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Prior to heading into a period of down-time before the fall rowing races begin, dedicated members of area crews had one last summer fling on the Schuylkill on July 20, when they competed in the annual Philadelphia Youth Regatta on the Kelly Drive course.
Chestnut Hill residents Maria Georgiou and Ed Point, members of Penn Charter's Class of 2013, both medalled at the event, as did their classmate Kevin Kelly. Germantown Friends and Germantown Academy also had athletes in the mix, with all of the area rowers operating out of either Fairmount Rowing Association or Vesper Boat Club, two mainstays along Philly's historic Boathouse Row.
Georgiou, a future member of the crew at the University of Pennsylvania, was part of a Fairmount J18 quad along with a rising senior at Germantown Academy, Kate Horvat.
The J18 class incorporated the older rowers, including this year's high school graduates, and there were also "J16" races for younger competitors. There were several different flights, or heats, in most categories, and since there were no "finals" at the one-day event, medals were awarded to the crews that produced the top three times overall.
The quad containing Georgiou and Horvat won the first of three flights, covering the 2000-meter course in seven minutes, 59.25 seconds. Their time held up to earn them the gold medal; although Pelham Community Rowing also had a strong row and easily won the second flight, the New Yorkers fell just short of the Philly quartet, with a time of 7:59.45.
A rising junior at Penn Charter, Rachel Gordon, was in Fairmount's "B" boat in the same category, and that vessel placed fourth in the flight won by Pelham.
Georgiou's former classmate, Ed Point, raced a J18 single for Vesper in the Philly Youth Regatta. He will attend Tulane University and join the club program there. In the third of the three flights, Point finished second in 9:29.99, while the winner from New Jersey's Nereid Rowing Club, Joe Criscitiello, crossed the line in 9:22.03. Those two times proved the fastest out of all three flights, with the third-place finisher well behind Point at 9:46.43.
Criscitiello, who rows for Ridgewood High School during the school crew season, is the younger brother of Anthony Criscitiello, the 2013 national scholastic champion in the varsity single.
The silver medal in the girls J18 single went to GA's Horvat (Fairmount), who won the first of four heats in that event in a time of 10:27.20. The gold medalist was a rower from Hudson River Rowing Association who came in first in the fourth heat.
Penn Charter's Kelly joined up with three other scullers in a boys J18 quad competing for Vesper. They recorded a decisive victory for the gold medal, with their time of 7:03.29 putting them 10 seconds ahead of both the runner-up in their own flight, and the fastest of the winners in the other three flights in this class.
Three sophomore oarswomen from area schools were among the crew in Fairmount's J16 eight; Becca Genyk and Addie McKenzie of Germantown Friends, and Jean Gleason of Penn Charter. The boat finished third in the single flight in this category. Genyk and McKenzie also performed together in a J16 quad, which won the first of two flights. The top two finishers in the other heat were faster, but Fairmount's time of 9:15.88 was good for third place, netting the GFS girls another bronze medal.
In the boys J18 double, Germantown Friends' Greg Goldstein performed for Fairmount, while another rising junior, Penn Charter's Ethan Ashley, was racing for Vesper.
A tandem made up of one rower from the Nereid club and one from Malvern Prep took the gold medal with the fastest overall time of 7:38.40, and in the same flight – the third of four – Ashley and his partner placed second in 7:41.74, a time which held up for a silver medal. Goldstein, teaming up with Episcopal Academy's Jack Alden as in the Independence Day Regatta, won the first flight, and their time, 7:43.20, gained them the bronze medal overall.
The Vesper line-up also featured a J18 four that included the Mirabella sisters of Mount St. Joseph Academy. Kate, a 2013 graduate headed for Princeton, was one of the oarswomen, and Megan, who will be a senior at the Mount, was the coxswain. The vessel came in second in the first of three flights, with the sixth-fastest time overall.
The PYR ended with a novelty act, quarter-mile long "dash" races in various categories. Goldstein of GFS, in a Fairmount single, wound up third in the second of two flights, and was ranked sixth on time. Fairmount raced two Dash eights, and a "B" boat that was put together late in the day included PC's Georgiou. There was just one race here, and the PC grad's "B" boat actually beat the "A", winning in 1:23.43 while the other Fairmount crew came in second in 1:24.99.


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Dr. Yvan Rose and graduate student Erin Swain demonstrate ultrasound technology that allows a speaker to see an image of the tongue in motion. Technology and research in Memorial's Linguistics Department are helping advance the science of language acquisition and speech.
The opening of a new linguistics lab on the St. John's campus, along with the development of cutting-edge software, is positioning Memorial University as a national and international leader of research in language acquisition.
The possibility of building a well-equipped Speech Sciences and Language Acquisition Lab was a big part of what attracted Dr. Yvan Rose, a phonology researcher, to Memorial. Dr. Rose is interested in the physiological and articulatory aspects of speech, and how children acquire language. "How do they start with nothing, and end up being good speakers of their language in just a couple of years of life?" he asked, adding that this question is even more puzzling when one considers that it takes about six years for a child's vocal tract to become like that of an adult.
"There are lots of problems that can be related to speech and language acquisition, problems found in acoustic, articulatory or cognitive aspects," Dr. Rose said, "so we are facing a pretty complicated task when trying to understand how a child has developed language and speech patterns, or ended up with problems in those areas."
While speech pathologists have had great success in addressing that complicated task, Dr. Rose noted that there has never been a comprehensive computer program to enable phonological and phonetic analysis of speech.
"We know what kinds of problems kids typically have, but we don't have large-scale normative data to tell us what an entire population does not in any language, even the most studied ones." He likened the current data set to "a scrapbook" that provides an incomplete story.
That, however, is about to change with the development of software called Phon, and the subsequent creation of a database called PhonBank, a massive, powerful open source tool for those working in language acquisition and speech disorders around the world.
The Phon project melds the linguistics expertise of Dr. Rose and the software design and programming skills of Greg Hedlund, a Memorial graduate, and several members of the Computer Sciences Department, where Drs. Todd Wareham and Rodrigue Byrne are spearheading student work on this project. Together, they are developing software with multimedia applications. Ultimately, this will allow researchers and practitioners around the world to quickly locate segmented phrases, word and syllables using terminology standard to phonology. By aligning sound files, users will be able to see where discrepancies in speech are occurring, and access data that will shed light on possible causes.
"The need is so big for something like this," Dr. Rose said. "It's only in recent years that digital recording and computer power have been available to make it happen."
The project has drawn significant funding from Memorial University's Faculty of Arts and Office of the Vice-President (Research), as well as from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Industrial Research and Innovation Fund of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Science Foundation through a collaboration with Dr. Brian MacWhinney, a world-renowned psychologist specializing in language development.
In addition to its significant computing power, the Speech Sciences and Language Acquisition Lab includes a soundproof recording booth decorated to appeal to very young research subjects, and a compact ultrasound machine that provides visual feedback on the movement of the tongue.
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District of Columbia Masters in Economic Development on Campus Programs & Degrees
Pursuing an economic development master's degree on campus puts many students in a perfect position to develop their knowledge and skills in an exciting field. Through in-person interaction with classmates and professors, students in Masters in Economic Development on Campus programs engage in a study of economic development's historical contexts, present-day applications, and future goals to learn how to enact economic development locally, nationally, or globally. The interdisciplinary and potentially rigorous coursework of an economic development program engages students in a study of subjects such as economics, political science, sociology, history, business, and others. As students explore these subjects and others, they may get a sense of economic development as a "policy intervention endeavor" that comprises processes and policies that affect social, political, and economic change.[i] Best of all, they may know themselves as actors who may influence the field.
Students pursing a master's in economic develop degree on campus may learn through a combination of lectures, workshops, case studies, and in-person interaction. Their curricula and class structure may teach them not only about economic development's core theories and principles, but also how to apply them in practice. Students may emerge from their on-campus programs with a well-developed economic development acumen that enhances their abilities to think critically and take action in the field.
What Types of Masters in Economic Development on Campus Degree Programs Are Available?
Many students pursue their Masters in Economic Development on campus. Doing so enables them to communicate with classmates and professors in real-time, participate in exercises and workshops in-person, and physically access campus resources such as writing programs, libraries, and study
groups. For many students, this present-moment and bricks-and-mortar style of education is preferred. Not to mention that on-campus programs may offer a predictable and structured schedule that many students find supportive. That said, because many students enjoy on-campus education, many schools make master's programs in economic development available.
Here are just some of the many types of economic development master's degrees that may be available on campus:
- The Master of Art or Science in Community Development
- The Master of Art or Science in Global Development
- The Master of Art or Science in Political Economy
- The Master of Art or Science in Urban Studies
- The Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Economic Development
You may be able to pursue one of these degrees, another similar degree, or a Master of Art or Master of Science in Economic Development on campus.
What Might I Learn in My Masters in Economic Development On Campus Degree Program?
You'll likely pursue your on-campus education in economic development through a combination of core and elective coursework over the course of two years of fulltime study. Program lengths very by school. Your core coursework may give you a sense of economic development's primary frameworks and to teach you how to think critically about the field. Your elective coursework will likely help you concentrate your studies and specialize your knowledge.
Depending on your program, your core coursework may delve into subjects such as:
- Community development (community-building and community processes and structures, for example)
- Economics (theories, practical applications, and types such as micro and macro, for example)
- Economic development (principles, theories, and practices of various types of economic development, for example)
- Development policies (policies and processes at various levels of government, for example)
- Politics and government as they relate to economic development
- Leadership and management in small, medium, and large-scale economic development
- Research methodologies, applications, and ethics
- Statistics, econometrics, and other measurements of economic development
Your elective coursework may cover subjects such as:
- Local, regional, national, or international economic development
- Entrepreneurship and economic development
- Commerce and capitalism
- Community resilience, resistance, and activism in economic development
- Urban or rural economic development
- Community ventures, nonprofits, and organizations
- Financial recording and management (in the areas of grant-writing, fundraising, and managing donors, for example)
- Sustainability, land use, and environmental policies in economic development
These are just some of the many core and elective subjects you might study in your on-campus master's in economic development degree program.
To conclude your Masters in Economic Development on Campus program, you may complete a capstone project (a community project or thesis, for example), take a comprehensive exam, and, depending on your program, participate in an internship. Given that economic development is a field in which both theory and practical.
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Radioactive Seed Gives New Options for Breast Cancer Patients
The Nebraska Medical Center is the first hospital in the region to offer new treatment
Omaha, Neb – It wasn't the shock of a breast cancer diagnosis that surprised Linda Briggs the most; it was the ease of the surgical process.
What used to begin with the sometimes painful placement of a wire in the patient's breast to mark the location of the tumor can now be done with a much more precise and less painful method.
"It didn't feel much different than the poke you feel when you have blood taken," recalled Briggs.
Doctors call it radioactive seed localization, or RSL. The process uses a thin needle to place a tiny radioactive seed directly on the cancerous lump. It acts as a beacon on which the surgeon can hone in; removing the lump, the seed and ideally, cancerous tissue in the margins around the lump.
"This allows us to have a procedure that is less painful and allows patients to avoid the likelihood of a second operation to clear more cancer," explained Edibaldo Silva, MD, PhD, surgical oncologist at The Nebraska Medical Center.
"It's a seed implanted in the breast. I was thinking it would be something big when I first heard about it," said Briggs. "But Dr. Silva explained and said it's no bigger than a pencil lead."
The previous and still most common approach to marking a breast cancer tumor with a wire requires the patient to have the wire placed in the breast in the morning, and then have lumpectomy surgery later in the day.
"RSL is an easier procedure," said Dr. Silva. "We can place the seed the day before surgery, and then the patient can return for surgery first thing the next morning does not have to wait around all day with the wire in place."
RSL also provides a level of accuracy not typically found with the wire method.
"The surgeon can map the location of the tumor and the margins in a way that is uniform in all directions," Dr. Silva said. "That's something that can't be done with a wire. Most importantly, the surgeon can find the least difficult and most direct approach to the area in question. That also allows the scar to be placed in the most cosmetically preferable place."
The radiation in the seed is not dangerous. It gives off only enough radiation to act as a marker for the surgeon.
"There is zero chance of it causing any radiation damage," said Dr. Silva. "In fact, the radiation dose given to a patient when they have the seed in place is many, many times less than what you would subject yourself to on an airplane trip from Omaha to New York."
Use of the radioactive seed is highly regulated. The medical center works closely with nuclear regulatory officials to account for the safety and location of all radioactive material.
The radioactive seed is strictly used for tumor marking. It does not replace radiation or chemotherapy as a method of treating the cancer.
The RSL approach is especially helpful for small tumors detected during mammograms. Tumors so small, they usually cannot be felt by touch. For patient Linda Briggs, it drives home the importance of getting regular mammograms.
"I'm one of the health and wellness directors for my ministry at Salem Baptist Church," she said. "We're trying to get more women to get mammograms. There's so much fear out there and so many myths. Women are afraid of getting mammograms. They fear it will lead to having a mastectomy. We have to get them in there earlier." Dr. Silva cautions women that a diagnosis of breast cancer will not always lead to mastectomy surgery. He believes the better accuracy provided with radioactive seed localization will result in fewer women having surgery to remove their breasts.
"Many women are having mastectomies because the initial lumpectomy with the wire localization did not afford them an adequate cancer margin which can be afforded with this surgery," he explained.
Dr. Silva believes mastectomies have become an all-too common approach to dealing with breast cancers that can be treated with much less radical methods.
That stance put Briggs at ease the first time she met Dr. Silva.
"The first day I met him, Dr. Silva told me, "We're not cutting off anything.""
Since Dr. Silva began using the RSL approach earlier this year, its popularity has increased. In an average week, four to five patients are having the seed implanted before surgery.


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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - WTA chief Stacey Allaster hailed Li Na's rise as a key factor behind the growth of women's tennis in Asia as the next generation of Chinese players follow in the grand slam winner's footsteps and make their mark on the game.
Li's 2011 French Open victory made her the first Asian to win a grand slam singles title and spiked interest in the world's most populous country, one that is always a prioritized growth market for sports bodies.
Zhang Shuai became the fifth Chinese women to win a WTA title when the wildcard triumphed at the Guangzhou Open on Saturday and Allaster hailed the world number five Li for her continued efforts in building the sport.
"The athlete that will make the greatest impact on the growth of women's tennis in this decade," the Canadian told Reuters of Li in an interview in Singapore on Tuesday.
"You can have a strategy with multi-thronged pillars but you need the stars and Li is obviously our star here in Asia.
"She is obviously taking all those pillars of the business strategy and dialing them up because women's tennis is getting noticed and she is inspiring the ones that are right behind her. 'If Li can do it, I can do it' confidence breeds success."
China's appetite for tennis seems only growing, with Allaster saying a huge chunk of their fans were coming from the country where the WTA will have eight events next year, up from two in 2008, as other sports continue to struggle to make an impact.
The former tournament director, who assumed the role of CEO and chairman of the WTA in July 2009, said role models were key.
"Whether we like it or not the glass ceiling still exists and there are barriers to success for different people around the world," she said, citing women's tennis pioneer Billie Jean King as hers.
"The one thing about women's tennis it is a platform for athletes to be role models to show others in society that they can make it.
"I just look at what is happening in the United States right now, there are 10 Americans in the top 100 and I think five or six of them are under the age of 21. That is the Serena and Venus (Williams) impact of the last decade," Allaster said.
There are three Chinese players in the top 51 and 10 in the 300 after the rankings were update on Monday following Zhang's win as she jumped from 112 to 74 following the 24-year-old's first WTA title.
Zhang, along with Peng Shuai, Zheng Jie and Yan Zi, opted to follow in Li's footsteps and breakaway from China's state-run training system in order to have a greater control of her career.
Allaster said the WTA had no part in the decision but said the organization had a history of strong women.
"Those decisions are 100 percent of the athletes and we have had no dialogue with them. I think for all our athletes, whatever nation they come from, we want to give them a pathway to success, education is a key part of it," she said.
"I think 1973, the history of the WTA was about women's empowerment, strong confident women being successful on their own, so that is who we are and always have been and any day I see one of our athletes be successful on or off the court I tip my hat to them."
Backed by the confidence of success in China, the WTA have eyes on Singapore and Southeast Asia as the next market for growth as their tournament portfolio in Asia-Pacific continues to increase.
Singapore will host the WTA's end of season championships for five years from 2014 and the organization are in the process of setting up an office in the wealthy citystate to help with their plans.
Allaster was cautious about predicting a repeat success of their China venture in a market known for corruption in sports, but said Li Na had meant anything was possible.
"Everyone has to be patient, sport development doesn't happen overnight. Li Na didn't happen overnight.
"We went to China before Li Na had made it, we committed to China in building the foundation of our strategy and in many respects we are doing the same here in Southeast Asia.
"Li came along a lot sooner that we had thought, and I never would have thought we would have a Chinese player with a grand slam in 2011 after we opened an office in 2008."
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16-year-olds plead not guilty in beating death of World War II veteran in Wash. state
SPOKANE, Wash. – Two 16-year-old boys are pleading not guilty in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran in Spokane, Wash.
Demetruis Glenn and Kenan Adams-Kinard entered the pleas Wednesday afternoon in separate appearances before Spokane County Superior Court Judge James Triplet.
The defendants said little else during their brief appearances.
They're accused of beating Delbert "Shorty" Belton to death outside an Eagles Lodge on Aug. 22. He had survived being shot in the leg in 1945 in the battle for Okinawa.
The judge set November trial dates for each of the defendants, who are being tried as adults.
They remain in jail on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery. They face up to life in prison if convicted.


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Stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith return along with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for this sequel to the 1995 sleeper hit Bad Boys, the film that sparked the careers of both actors, as well as Bay. Once again, Lawrence and Smith play hotshot, wisecracking Miami narcotics officers Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey. This time around, Burnett and Lowrey have been assigned to head up a task force to investigate the illegal trafficking of ecstasy into the city. They discover that an underground gang war has been instigated by drug kingpin Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla). In order to cut off the flow of the designer drug, they have to take down Tapia. Unfortunately, there's a wrench thrown into the gears in the form of Burnett's sister Syd, whom Lowrey takes a liking to and begins a relationship with. Tensions rise between the partners, threatening both their friendship and the investigation and putting Syd in harm's way. Also returning from the first film are Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard, Theresa Randle as Burnett's wife Theresa, and former-NBA star John Salley as 'Hacker' Fletcher. Among the supporting players new to this entry in the series are Peter Stormare and musician, spoken-word artist, and sometimes-actor Henry Rollins. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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- Will Smith - Det. Mike Lowrey
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- 'Lunch lady' Sandy Lenhardt has been serving St. Vrain students for 23 years
- Making It Work: Sparks fly at Longmont custom motorcycle shop
- Cleaning sewer water a 32-year career for Longmont plant's operator Keith Kendall
- Phlebotomist Deb Romero used to faint at the sight of needles
- Larry West oversees SVVSD athletic facilities
- Kyle Miller has settled comfortably into his job in Lyons public works
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LONGMONT -- If there is one feature of Longmont that is visible to more people at one time than any other, it's the aircraft of Mile-Hi Skydiving.
The company's jump ships, as it refers to its three skydiving planes, are a common sight in the airspace over western Longmont. Its flagship -- its pride and joy, its symbolic heart -- is a custom-equipped de Havilland Twin Otter.
For many in Longmont, the plane is as familiar over their neighborhood as their letter carrier's truck is in their neighborhood. The plane also may be -- because of complaints over the noise its two propellers make -- the single most-discussed vehicle in the city.
Unlike letter carriers, however, Mile-Hi's jump ship pilots are virtually unknown. They're faceless fliers of planes with high profiles.
Making It Work
As we turn our calendars from 2012 to 2013, the Times-Call takes a look at the people who make our community work, 365 days a year. Through Wednesday, read about the people whose names and faces might not have been familiar to you, even if the jobs they do are.
Today: Clayton Schultz, skydiving pilot
Wednesday: Sandy Lenhardt, lunch lady
Clayton Schultz is one of those fliers, and he's been doing it longer than most of his colleagues.
A friend who flew there helped him get a job at Mile-Hi when he was a young pilot working as a baggage handler at Denver International Airport. It was his first piloting job.
Now, at 40, his aviation career has progressed both in and out of the cockpit -- he now pilots a Pilatis PC-12 for a client through M&N Aviation, and he used to work as manager of ramp operations for Air Wisconsin Airlines -- but he has always maintained a relationship with Mile-Hi, where he's currently one of about half a dozen pilots. He enjoys the work and expresses great respect for Mile-Hi, which he says maintains high safety standards and an unwavering community-mindedness.
Planes have fascinated Schultz for as long as he can remember.
"I've never not wanted to fly," he said.
He began building model planes as a kid and entered his U-Control planes in 4-H competitions. He was named champion for two years, he said.
As a high school student in Fort Collins, he pumped fuel at the Fort Collins Downtown Airport to raise money for flight school. On the day he flew solo for he first time, his instructor hadn't told him in advance of the momentous occasion, but she called his parents, who surprised him at the airport when he landed.
He'll never forget his first sensation of being alone in the air, he said.
"I'm the only person who can make this happen or not," Schultz recalled thinking. "It's a super cool feeling."
He went on to earn a degree in aviation from what is now Metropolitan State University of Denver, and he continues to train for piloting various kinds of aircraft.
The Twin Otter is one of aviation's most reliable and versatile workhorses. Its high-lift wing makes it well suited for slow speeds and short runways, and it's relatively easy to control in turbulent weather. It can be equipped with skis or floats. It's a popular aircraft with bush pilots and in underdeveloped countries, and it's central to many skydiving operations.
"It's an awesome piece of machinery," Schultz said, adding that Mile-Hi has performed exhaustive renovations on its Twin Otter and subjects it to a rigorous maintenance regimen.
The Mile-Hi Twin Otter holds 23 passengers. Those passengers help make Schultz's job endlessly exciting.
"For me, it's cool to see somebody else enjoy this," he said. "I love being at a job where people are really having fun and enjoying it."
He's aware of people on the ground, too. He thinks of them every day, as does everyone at Mile-Hi, he said. Company policies regulate aircraft power settings, flight profiles and other variables to lessen the impact of operations on the community, Schultz said.
"During all of our training, we discuss that," he said. "The general person doesn't realize how much of what we do is shaped by the community."
Schultz himself was reluctant at first to jump out of an airplane.
"It took them a couple of years to convince me," he said. "Then it took them another couple of years to convince me to do it again. ... It's a personal challenge for me to convince me it's a good idea."
Nevertheless, he now has 120 jumps to his credit.
Asked if he likes jumping now, Schultz said, "I enjoy it." He paused, then added, "I like flying the airplane."
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How times have changed since the days I attended Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colorado, in terms of cycling opportunities.
In the early 1970s many roads in the nearby mountains were dirt. This was before I knew sturdy tires could handle the dirt roads, although I recall the roads had a fair amount of gravel.
Fast forward to September 2012 and a beautiful day in the Rockies. I parked at Big Thompson Elementary School at Hwy 34 (Big Thompson Canyon) and rode north on County Road 27, Buckhorn Road.
It's a gradual climb through a peaceful valley to Masonville. On the way you can check out the Arkins Park Stone Quarry on your left, where a lot of flagstone is taken out for building projects.
Masonville is one of those outposts from the 1890s back when there was still gold fever. Nothing panned out though. There's a general store where you can stock up on provisions. Do so now because there aren't any stores until near Fort Collins.
Turning left, I continued on Buckhorn Road through more lush valleys where you'll find isolated, modern faux ranch homes scattered among the surrounding hills.
As the miles tick by you'll start a series of stair-step climbs which get steeper by the mile, probably around 8 percent at their steepest. The elevation only goes to about 7,300 feet from 5,200 feet, with many ups and downs.
Buckhorn Canyon narrows
My favorite section comes where the road narrows as it heads through a rocky outcrop and passes a grove of aspen. If you leave early on a Sunday morning, you won't see much traffic, although it picks up later in the day as the motorcycle tourists show up to enjoy the view. You will see a fair number of competitive cyclists riding out here.
The road name changes to Stove Prairie a few miles before the Rist Canyon Road junction and summit.
It's also here where you'll notice the effects of the High Park Fire that burned 87,000 acres, destroyed 259 homes and took one life. It started on June 9 from a lightning strike and was fully contained a month later.
Fortunately the fire skipped along the high peaks and left the valleys I saw unscathed, although I avoided Rist Canyon where most of the damage occurred.
Rist Canyon popular
Rist Canyon Road climbs steadily from Fort Collins at about a 6 percent grade. Coming from Stove Prairie Road there's a steep climb of about a mile before the descent begins. (It was dirt in the 1970s.)
I continued downhill on Stove Prairie Road because I wanted to check out Poudre Canyon where I spent a lot of time in my youth. Watch out for the cattle guards on the way down. The second one has a wide gap where you can ding your rim.
It's a brisk descent on the winding road through Roosevelt National Forest. Turn right at Poudre Canyon Road and you'll have a spectacular view of Poudre River as you head downhill on a gentle grade. If only the traffic weren't so bad!
Even in the 1970s it wasn't pleasant, but today Poudre Canyon is the gateway for RVs and trailers going to the high country. I didn't see a single cyclist on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon, and I'm not surprised.
Call it Karma: As I emerged from the canyon I passed the truck hauling its oversize camper that nearly ran me off the road. Its owner changed a flat tire as I sped by.
Ted's Place a memory
I stopped at the historic Ted's Place store at the Hwy 287 junction. Today the store is gone and there's just a cookie-cutter gas station. The original building looked like a Swiss chalet and stocked just about anything a camper could need.
After hours in the saddle on a dry, warm day in the Rockies, you'll develop a powerful thirst. Bring plenty of water on these days to avoid dehydration.
I continued south on 287 for a short distance before turning right on W. County Road 54E, then left at Rist Canyon Road, which leads to Bellvue with its old buildings surrounded by farm land. There's a state fish hatchery nearby worth a look.
Horsetooth Reservoir climbs
In Bellvue turn right and continue south on County Road 23, which is also called Centennial Drive. Horsetooth Reservoir's narrow lake is nestled between two ridges and goes for miles. You'll enjoy the ups and downs along the way, with grades of about 8 percent. From up here you'll have sweeping views of Fort Collins. Hughes Stadium is also at the base of the mountain. It's a nice spot, but too far away from the CSU campus, in the opinion of many.
Once past the southern end of the reservoir, there's one more long climb before the road levels and it's mostly downhill back to Masonville on W. County Road 38E, then south to Hwy 34 for a 60-mile trip. An alternate route is to go left on County Road 25E, Glade Road and miss Masonville.
There's plenty of nearby adventure riding in this area on dirt roads, as documented by Bicycle Quarterly.
Tags: Buckhorn Road, Colorado, Fort Collins, Horsetooth Reservoir


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May 16, 2006
LOS ANGELES – Continuing an upward trend, Financial Times ranked UCLA Anderson's Executive Education program 23rd in the world, up one spot from its 2005 ranking. This year marks the publication of the eighth annual Financial Times survey of international non-degree executive education programs. It ranks open and custom programs, and presents a combined ranking for business schools that offer both types of courses.
In the open enrollment category, UCLA Anderson ranked 18th, also up one spot from 2005's survey. UCLA Anderson's custom programs showed significant improvement in the rankings as well, moving to number 33, six spots higher than the previous year. UCLA Anderson's three-year average in open enrollment programs is 19.
Among the highlights for UCLA Anderson is a top-ten ranking in the new skills and learning category (#10), a #14 rating in the teaching materials category and a #14 rating for follow-up.
"The great thing about the Financial Times survey is that it provides a global overview for executive education programs and it's wonderful that we're part of it," said Laurie Dowling, director of UCLA Anderson's Executive Education programs. "We're living in a global economy and executives from Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Beijing and Los Angeles are more closely tied than they were ten years ago. This is an international ranking and with UCLA Anderson's location on the Pacific Rim and its ties to Latin America and Europe, it's completely appropriate that we are highly thought of in the global community. This is part of Dean (Judy D.) Olian's vision."
Dowling credits the UCLA Anderson faculty, in part, for the program's success in the survey. "Our faculty revels in teaching new ways of thinking. That's one area we are measured on and our faculty really teaches in creative ways. We have an incredible faculty whom we're proud to have associated with our executive education programs."
Visit the Financial Times Web site
Read a Financial Times Interview with UCLA Anderson Dean Judy D. Olian
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 34,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.


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" What do I do if there is low or no suction when pumping with the Pump In Style? "
- Make sure all connections of the kit and breastpump are secure.
- If single pumping, make sure the port plug is placed into one of the single pumping ports.
- Make sure white membrane is laying flat against the yellow valve head. Check that the yellow valve head is clean and not damaged. Refer to the assembly instructions.
- Make sure the diaphragm cap or faceplate on the front of the breastpump fits evenly and securely.
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I can't decide if this is just a tribute to someone or if it is a marker. What do you guys think?
Located at Upper Clifty Cemetery in Clifty, AR.
In Memory of
Nola M. Jones
Its labeled N W E S like a compass.
I'm voting for "tribute". She was probably as bad at directions as I am. 8-)ReplyDelete
How very curious. Going on its location, I'm going for tribute, too. The mortar on the base looks recently attended to. What's the pyramid made of? Fascinating!ReplyDelete
I believe the pyramid was made out of concrete.ReplyDelete
I don't know; I'll have to sit on this one for awhile.ReplyDelete


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The Ravens once again clash heads with the Pittsburgh Steelers this week. For the fifth consecutive meeting between these two teams, 1 game or less separates them in the standings. Fortunately, though, the Ravens have a slightly higher margin for error right now than Pittsburgh does. A Ravens loss would not preclude them from backing into the playoffs with a win in Oakland next week, though they would likely need at least some help. A Steeler loss, and the "Stairway to Seven" BS stops until 2010.
Realistically, the Steelers are living on borrowed time as it is. Any hopes they had for the postseason SHOULD have ended last week at the hands of the Green Bay Packers. Of course, some boneheaded "prevent" defense from Green Bay in the final minute, along with a ridiculous illegal contact flag that negated what should have been a game ending interception, sprinkled in with some patented Pittsburgh dumb luck all made for a last-second win for Baby Ben and his minions of infighting teammates.
If the Ravens can manage a season sweep, they can be the ones to deal the knock-out punch to the Steelers' season. Like most Ravens fans though, I hardly get the "warm and fuzzies" any time the Ravens play in the Steel City, even in a season where the enemy has lost to such powerhouses as Oakland, Kansas City, and Cleveland. They're still a respectable 5-2 at ketchup-mush field, and the Ravens have only won there once this decade (a glorious 34-7 schellacking in 2006).
The Ravens have had two weeks to basically warm-up for this game, with Detroit and Chicago putting up very little resistance. On the bright side, the offense appears to be firing on all cylinders, and the defense forcing turnovers like it was 2008 all over again. However, let's hope they haven't forgotten that not all teams are so eager to roll over and die, and that they aren't shocked and confused when the guys that can only afford logos for one side of their helmets hit back a little bit.
Joe Flacco has followed up the worst game of his career, the Monday Nighter at Lambeau, with two of his best. Since throwing 3 interceptions that night, he has 5 touchdowns and no picks in his last 55 attempts. The Pittsburgh secondary is playing their worst football in years, and will again be without Troy Polamalu to make everything better. The way to attack them is to spread them out, but with the Ravens a bit knicked up at WR, that may be a tenuous prospect. Mark Clayton and Kelley Washington are both expected to play, but it remains to be seen how effective they will be after missing some time. The emergence of Demetrius Williams lately has Ravens fans cautiously optimistic – if "Completrius" can show some consistency by having a big game in the land of 1000 bridges, it will go a long way towards a Ravens victory.
Also promising was Todd Heap reappearing in the offense to score twice against the Bears. Joe Cool will need as many weapons as possible running wild in the Pittsburgh defensive backfield Sunday, as that is where the Steelers are most vulnerable. Up front, the line will have to play like they did in the first half of the first Pittsburgh game, and give those guys time to find the holes. If Lamarr Woodley and James Harrison can get cranked up like they were able to in the 2nd half in B'More, it could be a long day for Joe and Ravens fans alike.
Defensively, the Ravens could be in more than a little trouble. The loss of Lardarius Webb has the potential to be HUGE, not just this week, but for the Ravens' season in general. Dominique Foxworth may have been the AFC Defensive Player of the Week last week, but now he goes up against Baby Ben, who was his counterpart on the Offensive side of the ball in Week 15. Ben threw for over 500 yards against Green Bay, and he is no doubt salivating at the idea of seeing Foxworth, Chris Carr, and Frank Walker out there chasing his guys around. If there is one glimmer of hope, it is that Ed Reed practiced on Friday, and could finally get back into a game this week. Keep your fingers crossed.
The loss of Webb hurts doubly, as the Ravens are now less equipped to take advantage of Pittsburgh's other glaring weakness, their return coverage. The Ravens have yet to announce who will handle kickoffs, but rest assured, whoever it is, does not worry the Steelers like Webb would have.
The offenses look poised to dominate a Pittsburgh-Baltimore matchup – what kind of crazy, backwards world is this that we are living in?
Just keep reminding yourselves, Ravens fans, a loss does NOT doom the Ravens this week.
We may have to make it our mantra.
Steelers 31 Ravens 24
(sprinkles some of Santa's magic dust on the score prediction)
Ravens 27 Steelers 26


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Ed, I have a 7029110 K-8 CH tag is you need a pic. I assume Gm skipped the I for Sept in dating.
Great report ED. Thanks from all of us north of the border.
Fuel line in front of the 2Bbl suggests the larger SAE 1-1/2" version of the 2GV vs. the smaller SAE 1-1/4" version of the 2GV used on the base 327/210 and 307/200 engines. Consistent with what I've observed on 2 Bbl applications on 327/235 Hp engines on full size Chevys in 1969 which also got the SAE 1-1/2" 2GV carb. Makes sense that the SAE 1-1/2" 2 Bbl would also get used on the L65 (350/250 hp) engine.


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Editor's note: Windows
8 provides a number of platform capabilities for enabling highly responsive
touch support in applications, ranging from hardware accelerated graphics and
improved touch targeting to the a new app platform that makes it easy to build
touch-optimized Windows 8-style apps. The new Office takes advantage of these
to deliver great new touch-based experiences on Windows 8. Clint Covington, a lead program manager for our User Experience
team authored this post. We're hearing reports of IE10 users not successfully viewing the videos. If you are unable to play the videos, please visit the Office Next page on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftOfficeNext . We've also updated the post to point to higher quality videos on Office channel on YouTube, and these are compatible with IE10 (both modes).
On Monday in San Francisco we took the wraps off of the new
Office's touch experience designed for Windows 8. We showed the new touch-optimized
Windows 8-style app for OneNote, and we showed how we've touch-enabled Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps on the desktop. The new Office is
designed for a great experience whether you're sitting on a couch with a
tablet, or at a desk with a mouse and keyboard. It makes common tasks fast,
fluid, and intuitive, while still enabling the rich capabilities required to
create high-quality documents. In this
post I'll walk you through the thinking, engineering process and design
framework we used to reimagine these experiences for touch.
Our vision for touch
When we started planning the next version of Office, it was
clear that touch was going to be a big part of how people used Office in the
future, and we were excited about the opportunity to add a delightful new
dimension to our apps. Hardware was evolving rapidly to enable new types of PCs
and mobile devices, and along with them new styles of interaction, new physical
postures, and new usage locations. We believed people would continue to use
Office at their desks, and type on physical keyboards at a desktop or laptop,
but would also start to use tablets and hybrid laptop/tablet devices in a
variety of other situations: leaning back in a chair, leaning forward on a
train, bus, or plane, sitting on a couch, lying in bed, standing and holding
with two hands, or walking down the hall.
We analyzed what kinds of tasks were comfortable to do in
each of the postures, and what kinds of input were best for different kinds of
tasks. For example, a physical keyboard is optimal for large amounts of typing
(still significantly faster than an on-screen keyboard for most people). A
mouse is optimal for precise targeting, and touch is great for broad strokes
such as scrolling and zooming. In some postures, such as standing, touch is the
preferred input, while the efficiency of typing at a desk is hard to beat. Each
posture and input characteristic is great for some jobs and not as good for
others. We wanted to make sure Office apps felt intuitive, natural and
comfortable as across different postures and different kinds of input.
In parallel, Windows was introducing deep investments in
touch, ranging from new touch digitizer requirements for touch-enabled PC
hardware, through new touch drivers, new platform APIs, and a new user
experience. This platform provided us with the core capabilities to deliver a
natural experience across our applications and the new usage postures. (As a
side note, many of Office's new touch capabilities will work on touch machines
running Windows 7, but improvements in the underlying platform in Windows 8
make the experience substantially better, improving everything from the touch
targeting accuracy – making it easier to tap the button you meant to tap – to the
button sizes on the screen, to the speed and responsiveness of the touch
We've invested in touch in two ways for the next version of
Office. The first is that we've begun to build new versions of some of our apps
(OneNote and Lync) specifically tailored for the new experience in Windows 8.
For these, we deliberately started from scratch to design new versions that
were touch-first. The second is that we've touch-enabled the familiar desktop
versions of all of the Office apps. These continue to be designed first and
foremost for mouse & keyboard, and to preserve the features & layout
you're used to, but now support touch throughout the experience. This dual
approach allows you to immediately get the full power of Office on a touch
machine with no relearning required, along with new experiences that embrace
touch from the ground up and deeply integrate with the new experiences in
Windows 8.
The scope of our vision meant we would be making broad changes
across all of the Office applications. We started by identifying the heavily
traveled paths through each app and using these to focus our efforts. Some examples were working with mail, sending
an instant message, reading a document, editing a spreadsheet, and presenting a
slide deck. We wanted to ensure that each of these felt great end-to-end using
only touch, or a mixture of touch, mouse, and keyboard.
Guidelines for touch
The next step was to develop a common framework for how we
would enable touch across Office. After comparing our current experiences with
where we wanted to go, we came up with the following areas of investment:
- Touch responsiveness
- Touch targeting
- Selecting text & objects
- Typing
- Commanding
We wrote detailed guidelines for each of these areas and
established minimum bar expectations for how the work should come together. We
worked closely with people across the company to make sure the internal touch
language is consistent across Microsoft experiences and cultivate learning
transfer. We built out scorecards for each scenario and identified areas of
work that needed to happen to achieve a consistent, responsive and delightful
experience that leaves people touching with confidence. Here is an example of
one of our early scorecards for the work with mail scenario:
Let's take a look at each of these guidelines.
Touch responsiveness
When you touch something, it needs to immediately respond. Content needs to "stick to your finger" when
you pan and zoom. The UI needs to respond with inertia and bounce when flicked
or reach the top/end of sections. Pictures need to immediately resize as you
drag your finger, and text needs to reflow around it to give the user a sense
of physical realness to the action.
To build an experience where content sticks to a finger, we
had to refactor much of the document surface to use a compositor where content
is rendered into images and moved around on the screen with animations. This
required us to migrate away from GDI to modern hardware accelerated graphics
services. The result of this work is an experience that feels natural and
responsive. Here are some examples:
Targeting refers to successfully touching the thing you're
trying to touch. Targeting is almost entirely about raw physical size. Fingers
are much bigger than mouse pointers or pen tips, so things need to be
physically larger on the screen in order to be comfortable to touch. The
Windows team did extensive research to develop guidelines for hit target sizes,
which we used throughout our designs.
The new Windows 8-style apps for OneNote and Lync were
designed from scratch, so we were able to ensure that every part of the
experience was easy to touch right out of the gate. In the desktop apps, many
of the typical hit targets designed for mouse and keyboard did not meet these
guidelines, so we had to figure out how to resize them. We identified two types
user interface elements that needed to be adjusted larger:
- Fixed parts
of the user interface that are always visible, such as the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), status bar, ribbon, and folders in
- Contextual
parts of the user interface that appear
in response to a user action, such as context menus and the Minibar
Fixed user interface elements
Many fixed user interface elements fell well below the
minimum size to be touchable. It was not possible to reliably touch common
commands like the Save button in the QAT. So we added a new feature called
Touch Mode that increases the size of fixed UI. Touch Mode is automatically
turned on for properly configured tablet machines. It increases the size of the
QAT, Ribbon tabs, adds spacing around small buttons in the ribbon, increases
the height of the status bar, turns on the Outlook touch triage action bar and
adds space to expanded folders in Outlook. Here is an example of a portion of
the Word ribbon with Touch Mode on and off:
Touch Mode Off:
Touch Mode On:
You can turn on Touch Mode by clicking on the QAT overflow
and selecting the Touch Mode icon.
The icon then will show up in the QAT and can easily toggle Touch Mode on and
Contextual user interface elements
A lot of Office's contextual UI (menus, context menus, color
pickers, mini-tool bar, etc) contains small hit targets as well. Since
contextual UI isn't visible until you take an action, we can decide whether to
show a touch or mouse-optimized version based on whether the action was a touch
or a mouse click. So contextual UI can always be the right size regardless of
whether you're in touch mode. For example, if a context menu was invoked through
touch, we spaced items in the menu to make it more comfortable to touch. Here
is an example of how the color picker renders differently for touch verses the
For shapes, charts and pictures we increased the size of the
grab handles and used Windows touch targeting APIs to make it easier for users
to select and resize objects.
New Windows 8 APIs tell us the shape of a finger on the
screen and the first contact point. If the first contact point is not inside
the grab handle, we have the opportunity to detect if a finger overlapped it
and ensure the selection is successful. The end result is a finger feels more
precise and people miss-tap less. These touch targeting APIs are used across
Office to help users touch with confidence through more accurate determination
of user intent for sloppy or imprecise touches. See the Touch
hardware and Windows 8 post on the Windows
8 Engineering blog for more detail.
Positioning an object by dragging
One special case of targeting is grabbing and object and
dragging it. When you are simply dragging something onto another object, for
example, dragging an e-mail onto a folder in Outlook, the difficulty of
targeting the folder while dragging isn't much different from trying to simply
tap on it. (It's actually a bit easier.) However, when you're dragging an
object in order to position it, it's hard to get the same precision you get
with a mouse. To help with this, we've added guidelines and snap points that
appear automatically when moving or resizing pictures, shapes and other
objects. This makes it easy to line them up with margins or other objects.
Text and object selection
One of the most fundamental actions in Office is selection
of text and objects. Mice and keyboards make selection easy with precise
targeting & modifiers such as the shift and control keys. A finger lacks
the precision required to do these operations efficiently, so we worked with
the Windows team to develop a series of selection patterns for text and
We added new text selection handles to Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, OneNote, Visio, Lync and messages in Outlook. Here are a couple of examples
from Word and Excel:
These are the same text selection handles you see across
Windows 8 in apps like the new modern browser.
To select multiple objects, we followed the Windows
guidelines for cross-slide to select multiple slides and drag and drop to
rearrange. You can easily select multiple objects in PowerPoint by keeping one
finger down and tapping on other shapes and pictures.
Typing is a part of many scenarios in Office. Windows 8 made
a large investment in its on-screen or "virtual" keyboard. In the new Windows
8-style apps for OneNote and Lync, the virtual keyboard appears and disappears
automatically, leveraging APIs provided by Windows.
In the desktop apps, we needed to do some more work:
- The keyboard didn't appear automatically when
you needed it
- It sometimes covered what you were typing
- You had little space left to work while it was visible
Invoking the keyboard
With Office 2010 and Windows 7, people have to manually
invoke the keyboard through clicking on the keyboard icon in the Windows task
bar. Windows 8 provides new desktop APIs that allow Office to hide and show the
virtual keyboard automatically.
Keyboard covers what you're typing
Few things cause more frustration in touch than when the
virtual keyboard shows up and overlaps content or the area where you are
typing. It is even more frustrating when as you type, the cursor scrolls under
the keyboard. Windows 8 includes new desktop APIs that inform our applications
when the keyboard is coming and going, as well as where it is on the screen.
This lets our applications scroll content out of the way and keep the cursor in
view as you type.
Working space when the keyboard is visible
We found there was little space to work with content when
the ribbon is expanded and the virtual keyboard is up. This leaves users
feeling cramped and frustrated. To solve this problem, we default the ribbon to
collapsed mode on tablet machines. This gives users more space to work. We
introduced a number of subtle refinements to the interaction model of the
ribbon to make it work even better in collapsed mode. You will notice that it
now is possible to execute multiple commands at a time (such as Bold, Italic
and Underline). Yet, when you execute a command that is highly unlikely to be
followed up by another ribbon click, it goes away (e.g. Insert Table).
We also build a full screen view that allows users to hide
the ribbon and status bar so they can focus on content and see even more lines
of text or rows of cells without the chrome taking away from valuable content
space. We will provide more details about full screen view in a subsequent
Minimize the need to type overall
The virtual keyboard is not as efficient for typing text as
a physical keyboard. Many of our scenarios and new postures required users to
use the virtual keyboard to complete a job, and we wanted to reduce traffic to
the virtual keyboard where ever possible.
Common patterns include suggestion menus and most recently
used (MRU) lists that remember previous input. For many years, applications
remember paths to recently opened documents. This used to work well, as people
primarily used one computer. With the use of Smart Phones, Tablets and the
cloud, people need to access documents across different machines, at home and
at work. If you are connected to the Office service, your document and common
locations MRU will roam across all of your devices. This significantly reduces
traffic to the file open and file save dialogs which invariably involves typing
in hard to remember, archaic file paths.
Excel's new Flash Fill is another feature that saves you
time because Office does the typing for you. Here's how it works:
The final area of focus for touch is the command experience.
In the desktop apps, it was nearly impossible to complete
any of our scenarios without using the Ribbon, Backstage, Context Menus or MiniBar.
Additionally, we know from the Customer Experience Improvement Program that
many commands are executed through the keyboard. Some of the most common
commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete are most frequently executed through
the keyboard and not the application's command interface. Here are a few of the
guiding principles we came up with as we refined the commanding experience:
- Common commands are easy to find and fast to use
- Users locate commands in consistent places
between touch and mouse/keyboard experiences
- Frequent keyboard actions
(cut/copy/paste/delete) are easily accessible
- The user experiences feels familiar and
As we evaluated our scenarios, we found that most would be
accomplished with a small subset of commands. When people use Office with touch,
we expect them to work on different tasks than sitting at a desk with a mouse
and keyboard. We also found for many contexts (selected text, picture, shape,
table, etc) a small number of commands make up the majority of actions. As
mentioned earlier, the vertical real estate becomes a scarce commodity. All of
these insights lead us to want to provide users with quick access to common
commands while keeping enough vertical real estate to work with their content.
In addition, in designing our new apps for Windows 8, we
aimed to be consistent with the goals and design language of all of the other
Windows 8 apps that are being developed and deliver an experience optimized to
help you get your work done. Most importantly, we expect you to be able to
focus on your work and we want the Office user interface to get out of the way.
Windows 8 is designed so that apps have control of every bit of real estate on
the screen and we want to pass that real estate on to you. This gives you
the room you need to work – to read, to type, to move around and see your
content. When you do need to take an action, then the commands that you
need are just a click, tap, or swipe away.
Office 2007 introduced the concept of a MiniBar
a small strip of commands that show up when you select text or certain objects.
The minibar was designed to provide efficient access to frequent commands. For
Office 15, we extended the minibar to support our touch scenarios.
In the desktop apps, we changed it to show up when users tap
on selected items like text, cells, images and shapes. We added common keyboard
commands such as Paste, Cut, Copy and Delete to decrease traffic to the virtual
keyboard and help people accomplish scenarios much faster. Here the MiniBar for
a picture:
For second-tier commands, there is also a contextual menu
drop down from the MiniBar. These are the less frequent commands, but makes the
common right click actions with a mouse and keyboard also available with touch.
When the contextual menu shows, it does not repeat commands already on the
minibar (such as cut, copy and paste). Here is the same picture with the
context menu expanded:
In-Canvas Commands
Communicate with others is one of our most important
scenarios for tablets because we expect users to spend lots of time in Outlook
triaging mail. We found for mail there were a small set of commands that
dominate usage. These frequent commands include Reply, Reply All, Forward, Delete,
Move to Folder, Flag and Mark as Unread.
Originally we exposed these options in the mail message list.
As we started using Outlook on tablets, it became clear the posture of the
usage was different. It was extremely difficult to target a delete button in
the middle of the screen when in the preferred lean forward posture while
holding the device with two hands. In this position it is much easier to use
thumbs to target real estate along the edges.
Here is how the thumb bar works in Outlook:
Radial menus
Your tools at your fingertips. That's the goal behind
the radial menus that
are available while you are typing and editing in the new OneNote app for
Windows 8. The commands that we expect you to use most while editing, we
make available next to your content. While
you are working, your commands stay tucked behind the menu. But when you
need to format your text, for example, just click or tap on the radial menu and
the commands you need appear:
The radial menu is designed so that the most common commands
you need are available immediately. Then if you need more commands, you
can just swipe your finger out from the center of the menu or tap on any of the
arrows around the menu. For instance, more formatting commands are
available right there next to bold:
You'll also notice that when the commands are tucked away,
the radial menu changes based on what you are doing. For example, if you
are typing and need to insert a table or a bulleted list, you'll see:
However, if you are working with images, you'll see:
Under each menu are the commands or tools that you'll need
at that time. And you don't even need to expand the menu to select the 8 most
common actions. You can just swipe the radial menu in the direction of the
command you want. For example, if you have some text selected, swiping right on
the collapsed radial menu will bold text, swiping up will copy, and swiping left
will undo. They're like keyboard shortcuts for touch. These quick swipes are just
one more way radial menus can make touch interactions more fast and fluid,
without getting in the way of your content.
App Bar
Finally, like all other Windows 8 style apps, we expose the
commands that you need to navigate within Lync and OneNote in an app bar at the
bottom of the screen. Just swipe in from
the edge of the screen or right click (or press the Windows key + Z) and an app
bar slides in:
In this screen shot from OneNote, you can see that you can
move back and forward through your notes, bring up your list of notebooks or
pages, add a new page, or give us feedback on the app (please do!).
The app bar will also change based on what you right clicked
on. For example, if you right click on a section within an OneNote
notebook, additional commands will appear on the left side of the app bar.
Now you can also rename or delete the section or copy a link to that section:
We are excited about the opportunity to enable a whole new
set of usage postures for Office, from the bus to the plane to the couch to the
hallway. We are excited how with touch common tasks are fast, fluid and
intuitive while still enabling the rich capabilities required to create
high-quality documents. We hope you enjoy using the new Office as much as we
did building it. There is still a bit of touch polish work left but I encourage
you to download the preview, install
OneNote MX, and please give us feedback. We look forward to your comments!


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House Call for Gorilla
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]
How do you do a brain scan on a gorilla. Yeah, yeah, very carefully, right. He sleeps anywhere he wants to, too. But seriously, trying to do an MRI on a gorilla presents certain logistical problems. Back in the 1980s, when a gorilla at the Bronx Zoo needed to be scanned, zoo staff working with pathologists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine slipped the sedated primate into Montefiore Hospital in the dead of night. The only sign of anything unusual was a big hairy arm sticking out from under a sheet on a gurney.
Recently, another Bronx Zoo gorilla, named Fubo, needed some high-tech evaluation after he had a seizure. But now the MRI machine could come to him. The Brain Tumor Foundation sent its Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit over to the zoo. Murcer was a New York Yankee outfielder and broadcaster whose life was cut short in 2008 by a brain tumor. Einstein physicians again worked with zoo vets to diagnose the problem. Which appears to be a lesion in Fubo's left temporal lobe. He's being treated—but won't be released! To see images of the procedure, check out the slide show on our Web site, www.SciAm.com
—Steve Mirsky


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JDI announced Governor Patrick to Chair 2014 White Ribbon Day Campaign
December 05, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Toni Troop
Thursday, December 5, 2013 617-212-7571, email@example.com
Jane Doe Inc. announces Governor Patrick as Chair of White Ribbon Day Campaign to help end violence against women
Governor Deval Patrick will serve as Chair of the 7th Annual White Ribbon Day Campaign sponsored by Jane Doe Inc. The Campaign kicks-off Friday, December 6, 2013, on the 24th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre that catalyzed the international White Ribbon movement of men and boys working to end violence against women.
In the coming months, Governor Patrick will actively engage men and boys to join him in making both a private and public commitment to be part of this prevention effort.
"As Governor, as a father and as a husband I am proud to serve as this year's Chair of the Massachusetts White Ribbon Day Campaign," said Governor Patrick. "Violence against women is a violation of all of our human rights and it will take the voices of each one of us to end that violence."
Massachusetts White Ribbon Day will take place at the State House on March 6, 2014. Men and boys will be invited to take the Massachusetts White Ribbon Day Pledge and wear the ribbon that day.
To date, over 75 local affiliates and 500 individual ambassadors have signed on to help promote the campaign and commit to serving as role models of healthy masculinity for other men & boys in their lives. Affiliates and Ambassadors host events, initiate dialogues, and recruit others to pledge their support.
Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator of the campaign explained, "What might appear as a simple act of taking a pledge and wearing a ribbon can have a profound impact by shifting the social norms around violence against women. Sexual violence, rape, stalking, domestic violence, & human trafficking can be hard topics for us talk about. But we must, as men, face these widespread and basic violations of human rights that impact the women and girls in our lives here in the Commonwealth and around the globe."
As noted in a recent document issued by the United Nations' Partners for Prevention, focusing on these forms of violence as human rights issues that are intricately connected to is essential since it is a "well-documented hypothesis that violence against women is a manifestation of unequal gender relations and harmful manifestations of hegemonic masculinity governed by patriarchal beliefs, institutions and systems."
A Public Service Announcement for Massachusetts White Ribbon Day featuring Governor Patrick will be released in early 2014.
For more information on the campaign, please visit www.janedoe.org/whiteribbonday.
To schedule an interview, please contact Toni K. Troop, Director of Communications at Jane Doe Inc., at (617)557-1807 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The West Virginia State Wildlife Center: A Legacy of Wildlife Conservation and Education
by Rob Silvester
Though its mission and name have changed during the past 80 years, the state wildlife center's popularity has remained constant.
Mountain Fish Show Their Spring Colors
by John Beckman and Nanci Bross-Fregonara
Native fishes add splashes of color to West Virginia streams in the spring.
Want to Lend a Helping Hand? Think Twice
by Jim Fregonara
Beginning flyers often require a minimum of assistance, as do much young wildlife.
Fishing For Facts
by Chris O'Bara, Zack Brown, Scott Morrison and Kevin Yokum
Extensive fisheries surveys aimed at improving management are underway throughout our state
Field Trip: Green Bottom WMA


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Unquestionably, a healthy Troy Tulowitzki makes the Mets a better team. I read something again today about the Mets dealing for him, but if you are a true fan of the team you know that's not how they do business.
The last star the Mets traded for was Johan Santana, but they were closer to winning then than they are now. Plus, it is debatable how that trade worked out.
At 30, Tulowitzki is still in him prime and last year's numbers of .340, 21 homers, 52 RBI, .432 on-base percentage and 1.035 OPS through 91 games before he was injured make a compelling argument for breaking the bank.
However, if you're a true Mets fan – and I assume most of you are – then you also know "the bank,'' is the franchise's North Star. Tulowitzki is owed $129 million over the next seven seasons and to the Mets' line of thinking, that number supersedes those at the plate.
And, we haven't gotten to the part yet about the Rockies' demands. Sorry, but Daniel Murphy and Dillon Gee – both of whom the Mets would love to trade because of their salaries, which combined are less than $13 million – won't cut it. This isn't talk-radio fantasy land when you give up nothing for a star.
At least two of those young arms the team is building around have to be included. There is also the possibility that to make this deal Tulowitzki's contract would be modified. He has a clause that prohibits him being traded more than once, so, if the Rockies deal him the Mets would not be allowed if they believe the contract is a burden. At least, not without a cost.
A red flag is Tulowitzki's injury history, which has prevented him from playing more than 140 games only once since 2009.
If the Mets were really on the cusp, then go for it. However, there are too many variables that scream this is not the right player at the right time. The Mets finally rid themselves of burdensome contracts and are making themselves competitive again.
This is too much of a gamble.


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2010-04-28 / Commentary
To the People of the State of New York:
Federalist No. 24: The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense
To the People of the State of New York: To THE powers proposed to be conferred upon the federal government, in respect to the creation and direction of the national forces, I have met with but one specific objection, which, if I understand it right, is this, that proper provision has not been made against the existence of standing armies in time of peace; an objection which, I shall now endeavor t
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