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If the thought of another grueling boot camp class has you yawning and dragging your feet, why not try a workout that makes fitness feel like a party?
Whether you like to dance, spin or just channel your inner rock god or goddess, there's a class out there that will fit the bill, and still burn fat and build muscle.
The L.A. Times scoured Los Angeles gyms to come up with three total-body workout classes that bring the music and fun from the clubs into the studio. Think of these as alcohol-free happy hours or your time to release stress while keeping your fitness goals on track.
Prices vary, depending on whether you belong to the gym where the class is offered or buy packages of classes. Some sites offer discounts for the first class. Single classes cost around $20 to $25.
Buti Yoga
(Multiple locations. Classes can be found at http://www.butifitness.com.)
Buti Yoga, developed by yoga and fitness expert Bizzie Gold, is a sexy hybrid of Miami Booty Dance, yoga and CrossFit-type plyometric moves (explosive moves to build power).
Set to loud Afro-Brazilian funk, hip-hop and reggae music, Buti's intense 60- to 90-minute workouts will have you swiveling your hips during warrior one pose and shaking your bum during deep prayer squats.
The suggestive moves are enough to make some first-timers blush or giggle, but Gold believes that Buti's sexy stance is good at building self-esteem and body awareness.
Buti (pronounced booty, not beauty) also amps up the calorie burn. Plank jumping jacks, squats and mountain climbers keep your heart rate elevated between longer poses or vinyasa. And many classic static yoga moves, such as triangle pose, have been transformed into dynamic exercises to help participants stay in a cardio zone.
"It's more strenuous than other yoga classes," says Candy Sylvasy, taking a Buti class at Yoga Blue in Pasadena. "At the end of it, I feel I have totally improved my body. "
With its abundance of plyometric jumps, this hot pants yoga mash-up is probably not suited for novice exercisers or those with bad knees. And those who want to hear the instructor's cues to follow along might have trouble doing so because of the booming bass.But for intermediate exercisers, it's a great way to burn calories and increase your peace without making trips to both the yoga studio and the gym.
(Crunch Gym, 220 Fitness and Mansion Fitness, http://www.poundfit.com)
"There's one very important rule in this class," shouts Cristina Peerenboom as she and her partner, Kirsten Potenza, start their cardio drumming class in Burbank. "And that's, make noise!"
Within minutes, a packed class clutching weighted neon green drumsticks, dubbed Ripstix "because they get you ripped," is drumming on the floor, in the air and hitting the sticks together to tap out the beat as they run through a series of exercises.
It's loud, it's proud and it's Pound, a cardio interval class designed to burn fat and build muscle.
Peerenboom and Portenza, both drummers in their spare time, developed the 30- to 45-minute workouts because they were bored with traditional strength routines and noticed that when they didn't have a stool, they got a really good workout behind their drum kits. With the addition of two quarter-pound sticks, the workout got even better.
But Pound's real appeal is in its ability to distract exercisers from the hard work they're doing.
When you're tattooing a beat on the floor to Rihanna, it's hard to remember how many squats and lunges you have done. Even the floor work, composed of bridges and boat poses, incorporates drumming.
It's hard not to smile when the whole class is in sync, twisting side to side and drumming to the beat.
The moves get your heart rate up but don't require much in the way of choreography. And they aren't so challenging that a beginner couldn't do a modified version, such as a higher squat or lunge.
As with other music-focused workouts, it can be hard to hear cues over the pumping bass, but the instructors do give a brief instruction on form before each interval and some advice on easier modifications.
(8750 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood)
At 10:30 on a Tuesday morning, it's hard to find a party, even in Los Angeles. But there's one going on at SoulCycle.
Inside its glossy new West Hollywood studio, a youngish crowd of fitness buffs lines up for this New York transplant's brand of spinning that incorporates hand weights and movement to give riders a total body workout with a house party feel.
Once the music starts and riders are clipped in, the lights go down — save for a handful of candles and a few lights over the instructor. Loud music and tight spacing between the bikes gives the small studio a club-like atmosphere with cyclists moving up and back in unison, save for the occasional whoop or fist pump from the regulars.
The studio's team of model/actor-type instructors, such as Ben B. (Bruker), are part DJ and part coach, dishing out motivation and the latest unreleased song from Usher as they take the packed class through an intense 45-minute ride that includes double-time tricep pushups on the handlebars and too many up-and-down sprint reps out of the seat to count. And if that weren't enough, there's a short weight segment with biceps, triceps and shoulder exercises, before a final cardio push.
It's a high-intensity class from the get-go. It's not easy on the knees, it's hard to keep proper form doing the upper-body weights and abdominal twisting while pedaling, and it can be hard to hear the coaching on form over the music.
Indeed, some in the fitness business have raised questions about the safety and efficacy of SoulCycle's multi-tasking workout. However, SoulCycle says its workout was developed in part by exercise physiologists and its instructors are indoor cycling certified, in addition to completing SoulCycle's 12-week accreditation course.
For its die-hard fans, there is no substitute. It's about as close as you can get to a party on a bike — if you can keep up.
Clip-on shoes are mandatory and are available for rent at the front desk.


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J/109- A Right & Proper Racer-Cruiser?
SAILING ANARCHY Review- By Scot Tempesta
Many have tried; most have failed in the quest to build a right and proper racer/cruiser.
We fired up the 27 h.p Yanmar Diesel (with sail drive) and shoved off. The engine could not have been any quieter, and the boat accelerates quickly under motor. Also, the turning radius of the boat is remarkably small, and backing up under power was a breeze. Hell, we put the throttle down while coming back to the slip, and I'm sure we were doing 6.5 knots - going backwards! It seemed exceptionally maneuverable - a consideration for those who will choose to anchor out and harbor hop.
|It was a run out of Newport Harbor, so we stuck the main up - an easy task with slides - pulled the 5'5" carbon sprit out and hoisted a 105 sq. meter J-105 asymmetrical spinnaker up in breeze anywhere from 6 to 12 knots. This boat, hull #32, was not yet fully commissioned (hence the borrowed 105 kite), so we had no instruments to verify any numbers. Better wait for the big-buck glossy magazines to tell you that stuff. But I can tell you that jibing down the bay, the boat felt remarkably lively and responsive. You could square in the puffs, and the boat did not die. This boat is not sluggish, and does not feel anything like the typical J-Boat - a good thing, in our estimation. With a displacement of just under 11,000 pounds, and a SA/DSPL ratio of 21, the boat should be in the zone for good performance. It went through the water cleanly, and really felt very nice. Dare I say it felt quick, given the parameters of what it is? Time and the racecourse will indeed tell the ultimate story.
The three of us, myself, Trask and Bill Matchett, jibed probably 15 times or so, and it is, as are most all sprited, asso, no runners-type boats, a snap to jibe. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would build a boat like this (or any, for that matter) without a sprit. Frankly, this feature alone, because the boat becomes so much easier to use for a small crew or family to sail than a standard pole and gear, makes it much more desirable than some of it's competition, notably the Beneteau 36.7 and C&C 99. More on that, too.
We had a 155% genoa on the furler, so we dropped the kite, unfurled the sail and beat back to windward. The sails on this boat were Ullman; Kevlar genoa, Dacron main, and they looked quite nice. This is not an endorsement but if they were mine, I'd be pleased. Take a look at the picture of the genoa, and you'll see what I mean.
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Is this boat worth it? A reasonable analogy could be BMW - their cars always seem to carry a price premium over some of their competitors, and it is sometimes hard to see why, yet in the end, they almost always seem worth it.
Is the 109 in that league? The marketplace will ultimately decide, but I suspect that the buyer who can truly afford this type of investment in a boat of this size and purpose will likely decide that it offers more than the competitors and despite the price premium, will chose the 109. Isn't that why they buy BMW's?


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The malloc() and free() functins provide a simple general-purpose memory allocation package.
The malloc() function returns a pointer to a block of at least size bytes suitably aligned for any use.
The argument to free() is a pointer to a block previously allocated by malloc(). After free() is performed, this space is made available for further allocation, and its contents have been destroyed See mallopt() below for a way to change this behavior. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.
Undefined results occur if the space assigned by malloc() is overrun or if some random number is handed to free().
The realloc() function changes the size of the block pointed to by ptr to size bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) block. The contents are unchanged up to the lesser of the new and old sizes. If ptr is a null pointer, realloc() behaves like malloc() for the specified size. If size is 0 and ptr is not a null pointer, the object it points to is freed.
The calloc() function allocates space for an array of nelem elements of size elsize. The space is initialized to zeros.
The mallopt() function provides for control over the allocation algorithm. The available values for cmd are:
Set maxfast to value. The algorithm allocates all blocks below the size of maxfast in large groups and then doles them out very quickly. The default value for maxfast is 24.
Set numlblks to value. The above mentioned ``large groups'' each contain numlblks blocks. numlblks must be greater than 0. The default value for numlblks is 100.
Set grain to value. The sizes of all blocks smaller than maxfast are considered to be rounded up to the nearest multiple of grain. grain must be greater than 0. The default value of grain is the smallest number of bytes that will allow alignment of any data type. Value will be rounded up to a multiple of the default when grain is set.
Preserve data in a freed block until the next malloc(), realloc(), or calloc(). This option is provided only for compatibility with the old version of malloc(), and it is not recommended.
These values are defined in the <malloc.h> header.
The mallopt() function can be called repeatedly, but cannot be called after the first small block is allocated.
The mallinfo() function provides instrumentation describing space usage. It returns the mallinfo structure with the following members:
unsigned long arena; /* total space in arena */ unsigned long ordblks; /* number of ordinary blocks */ unsigned long smblks; /* number of small blocks */ unsigned long hblkhd; /* space in holding block headers */ unsigned long hblks; /* number of holding blocks */ unsigned long usmblks; /* space in small blocks in use */ unsigned long fsmblks; /* space in free small blocks */ unsigned long uordblks; /* space in ordinary blocks in use */ unsigned long fordblks; /* space in free ordinary blocks */ unsigned long keepcost; /* space penalty if keep option */ /* is used */
The mallinfo structure is defined in the <malloc.h> header.
Each of the allocation routines returns a pointer to space suitably aligned (after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of object.
The malloc(), realloc(), and calloc() functions return a null pointer if there is not enough available memory. When realloc() returns NULL, the block pointed to by ptr is left intact. If mallopt() is called after any allocation or if cmd or value are invalid, a non-zero value is returned. Otherwise, it returns 0.
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size bytes of memory exceeds the physical limits of your system, and cannot be allocated.
There is not enough memory available at this point in time to allocate size bytes of memory; but the application could try again later.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
brk(2), bsdmalloc(3MALLOC), libmtmalloc(3LIB), malloc(3C), mapmalloc(3MALLOC), mtmalloc(3MALLOC), watchmalloc(3MALLOC), attributes(5)
Note that unlike malloc(3C), this package does not preserve the contents of a block when it is freed, unless the M_KEEP option of mallopt() is used.
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These malloc routines are space-efficient but have slower performance.
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As Yogi Bhajan (of the Kundalini yoga tradition) says, "Sadhana is self-enrichment. It is not something which is done to please somebody or to gain something. Sadhana is a personal process in which you bring out your best."
Sadhana could be taking a walk in nature, doing breath work or yoga asanas on a mat, spending time meditating or chanting, reading and reflecting on a poem, or simply watching the sun rise.
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Conference play begins tonight.
KINSTON (2-4) at NORTH LENOIR (1-5)
There are two advantages North Lenoir has over Kinston at this point in the season: having a true quarterback and coming off a bye week.
Both teams have talent in their skill positions, but Kinston has shown it has the upper hand in this area. And Kinston has Tiquan Canady, who is this area�s unofficial mid-season MVP before conference play kicks off. The Vikings are coming off a tough stretch, like most other Eastern Carolina 2A teams. Both Kinston and North Lenoir have been tested during non-conference.
A rested Kinston team lost to Washington (4-2) last week, while the Hawks earned their first win of the season two weeks ago against a winless North Johnston team. NL�s defense deserves a lot of credit in the inaugural victory.
If the Hawks� young defense shows up tonight against a good Kinston team, this will be a good ball game.
Kinston and North Lenoir have played each other in football every year since 1991 and the Vikings are 18-4 all-time against the Hawks, including a seven-game winning streak. Kinston won this game last year, 41-13; the last time North Lenoir defeated Kinston was in 2005, when the Hawks won, 31-21.
This is also the first game in the 2013 Halifax Cup Series, which is presented to the best public school football team in Lenoir County. Kinston has won the Halifax Cup seven straight years.
Jessika�s Pick: Kinston 42, N. Lenoir 20
SOUTH LENOIR (1-5) at GOLDSBORO (2-4)
The Blue Devils visit Goldsboro for the first football meeting ever between the schools. Goldsboro beat a C.B. Aycock team that ran through two EC2A teams already.
While SL has been up and down this season, the Cougars have been steady and have a solid QB. SL�s signal-caller Kyle Huffman is recovering from an injury � an issue hurting most teams in the conference, although Huffman is scheduled to play tonight.
Goldsboro has five years with coach Eric Reid, while SL coach Ken Grantham is still learning what works best for the team in his first season. The Blue Devils can compete with one of the top teams in the EC2A but probably won�t beat it.
Jessika�s pick: Goldsboro 32, S. Lenoir 12
GREENE CENTRAL (0-6) at AYDEN-GRIFTON (0-6)
Someone will get their first victory of the season, conference or otherwise.
Longtime rivals Greene Central and Ayden Grifton are the only two conference teams without a win.
The Rams have scored well and had a couple of close games, improving each week � although not winning. The Chargers have dropped a couple of close games this season, too.
It�ll be an even match. While A-G coach Paul Cornwell said he can�t identify a strength on his team at this point in the season, Rams coach Allen Wooten noted Greene Central�s offense is an asset.
The Rams and Chargers have played each other every season since 1971, with A-G holding a 22-20 overall record and four-game winning streak against GC. Ayden-Grifton won last year�s matchup, 37-18, in Snow Hill; GC�s last win in the series came in 2008 in a 19-12 decision.
Jessika�s pick: Greene Central 28, Ayden-Grifton 20
LEJEUNE (5-1) at JONES SENIOR (0-6)
The Trojans have been shut out four times this season, and their other two losses weren�t close, either. Moving into Coastal Plains 1A conference play, hopefully it�ll be Jones Senior�s last point-less game for the season.
However, the Trojans face the top team in the conference to open the second half of the season tonight as Lejeune (5-1) travels to Trenton. The Devilpups only lost their season opener to Swansboro and came back with vengeance each week thereafter.
After a tough non-conference schedule, it�s unclear what the Trojans have for strong teams like Lejeune.
Jessika�s pick: Lejeune 36, Jones Senior 10
ARENDELL PARROTT (5-1) at ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY (5-1)
Parrott travels to Rocky Mount tonight to face a team ranked one spot above them in 8-man play. When the Eagles came to Kinston last year, they lost in a 30-20 decision.
The Patriots are better than what they were last year; it shows in the demeanor of the players and coaches, so Parrott has a chance to compete and win against higher-ranked RMA. Rocky Mount�s only loss this season came against Hobgood Academy, while Parrott suffered a blowout loss to defending NCISAA 8-Man champs Southampton, Va.
Parrott has a three-game winning streak against the Eagles and are 7-4 in the schools� 8-man series. Overall, dating back to 1972 when both schools played 11-man football, Parrott has a 10-8-1 record against RMA.
Jessika�s pick: Parrott 40, Rocky Mount 38
Jessika Morgan can be reached at 252-559-1078 and firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @JessikaMorgan.


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Saudi Arabia listed the Muslim Brotherhood and two Syrian jihadist groups as terrorist organizations on Friday, and ordered citizens fighting abroad to return home within 15 days or face imprisonment.
The move represents a major escalation against the Brotherhood of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and indicates rising concern in Riyadh over the potential risks to domestic security of Saudi extremists fighting in Syria.
Riyadh staunchly supports Sunni-led rebels battling to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but has long feared blowback from radical jihadist groups, particularly after a spate of attacks by a local al-Qaeda franchise from 2003 to 2006.
Egypt welcomed the Saudi decision and called on other Arab countries to follow suit.
"We look forward to see other countries, which signed the 1998 Arab League counter-terrorism treaty, follow the Saudi path and respect their commitments under the treaty," Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said in Cairo.
The Brotherhood, the largest Islamic movement in the region, said it was "surprised" and "pained" by the Saudi decision.
"This new position of the kingdom contrasts sharply with the history of its relations with the Brotherhood," the group said.
"History has always shown that the Brotherhood has been a leader in spreading true Islamic thinking ... without extremism, as many of the kingdom's scholars and leaders can testify," it said.
A list published by the Saudi interior ministry designates as terrorist organisations the Brotherhood, al-Nusra Front, which is al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a rogue group fighting in both Syria and Iraq.
Also blacklisted are Shiite Muslim rebels known as Huthis in northern Yemen and "Hezbollah inside the kingdom," a reference to a little-known Shiite group in overwhelmingly Sunni Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi interior ministry said it will prosecute anyone backing these groups "financially or morally," or who express sympathies for them or seek to promote them through media and social networks.
It also forbids "participation in, calling for, or incitement to fighting in conflict zones in other countries."
Saudis fighting abroad were given a 15-day ultimatum on Friday to return home or face imprisonment.
Prison also awaits anyone calling for demonstrations or taking part in them, the ministry said.
Analysts warned of the potential effects of the orders on civil liberties.
"There is fear that the text will be interpreted in such a way to muzzle freedom of expression," sociologist Khaled al-Dakheel said.
Last month, King Abdullah already announced jail terms of up to 20 years for belonging to "terrorist groups" and fighting abroad and tough sanctions for anyone backing the incriminated organizations.
In 2011, Saudi Arabia set up specialized terrorism courts to try dozens of its citizens and foreigners accused of belonging to al-Qaeda or being involved in a wave of bloody attacks that swept the country from 2003.
The Saudi and other conservative Gulf monarchies have long been hostile to the Brotherhood, fearing that its brand of grass-roots activism and political Islam could undermine their authority.
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recalled their ambassadors from Doha over Qatar's backing of the Brotherhood in Egypt.


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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Fading Past? Hobsonville's Sunderland seaplane hangar
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- Phil HansonJuly 26, 2010 at 4:05 PM
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Emerson Drives' Brad Mates calls himself and his band members road dogs. The group has been touring for 12 years, so it's become part of their lifestyle.
Emerson Drives' Brad Mates calls himself and his band members road dogs. The group has been touring for 12 years, so it's become part of their lifestyle. "The road is actually one of the biggest and best tools that has helped this group get to where it is today," he said. The group is rolling into Dover for two race weekend events: to play a Saturday concert at the Rollins Center and sing the national anthem before Sunday's race. The band started rising in the charts in early 2000s with its singles "I Should be Sleeping" and "Fall Into Me." This year they have earned more acclaim than ever with their album "Countrified" and hit single "Moments," which was nominated for the Academy of Country Music's Song of the Year award. "We were never expecting it to get this far," Mates said. According to him, the band started as a bunch of guys getting together three times a week to play in the basement. Obviously, they've grown and gelled as a group in the dozen years since. "There's strength, there's growth in the band each year," he said. For fans already familiar with the group, Mates said the upcoming show will be a high-energy event with a lot of the singles fans are familiar with, and also some new songs people have never heard. "Being able to get reactions from people in a crowd playing brand new music is a great indication sometimes," he said about choosing what to put on a new CD. There are some standbys that the group has to play, though, including their version of the Charlie Daniels' Band classic "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." "It's not our choice anymore," Mates said about playing the song live. "It's our fans' choice." The group also is working on other covers ranging from Foo Fighters to Shenandoah and Don Henley songs. "It's extremes, for sure, but the great thing about what we do with these songs is that we put them into an acoustic set," Mates said. The diversity of their songs isn't a surprise after learning who some of their influences are: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Alabama, Merle Haggard, George Strait and Ricky Skaggs all rank in the band's good graces. Group members have become NASCAR fans over the years and are excited to be singing the national anthem, which gives them a chance to reach potential fans. For those who want to give the group a chance at the Saturday show before hearing the anthem on Sunday, Mates assures them it will be worth it. "If people haven't seen the live show before, I can guarantee they will be fans of this group as soon as they come out and see it," Mates said. Proceeds from the show benefit Autism Speaks. Dover Post


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looking at the schedule next year, does anyone have any suggestions for which road game would be worth going too? My cousin, dad, and myself all have decided to try to get to one road game a year if it's in our budget.
Obviously the AFC teams would be the ones I'd look at the most because of how rare we will play them on the road, but they are also less meaningful games when it comes down to playoffs, rivalries, etc. . . of the cities we play at the only one I've been too for an away game is SF. I might skip it next year though and go when they have a new stadium, It was fun to visit candlestick because of the history but it's sort of a shoddy venue. The other division matchups don't seem worth while either. Last time the hawks played in STL it sounded like a library or hospital; not much energy in the stands. Arizona, i would rather wait till they get things figured out. I have a feeling it won't be competitive.
Anyone have any good/bad experiences at any of these venues?
Wilson V. Luck might be the one.
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GAME NOTES: Former Big East Conference foes now meet as members of the ACC, as the Virginia Tech Hokies come calling on the 25th-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers.
Virginia Tech hasn't had the kind of season it envisioned at the outset, logging an 8-14 overall mark, which includes a dismal 1-9 mark in conference. The Hokies have lost nine straight, last tasting victory on New Year's Eve in an 82-66 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore. The team's most recent outing resulted in a 70-50 loss at Florida State on Wednesday, dropping it to 1-4 in true road games.
Pittsburgh had streaked out to an impressive 17-3 start, but then came a brief two-game slide in which it fell at home to both Duke and Virginia. The ship was righted a bit with a 59-55 overtime win at Miami earlier this week, sending the Panthers into this clash sporting a 19-4 overall record, and a 7-3 league ledger. Pitt is 12-2 at home this season.
Pittsburgh has won the last four meetings between these two clubs to take a 5-3 lead in the all-time series. The Hokies last visited the Steel City on Jan. 6, 2004, a game in which the Panthers won by the final score of 74-61.
Poor shooting coupled with a glaring lack of production at the free-throw line were the Hokies' downfall in their recent bout with Florida State, as the team hit only 34.4 percent of its total shots, while suffering a 21-3 deficit in points from the charity stripe. Cadarian Raines was the only VaTech player to score in double figures, netting 13 points in going 6-of-11 from the floor.
For the season, Virginia Tech is averaging only 66.8 ppg behind typical shooting efforts of 41.5 percent overall and 37.4 percent from 3-point range. The Hokies, who play decent defense all things considered (69.7 ppg, .409 FG percentage against), have three players tallying double figures, led by Jarell Eddie with his 13.9 ppg. Eddie is also the team's leading rebounder (5.6 rpg), while Devin Wilson (8.9 ppg, 4.4 apg) serves as its primary playmaker.
Pittsburgh is coming off a dreadful shooting performance of its own, as the team converted only 33.3 percent of its field goal attempts, which included a 4-of-14 showing from beyond the arc, but still the Panthers managed to slip by the Miami Hurricanes in overtime earlier in the week. Lamar Patterson scored a game-high 25 points, while Cameron Wright and Talib Zanna chipped in with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Wright came up one rebound shy of logging a double-double, the team as a whole losing the rebounding battle (43-37), but claiming a 19-14 edge in points from the foul line, while holding the 'Canes to 34.6 percent field goal efficiency, which included a 5-of-20 effort from distance.
Patterson (17.7 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 4.4 apg) head a list of three double-digit scorers for Pitt, while also producing in other areas, and Zanna (12.8 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 19 blocks) is the club's top rebounder and shot blocker. Wright (10.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg) round out the offensive-minded trio, and the team is putting up 73.7 ppg in hitting 47.2 percent of its total shots, while at the same time permitting just 60.3 ppg, with foes connecting on only 40.3 percent of their field goal attempts. The Panthers also own favorable margins in both rebounding (+7.5) and turnovers (+2.1).
The Hokies' struggles are likely to continue as knocking off the Panthers on their own floor will prove to be a daunting task.
GAME NOTES: Former Big East Conference foes now meet as members of the ACC, as the Virginia Tech Hokies come calling on the 25th-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers.


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Seeking High Performance? Look at How Exceptional Companies Think
For decades, management studies have sought to identify the qualities that distinguish the truly great companies from the rest. Such studies often have focused on what actions companies and their leaders have done to achieve high performance—actions that can't necessarily be replicated by other organizations for various reasons.
Perhaps a more useful guide is how exceptional companies think and how the decision-making rules they seemed to use propelled the truly great performers into long-term success. In their new book, The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, (Portfolio/Penguin, May 2013) authors Michael E. Raynor, director, Deloitte Services LP and author of The Strategy Paradox, and Mumtaz Ahmed, chief strategy officer at Deloitte LLP, identify three rules that capture how high-performing outliers deliver superior performance over the long run, despite facing the same constraints as competitors:
Rule No. 1: Better before cheaper: Compete on differentiators other than price.
Rule No. 2: Revenue before cost: Drive superior profitability with higher prices or higher volumes, not lower cost.
Rule No. 3: There are no other rules: Change anything/everything in order to abide by the first two rules.
In this first of two interviews, Dr. Raynor and Mr. Ahmed explain how they reached their findings, based on research spanning more than 25,000 companies from hundreds of industries over a 45-year period, and what those findings can mean for companies looking to improve their performance trajectory.
Q: Before you began your research into what would become The Three Rules, what did you see as lacking in research on what makes companies outstanding? What was the void you were hoping to fill?
Mumtaz Ahmed: The simple answer is most of the research that had been done wasn't looking at the right companies or looking at them in the right way. A lot of the research was really long on story and short on fact and analysis, especially facts rooted in the financial realities of those companies' results over time.
Michael Raynor: Many of those studies were flawed simply from a perspective of the research method. A book like In Search of Excellence attempts to understand what makes for great companies without comparing great companies with less-than-great companies. So the way in which the conclusions are reached doesn't give reason to believe that they're right. That's not to say the conclusions are wrong. But from a straight methods perspective, a lot of the work that falls into the category of a success study fails. In our book, we took on the problem of answering a seemingly small question, which is, how do you know what constitutes superior performance?
Q: In your research you chose to focus on return on assets (ROA) as your measurement benchmark. Why that measure and when did you decide to focus on it?
Mumtaz Ahmed: We picked ROA because it reflects to a significant extent what management has done to affect performance. Other measures seem to us to be affected by factors outside managers' control. For example, total shareholder return and share price are subject to the vagaries of investors' expectations.
Variations on ROA, such as return on equity, return on capital employed, return on invested capital, and so on, can also work, but we chose ROA because that is likely to capture the outcome that is as directly related to management behavior as possible and reflects the outcomes of strategy execution. As an added bonus, ROA can be broken down into its constituent elements, that is, gross margin, asset turnover, and so on, allowing us to connect specific behaviors to specific performance outcomes.
Michael Raynor: We wanted to understand what makes for a great company, not what makes for a great investment. Companies can be highly profitable and consistently so while delivering only market average returns because everyone has figured out that they are highly and consistently profitable. Measures such as share price are certainly important, but they are important to other constituencies for other reasons.
Q: How did the three rules—better before cheaper, revenue before cost, and there are no other rules—evolve from your research?
Michael Raynor: We were looking for patterns of behaviors that connected specific activities, such as innovation and growth and R&D, to superior performance and those patterns just never showed up. We began to extract order from the chaos when we shifted our focus from how companies behaved to the decision-making rules implicit in the choices the companies made over time. We can't say that's why the people who ran those companies made those choices at that time. But if we look at the big choices which we have strong reason to believe made the difference for success, we can infer the kinds of decision rules that are consistent with those choices, namely, better before cheaper and revenue before cost.
Mumtaz Ahmed: One obvious area that we looked at in our research was deal activity. The key questions were, "Do great companies do more deals or fewer deals?" and "Do they do different types of deals?" Interestingly, we found patterns in deal activity that were sometimes common to the highest-achieving companies, which we called Miracle Workers, as well as to the ordinary performers, which we called Average Joes. Average Joes did lots of deals in one sector and very few in another and similarly for Miracle Workers.
The point is, that by examining that kind of activity alone, we were not able to find any patterns that would explain the companies' performance. But when we were able to link their patterns of dealmaking with a higher purpose—the higher purpose here being better before cheaper and revenue before cost—we could make sense of them. The more persistently these rules are pursued, the better the odds of beating the competition and the odds of becoming truly exceptional.
Q: Based on your research, which companies stood out for following these rules?
Michael Raynor: Keep in mind that we wanted only those companies that were good enough for long enough that we could be confident something special was going on. We wanted companies that were truly exceptional. To that end, we analyzed nearly 300,000 company-year observations from 1966 to 2010. From that universe we identified a population of 344 exceptional companies. From this population of exceptional companies we selected a representative sample of trios, three companies from each of nine industries. Each trio consists of a Miracle Worker, a Long Runner, and a third company of average performance that we call an Average Joe. By comparing the very best with the very good, and both with the merely average, we hoped to shed light on two different types of exceptionalism. First, what does it take to pull away from the pack, that is, how do Miracle Workers and Long Runners separate themselves from Average Joes? Second, how do Miracle Workers—the very best—pull away from Long Runners—the very good?
Mumtaz Ahmed: We also found that the companies in the nine trios made systematically different choices across a wide range of issues. The Miracle Workers consistently put better before cheaper and revenue before cost, and the Long Runners to a somewhat lesser extent.
Michael Raynor: Regardless of circumstances and constraints, our top performers were doggedly persistent only in their adherence to the first two rules. Expansionary markets? Better before cheaper; revenue before cost. Recessionary economy? Better before cheaper; revenue before cost. Technological disruption? Better before cheaper; revenue before cost. Plague of locusts? Zombie apocalypse? Better before cheaper; revenue before cost.
Related Resources
- The Three Rules
- The Three Rules Blog
- The Exceptional Company Collection from Deloitte University Press
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Well here's an amusing turn of events. Dinesh D'Souza, champion of Christian values, is caught up in a sexual scandal that is getting noticed by the Christian media. It seems that he's been following the example of so many religious right types before him:
Look, the reason for this is obvious. New York, where D'Souza lives, legalized same-sex marriage last year. Obviously, that destroyed the sanctity of his marriage. How many marriages have to be torn asunder before America wakes up? Gay marriage is so powerful that it destroyed the sanctity of all three of Newt Gingrich's marriages and all four of Rush Limbaugh's marriages even before it was legal. That's how serious this is, people.
vation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D'Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife, Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée…
The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D'Souza's behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D'Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said "nothing happened." When I called D'Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D'Souza answered, "Recently."
According to San Diego County (Calif.) Superior Court records, D'Souza filed for divorce only on Oct. 4, the day I spoke with him. Under California law, that starts the clock on a six-month waiting period for divorce. D'Souza on Oct. 4 told me his marriage was "over," said he "is sure Denise is the one for me," and said he had "done nothing wrong."
And apparently the board of King's College, of which he is president, is going to be discussing the matter at a board meeting this week. Personally, I couldn't care less who he sleeps with and under what marital circumstances, but the hypocrisy is certainly amusing. Ambrose Bierce defined a Christian as "one who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin." Sounds like he nailed D'Souza.
Oh, and here's a punchline to the whole thing. The fiance has a blog and she posted this headline in January:
Newt You Fox, Are You Trying to Sweep Me Off My Feet? Don't You know I'm Taken?
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Sudan's opposition Umma party said Wednesday it would take part in a meeting next month with the government aimed at paving the way for a conference to end a 17-year civil war.
The party issued a statement saying it agreed to participation in the national forum proposed by President Omar Bashir last Thursday "whether it is held inside or outside Sudan".
Sudan's opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which the Umma party split from late last year, on Friday agreed to attend the forum but only under a string of conditions.
The forum was proposed as part of an Egyptian-Libyan plan for peace in Sudan, which is separate from one sponsored by the regional east African Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) based in Nairobi.
Umma appeared to make some conditions of its own.
The Umma party statement said that the preparatory meeting should agree on a declaration of principles for a political solution as well as on the agenda, date and venue of the peace conference.
It called for "linking presidential, legislative and provincial elections with reaching a political settlement," implicitly suggesting reconsideration of next October as a date previously declared for those elections.
Umma party secretary general Omar Nour Daim, meanwhile, criticized the NDA position for reaching a settlement, accused of conspiring against Umma and called it a "tool" of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) - KHARTOUM (AFP)
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If there's one thing you learn living in a crowded urban metropolis it's that birds don't have any trouble finding a place to nest. And when they do, you hope it's not anywhere within earshot of your windows.
So while this artsy initiative that turns recycled materials into birdhouses sounds like a lovely way to spruce up a neighborhood, it's hard to imagine the deafening racket coming from this wall. The deafening racket or the mountain of crap that's going to end up on the sidewalk below. Nice work, but can we have our wall of profanity graffiti back instead? [Happy City Birds via MyModernMet]


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I'm reasonably sure that the bungy for the next ep is at Cacheuta (photo here, city page here), which is backtracking an hour or so from Mendoza.
with all the Italian references in the show so far, it seems too co-incidental that the Ciao Cuoco is also in Italian. Yeah i know, it's a spaghetteria so that lends itself to being italian cuisine, and if there weren't other Italian references, i would think nothing of it.still coming up empty on its exact location though.gonna work on that building in the opening sequence for a bit.
If you can spare some time , I'm stuck on Ciao Cuoco, where the final meal took place last weekand the building seen in the opening titles The "spaghetteria" I'm assuming is somewhere in Mendoza; the intro building is somewhere in South America, maybe? Thanks for re-posting the castle and balloon video; I'd forgotten all about them. Are they from a previous season?
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Dr. Luke's lawyer says a report that Sony Music plans to drop the music producer amid his legal battle with Kesha is untrue.
The 29-year-old pop singer sued the music producer (real name Lukasz Gottwald) in 2014 for sexual assault and battery and sought to invalidate her recording contracts with him. Dr. Luke filed a countersuit, calling her allegations "defamatory," and tweeted he "didn't rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her."
Kesha's supporters have for months urged Sony Music, her label, to "Free Kesha." TheWrap reported Wednesday the company is expected to end its working relationship with Dr. Luke, so the singer can legally release music without him, and do so ahead of his 2017 contract expiration.
"This is not true," his lawyer said in a statement to E! News Wednesday. "Luke has an excellent relationship with Sony. His representatives are in regular contact with executives at the highest levels at Sony and this has never come up."
Sony has not commented.
In February, a judge denied Kesha's request for a preliminary injunction that would have allowed her to release music outside of the producer's authority. Scores of fans gathered outside the courtroom to support the singer.
Celebrities have also spoken out in support of Kesha, including Lady Gaga.
"I feel like she's being very publicly shamed for something that happens in the music industry all the time, to women and men," she told Carson Daly on 97.1 AMP Radio this week. "I just want to stand by her side because I can't watch another woman that went through what I've been through suffer."
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Primary pupils in England could be ranked nationally at 11
Primary school pupils in England could be ranked directly against their peers across the country, under government plans to change performance measures.
Pupils aged 11 would be ranked in 10% ability bands and parents told where their children are placed.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: "For children to achieve their potential, we need to raise the bar."
But head teachers' leaders described the plans, which could come in 2016, as "disappointing and destructive".
Labour's shadow school secretary Stephen Twigg said it was "policy making on the hoof".
'Secondary ready'
As parents across the country have been receiving their children's Sats results, Mr Clegg and Schools Minister David Laws have launched a consultation on plans to overhaul England's primary school targets.
This would mean significant changes to how primary schools are measured and their pupils' achievements shown to parents.
Mr Clegg dismissed head teachers' fears: "We are not going to publish a name and shame league table," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Children are already tested at primary school. We are saying go with the grain of that system."
Mr Clegg said the intention is to show parents how children are doing in relation to their peers and to make sure that pupils are ready when they start secondary school.
"I make no apology for having high ambitions for our pupils. But for children to achieve their potential we need to raise the bar - in terms of tests, pass marks and minimum standards. I am confident that primary schools and their pupils will meet that challenge," he said.
Under the plans, pupil's national curriculum test results (known as Sats) would be divided into bands of 10%, and parents and schools would be able to see where their children were placed on a national scale.
There are also plans for baseline tests against which to measure progress, although it has yet to be decided whether this should be at age of five or seven.
There would be a tougher minimum level of achievement for schools - the so-called "floor-standard" - below which an Ofsted inspection would be triggered.
The current minimum is 60% of pupils achieving the expected level at Sats tests for English and maths. This would be replaced with an 85% minimum - but the current levels are being scrapped, so this would be 85% based on an assessment that has still to be decided.
The threshold for the tests would be that children were "secondary ready" in maths, reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar and teachers' assessments of writing.
Under the current levels, 11 year olds who achieve a Level 5a are approximately in the top 10%, children at Level 5c and above are in the top 25%. Children at Level 3 and below are in the bottom 25%.
Extra funding
The government says that the levels currently used to measure progress, including the Level 4 used as the benchmark for Sats tests, are "unambitious and too broad".
Mr Laws told the House of Commons that the levels used by schools had little meaning to most parents.
The minimum standard for schools would also take into account pupils' progress as well as their raw test results.
Under the proposals, schools would be able to develop their own way of measuring how well pupils were progressing and their ability would then be assessed with tests for all 11-year-olds in English and maths and a sample of pupils for science.
There will be extra funding for poorer pupils with a rise in the level of pupil premiums, from £900 this year to £1,300 in 2014-15.
Labour's Stephen Twigg said it was "putting the cart before the horse" to announce a threshold of 85% before the assessment had been decided.
He also warned of "confusing signals" when the government was scrapping the levels used to measure progress at the same time as calling for a closer attention to progress.
A spokesman for the National Association of Head Teachers said "labelling an 11-year-old as a failure is totally unacceptable".
"The vast majority of teachers are unhappy with the need to rank students," said the union's leader Russell Hobby.
It would be wrong to "pigeonhole" children on the basis of such tests, he said.
Mr Hobby welcomed the greater recognition of pupil progress, but warned that the changes to measuring schools were built on "foundations of sand".
"All the 'rigour' in the world won't matter if you're rigorous about the wrong things," he said.
But head teacher Steve Busby told BBC Breakfast the ranking system could be helpful.
"The current assessment system within school is flawed in my opinion." He said the Level 4 band was too broad and that parents needed a more accurate picture.
Brian Lightman, head of the ASCL heads' union, agreed there was a need for a more accurate testing system at the end of primary school, because secondary schools currently had to re-test their new intakes.
However, he was unconvinced by the idea of ranking 11-year-olds.
"I worry what will happen to those children who have tried hard yet are told that they are in one of the bottom bands. Children at that age mature differently and their confidence can be easily damaged," he said.
NUT leader Christine Blower rejected the idea that primary schools should be measured in terms of the idea of pupils being "secondary ready", insisting the term would be "seen as offensive and insulting to so many hard-working teachers in the primary phase".
"Education, from the earliest years, is not a conveyor belt to the end of secondary school," she said.


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This was originally published in the December 2012 issue of Northern Colorado Business Report
When Tamara Cramer found herself changing yet another milk-stained silk blouse at work, she knew something had to give.
Cramer was a public relations and events marketing manager at Group Publishing in Loveland, and she loved her job. She went in early and left late, believed in the company and knew she was well-positioned for a promotion. But it wasn't working.
Her first child, Owen – who at the time was 2 – was struggling at home. He had cystic fibrosis, and between his meal and medication schedule, required a full-time caretaker. Cramer couldn't help but feel that he needed more time with Mom.
With the birth of her daughter, Eden, matters quickly spiraled. Whether it was catching up on email during family dinner or pumping milk at the office, Cramer constantly had to be two places at once – and couldn't help feeling as if she was never fully at either.
So she quit, deciding that trying any longer to strike the right work-life balance just wasn't going to work.
Cramer says leaving her job for her family was "one of the hardest decisions" she's ever had to make.
It is a decision that, it appears, many women who are mothers and top professionals across Northern Colorado and the nation grapple with every day. And as more women enter the workforce, more are expected to face this very dilemma.
The notion of balancing work and life — of having it all — has been part of the feminist credo and the wider culture for a few decades now.
But this June, Ann-Marie Slaughter, the former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, produced one of Atlantic magazine's most-read and talked-about pieces in years, an essay titled, "Why women still can't have it all."
The article — which earned its own Twitter hashtag, thousands of comments, talk-show commentaries and even a book deal — detailed Slaughter's personal tensions between work and family life and her ultimate decision to leave a powerful, high-level government position to spend more time with her two teenage boys.
Her conclusion: that without reforms in the American workplace, without huge structural changes, mothers will never be able to compete on an equal playing field with their childless counterparts.
Perhaps more controversially, Slaughter's piece asserted that women who believe they can have it all are just fooling themselves, at least in the current environment.
Pushing a button
Slaughter's case could be considered more extreme than most. Her job required that she be away from home during the workweek. Every week.
Still, many women professionals in Northern Colorado experience this tension in their lives every day. With unprecedented numbers of women pursuing higher education and joining the working world – making up 63.5 percent of the labor force in Colorado, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics – the hectic, often frustrating work-life juggling act is one that many know too well.
"It's a riddle," said Judy Dorsey, president and principal engineer of Fort Collins-based engineering consulting firm Brendle Group and mother of two. "You have to (have) the firm belief that there is a solution to the riddle of being a great mom and a great engineer, even when the rest of the world is telling you that one of these things must give."
There are plenty of reasons to explain why this "riddle" persists, including ones that have nothing to do with employment and workplace policies.
In part, while women are increasingly bringing home the bacon, they're still the ones carrying the brunt of the housework.
According to a 2008 study by the Institute of Families and Work, women's role on the home front hasn't changed all that much since the 1970s. Mothers spent the same number of weekday hours with their children (close to four) in 2008 as they did in 1977, and married women today report still doing the majority of the cooking and cleaning in their households. All while earning almost half of the total household income.
Also, although the wage gap between genders has consistently narrowed over the past five decades, the average woman still makes substantially less than the average man, according to National Partnership for Women and Families statistics. In Colorado's district four (encompassing Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland and Longmont), women made 24 percent less than men did for the same job, effectively costing women $11,000 in wages a year.
Some of that disparity lies in the career choices women make.
Women in general tend to look for different things from their careers than men, including greater flexibility and more work-life satisfaction, and they are often willing to sacrifice financial gain for these perks, according to the Families and Work Institute.
Indeed, in 2011, women made up only 13.6 percent of architects and engineers, 4.3 percent of airline pilots and flight engineers and 33.8 percent of physicians and surgeons. Those are all traditionally higher-paying career fields. In contrast, more than four out of five librarians, registered nurses and elementary- and middle-school teachers were female, working in realms that tend to pay less.
Still, women today are doing more, making less and still stuck with just 24 hours in a day. No wonder Slaughter's piece pushed a button.
Forcing their hand
Trying to find that work-life balance, women across the region have structured their lives in various ways in hopes of achieving success as both mothers and businesspeople.
Some have had more luck than others.
When Cramer made the decision to quit her job and stay home with her children, she understood her choice would mean financial sacrifice. Her biggest regret is that she and her husband, Matt Cramer, didn't transition to living solely off his income before the birth of their second child. Having more savings in the bank would have eased the transition to one breadwinner, Tamara Cramer said. Still, they've made things work.
Since her departure from the everyday working world, Tamara Cramer has taken on part-time work from home, and helped her husband run the custom-order bakery and guitar lesson and repair practice they own.
She is also a certified labor coach and the manager of Loveland's winter farmers market. As her children have gotten older (Owen is now 7 and Eden is 5), she's even been able to take on some PR work, which she does around her children's schedule.
None of her current workload is as time-consuming as her former job at Group Publishing — but, of course, her career isn't what it used to be, either.
'Teetering' vs. balancing
Dr. Emily Graves, a Fort Collins-based equine veterinarian for Pfizer Animal Health, has managed to stay on her career path but only after making some big changes and accepting a measure of sacrifice.
She also happens to work from home the majority of the time.
In 2010, when Graves found out she was pregnant, the then 38-year-old knew she didn't want to give up her job, or let her investment in vet school go to waste. Childcare became a necessity.
Her husband takes their 2-year-old son Mike to daycare every morning while Graves starts her workday. Mike gets picked up by a nanny, who watches him for the remaining hours until both Graves are off the clock. Although complicated, the childcare schedule allows both Emily and her husband to continue relatively uninterrupted in their own careers – what she believes to be a crucial part of her own personal fulfillment.
"I certainly missed some parenting moments along the way," she said, including Mike's first steps and visit with Santa. But she considers the sacrifice worthwhile, at least so far.
It helped that Graves' employer granted her three months of paid maternity leave when Mike was born, allowing her to focus on her son in the critical early months without worrying about work.
Others aren't so fortunate.
In Colorado, there are no laws requiring companies to grant women flex-time or paid maternity leave, and most employers choose not to offer such benefits. Under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, employers must offer up to 12 weeks of leave surrounding the birth of a baby. But that time off is unpaid.
In the current economic climate, many women simply can't afford that option.
And no matter what the career choice, women are, of course, still the ones bearing children.
While teaching as an adjunct history professor at CSU, Dr. Ginger Smoak, mother of two, received no paid maternity leave from the school, teaching right up until her due date and returning to the classroom one week later. She described the juggle of work and family not so much as balance but as a "teetering."
"In general, I think that balancing work and family is more difficult for women than men because while a woman's partner may be willing and able to take on the role of primary caregiver for children, ultimately women have biological restraints, such as difficult pregnancies or hospitalization before or after birth, nursing, etc.," said Smoak.
"I can see why women can feel forced to give up on a career once they have children, or at least feel that it is too difficult to try to make it work," she said.
Many women, of course, choose to plow ahead, regardless.
"Women shouldn't feel like they have to sacrifice anything," said Jessica Peterson, owner of the Customer Wow Project, a marketing and customer relations firm based in Loveland, and mother of one. "I'm teaching my daughter that she can be whatever she wants by living the example."
Peterson splits childcare responsibilities with her husband, Evan Peterson. She often works from home, structuring her business hours around her daughter's school schedule. If work's not finished when 7-year-old Cadence gets home, then Jessica Peterson returns to it after bedtime, sometimes at her desk until 1 a.m.
But not everyone has the flexibility that comes with being self-employed or has a partner willing to share responsibility.
History lesson?
After stepping down from her position with the Department of State, Slaughter was fortunate enough to have options – she's now a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. As she noted in her piece, many more women struggle to get back into the working world after taking time off.
Smoak draws on history in conjuring up possible solutions to the issue. She said medieval women would have taken their children to the market to work with them, because there was no other option. This is one area, she said, where contemporary society would do well to follow.
"In the high Middle Ages, most women would not have recognized different 'work' and 'family' spheres, instead spending their time immersed in both," she said. "Those women, too, would have recognized the concept (of having it all) as faulty, as a fiction that simply didn't exist for them. Having children close by was a reality, and would be one aspect that would make attending to both work and family needs much easier for women today."
Smoak, like many others, mentions on-site childcare, matching school and work schedules for vacations, flex-time, extended leave policies and benefits as ways employers could engender a better, more integrated experience for working parents.
"Perhaps we should become more 'medieval' in this way," she said.
Many workplaces have, in fact, incorporated some of these programs over the years. But many more have yet to even consider them.
Last year, Smoak's husband was hired as a professor at the University of Utah. She said she allowed his job to take precedence in determining their residence because she felt her job at CSU didn't offer adequate flexibility or job security. Since the relocation, she has accepted a position as an assistant professor/lecturer at the University of Utah.
Employers may have no choice but to eventually adapt.
Statistics portend more women entering the workforce and rising to the highest levels of their organizations. Greater numbers of women than men have earned master's degrees since 1981, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Currently, 52 percent of CSU is female – up from 30 percent in 1960.
Despite these trends, Megan Shellman, president-elect of Colorado Business Women, thinks real change in the workplace will happen only if it's mandated by law. "I do not believe that corporations or small businesses will support an increase in costs (associated with hiring women with families) for any reason without legislation," she said.
Slaughter goes further: "The best hope for improving the lot of all women … is to close the leadership gap: to elect a woman president and 50 women senators; to ensure that women are equally represented in the ranks of corporate executives and judicial leaders," she wrote. "Only when women wield power in sufficient numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women. That will be a society that works for everyone."


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Icarus Bungee coordinates bungee jumping within a five hour drive of the San Francisco bay area. A bungee jumping expedition includes instruction, equipment and supervision of the jumps from different bridge sites located in Northern California.
The bridge locations are within a five hour drive of San Francisco. Be prepared to drive the maximum distance. (The closest bridge to San Francisco is 2 1/2 hours drive.)
Locations vary because of changing conditions. Roads are affected by river & lake flooding, severe weather, mudslides, landslides, snow, forest fires, logging & mining operations. Because conditions can change rapidly (especially during winter months), the location will not be selected until the Wednesday before the jump.
The heights vary from a minimum of 120' (36 m) to 220' (70 m)
Due to wet or dry years some bridges are not available every year.
Jumping Days: Icarus Bungee will book individuals and groups for jumping on scheduled expeditions. There will be at least one scheduled expedition per Month. Jumps will be executed in the very early morning or on the rare occasional evening. To reserve a place on an expedition call (510) 521-JUMP.
Directions to the location will be sent to the organizer the Wednesday evening before the scheduled jump. Bridge locations are a carefully guarded trade secret. Please be discrete about giving the location to anyone.
Age Range: 15 - 100 (Minors must have parental consent.)
Age: If you are under 18 years old your Parent or Legal Guardian must sign a parental consent form to jump with Icarus Bungee. All jumpers will be required to sign a release form before jumping can begin.
Payments: Final payment is due two weeks before actual bungee jump. We accept payment by PayPal or credit card through PayPal.
Reservations: All trips require advance reservations. Full payment is non-refundable when within two weeks of the jump date. When planning a bungee jumping trip we recommend that you make payments only after collecting payment from each member of your group.
Group Organizer: All groups should have one individual who is designated as the Group Organizer, It is then the responsibility of the organizer to pass along information to other members of the group. The group organizer will also be responsible for collecting money from all the members of the group and making payments to Icarus Bungee.
Barter and Alternate Payment: Got something to trade? Icarus Bungee will consider trade of services or goods. Call or email what you'd like to trade. We also accept Liberty Dollars and precious metal coins.
Individual members or veterans of the Military, Police, Firemen and Paramedics (active duty, reserve or retired) may receive an additional ten dollar discount.
Military Members being or been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq may jump for free on a space available basis. (Call and find out schedule.) Must bring copy of orders for free jump. (This offer includes all Allied & NATO Forces)
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Cambridge, Mass. – In an early season battle of ranked women's tennis opponents, it was No. 5 Tufts that came out on top over No. 22 MIT at the J.B. Carr Indoor Tennis Facility, as the Jumbos took a 7-2 decision over the Engineers. It was the first win of the season for Tufts (1-1), and the first loss for MIT (2-1, 2-0 NEWMAC).
In singles play a pair of freshmen picked up victories for the Engineers. It was Dutt that put the first point on the board for MIT, bouncing back from a first set loss to take a 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 win over Shelci Bowman in the No. 2 match. At No. 5 it was freshman Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) gaining a 6-3, 6-1 win over Lam.
Two other matches went to three sets, but went to the Tufts side of the scoreboard. Hsu fell at No. 4 in a 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 decision to Gann, while senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky (Orange, Conn.) dropped a 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4 match to Lauren Hollender.
MIT will return to NEWMAC Conference action on Saturday, Sept. 24 when it travels to Mount Holyoke College for a 1:00 p.m. match with the Lyons.


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Camera Found off Taiwanese Coast, Six Years Later
(NEW YORK) -- After 2,000 days at sea, a camera dating from 2007 was found on the other side of the world, and with it, memories Lindsay Scallen thought she would have trouble reliving without her photos.
"I am absolutely astounded, blown away about all that has happened," Scallen said. "This camera [that] I lost during a night dive when it fell off of my wrist, it survived and drifted to the other side of the world."
Taiwanese native Douglas Cheng found the barnacled and seaweed-covered camera on the beach on Feb. 13. He uploaded the photos to his camera and realized that although the camera itself did not function, the photos were still intact.
Cheng then went to Tawainese police to figure out where the photos came from.
"The police realized the photos were taken in Honolulu, and they reached out to local news media," Scallen said. "The article then made national news this past Sunday, and my friend saw it and sent it to me, and said, 'Hey, someone found your camera.'"
Scallen said she spoke to Cheng via Skype on Tuesday, and he told her he found the camera on Chinese New Year, which marked a special day in his culture.
"It was really cool, we spoke about 45 minutes, and we discussed how he found it, how much it meant to Taiwanese culture to find it on this day, and how he believes in destiny," she said. "He said it was really important for him to find me, because he was curious about my story and wanted to get the memories back to me."
All the photos from the camera survived and contain pictures of tropical fish and marine life, along with photos of Scallen with friends. China Airlines has offered to pay room, food and board fees for Scallen to visit Taiwan, as an "honored guest of Taiwan."
"They are going to fly me and a guest on June 2 for about a week, and I am so excited," she said. "I feel really honored. This came at a really good time in my life, and is an extra blessing because 2013 has been a great year so far, and this added to it. It is truly unbelievable."
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Early Start State Complaints Process
The purpose of the State complaint process is to investigate and resolve any alleged violations of federal or state laws or regulations governing California's Early Start program including eligibility and services. Early Start is for infants and toddlers under the age of three who have a developmental delay or disability. Early Start is governed by:
- Part C of the Federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act; Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 303;
- The California Early Intervention Services Act, Government Code, Section 95000 et seq.; and,
- Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, Sections 52000 - 52175.
Parents or any individual, agency or organization may file an Early Start State Complaint. The complaint may be filed against DDS, California Department of Education, any regional center, local education agency, or any private service provider receiving Early Start funds. Regional Centers and local education agencies must inform parents and other interested individuals or organizations of the right to file an Early Start State Complaint directly with the Department of Developmental Services.
Complete the Early Start Complaint Investigation Request form-DS 1827 English | Spanish or submit a written and signed statement. The complaint shall include:
- The name, address and telephone number of the person filing the complaint;
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The Department of Developmental services is required to investigate the allegations and issue a written decision to all parties within 60 days of receipt of the complaint. The written decision will address each allegation and include the findings and conclusions; the reasons for the final decision; the required corrective actions to be taken; and, provisions for technical assistance.
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Budget Battles
Trump and Pelosi Still Working on Drug Prices: Report
Seema Verma Won't Say What the Plan Is if Obamacare Gets Struck Down
Obamacare Premiums Are Going Down for 2020 — and the Trump Administration Is Claiming Credit
Buttigieg Would Hike Corporate Taxes to Pay for His Health Plan
Warren Says She'll Release a Medicare for All Finance Plan
Pelosi Pushes Ahead on Drug Bill Despite Clashes With Trump
The $30 Trillion Question Haunting Elizabeth Warren's Campaign
Trump and Pelosi Still Working on Drug Prices: Report
Despite the drama unfolding daily in the House impeachment inquiry — and the rising animosity between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the two sides are still trying to reach a deal...
Seema Verma Won't Say What the Plan Is if Obamacare Gets Struck DownBy Michael Rainey
Seema Verma, who leads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, tried to assure a House panel Wednesday that the Trump administration's effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act in court...
Obamacare Premiums Are Going Down for 2020 — and the Trump Administration Is Claiming CreditBy Michael Rainey
Affordable Care Act insurance markets are looking stable for 2020, with premiums for benchmark plans set to fall for a second straight year — and some Trump administration officials are touting those...
Buttigieg Would Hike Corporate Taxes to Pay for His Health PlanBy The Fiscal Times Staff
Pete Buttigieg has proposed a "Medicare for all who want it" plan, which would allow Americans to buy into the Medicare system while leaving the private insurance system in place. This past weekend...
Warren Says She'll Release a Medicare for All Finance PlanBy Michael Rainey
Under pressure from competitors and journalists covering the Democratic presidential nomination race, Elizabeth Warren said Sunday that she would release details "over the next few weeks" to explain...
Are Democrats Too Afraid of Raising Taxes?By Michael Rainey
One of the crucial unanswered questions hanging over the democratic debate on Medicare for All is how its proponents plan to pay for it. While Bernie Sanders has made it clear that he would raise...
Pelosi Pushes Ahead on Drug Bill Despite Clashes With Trump
House Democrats are pushing ahead with their plan to lower prescription drug prices, even as the already fraught relationship between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump, her main bargaining...
Opioid Crisis Has Cost the US Economy at Least $631 Billion: StudyBy The Fiscal Times Staff
The opioid crisis has already cost the U.S. at least $631 billion , according to a study released this week by the Society of Actuaries. The figures cover the four-year period from 2015 to 2018, and...
The $30 Trillion Question Haunting Elizabeth Warren's Campaign
There's a $30 trillion question looming over Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign: How would she fund the cost of the Medicare-for-All plan she proposes? The issue was the subject of repeated...
A Cheaper Way to Provide Universal Health Coverage?By Michael Rainey
With Democrats debating a variety of ways to expand access to health care and President Trump promising a " phenomenal " plan at some point in the future, it's a good bet that there could be...
Your Two-Minute Summary of Tuesday's Democratic Medicare-for-All Debate
Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate once again highlighted the candidate's deep divides over Medicare for All. After opening questions related to the House impeachment inquiry into...
2020 Democratic Debate: What Voters Want to Hear About Health Care
Given the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump and the turmoil in Syria in the aftermath of the president's controversial decision to withdraw U.S. troops, health care is likely to be...
Pelosi's Prescription Drug Bill Would Save Medicare $345 Billion: CBO
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill to reduce prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion from 2023 through 2029, according to a preliminary analysis released Friday by the nonpartisan...
Think 'Medicare For All' Is The Only Democratic Health Plan? Think AgainBy Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News
If you tuned in for the first five nights of the Democratic presidential debates, you might think "Medicare for All" and providing universal care are the only health care ideas Democrats have. With...
Medicaid Work Requirements in QuestionBy Michael Rainey
A justice department lawyer defending the Trump administration's approval of work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Kentucky and Arkansas told a panel of federal appeals court judges Friday...
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced that the City of Lincoln and the Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership have purchased 69.2 acres of land adjacent to Lincoln's Arbor Lake to expand wetlands. The lake is north of 27th Street and Arbor Road. The purchase will nearly double the amount of imperiled saline wetland habitat at Arbor Lake, which is preserved by the City and its partners in Lancaster County.
Saline wetlands are one of the rarest ecosystems in Nebraska. Concentrated in Lancaster and Saunders counties, these salt marshes host salt-tolerant plants and animals found nowhere else in Nebraska, including two species that are listed on the state's endangered species list.
"For many years, Arbor Lake has provided the citizens of Lincoln with the opportunity to experience one of Nebraska's most unique ecosystems, " said Mayor Seng. "This acquisition will increase these opportunities while conserving the area for future generations to enjoy. "
The Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership worked with a local landowner to acquire the adjoining parcels to the east and south of Arbor Lake. Funding for the acquisition was provided through a grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust, which has provided $750,000 over the last three years for saline wetland conservation. Strong partnerships were a key factor in receiving the funding, according to Mary A. Harding, Executive Director of the Trust.
"The Trust seeks out projects that bring together the resources of multiple partners to achieve real progress on Nebraska's natural resource issues, " Harding said. "We are proud to support the work of the Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership in its efforts to preserve the last of Nebraska's saline wetlands. "
Full partners of the Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership include the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, The Nature Conservancy and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Other partners include private landowners, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Ducks Unlimited, the Wachiska Audubon Society, the Nebraska Sierra Club, the Home Builders Association of Lincoln, Pheasants Forever, the Conservation Alliance of the Great Plains and the Nebraska Wildlife Federation.
The Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 1992 to preserve, protect and restore natural resources for future generations. Using revenue from the Nebraska Lottery, the Trust has provided grants to more than 700 projects across the state. Individuals and organizations can apply for funding to protect habitat, improve water quality and establish recycling programs in Nebraska.


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Sonication optimization using Cup horn - (Jun/10/2009 )
I am conducting a Chip assay with HepG2 cell, following the Upstate Chip assay kit protocol.
It's my first time to do this experiment, so I guess I might have to go through many trials and errors.
But I wish I could find anyone who can help me minimizing that.
My problem occured at sonication step.
I am using Vibra Cell sonicator VCX-500/750 (Sonics) with a cup horn.
Before sonication, I aliquoted the resuspended cell with 1X10^6 cell / 200ul concentration in eppendorf tube.
Sonication was performed at 22kJ ~ 100kJ energy with 5 X 10 s, 10s interval, or 5X 30s, 30s interval. All at 30% amplitude.
However, the sheared DNA sizes of different samples were almost same; the average size was approximately 1200 bp.
My question is :
1. What is your advice? Should I raise the sonication energy? or time? which would be more conclusive?
2. If you are using a cup horn method, can you provide me your own sonication condition?
(especially with your sonication energy and time)
Thank you.
hi there,
i don't use cup horn, however i've found it helps to try sonicating 1X10^6 cell / 50 microliters concentration in eppendorf tube.