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- Is Justin Timberlake going to be on SNL next week? A source claims they overheard Timberlake talking about taping a secret segment for next week's season finale. Digital short, maybe? [PageSix]
- Sting believes that to encourage people to go into teaching, basic teacher's salaries should be raised: "One of the most important jobs in the planet is to teach children. Our entire future depends on children being educated." [Yahoo]
- Uh-oh! Geri Halliwell's fiance, Henry Beckwith, was photographed leaving a club with another woman. [Mirror]
- Meanwhile, Josh Brolin, who is married to Diane Lane, was seen kissing actress Marley Shelton. A rep for Brolin states: "Josh and Marley are dear, dear friends. They've done three movies together, and this was just an embrace between old friends." [NationalEnquirer]
- "There is no secret. I do take care of myself. I don't abuse myself in any way. I sleep well. I eat well. I don't lay out in the sun. I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I don't smoke. I think all that helps with your skin as you get older."Jennifer Lopez, on the "secret" to her flawless skin. [Mirror]
- After reading a Newsweek article that declared that gay actors can't "play straight," Kristen Chenowethwrote a letter to the magazine, calling the article "horrendously homophobic" and stating "No one needs to see a bigoted, factually inaccurate article that tells people who deviate from heterosexual norms that they can't be open about who they are and still achieve their dreams." [Broadway.com]
- "If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it."-Queen Latifah [NYDN]
- Alexa Ray Joel says it's difficult to be compared to her famous parents: "It's hard because [people] compare my music to my father and my looks to my mother. And I like to think that my music and my voice are different than my father's and my look is very different than my mother's. Can't I just be me?" [People]
- Noel Gallagher says he wants to name his child after a soccer star, if it's a boy: "If it's a boy he's definitely - Sara doesn't know this yet - Carlos. Yeah without a doubt, or just Tevez. Tevez Gallagher. Yeah, Carlito Gallagher. Sara doesn't know but I'll nip to Marylebone Register Office when she's having a nap." [TheSun]
- Breaking news: Kathy Griffin has been vajazzled. [PageSix]
- Heidi Klum and Seal celebrated their 5th anniversary by renewing their vows once again in front of family and friends. Says Seal: "Each year, Heidi and I get remarried. It's a great party, but for about an hour, we go off on our own down to a private beach. We sit there with the kids and read vows to each other as the sun sets. It's a very special moment to us." [People]
- Oprah had to bring in extra seating to handle the audiences for her Julia Roberts and Twilight episodes. [PageSix]
- "I'm OK... when did I stop being OK? I am fine. I am happy and I am working. And I'm good. I'm surrounded by great friends now. You know, I have weeded out a lot of people in my life."-Lindsay Lohan [TheSun]
- Former Scientologist Marty Rathbun says he was ordered to videotape Tom Cruise's auditing sessions because the organization's leader, David Miscavige, liked to watch them with his friends: "Miscavige would read Tom's overts and withholds from my reports to others, joking and laughing about the content of Tom's confessionals." [RadarOnline]
- Adam Lambert says he was worried that his sexuality would be held against him before auditioning for American Idol, "I was actually worried about [my sexuality] when I auditioned," he says, "I thought 'I'm not what they usually go for, I don't know if it's going to work out' but it did, and thank God I auditioned." [ShowbizSpy]
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In a report on Monday, the Pentagon accused China of stealing innovative ideas from American industries for strategic gain. The complaint is hardly new in business circles. But the fact that the United States finally made it official and so explicit should force China's leaders to answer two questions:
Why can't China simply trust itself to be innovative? Why resort to such systematic pilfering, through cyber-espionage, reverse engineering, and other ways of stealing intellectual property?
Industrial theft is common in almost every country, including the US. But in China it is on such a high scale and at such an official level that the US government simply had to point a finger at Beijing. One American think tank, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, estimated last year that China's stealing of US intellectual property cost nearly 1 million US jobs in 2009.
What's so odd is that China is making huge government investments in what it calls "independent innovation," such as science parks and "hot" industries like clean energy. The country produces far more engineers than the US. Its official investment in research as a percent of gross domestic product has more than doubled since 2000. And its top scientific universities have gained global respect.
Creativity and a quest for the truth aren't unique to any particular people. They're universal. Research in science and technology requires such an attitude. "We learn from science [to be] open, honest, and fearless," wrote Chinese physicist Fang Lizhi, in an autobiography published after his death last year. As a strongly independent intellectual, he criticized the suppression of truth by China's Communist Party as well as the country's supercompetitive education system that pushes students toward rote learning more than creative thinking.
China's top-down economic planning and its domineering state-run enterprises also don't encourage a Steve Jobs-type figure to emerge. An official policy since 2006 to quickly innovate Chinese industry has led to high rates of plagiarism in scientific papers and other misconduct in research labs. While the quantity of such research papers is higher, the quality is low.
China's long dependency on foreign technology – and its drive to develop its economy quickly – may be one reason for its lingering tendency to take other people's creative work. But it also could be that a people living under a ruling party that suppresses the truth don't feel safe in striving for truth. India, which has far less government money for research, does very well in its open society to inspire technological innovation.
Truth-seeking has a long tradition in the West, where religion focuses on the idea of a rational Creator. Physicist Stephen Hawking speaks of his desire to understand the universe as a search for "the mind of God." China also has a long history of importing ideas – Mao Zedong imported communism, for example, and Deng Xiaoping brought in Western-style market capitalism. The quest for truth is not alien to the country. China now simply needs to look to its own people for creativity rather than take it from elsewhere.


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And now that we're done praising the opposition, allow us a moment to unload on our heroes.
You know what we can't handle?
We can't handle seeing another goddamned postgame interview with Gregg Zaun, where he spouts earnest platitudes about this team having to step up. That whole song and dance is especially galling to us because we never see Frank Thomas or Vernon Wells or Troy Glaus - you know, the guys who are supposed to be the heart of this offense - step up and be counted. Oh, sure, we hear Glaus swear and curse at the plate after popping up to the infield for the umpteenth time with runners on, which we suppose means that he's "intense" and that he's a gamer.
But you know what? We'd really like to see those guys eat some shit once in a while, when the Jays put up an execrable effort such as they have on this road trip. Maybe it'll motivate them to do, you know, not suck.
And you know what else? You can say what you will about A.J. Burnett being a wuss (and we have), but at least the dude has the balls to show up in front of the media and answer for himself.
We can't handle another game where the offense squeezes the bats so tight when there are men on base that the grounds crew has to sweep the sawdust from around the plate after each non-rally. On this 2-4 road trip against two of the lesser lights of the AL this season, the Jays looked positively awful at the plate, and completely removed from the team that put up big numbers in a modest five-game win streak.
We know that J.P. "likes this team", and so do we...as an idea. But there is something so fundamentally amiss here. This is a team that gets the yips every time there is someone in scoring position. By all rights, they should have BURIED the Rays on multiple occasions in every game of this series (and that 2-0 win was not exactly a salve for the Jays fan's soul). But they don't seem to have that ability that good teams do to step on the other guy's throat when they have the opportunity. (This is something that teams that make the playoffs like Boston or the Yankees do with impunity.)
Sadly, we can hear the echoes of the future, when the Vernons and Troys and Reeds start talking about "oh, we woulda been great if it weren't for the injuries..." It's getting to a point where we wish we could walk in and deliver a five minute speech to these guys, like a scene out of Glengarry Glen Ross:
The wins are out there, you pick it up, it's yours. You don't--We have no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those games this week and win. Win, it's yours. If not you're going to be shining our shoes. And you know what you'll be: Bunch of losers sitting around in a bar. "Oh yeah, I played the Devil Rays and White Sox...it's a tough racket."
You know what it takes to make the playoffs? It takes brass balls to make the playoffs.
Go and do likewise, gents.


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I had my eye on the PlanetBox for nearly a year. And being that PlanetBox is just in its infancy, having just celebrated their "first birthday" this summer, there wasn't a whole lot of information available out there. It's a bit on the pricey side and I wasn't sure about investing in it without any reviews or outside opinion weighing in on the matter....
But then this blog happened. :) And this blog gave me
Okay? Okay! Let's get on with it then. :)
First, the name is just awesome. PlanetBox? You know it's gotta be cool. ;-)
Secondly, food looks far-out in it. Tidy, streamlined, the individual compartments of the PlanetBox make for really nice "frames" and just helps make the food it contains look nice.
This lunch was for my little girl and contained:
- Trader Joe's brand of corn puffs
- cantaloupe and grapes
- celery with peanut butter and raisins, aka "ants on a log"
- turkey sandwich on whole grain (cut w/ Sand*Wishes Lunch Punch) and cheese crown
- wafer cookie
I *love* that swizzle sticks fit in the long section.
My *kids* love that there is that tiny treat section because they always get a treat in it, and I usually don't include treats in lunches otherwise. LOL ;-)
The details:
* PlanetBox is 100% high-quality stainless steel.
* Being Stainless Steel it is obviously BPA free and free of all that other gunk we don't like (that would be: lead, PVC, and phthalates).
* Dishwasher safe
* Super duper powerfully durable
Even when it's naked it looks so cool!
When you want to dress it up there are fun magnets you can attach. :)
There are several magnet sets to choose from to decorate your PlanetBox (and every PlanetBox purchase comes with your choice of magnet sets!). Ethan picked the ocean themed magnet set. I really wanted the retro rocket motif, but he insisted. I'm sure I'll be ordering the rockets anyway at some point. They are just way too cute. :) Paige is partial to the rainbow and "princess pony" set. ;-)
The backside of PlanetBox, in case you are curious.
One of the things I hemmed and hawed over when it came to ordering the PlanetBox was the lunchbag. To be honest, I wasn't wowed by the lunchbags and I tried to find a different lunchbag that would fit it. I could never find one. The PlanetBox is just a little too long and wide to fit in the other lunchbags I found. So I went ahead and ordered the complete set, including the lunchbag. Again, I'm glad I did! The photos of the lunchbags online really don't do it any justice at all. The PlanetBox carry bags are really very nice. They are VERY well insulated and solid!
The PlanetBox fits inside, just like so:
The mesh pocket can hold two of my preferred ice packs side-by-side just perfectly. :)
PlanetBox, all zipped up and ready for take-off:
I can't even tell you how thrilled I was to find our Thermos Funtainers will fit in the drink pocket. PERFECT!
The whole lunch system is very streamlined - if your child prefers to carry his or her lunchbox inside their backpack the way my Ethan does, you'll appreciate how thin and easily this slips inside. :)
Please Note: Pink Funtainer is not Ethan's. It is Paige's. Spiderman, Batman and newly acquired Star Wars Clone Wars Funtainers were all either away at school or in the wash when this photo-shoot took place. Ethan would not appreciate anyone getting the impression that he is using the pinkalicious Hello Kitty drinking vessel and I'd like to make that clear now, to save myself from the 8-year-old's tirade of disdain. Thank you.
PlanetBox recently came out with some new lunchbag colors and the new carry bags have an even roomier pocket that looks like it could accommodate even more reusable drink bottle options.
As part of the "Complete" PlanetBox set I ordered are two small stainless containers, "Big Dipper" and "Little Dipper", that can fit inside the Planetbox, or be used separately (the big one would be great for a snack and slipped into the outside pocket of the carry bag!). We have used the small one for dips, and also worked great for housing sunflower kernels. They are really handy and seal so nicely!
If I were handing out grades here I would have to say that that PlanetBox earns an A+. It is very functional and cool. The only downside to the whole lunch system is the cost. For the PlanetBox alone it is $35, that's a bit high for a lunch container. But I can honestly say I think it's totally worth it. The PlanetBox is a quality piece that will last years and years. This is not an item that will wear out over time. I foresee the PlanetBox being with us for a long time, to infinity and beyond, you might say.
PlanetBox is available for sale on their own website, planetbox.com, and Amazon (ships for free!). They have a great website - check out the thorough FAQ's section! Just about every question you can dream up is answered there. In the year I pined away for this lunchbox I read every word on the website and I can attest that what you see and read about is what you get. The only surprise I had in store when I finally got the PlanetBox was how much nicer the carry bag was than I expected! :)
In a nutshell: PlanetBox rocks.
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Now that the nefarious forces of Black Claw have been silenced, Nick (David Giuntoli) faces an all too familiar foe in Capt. Sean Renard (Sasha Roiz). Having gained a seat of power as the mayor-elect of Portland, Renard is poised to bring rise to his own brand of law and order. Nick must take a stand to protect his city and those closest to him, especially his child with Adalind (Claire Coffee). It will take the full force of Nick and his allies to find a way to bring peace.
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Tag: Ruth Rogers
January 22nd, Denton, TX: Opening Reception & Lecture for "Seductive Alchemy: Books by Artists "
Texas Woman's University
Seductive Alchemy: Books By Artists
Opening Reception Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:00-6:00 pm
Lecture by the curator Ruth Rogers, 4:00-5:00 pm
"In this exhibition, I have arranged the works in thematic 'families' as a way of emphasizing how shared creative inspiration can lead to such enormously varied expression in the finished piece. Like different pitches in a chorus, they enhance each other's voice by being near one another. I have sought to choose books that are a balanced orchestration of all their elements, communicating on many levels – from nuanced color to unexpected touch to layered or visual text. Take time to let them unfold slowly, and read them not only with your eyes, but with your esprit, and all of your senses." – Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College
The exhibition will be up, January 21 to February 15, 2013.
East & West Galleries / Department of Visual Arts
Lecture by Ruth Rogers: January 22, 4:00-5:00 pm / TWU Denton Campus, Ann Stuart Science Complex Lecture Hall (ASSC 259) [campus map]


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Beck ~ Atkinson
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
William and Gail Beck would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Heather to Michael Atkinson, son of Allan and Lexene Atkinson.
Heather is a graduate of Woodinville High School, and Eastern Washington State University and is currently teaching second grade at Grand Ridge Elementary School in Issaquah.
Michael is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and the University of Washington and is currently working for Seabird.
They are planning a summer wedding on July 24.


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I'm trying to simulate the light distribution characteristics from a Gaussian laser beam, but having difficulty with the angular distribution.
I need to generate a large number of points on an x/y plane, along with pointing vectors down the z-axis, such that their aggregate approximates the power distribution of a laser beam. The distribution on the x/y plane is a Gaussian, while the pointing vector down the z-axis approximates the laser divergence.
For example, a beam with a 1 mm beam waist with a 1.5 mrad divergence has the following beam irradiance, E(r):
$E(r) = exp(-r^2/b^2)/(\pi b^2)$
where $r$ is the radius from the beam center, $b$ is the beam waist (1/e radius). Therefore, I can sample from this distribution by the following equation:
$r = b\sqrt(-ln(1-\mathbb{R}))$
where $\mathbb{R}$ is a random number uniformly distribution on [0,1], to get the radius from the origin on the beams starting point on the x/y plane.
OK, so the question I'm having trouble with, is how do I randomly choose the polar angle $\theta$ of divergence such that it approximates the laser divergence of 1.5 mradians? Do I just choose the polar angle to be uniform on $[0,1.5e^{-3}]$ radians?
I guess I'm getting confused by whether the distribution should be uniform over polar angle, or uniform irradiance over the solid angle, and how to sample from that. Below is an illustration to help sort things out. I'm trying to determine how to distribute the polar angle in order to approximate the laser divergence.


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Chasing nanoplastics
How dangerous are micro- and nanoplastics? Do they affect the environment? What harm can they do to our bodies? Questions that we can now finally answer because of Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh. Together with his colleagues, he ...
How dangerous are micro- and nanoplastics? Do they affect the environment? What harm can they do to our bodies? Questions that we can now finally answer because of Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh. Together with his colleagues, he ...
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There has been quite a bit of study of the relationships between brain size, body size, and other variables across a wide range of species, largely because the easiest way to study any object is to measure its size. Even for extinct species brain size can be estimated by measuring the cavity inside the skull. The story that emerges, however, is complex.
As might be expected, brain size tends to increase with body size (measured by weight, which is roughly equivalent to volume). The relationship is not a strict proportionality, though: averaging across all orders of mammals, it follows a power law, with an exponent of about 0.75. There are good reasons for expecting a power law: for example, the body-size-to-body-length relationship follows a power law with an exponent of 0.33, and the body-size-to-surface-area relationship a power law with an exponent of 0.67. The explanation for an exponent of 0.75 is not obvious—however it is worth noting that several physiological variables appear to be related to body size by approximately the same exponent, for example, the basal metabolic rate. This power law formula applies to the "average" brain of mammals taken as a whole, but each family (cats, rodents, primates, etc) departs from it to some degree, in a way that generally reflects the overall "sophistication" of behavior. Primates, for a given body size, have brains 5 to 10 times as large as the formula predicts. Predators tend to have relatively larger brains than the animals they prey on; placental mammals (the great majority) have relatively larger brains than marsupials such as the opossum.
When the mammalian brain increases in size, not all parts increase at the same rate. In particular, the larger the brain of a species, the greater the fraction taken up by the cortex. Thus, in the species with the largest brains, most of their volume is filled with cortex: this applies not only to humans, but also to animals such as dolphins, whales, or elephants.
The evolution of homo sapiens over the past two million years has been marked by a steady increase in brain size, but much of it can be accounted for by corresponding increases in body size. There are, however, many departures from the trend that are difficult to explain in a systematic way: in particular, the appearance of modern man about 100,000 years ago was marked by a decrease in body size at the same time as an increase in brain size. Even so, it is notorious that Neanderthals, which went extinct about 40,000 years ago, had larger brains than modern homo sapiens.
Not all investigators are happy with the amount of attention that has been paid to brain size. Roth and Dicke, for example, have argued that factors other than size are more highly correlated with intelligence, such as the number of cortical neurons and the speed of their connections. Moreover they point out that intelligence depends not just on the amount of brain tissue, but on the details of how it is structured.
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Pictured is Kalevi Häkkinen, one of the earliest proponents of speed skiing, the fastest non-motorized sport on land. Kalevi himself hit 125 MPH at the 1992 Olympics (at 64 years old), likely much faster than his practice car.
Which, by the way, can anyone else identify it? It took four of us an hour to correctly ID it. Anyone want to take a try in the comments below? (Hat tip to tionashoexpe!)


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I am having trouble starting my program.
I have been given a brief to create a java applet world clock.
I am struggling to think of a GUI design.He runs a travel company and would like visitors to his site to find out the current time of 5 large cities around the world, based on the current time in Hobart. His aim is to get people interested with these cities and then purchase a travel package off him.
If this marketing idea works, he would like the application to eventually be able to list the time of all the major cities in the world in a similar fashion.
He does not want times scraped off other websites but rather worked out form a central source, such as GMT standard deviations. Issues such as daylight savings need to be taken into account.
The final readout should display the time both in 24-hour time as well as 12-hour time with the appropriate AM/PM symbol included.
We have just done lessons on objects so I would assume that objects need to be used.
Thanks for any help contributed.
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A mystery in need of assistance, referral... A friend of mine (now 46) suddenly went deaf at age 3. All testing at the time turned up nothing physically or neurologically wrong with her. Upon being sent to deaf boarding school, her hearing returned, then spontaneously vanished again. Later, in her 20's, she was extensively examined by a variety of doctors and a battery of tests, who equally came up dry. Very expensive hearing aids were prescribed which helped minimally, and which she dislikes and cannot afford to replace, now broken. Despite, she pursued career as professional dancer for many years, feeling the music like so many deaf musicians do. But the mystery is, hearing has repeatedly spontaneously returned, albeit rarely, both in childhood and adulthood. Usually it is under the conditions of being very fatigued, late in the evening, and persists for a few hours to a few days. She says it seems "like a broken wire," an intermittent connection that seems to click on and off erratically. And, of course, the hearing world she is ushered into is rather chaotic, and it doesn't last long enough for her to really sort it out. Is this a known condition? Is it treatable? Psychological factors may well be involved here (childhood abuse), but the persistence of it (albeit rare) and the fatigue/broken-wire aspect suggests something more or something else entirely. She has not sought treatment in years(she gave up, works well in deaf world, though would not be averse to hearing), so perhaps technology/neurology has caught up since her last exam. Any thoughts, references, guidance -- particularly in the Miami, Florida area where she lives -- would be greatly received! Thanks, John Townley DrJack811 at aol.com


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Worthy Hurdle, Francona fit subjective formula
Increasingly, the Manager of the Year Award has taken on Comeback Player of the Year-type criteria. Your best chance of winning it is if your team stunk last year and/or was expected to stink this year.
Really, the job of the manager is almost impossible to judge quantitatively by anything other than the won-loss record. So the voters look at those won-loss totals relative to what was, subjectively, the anticipated won-loss total and celebrate or criticize accordingly, with the notable caveat that those that vastly exceeded expectations but didn't at least cross the .500 threshold probably shouldn't wait for the phone to ring.
Increasingly, the Manager of the Year Award has taken on Comeback Player of the Year-type criteria. Your best chance of winning it is if your team stunk last year and/or was expected to stink this year.
Really, the job of the manager is almost impossible to judge quantitatively by anything other than the won-loss record. So the voters look at those won-loss totals relative to what was, subjectively, the anticipated won-loss total and celebrate or criticize accordingly, with the notable caveat that those that vastly exceeded expectations but didn't at least cross the .500 threshold probably shouldn't wait for the phone to ring.
In the 30 years they've been handing out the Manager of the Year Award, only one guy -- Bobby Cox, in 2004 and '05 with Atlanta -- has won it in consecutive years. And only one guy -- Joe Girardi, in 2006 -- has won it with a losing record (and Girardi won it while looking for a new job, because the Marlins had fired him six weeks prior).
The 2013 Manager of the Year announcements followed right in line with this unstoppable train of thought. A pair of Rust Belt franchises were resuscitated, and their managers -- Pittsburgh's Clint Hurdle and Cleveland's Terry Francona -- were celebrated accordingly.
The Hurdle pick was a no-brainer; the Francona-over-John-Farrell choice was a little more surprising but, ultimately, entirely acceptable. After all, if you're going to have a narrative-driven award, Hurdle and Francona offered two truly compelling narratives.
The only surprise in the National League was that Hurdle wasn't a unanimous choice. Sure, Los Angeles' Don Mattingly, Atlanta's Fredi Gonzalez and St. Louis' Mike Matheny all did admirable jobs in leading their clubs to division titles, but we had at least an inkling that those clubs were all pretty good (regardless of how disastrous the first two months might have been for Mattingly's Dodgers).
Hurdle, meanwhile, oversaw the Pirates' first postseason push in 21 years. Lead the Pirates to the playoffs, and you're not only a lock to be honored by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, you might wind up on the National Association for Search and Rescue's awards radar, too.
Hurdle's booming voice has been preaching optimism ever since his 2011 arrival to PNC Park, and his players responded and avoided the second-half collapses that plagued them in the first two years of his tenure. Their ability to avoid it despite an at-times-overloaded bullpen was a credit to Hurdle's savvy about when to ride and when to rest his arms, and he also employed a whopping 494 defensive shifts to great effect. Though not unanimous, Hurdle was still a landslide winner of the NL honor, receiving 25 of 30 first-place votes, and deservedly so.
The American League field was similarly easy to whittle down, but the voters had a tough choice among the top two.
Bob Melvin, the Premier of Platoons, arguably did as good or better with this 2013 A's team than he did with the 2012 club that also won the West. But the A's surprise rise of '12 had already netted him his hardware. Girardi worked wonders with a Yankees roster besieged by injuries (his most frequent Nos. 4 and 5 hitters? Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells ), but the Yanks finished 12 games back in the East. Only four times in the history of the award has a manager won it after finishing in third or fourth, so Girardi's chances were always considered slim, at best.
The intrigue was whether the AL voters would side with Francona or Farrell. They were both in their first season with their respective clubs, and they both comfortably fit the comeback mold. Farrell's Red Sox lost 93 games a year ago and finished first in the East this season, while Francona's Indians lost 94 in '12 and wound up winning the top Wild Card spot in '13.
So that made this one kind of a coin-flip, frankly.
Farrell was utterly instrumental in the improvement of the Red Sox pitching staff he used to coach. He was more hands-on than the average skipper in terms of providing direction influenced by the advance work done by his staff and the scouts. The Red Sox had to represent a city shaken by the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, had to navigate their way through their share of injuries -- notably, to Clay Buchholz at the top of the rotation and to Joel Hanrahan and Andrew Bailey in the back of the bullpen -- and, of course, had to deal with the difficulties of living in one of baseball's deepest divisions. They went from worst to first, and, after the BBWAA ballots were cast, won the World Series, and the improved clubhouse culture that Farrell helped instill played no small part in the rise.
Then again, you could easily argue that Francona did more with less. The Indians didn't have the championship core that Boston had with Buchholz and Jon Lester and Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz and Jacoby Ellsbury and the others. The Indians had a payroll in the bottom 10, not the top four. They didn't have so much as a 15-game winner or a .300-hitter or a 100-RBI producer. Francona made no secret that he thought the MVP of his club was Jason Giambi, the 42-year-old DH who hit .183 in 71 games.
Yeah, it was that kind of team -- the ol' "greater than the sum of its parts" routine.
The knock on Francona's Indians was that they benefitted from a soft schedule down the stretch. For the season, they had a .757 winning percentage against teams with losing records vs. a .304 percentage against eventual playoff teams and a .524 percentage against the rest of the above-.500 field. In the final month, they played just 10 of 27 against winning teams.
Give credit where it's due, though: The Indians wouldn't have wound up where they did if they would have lost even one of their last 10 regular-season games. They won them all.
In the end, enough voters were swept up in that end-of-season surge by Tito and the Tribe to net Francona an award he never claimed in his eight seasons in Boston.
It's hard to imagine we'll ever have a way to truly assess how many wins or losses a manager added to the bottom line (if they even add or subtract any at all). So in absence of analytical, the voters turn to the subjective and award those who simply did much better than expected.
Francona and Hurdle both fit the formula and are worthy of this praise.
I just hope they're not expecting to repeat.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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Foreign Medical Teams Admitted to Examine Ailing Former Ukrainian PM (REPORT)
(HN, Feb 15, 2012) - Amid growing fears over the well-being of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, medical teams from Germany and Canada have arrived in the country to carry out their own examinations of the imprisoned opposition leader.
Tymoshenko, who was given a seven-year sentence for financial wrongdoing whilst in office after a trial that the European Union and the United States said was politically motivated, has been suffering from medical problems - primarily serious back pain - for several months.
A German team examined Tymoshenko Tuesday evening and were allegedly detained for three hours, according to her defense lawyer and Ukrainian politician, Serhiy Vlasenko. He added that prison officials have denied him the right, as a Ukrainian legislator, to access Tymoshenko at the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv.
Vlasenko was also quoted as saying that, for more than five hours, the Canadian doctors were being pressured to disclose the diagnosis to representatives of the Health Ministry of Ukraine. He said the results of the checkup could be disclosed only to the patient, and "any person indicated by the patient," the Kyiv Post reported.
According to a joint order issued by the Foreign Ministry, Healthcare Ministry and Penitentiary Service, the medical commission comprises Ukrainian doctors, three Canadian and two German specialists.
The Canadian team were dispatched after strong intervention from the Government of Canada.
The Interfax news agency reported that the Germans left early on Wednesday with the results of their examination in a sealed envelope, which is to remain closed until another round of medical examinations are completed by Canadian doctors on Wednesday.
In addition, Tymoshenko's daughter, Yevgenia, said she was not allowed to visit her mother.
She said: "They're not letting me in for the second day in a row. We don't know what is going on. We don't understand what pressure she is under there. Yesterday we had all the prosecutor's office and prison service representatives there. They put a lot of pressure on her to make her agree to the (presence of) Ukrainian doctors, which she has solid grounds to refuse....we don't know either her diagnosis, or what is happening to her."
She said she did not rule out that the diagnosis of her mother made by the foreign doctors might be falsified.
The Canadian team is composed of general practice doctors George Rewa and Peter Kujtan, and also an obstetrician-gynecologist Christine Derzko, according to Ukrainian media reports.
"We are here on a humanitarian basis. We were welcomed very well, and we will be conducting the research on strictly scientific basis. We proceed from the premise that the Government will make a conclusion judging from the results of this humanitarian mission," Rewa told journalists at the airport, according to the Ukrainian News Agency.
Western governments, led by European Union officials, have criticized the politicization of Tymoshenko's trial and had put pressure on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to release her. The two are long-time political opponents.
In a recent statement, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said: "Canada is very pleased that our government's interventions have paved the way for three Canadian doctors to participate in the international medical commission being established by the Government of Ukraine to independently assess the health of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
"While this is a welcome development, we hope that outstanding issues can be resolved expeditiously to allow doctors access to Ms. Tymoshenko as soon as possible. Ms. Tymoshenko's health, diagnosis and treatment should remain the primary focus of all involved.
"Canada remains concerned by the apparently arbitrary and politically biased nature of judicial proceedings against Ms. Tymoshenko and other individuals, which undermine the rule of law. We stand ready to work with Ukraine to help build a democratic, open and prosperous society.
- HUMNEWS staff


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Chinese real-estate investors made a name for themselves abroad in 2013, picking up big-ticket projects from New York to London, and that momentum is poised to pick up this year.
"In the late 1980s, we noticed every second deal was done by the Japanese, and in the 1990s, it was investors from the Middle East," said Alastair Hughes, chief executive officer of Asia Pacific at property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle JLL +1.22%. "We're seeing the beginning of such a wave in China."
Chinese outbound commercial real-estate investment is estimated to exceed $10 billion this year, after it doubled to $7.6 billion last year from 2012's $3.3 billion, according to data from Jones Lang LaSalle. Rival brokerage Colliers International is more bullish, saying it expects Chinese investors to spend at least twice as much on overseas property assets this year as last year.
"Chinese investors are very active in every major market in the world, and part of that has to do with government policy on overseas investment becoming less restrictive," Mr. Hughes said.
Aside from the stronger yuan, which makes purchases abroad cheaper, Chinese investors also are heeding the old adage don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Among some of last year's higher-profile investments were Shanghai's Fosun International 0656.HK -0.20% purchase of the Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York for $725 million in October and state-owned conglomerate Greenland Holding Group's 70%stake in Brooklyn's $5 billion Atlantic Yards project. Greeland also paid $1 billion for a piece of land in Los Angeles on which it plans to build a hotel, office units, serviced residences and high-end homes.
Chinese insurers could also be more active purchasing real estate abroad this year, after Ping An Insurance Group's acquisition of Lloyd's of London building last summer.
While the New York, London and L.A. markets enjoy strong demand and deep liquidity, they also have some of the world's highest real-estate prices. Many investors aren't limiting themselves to those cities and are looking to park their money in other markets in Asia Pacific and Europe.
"They have been focusing on the more transparent real-estate markets, and for Asia's equivalent, that would be Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong," Mr. Hughes said. Institutional investors are also looking for assets in places such as Brussels, Poland and Manchester, England, he added.
Office assets are the most popular targets, accounting for 85% of the $7.6 billion worth of commercial real estate bought last year, Jones Lang LaSalle said, followed by hotel and retail assets.
But the Chinese aren't the only ones flush with cash and looking for assets abroad. The U.S.-based nonprofit research organization Urban Land Institute listed Singaporean sovereign wealth funds and South Korean institutional players as competitors continuing to raise allocations for real estate investment in a recent report.
Asian investors "will be seeking to exploit the big differences between property cycles in Asia, the U.S. and Europe in order to achieve better yields," said Simon Lo, executive director of research in Asia at Colliers International.
Competition is heating up, with a limited number of prized assets.
"In the Asia Pacific market, we noted that for every one seller, there are seven buyers," Mr. Hughes said. "It's an extremely active market and it's difficult to find good quality stock."


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The Palestinian ministry of tourism recently reported that the local tourism sector had incurred $550 million in losses since October, according to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily.
In addition, the ministry added that Israel's policy in the Palestinian territories resulted in $400 million worth of un-invested capital in the sector. More than 3,000 workers lost their jobs in this sector as well.
According to the statistics provided by the Ministry of Tourism, prior to the Intifada, Palestinian tourism facilities included 101 hotel rooms, 114 travel agencies, 248 souvenir shops and 110 tourist restaurants.
The ongoing turmoil in the region has been more damaging to the Palestinian economy than any previous social or economic crisis. Over $11 million daily is currently lost by the economy as a whole mainly due to the Israeli blockade.
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WSJ/NBC Poll: Public Cold on Sequester
With Washington locked in a battle over the sequester - and the deep spending cuts that go with it - a new WSJ/NBC Poll paints a grim picture of the esteem in which Congress is held. WSJ's Tim Hanrahan has the details.
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I ... the sequester kicks in on Friday on the latest Wall Street Journal NBC poll numbers are in ... and no surprise Americans are still not fans of the eighty five billion dollars in cuts that are set to kick in ... starting March first ... the interesting thing those even though the majority of Americans don't like the sequester that thing it's about idea ... four in ten or nearly four in ten say that ... they should cut the budget even further than the eighty five billion a plan to cut it ... other interesting things in the polls that Obama is ... approval rating ... has a fifty percent which ... is little doubt the more it was as relaxing as below about fifty seven percent were Bill Clinton was this point ... in his presidency was good news in the Wall Street Journal poll for marker Rubio Chris Christie the popular Republicans are both seen as ... potential twenty sixteen presidential candidates both enjoyed strong great name recognition among the people told ... there's not such great news for congressional Republicans ... the numbers alone yet again ... on the issue bipartisanship which is seen as crucial to sequester tots ... present Obama scare scores very well where's Republicans for about half as well ... I know with with most Americans think Republicans are going for a bipartisan the Democrats as a party score ... in between Mr. Obama ... and Republicans on this issue ... and to enter into a loss to journal ...


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I am an emerging Canadian Artist, born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Being the daughter of Dr. Dinshaw Mehta, a Parsi from India and Sarah (Sally) Ethel Mackay from Charteris, Quebec, Canada taught me that I could achieve my dreams with hard work and desire.
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Painting for me is visual poetry. It expresses what is in my soul. My artwork is a continuance of my creative life's journey as I pursue an evolutionary life path. As I evolve, so does my art.
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PITTSFORD — On Sunday night, the Bills held their opening practice of training camp before a packed crowd at St. John Fisher College. There was a palpable sense of optimism in the air. I'm leaning toward picking them for the Super Bowl this year.
OK, I got carried away there. Once I've regained my senses, I'll probably drop back to 4-12. But don't tell that to the 3,500 or so die-hards who showed up at Growney Stadium. These nuts think anything is possible.
An especially sanguine collection of fans pressed against a metal railing at the bottom of the stands and shouted their belief as the players prepared to run on the field at 6 p.m. They were clad in every conceivable sort of Bills gear – hard hats, caps, red-and-blue beads, masks, foam fingers, leis.
"You know you guys have been waiting for this," one fan screamed at the players. "We've been waiting for this. Let's go, EJ! You gotta believe. We're going this year!"
Faced with that sort of unbending optimism, how could anyone suggest a losing record? It's late July, and anything is possible. In the great, democratic NFL monolith, everyone has a chance at glory when the teams arrive in camp.
It's a new era, as the Bills like to remind us. A new front office, a new coach, new coordinators, a new quarterback, a reduced role for Ralph Wilson.
There are reasons to believe they're finally on the right track, and there's nothing like a Sunday night practice to rouse the believers.
Even I've been looking forward to this camp – and I'll admit, my usual strategy is to schedule enough vacation time to keep my camp appearances at a minimum, while maximizing the opportunities to work on my short game.
But EJ Manuel is here. A real franchise quarterback, the only QB taken in the first round of April's draft. That alone makes this year different. There's nothing like a new QB to spike your interest, and nothing more intriguing than a spirited battle for the No. 1 job.
I mean, it was nice when Ryan Fitzpatrick was the unquestioned starter two years ago, but it didn't make for very compelling camp stories. Manuel makes every throw a news event. Will he look like a leader? Will he crush Kevin Kolb and seize the job by the throat? Leap over tall linemen with a single bound?
We got our first real look Sunday night. Manuel looked good. On his first play of camp, as fans and media held their collective breath, he handed the ball off to Tashard Choice. Kolb looked good, too. So did the third-stringer, whose name escapes me.
Come on, it was a practice, in shorts. There was no tackling, which made it look a lot like some of the Bills games last season.
The practice was lively and absorbing at times, dull and forgettable at others. They did calisthenics. I'm not sure I've ever typed that word before. A few times, they brought out a JUGS machine that propelled footballs skyward to the punt return men. I think the machine is having a great camp.
At around 6:45, they brought the quarterbacks and receivers over to the track and field stadium, adjacent to the main stadium. The entire media contingent followed, like school kids in a fire drill. Manuel was going over there. He was going to throw again.
The QBs completed 98 percent. Of course, the receivers weren't being covered. Manuel made some nice throws. He was a little off on some others.
His physical skills are obvious. The kid is big, and he moves well. But Kolb is a little more polished at this point, which is to be expected.
After about 15 minutes, the QBs and receivers rejoined the rest of the team in Growney. They moved into one-on-one passing drills, with the receivers now obstructed by actual defensive backs. I'll offer one observation:
Second-year cornerback Stephon Gilmore can really play.
The first nine throws were deep passes, which is more than Chan Gailey called all last season. The crowd ate it up. It was a chance for Doug Marrone to remind the fans that this year will be different, that the Bills plan to be aggressive and attack defenses down the field.
They certainly have the speed. Manuel's first bomb went to T.J. Graham for a touchdown. He hit Graham with another bomb. By that point, the die-hards surely had the Bills in the Bowl. "EJ to T.J.!" That could become a catchy theme if Graham can actually do it in the games.
It was like watching a home run derby. Too bad they couldn't have done it for an hour. They broke into 7-on-7's, then 11-on-11's. Stevie Johnson showed his great hands on one catch. Kolb made a terrific throw to tight end Scott Chandler on a deep out to the right sideline.
Chandler looked great, by the way. He was one of the few real bits of news on opening night. He has made remarkable progress since tearing his ACL in Week 16 last season. His presence will be a big plus for a team that has speed but few receivers who have established themselves in the NFL.
In 11-on-11's, Kolb had a pass intercepted. Manuel missed badly on a throw over the middle. Running the no-huddle, Manuel fumbled handling the snap on an option play. The closer they got to real game action, the more difficult it was to execute.
They play a lot of 11-on-11 in the NFL, so there's work ahead.
At least there were no injuries. That was significant, considering how many teams have lost players to season-ending injuries in the opening days of NFL training camps.
Mario Williams didn't participate in drills. He told the Bills' training staff he had a sore foot. It's always something with the guy. But Mario has been saying he's excited for camp and feels like a new man.
As I said, it's July. Everyone shows up inspired and ready to go. The JUGS machine is in mid-season form, and the sky is the limit.
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Russian Helicopters has launched its Global Helicopter Firefighting Initiative (GHFI) Thursday, a program aimed at developing more innovative technologies for firefighting helicopters.
Manufacturers of rotorcraft firefighting systems are participating in GHFI to improve the ability to develop new engineering solutions, the company said.
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The Ka-32A11BC is Russian Helicopters' firefighting variant, featuring a collapsible Bambi Bucket and water canon. It received Australian airworthiness certification in December 2012, and will be on display at the Avalon 2013 show in Australia next week.
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You learn something new every day, or so the old saying would have us believe. What I learned today (well, a few days ago) is that there's a type of soup made with green tea.
It's called Ochazuke and it's popular in - you guessed it - Japan. Apparently the two standard ingredients in Ochazuke are green tea and rice, which are livened up with assorted and sundry others, depending on the preferences of the chef.
For a little more info on Ochazuke, check out this brief piece over at O-Cha.net. While you're there, be sure to take a look around. The page is a production of the Japan-based World Green Tea Association and they've got plenty of information there on green tea. Maybe you'll learn something new today.


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Former tennis champion Martina Hingis of Switzerland attends a news conference at the ASPIRE4SPORT 2012 Congress and Expo at Aspire Dome in Doha November 15, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]
Swiss former world number one Martina Hingis, a winner of five grand slam singles titles, headlined the International Tennis Hall of Fame's list of inductees for the 2013 class.
Broadcaster Cliff Drysdale, tennis promoter Charlie Pasarell and former Romanian player Ion Tiriac will be inducted to the contributor category, the Newport, Rhode Island, hall said in a statement. Australian Thelma Coyne Long was previously named as an inductee to the master player category.
Hingis, who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon at the age of 16, quit tennis for the first time in 2003 at the age of 22, suffering from ankle injuries. She returned in late 2006 and finished the following year ranked seventh.
However, she quit for a second time in 2007 under a cloud after she tested positive for cocaine at that year's Wimbledon. Hingis served a two-year ban but maintained her innocence.
The 32-year-old Swiss won a total of 15 grand slam titles including nine major doubles titles and one mixed doubles crown, and claimed 43 singles titles and 37 doubles titles.
She won three successive Australian Open singles titles from 1997 and also triumphed at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, and was a finalist at the French Open. In 1998, Hingis led the Swiss team to their only Fed Cup title.
Long, 94, won a pair of Australian singles titles among 19 women's grand slam titles, including doubles and mixed doubles between the 1930s and 1950s.
Drysdale was a player during the 1960s and 1970s and then helped launch the ATP, serving as its first president. He later turned to broadcasting and for more than 30 years has been one of the sport's most respected voices.
Pasarell, a former U.S. number one and ATP co-founder, is most recently known as past director and managing partner of the Indian Wells tournament. He also partnered with Arthur Ashe and Sheridan Snyder to launch the (U.S.) National Junior Tennis League.
Tiriac, a former player turned tennis power broker, has been an influential leader in roles ranging from coach to player manager to tournament promoter. He spent 15 years on Romania's Davis Cup team, helping them reach the finals three times.
The Class of 2013 will be inducted on July 13 in Newport.


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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Heart Shaped Coconut Tea Cake
9 comments:
- Winnie said...
What a beautiful cake!
Really beautiful and very elegant, and of-course looks delicous
- March 26, 2012 at 1:55 AM
- Anita Stafford said...
This is my kind of cake, and I love the pan! I would love to find one like that, I like to bake bundts and like you said can't have too many pans!
- March 26, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- mireia badia said...
That book is my favourite too although I just got The art of french baking for my bday and something tells me it's gonna be in the same level!!!
And you're right... one can NEVER have too many molds!
- March 26, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- Vicki Bensinger said...
Wow this is such a pretty cake. I love coconut and with the orange mixed in I'm sure it tastes wonderful. I need to get a pan like this!
- March 26, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Lisa @ Flour Me With Love said...
This looks so pretty and I bet it tastes delicious! Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday :)
- March 27, 2012 at 8:22 AM
- Gloria said...
Gorgeous cake Cindy! Cake for breakfast is a good thing in my book!
- March 27, 2012 at 11:29 PM
- Kayte said...
This is so beautiful. I love, love, love that pan! So elegant and so delicious...can't beat that combination!
- March 28, 2012 at 6:45 PM
- Art By ASM said...
I love coconut cakes! This looks very yummy and simplicity! I am a new follower. I saw your recipe on a link party please come visit anytime and look at my coconut cake recipe as well. I will let you know when I make this! Thank you for sharing!
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- Lisa said...
Heart shape and coconut? Yes, please! Hope you can stop by my enchanted oven to say hello!
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Folk Secrets Music Project rediscovers amazing folk bands from magical places. We explore far corners of the world to find out wonderfully talented musicians and bring their music to a larger audience. Here's our first music video for Vayali Bamboo Band from Kerala, India.
Vayali Bamboo Band with all instruments made of bamboo comes from a small village called Arangottukara in Kerala. Surrounded by small verdant hills and lush green paddy fields with flocks of white egrets the village transports you to another world. And echoes of the bamboo music resonate with the beauty of this place. Hear the wonderful composition by the Vayali Bamboo Band and let their music take you on a magical trip.
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Stamps Celebrate Hot Rods and Statehood
Left: Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and 'Car Crazy TV' Host and car care products mogul Barry Meguiar take a shine to the new limited-edition Hot Rods Forever Stamps issued this month. Right: Nevada Statehood Forever Stamp artist Ron Spears (left) and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval admire the result of Spears' meticulous work to create the stamp's artwork.
A nationally known TV host who is "certifiably crazy" about cars and a stamp artist whowas meticulous about capturing the natural beauty of his home state are featured in June's edition of Your Postal Podcast.
Barry Meguiar, host of Velocity TV's "Car Crazy" show and the President of Meguiar's Car Care Products, shares his thoughts on why cars and stamps are a perfect match during the release of the new Hot Rods Forever Stamps.
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Beechan ran regularly on the traveling squad as a true freshman...Was 37th at the Big West Championships with a time of 22:09.70 over 6k, which scored as the fifth position for the Gauchos...Her time at Pre-Nationals was 22:56.6...Competed at the Stanford Invitational and finished 66th with a time of 23:00 over 6k...Took 20th in the early-season Aztec Invitational, and was the second Gaucho across the line with her time of 18:34 over 5k...Opened the season with a fourth-place showing at the Lagoon Invitational; her time of 18:21 over 5k was again second-best for the Gauchos.
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Beechan was Sunbelt League Champion in the 2006 and 2007 cross country seasons...Was All-League from 2005-2007 and All-Riverside County from 2006-2007...In track, she was 1600m and 3200m League Champion in 2007 and 2008...She qualified for CIF Finals in the 1600m...Also participated in a half-marathon, completing the 13.1 mile course in 1 hour 36 minutes.
Majoring in biology and hopes to become a physical therapist...Her hobbies include photography, mountain biking, camping, and fishing...Would like to thank her brother Nick for being a long-time running buddy and an inspiration, her parents for their continual support, and her high school coaches for believing in her.
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