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Aldon Morris Award Statement
Professor Aldon D. Morris is the 2009 recipient of the ASA's Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, named for African American sociologists Oliver Cromwell Cox, Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier. Each of this award's namesakes were engaged scholars and institution builders; they challenged racism and sought to enhance the understanding, status, and well-being of African American communities and individuals. While this award can recognize outstanding institutions as well as individuals, this year, the Cox-Johnson-Frazier award recognizes an outstanding individual whose lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community exemplifies the tradition of these namesakes. Through path-breaking scholarship that challenges and, when necessary, overturns conventional thinking; humane, inclusive, and transformative teaching and mentoring; constructive and peaceful direct confrontation in pursuit of social justice; and longstanding public engagement in service of building and transforming institutions to better include and serve all communities, Dr. Aldon D. Morris truly embodies this living tradition of critical public engagement.
Within four years of earning his Ph.D. from SUNY-Stonybrook, Professor Morrispublished the timeless classic The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. The recipient of multiple best book awards and other scholarly recognition, Origins challenged reigning sociological orthodoxy on the Civil Rights Movement by documenting the multiple ways black communities, north and south, strategically employed their own resources, institutions, networks, and innovations to collectively disrupt state-sanctioned racism in the United States. Morris' examination of cooperation and conflict within the Civil Rights Movement and between black movement leaders and anti-racist white-led institutions broke new ground.In countless public lectures, in the years since, and in three additional co-edited books and numerous articles, chapters, and reports, Morris has explored the promise of contemporary justice movements in light of the Civil Rights Movement's legacies. Equally committed to bringing greater understanding and recognition of W.E.B. DuBois, Professor Morris' most recent articles, presentations, and campaign to name the ASA's Distinguished Career of Scholarship award after DuBois have resulted in far greater awareness of DuBois's long, brave history of intense public engagement (national and international) and formidable, but remarkably under-appreciated, corpus of scholarship.
One of today's great public sociologists, Professor Morris not only honors, but also actively extends DuBois's legacy. By organizing scholarly panels highlighting social movement contributions of women and trade unionists of color; raising funds to develop African American historical archives; participating in Global South conferences (to make public and improve pre- and post-apartheid South Africa conditions); consulting on the award-winning documentary series, "Eyes on the Prize;" and regularly serving as a radio and television broadcast guest (local and national programs), first-generation ASA Minority fellow, Aldon Morris, inspires future generations (as did DuBois) to pass on to others what was passed on to him.
Widely known as a warm, generous, accessible, direct, imaginative, humorous, and highly effective teacher, mentor, advocate, and collaborator, Professor Morris' nominators (and the awards committee concurs) offer special praise for his longstanding choice to use whatever influence comes with leadership roles he assumes (and there have been dozens) to expand awareness and inclusion of scholars of color and others too often relegated to the margins of the discipline, academy, and society. Professor Morris' advocacy is evident in the expanded presence and ASA leadership roles many younger scholars of color have recently assumed.
Years of tireless service have earned Professor Morris the deep respect of his peers, as evidenced by honors he has received and continuing calls for his leadership. A few highlights: Professor Morris has twice been asked to run for ASA Vice President—and once for ASR editor.So far, he's chosen instead to serve as a member of one or more demanding ASA committee (such as Nominations, Program, Committee on Committees, Council, etc.) for nearly each of the last twenty years. From 1986-88, he served as President of the Association of Black Sociologists (ABS), receiving its Outstanding Leadership Award in 1988 and Certificate of Leadership Award in 1995. Since 2003, Professor Morris has served as Associate Dean for Faculty at Northwestern University, where he previously directed the Asian American Studies Program (2002-05), chaired the Sociology Department (1992-97), and served on the Center for Afro-American and African Studies' Executive Committee (1984-88).
The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Committee enthusiastically and unanimously commends Professor Morris for his longstanding service to multiple communities, within and beyond the academy; his influential and vital body of classic and continuing research on the origins and multi-generational influences of the Black Protest Movement; and his leadership challenging social injustice and the exclusion and under-recognition of scholars of color. May his example continue to remind us of the importance of lifting our individual and collective voices to speak truth to power.


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Flak Jacket XLJ Polarized Sunglasses
Slightly larger lens than the standard Flak Jacket, the Oakley XLJ Flak Jacket Sunglasses feature polarized lenses to give you more protection from the sun's nasty rays. If you're biking and you need to see those berms rushing your way, swap out the Flak Jacket's lenses to suit any lighting condition in a matter of seconds. These shades stay on your dome thanks to Unobtanium rubber temples and nosepiece, which actually get grippier as you sweat. When your trail runs take you into less-than-favorable conditions, Oakley's hydrophobic lens coating repels water, oils, and even dust.
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Great glasses
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
I bought these for road/mountain biking and running. They fit true to size. Great all around glasses.
Not polarized!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: Runs small
I bought this because It said polarized in the title. And I asked the so-called online gear expert, he told me it's definitely polarized as well. But when I open the box, it is not polarized at all! Besides, it's a Canadian special that they didn't mark it either. Terrible!
Comfortable and High Performance
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
They do as designed, they block the wind on fast rides and are very optically clear. It is a little bit of a challenge to wear these with a bike helmet from the non-dropdown arms, but I got used to it. I wear these near daily and I can say they are the best sunglasses I've even worn.
Happy wife
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
I gave this to my wife, great price for the quality glasses!
She said: perfect fit (she has a small face), lightweight, easy to clean, lenses are easy to replace and have a very flexible frame.
Also, the case is awesome and the glasses stay in place during her running .
Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ Polarized
Really enjoy these glasses. They block out wind very well and I'm excited to try road biking with them once I get out of the mountains from winter.
The best
I have been wearing oakley's for years. They're lightweight, comfortable and the lenses are easily replaced.
The Best!
hands down bet running glasses. I recommend these for any active wear. Some people would rather have rudys for running but those don't look as cool. These look cool enough for casual were and for driving around. For cycling, i find larger glasses to work better.
I agree; these lenses let in too much wind for cycling...but great for just about everything else!
Best Sunglasses Ever!
I got my first pair of Flak Jackets as a door prize gift and loved them! They fit my face well and look good! I bought another pair a year later because my lenses got all scratched up from taking them through canyons. I would use the old pair for canyoneering and the new pair for driving and day use. They were so stylish that 2 of my friends also bought them! I will definitely buy another pair when the time comes to replace the ones I have now!
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These things rock. I have been an oakley fan for the last 11 years or so. Never been disappointed. I got these because my new job need more wrap around eye protection. I had a pair of half jackets that I was very happy with but they were 3+ years old and getting tired. These glasses give me ANSI Z87 rated protection from flying debris and keep me stylin'. The polarization is a plus to keep glare down when I'm off playing after work.
Bottom Line: Buy them. If you can keep a decent pair of shades around then this is what you need!
Great compromise
A great compromise between wire-frames and M-frames. Able to wear these around town and still out adventuring. Plus, in my opinion they look a little better than the Half-Jackets... which look a little too roundish for.
Birthday gift for hubby
Hubby opened 'em up and loved the color combo of the frame and lenses. He played golf wearing them for the first time yesteray and LOVED them! Very happy with the purchasing process and shipping was quick.
Super Shades
Tried a pair on at a local store, but wanted a better price. After two other retailers couldn't get me the shooting package of the non-polarized version, I settled on the polarized version.
The glasses stay in place during my running and biking. I need to get some lighter tints now that it is getting dark so early. The only real issue I have is that my bike helmet strap and some of my hats make me shift the ear pieces into less than optimal positions.
Nice case and cleaning sock.
Sore under my eyes
I have bought a new pair if flack jackets this year and they are really good i love them but when i wear them for a long periods of a time i come out in a horrible sore either side of my nose and just under my eyes and was wondering if any one else had experienced this??
you could be allergic to the rubber they use for nose grips "unobtainium nose bombs" they call it, if its latex based. As for under the eyes...could it be sunburn?
Check out the x metal line (juliets, others) that have no rubber on the nose area, just metal frame material. A call into Oakley might help, but since lens crafters bought them, i have no experience with customer support there.
Good luck!
Great Glasses for running/cycling
I wear these glasses for running and cycling and absolutely love them. I have an average sized head and have never had any issues with them slipping or falling off no matter how sweaty I am. I use the polarized gold iridium lenses no matter the time of day or amount of sunlight and have never had any visibility issues. Definitely not a budget item, but if you've got the money to spare you can't go wrong with these glasses.
the best sunglasses ever
I thought sunglasses were mainly the same and always bought cheap ones, in case I lost them. These sunglasses have changed my mind completely! Even with direct sun in my eyes, my eyes never hurt I don't have to squint to see. There is no place at the edge for the sun to leak in. They are very comfortable and not overly fragile. These are worth every penny.
I purchased a pair of half jackets four years ago, but have sadly outgrown them. The flak jackets are a little bigger than the half jackets, and simply amazing. i expect to get at least another four years out of these. their optical clarity, weight, and durability are unmatched; i frequently forget that i'm even wearing them.
I'd like to get the other lenses for the...
I'd like to get the other lenses for the Oakley half jackets i just bought.
We got 'em!
Can I get these in a progressive lenses?...
Can I get these in a progressive lenses? -- Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ Sunglasses - Polarized
Yes you can,but would seriously consider distance only instead because of the progressive design used and cost. I'm an eye doctor and just ordered a single vision pair instead of a progressive in this model. If using for cycling be sure you're not looking over them in a road bike posture - if not use asian design. Tint is personal --- suggest bronze or gold iridium polarized.
Do these have the HD polarized lenses?
Do these have the HD polarized lenses?
According to Oakley, "all [flak jacket] lenses feature the unbeatable clarity of Oakleys HIGH DEFINITION OPTICS® (HDO®)."
are the flak xlj larger than the half...
are the flak xlj larger than the half jacket?
The Flak XLJ are just shaped a bit differently than the half jacket. They flare a bit more to the side after it exits the bottom of the frame.
XLJ on Half jackets fit me great, where as XLJ on Flak Jackets, the flare tends to bump into my cheekbones. That fact led to the return of my Flak's.
If your talking lens size, yea.
how do i know what lens to get?
how do i know what lens to get?
i'm 564 years old play golf everyday in hot 90 degree weather...confused about lends..help
if you go on Oakley's website and look at these same glasses, there will be a tab called "lenses" where Oakley has simulated the different lens tints for different activities: golf, snow, trails, water activities and jogging.
The Oakley site has a great "tool", like the previous comment, you can "see though" different lens offerings, and choose different settings.
The best lens are the polarized/iridium lenses. For partly cloudy conditions; or biking in/out of woods, etc; or even late day or early outings, try transitions' lenses in the clear/black (which are clear in dark conditions, just like prescription lenses, and darken a bit in the sun (but not real dark).

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Whitney Houston's Body Covered in Scars, Showed Signs of Liver Disease
As if the initial autopsy report wasn't sad enough, new details have emerged about the body of late, great Whitney Houston. Apparently, the singer's autopsy revealed that the her once lithe and model-trim body was riddled with scars, showing the tell-tale signs of her problematic life. The coroner's report reveals that the Houston's corpse was nicked up with cuts, burns and other assorted abrasions, many of which were on her body for several years.
According to The Sun, a puncture mark was visible on Houston's arm, while plastic surgery scars were found on her stomach, thighs and chest, suggesting that she may have had breast implants. She was also missing 11 teeth, which were replaced by false ones. That's actually fairly common. Many singers have their teeth "done," since they are so visible when they open their mouths to sing. As a result, they want to show off the whitest, most perfect chompers possible — so it's not fair to assume Houston's teeth were replaced simply due to hard living or neglect.
Also, it's only fair to recognize that you'd be hard-pressed to find a scarless body at any autopsy, although it is apparent than Houston's body revealed that she was not easy on it.
The autopsy did indicate that swathes of skin were burnt off her back, which occurred when she slid into the scalding hot water of the bathtub where she died. It's believed that the temperature of the water was a blazing hot 150°F when she stepped into it. That's really hot, so it's entirely possible that she may have been so high that she did not realize the temperature.
Houston also had a perforated posterior nasal septum, which is something many heavy cocaine users experience. The report also indicated signs of liver disease.
Houston, 48, died in Los Angeles on Feb. 11. The official cause of death was accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine contributing to her demise.


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Steve Hayward's "Newt vs. Reagan, the sequel" is the definitive response to the prominent conservatives who have sought to portray Newt Gingrich as an opponent of President Reagan's foreign policy in the 1980's. To Steve's account must be added Jeffrey Lord's look at Gingrich's March 1986 speech from which Elliott Abrams quoted in his NRO column attacking Gingrich [UPDATE: as well as Rich Lowry's corrective comment on Lord's column].
Abrams cites Newt's presentation of himself as a "leader" of the effort to defeat Soviet Communism from his position as a backbencher in Congress. (Newt did not ascend to a position of leadership in the House until he was elected Minority Whip in 1989.) Abrams characterizes Gingrich's claim as "misleading at best." I would say it's puffery at worst. As Hayward and Lord demonstrate, it seems to me, Newt's occasional criticism of Reagan administration foreign policy from the right placed him in the company of the mainstream conservative movement — including National Review itself — which nevertheless remained united in opposing the liberals' support for the Communists in Nicaragua and elsewhere.
Abrams himself was a member of the Reagan administration and a foot soldier in the battle with the liberals over Reagan's foreign policy. His memoir Undue Process deserves special mention in this context. Abrams paid a heavy price for his loyal service to the Reagan administration (as Richard Nixon observed on the book's dust jacket).
It may be worth noting that Elliott Abrams's portrayal of the Reagan White House's conduct in the battle over the Iran/Contra affair is not one of monochromatic praise [after the fact, as a commenter rightly observes below]. Toward the end of his memoir, he writes, for example: "Presidents ought to recall the moral obligation they owe to their men far better than did President Reagan recall the debt he owed to some of his men — men whose lives he flung into the abyss when, under heavy congressional and media pressure in 1986, he called for an Independent Counsel in the Iran/Contra affair."
While paying tribute to Abrams's public service, Lord imputes a base careerist motive to Abrams for his treatment of Gingrich's record. Although Lord's column is worth a look, let it be said that this is completely unwarranted.
UPDATE: Rich Lowry's post on Lord's column notes that Gingrich's 1986 speech has now been posted online in its entirety. John Hood has more here.


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That's the only conclusion that anyone can come to reading the news that the White House and a three GOP Senators have reached an agreement on the treatment of detainees. The President is delighted:
I had a single test for the pending legislation, and that's this: Would the CIA operators tell me whether they could go forward with the program, that is a program to question detainees to be able to get information to protect the American people. I'm pleased to say that this agreement preserves the most single -- most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks, and that is the CIA program to question the world's most dangerous terrorists and to get their secrets.
Just laying on the BS, isn't he? You'd almost believe that it used to be illegal to question detainees. What he really means is that the CIA will be allowed to torture suspects.
Glenn Greenwald writes at Salon:
Despite all the legalistic obscurities surrounding the torture "compromise" between President Bush and Republican senators there is one critical fact of overarching significance that is now crystal clear. This entire controversy arose because the U.S. has been using "interrogation techniques" -- such as induced hypothermia, "long standing," threats directed at detainees' families and waterboarding -- that are widely considered to be torture, and therefore in violation of the Geneva Conventions. The only thing the president wanted was to ensure that the CIA could continue to use these techniques, and that, unquestionably, is precisely the outcome of this "compromise."
If anything, these torture techniques will enjoy greater legal protection under the "compromise" legislation reached by the leaders of America's ruling party because a) authorization of these interrogation techniques will now be grounded in a statutory scheme duly enacted by Congress (rather than in the shadowy, secretive "interpretations" of the Geneva Conventions promulgated by the executive branch) and b) judicial review of any type (i.e., the ability to have courts adjudicate the compatibility of these practices with the mandates of the Conventions) will be barred entirely.
I'm not so sure of the constitutionality of point b -- barring oversight from the judicial branch -- but when has the Bush administration and the republicans ever worried about that? I've said it before; the Constitution was written with a pre-9/11 mindset. So screw it.
And why do I say McCain has no principles? First, he flat out lied about what the deal means. "We got what we wanted, and that is the preservation of the Geneva Conventions," McCain told NBC's Today Show, "There will be no more torture. There will be no more mistreatment of prisoners that would violate standards of conduct we would expect of people who work for the United States of America."
Second, McCain was held at the infamous Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam war and was tortured himself. Having experienced torture firsthand, he still thinks that this is something americans should do. Lying and saying they won't torture doesn't change a damned thing.
And make no mistake, americans will be doing this. Worse, since the US is a democracy (although that distinction is becoming mostly nominal), we are all responsible for what our government does and, when the government commits crimes, we are all guilty.
Wednesday, I wrote that those who support torture are cowards. It was one of the most popular posts I've ever written and I didn't get a lot of people disagreeing with me. The vast majority of emails and comments have been positive.
It turns out that the citizenry is way out in front of their 'leadership' on this issue. In another Salon article, Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday:
If you ask Americans whether the use of torture is ever justifiable, a clear majority will say that it is not. In the newly released New York Times/CBS poll (PDF), for instance, 56 percent said torture is never justifiable, even "to get information from a suspected terrorist" (question No. 54). Even more striking, 63 percent say that "when it comes to the treatment of prisoners of war," the U.S. "should follow the international agreements that it and other countries have agreed to," rather than "do what it thinks is right, even if other countries disagree" (question No. 67).
56% is way too low for me, but I'll take a majority. Clearly, We the People don't want this. That same People the Constitution -- the document from which all our law comes -- speaks for.
I'll say it again, you cannot give up freedom to protect it. You can't trust people like Sen. John McCain, who looked into an NBC camera this morning and lied directly to America, to give those rights back when it's 'safe' for you to have them again. Despite what we're told, we are not facing the greatest threat to the US we've ever faced.
That would've been the Soviet Union. The USSR had enough nukes to destroy us and the rest of the world. What rights did we give up in support of the cold war? What freedoms was it necessary for us to forfeit in order to keep russian agents from stealing them?
Not that it wasn't tried. And then, as now, the greatest threat to our freedom wasn't from outside forces, but from within. And then, as now, that threat came from the fearmongering right. Sen. Joe McCarthy, a grasping, soulless opportunist and Wisconsin's shame, threatened to dismantle the first amendment and drag the country down in a witch hunt.
It wasn't the government that finally brought McCarthy down -- it was the people and the press. You can only frighten people for so long.
This isn't a done deal, people. Most people oppose this. Write letters to the editor, write and call your Senators and Representatives. And not just those you think may be for this or on the fence. Anti-torture elected officials need to be able to prove that the people are behind them. They need to be able to say, "Look, I've got a stack of letters the size of my garage back at the office and my phone won't stop ringing."
And, even if it goes through, it's not done. There's no law government can write that can't be undone.
It's your country, not theirs. Don't let them make you a criminal.
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It's easy to see why Simon Cowell was eager to add Britney Spears to his panel of X Factor judges.
The "Toxic" singer, 30, officially announced her participation in the show during the FOX Upfront event in New York City Monday. Spears slipped into a nude Stop Staring mini-dress (by designer Alicia Estrada) and Giuseppe Zanotti shoes to join Cowell, 52, L.A. Reid, 55, and new judge Demi Lovato, 19, on stage.
"I am so excited about this whole experience. It's going to be so much fun and so different from anything I've ever done," Spears told the crowd. "I'm ready to find the true star."
Spears — engaged to Jason Trawick, 40, since December — changed into another sexy number backstage, opting for a purple Alexander Wang mini-dress. "I couldn't be more excited to join The X Factor judging panel. I'm a huge fan of the show and now I get to be a part of the action," she told Us Weekly in a statement Monday. "Simon and L.A. better watch out!"
Also on display: Spears' 3-carat Neil Lane engagement ring, worth an estimated $90,000!
Lovato, who recently dyed her hair blonde, turned heads in a colorful design by Falguni & Shane Peacock. "I am totally stoked to be here," she exclaimed. "I'm excited to represent my generation."
Spears and Lovato have replaced former judges Paula Abdul, 49, and Nicole Scherzinger, 33, who were fired from The X Factor in January. Ex-host Steve Jones' replacement has yet to be announced.
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New York — Lincolnshire Management Inc., a New York-based private equity firm, has purchased The Alaska Club's 17 fitness centers in Alaska.
Andrew Eker, former president and co-founder of The Alaska Club, is retiring and will be on the board after the sale, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Robert Brewster, The Alaska Club's vice president, has been promoted to president.
"The original investors probably never anticipated the company would last as long as it did," Brewster told the newspaper. "After 20 years, it was time for the investors to extract their money."
Ares Capital Corp. helped arrange $72 million in loans for Lincolnshire's investment in the club, according to Ares Capital, but Brewster told the newspaper the $72 million was not the asking price.
"When my partner, Tom Behan, and I were looking for a new investment partner for The Alaska Club, we searched for investors who had an appreciation for what we had developed and shared our vision for continuing in the same direction," Eker said in a Lincolnshire Management statement. "Lincolnshire Management impressed us with their commitment to our shared vision for the future of the clubs."
Lincolnshire Management has completed more than 55 private equity investments, including sports equipment companies Prince Sports and Riddell Sports. Lincolnshire recently sold Prince Sports to Nautic Partners LLC. The Alaska Club purchase marks Lincolnshire's first venture into the health club market.
"We are excited to have the current management of The Alaska Club as our partners moving forward," Kate Lehman, a principal at Lincolnshire, said in the company's statement. "Their expertise and passion for the fitness industry combined with the resources of Lincolnshire Management will deliver exceptional value to the Alaska community."


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Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP): The Environmental Quality Incentives Program is USDA's largest conservation program for working lands. EQIP is a voluntary conservation program that provides technical assistance and payments to help crop and livestock producers address environmental concerns through conservation improvements.
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USDA is seeking public comment on EQIP through March 16.
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"That's what she said" could be heard resounding loudly throughout Boulder on Friday afternoon.
Michael Scott, the boss on the NBC show "The Office," has officially left Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pa., and moved to Boulder.
On Thursday night, Scott drove to the airport to get on a flight, headed presumably to Denver International Airport. Once in Boulder, he planned to meet up with fiancée Holly Flax, who moved to take care of her ailing parents.
Scott, who throws around the catchphrase of "that's what she said" after just about any statement, is played by Steve Carell.
He revealed on the show Thursday that he will be moving to Boulder with Flax, played by Amy Ryan. As he leaves his position at the company, Deangelo Vickers, played by Will Ferrell, will take over his job temporarily.
In past episodes, Scott mentioned moving to Colorado, but did not specify which city.
Now, he's joining an esteemed group of fictitious characters in Boulder, including Mork, an alien played by Robin Williams, who came to Boulder from the planet Ork in the early 1980s sitcom "Mork and Mindy."
"We certainly welcome (Scott) to Boulder," said Boulder Mayor Susan Osborne. "I will try to see if we can find a key to the city for him."
Osborne, perhaps with her tongue near her cheek, said a welcoming parade or ceremony is likely as soon as Scott gets settled into his new home. On Thursday, Scott had a minor panic attack in his office and said, "I can't do this, all the channels are going to be different there."
He called his fiancée to tell her he couldn't move to Colorado. He asked her "What is the name of our town?" to which she answered, "Boulder."
On April 1, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that Scott would serve as the new director of paper distribution for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
"Scott's success in selling paper will help Colorado effectively and efficiently move the large amount of bark beetle lumber from the forest and into the marketplace, creating tons of jobs and making lots of money," Hickenlooper said in a news release. "This is a unique opportunity to resolve Colorado's forest health and budget issues."
The job with the state has since fallen through for reasons that were unknown. Though he says he has interviews lined up, Scott did not have a job as of late Thursday.
Kim Farin, spokeswoman for the Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Boulder welcomes Scott, and that she was sure he would have no trouble finding work.
"There's a lot of opportunity for an experienced paper salesman here," she said.
Scott successfully started the Michael Scott Paper Co. in 2009. Because of Scott's experience as a small business owner, Liz Hanson, coordinator of the Boulder Economic Vitality program, said she believed Scott can succeed by starting his own business in Boulder if he can't find a job.
"There are probably many opportunities in one of Boulder's high-tech manufacturing businesses to bring on a go-getter like Michael Scott," Hanson said. "Boulder has such an amazing reputation as a place to start and run a business, that if someone like Michael Scott can make it in Boulder, he can make it anywhere."
When asked why they thought Scott would choose to move to Boulder with his fiancée, city leaders were convinced it was because of Boulder's well-known, positive reputation.
"It's because we're the happiest city in the United States," said Clif Harald, director of the Boulder Economic Council. "Michael Scott could use a dose of happiness."
Some officials, however, were less than thrilled that Scott would be walking the streets of Boulder. Police will be keeping a close eye on him.
"We've seen how Michael Scott treats his co-workers, and we can only hope that he has more respect for the law than he does for the people in his office," said Boulder police department spokeswoman Kim Kobel.
"We won't tolerate that kind of bad behavior here in Boulder. You don't happen to know what kind of a car he drives, do you?"
Michael Scott -- not the rude boss, but a real 58-year-old retired Boulder school teacher -- said he already gets remembered at the post office because of his name.
"Some of my friends say I act like him, but I don't see it," Scott said.
And what does Scott think about having to share the spotlight with a more famous version of Michael Scott?
"It will only get worse."
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Police: 14-year-old girl shot her father in face
James Allen Ponder, 71, of Ohio died Thursday, authorities say
James Allen Ponder, 71, of Ohio died Thursday, authorities say
A 14-year-old girl has been charged in connection with her father's shooting death in Ohio.
Officials said the 14-year-old shot her father in the face. He was flown to an area hospital, where he died.
The shooting was reported at 6:50 a.m. Thursday on Millville Avenue, which neighbors and police said was a quiet neighborhood.
The teen faces an aggravated murder charge. Hamilton police have identified the victim as James Allen Ponder, 71.
The teen is being held at the Butler County Juvenile Detention Center.
"This is a very quiet neighborhood," Sgt. Brian Robinson said. "Quite honestly, with this family, it is not something that would be expected."


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Coach Dennis Allen acknowledged Saturday the Raiders had better get used to the way games will be officiated this season but saw enough good things in a 10-6 road loss to the Minnesota Vikings to be encouraged.
"The penalties were the biggest thing we had to deal with, and a couple of those things at this year's points of emphasis with defensive holding or illegal contact downfield,'' Allen said in a conference call with local reporters.
A facemask penalty on Brian Leonhardt also fell into that category, Allen said.
"I don't know that in the past you would see some of these things called, but with the rules and points of emphasis, we're going to see those things,'' Allen said. "It was good for us to get out, play a game and see how officials are going to call those things.''
The Raiders finished with 13 penalties for 94 yards, including five pre-snap penalties. The offenders were Menelik Watson (false start), Pat Sims (neutral zone infraction), Tony Bergstrom (two false starts) and Erle Ladson (false start).
Allen said positives from the loss included the running game and the pass rush.
Darren McFadden ran 23 yards on his only carry, Maurice Jones-Drew had two carries for 10 yards (not including a 7-yard run called back by penalty) and Latavius Murray had seven carries for 28 yards.
"I think we're going to have an effective run game,'' Allen said. "You saw some good things up front with guys being able to move people off the ball.''
Defensively, the Raiders sacked starting quarterback Matt Cassel once, backup Teddy Bridgewater twice and third-string quarterback Christian Ponder three times.
Allen said he was "not displeased'' with the performance of starting quarterback Matt Schaub, noting three potential first down passes that were dropped. Schaub was 3 of 7 for 21 yards.
"We obviously need to play better and be more consistent, but there were things to build on,'' Allen said.
Allen said getting rookie quarterback Derek Carr work with the first team was "not part of the plan right now.''
Rookie starting strong side linebacker Khalil Mack, Allen said, was able to cause "disruption'' on a couple of pass rushes but overall " I think you saw a guy playing in his first NFL game.''
Rookies who flashed at Allen with solid play included defensive end Shelby Harris and cornerback T.J. Carrie. Both are seventh-round picks who look as if they will not only make the 53-man roster but potentially make a contribution sooner rather than later.
— Other than defensive tackle Justin Ellis (concussion), the only other player to come out of the game injured was safety Jansen Watson with a toe injury of undetermined severity.
— The Raiders took Saturday of and return to practice Sunday at 3 p.m. They break training camp with a Monday morning practice then travel to Oxnard to practice against the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday (4 p.m.) and Wednesday (9 a.m.)


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New Headaches?August 23, 2006
Over on the IE Blog today, Markus Mielke summarizes the CSS changes made for Internet Explorer 7. We've known about most of these for a while now, but there were a couple of surprises to me - 1px dotted borders at last, as an example.
What I'm experiencing in testing these days is much along the lines of what I've been hoping; namely that after I finish creating my page in a Gecko-based browser, loading it in IE7 for the first time isn't a horrible mess. It's actually quite close to being perfect in many instances. IE6 is another matter entirely, which is no great surprise.
But I'm curious. Despite these upgrades, surely there must be some things that don't quite work properly. What strange new behaviour do we have to look out for in IE7? Are there things that work as expected in IE6 that don't in IE7? With all these steps forward, how many have been made back?
I've uncovered one so far, anyway. Using the
overflow: auto easy clearing method, IE7 can act a little strangely. Compare this test page in IE7, and then in IE6 and any other browser. Only IE7 gets it wrong. (The code may seem a touch redundant, but I assure you this came about in a real world scenario).
Any others you're aware of? It'll be interesting to see what else falls out of the tree once we start seriously shaking it.
The only one I've run into so far was fixed in beta 3. The circumstances are pretty obscure, but again, this was a real-world scenario.
Under very specific circumstances, hovering over a link would cause floated elements on the page to disappear. But only if the link was displayed as a block, was in the last block element on the page, and was preceded by a block element that ended in something displayed as italics. And only if it had to redraw that element, such as scrolling back up, or switching back from another window. (Did I mention the circumstances were really obscure?) Full description and testcase at http://tinyurl.com/qnmcx
I've been doing a lot of cross browser testing with the latest IE7, IE6, and Firefox; I can't think of many specific patter of problems I've noticed, but there have been a ton of quirks.
It's weird… IE7 sometimes acts more like Firefox than IE6, but talking about clearing floats, you don't need to clear floats on IE7 at all. It acts exactly like IE6 in my experience. Of course, that means you're still screwed if you try to get away with overflow:auto in a situation like you outlined above, for the sake of Firefox clearing.
It's been a couple of months since I last tested, but there are still whitespace issues whereby if you have whitespace in an HTML list, you'll get extra vertical space in that list. Awful.
Additionally, if you ever use a clearing div and give it any height whatsoever (even 1px), it can bork your entire layout. You can't even override this bug by overwriting the value with "auto". Once any height is assigned, it's borked.
In IE7, if a floated element has an ancestor with a non-auto height, elements that don't share that ancestor can't clear the float. The float goes right over the clear element. I ran into this issue in an early IE7 beta and they still haven't fixed it in beta 3, so it looks like IE7 will ship with this regression.
I can vouch for Mike's claim that the "extra whitespace for block elements in a list" bug still exists in Beta 3. Despite the fact that "List-item whitespace bug fixed" is on the list of fixes.
Styling of hr's still seems a bit difficult, but I haven't tested that one too extensively.
I think we also have to be careful in that I suspect some of these issues may be resolved in a yet-unreleased version of IE. Let's retest again when the the RC comes out.
So far for me it's been pretty good. I did have problems with the "Holy Grail" layout featured on A List Apart, ( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail/ ). It used to float the left column over top of the main content column. However this appears to have been fixed in Beta 3. That was my only major problem so far. Also, I love the smooth text.
It's another step in the right direction. Previous versions of the beta were really crappy but this one seems to do a bit better.
I still have some issues with the floats, they stretch the parent element when the parent doesn't have a height and the float does. This isn't suppose to happen but it's actually quite convenient from time to time…
If I were MS I'd test it a little more before releasing it into the public. Noone likes servicepacks and updates. I know I don't/
Jonathan - while I agree with you in theory, the IE team has repeatedly stated that we need to be testing our sites in current versions of IE7 now. So, while things still may change a bit, I'm okay with starting to think about how to deal with problems now.
Hard to explain but I ran into an issue where if I specified a fixed height for a container div in order to display a background image, the footer div would wrap immediately under that containing div rather than at the bottom of the page. Works fine in all other browsers (incl. IE6) and because of time constraints, I ended up having to hide the height value from IE 7 with a hack.
""extra whitespace for block elements in a list" bug still exists in Beta 3. Despite the fact that "List-item whitespace bug fixed" is on the list of fixes.
Styling of hr's still seems a bit difficult, but I haven't tested that one too extensively."
Mike, Wilson. I'm not certain but if it's the issue I think it is. Try giving the block elements, links or whatever they are. A width, min-width or max-width.
I've also came across a few things that, display: inline-block, fixed. Can't think of a specific example right now.
When I read the IE Blog's post, my main concern was if the "strict mode" he referred was the same as "standards-compliant mode", or another doctype switch just for strict doctypes?
I can answer that only after installing and testing (which I didn't –yet).
Maybe my hopes for IE7 were a bit unrealistic - but I am frusterated that IE7 will break sites that previously worked in IE6.
While IE7 will have improvements over IE6, since it is not a critical update and sites that work in IE6 don't work in IE7 - it simply is giving us one more browser to write conditional css for.
I Beleive that we should all slow down and look at how much time we have to make the compatability work. Everyone who has ie6 won't switch to ie 7 right away expescailly becuase thoughs kinda automatic updates aren't checked off and you manually have to down load it and most high tech users use fire fox. I beleive we have till vista come out and at least a year after that to see ie 7 get big but fire fox will still be taking small percents of the market away.
So a couple months to fix everthing is plenty of time to fix or even redesign to meets standards.
I think it really has to do with how much IE7 breaks a site though -
Many people are already browsing with IE7 betas?
Do you make an effort to test in Opera? IE7 will probably have about as much usage rate, and it will continue to grow.
I really see IE7 needing to be coded for fairly quickly, simply because lots of people will download it because they hear about it or see it on windowsupdates.com
I found that calling for a stylesheet using @import will disable the pseudo element a:hover. You'll hover over your links and nothing will happen. This problem doesn't manifest itself on linked style sheets, only imported one.
The work-around is quite simple: Just add a:hover {} with empty curly-braces to the @import.
<style type="text/css">
@import "your.css"; a:hover { }
Umm… IE7 *is* going to be an automatic update for people using XP SP2 (and "high priority," too!): http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/26/678149.aspx
Unless it gets delayed, IE7 is going to be a significant issue by the end of this year. Maybe not the majority, but probably more than Opera (which you should also be testing with), and I wouldn't be surprised to see it at 10% within a couple of months.
I should've checked this before posting… It turns out that my site already gets more hits from IE7 beta users (1.3%) than all versions of Opera (1.2%). (That's for August so far. And there are way too many hits for my own tests to account for them.)
Even assuming some of the hits are spoofed, that's kind of scary.
My worry for IE7 is that they haven't gone far enough. With Firefox releasing updates and new versions a lot more frequently than Microsoft, surely Firefox is going to move ahead in terms of CSS support in the future and again leave IE behind. We may all be writing and commenting on IE8's CSS support needing to catch up with the latest Firefox / Safari / Opera versions in 3/4/5 years time.
Unless I'm behind on the news and Microsoft have announced they'll be updating IE more often?
Is there a way to run IE7 alongside IE6 so we can test on both browser versions, without needing two machines?
I've really not been testing as much as I should do as I don't use IE at all but I need to start.
As Kelson says, I'm already getting quite high IE7 beta hits, more than browsers like Opera and Safari and more than IE5.5.
One final point….did you all submit your bugs to MS? It's the only way they'll actually get fixed :)
for Renato, comment #12
IE7's strict mode equates to standards compilant mode.
David McDonald: There seem to exist two or three ways to run IE6 and IE7 on one machine but the solutions are rather messy in my opinion. I'd use VMWare or something similar for testing.
Stand alone beta 3 - http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
Not so much a CSS issue, as someone at Microsoft being an idiot.
Any dropdown select box gets pop-up blocked. Always. This is really annoying, and there is *no* way to fix this, as far as I can find.
Paul (comment 24) - I've been using Jon Galloway's IE7 beta 2 standalone and - thanks to your link here - I found he released a standalone version of beta 3. His approach to acheiving standalone-mode is slightly different from Yousif's (TredoSoft) and he explains that while Yousif's package worked well for him, his method is more open and customizable due to his usage of DOS batch files and REG files:
Bob Easton says in comment #22
> IE7's strict mode equates to standards
> compilant mode.
Why **ck has Microsoft now suddenly decided to change the name for one of the rendering modes in IE7? This will only confuse a lot of people!
In the document (from the MSDN Library) Mielke refers to when explaining how to enter this so called "strict mode" there is no reference to such a mode at all only "standard compliance mode".
This stuff is confusing enough as it is….
Ah you found the Beta 3 stand alone just in time for Microsoft to release RC1 Dave. Complete with "completed CSS platform changes" apparently. Though I can't find details on what those are.
Hopefully Jon and/or Yousif will come to our rescue again.
I just wanted to re-iterate what Paul said about IE7RC1 now being available:
Dave: you'll notice that they mention some additional CSS items have been resolved. To clarify my point from earlier, I wasn't advising against testing with the beta versions but rather indicating that effort spent trying to create workarounds to those issues may have gone in vain as they may be solved in this RC1 release. I believe this is now the point at which we can consider the CSS final (although, even then, some issues may be fixed before absolute final) and that we can look to establish possible workarounds for any outstanding issues.
RC1 still has a problem with dotted borders. If you give an element a 1px dotted border, then set one side to 2px (or greater) solid, the dotted borders turn to dashes.
RC1 has problems with
it shows the button (very odd shaped) in stead of the two images
I'm with Mike D. (comment nr.3) on this one. This bug is so old and so common, that I'm really surprise this bug isn't fixed. I'm wondering if they are deaf or if there is something fundamentally wrong with their rendering engine that they can't fix it. My blog suffers from it and at least 50% of the lists I build have this issue. It's like the most frequent annoying bug. In a lot of sites I've built this bug is the only one I needed to fix.
How many of these reported bugs are solved?
To fix the whitespace bug in IE with ul/ol/dl lists
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strict mode or not, IE7 will be my choice only to design for users.i won't use myself otherwise.
Just an update to Paul's post (no. 24)…
Tredosoft is now offering standalone IE7 RC1.
Slighltly off to the side of CSS but… the (X)HTML Q tag… so handy for styling inline quotes, but with support still missing on IE7, apparently, does anyone know if this is going to appear soon?
I came across an obscure issue that caused a floated footer to float over the wrapper div that was above it.
This was the original css for the wrapper:
// height: expression('600px');
margin-left: 12px;
margin-right: 12px;
min-height: 600px;
padding: 0px;
border-top: 1px solid red;
Removing the ie-specific conditional expression from the CSS fixed the problem.
i.e. (pun intended) i removed this line:
// height: expression('600px');


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Mostly I agree with Mark, he mentions a number of issues about the use of 3D thematic maps that I've already written about:
- You can't see all the countries on a virtual globe at once - a traditional projection maps is better
- The prism for once polygon can obscure another
- Values of 3D polygons are difficult to read off
A partial defense of 3D thematic maps: Since I first commented on the use of 3D in thematic maps I've warmed a little to to the idea. If you are dealing with a country that is able to be viewed all at once (like the UK) you could represent values for counties as fixed width columns. This would reduce the occlusion problem and would also stop people mixing up volume/height of the prism with the variable being displayed: its clearly related to height. As for reading off exact values, you can set up polygons on the ground which pop up a balloon with the value when rolled over with the mouse. Also, you could color the columns to relate to a color key which would allow quick 'actual value' reading without needing mouse movement. Having done some background reading on vision recently I suspect that this sort of display may be more memorable to non-expert map readers especially if there is some sort of large outlier value (e.g. if the variable is 'number of millionaires' in each county in the UK then there would be far more millionaires in greater London county than anywhere else).
Test it!: However, the above is only a suggestion, overall I agree with Mark that we have a workable system for displaying thematic maps now (2D color) and I whole heartedly endorse his point:
"...most importantly, do some user testing before presenting a new technique as the best thing ever: It's how research works and why it is important."That being said. I do think that he's missed a point with the title of his post:
"Virtual Globes are a seriously bad idea for thematic mapping"and his last paragraph:
"So what things are Google Earth (and other Virtual Globes) good for? The consensus around here is (1) to engender, quite powerfully at times, a qualitative "sense of place" or "immersion"; (2) for virtual tourism (e.g., sit on top of Mt Everest) or virtual architecture/planning; and (3) to perform a kind of viewshed analysis and see what can and cannot be seen from locations (line-of-sight). All of those are inherently 3D-map reading tasks in which the immersive, 3D nature of the map is important. By comparison, population data (one number per country) is NOT inherently 3-dimensional and is only made to suffer when dressed-up in prism maps and 3D figurines."Thematic maps in Google Earth: I agree that representing population data on a country scale is not well represented in a virtual globe but I think that other traditional color based thematic maps can be usefully inserted into virtual globes for several reasons:
- For a small scale thematic map a virtual flight from altitude into the study area conveys information about scale, orientation, location and possibly altitude with the minimum of cognitive load.
- Draping a thematic map over topography can be a useful visualisation e.g. polygons showing erosion rate draped over a range of mountains, by eye you could then relate erosion to slope.
- Users can toggle layers on and off to see how geographical elements below relate to a thematic map and fly into areas of interest. E.g. Using a thematic map showing rock temperature at a depth of 10km the user identifies hot areas and then flies in to see how these areas relate to volcanoes in the region.


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Just as we were all feeling iPhone's users' wrath over Instagram's recent Android launch comes another announcement regarding the status of the young platform: it's been bought by Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock.
"I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook," Mark Zuckerberg writes. "For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests."
Instagram's enormous and unprecedented success has made it arguably the first and only mobile social platform. Up until last week, it was only available via iOS and is still a smartphone-only client, yet it's still managed to rake in millions upon millions of very dedicated subscribers. And the backlash from its original clientele, iPhone owners, over Android integration made it clear that it's risen above and beyond normal app status.
Zuckerberg mentions how odd of an acquisition this is for his company. "This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users," he says. "We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together."
The purchase does answer many of our lingering questions about Facebook photos. While it's become an incredibly popular photo-sharing platform, it's been a lacking one. Updates have been issued here and there to upgrade the service, but everyone's been wondering when exactly it would introduce even the subtlest of editing features. Now we know.
This move unarguably sweetens Facebook's IPO. In the wake of patent litigation, the company may have started looking a little risky to investors. But this shows Facebook isn't going to get to comfortable, and plans to make big, meaningful moves to innovate.
Editors' Recommendations
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Reality Farm Network (RFN.TV)
Reality Farm Network (RFN.TV) is a New Reality-Show Based Social Network that is currently in development. The purpose of Reality Farm Network is to aid in growing the next batch of reality stars by giving them the platform they need to be noticed and recognized. Our website allows the user to post their weekly reality-show based content to our Network and to compete with other users by and moving up our Colony leader board based on their positive show ratings.
The look and functionality of this website is based on a "Bee" colony (Hives, Worker/Drone Bees, Cells (Hexagons). The logo should reflect this theme.
The target audience for RFN will be two-fold. On one side, there would be the content creators, and on the other side would be the viewers. But overall, the target audience would be people that are interested in watching Reality-Based content. Since this is a market that is constantly growing, there will be many different target audiences, so it is best to go for a clean network look (ie Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, WikiLeaks).
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-(1)Logo with (2) versions of text (alt text; might be used on website or print media, need both version of name as options) "Reality Farm Network" and "RFN.TV". Text should not be incorporated within the design/graphic part of the logo.
-the artwork must be delivered in a layered vector format.
-a logo that can also be used as a watermark
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I'm open to the use of hexagon(s), but please don't make them look like all of the other Hex logos out there. Logo should look like they would be fitting for a Reality-Show Based Social Network. Think more of a "pharm", then a 'farm", I'm looking for a clean design.
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Ray Maldonado
Home: Los Angeles, California
Sponsors: FTC Sac, Girl, Fourstar, Royal, Nike, Autobahn wheels
Years skating: 7 or 8, something like that.
After a skate session I'm: Hungry for some T-Bell.
Show I can't miss: Always Sunny in Philadelphia, reruns of Scrubs, and Family Guy on adultswim.com.
Web site you visit everyday: TransWorld of course! Theskateboardmag.com, theberrics.com, and I'm a victim of the myspace.com epidemic.
Dream Sponsor outside of skating: BMW and gasoline. Non-stop skate missions.
Best Pro: So many amazing pros, but hands down Eric Koston, Mark Appleyard, and Stefan Janoski.
Favorite person to film with: My baby boo Jesus Grajeda and Chris Ray.
I spend too much money: On junk food and my cell phone bill!
Beverage of choice: Dr. Pepper makes the world taste better.
All time skate video: Modus Operandi, MJ and MC just amazing! The new fav of course Fully Flared.
Road trip must-have: Sacramento, then from Sac head up to Seattle, Washington. Arizona would be tight just because I've never skated out there.
What skateboarding means to you: Having fun with the homeys. Just to be out skateboarding and not thinking or worrying about anything else and just skate.
You ever see that guy skating and think to yourself, "This dude is so damn good, how is he not hooked up?" Ray Maldonado is that "Dude." I could be at fault for this—the day before he was supposed to fly out to Tampa Am, Ray and I were out filming at a three-block and I suggested he do a fakie tre down it. That fakie tre nearly broke his ankle and he didn't make it to Tampa. Ray sends me footage all the time and I always think the same thing to myself, "Yeah, I'll check out the couple cool clips he has," but Ray sends me a new full part all the time! Hey Ray, Tampa Am is coming up again and if you feel like rolling up to session a three—block, I'll be here waiting for you.—Chris Ray


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SIOUX FALLS - A national farm policy expert will be one of three speakers during an agricultural seminar next week in Sioux Falls.
Jim Wiesemeyer of Informa Economics in Washington will open the GrowingOn 2013 conference at 9 a.m. at the Sioux Falls Convention Center on Tuesday.
His presentation will be followed by Tim Hoffmann of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency and Jeff Hamlin of The Climate Corporation.
The GrowingOn 2013 event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The South Dakota Corn Growers Association and the Risk Management Agency are sponsoring the event. The event is free and open to the public.
To register, visit sdcorn.org or call 605-334-0100.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures on Thursday posted mild declines after weak European economic data and a day after minutes of the Federal Reserve's last meeting highlighted conflicted views over whether to continue extraordinary stimulus efforts.
"As markets continue to digest the [Fed] news, the evolving view is that the minutes might not be quite as hawkish as first perceived, but they are still hawkish enough to have global equity markets under significant pressure," Nick Bennenbroek, head of currency strategy at Wells Fargo Bank, wrote in an emailed note.
Stock futures retained modest losses after the Labor Department reported jobless claims last week rose by 20,000 to 362,000 and consumer prices held unchanged in January.
Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.01% rose 1.7% in premarket trading after the world's largest retailer topped fourth-quarter earnings forecasts but delivered subpar guidance for the current quarter.
S&P 500 Index futures US:SPH3 fell 1.3 point, or 0.1%, to 1,505.8, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJH3 lost 9 points, or less than 0.1%, to 13,880.
Nasdaq 100 futures US:NDH3 dropped 7.25 points, or 0.3%, to 2,730.25.
Concern over liquidity "following the U.S. Fed minutes looks like it may be the pin to burst the recent bubble in equities. We will see in the coming sessions if investors still have the appetite to buy on the dips but regardless, volatility will reign supreme," said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at Interactive Investor in London.
Wal-Mart said fourth-quarter earnings per share from continuing operations came in at $1.67 a share, topping the consensus Wall Street estimate of $1.57 a share. Sales rose 3.9% in the quarter and the company said it was boosting its annual fiscal dividend by 18%. See: Wal-Mart lifts dividend, misses guidance.
For the first fiscal quarter of 2014, however, Wal-Mart said it expects to produce earnings per share in a range between $1.11 and $1.16, below the consensus forecast of $1.18 produced by a FactSet survey of analysts.
U.S. stocks staged a sharp retreat from multiyear highs Wednesday after the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's January meeting showed several Fed officials feared the costs and risks arising from the bank's $85 billion-per-month asset-buying program. See: Fed, uneasy over 'QE,' plans bond-buy debate and U.S. stocks slump after Fed minutes.
Stock futures extended weakness Thursday after preliminary euro-zone purchasing-managers' index readings indicated the region's economic downturn steepened in February, pointing the way for another quarter of shrinking output. See: Euro-zone Feb. PMI signals steeper downturn.
European stocks saw heavy losses, extending a decline after the data. See: Europe stocks fall on FOMC minutes, PMIs.
The dollar strengthened, while the euro EURUSD, +0.1168% slumped to a six-week low. Read: Euro slumps below $1.32 after weak PMI data
Asian stocks also tumbled Thursday, feeling the downdraft as the Fed minutes underlined worries that policy tightening could reduce global liquidity. See: China stocks lead Asia slump after Fed minutes.
"Global stocks have hit multiyear highs in recent sessions so perhaps it's about time for a reality check on the current situation. On the retail side, we expect to see investors bank some profits where they can and revisit the defensives," McCudden said.
Three separate, potentially market-moving indicators are on tap for 10 a.m.: January existing-home sales, the Philadelphia Fed's latest regional manufacturing index and the Conference Board's January index of leading economic indicators. For more details, see: What to watch on the U.S. economy on Thursday.
Two regional Fed presidents will be speaking Thursday, both making appearances in New York City at separate events. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard — who has been advocating a tapering of bond purchases if the economy improves — speaks at 12:30 p.m., and San Francisco Fed President John Williams will speak at 1 p.m.
Senior executives from Boeing Co. BA, +1.95% are scheduled Friday to meet with top officials from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to discuss a plan to get the grounded Dreamliner aircraft back into service, The Wall Street Journal reported. Officials will present solutions aimed at reducing fire hazards posed by the jetliner's batteries, the report said. Read: Boeing to present formal plan to fix 787s: WSJ
Shares of VeriFone Systems Inc. US:PAY were down in premarket action. The company late Wednesday warned about its quarterly results. See: Verifone shares mauled, Tesla drops after hours.
Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -4.26% declined after the car maker late Wednesday reported a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter adjusted loss.
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Electronic Journal of Differential Equations: Conference 18, 2010.
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Variational and Topological Methods: Theory, Applications, Numerical Simulations, and Open Problems . Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. May 23-27, 2007.
This conference was a continuation of a very successful conference Variational Methods: Open Problems, Recent Progress, and Numerical Algorithms that was organized by J.M. Neuberger in Flagstaff in June 2002, where open questions and numerical algorithms for variational methods were the dominant theme. The 2007 conference had a different focus and expanded agenda.
The organizing committee consisted of the following members: John M. Neuberger (conference chairman; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, USA), Maya Chhetri (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro NC, USA), Petr Girg (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) and Nandor Sieben (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, USA).
The scientific committee consisted of the following members: Alfonso Castro (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA, USA), Goong Chen (Texas A&M University, College Station TX, USA), Pavel Drabek (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic), Tim Kelley (North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, USA), and Ratnasingham Shivaji (Mississippi State University, Mississippi State MS, USA).
The workshop was aimed at researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students working in various areas of Nonlinear Analysis, Differential Equations, and their applications. Five leading experts in their respective fields Djairo de Figueiredo (Brazil), Jean Mawhin (Belgium), James Serrin (USA), Peter Takac (Germany), Jianxin Zhou (USA) each gave two one-hour keynote presentations. There were 28 contributed 30-minute talks, a workshop on numerical methods, and plenty of time allotted for small group discussions. There were 17 student participants in this conference, some of them presenting their results for the first time. There were 43 registered participants affiliated to universities from 11 countries around the world and across the United States: Belgium (4), Brazil (1), Canada (1), Czech Republic (5), Germany (2), Greece (1), Italy (3), Mexico (2), Portugal (3), Spain (1), USA (21).
The papers in this conference proceedings comprise only of a small subset of these talks. This volume contains seven mathematical papers; one article authored by a keynote speaker, and six articles authored and/or co-authored by 13 of the 28 contributed speakers, four of them co-authored by a student. As the title of our conference suggests, most of the material concerns variational and/or topological methods as applied to nonlinear elliptic PDE. There was a focus on open problems; hence papers with conjectures were encouraged. Survey papers were also solicited, as were works featuring applications. This conference successfully brought together those doing cutting-edge nonlinear functional analysis with researchers more computationally oriented; hence some of the papers in this volume feature numerical investigations. It was our intent to survey what is known in the general sub ject area, list the important open questions, and suggest analytical and numerical techniques that might be beneficial to those seeking to make progress towards solving those open problems. We hope that the reader will find this volume an excellent starting point for considering new problems and relevant techniques in nonlinear elliptic and related PDE.
Editor's reviews of main articles
The first article by keynote speaker Peter Takac is an overview of the results and methods for quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems of the second order. This excellent survey paper is intended as a tutorial for students and introduction to this field for the non expert and provides an extensive bibliography referencing much of the relevant literature. The paper treats both variational and/or topological methods and also contains nice results that can be obtained by a combination of both. Thus it is not strictly divided into variational and topological part. The variational thread of explanation covers some elementary methods such as Rayleigh method, but its core lies in special convexity methods and the method of quadratization of the functional both developed by the author. The topological methods are covered by lower and upper solution method, bifurcation from infinity and some calculation of the topological degree. The paper also contains nice introduction with useful inequalities that are scattered across vast literature. Due to its extent of 40 pages, it can be considered as a monograph.
The paper by Jiri Benedikt and Petr Girg treats Prufer transformation which is a useful tool for the study of second-order ordinary differential equations by means of topological methods. The authors focus on an extension of this transformation that is suitable for study of boundary value problems for the p-Laplacian in the resonant case. Though this method is widely known, their properties are difficult to find in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to establish its basic properties in deep detail. This paper is intended as possible reference where the most useful properties of this transformation can be found together with their proofs.
The paper by Marco Ghimenti and Anna Maria Micheletti study a semilinear elliptic problem with a subcritical power nonlinearity, the underlying spatial domain being a sym- metric, smooth connected compact Riemannian manifold of a dimension greater than one embedded in an Euclidean space. The main result gives lower estimate on the number of solutions (u, -u) which change sign exactly once. A lower bound on the number of such pairs is expressed in terms of equivariant Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category.
The next paper by Christopher Grumiau and Christophe Troestler is also a research article, which is focused on subcritical superlinear Lane-Emden problem on a ball or an annulus. In particular, it is shown that, for p close to 2, least energy nodal solutions are odd with respect to an hyperplane which is their nodal surface. It was previously known that least energy nodal solutions cannot be radial. On the other hand, it was also known that they have at least some residual symmetry, namely that they possess the Schwarz foliated symmetry. Unfortunately, such sym- metry does not guarantee that the zero set of the solution is an hyperplane passing through the origin as is widely believed. It is shown in this paper that this is true for p close to 2.
In the paper by Gabriela Holubova and Petr Neesal, the authors study the structure c of the Fucik spectra for the linear multi-point differential operators. They introduce a variational approach in order to obtain a robust and global algorithm which is suitable for the exploration of unknown Fucik spectrum structure. Their method is applied to the four-point selfadjoint differential operator of the fourth order which is closely connected to the nonlinear model of a suspension bridge with two towers. Finally, they numerically reconstruct the Fucik spectra in the case of four-point non-selfadjoint ordinary differential operators of the second order. The resulting pictures demonstrate their non-trivial and interesting structure. Since the boundary value problems treated in this paper are closely related to practical applications (suspended bridges), the presented numerical results rise many important open questions and motivate further analytical research in this direction.
In the paper by David Medina and Pablo Padilla, the authors present a geometric framework to study invariant sets of dynamical systems associated with differential equations. This frame-work is based on extremizing properties of invariant sets for an area functional. This approach yields existence results for heteroclinic and periodic orbits. The authors also implement this approach numerically by means of the steepest descent method.
Finally, the paper by Nikolas S. Papageorgiou and Eugenio M. Rocha treats a nonlinear e Neumann boundary-value problem driven by the p-Laplacian with a nonsmooth potential (hemivariational inequality). Using variational techniques based on the smooth critical point theory and the second deformation theorem, the authors establish existence and a multiplicity results (not necessarily assuming the coercivity of the Euler functional).
List of keynote lectures and talks
Keynote speakers:
This conference would not have been possible without support from NSF DMS Grant No. DMS 0653868 (Variational and Topological Methods: Theory, Applications, Numerical Simulations, and Open Problems; Northern Arizona University). The organizers would also like to thank Northern Arizona University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Provost for their generous contributions and to Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, for its partial financial support of the event from the Research Plan MSM 4977751301.
We would like to thank the Electronic Journal of Differential Equations for the opportunity to publish and disseminate this proceedings electronically worldwide free of charge.
Finaly, we would like to thank the principal speakers and participants for their valuable contributions to the success of the conference and publication of the proceedings.
Special Issue Editors:
| Maya Chhetri (Associate Editor)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402, USA.
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Petr Girg (Main Editor)
Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia
Plzen, CZ-30614, Czech Republic
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| John M. Neuberger (Associate Editor)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
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