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April 15, 2009
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The Schedule
Friday, Apr. 17 - 7 p.m.
#13 UCSB vs. #3 Cal State Northridge
Robertson Gymnasium - Santa Barbara, Calif.
Buy tickets online through Ticket Return
Match broadcast online at KCSB.org
Match broadcast at KCSB 91.9 FM
Match available on Gametracker
Against Cal State Northridge
Last Meeting: 1/23/09 at CSUN
Result: CSUN 3, UCSB 0 (30-21, 30-25, 30-27)
2009 Series: CSUN leads 2-0
2008 Series: CSUN led 3-0
All-Time Series Record: UCSB leads 42-32
Last UCSB Win: 4/6/07 at UCSB
Result: UCSB 3, CSUN 0 (30-24, 31-29, 30-21)
Current Streak: CSUN five wins
How Can I Get Tickets? Let Me Count the Ways.
This season, fans have several options to purchase men's volleyball tickets. Online sales are through Ticket Return. Additionally, tickets are available by calling the Ticket Office at 805.893.UCSB or by visiting the Ticket Office, located in the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus. Of course, you can also buy tickets at the Rob Gym entrance beginning one hour prior to the start of the match. Individual match ticket prices are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors (55 and above), and $3 for youths (ages 4 to 13).
Can't Make it to the Court?
KCSB 91.9 FM, UC Santa Barbara's student station, will broadcast Friday's final match. Fans in Santa Barbara can tune in to 91.9 FM or fans everywhere can click to the online feed at KCSB.org.
Can't Make it to the Court? - Part II
UCSB men's volleyball matches can be followed live online for no charge with Gametracker. Just log on to UCSBgauchos.com, go to the men's volleyball schedule, and click on the Gametracker link for the match you're interested in. You can follow each point and see player statistics and bios.
Faculty Free Friday for Finale vs. Federation Foe Forthcoming
Friday's match against Cal State Northrige is a Faculty Free Friday match. All UCSB faculty and staff will be admitted free when they show their UCSB Employee ID Card. Faculty and staff are encouraged to take advantage of Faculty Free Fridays at Gaucho baseball and softball games as well!
Senior Night is this Friday. Mike Runkle and Matt Thobe will both be honored prior to the match, so make sure to get there early to fire these guys up for their final career match at Robertson Gymnasium.
UCSB Edged by UCSD in Tight Five-Setter
UCSB completed its road season with a narrow 3-2 loss at UC San Diego on Aprl 11. The Gauchos were up 2-1 in sets, but ultimately lost by scores of 26-30, 30-21, 30-20, 21-30, and 13-15. It was the first time the Tritons swept a season series from the Gauchos. The all-time series record is 23-4 in favor of UCSB. Jeff Menzel and Cullen Irons led the Gauchos with 17 kills each. Menzel added a career-high nine blocks. Jake Rosener finished with 11 kills and four aces, while Andy McGuire posted a match-high 15 digs. UC San Diego got a match-best 21 kills from Frank Fritsch and another 16 from Will Ehrman. Ehrman completed a double-double with 10 digs while Calvin Ross and Gerald Houseman each had eight blocks. Both teams were up and down all night with attack percentages as the Tritons finished with a slight .236 to .232 edge. Neither team was particularly effective from the service line as UCSB made 20 errors and UCSD committed 19. The front lines were producing consistent blocks, with the Tritons finishing with 16.5 and the Gauchos collecting 13.0. It was the ninth five-set match that UCSB had been involved in this season. The Gauchos are 3-6 in those long contests.
Long Beach State Downs UCSB in Four Sets
Jeff Menzel ripped a match-high 26 kills but UCSB fell in four sets at Long Beach State on Apr. 10. Five Long Beach players totaled 10 or more kills each as the 49ers won by scores of 30-20, 26-30, 30-20, and 30-24. Menzel provided a good chunk of UCSB's offense with 26 kills, an ace, three blocks, and 28.5 points. He also added five digs and hit a team-best .435 (26-6-46). Jake Rosener had nine kills and Andy McGuire had a match-high 11 digs. Long Beach State was led by Josh Riley, who recorded 17 kills. He was followed by Jim Baughman (15), Dean Bittner (15), Dan Alexander (10), and Kyle Friend (10). The 49ers out-blocked the Gauchos 13.5 to 9.0 as Alexander and Riley each had six blocks. LBSU won two of three meeetings between the two teams this season.
This Season Against the Matadors
UCSB and Cal State Northridge have met twice this season, with CSUN winning both contests. On Jan. 23 in the San Fernando Valley, Jeff Menzel had a match-high 13 kills, but the Gauchos were swept by scores of 30-21, 30-25, and 30-27 in an MPSF match. Cullen Irons added 10 kills and Andy McGuire recorded a match-high nine digs for UCSB. For CSUN, Tanner Nua matched Menzel with 13 kills and Eric Vance had 12. Vance and Jacek Ratajczak each had six blocks as the Matadors out-blocked the Gauchos 12 to 5.5. CSUN hit .416 to UCSB's .235. In January, CSUN defeated UCSB in four sets at the Elephant Bar tourney. Menzel had a match-best 27 kills and 31.5 points. Eric Vance led the Matadors with 19 put-aways.
MPSF Tournament Out of Reach
The Gauchos are out of contention for a spot in the postseason MPSF Tournament. The top eight squads in the regular season standings earn a place, and seven are already spoken for. UCLA and UC San Diego are still alive for the eighth slot. The Gauchos can tie Hawai'i for 10th place with a win over CSUN and two Hawai'i losses against USC. It is the second straight year that the Gauchos will not advance past the regular season. Last year's campaign was the first time since 2003 that UCSB did not qualify for the MPSF tourney.
I Get Around
Sophomore Andy McGuire, UCSB's primary libero, got the start at setter against UC San Diego last week. Not only did he have a match-high 15 digs to go along with 55 assists, he also collected his first career service ace and matched his career-high with a pair of blocks.
Remove the "Je" from Jeff, Add "Stu" and You Get Stuff
Jeff Menzel established a new career-high with nine blocks at UC San Diego (4/11). His previous high was eight stuffs, set in 2008 at UC Irvine.
Road Rash
UCSB went 2-9 away from Santa Barbara this season. The lone road wins were at Hawai'i in early March and at Pacific in late March.
I Am Irons Man
Cullen Irons has come on strong lately, leading UCSB in kills in four of UCSB's last five matches. He's also posted team-high point totals in four of the last six outings. Against USC (4/1), the sophomore outside/opposite recorded 32 kills and 35 points, both career-highs. In fact, the 32 kills matched Jeff Menzel for the most by any Gaucho this season.
Help is On the Way (up)
Setter Vince Devany has been toying with his single match career-high assist total all season. First, he tied it with 60 against BYU (1/30), then broke it with 65 vs. UCSD (2/6). Devany then totaled 69 at UC Irvine (2/11) and 78 against Stanford (2/21). Most recently, he amassed 79 helpers in a four-set win at Hawai'i (3/5). Devany is ranked fourth in the nation in assists per set with a 13.40 average.
Menzel Pushing 1,000 Career Kills
Sophomore Jeff Menzel recently established new career-highs with 32 kills and 36.5 points against George Mason (3/11). To date, Menzel has 969 career kills (519 in 2009, 450 in 2008) and needs 31 (one less than his career-best) more to become the 11th Gaucho in the history of the program to reach the 1,000-kill benchmark. The last to do it was middle Theo Brunner, who collected 1,163 kills between 2005 and 2008.
One-Armed Bandit
Jeff Menzel's arm has shown a lot of stamina as he has by far taken more swings than any other Gaucho. He has amassed 1,160 attack attempts this season. Second on the list is Jake Rosener with 563, 597 less than Menzel. As a team, UCSB has 3,375 attacks, 34% of those coming by way of Menzel's arm. He's led the Gauchos in attempts in all but four matches this year and has posted 46 attempts in each of his last two outings.
Aces High
Jake Rosener dropped in a career-high seven service aces at Pepperdine (2/28), which tied for second on UCSB's single match record list. Evan Patak had seven aces five times between 2006 and 2007. The school record for aces in a match is eight, set by Patak in 2004.
Mountain of Youth
This year's Gaucho squad consists of just two seniors - Mike Runkle and Matt Thobe. There are two juniors, six sophomores, and five freshmen. The recent regular starting lineup features four sophomores (Devany, S; Irons, OH; Menzel, OH; Slaughter, MB) and two juniors (Moisenco, MB; Rosener, OPP) with sophomore Andy McGuire at libero.
Gauchos Ink Two Highly-Touted Recruits
UCSB has received National Letters of Intent from two highly-touted recruits - middle blocker Dylan Davis (Corona del Mar, Calif./Corona del Mar High School) and setter Oliver Deutschman (Pacific Palisades, Calif./Crossroads School) - that will don the blue and gold for the 2010 season. The six-foot-eight Davis is widely considered the nation's top class of 2009 middle blocker and one of the top two recruits at any position. In club ball, Davis' highly-ranked Balboa Bay team won a silver medal in the 17-and-under division at the 2008 Junior Olympics, where Davis was tabbed a First Team All-American. He was also a starter on the U.S. Youth National Team that won gold at the 2008 NORCECA Championships and qualified for the 2009 Youth National World Championships in Italy this coming summer. Heralded as the top setter in the country from the class of 2009, Deutschman won gold at the 2008 Junior Olympics, topping Davis' Balboa Bay squad in the 17-and-under title match. Like Davis, the six-foot-four Deutschman was named a First Team All-American following the tournament. He was also a starter, along with Davis, on the U.S. Youth National Team that won the 2008 NORCECA title and qualified to compete at the 2009 Youth National World Championships in Italy.
BE Great
Earlier this year, UCSB Athletics unveiled the BE Great initiative. BE Great is dedicated to maximizing leadership ability, strong on-campus interaction, and general welfare for all 450 student-athletes and Intercollegiate Athletics staff at UC Santa Barbara. BE Great also focuses on personal and career development, diversity and social awareness, and ensuring academic success. UCSB has a 92% student-athlete graduation rate.
Gauchos Give
With the arrival of Mark Massari as Athletics Director in October, UCSB Athletics launched the Gauchos Give community outreach initiative for all 450 athletes and 20 sports. Gaucho athletes give back to their community through free clinics, helping families during the holidays, providing financial and emotional support during tragedies, and touching the lives of youth groups.
The Gaucho Way
As a championship-caliber program, UCSB Athletics recognizes the responsibility that goes with it. This simply means all student-athletes, staff, and fans will behave with a champion's approach, creating a safe environment at games and events. All of those who attend, compete, or work at Gaucho events are caretakers of the passionate, exciting, and great experience UCSB is known for. This is "The Gaucho Way."
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Tonight, minimal Philly psycheduo Bridge Underwater plays at the latest Bands in the Backyard showcase – the No Alternative video party at Silk City. Joining them on the bill of this free show are sludge rockers Spirit Animal and harmonizing folkies Market East. To give you a taste of what's in store, dig in to today's Philly Local Phile – the latest Bridge Underwater single, "Take A Piece of Me." The the 808-esque drumloop and odd samples peppered throughout give this a nice Flaming Lips vibe, but note bandleader Pat Mellon's melodious voice and jangly playing underneath. It gives the song such appeal that – as with most Bridge Underwater singles – I'd be just as eager to hear it stand-alone, without the stylizations, as I am to listen to it all warped and weird. We'll see which way they swing tonight. Bridge Underwater plays the BITBY No Alternative Party at Silk City tonight a 8 p.m. with Spirit Animal and Market East; admission to the 21+ show is free.
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If you're revising for an exam, learning a new language, or just keen on maximising your memory for everyday life, here are some strategies that might help …
The brain is often likened to a muscle, the suggestion being that if you exercise it, its function will improve. A bodybuilder can strengthen his biceps by repeatedly lifting weights and so, the argument goes, you can improve your memory by repeating over and over to yourself (either out loud or sub-vocally) the information you wish to remember.
For years, researchers considered that "rehearsing" information in this way was necessary to retain it in your short-term memory and transfer it into long-term memory. This view fits with our instinct that if we want to remember something like a phone number, we say it to ourselves again and again in the hope that it "sticks". Generations of students have held fast to the principle that repeatedly reading through lecture notes and textbooks, attempting to rote learn the facts needed for exams, is the path to success.
There is evidence that the more an item is rehearsed, the greater the likelihood of long-term retention. In one study, participants were presented with a list of words and were asked to rehearse the list out loud. When asked to recall the words, memory retrieval improved as a direct function of the amount of rehearsal that was undertaken. However, in almost all circumstances, simple rote rehearsal is much less effective than strategies that involve thinking about the meaning of the information you are trying to remember.
'Elaborative' processing
Although many people imagine that actors memorise their lines using rote rehearsal, research conducted by the psychologist Helga Noice suggests that this is not always the case. Noice found that some actors learn their lines by focusing not on the words of the script, but on their underlying meaning and the motivations of the character who uses them. This is consistent with laboratory evidence – although rehearsing a list of words improves long-term memory for the material to some degree, a more effective strategy is so-called "elaborative" processing, which involves relating the information to associated facts and relevant knowledge. In one study, participants were asked to learn words using one of the following questions:
a) Is the word written in capital letters?
b) Does the word contain two or more syllables?
c) Does the word refer to an item of furniture?
Highest levels of recall were observed following question c, which involves deeper, more elaborative, meaning-based processing.
Another experiment involved participants learning sentences either by simply studying the sentence (eg "The doctor hated the lawyer") or by generating an elaborate continuation to the sentence (eg "The doctor hated the lawyer because of the malpractice suit"). The elaboration method improved memory for the sentence significantly, suggesting that the cognitive effort involved led to deeper encoding of the original sentence.
One study compared different kinds of elaboration to investigate which might be most useful when revising for exams. One group of participants was given topics in the form of questions to think about before reading a text, whereas another group was just asked to study the text. The researchers found that reviewing the text with relevant questions in mind improved retention and subsequent recall of the material.
Indeed, elaborative processing is such a powerful memorisation technique that it appears not to matter whether you are trying to learn the elaborated information. Researchers asked participants to carry out two tasks: checking if a word contained a particular letter, or thinking about the word's meaning. Half the participants thought the true purpose of the experiment was just to carry out the task, whereas the other half were told that they would be tested for recall. The results showed that whether or not people intend to learn is less important than how they process the information.
A visit to any bookshop will reveal myriad self-help books promoting the use of mnemonics as a means of improving your memory. The Method of Loci, perhaps the most well-known mnemonic technique, involves thinking of images that link the information you are trying to learn with familiar locations. So, when trying to remember a list of words, you might imagine walking between the various rooms in your home and in each one commit a word to memory by forming an image that combines the word with a distinguishing feature of the room. For example, if trying to remember the word "apple", you might imagine an apple bouncing on the sofa in your living room. Retrieving the list of words is achieved by mentally walking through the rooms of your house again. One study found that people using the Loci method could recall more than 90% of a list of 50 words after studying them just once.
Mnemonic strategies often lie behind the extraordinary feats of remembering achieved by memory champions such as Dominic O'Brien, the British author and eight-time winner of the World Memory Championships. O'Brien once famously spent 12 hours at a restaurant in London going through 54 packs of randomly ordered playing cards, studying each card once. He then managed to recall 2,800 of the 2,808 cards in the correct order, an astonishing level of success.
The American writer and memory champion Joshua Foer describes in his book, Moonwalking with Einstein, how he learned to use a particularly vivid form of Loci to remember playing cards. For example: "At the front door, I saw my friend Liz vivisecting a pig (two of hearts, two of diamonds, three of hearts) …" Foer's method, which allows him to associate multiple items with each mental location, led him to set a record at the 2006 US Memory Championships by memorising an entire pack of 52 cards in only 1min 40sec.
Techniques such as Loci can be readily adapted to help us remember appointments, birthdays, errands we need to run, etc. As illustrated by Foer's example, the key with mnemonics is creating the most striking visual images possible. The more ludicrous, creative and elaborative you can be, the greater the chance of success.
Retrieval practice
Evidence suggests that repeatedly testing yourself on the information you have learned can enhance retention considerably. The great memory researcher Endel Tulving was among the first to discover the merits of so-called "retrieval practice". In a number of experiments, participants learned lists of words in three conditions: standard (study, test, study, test); repeated study (study, study, study, test); and repeated test (study, test, test, test). The repeated study group had three times as much exposure to the words as the repeated test group. If learning occurs only when studying, it follows that they should have had better memory. But Tulving found equivalent immediate learning across conditions. However, if retention is measured after a one-week delay, repeated retrieval testing can lead to markedly better recall than repeated studying, even if the studying involves an elaborative learning strategy.
The importance of testing one's memory has been shown to apply to a number of everyday learning situations. The American psychologists Jeff Karpicke and Roddy Roediger investigated the most effective method for learning foreign languages. They found that repeated testing during the learning period resulted in 80% accurate vocabulary recall when examined a week later, whereas strategies used in language study guides saw success rates drop to 30%. Interestingly, when the researchers asked those who took part to predict their later performance, the participants didn't think the repeated testing method gave them any advantage.
This accords with other research indicating that when students are revising for exams, self-testing is a rarely used strategy. If students do self-test, it is often to assess what they've learned, rather than to enhance their long-term retention of the material. Perhaps the fact that repeated study feels less demanding than repeatedly testing yourself leads people to prefer the first approach. However, the evidence suggests strongly that active approaches to learning such as repeated retrieval practice can reap dividends.
• Dr Jon Simons is a cognitive neuroscientist based in the department of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge. He leads an interdisciplinary research programme investigating the role of brain areas such as the frontal and parietal lobes in the strategic control of human memory. You can follow him on Twitter at @js_simons


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World premiere June 3 2011 on the Small stage.
Dance. Eight promising dance students and three choreographers from The Göteborg Ballet. Together they create Triplex - the box inside out.
At the beginning of June, eight of the most promising young Swedish dancers will take over the Small Stage at the Göteborg Opera. Together they form the seasonal dance company NUDANS. Three choreographers from the Göteborg Ballet, Dan Langeborg, Heather Telford and Ingeborg Zackariassen, will each create a work for the students. The production will be performed twice. The dancers are from the Ballet Academies of Göteborg and Stockholm, the University of Dance and Circus, and the Royal Swedish Ballet School.
Jérôme Delbey from the Göteborg Ballet has created part of the lighting design, together with lighting designer Joakim Brink. Rayco Cano Cortes serves as the artistic coordinator and mentor for the dancers.
The NUDANS concept forms part of the Göteborg Opera project Unga (Young). The Small Stage provides a platform on which new and established talents can meet and develop.
ingenstans by Ingeborg Zackariassen
Joakim Envik Karlsson
Anton Rosenberg
Magnus Dovärn
Run/Eat/Water/Food/Fence by Heather Telford
Magnus Dovärn
Emelie Wahlman
Catrin Jonasson
wo ist by Dan Langeborg
Salla Kuusinen
Sanna Jansson
Niki Lindblom Oscarsson
Magnus Dovärn Dans- och cirkushögskolan
Sanna Jansson Balettakademin, Stockholm
Anton Rosenberg Kungliga Svenska Balettskolan
Catrin Jonasson Balettakademin, Stockholm
Salla Kuusinen Balettakademin
Joakim Envik Karsson Balettakademin, Göteborg
Emelie Andersson Wahlman Danshögskolan
Niki Lindblom Oscarsson Svenska Kungliga Balettskolan


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|Park of Schönbrunn (1916) by Gustav Klimt
This is another landscape painting involving water by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. This time it's a bit of a puzzle.
The painting is of a lake in a Schönbrunn Park in Vienna, Austria. Last November I tried to do a copy of this painting - see Schönbrunn Park - after Klimt - but I think the original is soooooo much better!
I like the fact that it's a puzzle picture. You have to stare at it for a bit before you realise this is a painting of a large expanse of water in the middle of a very green park. Most of the reflections are quite subtle. The only really significant clue are the clouds in the bottom right hand corner which are only hinted at in the top right corner. You still have to look at it again to make sure this isn't some isolated pond reflecting the sky.
I like paintings which are not obvious!


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I can only officially date the story of my Harris family back to June 15, 1798, when John Earl Harris (my 3rd great grandfather) was born in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY. I believe that the family originally came to America from England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, but that connection has not been verified.
On November 1, 1820, John Earl married Nancy Ormsbee. Nancy came from another colonial family. She was born in Barrington, Rhode Island on April 6, 1796. Her father, Isaac, was a soldier in the American Revolution and walked to Greenfield from Barrington in 1796 to purchase land. He then walked back to Barrington to pick up his wife and children (including Nancy) and walked back.
John Earl engaged in farming and was an active member of his community. He was master of the St. John's Lodge, No. 90 in 1833-34, which was located in a church at nearby Porter's Corners. The Harris family had a long tradition of Free Mason membership. Soon after, John Earl and Nancy and their five children went to Pierpont, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. It was there that my 2nd great grandfather, Nelson Alonzo Harris, attended school. Around 1837, the family continued their move west to Town of Morgan, Porter Co., IN.
Nelson Harris was born on July 16, 1822 in Greenfield. He married Louisa Marie Cleveland on April 27, 1844 in OH. She was born in Pierpont on August 28, 1825. She descended for the colonial Cleveland family and was related to President Grover Cleveland and Moses Cleaveland, founder of the city of Cleveland. Her family came to Ohio in about 1811.
Nelson, Louisa, their 5 children and his parents moved to Manitowoc Co., WI in about 1850. Nelson worked as a carpenter in the shipyards there. Envisioning the lumber and saw-mill business as a profitable venture, he moved his family to Cato, WI in 1853. He built a saw mill there in 1856, which he continued operating until all the oak was used up. He then moved on to Forest Junction, WI, where in 1873, he built a boarding-house and mill. It was the town's first industry. Once established in the lumber and saw-mill business, Nelson began laying away choice pieces of lumber and timbers for building a home in Cato. He meant it to be the finest in all of Manitowoc County.
A wonderful newpaper article was written in 1940 as the old Harris home was about to be torn down. It describes the history of the home and also talks about Nelson Harris and his family.
The first school in Cato was built on land sold to the district by the Harris family in 1870. Nelson was heavily involved in the local schools. He was town superintendent of schools for Franklin township, and was school superintendent of Manitowoc schools before coming to Cato. The Harris family also donated the lot for the Presbyterian Church and the adjoining cemetery, which was built in the early 1860's. These were next to the school site.
Nelson and Louisa raised 6 children in their Cato home. They sold it in 1881 and moved to Waldo, Alachua Co., Florida.
Their son, Orville Duloss "Cap" Harris (my great grandfather), was born in Indiana on September 16, 1848. He married Katherine Seybold on January 8, 1876 in Maple Grove, WI. Katherine's family were farmers in Brillion Twp., Calumet Co., WI.
When Orville was nine years old, he got a job bundling shingles at the mill in Cato. At various periods for the next dozen years, he attended school and worked in the mills and woods. He then worked for the railroad and, as an engineer, pulled the first passenger train that entered Appleton, WI from Manitowoc in 1872. Orville recalled that during construction of the railroad, farmers would pile stumps on the tracks to wreck the train due to the train company not paying for the right of way on their land. Also, they built fires under the ties that supported the rails. He later worked as a fireman on the railroad. His main job was to shovel coal into the firebox of the engine.
After working on the railroad, Orville, Katherine and their children went to California, Dakota, Nebraska and finally to Florida in 1881. In Nebraska, they settled on a homestead eight miles southeast of North Platte on the old California trail. Their home was near the Sioux look-out, a hill where the Indians watched the immigrants traveling down the valley. In 1896 he returned to Wisconsin.
On July 17, 1900, Orville and Katherine's youngest child, Dorothy Louise (my grandmother) was born. Orville was employed as an engineer at various industrial plants until 1905, when he took over the job of building engineer at Appleton High School in Appleton, Outagamie Co., WI.
He worked at the school until two weeks before he died, at the age of 86, on May 9, 1935. The following quote is from a newspaper article reporting his death. Harris was "a beloved friend of thousands of high school students and scores of school teachers. "Ask Cap" was always the way to untangle the difficulty of the moment, and sooner or later during their three or four years, every student had occasion to call upon the willing engineer who was here, there and everywhere, for advice or assistance."
Dorothy Harris attended school in Appleton. In 1920, she graduated in Primary Education from the Oshkosh Normal School. Her first teaching position brought her to Clintonville, WI, where she taught the first and second grades in the public school from 1920 to 1923. It was there that she met Russell Bernard Weller. From 1923 to 1929, Dorothy taught the second grade at the McKinley Grade School in Appleton. On July 15, 1929, she married Russell. He owned and operated Weller Hardware in Clintonville until the late 1960's.
John Earl Harris died in Cato, WI on January 6, 1855. According to stories, "The death of Harris, an old gentleman, was supposedly the first death" in Cato. Nancy (Ormsbee) Harris died May 28, 1881 in Greenleaf, Brown Co., WI. Both are buried in the Cato Heights Cemetery in Cato.
Nelson Alonzo Harris died June 4, 1886 in Waldo, FL. Louisa (Cleveland) Harris died in Waldo on October 24, 1905. They are both buried in Waldo's Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Orville Duloss Harris died on May 9, 1935 in Appleton, WI. Katherine (Seybold) Harris died on April 9, 1938 in Clintonville, WI. They are both buried in Appleton Highland Memorial Park.
My grandmother, Dorothy Louise (Harris) Weller died in Clintonville, WI on August 13, 1972. Russell Bernard Weller died in Clintonville on October 11, 1989. Both are buried in Clintonville's St. Rose Cemetery.


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January 2012 marks the beginning of a massive free Wi-Fi rollout in London. Those that reside in or visit the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea will soon be able to use their laptops and mobile devices to take part in what allegedly will become Europe's largest free wireless hub.
In a press release, O2, the mobile operator in charge of installing the network, says that the deal struck with the Royal borough of Kensington & Chelsea along with Westminister City Council means million so residents and visitors will enjoy free Wi-Fi—supposedly at no cost to the councils or taxpayer. The free Wi-Fi plan is part of London's way of rolling out the red carpet before the 2012 Olympic Games taking place later this year, along with the longterm goal of benefiting the surrounding businesses.
"Westminster welcomes over a million tourists a day, is home ot 250,000 residents, employs over half a million people and sees 4,000 business start-ups each year. Next summer's Olympic games mean that London will be putting be putting on the biggest show on earth…visitors to London will easily be able to share their pictures and updates of the Olympic events across social networking sites," said Councilor Philippa Roe, Cabinet Member for Strategic Finance at Westminster City Council.
O2 plans on setting up the Wi-Fi network this month all throughout Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, but the WiFiwill initially be rolled out in patches before fully spreading throughout the boroughs. The Metro wireless network will be installed on "street furniture," possibly meaning posts, benches; maybe even sculpted lions. O2's masterplan, according to COO Derek MacManus was to expand the company's "footprint," and rollout free, open Wi-Fi all across the UK.


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Update a Business Registration
As a business entity registered with the state of Vermont, the business entity must maintain its good standing for as long as it does business in Vermont.
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"Best part of my week is walking with new employees from the Gandhi statue to @Square discussing our guiding principles."
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OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department's winter boys' basketball league continued this week with a full slate of games at Northside Park. The following is a quick glance at some recent league action:
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Dr. Fred Kniss, a 1979 EMU graduate, began serving as EMU provost in July 2009.
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Dr. Fred Kniss began serving as provost at EMU on July 1, 2009. Dr. Kniss formerly served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He is a 1979 EMU graduate and received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1992.
Dr. Kniss' research interests lie in immigrant religion, religious change and conflict, and faith-based international relief and development organizations. He has published two books and a variety of articles and book chapters. He has served on the boards of various professional associations and has held several journal editorial positions.
The provost gives overall guidance to the undergraduate and graduate academic programs of the university as well as Eastern Mennonite Seminary, various auxiliary programs and the Adult Degree Completion Program.
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Post subject: THIS SITE IS SO **** CONFUSING I JUST WANT TO SUBMIT DATA
This site is so damn confusing
I am simply trying to give you guys my download from the various scans I did on my Census+ mod
And I cant find this shit anywhere.. this sight only has one good use and you don't even centralize it! clean up the crap and make this site a 2 click web page.
Do you want to download census+ ? <<< click
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I have been using this census+ mod for a long time, and well, I agree with Castius2200 very much!
If you had a easy to use spot to submit your data, that would be GREAT! Then your site would be much more user-friendly. It would be recommended by many more people, and see more traffic! As it is, if you search for your site name, on the Blizzard forums, it is associated with words like "defunct" when you are clearly not!
You worked hard to get it to work well with CRZ and Connected Realms, I commend you on that! However, Please make you site up to date.
By the way, do the mods even read these posts? If not, then why have a "suggestion" forum?
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Yes the Mods do read the forum ports and we do care about CensusPlus and WarcraftRealms.com, but that doesn't mean we have the access rights to make changes to the website as we are not the site owner/admin.
Looking at the home page I see that the first hot link points to a demonstration of what World of Warcraft census data looks like followed by a link to a page pointing to where you can find the addon if you want to join other players in gathering the information.
Also looking at the home page I see very prominently displayed the Latest news which I use to inform members of changes to the addon and lately to the forums both of which I have some control over.
I've added links in the most current latest news to the addon page and the upload data page. That is the best I can do for you. It wasn't hard to do as all I had to do was copy and paste the information right from the webpage navigation bar where it is displayed.
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yes there are problems
, and we are trying to get both the website pages updated to current times instead of having a number of older links that aren't very useful, and to get the underlying programming updated to correctly handle the changes Blizzard implemented with Connected Realms.
As of this time WarcraftRealms website is borked where the latest Guild information is concerned. For Guild info you are better off looking at the data you collected in game.
This is major reason I haven't been on Blizzard forums to promote this site, it isn't up to my standards at this time.
This site has been running for more then six years and has had thousands and thousands of members uploading data without problems. So it most not be that hard if you just look and read.
Personally having spent hundreds of hours resurrecting CensusPlus when it was on its death bed, keeping it accurate and available in spite of the major changes Blizzard has made to how players interact with each other in the game, and lately battling website spammers. I found Castius2200's message to be petty and demeaning besides being obviously incorrect.
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i want to let you know that I do appreciate your work on the site and addon. I may not be as dedicated to uploading as some of your contributors, but I do recommend your site on other forums when I can. There's often people on forums or Reddit looking for a server, for particular reasons. More PVP, or less, more Horde or more Alliance or more balance. Or just more population. Do you have a mission statement or goal you can emphasize? Who are you trying to reach?
I do respect the work and programming needed, as I am not at all able to do what you do. (I'm an accountant by profession)
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I have been using CensusPlus for over 5 years now. I have been visiting the site a little bit longer. Barring some major technical issues, some of which were caused by my own computers or my internet provider, this site has been pretty solid.
One thing which people on other forums often do not (seem to) understand is that unlike many automated sites, we require people to help us. More people = more results. Anything and everything helps. I have said this many times over the years to numerous people in at least three languages: "It does not matter whether you do a little or a lot, everything and anything is better than nothing."
If you look at the monthly and alltime submissions top 10s, you will notice that the very top is very narrow indeed. A literal handful of people are responsible for a big chunk of results, but that does not in any way invalidate efforts of people who turn in just a couple of submissions a month. There are still, despite Blizzard's massive Connected Realms program, roughly 500 servers running almost 600 realms. That means almost 1200 factions to cover.
When I was at my most active, I could, with a lot of effort, give minimal coverage to about 60 to 80 factions in a day in addition to my own playing. Nowadays, that value is less than 20 and I still get high results as long as there are no technical obstacles.
I am a manual uploader, always have been and will most likely be as long as I use this site. I have the upload page stored on my browser, so it is not hard to find and uploading really does not take more than a couple of clicks. While configuring the UniUploader takes a bit of effort, there are support threads for it and many (most?) people prefer using it.
I could write more, but I am a bit tired. For me, it is already 2014 and I stayed up late (and woke up early)... So, I conclude with a Happy New Year to all!
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Engineers, Researchers and Designers: The Geeks Behind Cisco's Collaboration Technology
It's a great time to be at Cisco. Earlier this week, Susie Wee, chief technology and experience officer (CTEO) for the Collaboration Technology Group, unveiled the "collaboration geeks": the engineers, researchers and designers behind the technology, to a handful of press and analysts. We were excited (and a bit nervous!) to share how Cisco is approaching user experience (UE) and design. These changes aren't just happening from the product side, but are also evolving our internal thinking about being more user-centric across the organization.
Have you ever heard of a CTEO? Probably not, because it is a new role that we created to address the importance of coupling user experience and technology. As CTEO, Susie is responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco's collaboration products and software services. The first step involved in making a cultural change is how we approach product design. But what does this mean for her team? Below is a short excerpt from our User Experience Day event.
At Cisco, we're dedicated to changing the way we work, live, play and learn. We're always looking to break down barriers among staff; one example is how we're approaching user experience design. Our team is looking into principles, guidelines, and archetypes that represent an organizational-wide approach to user experience design. The design team really lays the foundation for growing the influence and scope of all the UE specialists into strategic conversations where user experience can impact what we design and how we design. We coined the term "XQ" as the eXperience Quotient of the organization. XQ is a tool and metric that we developed to measure our customer's experience with our products and our user experience-centric development process.
Another example is how our engineers are thinking about their products from the user perspective and pulling in the user experience designers and my team (user experience researchers) as well. To showcase this at the event, engineers brought in a number of XQ demos to show this thinking firsthand:
- Ways of visual thinking and co-creation, and how it can be supported for remote team members to build a shared mind-map of their conversation,
- How HTML 5 WebRTC will allow, among other advantages, for video calls to become ubiquitous parts of the business to consumer conversation through the web,
- And how the user-centered process increases contact center agents' productivity, primarily by reducing sources of stress and delay in the workflow of answering callers' concerns.
And lastly, and what surprised me the most was the appetite to hear more about the research! As one of the first members of the research team, I've been engrained in this for the past seven years. My talented team conducts a wide range of studies on our designs and with users, to figure out what experience makes the most sense for them, given their goals for using communication and collaboration tools. Our user-centered design methodology starts out with a humble and open discovery effort to figure out who is struggling most to improve the way they communicate and collaborate. Knowing what situations and work scenarios are most frustrating helps us identify exactly who feels virtual teamwork problems most urgently.
I am excited to open this dialogue with press and analysts so that there is more visibility into how we design, why we design, and what our goals are for our products. This research helps Cisco evolve more rapidly and keep pace with the way end-users want to work.
Let us know if you have any more ideas about ways to improve user experience and design in the comments below.
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Increasing Your Mobility Diameter Can Reduce Costs and Increase Data Center Flexibility
Continuing on our theme of virtual network overlays and programmable networks, today we'll look at how to increase workload mobility over more data center and cloud resources. If server virtualization increases resource utilization and reduces costs, and data center consolidation is a good thing, then it follows that the larger the resource pool that your virtual workloads can migrate over, the more cost effective your IT operation can be. And if your mobility diameter spans multiple sites, you can obviously improve your fault tolerance as well. We call this increasing your mobility diameter, and we'll complement what we've already learned about VXLAN and virtual overlays with some new technologies to seamlessly scale your diameter up. (Sounds like some sort of bizarre reverse Weight Watchers program, doesn't it?).
As we noted in our VXLAN overview, VXLANs enable private virtual overlays over layer 3 boundaries via their MAC in UDP encapsulation and the cool way they filter MAC address broadcasts to only the right subnets. However, when you are doing full on application migration over a layer 3 boundary, VXLAN alone isn't going to do it alone. In order to extend virtual workload mobility beyond layer 2 boundaries, Cisco came up with Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) that can work in conjunction with VXLAN to extend application mobility to any point the VXLAN virtual overlay can reach. And not surprisingly, the media wizards over at TechWise TV have a great video that takes all the complexity of OTV and makes it cartoonishly simple.
But wait, there's more… Another Cisco blog post from before Cisco live! provided some insight into how VCE, EMC and Cisco worked together on a VM mobility demo for Cisco live, EMC world, etc. The demo was run across all three vendor booths and simulated a live vMotion across all three data centers. Note that they didn't have more than 4096 VLAN segments what would have actually required the use of VXLAN, so that was not included in this particular demo:
If you want to go into a bit more technical detail on VXLAN and OTV, I highly recommend this 50 minute video from April where Cisco Nexus 1000V product manager, Han Yang, presents at one of virtual technical symposiums which was podcasted live from one of our customer technology demo labs:
And with that, I think I'll end the lesson here and work on figuring out how I can migrate some of my own personal workloads off to some other resources.
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This weekend I was a guest speaker at ReasonCon One. This was the first ReasonCon, held in Hickory, NC.
I was invited to come and talk about "Analogies." The main Keynote was Dr. Richard Carrier, who spoke on the historicity of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The speaker sessions were free and open to the public. Only the social events had fees. The lecture room held 250, and was packed, with overflow guests standing in the doorway of the adjoining room. The turnout was stunning.


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Suddenly, the whole world seems to be going wireless. It started with mobile phones, then landline phones went wireless, and now broadband, laptops and bluetooth devices are following suit. We're told it's inevitable by the electronics industry. But has it considered the potential health hazards—or for that matter, have we?
"Day by day, I hear of more and more microwave applications, all of which are increasing the electro-smog that surrounds us," says Alasdair Philips of the UK health-lobby group Powerwatch.
One telling piece of evidence for this is what happened to wireless car keys. Since remote car keys first came on the scene about 10 years ago, manufacturers have had to increase their power output by a massive 40 times to enable the signal to cut through the increasingly dense microwave smog around us, says Philips.
The other evidence is that microwave pollution can affect some people badly. Two years ago, Sarah Dacre was a successful high-powered executive, running a 70-strong TV production company, until she was struck down by a host of debilitating symptoms, including dizziness, loss of balance, chronic Candida, numbness in the arms, side and legs, and deteriorating eyesight. After months of false diagnoses--and in a state of near-total collapse--Sarah finally found the answer. "At the office, I was working all day with a laptop on my knees, and constantly using either a cordless phone or a mobile. One of the clues to what was causing the problem was that my symptoms were mainly right-sided--where I held the phones. I now can't go anywhere near a computer or mobile phone without extreme care".
Another sufferer is 35-year-old Roy Warne, who had to give up his job as a furniture salesman after his company installed a new wireless computer system. Now unable to work, he can't get anywhere near his own laptop. "When I want to use the computer, I have it on in one room and sit in the hallway looking at the screen through binoculars," he says.
Norway's first female Prime Minister, and later Director-General of the World Health Organization, 65-year-old Gro Harlem Brundtland first suffered headaches from mobile phones, but now she finds that cordless phones and laptops cause her even worse problems. "If I hold a laptop to read what's on the screen, it feels like I get an electric shock through my arms," she says, "and I get an instant reaction if I touch a cordless phone."
Although much of the evidence so far is anecdotal, even the official UK Health Protection Agency (incorporating the cautious National Radiological Protection Board) has acknowledged in a 45-page report (November 2005) that electrosensitivity (ES) is a genuine health condition. One convincing argument is that everyone reports the same cluster of neurological and physiological problems.
Nevertheless, the medical profession has tended to ignore ES sufferers, aided and abetted by an electronics industry anxious to protect its patch. That's why most of the clinical evidence on wireless technology has come from case histories collected by a burgeoning number of self-help and lobby groups both in the UK and across the globe.


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Fox Scraping The Barrel For Attacks On UN Climate Panel
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Citing what it calls "a scathing new expose on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change," Fox News is trumpeting claims that IPCC reports "have often been written by graduate students with little or no experience in their field of study." Fox's article, titled "U.N. Hires Grad Students to Author Key Climate Report," comes as the IPCC prepares to issue a new report on weather extremes.
Fox's "expose" is an e-book by Canadian writer Donna Laframboise, who recruited "a team of citizen auditors" to pore over IPCC reports from the past two decades. Drawing from the book, Fox identifies four IPCC authors since 1994 who were in, or had recently completed, grad school.
Here are the facts Fox characteristically avoided: There were over 450 lead authors for the 2007 assessment report, plus 800 contributing authors and more than 2,500 reviewers. Fox identified only one graduate student who worked on the 2007 report. 1 out of over 1250 authors.
The IPCC does not conduct climate research, it reviews and summarizes scientists' studies of climate change. The assessment reports have three volumes consisting of 10-20 chapters. Each chapter has around 7-10 lead authors and 2 coordinating lead authors and goes through two rounds of scientific review. Four of the lead authors could have been chimpanzees and it wouldn't have made a dent in the scientific heft of these massive reports.
Fox also missed key facts for three of the four individuals -- all of whom certainly know more about climate change than the guys Fox presents as experts:
- Fox News dismisses Jonathan Patz as a lead author because he had "earned his master's only two years earlier." However, Patz was already a doctor -- board certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine -- when he earned his Masters of Public Health (see Patz's CV). He was one of the principal lead authors on a chapter on "Human Population Health."
- Fox News claims that Richard Klein "was promoted to the panel's most senior role" - a coordinating lead author -- prior to completing his PhD. However, Klein was the coordinating lead author for a chapter of one of IPCC's special reports -- not one of the major assessment reports.
- Fox News claims that Lisa Alexander was an "assistant author" in 2001 and a "lead author" in 2007. However, the 2001 report simply referenced studies that Alexander had co-authored and in 2007 Alexander was listed as a contributor but not a lead author, as Fox claimed. Alexander will be a lead author for a chapter in the 2013 assessment report -- she now has a Ph.D.
The thesis of Laframboise's book is that IPCC is "a spoiled child" that has "morphed into an obnoxious adolescent." We'll leave you with this excerpt:
Notice that the word intergovernmental is part of its name. This means that every country that chooses to send delegates to infrequent meetings is a godparent of the IPCC. Any child with over 100 godparents is bound to be spoiled. Even when he torments small animals there will always be those who think he can do no wrong.
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The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced today that six Lake Washington School District (LWSD) students will receive National Merit $2500 Scholarships.
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PowerSchool Learning is a Learning Management System (LMS) chosen by the Lake Washington School District as a digital learning environment for classroom communication and collaboration. Parents may review student class announcements, assignments and calendars for those classes with PowerSchool Learning sites. Visit the PowerSchool Learning FAQ web page for more information.
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- Enter your LWSD issued username and password. This will be the same username and password you used to login to Parent Access. Click the Sign in button.
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) set guidelines on what student content may be shared with persons outside the class environment. Student work can only be shared with an individual student's own parent/guardian. Since these types of collaborative spaces display work produced by many students, it is not legal to share this content with all parents. For a comparison of what students can see versus what their parents can see, please refer to the following chart.
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How do we save for retirement? Are we rational actors, putting aside precisely the amount we need to live comfortable lives in our later years? Or do we act irrationally, even irresponsibly, failing to account for our future needs by not saving enough in the present?
These are the questions that occupy the mind of economist Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. For decades now, Thaler has dedicated himself to understanding the decisions behind everyday actions. His work, and the contributions of other behavioral economists, has influenced everything from which foods are offered to children in school lunch lines, to how highways are designed, to how we make critical decisions about our hard-earned money.
Thaler outlines his thinking on the subject in his 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decision About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Authored with his University of Chicago colleague Cass Sunstein (who now serves as President Obama's administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs), Thaler show us how the public and private sectors can "nudge" people into better decision making.
For his contributions to the field of retirement planning, Thaler will be honored at the 2011 Retirement Income Industry Association fall meeting in Boston. Research magazine will present Thaler with the 2011 Award for Achievement in Applied Retirement Research, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field.
"Of course it is pleasing to be honored by an industry that I have spent some many years trying to 'nudge,'" Thaler said in an e-mail interview. "I am glad they have taken to the lessons of behavioral economics."
Behavorial economics is a field that occupies a place between economics and psychology. Economists of this ilk want to understand the way the world really works, not the way it should work.
In Nudge, Thaler rests his ideas about economic decision making on four main pillars. The first is understanding the difference between "Econs" and "Humans." "Econs" are the fictional creation of the rational school of economics, people who should theoretically make good decisions most of the time for the right reasons. In fact, the University of Chicago — and specifically economist Milton Friedman — is the epicenter of this movement. While Thaler does not totally reject the rationalist school, he insists that people do not make perfect decisions. In fact, we all make "human" decisions, full of foibles and miscalculations and outright mistakes. Therefore, he argues, we need the public and private sectors to "nudge" us in the right direction to arrive at outcomes that benefit us individually and collectively.
To do so, he writes, we need skilled "choice architects," people who design systems that help us arrive at beneficial outcomes. For instance, on a very small scale, I am acting as a choice architect as the writer of this article. I am deciding which information to include and which to exclude to best provide readers with the information they need to appreciate Richard Thaler's contributions to the field of retirement research.
So, according to Thaler, "Humans" need "nudges" designed by "choice architects" to make good decisions. He calls this system of policy making "libertarian paternalism." "Libertarian" because people deserve and expect choices to suit their particular circumstances and "paternalistic" because, try as we might to make perfect decisions ourselves, the presence of a guiding hand often helps.
This is nowhere truer than in the realm of retirement savings. Starting as far back as 1996, Thaler began outlining his ideas on the subject in a number of academic papers that sought to shift the ground in retirement planning. Ultimately, his work influenced the Pension Protection Act of 2006, a bill signed into law by President George W. Bush that offers employers an incentive to automatically enroll employees in a retirement plan and automatically increase their contributions over time.
Thaler's thinking on the subject begins with a simple premise: Americans don't save enough. From 1950 to 1980, for instance, Americans saved an average of 8 to 10 percent per year. However, even in those good times, savings didn't come in the form of cash. Rather, people put their money in pensions, cash-value life insurance and mortgage payments to pare down debt. By 2005, for the first time since 1932-33, the savings rate in the United States was negative. Easy access to credit cards and loans didn't help matters. In addition, 401(k) plans, unlike old-fashioned pensions, required employees both to sign up and make intelligent choices about how to invest their money.
Into this mess, Thaler arrives with two central recommendations: automatic savings plans and a scheme named the Save More Tomorrow program.
Automatic Enrollment
The first modern retirement plans were defined-benefit plans. After a certain number of years, a given employee would receive a predetermined income based on previous salary and number of years worked. Social Security is a good example of a defined-benefit plan. These plans have one huge advantage. The only decision to make is when to start collecting the benefit.
However, over the last few decades, public and private sector employees have begun offering defined-contribution plans like 401(k)s. While these plans are flexible and portable, they are not necessarily forgiving. Research shows that most people define a contribution amount and forget about it, despite variables like pay raises and years before retirement. Though many employers offer generous plans that match employee contributions, studies show that 30 percent of eligible employees fail to enroll in 401(k) plans. It's as if people were turning down the opportunity to pocket free money.
That's why Thaler suggests that people need a "nudge" in the form of automatic enrollment. Here's how it works. Once an employee becomes eligible for a defined-contribution plan, he or she is automatically enrolled unless the choice is made to opt-out. In one study comparing opt-in to automatic enrollment, researchers found that participation rates in opt-in plans were just 20 percent after three months, increasing to 65 percent after 36 months. With automatic enrollment, by contrast, the rates were 90 percent and 98 percent, respectively.
Next, Thaler suggests that choice architects design plans that encourage higher savings rates. Studies find that most people save at a meager rate of 2 percent, nary enough to save for retirement expenses. By simply changing the match formula from 50 percent on the first 6 percent of pay to 30 percent on the first 10 percent of pay, employers could encourage greater savings rates.
Save More Tomorrow
Save More Tomorrow participants commit themselves to saving more by increasing their contributions when they receive a pay raise. According to Thaler, the plan (developed with UCLA's Shlomo Benartzi) rests on three concepts of behavioral economics. "People have good intentions about the future," he said, "but lack the self-control to implement the plans now, so [the plan] allow[s] people to commit themselves to save more later." Furthermore, he adds, "there is massive inertia in [defined contribution] plans. We use that to help people by making future increases automatic until some cap is reached." Lastly, "people are loss averse, so we tie savings increases to pay increases to eliminate any nominal pay cuts."
Thaler's research shows that participants in the program quadrupled their savings rate to 13.6 percent from 3.5 percent. Indeed, the program's success has spurred major retirement plan administrators like Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, TIAA-CREF, Fidelity and Hewitt Associates to adopt the Save More Tomorrow concepts. As of 2007, the Profit Sharing Council of America found that 39 percent of large U.S. employers had adopted some kind of automatic escalation plan.
Decumulation and Company Stock
Thaler said the broker-dealer industry would be wise to focus on two areas that require reform and innovation: decumulation of assets after retirement and ownership of company stock.
"As it is," he says, "most 401(k) investors are handed a pile of money when they retire and sent on their not-so-merry way. We need to give people more help on this phase, which is actually more difficult than the accumulation phase. I am working on those issues now."
Over-accumulation of company stock would also benefit from a dose of libertarian paternalism, says Thaler. There are still employers who prevent employees from selling their match in company stock. Worse, there are employees who hold the majority of their savings in the stock of their employers. After the disasters of Enron and Bear Stearns, one might have thought that employees and employers alike would have learned their lessons. On the contrary, says Thaler.
"I have talked to the CFOs of companies with this problem and they will privately agree that it makes no sense for an employee to have so much invested in one company, especially their employer, but are afraid to do anything about it because it might seem like they had lost faith in their own stock." Thaler explained. "[Shlomo] Benartzi and I have been pushing an idea we call Sell More Tomorrow to deal with this problem. Offer employees a plan where their company stock holdings are sold off gradually and invested in a diversified portfolio until the holdings reach some sensible proportion of savings such as 10 percent or less. So far we have not had any takers (though, as with Save More Tomorrow, we give these ideas away at no charge). Here is hoping that someone will take us up on this before the next company blows up."


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It's Valentine's Day, and so lots of video game companies are putting out goofy cards to celebrate. But what about Fire Emblem: Awakening, one of the most romantic games in recent memory? What would Fire Emblem Valentines look like?
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Juries are also weary of people who take knife fighting classes to be better at 'knife fighting' for 'self defense'...think about what these two terms really say to a judge and jury.
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I upgraded to Nmap 5.51 early this afternoon because a friend asked me to take a look at creating a topology image of a network scan of around 3,000 hosts. After upgrading I opened his scan in Zenmap and attempted to export the topology of the scan as a PNG but I received an error which I at first assumed was an issue on my computer or an issue with the fact that the export to PNG image was taking place on a 64-bit Windows 7 computer however both of those turned out to be incorrect. Below I describe the error in more detail as well as the current newest Nmap version that will allow PNG export, a workaround for the issue, and notes about the response from the Nmap development team that already pushed a fix to SVN only a couple hours after the issue was reported (+1 Nmap devs!).


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Anyone looking to go out and bring in the "big one" needs a seasoned guide that knows the lake. Aaron Armstrong of Big Bear Charter Fishing, http://www.bigbearfishing.com/ and http://www.bigbearbassfishing.com/, runs a top notch charter fishing boating out of Holloway's Marina. He'll easily accommidate groups of up to eight people on his charter boat or four people on his new 2006 Z21 Ranger Comanche Bass fishing boat.
Aaron's love of fishing that is apparent through his knowledgable conversation about fishing and the lake. He advises, "when fishing every 15-20 minutes try something different, [a different lure, bait, depth or casting method]." If that fails after about an hour, try another location. A good guide, should be able to help any fishing party find the right spot. Ultimately, Aaron reminds people to keep the line in the water. A lot of fishing trips become overly social and people end up with their polls in the water only a third of the time.
One of the few Southern California lakes to receive rainbow trout plants by the California Department of Fish & Game (DFG), Big Bear Lake is a first-rate trout fishery because its depths allow the trout to thrive, even in the heat of summer. Despite recent DFG cutbacks, Big Bear Lake received 154,000 lbs. of rainbow trout last year, and from April through October 2005, DFG will stock the lake every two weeks with approximately 2000 lbs. of rainbow trout.
In addition to great trout fishing at Big Bear Lake, BBMWD will plant small-mouth bass in early June, which has not been done since 1988. Stephenson added that Big Bear Lake is ideal for small-mouth bass because they do well in cooler waters and higher elevations. Also, trout and smallmouth bass coexist well together. The lake also stocks catfish and crappie. Last summer, 5,000 bluegill were planted in an effort to re-establish the species in Big Bear Lake. These tasty fish make great fishing for young anglers.
Big Bear Lake is close to Southern California cities, making it an easy daytrip or getaway weekend destination. The lake is accessible from all shoreline vantage points for easy fishing from shore. Many houses on the lake are available for rent throughout the year, providing amazing access to the area. Big Bear Cool Cabins, http://www.BigBearCoolCabins.com/, have a vast selection of houses, cabins and condos available throughout the Big Bear area. When reserving, ask about the "Aaron Special."
Boats can be launched from the West Ramp located on the North Shore east of the dam on Highway 38. Big Bear Lake's East Boat Ramp will be closed this year because of a dredging project on the east end of the lake. However, a temporary alternate public boat ramp is open on the south shore at Big Bear Marina, 500 Paine Road.
"This is one of the only places in Southern California where you can enjoy a genuine alpine fishing experience," said Loren Hafen, owner of Holloway's Marina. "Why travel five or six hours to the Sierras when you can get the same quality of trout fishing here in Big Bear Lake?"
Fishermen looking for boat rentals are amply served by the four marinas that offer fishing and pontoon boats. Licenses and tackle can also be purchased at the marinas and local sporting goods stores. Licensed fishing guides offer a more in-depth fishing experience for trollers and downriggers.
Big Bear Lake will once again honor the DFG Free Fishing Days this year on Saturday, June 11 and Saturday, September 24. Free Fishing Day at Big Bear Lake means a fishing license is not required for these days, and BBMWD waves the usual $15 single-day boat-use permit as well.
To find out more about Big Bear Lake fishing, boat rentals, "free fishing days," and lodging, or to request a Big Bear Lake Visitors Guide, visit www.bigbear.com or call 800-4-BIG-BEAR (800.424.4232). And remember, the best deals can often be found before school lets out and after it starts up again. The lake and Big Bear area is beautiful year round.


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Robert L. "Tim" Jones Sr., 76, of White Haven, died Friday, March 22, 2013, at Lehigh Valley Hospital.
Born and raised in White Haven, he was the son of the late Harold and Gloria (Fay) Jones.
He was the owner of the former Jones's Bar, White Haven, and the superintendent in the sand plant for Eureka Stone Quarry.
Robert was an honorable discharged Air Force Staff Sgt. who loved spending time with his family, dining out, and his annual trips to Acapulco.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Wendy Evans and a brother, Harold "Buck."
Surviving is his wife of 53 years, the former Helen Olhanoski; son, Robert Jr. and his wife, Holly, of White Haven; daughter, Lisa Jones of White Haven; grandchildren, Michael and Ashley Evans and Jessica and Timothy Jones; great-grandchildren, Madison Makowiec, Gia Jones, and Derek and Gina Yates; and three nephews also survive.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 27, in St. Patrick's Church, White Haven. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday evening, March 26 and 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, March 27, at the McNulty Funeral Home, 494 E. Butler Dr., Freeland.
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By Lisa Capobianco
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More than 500 local residents chowed down on their favorite pizza pie during the fourth annual Pizza Fest, sponsored by the Southington Chamber of Commerce.
The event took place at Hawk's Landing Country Club where ten area restaurants featured sample slices of pizza for the public to judge as the best in town. Participating restaurants included Bertucci's, Giovanni's, Price Chopper, FirePlace, Angela's, Machiavelli's, People's Choice, Wood-n-tap, Bonterra Italian Bistro and Zingarella's. Throughout the night, pizza lovers submitted their ballot for their favorite participating vendor. They also enjoyed lived music by Jennie 'B' while entering their names into a raffle that provided the winners with two tickets to an upcoming Red Sox game.
From peanut butter and bacon pizza to steak and gorgonzola pizza to buffalo chicken pizza, each restaurant offered a diverse assortment of pies, which ran out quickly every half hour of the night. Catherine Dawson, a local resident, said she was impressed by the unique variety of pizzas that each restaurant had to offer. Catherine's friend encouraged her to come for the first time this year.
"Bertucci's has phenomenal, very unique combinations—I like the creativity," Catherine said.
Catherine also said the Pizza Fest was a great opportunity for both residents and non-residents of Southington to network with new people.
"I'm looking forward to other events like these," she said. "I think [the event] is a great way to introduce residents to meet friends and new people."
The pizza paradise also brought residents from other towns and cities, including Bristol. Bristol resident Jesse Stewart read about the event in his local paper, and wanted to try something new. Jesse said he was "impressed with Bonterra's steak and gorgonzola cheese pizza," and he looks forward to coming back to the event next year.
Southington resident Gil Wade calls himself a "veteran" of the event. Calling "People's Choice" his favorite pizza vendor of the night, Gil also said the event is a fun way for Southington residents to meet new people from other towns.
"The more fun and the more people, the merrier," Gil said. "The event is very inviting for other towns."
The Chamber Women coordinated Pizza Fest. Contributing sponsors included Webster Bank, Weston & Sampson, Lovley Development, Southington AutoWash and HQ Dumpsters. Co-Chairs of the event, Julie Chubet and Rachel Potter, said they appreciate all the hard work that the restaurants put into the Pizza Fest.
"We have restaurants where people may not know sell pizza," Chubet said. "Without the vendors, we would not have been able to pull off the event."
People's Choice won the title for "Best Original Pizza" while Randy's Wooster Street Pizza won second place for the same category.
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By Lisa Capobianco