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Seagate GoFlex Is Really a Pogoplug in Disguise
New and Improved
Plug computing seems to be a popular theme at the moment and for good reasons. The devices themselves are relatively cheap, and they provide a basic capability that everyone needs: access to files from multiple devices. Not only that, they now have the ability to stream your media to virtually anywhere and any device including your Android, Apple or Blackberry phones. That's not bad for a device that will set you back less than a hundred bucks.
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Seagate's first Pogoplug offering was the FreeAgent DockStar. It provides a dock for a single FreeAgent Go hard drive along with three additional USB drives. You can pick one of these up right now from Amazon for $79 plus shipping. It's also a prime candidate for some Pogoplug hacking, so if that's what you're looking for, look no more. The key to making these devices work for you is to take a little time to understand the web management interface and what the different options are for.
New and Improved
It's pretty much an unwritten law in the world of electronics that every good product gets updated and the bad ones just go away. That must mean the Pogoplug-powered storage device is a good idea because Seagate has a new and improved version in the GoFlex Net. While the FreeAgent DockStar connected to the single hard disk using USB 2.0, the GoFlex Net has two drive slots and uses super-fast SATA. The downside is a single USB 2.0 connector, but you can always connect that to a USB hub. Ethernet speed is the same as before at 1 GB.
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The GoFlex Portable drives have also been upgraded from the FreeAgent Go series to add USB 3.0 connectivity. What's really cool about these drives is the removable USB 3.0 adapter revealing the SATA drive connectors (see Figure 1). You have to take this off to dock the drive with the GoFlex Net (see Figure 2). The USB 3.0 adapter will, in fact, allow you to connect ANY SATA hard drive to a USB 3.0 port. Too bad the GoFlex Net only supports USB 2.0 for external drives. You can also install client software for your Linux box just as you would for the regular Pogoplug (see our review of the Pogoplug Pro).
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kikitetus needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
We are a startup that's focused on designing and selling high-quality accessories for Apple products. Our mission is to take accessories to the same level of innovation as the products themselves.
Tech enthusiasts. We will be handing them out at tech conferences.
We need it to kick ass in a simple, sleek, uncrowded, modern kind of way. It should give people the feeling that this is a company that means business, but also isn't too pretentious. Feel free to get creative with it.
Gotta have:
Name of employee
Phone #
E-mail Address
Everything else is optional.
The design that gets the right emotional impact will get the award. As much feedback as we can give will be provided.

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|August 28, 2014 over 4 years ago
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- Miaofen Chen (East China Normal University)
- Christine Huyghe (Université de Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur))
- Vera Serganova (University of California, Berkeley)
- Julianna Tymoczko (Smith College)
- Marie-France Vigneras (Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot))
Within the broad range of geometric representation theory the Connections Workshop will focus on three research topics in which we expect particularly striking new developments within the next few years:
* Categorical and geometric structures in representation theory and Lie superalgebras
* Geometric construction of representations via Shimura varieties and related moduli spaces
* Hall algebras and representations
The workshop will bring together researchers from these different topics within geometric representation theory and will thus facilitate a successful start of the semester program. It will give junior researchers from each of these parts of geometric representation theory a broader picture of possible applications and of new developments, and will establish a closer contact between junior and senior researchers.
This workshop is aimed at encouraging and increasing the active participation of women and members of under-represented groups in the MSRI program.
All are welcome to participate in the scientific portions of the workshop and the panel discussion, regardless of gender.
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Bauer Hockey Donates Equipment to Northeast Passage
DURHAM, N.H. – Bauer Hockey, headquartered in Exeter, recently partnered with the University of New Hampshire Northeast Passage's sled hockey program to outfit 40 athletes with new hockey equipment, including shin pads, shoulder pads, helmets, gloves and roller bags. This donation benefits the participants of Northeast Passage's youth and competitive adult teams.
Northeast Passage's sled hockey program runs from September to April and includes a youth and development component and a nationally ranked adult team. This program serves more than 100 athletes and families throughout New England with more than 60 practices and competitions.
The adult team competes in the Northeast Sled Hockey League and attends two national events per year: The NHL Classic and USA Hockey's National Championships. The team includes three veterans recently injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, three student-athletes attending UNH, two members of the U.S. national sled hockey team and community members from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Five years ago Bauer kick-started the youth program, which has grown steadily since then. This season, the youngest player is five and the oldest is 18. Disabilities served include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal cord injury, amputation and traumatic brain injury. In 2012, four members of the team were invited by USA Hockey to attend the summer player development camp. One player (aged 15) was named to the national development team.
"This donation from Bauer Hockey allows us to provide equipment to first-time athletes of all ages and to those athletes that are not able to afford protective gear of their own," said Bill Stewart, Northeast Passage's competitive sports coordinator. "We are grateful for their continued support of our programs."
Bauer Hockey is the world's leading designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of ice hockey equipment. The company developed the first skate with a blade attached to a boot, forever changing the game of hockey. Since then, Bauer has continued to develop the most innovative products in the industry. Headquartered in Exeter, Bauer Performance Sports is the parent company of Bauer Hockey, Mission Roller Hockey, Maverik Lacrosse, Cascade Sports and Inaria International.
"We're happy to continue our partnership with Northeast Passage," said Kevin Davis, president and CEO of Bauer Performance Sports. "It's exciting to see this program grow and reach more and more athletes from across the state and throughout New England."
For more than 20 years, Northeast Passage has been a nationally recognized leader in the field of therapeutic recreation. As a non-profit affiliated with the University of New Hampshire, they specialize in providing innovative solutions for individuals with disabilities including children, adults and our nation's military personnel.


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Recruitment Masterclass is a coaching program conducted by Stanis Benjamin every Thursday from 7.30 p.m to 9.30 p. m
If you want to know what it takes to meet your organizational recruitment objectives in the current competitive market, this is a program that will provide you with the startegies and skills to recruit the sales talent to build a successful agency.
Stanis Benjamin is an International Speaker with more than 25 years of experience in sales and sales leadership training. He has both sales and sales management experience starting his sales career as an Insurance agent and rising to become a district manager leading sales teams.
He has not only been a qualifier of the Million Dollar Round Table but also has been an invited speaker for the Million Dollar Round table meeting in Orlando Florida and the MDRT Qualifiers only session at the MDRT Experience and Global Conference in Bangkok 2018.
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Master Facilitator and Distinguished Toastmaster, Stanis Benjamin is a motivational humorist and an accomplished author, speaker, consultant and trainer in the fields of business presentation skills, communication, sales, customer service, leadership and strategies for personal success. As a coach, consultant and keynote speaker, he has addressed many companies and institutions and has helped senior executives, high-achieving professionals and beginners to reach higher levels of performance.
Stanis is a thought leader on how to create and sustain high performance; he combines theory with management practices to develop action-oriented techniques for building winning teams. He has been invited as an expert to speak on the topics "Behaviour Focused Communication" and "Humour in Presentations" on radio and has presented on Positive Business Minutes for Singapore's News Radio 93.8. He was invited to speak on Retirement and Wealth Planning at the Million Dollar Round table meeting 2017 in Orlando Florida. Stanis was the speaker for MDRT Qualifiers only session at the MDRT Experience and Global Conference in Bangkok 2018.
An accredited Coach, Leadership Facilitator and Personal Effectiveness Trainer and facilitator, Stanis has conducted numerous Train the Trainer courses in Sales, Communication and Leadership. He has completed the Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment with the Singapore Training and Development Association. He is certified facilitator of Interactive Training Strategies program conducted by the US based Thiagi Group. He is an accredited Personal and Executive Leadership facilitator.
He has gained excellent reputation for his work with human resource and training departments of numerous organisations to design and develop Personal Effectiveness, Leadership and Communication training programs. Stanis is the author of Sales Prospecting Strategies and Skills. His entertaining and humorous presentations captivate and keep his audience focused. As a motivational speaker, he has the ability to engage and motivate his audience through numerous experiential learning activities.
Stanis is the Pan South East Asian "Humorous Speech" champion, and the 1st Runner-Up at the "International Speech Contest". Apart from his personal accolades in public speaking, he is an extraordinary coach and leader in that field, underlined by his achievement in bringing the Life Underwriter's Association Toastmasters Club to be the Toastmasters International "World No 1 Club", during his tenure as Vice President Education. As President, the LUA Club was awarded the President Distinguish Award. He was awarded the "Outstanding Toastmaster of the Year" by the Life Underwriters Toastmasters Club. He has served as a Division Governor with Toastmasters International.
He was one of The Top 10 agents for sales and has achieved the Marathon Life Award, International Quality Award, Million Dollar Club Award as well as the Prestigious Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and Superstar Sales Awards. He has more than 25 years of Sales and Training experience starting as an agent with American International Assurance and has led a successful sales team as a District Manager.
Trained in Electrical and Instruments, he has served with the Republic Of Singapore Air force, and has worked with both Singapore Airlines and United Airlines.
He has served as Director for Beaches 2000, a foreign property marketing company, Director at ADD1 Resources Asia Pacific Consultants Pte Ltd, a diversified consultancy. He is the Co-founder and Principal Consultant at the Centre for Communication and Sales Training and Lead Trainer with Raintree Consultants, Brian Tracy International and associate trainer with the Civil Service College of Singapore, TUV SUD PSB Academy, and Marketing Institute of Singapore.
He is a Certified Interactive Training Activities Facilitator and has conducted Train the Trainer for The Executive Training Consultants, Power Image and Life Skills Consultants, TR Training Solutions and Future Skills Consultants Pte Ltd.


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Sept. 24, 1954 Top stories of the Pleasanton Times
Headline: "It's Harvest Time"
According to Harold Grimm, agricultural superintendent of the Holly Sugar Corporation, a record (sugar beet) crop will be harvested this year, the increase being due largely to improved methods of farming and favorable weather conditions. Twenty-two tons to an acre is the expected yield this year.
All beets in the Amador Valley have been contracted by Holly Sugar and are being shipped by train to the sugar refinery at Alvarado. Sugar beets are trucked from the fields and loaded into cars at Asco Station, located about one-and-a-half miles from Pleasanton along Santa Rita Road.
Four beet harvesters will be in operation in the valley this year, an increase of one harvester over last year. The harvester, a one-man operation, is a mechanical device that digs up and loads the beets into trucks. Usually two trucks are used for each harvester. A machine can dig up 70 to 100 tons of beets in one day.
The first of such machines in this valley was pioneered by Harold Grimm in 1947, Grimm harvested 400 acres in 1947 and 380 acres in 1948 with his harvester. Machines now in use are built on the basis of the Grimm harvester with modern improvements. Beets can be harvested mechanically at one-third the cost of hand harvest, Grimm says.
In the hand harvest, beets are dug up, topped, winnowed, and loaded into trucks by men. An average man will top and load six tons of beets daily. Field labor has been plentiful this year, Grimm stated. The Holly Sugar refinery at Alvarado is one of the old landmarks of Alameda County.
Real Estate: Carr Realty, Livermore — modern three-bedroom home including many extra features; weatherstripped, insulated, thermostat-controlled heat, water softener, fireplace, hardwood floors. Excellent TV reception. Leaving antennas, carpeting and drapes. Fine view, beautiful patio, 9-by-22 greenhouse. Price reduced, $1,500. Leaving, must sell immediately.
What's New?: Greyhound Bus ad — Get The Greyhound habit! For trips nearby, here's your best travel buy. Lowest of Fares! From Pleasanton to San Francisco — $1.05; Fort Ord — $2.25 and Sacramento — $2.20.
Groceries: Hagstrom's — Dole presents its Hawaiian Harvest Sale with pineapple juice, two 46-oz. tins for 51 cents; Dole chunks, 27 cents and canned crushed pineapple, two for 49 cents. A quart bottle of liquid Aerowax, 49 cents; Aerowax paste one-pound tin for 45 cents.
At the Movies: Valley Drive In Theatre, Pleasanton — Peter Lawford in "Rogues March." Also playing — Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun."
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Samuel Nelson Law Office
Date: 1829
Origin: Otsego, Otsego County, NY
Builder: Unknown
Original owner: Nelson, Samuel
Info: The Samuel Nelson Law Office served as the home office for Judge Samuel Nelson. His estate was located across Lake Road and stood on the grounds once inhabited by James Fenimore Cooper. Nelson was a well-respected attorney and a U. S. Supreme Court Justice who rose to fame in 1856 with the controversial Dred Scott case. While he spent a considerable amount of time away from Cooperstown handling judicial matters, he always returned to his home and used this office during the summers.
Provenance: The Farmers' Museum acquired the building from the Scriven Foundation in 1948.
*The Scriven Foundation acquired the building from the Leatherstocking Corporation in 1944.
*Leatherstocking Corporation was deeded the building by Stephen C. Clark in 1942.
(The building sat on the Fenimore Farm from its purchase in 1876 until 1942. Sometime between 1876 and 1933 the building was moved across Lake Street by the Clark Family).
*Ambrose Clark purchased the building and 300 acres from Catherine Nelson's estate in 1876.
*Catherine Nelson acquired the property and building from her husband Samuel Nelson upon his death in December 1873.
*Samuel Nelson bought the property the building was built on from Zina Wolcott Lay in 1829 for $3,212,50. He built the office the same year.
*Zina Wolcott Lay bought the property from Abram Van Horne in 1827.
*Abram Van Horne bought the property from R. Ledgewick in 1825.
*R. Ledgewick bought the property from James Fenimore Cooper in 1818.


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Patrick Awuah, MBA '99, aims to transform a continent through education.
By Jonathan Rabinovitz
I held my breath and thought, 'Oh dear."
Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, is recalling a moment a decade ago when his dream of establishing Africa's first private secular liberal arts college—Ashesi University—was being dashed. After months of seeking a hearing before Ghana's college accreditation committee, he finally was presenting his case, and the chair was not impressed. In a country where large public universities and an emphasis on rote learning prevail, the authorities thought Awuah's plan to build an Ivy League-type school was about as realistic as opening a Disneyland in the Sahara. It didn't help that Awuah, 35 at the time, looked even younger.
And then, without skipping a beat, Awuah recalls, he laid out the vision he had been developing over the previous three years. He presented the financial plan, detailed the money he had raised, and warned that he could not afford to burn through any more cash waiting for approval. He pointed out where the campus would be built and explained the bigger picture: How change could only come to Africa if it had a new generation of entrepreneurial, ethical leaders—and that's just what Ashesi would produce. He discussed how computer science and business majors need to study philosophy, why small classes are better suited to teach technical skills, and how the new university would require community service.
The commission chair sat back, digesting what he heard: It was a bold, hardheaded proposal free of any fanfare; the I's were all dotted and the T's all crossed. It was vintage Patrick Awuah. "We'll let you try this experiment," the chair announced.
This year Ashesi is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and in recognition of Awuah's audacious vision and impressive accomplishments, Haas is awarding him the school's Leading Through Innovation Award at its annual gala in San Francisco in November. "Patrick Awuah has gone beyond himself, questioning the status quo with a bold mission to develop a generation of ethical, entrepreneurial leaders with the courage to transform a continent," says Dean Rich Lyons. "We couldn't be more proud of his vision and tenacity."
Reversing a Brain Drain
Ashesi means "beginnings" in the African language Twi, and the name mirrors the school's ambitions. "We're trying to train leaders of exceptional integrity, who can lead a renaissance in Africa," Awuah says. "There have been times when it has seemed like Mission Impossible, but magic is happening."
Six-hundred students are now enrolled at Ashesi, a stunning, new 100-acre campus perched on a hillside overlooking the capital city of Accra. It has lush green lawns and palm trees, covered walkways and light-filled classrooms, dormitories, and a library. The university also has a balanced budget, with tuition revenue covering operations, and has raised more than $10 million in philanthropic gifts.
Already its 420 graduates are taking on leadership roles. Within six months of completing school, almost 100 percent of Ashesi's graduates are placed in jobs at international firms as well as in Ghanaian enterprises, nonprofits, and government. While an estimated one-third of African professionals have left Africa in the last 20 years, nearly all of Ashesi graduates stay on the continent.
"The students are on par with U.S. MBA students," says former Haas Professor Jonathan Berk, now at Stanford, who recently visited Ashesi with a global study class traveling through Nigeria and Ghana. "We were asking employers afterward where they were hiring from, and they were saying Ashesi is the place we look to first."
Berk and the students had a sit-down session with Awuah to discuss Ashesi. "I walked out of there, and I was blown away," says Berk. "He had the idealism and the vision—and the ability to pull it off. He is one of the most impressive people I've ever met."
Awuah has won the Aspen Institute's John P. McNulty Prize for extraordinary young leaders and the Microsoft Alumni Foundation's Integral Fellow Award for making a difference in the lives of others. Today, however, he could still pass as an up-and-coming engineer at Microsoft, where he worked for almost a decade. At an interview during a Bay Area visit, he wore a crisp blue button-down shirt and sharply creased khakis. He was checking messages on two phones simultaneously, a Nokia for the United States and a Blackberry for Ghana, as he prepared for a meeting with Google executives.
Tech Beginnings
Growing up in Ghana, Awuah wanted, for a brief spell, to be an astronaut and then turned to engineering. His parents, who left rural villages to become members of a nascent middle class in Ghana, stressed education, and he left home in 1985 with $50 in his pocket and a full scholarship to Swarthmore College. Over the next four years its liberal arts education showed him the power of critical thinking and asking questions, a stark contrast to his prior schooling. After graduating he rose through the ranks to become a program manager at Microsoft and got married. He was settling into a comfortable neighborhood in Seattle, making a lucrative salary and loving his work. He had no interest in returning to Africa.
And then his son was born. "I knew I had to go back," he says. He could no longer ignore Africa's problems, because those problems would be bequeathed to his children. (His daughter was born six years later.) "I didn't have the power to disown a continent."
Awuah spent a couple of years considering how he could make a difference. He and his wife explored starting a software business, but he saw Africa trapped in a seemingly unending cycle: bad policy decisions caused poverty and strife, which gave rise to corruption and weak institutions, which fostered bad policy decisions. "It seemed like it came back to leadership," he says. "Education seemed the best way to change that."
Awuah's focus on education coincided with a shift in Ghana toward democracy and free markets. The government, which had limited higher education to public institutions, opened the door to accrediting private universities. Awuah thought about how his experience at Swarthmore had transformed him. He saw how the existing universities were terribly overcrowded and how fossilized their education had become. Professors read the same lectures year after year; students wrote down what they were told. The only option for students who wanted a better education was to go abroad—and that was expensive. He saw demand for a new approach.
So in September 1997, Awuah enrolled in business school. "Going to Haas was to prepare me to understand how an organization works—it was my education so I could do what I wanted to do," he says. Haas played—and continues to play—an important role in Ashesi's growth. (See adjacent article.) A few years after Awuah graduated, Ashesi began offering classes.
Role Model
Yawa Hansen-Quao was among Ashesi's first students. "I was looking to U.S. colleges, but when I heard about Ashesi, the vision resonated with me," she writes in an email. "Ashesi was the best of both worlds, a quality curriculum based on the U.S. liberal arts core, blended with the African cultural context and leadership focus." She became student body president, the first female to be elected president of a college-level student government organization in Ghana. Since graduating, she has started a successful travel business and founded a nonprofit that helps young women advance their careers.
"Patrick's ability to walk away from Microsoft to start something he truly believed in really has been a reference point for me," she says. "He lives the ideals Ashesi stands for and teaches."
Awuah, meanwhile, shows no sign of slowing down. "It's clear that we have to do more than we're doing," he says. Under a new 10-year plan, Ashesi's goals include recruiting more students from Africa beyond Ghana; expanding academic program to include engineering and applied sciences, management and economics, and law and society; and planning for succession.
"There are two ways to measure leaders: What do they accomplish when they are at the helm, and what happens when they are no longer there," he says. "I need to think about Ashesi when I am no longer around. How do we build systems so that we can operate forever?"
Building a Dream
Awuah taps Haas early and often
Ashesi University founder patrick Awuah (center), MBA 99, asked Berkeley MBA students Amir Khan, Melissa Rawlins, Flora Kuo, and Nick Masciolii, all MBA 13, to help with succession planning.
Earlier this year, Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, the president of Ashesi University in Ghana, held a series of telephone conversations with four Berkeley MBA students that began with a potentially touchy question: What should Ashesi do if Awuah were to die?
As part of their International Business Development (IBD) class, the students had been assigned to consult with Awuah about handling such a crisis. What began as a dialogue about emergency succession planning soon turned into a deeper inquiry about how the university could rely less on its leader and founder and do more to develop its staff while enhancing its recruiting pipeline for outside talent. The IBD team traveled to Ashesi in May to assess the situation firsthand and develop recommendations.
It was the latest chapter in the strong, ongoing relationship between Ashesi and the IBD Program, which assigns teams of students to management consulting projects around the world. The bond can be traced to Awuah's second semester at Haas in 1998, when he had enrolled in IBD. He was asked to select his choice of assignments when he noticed that there were none in Africa. He asked why and was told the professors didn't have contacts there. "Well, you have one here," said Awuah, who was born and raised in Ghana.
A few months later, Awuah was flying to Accra, Ghana's capital, with three classmates to assess the prospects and pitfalls of establishing a private secular liberal arts college there. They drafted a feasibility plan, and Awuah persuaded IBD partner Nina Marini, MBA 99, to work full time to turn the plan into a reality. Awuah had come to Haas to gain the skills needed to launch such a venture, planning to begin work on it after graduation. "I hadn't anticipated it would literally start at Haas," he says.
Since then, at least nine other IBD teams have visited Ashesi, advising on everything from branding strategy to budgeting to new curriculum offerings. This year, students advised on talent development, recruitment, and succession planning. "We helped them think about the evolution from a startup to a larger organization that needs to be more rigorous in its business operations," says Nick Mascioli, MBA 13, a member of Ashesi's IBD team. "What really resonated for me afterwards was how much Patrick thanked us for our work," added Amir Khan, MBA13. "We gave them a lot of actionable items and sufficient guidance to tackle those tasks."


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Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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One Laptop Per Child is not improving reading or math. But, are we learning enough from these evaluations?
A few months ago, the first randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) came out as a working paper (you can find a brief summary by the authors here), after circulating in the seminar/conference circuit for a while.


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Allison Brindle
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In her final year of medical school, when Allison Brindle was looking for residency programs, she was drawn to a place where the people seemed to enjoy their work, and where she thought she could have an impact. She was looking for a place like Washington College.
"From my first year at WC, I was always involved in a number of activities, I developed close relationships with my classmates and professors, and I never had the feeling of being anonymous," Brindle says. "Because the pediatric curriculum is regulated, and because I knew I'd be picking up and moving somewhere new, a big part of my decision about residency programs was based on the people I would be working with. I came away from Gainesville with a gut feeling that I would be happy there. Washington College spoiled me in a way-I expect a more personalized approach everyplace I go."
With her medical degree from University of Maryland, Brindle completed both her residency and her internship in pediatrics at Shands Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is now Associate Staff in Cleveland Clinic's Pediatric Institute and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Board-certified in general pediatrics, she is particularly interested in preventive medicine, childhood and adolescent obesity, immuniations and child health advocacy.
"A lot of pediatricians get into the field because they want to work with toddlers and young children," Brindle says, "and a lot of doctors treating adults don't feel comfortable dealing with teenagers. That age group is interesting to me because they have their own set of needs, and it's important to allow them to get off to a good start and to make good choices, to help them learn to be responsible for their actions. Once I gain the teenager's trust they will be totally honest with me. As I physician I have a unique opportunity to reach out to these kids."
Like so many other medical students who got their start at Washington College, Brindle pursued interests beyond medicine. In addition to her studies and summer research conducted with Dr. Verville, she played varsity basketball and was active in her sorority.
"Washington College encourages you to pursue all your interests, and I learned how to manage my time, how to maintain a healthy balance. That's been especially important in my chosen line of work. I work a lot of hours, but I try really hard to maintain that balance between work and a personal life, so I don't burn out. That's something Dr. Verville always emphasized."


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Apache 2.0 STATUS: Release: 2.0 : In pre-alpha development Plan: Everyone with plans on things they want to do for 2.0 should add them to the repository now. Use a descriptive filename. Other code will be copied over when 1.3.? is finished. Showstoppers: Committed Code Changes: Available Patches: In progress: Needs patch: Open issues: * Library of routines to allow access to memory shared between processes, for things like per-module caches. Such shared segments should persist until the refcount drops to zero. It would be cool if pools could be created in such segments to allow things like shared tables and arrays. +1: Roy, Paul, Ken, Ralf, Martin, Lars * "Apache ports" project - simple-to-install (a la CPAN) one-off tools, scripts (such as counters, guest books, et cetera) +1: Roy, Paul, Ken, Ralf, Martin David Southwell has volunteered to work on this. -0: Lars [If we do this for modules only I'm +1, but I'm not very happy with scripts, tools or other stuff.] * Embed API documentation in the source, a la Java docs, so a script can extract the parameters and description and build a dictionary. If we do this, it needs to be *mandatory* in the style guide. +1: Ken, Lars * Abstract the '+/-' capabilities of the Options keyword so other directives can use it without re-inventing the square peg. +1: Ken Status: Ken has volunteered to work on this. * Really, really comply with 2068 (or whatever Roy says is the right document). Like handling Vary response fields properly and reliably. +1: Ken * Improve mod_include SSI handling, perhaps by caching offsets to directives. Also, clean up the conditional syntax to allow formats that bear a faint resemblance to other usages (such as allowing "=~" and "!~") in other "languages," and provide for caseless matches. +1: Roy, Ken, Martin, Lars Martin sez: I've been thinking about replacing the parser by a recursive descent parser which would reduce complexity tremendously. * Apache reusable code library, wherein we can put some of the stuff developed during the HTTP project that would be useful elsewhere. We've got a start on this with libap, but it would be really cool to have things like the arrays, tables, pools, and related primitives moved into a library of which httpd is just a client and other things can be too. +1: Roy, Paul, Jim, Ken, Ralf, Martin, Lars * Replace the current Unix compilation model (Configuration.tmpl, home-brew Configure script) with the "autoconf toolset". +1: Brian, Roy, Dean, Ralf, Martin * Investigate replacing the current Unix compilation model (Configuration.tmpl home-brew Configure script) with the "autoconf toolset". (this varies from the above such that if it's shown that the "autoconf toolset" can do what we want, with less headache than what we have, then we go for it) +1: Jim, Ken, Marc, MarkC, Ben, Paul, Martin, Lars * The "autoconf toolset" should include all three: autoconf, automake, and libtool. +1: Brian, Jim, Roy, Dean, Ken, Ralf, Martin +0: Lars * Whatever we do regarding autoconf, we should be able to configure to build objects other than in the source tree. autoconf allows for this... you can do "mkdir obj; cd obj; ../configure". This is great for multiple platforms... or even on a single platform, one copy with profiling another without. (There are a lot of possibilities: creating shadow trees, VPATH-style Makefile settings, etc.) +1: Dean, Roy, Paul, Ralf, Martin, Lars * One of the main restrictions on Apache has been that we must assume a very low-level common denominator for the OSs out there. For example, Configure is always being derided as crappy, but it is restricted, by long tradition and common sense, to only use those capabilities that existed in the System 7 'sh' (eg: no function, etc...). One possible key to Apache's success is that it does not require any more than basic UNIX tools (and an ANSI C compiler) to build, compile and run. Many of the ideas floating around for 2.0 would, by default, (drastically) change this. Is this a good idea? [Roy: That overstates most of the changes proposed so far. In any case, older systems will continue to be supported by older versions of Apache -- it is not desirable to dull the cutting edge just so people nowhere near the cutting edge won't get cut.] FEATURE SET FOR 2.0 Here, we decide how many of the following feature ideas we will set for ourselves as work items for 2.0. We can't do everything we would want to, otherwise 2.0 will never be released. So please try and be conservative with your votes. Items in no particular order. Feel free to add more, but try not to duplicate earlier items too much. [Roy: The amount of time it will take to complete 2.0 will have very little to do with how much change is attempted --- it depends only on how many people can change things simultaneously, and thus many suggested changes will actually speed-up the overall schedule if they can help parallelize development or simplify the core code.] * multithreading. +1: Brian, Ken, Jim, Paul, Sameer, Marc, Ralf, MarkC, Ben, Martin, Roy, Lars o Thread Abstraction +1: Sameer, Marc, MarkC, Ben, Dean, Paul, Martin, Roy, Ralf Status: nobody has volunteered yet * revamped process model (Dean's proposal) Dean says: it's hard to do the multithreading work cleanly without considering a bunch of this +1: MarkC, Paul, Dean, Martin, Roy, Ralf, Lars Marc (+1 on much of it; threads aren't enough for perf.), Status: nobody has volunteered yet * new layered I/O. +1: Brian, Ken, Dean, Jim, Paul, Sameer, Marc, Ralf, MarkC, Ben, Roy, Lars Status: Ken has volunteered. o sfio -1: Dean [until it's shown to be thread safe (RST claims it isn't)] o bstdio This was written by Chris Provenzano as part of his implementation of Posix threads. o page flipping friendly, page-sized buffer oriented, zero copy I/O (In this model there are functions like readbuf() which return a pointer to a buffer, rather than taking a pointer to a buffer. This is a lot like how kernels actually work. The advantage is that you can get zero-copy in the user space, which is a big win for caching modules of all sorts. You can also support the "traditional" slow style of stdio, which adds an extra user space copy.) [Martin: Is there some software flying around where such a model has been tried? Or is it a totally new technique?] [Roy: I did this type of buffer streams for libwww-ada95. The only problem is reclaiming buffers so that a large SSI won't suck up all available memory just sending it out the pipe.] +1: Dean, Marc, Ben, Paul, Martin, Roy +0: Jim [what about examples? Portability concerns?], Ralf, Lars o NSPR: Sameer thinks that we should evaluate NSPR (ns/nspr in the Mozilla source tree) and determine whether or not it sucks and decide if we can integrate it. It appears to me, from reading the NPL, that including NSPR in Apache 2.0 is legit. Vote +1 if you like NSPR, and want to use it. +1: +0: Sameer, Lars * API work o radically revamped API [Roy: presumably there is a goal in mind here?] +1: Ken, Lars Status: Ken has volunteered. o documented API [mom and apple pie] +1: Ken, Sameer, Marc, Ralf, Paul, Dean, Martin, Jim, Roy, Lars Status: Ken has volunteered. o just new API phases +1: Brian, Jim, Sameer (just the "gaping holes"), Ralf (especially url2url and file2file in addition to url2file) -1: Roy [that is what 1.4 would be like], Lars Status: Ken has volunteered o change API 'phase' model to use module-registered hooks rather than a fixed static structure +1: Ken, Ralf, MarkC, Paul, Dean, Roy, Martin +0: Lars Status: Ken has volunteered o use virtual functions for module hooks +1: Ben -1: Paul, Roy [would require two APIs] o clearly identify API functions by renaming them +1: Ken, Ralf, Ben, Paul (plus back compat.), Dean, Jim, Roy, Martin Status: Ken has volunteered [Roy: looks like it is already in 1.3] o backward compatibility with 1.3 (just require a recompile) if functions get renamed, old names retained as wrappers +1: Paul, Sameer, Marc, MarkC -1: Roy, Ralf, Martin, Lars o make API call syntax rational (e.g., all r*() routines list r as their first argument, et cetera) +1: Ken +0: Ralf, Paul, Dean, Martin, Roy, Lars Status: Ken has volunteered o abstract module layering for plugins (e.g., a mod_auth interface into which mod_auth_mumble modules can be plugged) +1: Ken, Martin, Ralf +0: Roy [needs more detailed proposal], Lars Status: Ken has volunteered * new configuration language +1: Dean, Marc, Ben, Martin, Roy, Lars +0: Ralf, Paul Status: Ken has volunteered, as has Ryan Bloom <email@example.com> o use XML +0: Roy, Ralf * rewrite in C++ +1: Ben, Martin +0: Marc, Ralf, Lars -1: MarkC, Paul, Roy, Ken * make everything C++ friendly +1: Roy, Paul, Ken, Ralf, Martin, Lars Status: nobody has volunteered yet ("that damned pool decl" is fixed now) * Proxy enhancements (or drop proxy altogether?) for HTTP/1.1 and better ftp proxy Auth handling +1: Martin, Lars [we need at least a mini-proxy for things like reverse-proxying etc.] Closed issues:
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Justin Theroux, who had a hand in writing both "Tropic Thunder" and "Iron Man 2," is heading to Fashion Week in Paris to prepare to write the "Zoolander" sequel.
Ben Stiller, star, director and co-writer of the original, is working on a new script with Theroux, who plans to "immerse himself on what is current in fashion," a source has told Deadline Hollywood.
"Zoolander" was released a couple of weeks after 9/11 and fared poorly at the box office as a result, taking in a lowly $45 million. But it's subsequent DVD sales, near ubiquity on cable TV and the constant requests Stiller gets to do "Blue Steel," Derek Zoolander's signature look, are all testament to how popular the film truly is.
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TUSTIN – It was a sea of about 450 boys' and girls' names, honored with T-shirts and banners in many designs and colors. Those names were just a piece of what was left behind by infants born in Orange County in the past decade who lived for a moment but left their families too soon.
The memory of those children often lives on privately in the hearts and minds of family members and friends. On Saturday, those children were not only acknowledged, but embraced by the community.
About 3,500 people walked in the ninth annual OC Walk to Remember at The District at Tustin Legacy. The 5K walk and nonprofit raises funds to support families who have lost a baby in pregnancy or infancy by donating to 27 local and national organizations, Orange County hospitals with a labor-and-delivery or neonatal intensive care unit and local support groups for grieving families.
Kristyn von Rotz, the event co-founder, said the remembrance ceremony and walk brings the community out to show support for families who have gone through the experience of losing a child at an early age. She also said the walk allows families to take the steps their baby or babies would never take.
"After you lose your baby, you never forget," von Rotz said. "It's difficult to look around you and see everyone else moving on. It is such as healing thing for families. It is one day out of the year where everyone can look at you as mom and say, 'We remember your child. We love your baby and are here to support you.' "
Von Rotz, whose son Joseph died at birth from a brain abnormality in 2004, helped create the event in his memory. She said the walk helps families take the first step toward acceptance through the example and support of other families who have gone through similar experiences. Teams at the walk were made of parents, grandparents, relatives and sometimes the infants' siblings.
It was Ciara Johnson's first time at the walk, but she was able to form 60-person team of family, friends and co-workers from across the country to walk in memory of her son, Colton. Colton was born after 7 months in the womb and died in late 2012, just 25 days after his birth because of a bowel perforation.
It was during Colton's birth that Johnson, 31, found out she had HELLP syndrome, a disorder that causes life-threatening complications in the later stages of pregnancy. She has also had two miscarriages since. Her latest one occurred last month.
"When you first lose your child, people are sympathetic, but after months they expect you to move forward." said the Newport Beach resident. "The general feeling is that it makes people uncomfortable. Everyone here understands you on a whole different level."
Rebecca Rohlke of Fullerton returned to the walk for her sixth year, this time with her 4-year-old daughter, Camden. This year, her T-shirt celebrated the lives of her sons, Grayson, who died stillborn in 2008 from placental abruption, and Micah, who died in May after living four days with anencephaly, or absence of a brain and skull.
"Even for my first son, with some family members, you felt you couldn't even talk about them, like because they didn't breath on earth, they weren't real," Rohlke, 30, said. "They are represented at home where we feel we can talk about it. They were here and a part of our lives."
Irvine resident Barbara Dieppa, 35, walked with her husband, parents and aunt. While she remembered the life of her daughter, Ava, who died after 6 months in her womb from an unknown cause last year, she also celebrated the life of her daughter-to-be, Laila, due in November.
"It's a weird mix of emotions, but I am happy," Dieppa said. "It's so good to see the amount of people here, not just parents but the babies. It gives you hope for the future."
By late Saturday morning, the event raised nearly $50,000 that would go toward local organizations, hospitals and support groups. The nonprofit hopes to raise $75,000 by Oct. 15, also known as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
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posted on Monday, October 01, 2012 - 5:57 am
I'm designing a questionnaire which has a 'self' and 'other-rater' version.I conducted an EFA for the self-version and I've run a CFA on 2 groups (red people and blue people) who rated the person who completed the self version - if that makes sense?
So I ran a multigroup CFA on the 'other-rater' version comparing blue raters and red raters.
But a reviewer has come back and said (quite rightly) that because the raters are clustered i.e. they are rating the same person, then it should be multilevel?
But I'm confused as to whether the CFA would be multi-level because I don't want to CFA the self-data (as its already EFA'd) I just want to CFA the 'other raters' data.
in that case do I just use the CLUSTER = command, but not TYPE = TWOLEVEL, or should it also be multilevel?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 01, 2012 - 10:45 am
It sounds like the non-independence of observations comes about by students having two ratings. It sounds like you never analyze data for the two ratings together. If this is the case, you would not need to worry about non-independence of observations.
posted on Monday, October 01, 2012 - 10:53 am
I think my explanation was confusing!
Basically I'm trying to see if my factor structure 'holds' in the 'other' data i.e. in the blue people and the red people.
So person 1 might have 4 blue people rating them and 3 red people rating them.
My understanding is that I can't just analyse them just in two groups, instead, I need to control for the fact that several red/blue people might be rating the same person by clustering them using the variable "person_rated"
So my original idea was to do a multi-level CFA on both groups.
But now I'm not sure whether I need to multi-level it because I don't quite understand what my %between% commands would be.
I'm thinking it would just be clustered using TYPE=COMPLEX to account for the fact that several people rate the same person. and then analyse this across both red and blue groups (i.e. multi-group & clustered CFA using type=complex)
I'm really trying to get to grips with this (tried to read the guide and all the info on the site) but failing massively - it appears I'm not a natural mathematician! any help would be very much appreciated
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - 10:11 am
You should structure your data as follows:
rater subject
1 1
1 2
2 1
2 2
3 1
3 2
4 1
4 2
Use TYPE=COMPLEX and CLUSTER=RATER.
posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - 10:28 am
Thank you!
I did manage to run something - not sure if its right!
I found an old post that would mean I could just run the following
CLUSTER = ratee;
FW1 BY q12 q41 q87 q3 q19;
FW2 BY q13 q49 q89 q91 q98;
FW3 BY q93 q29 q100 q28;
FW4 BY q15 q7 q10 q59;
FW5 BY q34 q38 q70;
and leaving the %between% function blank. I was then thinking I could run this once for blue raters and once for red raters and compare the models for the two groups. Does this look like it will work. It has run - although I had to up the H1iterations, but obviously running and actually being appropriate are two separate things.
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Sports Commentator Kevin McKinney Leads Class Of UW Hall Of Fame Inductees
Laramie, Wyo., Feb. 23, 2013 – A championship football team, an exciting All-America men's basketball player, a multi-talented All-America women's basketball player, two dominating football players, and a popular and dedicated UW Athletics administrator and broadcaster comprise the latest class of the University of Wyoming Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame. The Class of 2013 was announced by Hall of Fame chairman Mike Schutte on Saturday at the men's basketball game vs. UNLV. The dinner and induction ceremony for the Hall of Fame's 21st class will be held on Friday, Sept. 6th, at the Hilton Garden Inn/UW Convention Center. The inductees will also be honored at halftime of the Cowboy football game vs. Idaho on Sept. 7th.
This year's inductees include: Carrie Bacon (women's basketball, 1999-2003); Josh Davis (men's basketball, 1999-2002); Jason Gervais (track and field, 1999-2001); Jim House (football, 1966-68); Mike LaHood (football, 1965-67); Kevin McKinney (Administrator/Special Achievement); and the 1959 Football Team.
A total of 129 individuals and 13 teams have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since its inception in 1993. Its plaque display is located in the concourse of the Arena-Auditorium.
The Hall of Fame Committee met in January to make its final selections for this year's class. The inductees must fit into one of five categories: student-athlete, coach, team, athletics staff members or special achievement. The special achievement category includes individuals who have contributed to the ideal of sports at the University. Each nominee must receive at least 75 percent of the committee's vote to be eligible for induction. Nominations are encouraged and are due in to the committee by Sept. 1st in order to be considered for the following year's class.
Members of the committee are: Mike Schutte (Chairman), Tom Burman, Ken Cook, Stig Hallingbye, Steve Harshman, Dave Madia, Margie McDonald, Kevin McKinney, Molly Moore, Brian Morgen, Jared Newland, Bruce Pivic, and Gary Crum.
Following is the 2013 Class:
Carrie Bacon
Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Sport: Women's Basketball
Years: 1999-2003
Named honorable mention All-America by the WBCA in 2003, Bacon averaged 15.1 points and 6.8 rebounds during her Cowgirl career. She earned all-Mountain West and all-District VII honors three times in her career. A forward/center, she scored 1,692 points (fifth all-time at UW) and brought down 761 rebounds (eighth). As a freshman in 1998-99, she was voted to the MW All-Newcomer team. An excellent all-around athlete, she twice led the Cowgirls in scoring and was among the team leaders in rebounding, blocks and steals each of her four years. She recorded 23 double-doubles in her career. In 1999-2000, she was second in the conference in scoring and led the league in free throw percentage (.830) as a sophomore. She produced the fourth- and fifth-best offensive games in Cowgirl history, scoring 34 points against UNLV in 2000 and 33 points vs. Idaho State in 1999. She is also third in steals (169) and third in free throws made (390). Named MW player of the week twice, she co-holds (with Ashley Elliott) the Arena-Auditorium record for field goals in a game by a Wyoming player with 13 vs. Penn in 1999. A three-time all-conference academic selection and Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, she was also named Academic All-District VII three times. A native of Colorado Springs, Colo., Bacon majored in Exercise and Sport Science at Wyoming.
Josh Davis
Hometown: Salem, Ore.
Sport: Men's Basketball
Years: 1999-2002
A tremendous athlete, Davis started at forward his entire four-year career for the Cowboys. Named AP Honorable Mention All-America in 2001-02, Davis led the Cowboys to their first two Mountain West titles and a first-round upset victory over Gonzaga in the NCAA tournament. A popular player known for big plays and highlight-reel dunks, he is ranked 13th in scoring, second in rebounding, third in blocked shots, and fifth in career steals. Davis also ranks third in the conference in career rebounds. He posted 27 double-doubles as a Cowboy. A three-time all-conference selection (twice named to the first team), Davis was selected First Team All-District 13 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) twice and was twice named All-District 8 by the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). He averaged 12.4 points and eight rebounds per game. A three-time MW Player of the Week, Davis was voted to the MW all-tournament team in 2001. Davis was selected to participate in the 2000 USA Basketball Men's National Team Trials in Colorado Springs, Colo. A native of Salem, Ore., he played professionally for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Memphis Grizzlies, among other NBA teams. He also competed in several foreign countries.
Jason Gervais
Hometown: Timmins, Ontario, CANADA
Sport: Track & Field
Years: 1999-2001
A seven-time all-America thrower, Gervais was the national runner-up in the discus in 2000. He holds the Mountain West conference record in the weight throw, and holds UW school records in the weight throw and discus. He held the school record in the shot put until it was broken in 2013 by Mason Finley. A four-time Mountain West champion, he won all-conference honors eight times. He was awarded the MW's Most Outstanding Male Performer at the 2000 MW Indoor Championships after winning both the 35-pound weight throw and the shot put. In 2009, he was honored by the Mountain West Conference as a member of the All-Decade Track & Field team. Gervais transferred to Wyoming after competing at Central Arizona College, where he was the junior college national champion in the discus and runner-up in the hammer throw. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Gervais represented Canada in the discus at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also competed in the Canadian Championships, the World University Games, and the Pan Am Games. He majored in Business Administration at UW.
Jim House
Hometown: Laramie, Wyo.
Sport: Football
Years: 1966-68
A native of Laramie, House was one of the finest linebackers in Cowboy history and played on some of Wyoming's most decorated defenses in history. An honorable mention All-American, House earned all-conference honors in 1967 and 1968. He led the Cowboys in tackles in 1967 and 1968, and holds the fifth best total for tackles in a game with 18 vs. CSU in 1967. He was honored as the Sports Illustrated National Lineman of the Week for that performance. In 1968, House recorded 91 tackles, seven tackles for loss, one interception, one fumble recovery and three pass breakups during his senior year. He played on three WAC championship teams and competed in the Sun Bowl (1966) and the Sugar Bowl (1968). The 1966 and 1967 Cowboys led the nation in rushing defense, and the 1968 team led the nation in total defense. As co-captain with Gene Huey, House received the first ever "Bronze Boot" for Wyoming's 1968 victory over CSU. He was one of only eight college players selected to play in the East-West Shrine Game, the Hula Bowl, and the Senior Bowl. He went on to an illustrious coaching career, including spending ten years as an assistant coach at Wyoming (1976-85).
Mike LaHood
Hometown: Peoria, Illinois
Sport: Football
Years: 1965-67
A gifted offensive lineman who was as hard-nosed as they came, Lahood anchored the Cowboy line for three seasons. He was a two-time all-conference selection (1966-1967) and earned Regional All-America honors in 1967. A tough, versatile player, LaHood played both defensive and offensive tackle, as well as offensive guard and tight end, during his career. Wyoming teams compiled a record of 26-6 during LaHood's time at Wyoming. He was the only offensive lineman to start every game for the undefeated 1967 team and helped pave the way for all-conference seasons by quarterback Paul Toscano, tailback Jim Kiick, and receiver Gene Huey., He started on two Western Athletic Conference championship teams (1966-67) and in two bowl games (1966 Sun Bowl and 1968 Sugar Bowl). LaHood earned a degree in physical education. After being drafted by the NFL's Los Angeles Rams in 1968, LaHood played professionally for the Rams for one season before being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for the 1970 season. He then returned to the Rams for two years before moving on to complete his professional career at Vancouver in the Canadian Football League.
Kevin McKinney
Hometown: Cheyenne, Wyo.
Administrator/Special Achievement
Years: 1972-present
A native of Cheyenne, Wyo., McKinney is a lifelong and devoted advocate for University of Wyoming Athletics. He earned a degree in Journalism from the University of Wyoming in 1971. During his undergraduate years, he worked at various times as the Sports Editor for the Wyoming State Tribune in Cheyenne, as a staffer for United Press International, as a public information specialist for the Wyoming Highway Department, and as a student assistant in the UW Sports Information Office. After his graduation, McKinney joined the Wyoming Highway Department as a full-time Information Assistant for one year, before returning to his alma mater in 1972 as assistant sports information director under Bill Young and has been a dynamic figure in the department ever since. He was named Director of Sports Information in 1975, where his duties included maintaining statistical information on each intercollegiate sport, the production of media guides for each sport, news releases, programs, and game management. His voice is familiar throughout the state as he serves as the radio color commentator for Cowboy basketball (since 1974) and Cowboy football (since 1998). Among the honors he has received are the Sigma Delta Chi Excellence in Journalism award, the Frank Norris, Jr., Distinguished Service to Journalism Award, several Press Box Excellence awards from CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America), and three Press Box Citations of Excellence from the Football Writers of America. McKinney has also worked at several NCAA basketball tournaments, including two Final Fours, and volunteered as an information coordinator at the National Sports Festival in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1983. In 2001, he was named Wyoming's Sportscaster of the Year. He was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Wyoming State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011. Upon being named Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Operations in 2007, McKinney took on additional duties within the department, including oversight of the Marketing program as well as the Media and Public Relations office.
1959 Football Team
Ranked 16th in the country, the 1959 Cowboys were rated in the top 10 of almost every statistical category nationally. Coached by the legendary Bob Devaney, Wyoming won the Skyline Conference Championship with a 9-1 record. Ranked fifth in scoring, fifth in total defense and first in punt returns nationally, the Cowboys boasted a balanced attack led by guard (and team captain) Len Kucewski on defense and quarterback Jim Walden on offense. The Cowboys scored 287 points while allowing their opponents just 62 points. Halfback Jerry Hill and fullback Mark Smolinski led the Cowboys' rushing attack. Wyoming led the Skyline Conference in total offense, rushing yards and first downs and were also ranked number one in defense. Kucewski, Walden, and Hill earned honorable mention All-America honors. Kucewski and Walden were also first team all-Conference selections, while end Marty Hamilton, tackle Dick Schnell, guard Pat Smyth and Hill earned second team honors. The AP and UPI named Walden, Kuczewski and Hill all-Skyline selections. Walden led the conference in total yards with 1,211. Devaney was voted the Skyline Conference Coach of the Year. Smyth received the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete award and, along with Hamilton, earned academic all-conference honors.
Previous inductees by class:
Class of 1993: Dick Ballinger, (wrestling, 1958-60); Fennis Dembo (men's basketball, 1985-88); Mike Dirks (football, 1965-67); Jerry Hill (football, 1958-60); Glenn J. "Red" Jacoby (athletic director, 1946-73); Jay Novacek (football and track, 1982-84); Kenny Sailors (men's basketball, 1941-46); Everett Shelton (men's basketball coach, 1939-59); Johnny Winterholler (football, baseball, and basketball, 1936-39); 1943 National Champion Basketball Team.
Class of 1994: Paul Carlin (track, 1951-53); George "Duke" Humphrey (president, 1945-64); Everett Lantz (wrestling coach, 1937-65); Flynn Robinson (men's basketball, 1963-65); Mary Shea (volleyball, 1980-83); Bill Strannigan (men's basketball, 1941-42); Ken Sturman (football, 1937-39); Eddie Talboom (football, 1948-50) Bowden Wyatt (football coach, 1947-52); 1950 Gator Bowl football team.
Class of 1995: Jack Aggers (trainer, 1958-84)); Jim Crawford (football, 1954-56); John Corbett (administration, 1915-39); Bob Devaney (football coach, 1957-61); John Kosich (football, baseball, 1946-49); Dewey McConnell (football, 1949-51); Pat Miller-Davis (track and field, 1980-82).
Class of 1996: Larry Birleffi (broadcaster, 1947-86); Charles W. "Tub" Bradley (basketball, 1979-81); Glenn R. "Bud" Daniel (baseball coach, 1951-61, 1963-71); Michele Hoppes Daum (basketball, 1984-87); Jim Kiick (football, 1965-67); Mark Miller (swimming, 1985-88); Milward L. Simpson (football, basketball and baseball, 1917-21)
Class of 1997: Joe Alexander (rodeo, 1968-69); Keith Bloom (basketball, football, baseball, 1947-50); Stig Hallingbye (skiing, 1974-77); Ronda K. Munger (volleyball, 1984-87); Joseph Nzau (track and field, 1977-82); 1967 Sugar Bowl Football Team.
Class of 1998: Curt Gowdy (broadcaster, basketball, tennis, 1940-42); Eric Leckner (basketball, 1985-88); Bob Jingling (baseball, 1952-55); Kathleen Van Heule Romsa (track and field, 1983-85); Joe Mastrogiovanni (football, baseball, 1953-55)
Class of 1999: Darcy Cudaback-White (volleyball, 1986-89); Paul Roach (football coach, 1987-90); Paul Toscano (football, 1965-67); John Pilch (basketball, 1947-49); Galand Thaxton (football, 1984-87); Tony Windis (basketball, 1957-59).
Class 2000: Jim Brandenburg (basketball coach, 1978-87); Amy Burnett (basketball, 1992-95); Bill Ewing (baseball, 1974-76); Lee Kizzire (football, 1934-36); Larry Nels (football, 1967-69); Curtis and Marian Rochelle (special achievement).
Class of 2001: Nick Bebout (football, 1970-72); Joe Capua (basketball, 1954-56); Ken Cook (special achievement); Mickey Dunn (track and field, 1949-51); Bill Garnett (basketball, 1979-82); Jean Jackson (administration), 1956 Football Team.
Class of 2002: Greg Brock (baseball, 1976-79); Mitch Donahue (football, 1987-90); Christine Fairless (basketball, 1986-89); Margie McDonald (basketball coach, 1975-83); George "Moe" Radovich (basketball, 1950-52); Reginald Slater (basketball, 1989-92).
Class of 2003: Ken Fantetti (football, 1975-78); Norma Hughes Scifres (swimming, 1990-92, 1994); Willard A. "Dutch" Witte (basketball and football coach, 1930-39); John Wodny (cross country/track, 1986-90); Ryan Yarborough (football, 1990-93); Bill Young (Sports Information Director, Assistant Athletics Director, 1960-81); 1959-60 Wrestling Team.
Class of 2004: Reese Andy (wrestling, 1994-96); Leon Clark (basketball, 1963-66); Marcus Harris (football, 1993-96); Bill Levine (football, 1961, 1963-64); Jimmi Jo Martin Ripsam (rodeo, 1988-90); Pat Rabold (football, 1984, 1986-88); Andy Welsh (diving, 1981-85).
Class of 2005: Ryan Butler (track and field, 1995-96); Phil Dickens (football coach, 1953-56); Joe Dowler (wrestling coach, administrator, 1973-87); Ann Melander (skiing, 1984-85); Theo Ratliff (basketball, 1992-95); Vic Washington (football, 1965-67); 1989 Cowgirl Volleyball Team.
Class of 2006: Ryan Christopherson (football, 1991-94); Jerry DePoyster (football, 1965-67); Stan Dodds (basketball, 1968-70); Robert S. "Bob" Hammond (sportswriter); Milo Komenich (basketball, 1940-43); Stacey Ward Straley (skiing, 1979-84); 1956 Cowboy Baseball Team.
Class of 2007: Brenda Graham Gray (track & field, 1980-84); Elsie Jo Bonger (football secretary, 1962-78); Jerry Jester (football, 1953-55); Dave McCleave (golf, 1989-92); Dick Sherman (basketball, 1963-66); Randy Welniak (football, 1985-88); 1968 National Champion Ski Team.
Class of 2008: Thomas "Rupe" Garrison (track, 1987-91); Walker "Sonny" Jones, Jr. (football, 1948-49); Geir I. Kvernmo (skiing and track, 1977-80); Brian J. Lee (football, 1994-97); Dave Myers (wrestling, 1989-92); Steve Scifres (football, 1994-97); 1978-79 Women's Basketball Team.
Class of 2009: Jesseca Cross (basketball and track, 1994-97); Sean Fleming (football, 1988-92); Quincy Hayden Howe (track, 1999-2002); Gene Huey (football, 1966-68); Mike Jackson (basketball, 1980-83); Al and Pete Simpson (special achievement); 1961 Rodeo Team.
Class of 2010: Staale Engen (track, skiing, 1971-74); Jerry Frude, (wrestling, 1959-60, 1962); Steinar Hybertsen (skiing, 1973-75); Bob Jacobs (football, 1968-70); Chuck Lamson (football, 1960-61); Karen Sanford Gall (track, 1979-82); 1966 Football Team.
Class of 2011: Mike English (women's volleyball coach, 1986-90 and 1992-93), Wesley Maiyo (track, 1974-75), Robert L. Mason (wrestling, 1949-51), Shauna Smith (track, 2003-05), Scott Usher (swimming, 2002-05), Jim Walden (football, 1958-59), and the 1986-87 "Sweet 16" Men's Basketball Team.
Class of 2012: Dick Campbell (football, 1948-50); Len Kuczewski (football, 1957-59); Jordan Lintz (golf, 1997-2000); Selmer Pederson (football 1949-51); Ray Sanchez (wrestling, 1967-68); Chris Lull Terjeson (volleyball, 1985-89); and the 1985 National Champion Ski Team.


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text: I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run the real nvidia driver (like we do). For those not experienced with RHEL and nvidia kernel modules, when you install a new kernel, you have to run the nvidia installer after the system boots under the new kernel to build the nvidia module for that kernel. Then a reboot gets it all working again. Imagine doing that for 25 engineering workstations in a dept, and you'll get the idea. Yum works great if you can live with the default 'nv' driver. Bill -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:40 PM To: Mark Hahn Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Repenting for sins against Dell (on good Friday, no less) Mark Hahn wrote: >> It's useful because it will automatically build and install existing >> kernel modules for newly-installed kernels. Many vendors ship drivers >> as RPMs separate from the kernel, so they won't get updated when the >> kernel is updated unless you use something like dkms. > > interesting. the distro-based approach is that when you update your > kernel, the package manager will naturally also update any packages > which are dependent on the kernel version. that certainly works fine > if you're using normal (binary, precompiled) packages. I guess the > issue with rebuilding packages is that they are, in some sense, > version-flexible (can be rebuilt for new kernels). the issue, though > is that you don't know whether the package will still build for the > new kernel until you try - it might have dependencies on a symbol that > gets removed from the kernel update, for instance. Right, although distributions like RHEL do a good job of keeping the kernel unchanged from an API perspective within a given release. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


text: Erik Bauersfeld documents his years as a radio drama producer, writer, director, performer and originator of many widely varied projects of drama and the acoustical arts. Beginning in 1961, at the new visionary non-commercial Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley, he learned some of the basic production and performing skills. He became director of Drama and Literature and remained so for thirty years. During that time he formed his non-profit foundation BARD. New projects were funded by the National Endowments, NPR, and other national and international sources. What follows is the course of this history, with notes on the radio-audio work that Bauersfeld originated and participated in.