducted with Dr. John Seaman, her advisor at Baylor, and involved another Lilly statistician, Rocco Brunelle. The work resulted in multiple presentations at professional meetings and furthered the understanding of Lilly data.
Subsequent collaborative work resulted from Dr. Lindborg's research on missing data problems associated with her work on a drug for schizophrenia. This problem was addressed by a Baylor doctoral student under the direction of Dr. Seaman. This initial work was later expanded upon by several other Baylor doctoral students. Dr. Aarti Shah, Vice President of Global Statistical Science and Advanced Analytics at Eli Lilly and company has described this initial effort as
The genesis of the Baylor/Lilly relationship came from the standard relationship between professor and former student. As Dr. Stacy Lindborg pursued extensions of her dissertation work with her advisor, Dr. John Seaman, the benefits to both parties became very clear. However, realization of these benefits would take many years of cultivation to achieve the level of outstanding statistical partnership consistent with the SPAIG Award.
collaborative effort entered into a new phase in the fall of 2005 when Baylor
was awarded $100,000 by the Lilly Foundation for the purpose of expanding the
existing informal relationship across Lilly (i.e., non BU alumni) and Baylor
(i.e., engaging all faculty members). In
2006 projects were solicited across the statistics group at Lilly and
prioritized by Lilly based on business value.
This list was then shared with Baylor Faculty and six problem areas were
selected for Baylor faculty and students to work on with Lilly statisticians
through out the summer. The projects
spanned areas of development at Lilly touching early clinical work (PK/PD and
other pre-Phase III), Phase III, commercialization (Phase IV) and manufacturing
spanning a broad range of problems:
Semi-parametric Modeling of PK, Metabolic Syndrome, Adaptive Models, QC
Time Series, Nonparametric Modeling and PK Modeling.
May of 2006, a group of Lilly statisticians traveled to Baylor to introduce the
statistical and clinical nature of each problem to Baylor's faculty and
students and to begin work on the research.
Lilly statisticians serving as the industry lead for these research
projects included both Baylor alumni and alumni from a variety of other
institutions. Additionally, the entire
faculty from Baylor were involved in the research in addition to all graduate
students currently active in the graduate program. At the conclusion of the summer, the students
presented their results as posters for faculty, students (both undergraduate
and graduate) and administration within Baylor University. From this group
several students and faculty traveled to Indianapolis to share the results
through a poster session and oral talks broadly with Lilly staff. As the research matured, 6 separate
dissertations emerged from the research involving 4 Baylor Faculty. The collaborations also produced multiple
presentations at JSM and a subsequent internship at Lilly for a Baylor doctoral
In 2008 the collaborative relationship shifted course at Lilly's request whereby Baylor faculty and doctoral students would be working on projects from Lilly's portfolio driven by business need. This change was done in order to expand the current Baylor/Lilly relationship to include opportunities for the Baylor faculty and students to provide formal consultation on Lilly projects and receive appropriate funding for their work. Baylor is one of four universities with Master Service Agreements (MSA) in place through the Global Statistics department at Lilly. This pursuit of MSA with other universities grew out of the maturity and productivity between Lilly & Baylor. The initial amount of the MSA with Baylor from the Statistics department was $50,000. To date this project has generated nearly $200,000 for the department.
Specific Benefits of the Partnership
Baylor University perspective
· Students have benefited from having meaningful research experiences before beginning their dissertation. Baylor Ph.D. students were eligible to work on these problems beginning in their second summer in the program, by which time they will have acquired their M.S. The partnership enabled students to have this research experience for two summers prior to beginning their dissertation research. It should be noted that it was not the original intent of the program to use these projects as a part of a student's dissertation problem but several students have already selected dissertation areas that are natural extensions of their earlier work.
· Ph.D. students and faculty have benefited from interacting with statisticians and other scientists from the pharmaceutical industry. In our experience with the five students mentioned above, we found that interaction with other Lilly scientists was greatly beneficial for the student, underscoring the need to communicate well and to understand the science involved, as well as the statistical methodology to be used. A side-benefit is that students learned about the working world of biopharmaceutical statisticians.
· The doctoral program has benefited by
- Enhancing our ability to attract potential graduate students. Many bright students are attracted to graduate programs in the sciences and medicine because they want to work on problems that contribute to the betterment of society. This goal is rarely realized before they begin their dissertation research in their third or fourth year. Our joint work with Lilly engaged students in important research as early as the beginning of their second year. This prospect is a valuable recruiting tool for our program.
- Providing the faculty and students with a wealth of potential dissertation topics. Not surprisingly, the teams' efforts uncovered more research problems than could be addressed quickly. Some students continued to work on these problems for their dissertation.
- Fostering more research interaction among the faculty and with Lilly statisticians. One of our professors has enjoyed such joint research with Lilly since 1996. As the collaboration has progressed other faculty members have also been allowed to identify interesting biopharmaceutical problems and work in cooperation with Lilly scientists.
- Having Lilly statisticians and other scientists serve as outside members on dissertation committees. This did much to enhance the quality of the committee and the direction given to the doctoral student. (Since 2002, four of our Ph.D. students have had Lilly statisticians serve on their dissertation committees with great success.)
Eli Lilly & Company perspective
· Within the industry, we are almost always constrained by time (i.e., deadlines). There are times when we, as scientists, might feel the methods we're using are adequate but perhaps not optimal (e.g., historical use of LOCF). However, time constraints might not allow us the opportunity to pursue methodological advances. This collaboration with Baylor enables a number of benefits.
- Facilitate the furthering of science through collaborative research that has directly advanced our understanding of specific clinical trial data.
- Validation of methodological work and research. We have over 350 statisticians at Lilly, many of whom are active in research. Collaboration with academia has the potential to strengthen the research (validates it) and encourage publication/application outside Lilly.
- Sharing of Resources: At Lilly we have an endless source of very interesting and relevant research problems; including Data & Banking databases to go with them. Under multiple circumstances we have been able to share data (with appropriate confidentiality agreements in place) with external researchers and together learn beyond what we could have done individually.
- Lilly statisticians to contribute within Academia by helping expose students to the pharmaceutical industry. Most students don't know what a job in the industry entails, yet they will need to make crucial career decisions as they approach graduation. Working closely with students allows arm students with knowledge so that they make the best career decision for them.
- Recruiting: while this has never been an explicit goal tied to the Baylor/Lilly collaboration, working closely with talented students has facilitated hiring a number of Baylor students for employment at Lilly upon their graduation. The exposure the students get to industry data and methodological challenges through out their graduate training as a result of the program facilitates those hired by Lilly to get up to speed quickly upon employment.
Professor John Seaman's response when asked to answer some questions concerning the benefits of the collaborative effort with Lilly.
- Did you imagine your work with Dr. Lindborg leading to this collaboration between the Department of Statistical Science and Eli Lilly? What was your original goal (i.e. long term/short term?)? My goal at the time was to simply work with a former PhD student, which was common for me. That she was working in industry was different at the time (1996), and it prompted us both to wonder how we could sustain joint scientific pursuits given the differences in our respective institutions. Very early we naturally focused on problems that were of interest to us both, and of potential practical application at Lilly. We also knew we could not pursue problems with hard deadlines—bottom-line issues for Lilly—if we were ever to involve PhD students. That was a major consideration in our long term goals—we wanted to be able to involve PhD students. We continue to work on such problems, but the collaboration has expanded to include joint research primarily between Baylor faculty and Lilly scientists.
- How does it feel to know that your work with Dr. Lindborg led to such a beneficial collaboration? Like any professor, I'm delighted to see work with a former student become so fruitful. That it continues to enrich the research experience of current students is icing on the cake.
- What is the biggest benefit, in your opinion, for the university with this collaboration? Our continued involvement with rich, practical biomedical problems. Faculty and student research benefit tremendously from this collaboration. Many of our students work at biomedical research institutions—research hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, etc--upon graduation, so having one or more chapters in their dissertations with that focus is very important to them, both in landing such jobs, and in being successful in them.
- What does winning the SPAIG award mean to you? What does it mean for the department? The university? For me and the department, it is an acknowledgment of over 15 years of effort in establishing this partnership and in keeping so many of our former PhD students involved with us.
- Where do you see the collaboration going in the future? I think that, in addition to continuing to play a major role in the research we do, it affords involvement in other scientific efforts of importance to us. For example, we are involved with an international effort to incorporate certain advances in statistical science into biopharmaceutical research. This effort is being led by another former student, Dr. Karen Price. She plays a critical role in the Baylor/Lilly collaboration and, because of that connection, thought of us when she began organizing this new effort.


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Energy Ad Campaign Targets Al Gore's House
Susan Davis reports on global warming.
The global-warming skeptics at the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a national ad today targeting — who else? — former Vice President Al Gore.
The $30,000 buy is small as far as national-ad campaigns go, but it will run on cable over the next two weeks in Boston, Phoenix, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C.
The ad criticizes the Gores for using "twenty times as much" energy as the average household in their Nashville, Tenn.-area home. "Al Gore's friends use lots of energy, too," the voiceover states as pictures of Gore with celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Larry David float across the screen.
CEI argues that energy-conservation policies Gore champions would disproportionately hurt attempts by fledgling third-world countries to modernize, and put unnecessary mandates on countries such as the U.S.
"For [developing countries,] affordable energy is something to hope for and something to celebrate. But what will happen to that hope if we restrict energy use?" the ad states, "Without affordable energy, hundreds of millions of people won't have any future at all."
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider took issue with the ad's attack on the Gore's home, noting that the group used outdated data. The house underwent an extensive renovation in recent years and now meets one of the highest standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council.
"I think they've lost the debate on the science and the policy and now all they are left with is to just attack the messenger," Kreider said.
Sam Kazman, general counsel for CEI, said Gore was a natural target "with his ascendancy as chief spokesman for global warming alarmism."
The national debate, however, is trending more towards Gore's view of the impact of global warming. Whether the next president is Republican Sen. John McCain or either Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, each firmly believes the threat of global warming is real, and each has voiced support for policies to counteract its potential effects.
For example, each candidate supports legislation to cap and trade greenhouse gas emission. That reality is not lost on Kazman. "In that sense it's certainly an uphill battle," he said, "I think it's going to hurt Americans, I think we're going to see a huge ratcheting of energy mandates that are going to be killers … people are going to start wondering why the need to engage in this economic sacrifice. I think at some point reality is going to take over."
For his part, Kreider said Gore is traveling to Poland and India this week to meet with government officials to continue his efforts to achieve a global climate treaty.


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It is exciting to start to make some progress after being sick. There is still a ways to go to get everything finished, but I need to begin to pack my sewing room! Immediately after this post the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway will be posted! Yay!! Have a Happy Monday and Happy Quilting!
Monday, December 9, 2013
Fabric Baskets in the Making...
Happy Monday! I hope that all is well with you! Life has been pretty hectic with work, packing and getting my old house ready to move back into! The move most likely won't take place for several months.
I have been busy in my spare moments trying to get caught up on projects. The four baskets pictured below are for four different swaps. I am not going to name the swaps because it may give away their final destinations!! None the less the baskets are all adorable!
8 comments:
- Kirsten said...
You make the nicest fabric baskets!! Hope you feel better soon too.
- December 9, 2013 at 8:54 PM
- Barb said...
They're beautiful, Leona! I especially love the first one with all those cute fabrics. Good luck with all of your adventures.
- December 9, 2013 at 10:01 PM
- Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...
Cute baskets! Good luck with the move. I know it is a safer area.
- December 9, 2013 at 10:56 PM
- Lisa said...
You do make the best baskets! These are lovely!
- December 9, 2013 at 11:52 PM
- Jolana said...
Your fabric baskets are really very nice! :) Jolana
- December 10, 2013 at 6:48 AM
- Liz said...
beautiful baskets! I love the various panda fabrics :) Congrats on the move, I hope it goes smoothly!
- December 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM
- Liz said...
beautiful baskets! I love the various panda fabrics :) Congrats on the move, I hope it goes smoothly!
- December 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM
- Hilary said...
great baskets!
- December 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM
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Sometimes I hear pay-per-click advertising account managers say something like "My CPCs keep going up!" as if that's a bad thing. Many online marketers mistakenly think that they want the Cost-per-Click (CPC) of their ads to be "as low as possible" and, even when CPCs do go down, still aren't satisfied and want them to be reduced further.
But since the Cost-per-Acquisition (CPA) of an ad is measured in 'dollars per conversion' and the Conversion Rate (CR) is measured in 'conversions per click', we can multiply these factors together to determine our target CPC:
That is, if we should be willing to pay $10 per conversion and 20% of clicks result in conversions, then each click is worth $2.00 to us. We can see from the equation above that the only ways to reduce the target CPC to $0 are to have a target CPA of $0 (at which point an advertiser shouldn't be willing to pay for even one click, which would be very bad for business) or to have a conversion rate of 0% (which would also be very bad for business), or both (which would be very, very bad for business).
Note in the equation above that Quality Score plays no role whatsoever in determining your target CPC. If there is an increase in one's Quality Score, an account manager should not rejoice at the amount that the Cost-per-Click diminishes, but rather continue to pursue precisely the same target CPC, enjoying whatever increase is seen in the number of clicks.
One interesting thing to observe about the equation above is that any extent to which conversion rate optimization efforts are successful should result in higher target CPCs. For example, if by designing new landing pages we manage to raise our conversion rate from 20% to 50%, then we should be willing to increase our target CPC proportionally from $2.00 to $5.00. That is, one measure of the success of landing page optimization efforts is the degree to which they increase the observed Cost-per-Click.
Looking at the equation above we can clearly see that AdWords account managers who wish to both increase their conversion rate and simultaneously decrease their average Cost-per-Click are pursuing counterposed goals.
A second interesting observation about the equation is that the judicious addition of negative terms to a keyword (in order to eliminate some low-value impressions) should concomitantly result in an increase in the ad's conversion rate and, thus, increase the advertiser's target CPC for that keyword.
Finally, it should be noted that the efforts by the search engines themselves to detect click fraud or to improve the relevance of a given ad to a given search query should also naturally result in increasing CPCs to whatever degree these changes enhance conversion rates. So, it should be expected that CPCs would have the tendency to inflate over the timescale of months or years as their algorithms improve.
For those who are unconvinced by theoretical arguments that successful online marketing efforts should tend to increase CPCs, we can also present hard-earned empirical evidence simply by looking at CPAs for various accounts.
For the month of March 2010, the graph below depicts the CPA for all of the non-brand-related keywords for a dating website which has a CPA target of about $100. (Naturally, brand-related terms tend to generate large numbers of conversions at dirt-cheap CPCs, so these terms have been eliminated from consideration for this analysis.) Collectively, these words cost just over $16,000 in March.
We can see from the graph that words whose CPC averaged $2.00 to $2.50 had a CPA less than $70 per conversion while words with an average CPC in the range of $0.00 to $0.50 collectively have a CPA of over $130 per conversion. It might be worthwhile, if the words with CPCs above $2 are limited by the account's budget, for the manager to consider simply shutting off some words with CPCs below $0.50 in order to free up additional money for the high-CPC ads.
For ROI-based accounts, natural metrics to consider are the Profit per Impression and, of course, the Return on Investment. For one campaign in an ROI account that sells very expensive products, we again filtered out brand-related keywords. The remaining words in that campaign spent over $180,000 in March and the target ROI for this campaign was about 40%.
Again, the highest CPC keywords prove to be the most valuable, with ads whose CPCs averaged $10.00 to $12.00 bringing in an average profit of about $0.25 per impression and ads whose CPCs averaged $0.00 to $2.00 bringing in only about $0.01 in profit per impression. Not only did the lower-CPC keywords average less profit per impression, but they also had lower ROIs than higher-CPC words.
The point I'm making is that every ad occupies a small piece of visual real estate and real estate has value. Good real estate has a high value for a very simple reason – it's worth it. That's why you'll find more Starbucks in downtown Manhattan than, say, the northern coast of Greenland. Low-CPC keywords tend to be low-CPC keywords precisely because they're not worth much. (To be fair, though, in the course of this analysis I did find some quirky 3- and 4-term keywords that generated a lot of business at very low CPCs. It's likely only a matter of time, though, before competitors discover them too.)
The take-home here is: Don't put your ads in Greenland.
So, if your marketing efforts are going well, with improving conversion rates and good negative terms in place and someone asks you how your account is performing, be sure to hold your head high and say "My CPCs keep going up!"
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I have been reading else were that travellers cheques are not widely accepted anymore, does anyone know if this is true.
As far as I know, they are still accepted nearly everywhere.
The issuers prefer that you purchase a card--they're more profitable for them. They charge to issue them, charge for you to use them and charge even more if the balance exceeds a predetermined period.
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Throughout the Disney Fantasy, guests will discover creative and whimsical technical innovations whether its mealtime, playtime or bedtime.
The Muppets make their debut in a new adventure game. Guests own drawings dance with Disney characters. Paintings spring to life. Interior staterooms have a porthole view of the sea outside. Animated characters chat with guests. Among the highlights:
Animation Magic at Animators Palate
Animators Palate on the Disney Fantasy brings the magic of Disney animation into the dining room with a new show called Animation Magic. The dinner show celebrates the magic of Disney animation and allows families to create and participate in a whole new way.
As guests are seated at their tables, they are invited to draw a character of their own using a simple template on their placemat. Then, just before dinner, house lights dim and a sprinkling of pixie dust illuminates the room.
During dinner, Mickey invites guests to sit back, relax and enjoy a taste of animation as a montage of memorable food-themed moments from Disney and DisneyPixar films is displayed, set to the show tune Be Our Guest. After dinner, Mickey returns for the exciting finale. With a musical crescendo, he works his magic and conjures the guests drawings now fully animated and brought to life into the onscreen action.
A parade starts as Mickey leads the guests drawings in a march across the screens around the dining room. The animation of the drawings becomes increasingly more elaborate, and then the drawings step into scenes from beloved Disney movies and skip, skate and dance side-by-side with characters such as, Mickey Mouse, Jiminy Cricket, Cinderella and Snow White.
At the conclusion of the show, Mickey returns to say so long while credits roll on screen showing each guests name listed as a guest animator. To commemorate the experience, guests drawings are returned to them with an added touch: a golden seal proclaiming them an Official Disney Animator.
The Themed Entertainment Association awarded Disney Cruise Line the Ingenious Use of Technology award for the Animation Magic show at Animators Palate on the Disney Fantasy.
Muppets Adventure Game
The Muppets are coming to the Disney Fantasy! While playing The Case of the Stolen Show, guests take an interactive adventure quest around the ship, uncovering clues via more than a dozen pieces of Enchanted Art and physical evidence.
The adventure begins with the cast of Muppets preparing to stage a big performance. But theres a problem: Kermits banjo is missing, Fozzies squirting flower has vanished, Gonzos crash helmet has gone astray, Animals drum sticks have disappeared and the Swedish Chef cant find his cleaver! All of the props for the big show have been stolen by a cunning thief (or more likely, another Muppet).
Guided by a map and holding a unique game card in front of select pieces of Enchanted Art, guests unveil clues and find missing props. Elsewhere on the ship, guests may check a Muppets message board and find a Muppet-sized stateroom door to discover clues. Their mission is to solve the crime before its time to raise the curtain and light the lights on the Muppets big show.
The Case of the Stolen Show is one of a trio of self-paced, Midship Detective Agency games that may be played through the ships Enchanted Art. Each game features several possible endings and multiple randomized events so each time a guest plays, they have a different adventure.
Enchanted Art
Throughout the Disney Fantasy, more than 20 pieces of Enchanted Art, inspired by classic Disney characters and animations, immerse guests in Disney storytelling in a completely new way.
As guests pause to admire an individual piece of Enchanted Art, it magically comes alive. Some examples of Enchanted Art new to the Disney Fantasy
- Dual circus art posters featuring Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse flying from one frame into the other a nod to the Disney Fantasy stern characters.
- Walt Disney animating three new clips that spring from his sketch pad featuring the Fab Five (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Pluto).
- Fanciful animations of Alice in Wonderland inspired by Disney Legend Mary Blairs art.
- Pinkie Daisy inspired by Thomas Lawrences painting Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie.
While Enchanted Art looks like other hanging art pieces around the ship, it is actually a framed LCD screen that utilizes technology to create special effects. Enchanted Art recognizes a guest is present and activates several seconds of animation. Guests may see new and different animation when they visit the Enchanted Art another time.
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In Disneys Oceaneer Club and Disneys Oceaneer Lab youth areas, Disney characters come to life and interact with children in one-of-a-kind experiences
- Crush, the animated sea turtle from the DisneyPixar motion picture Finding Nemo, and Stitch, the mischievous animated alien from the motion picture Lilo & Stitch, appear on a 103-inch plasma screen.
- The characters chat, play and joke with kids in live, unrehearsed, personalized conversations, using sophisticated, voice-activated animation.
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The Disney Fantasy carries on the spirit of innovation with a cruise industry first for all 150 inside staterooms a window to the world with a real-time view outside the ship
- High-definition cameras on the exterior of the ship feed video to each Magical Porthole. The view corresponds stateroom location port or starboard forward, midship or aft.
- Animated Disney characters may pop by the Magical Porthole, including Peach the starfish from the DisneyPixar film Finding Nemo, Dumbo the flying elephant or even Mickey Mouse.
- All new Magical Porthole animations include a swinging Rapunzel from Tangled, a waving Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story, and Scuttle and Flounder from The Little Mermaid peeking in as they fly by.
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Disneys Oceaneer Club and Disneys Oceaneer Lab feature a Magic PlayFloor, a cruise- industry first that blends the latest in gaming technology with Disneys panache for storytelling
- Located in the main gathering space in both venues, the interactive floor allows children to engage in group activities where their movements control the action.
- The PlayFloor is designed with 16 light pads on the perimeter that detect motion and location and trigger actions. There are 28 monitors integrated with one another to create a grid display 15 feet by 15 feet on the center of the PlayFloor.
- The games are thematically tied to Disney stories and characters from Cars and Tron to Peter Pan and The Princess and the Frog.
- Youth counselors use the Magic PlayFloor during storytelling activities where children fly over the streets of London with Peter Pan, help a frog feast on a bug banquet, leap over lasers with Stitch, race a car like Lightning McQueen and step into the world of Tron.
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Determining whether a lawn or section of lawn is St. Augustinegrass or centipedegrass can be a little confusing at times, especially in limited light areas where the centipedegrass may develop slightly wider blades than usual. While centipedegrass is generally a finer textured grass with narrower and shorter leaves, differences may not be as obvious as we�d like, at times. The most reliable way to separate centipedegrass from St. Augustinegrass is probably to evaluate leaf arrangement.
Along the length of the stolons (runners), St. Augustinegrass leaves will be arranged in pairs, opposite each other. Centipedegrass, in comparison, has alternate leaf arrangement, with each leaf emerging at a different point along the length of the stem.
Opposite versus alternate leaf arrangement is a very useful characteristic in identifying, or at least getting started with, a large number of landscape plants. For example, maples and sweetgums are sometimes confused with each other, but maples have opposite leaves and sweetgum has alternate leaves. Boxwoods and hollies are easily separated by the boxwood�s opposite leaf arrangement, as compared with hollies� alternate leaves. Osmanthus also has opposite leaf arrangement, and this is helpful in separating it from holly. (The various common names of Osmanthus heterophyllus include holly tea olive, holly osmanthus, and false-holly.)
Usually, opposite or alternate leaf arrangement holds up across a genus of plants, but not always. For example, most Cornus (dogwood) species have opposite leaves, including our native white flowering dogwood. But within this genus, Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda dogwood) is noted for having alternate leaves.
Getting back to centipedegrass, July is a time for wrapping up certain landscape and lawn activities, and this includes fertilization. An important part of your overall strategy for reducing cold weather damage to centipedegrass is to avoid nitrogen fertilizer applications after the end of July. Fertilizing too late will send your centipedegrass lawn into late summer and fall with higher levels of nitrogen in the leaf tissue, which can make the lawn more vulnerable to cold damage later on. Since St. Augustinegrass is even less cold hardy than centipedegrass, the same precaution should be observed.
Researchers also suggest late summer caution with woody plants, crapemyrtles serving as a good example. To avoid reducing the cold hardiness of your crapemyrtles this coming winter, avoid nitrogen fertilizer applications and pruning after the end of July. In addition, any routine irrigation you might be providing your crapemyrtles should be discontinued or limited to emergency as-needed by early August. Of course, newly planted trees and shrubs � including crapemyrtle � are an exception. During the period of establishment, water should be provided once a week or so in the absence of a good, soaking rain, throughout the growing season.
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BANGALORE/ MUMBAI: With European corporations emulating their American counterparts to make outsourcing mainstream , Indian software companies are tapping into a rich new vein of opportunity and are hiring and looking for acquisitions to grow in the continent.
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We've Always Done It This Way
By Rodney Coe
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
The distance between railroad tracks is exactly 4 feet, 8½ inches. Odd size...Why not 4 feet or 5 feet?When American engineers designed the tracks, they made them just as they did in England. The reason England built the tracks 4 feet, 8½ inches is because the wagons were built 4 feet, 8½ inches.The reason the wagons were built 4 feet, 8½ inches was because the ruts in the roads were exactly that measurement, and they didn't want to break their wheels by not fitting into the ruts.I fear that's many Christians. We do things in church and life because we always have done it this way. We are a right or left rut. A man may say, "I'm a right rut. I'm right, and I'm in a rut. I don't know about those left ruts, but my rut's right."The Holy Spirit came to the first church to indwell, baptize and fill the first church. Let's zero in on why we all need the filling of the Holy Spirit.The filling of the Spirit has to do with power for witness and service (
Remember there were 120 believers united in an upper room prayer meeting, waiting on God to do what was next for them. They had no power in themselves—no website, blog, Twitter or Facebook account.Something had to be done, or we wouldn't be here today. They couldn't do things the way they'd always done them because this church was a church plant. Literally. To the first church, the filling of the Holy Spirit was life-giving power for the spread of the gospel! I ask you: Does the church in America need this life-giving power today?Are we, by and large, in churches stuck in a powerless rut?Back to our ruts...Why were the ruts 4 feet, 8½ inches? Because the Roman Empire built the roads and their war wagons to that measurement.Here's the deal: The emphasis of the reality of the filling is not on the gift we get, but on the Giver of the gift.


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Last night, Usher took the stage at 30 Rock to perform his singles "Climax" and "Scream" on "Saturday Night Live," hosted by Will Ferrell.
During the show, Ursh hit the stage to run through the two cuts with a live backing band. Additionally, the R&B crooner made a cameo alongside Justin Bieber, Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm in this week's Digital Short, which marked the 100th installment of the viral series.
Usher is currently prepping the release of his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself, due in stores on June 12th. The LP features guest appearances from Rick Ross, Pharrell Williams and Empire of the Sun's Luke Steele.
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Little Rockers Kids Marathon
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - For the last ten years, THV 11 has partnered with the Little Rock Marathon and Arkansas Children's Hospital to host the Little Rockers Kids Marathon. The 2013 event took place March 2. The goal of the race is to get children moving, and in turn, to live healthier lives.
The mission of the Little Rockers Kids Marathon is to give children, ages 7-12, the opportunity to enhance their physical activity while focusing on reaching a goal. The hope is to motivate children to commit to a physical routine, which will allow them to experience the overall benefits of achieving their goals, not only in crossing the finish line but in life as well.
Little Rockers Kids Marathon encourages children to become more active by following a fun, simple running and/or walking program. The goal for each child is to complete at least 25.2 miles before the first weekend in March. On race day, children will complete their last mile on the official Little Rock Marathon course. As each child crosses the finish line, they receive their official finisher's medal.
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