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So it was no surprise when I ran into a rather nice fellow commuter and noticed his brakes (or rather ran into him because of his brakes), which he was gracious enough to let me photograph.
|Now that's interesting.
Apparently they did other parts too.
|I didn't get a great look at the stem, but he said it was also a Cunningham/Suntour design.
I don't know if these really are rare, or if this is a well known fact, but I certainly knew nothing about it. I love that I can learn something about bikes just about every day.


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When Lindsey Vonn made fun of Tiger Woods' sex addiction
When Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn officially announced their relationship on Monday, our first thought was of an incident from three years before, when the Olympic star was caught making jokes at Woods' expense while he was on the first leg of his apology tour.
In comments recorded by Sean Gregory of Time on the day Tiger held his first public mea culpa for his 2009 sex scandal, Vonn poked fun at her current boyfriend's sex addiction and joked about how she wanted to parody him on Saturday Night Live.
The jokes made headlines, both because of their content and their timing. Vonn was in the middle of her star turn at the 2010 Olympics when Tiger made his apology.
From Time.com on Feb. 19, 2010:
And like millions of Americans, Vonn can't help poking fun at Woods' staged event. When a member of her Vonn-tourage tells her that Woods gave a few friends hugs after ending his statement, she cracks, "They're like, 'Yeah, you're awesome, you go have that sex.' " The room breaks into a laugh. Then she describes a skit she would want to perform if asked to host Saturday Night Live: picture Vonn at Woods' podium, blue backdrop and all. "There's something you don't know about me," Vonn says in a faux solemn, apologetic voice. "Tiger, you're like my idol, and I too have a sex problem." More laughter. "That would be freaking funny."
With comedic chops like that, it should come as little surprise that Vonn never got that SNL invite.
Later in the piece, Gregory asks Vonn how she'll deal with the media microscope in a post-Tiger world.
"Well, I'm married, so I don't have that problem," she replied. "But, um, I guess [Woods] is married, too."
Both sporting stars began divorce proceedings within the next two years.
The comments were harmless then and are harmless now. They drew attention because Vonn was at the height of her popularity and because most athletes stayed away from publicly commenting on Tiger's troubles.
It's clearly not a big deal now. If Tiger held grudges against everyone who made a joke at his expense during that rocky period in his life, he wouldn't be able to date anyone.


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We feel compelled to respond to Councilwoman Mari Rodin"s comments at the March 6 meeting of the Ukiah City Council regarding "superficial" news media reports. Rodin claims that a comment — made by Councilman Benj Thomas at the council"s Jan. 29 Strategic Planning session — that the city might need a "pastor/ombudsman/ethicist" on staff was reported out of context.
At the publicly televised meeting Ms. Rodin said: "I"m pretty sure that Mr. Thomas doesn"t want the city to hire a priest, the idea was presented out of context. When the news media takes our comments out of context, it makes our job not only not rewarding and not fun … it is just not helpful for the newspaper to cover our in-depth conversations in a superficial way."
Though Ms. Rodin never mentioned the Ukiah Daily Journal or our reporter Justine Frederiksen by name, we"re pretty sure she was referring to the two Daily Journal stories that mentioned Thomas" suggestion, which we point out, was made at the non-televised goal-setting meeting.
Since Ms. Rodin also admitted that she had not actually read the news media reports she was referring to, might we begin by politely suggesting that in the future, before expressing an opinion on any newspaper coverage, she actually read said coverage beforehand?
In the Jan. 31 edition of the UDJ, our 27-inch article, which was hardly "superficial," mentioned Mr. Thomas" suggestion, along with the following context in the very next paragraph: "When asked what he meant by that, Thomas said job satisfaction was very important, and he didn"t want city operations to be a struggle between values and the bottom line. I don"t want to lose track of our values.""
On March 3, another article referred to the same comment, again with the context immediately following. This coverage can hardly be described as superficial nor as without context. That the city manager told the council in March that she had deliberately left Mr. Thomas" suggestion off her list of possible goals, tells us not that Mr. Thomas wasn"t serious — as Ms. Rodin would have us all believe — but that the council realized it was not a very good idea.
Whenever Ms. Rodin gets negative feedback from citizens, she has a habit of blaming the messenger. At the last meeting Ms. Rodin also blamed the media for the lack of city council candidates.
We believe that what Ms. Rodin really objects to is not superficial coverage, but the accurate coverage she and her council-mates get, in which they often display a complete lack of any sense of reality, or vision beyond their own tightly-enclosed West Side universe.
If no one is running for city council we suspect it"s the thought of working with people like Ms. Rodin and the atmosphere of self-imposed desperation in which the city finds itself that is the culprit.


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Parsagian is the daughter of Rick and Linda Parsagian of Medford, and Mary Parsagian of Applegate. She is a 2010 graduate of Grants Pass High School and is studying physics and mathematics at Willamette University.
Robinson is the son of Dave and Lorri Robinson of Medford. He is a 2008 graduate of North Medford High School and a 2012 graduate from Willamette University with a degree in exercise science. He is pursuing graduate school in the healthcare field.


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Brazilian legend Ronaldinho has had his say on who is the best footballer in the world – and who might take the mythical crown in the future.
The Atletico Mineiro star enjoyed a couple of seasons alongside Lionel Messi at Barcelona, and it's the Argentine playmaker who the veteran believes is currently the best player in the world.
Ronaldinho was happy to heap praise on Cristiano Ronaldo too however, admitting that the Portuguese superstar has been making history at Real Madrid this season.
However, it's Messi who gets the nod from the 32-year-old former Flamego star, who believes compatriot Neymar could one day over take both players to be the very best in the game.
"Cristiano has been making history for many years now, but Messi is the best in the world, and one day Neymar will be the best," Ronaldinho told ESPN.
"For me Messi is the best in the world. For the last few years he has played at a level of football we have never seen before. I'm very proud to speak of him, because I was there when he started off and now he is the best in the world, it makes me so happy.
"The game I remember the most is when he scored his first goal, because it came from my pass and I remember this game most vividly because he was just getting started. I had the chance to be there and live that moment. I'm very happy that his first professional goal came from a pass from me.
"Messi knows that there will always be a place in my heart for him,"
Neymar, a domestic star at Santos, has been earning rave reviews in South America, but without a move to Europe is unlikely to be held in the same regard as the La Liga pair.
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I like that they throw the Cubs Convention every year and I can't wait to attend one myself one day. Living in New York City makes it rather challenging to do so but when this last one came around, I mentioned it to my wife. She said you should go to it one of the years. Agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself.
One of the things I appreciate about the convention is that it gives the new Cubs an opportunity to taste what the club means to the people of Chicago and across the nation root-root-rooting for the Cubbies. Every baseball out there knows about the drought and they hear about it endlessly beginning with when their name is associated with coming to the team. It doesn't even wait until they are a Cub. It starts with simply rumors. Still, it's important for new Cubs to understand it's a honor to be a Cub and that appreciation needs to be taught to guys like Pena and Garza by guys that have been there ie Ramirez and Silva.
The fact that they haven't won it all in over a century guarantees that the team who does win it all will go down as one of the greatest accomplishments any team has ever reached on a baseball field. A World Series victory is not a World Series victory. They are not all the same. And when the Cubs break through and end their drought it will be talked about probably for as long as Cubs fans have been waiting for it to happen. Cubs fans will talk about it for at least that long or until they die. Whichever comes first.
I hope that the recent outburst by Silva in the Cubs dugout at Spring Training is simply a result of a pressure to win. Not merely make the rotation as he stated, but a pressure to win. I want the Cubs to realize the pressure they are under but not crumble by it's intimidation factor, but rise up to the challenge and view it as the opportunity that it is.
Passionate ballplayers are a good thing to have on your baseball team. Quade needs to carale that enthusiasm and passion and make sure it stays focused in the right direction. Harnass that energy and emotion and make them play the game fundamentally sound and going all out, all heart, on each and every pitch.
Silva's outburst should not be compared to Zambrano's. Zambrano's was during a regular season game against our crosstown rivals and the game counted. Heck, the BP Cup was on the line (kidding). Silva experienced only one year of Cubs baseball. Maybe that's all it took for him to 'get it'. Zambrano had been here for YEARS. We know he understands the pressure and the situation all Cubs are put in. You've heard other Cubs talk about it for years. However, some Cubs handle it better than others. Those guys with level heads need to help Quade keep guys focused, not motivate them to go out of control.
Ramirez was involved in the Silva skirmish and he's another guy who has been here a while and has felt the pressure of the city and the fans. This game is a great thing. This team is a great home. The city of Chicago is a great place to live and the fans are a great group of people to want to win for.
Have there been incidents where Cubs fans haven't exactly been put in the best light by their own actions? Absolutely. Does it happen across the country in ballparks with fans of all teams? Of course. Does that make it ok? Of course not. However, with however many bonehead moves any Cubs fans have made over the years to disgrace the rest of us, overall, the loyalty the group has shown this team outweighs any negative remark one could make against us.
The fans care. That's all there is to it. They want the title so bad year in and year out. 103 years and counting and yet still…there the fans are rooting, supporting, praying, hoping, waiting. A great majority of league draws nowhere near what the Cubs do in attendance. Is Wrigley a big reason? Sure, tourists love it. However, many of the people through the turnstiles at Wrigley are die-hard fans who have stayed by the Cubs through thick and thin.
New and old Cubs alike need to appreciate that and play their hearts out. Care when the games don't count and really care when they do. Only, know when to go ballistic. Know when is the right time and no when to let it go. Spring Training is the perfect time to care about your performance, but not to lose your mind over it.
I appreciate Silva and Ramirez's passion however it needs to be focused in a positive direction. Still lots of Spring Training games left to clean up the sloppy play and get the mindset right. Quade has a tough challenge ahead of him. His words inspired a players only meeting called by two of the team's veteran players. Hopefully I'm right in thinking he's the right guy for the job.
I believe he is.
Go Cubs Go!


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I haven't used Pantene shampoo for yonks…
In my search for so called 'natural' haircare, I have pretty much shunned a lot of high street shampoo and conditioners.
So I really wasn't sure if this Pantene Aqua Light range would be for me. It's a very nice looking collection, mind, but I just wasn't too sure…
But what is the idea behind the Aqua Light range? They say:
Every woman wishes for lightweight healthy looking hair that has the 'swish.' The new Aqua Light products contain revolutionary ingredients developed to nourish the hair without weighing it down. This sophisticated composition balances the ratio of conditioning to lightness, resulting in a clean but nourished feeling.
The range consists of:
Lightweight Nourishing Shampoo
Lightweight Nourishing Conditioner
Lightweight Nourishing Treatment (leave in for 2-3 minutes)
Lightweight Nourishing Mist (use on wet or dry hair for hydration. Bottle needs a good shake).
The range is especially good for fine hair which is easily weighed down. That's not really my hair type (I think!) but nevertheless I gave it a go.
I am so glad I did. This range is really really excellent.
Seriously, I get a lot of high street shampoos and conditioners to test and they seldom do much on my hair – and it's not because I am being a snob, it's just because I'm scared of it having an adverse reaction with my sensitive scalp.
Shampoo Ingredients:
It is so weird using a shampoo with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in it – it's so foamy! When you use a non-SLS shampoo you get use to having less foam and a less 'glidey' feeling. I also think those shampoos are harder to get used to because your hair will look drier and frizzier.
So using this kind of shampoo after so long was weird. It was quick to foam, and rinsed out easily leaving my hair feeling clean and not too dry or knotted.
Conditioner Ingredients:
Pantene conditioners are very good – my hairdresser actually uses one of their intensive conditioners he found in the pound shop because once you put it in your hair it takes about 10 seconds for it to become knot free.
I found this was a pretty good conditioner which has made my hair feel softer, shiny and easy to brush.
Also – a lot lot lot less frizz.
My primary concern after using this range was whether my scalp would punish me by going really itchy – but amazingly enough – it hasn't. It feels great and my hair is a lot softer and shinier than before and feels quite 'light' too.
I saw this in Boots last week at 50% off – not sure if this is still the case but either way, this range is well worth trying.


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|Posted by: Marshall
|Posted on: 01. Jun 2006 at 01:47
I first read Three Cheers For Me when I was only 16 and even more than two decades have passed since then, when I think about BW I still have difficulty accepting the fact that he is not an actual person. Donald Jack's knowledge of history and his ability to weave the story line into this background was incredible! In my opinion there will never be another author capable of such creativity and humour.
|Posted by: OldSoak
|Posted on: 14. Apr 2005 at 02:48
Thanks for the advice on Me Too. Ordered it from Hampstead, and it arrived today. The Redhead and I are going to have an argument over who gets to read it first.
Will also keep my eye open for the Stalin book this fall.
|Posted by: Forum Administrator
|Posted on: 01. Apr 2005 at 12:25
The new final volume, Stalin vs Me, should be out by the end of the summer too - it will most likely be published in the same trade paperback size of the recent re-issues. So that's another one you might want to get to round out your collection.
|Posted by: OldSoak
|Posted on: 01. Apr 2005 at 03:35
Many thanks, FA. I will check with them. I should probably replace the whole set, since the oldest is ... well, old. It's an ancient PaperJacks, and like the other two of the first three (I can't help but think of them that way) is getting yellow and tattered.
|Posted by: Forum Administrator
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2005 at 15:15
Me Too has being remaindered, but I recently saw copies at:
which are pretty cheap. They'll disappear quickly at that price...
|Posted by: OldSoak
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2005 at 03:00
Well, how about this? Just got through rereading my Bandy collection, and noticing (yet again) I'm missing Me, Too, decided to see if it's available anywhere. I see that it is, sort of, as a part of a collection (what is it? Vol. 4 to 7 or something.) What's that all about, can someone tell me?
Anyway, my search brought me here, amongst the Bandyites, and glad I am of it, too.
Incidently, my gales of laughter persuaded my wife, who was disgusted with me reading snippets aloud and guffawing loudly, to dive into them. She's blessed with an Anglo-Irish-Canadian sense of humour (as in she LOVES the Hitchhiker series) and is thoroughly hooked.
|Posted by: Forum Administrator
|Posted on: 26. May 2003 at 23:10
The text that's now published as It's Me Again was originally (back in the 70's) published in two forms, as a single volume [It's Me Again] and as two separate volumes [It's Me Again & Me Among the Ruins]. In the latest printing, part one corresponds to the separate printing of It's Me Again while part two is the stuff that was in the separate Me Among the Ruins volume. So, to answer your question, Me Among the Ruins has been annexed once more to It's Me Again, and disappears as a separate title, making Me Bandy, You Cissie the fourth volume.
Regarding the radio drama, I was able to track down a copy of it (you can get a lot of interesting things through your local public library!). Mono LP records of the broadcast were made in 1973 by Radio Canada International, which used to have a record label prior to mid-90s budget cuts. There were five episodes of about 1/2 hour each, starring Don Harron as Bandy.
|Posted by: Rex
|Posted on: 26. May 2003 at 20:48
So, it turns out I'm not the only Bandyite in Canada! Ever since turning the first few pages of, "Three Cheers For Me," way back in '73, I've been hooked on Bandy, and re-read the entire series every few years. Better humour is very hard to find, indeed.
Being a Canadian history buff, I particularly enjoy Donald Jack's take on our past. Might be there is a grain of truth in there, somewhere between the cajoling, guffawing and caterwalling; or between a couple of buxom blondes!
One thing that has mystified me all this time is the confusion over which book comprises the fourth volume of the series: is it, "Me Among the Ruins" or "Me Bandy, You Cissie?" It would appear that now, "Me Among the Ruins" has been merged with, "It's Me Again."
Can anyone clear this up before I take this mystery into senility with me?
/The CBC seemed fairly uninterested in its existence when I inquired. / (Quoting from above)
The CBC is fairly uninterested in anything, period. Take for example the recent passing of our old and dear friend, Bob Kerr. After spending the last three decades of his career in their service, the only thing in the CBC 'archives' is the news story of his passing. Such a waste.
You would think the public purse would be funding a little for posterity, but that's radio. Chances are very good that any tapes of Jack's radio plays have long be purged from their library. Quite likely only two people on earth will still have tapes in their possession, Don, and his agent.
|Posted by: David_Calderisi - Ex Member
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2003 at 23:15
Thanks for the good advice. We'll see what happens.
|Posted by: Forum Administrator
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2003 at 23:04
On the website of Jack's publisher:
there's an address for mail to authors, which they forward regularly. That would be the best way to contact Jack directly. If you would like to discuss the radio rights with McClelland & Stewart, there is also an e-mail address for rights inquiries. Depending on his contract, it could be that radio rights would be handled by either McClelland & Stewart or Jack (or his agent).
PS - There was a radio play of Three Cheers for Me, apparently, back in the 60's, but I have never been able to find out anything more about it. The CBC seemed fairly uninterested in its existence when I inquired.
|Posted by: David Calderis
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2003 at 17:16
. "That's Me in the Middle" was such a good story and SO funny that I kept having to leave my compartment to go into hysterics in the corridor. It was the funniest book I had ever read.
I know exactly what you mean. My wife knows I'm reading a Bandy book when I sit alone in the living room and find myself laughing so hard I can't see the page for the tears.
|Posted by: David Calderisi
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2003 at 17:11
Thanks for the reply. I know Mr. Jack was born in the UK and so it's not surprising that he has returned there. I'm very interested in trying to contact him to see if he'd be willing to consider a project for a radio treatment of the Bandy Adventures.
|Posted by: Forum Administrator
|Posted on: 31. Mar 2003 at 14:00
>Tell me, does anyone know if Donal Jack is still alive? And where he resides?
I believe he currently resides in the U.K., having moved there a few years ago.
|Posted by: David Calderisi
|Posted on: 30. Mar 2003 at 19:37
It's great to find a site devoted to the wonderfully mad genius of Donald Jack and his horse-faced hero. I'm a Canadian, and I'm often --- very often --- appalled at how unknown Bandy is here in his own country. It's something that Canada is well known for, i.e., not honouring its geniuses.
Tell me, does anyone know if Donal Jack is still alive? And where he resides?
I look forward to seeing this group of Bandy fans grow and flourish
|Posted by: Will Obendorf
|Posted on: 17. Jan 2003 at 19:57
Hello, all
I just stumbled across this website and am delighted to know that there are more Bandy fans out there. I became a fan after purchasing "That's Me in the Middle" in 1980 in Copenhagen. I was looking for a book to read on the train and picked up this one because
1. It had WWI aircraft on the cover.
2. It was in English.
My habit was to read books on the train and trade with other backpackers. "That's Me in the Middle" was such a good story and SO funny that I kept having to leave my compartment to go into hysterics in the corridor. It was the funniest book I had ever read.
Well, I never traded it and since have collected the entire set in hardcover (one of them signed by the author--how about that?) as well some of Donald Jack's other books: "Rogues, Rebels, and Geniouses," "Exit Muttering," and just recently found a paperback copy of "Sinc, Betty, and the Morning Man" which I am reading now.
I just read on this site that Mr. Jack is writing yet another installment in the Bandy series! I will certainly buy it in hardcover and enjoy it well.
My compliments and best wishes to Mr. Donald Jack for writing yet another Bandy book and so making good and judicious use of his retirement years! All of us Bandy fans thank you.
Will Obendorf
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Author Notes: I started making my own vanilla extract several years ago. I didn't do it to save money or make a better product. I did it because it's just what you do when someone in your family suddenly has food allergies. Well, it's not the first thing. But after you've taken a three-hour trip to the grocery store and read EVERY label on EVERY product you pick up. And after you've put more than half of them back on the shelf after realizing what is really in them. And after you have your own private pity party about all of the things you love to eat that are now as welcome on your kitchen table as drain cleaner stew.
Baking had already become a science experiment in our kitchen. There were no eggs to depend on in all the ways we had come to depend on them. There were no pecans for pie, no walnuts for brownies, no freedom to add a little of this or a little of that just because we felt like it. Okay, so now I have officially descended into my own private pity party. Don't worry. It won't last long.
One of the baking staples that I had a terrible time finding ingredient information and allergy warnings on was vanilla extract. It wasn't for a lack of trying. In my searching online, I discovered that making vanilla extract required exactly two ingredients and a little cupboard space.
I was skeptical. My family looked at me with the same look they used the first time I proudly told them that I had perfected a brioche recipe using tofu instead of eggs. I'm sure you can close your eyes and picture exactly what I'm talking about. Then they smelled my first vanilla extract and tasted it for the first time in frosting that was filled with vanilla bean specks. They were sold. This crazy food experiment was a keeper.
I buy my vanilla bean pods at Micucci's Grocery in Portland, Maine. The last time I was there, the cashier asked me what I was doing with "all of those vanilla beans". After I told her that I was using them to make vanilla extract, she looked at me quizzically and asked how. I explained how easy it was and then the man next to me in line leaned over and asked if I could explain again how it was done. He proceeded to buy his own package of vanilla bean pods and happily proclaimed that he was going home to make his own.
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Feb. 25, 2008
WELLESLEY, Mass. - With MIT and Springfield College separated by a mere 4.5 points heading into the final event of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on Sunday night, both teams knew at the start of the 400-yard freestyle relay that a first-place finish would almost guarantee victory. 3:34.81 seconds later, Springfield's Moira Price touched the wall first, beating out MIT's top team by just over two seconds and giving the Pride its eighth consecutive NEWMAC title.
Springfield closed the Championships with 707.5 points, clipping the Engineers, who scored 701 points over the course of the weekend, by the slimmest of margins. It's the ninth straight year that the Cardinal and Gray has occupied the runner-up position at the conference championships.
Wheaton College made a run for the title as well, but ultimately finished third with a score of 645. Wellesley College, which hosted the event in its Chandler Pool, placed fourth with 487.5 points, followed by Coast Guard (343), Smith College (283), Babson College (221), Clark University (184), Mount Holyoke College (169) and WPI (134).
Junior Nicole O'Keeffe opened the final day of competition in fine fashion for MIT, notching First Team All-Conference honors in the 1,650-yard freestyle by finishing with an NCAA "B" cut time of 17:41.52. The Los Angeles, Calif., native closed the weekend with two First Team and three Second Team accolades.
Freshman Lauren Hernley followed with an eighth-place showing in the 200-yard backstroke (2:19.71), before fellow rookie Amy Jacobi won the 100-yard freestyle by touching the wall first at 53.15, earning yet another NCAA "B" cut. Like her teammate O'Keeffe, Jacobi racked up two First Team and three Second Team All-Conference honors over the course of the weekend.
Next up was the 200-yard breaststroke, in which Ellie Souganidis provided Tech's top finish by placing sixth in a time of 2:34.46. Thanks in part to other point-scoring performances from Ariadne Smith, Abby Clark, Caroline Lowenthal, Katy Sorensen and Kaidi Wang, the Engineers overtook the Pride to slip into first-place by 10.5 points following the event.
MIT increased its lead to a full 22.5 points following the 200-yard butterfly, as Jen Chao (2:14.96, fourth-place), Kristen Felch (2:18.73, sixth-place) and Annika Larsson (2:24.67, eighth-place) secured crucial finishes.
Springfield regained the lead in the three-meter diving competition, despite Tech senior Doria Holbrook providing yet another phenomenal performance. The two-time three-meter diving National Champion posted a score of 538.15 in prelims, before completely shattering her own NEWMAC Open, Championship and Institute record of 553.30 just hours later by posting an astonishing 593.30 in the finals. Although MIT racked up 20 points thanks to Holbrook's First Team All-Conference showing, the Pride's Erin White, Melissa Nelson, Michelle Reggio and Meghan Kijanka finished 4-7 to secure 53 points and give Springfield a 659.5-655 lead heading into the competition's final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay.
MIT's quartet of Jacobi, Katie Creasey, Sarah King and Sasha Brophy jumped out to an early lead in the event, but Springfield's squad made up the difference to finish with the winning time of 3:34.81, besting their preliminary qualifying time by nearly 17 seconds. Tech's team clocked in at 3:36.92, good enough for Second Team All-Conference accolades but just short of an elusive NEWMAC title.
The Engineers will return to the pool in mid-March, when they take part in the NCAA Championships in Oxford, Ohio, from Thursday, Mar. 13 to Saturday, Mar. 15. Qualifiers for the national meet will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 27.


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Eight months before Russell R. Wasendorf Sr. tried to kill himself by running a hose from his exhaust pipe into the passenger compartment of his car, he took delivery of a cache of silver coins from the New Zealand mint. They were licensed by Nickelodeon and shaped like the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. They were legal currency on the South Pacific Island of Niue, had "In Sponge Bob We Trust" emblazoned across the top and had a face value of $2.
As novelty items, however, they were priced at 30 times that amount. This ratio was not much higher than the one Wasendorf achieved with Photoshop when he faked bank statements showing more than $200 million in customer segregated funds even though he'd skimmed more than 95% of those off to subsidize losing ventures around the world and to build the glittering headquarters of PFGBest, also known as Peregrine Financial Group (PFG), in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It was in the parking lot of that impressive, empty compound that he attempted to take his own life.
The ratio of cash to stated balance at PFGBest was almost as ridiculous as the image of Wasendorf sitting alone in his darkened office, a shaft of light across his sweaty brow, as he doctored those documents week after week, month after month, year after year — first in his cramped quarters in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange building, then in his roomier digs on LaSalle Street across from the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and finally in his massive $18 million compound in Cedar Falls (see "PFG rap sheet").
"The offices never made sense," says Paul Ehrhardt, who for 20 years ran WWW Investments, which was one of PFG's first introducing brokers (IB).


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Alzheimer's…the word alone is enough to scare most people over 50. Whether it be because we know someone or some family that has been effected by this condition or whether we fear it for ourselves, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a popular concern for my older patients. By the way, many of my patients in their 30's also fear it when they walk into a room and can't remember why they went in there. This luckily is not the cardinal sign of Alzheimer's; otherwise, we would be in real serious trouble. Ok, back to the stats. It affects 10% of Americans over 65 and nearly 50% of those over 85. It's one of the more genetically studied diseases and while several genetic markers have been identified, the reality is that less than 1 in 1,000 of people with Alzheimer's has these genetic markers. So when it's unlikely to be caused by genetics, the medical community starts digging for another cause. Well, diet & lifestyle are back in the medical news because of some very impressive findings recently.
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- Watch 'Therapeutic Lifestyle Change' on LivingWellnessUniversity.com – learn how a lifetime of smoldering inflammation impacts your health, and more importantly, how you can stop it.
- Watch 'The Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid' – develop your personalized action plan for getting good fats, antioxidants and whole foods into your diet. Additionally, eating this way will keep your blood sugar and insulin levels stable, which leads me to…
- Get your diabetes under control ASAP – current research published just this week in Neurology, a respected medical journal, has shown a significant link between type 2 diabetes and the development of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. This is huge with diabetes affecting so many families and likely going to get much worse with childhood obesity on the rise.
- Get moving! – A recent study at the Mayo Clinic showed that exercise promotes better brain health as you age and reduces your risk of Alzheimer's disease. Set the goal of 150 minutes per week (in divided sessions) of moderate exercise. Be sure to start low and go slow if you haven't been exercising and check with your physician to be sure you are safe to start.
- Play Smart! – That's right, play games. Studies have shown that our brains have a 'Use it or Lose it' function. In the infamous Nun Study conducted in the early 2000's, research had proven that exercising your brain frequently is protective. What a great excuse to grab that Sudoku or crossword puzzle, or just engage in a good old fashion debate with a friend.
- Quit Smoking! – For many, many reasons, but regarding dementia and Alzheimer's the data show that individuals who have experienced a stroke significantly increased their chances of getting Alzheimer's. Smoking any amount doubles your risk of stroke and the longer you smoke, that risk increases even more.
Remember, your genes load the gun, BUT your lifestyle pulls the trigger! If someone in your family has dementia or Alzheimer's, you are not doomed like so many believe. You can change the course of your future by making smarter lifestyle choices now. Get educated, get your diet and exercise on track (the way you know is really best for your body), and keep that brain active!
Surprise, surprise. In the news this last week, another class of pharmaceutical medications is undergoing scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for safety concerns. Known as 'bisphosphonates', this class include drugs such as Fosamax (alendronate), Boniva, Actonel and Reclast – meds used to prevent and/or treat osteoporosis.
The debate stems over the safety of the long-term use of these medications. Specifically, it seems that a small group of patients who have been taking one of these medications for longer than 5 years are now experiencing one of three troubling conditions: (1) death of the jawbone tissue – ouch!, (2) unusual fractures in the thigh bone (isn't that what they are supposed to treat?) or (3) increased risk and development of esophagus cancer.
While the FDA Advisory Committee (an independent expert panel commissioned by the FDA) is looking to the drug manufacturers to determine the best length of time a patient should receive these medications and include this information on the package insert, they themselves have not solidified any recommendations regarding the 'safest' timeframe. The hidden truth- it takes approximately 10 (TEN) years to remove 50% of the this class of drugs from your body. So, if you do the math…if you've been on a bisphosphonate for only 5 years (much shorter than how long most women take them), you will have the medication in your system for well over 20-25 years!
Without any clear guidance from any authoritative body just yet, this leaves the true decision-making in the hands of the physicians and their patients until we (the medical community) know more.
Here's my take: When working with my patients and pharmaceutical medications, it is always my preference to try to find the root cause of the condition and provide nutritional and lifestyle support to allow the body to return to a healthier state. From time to time, the use of prescription medications makes good sense, but must always be evaluated from the vantage point of determining the lowest dose and length of time on a drug to achieve the most benefit to the patient. From my perspective, bisphosphonates have become one of the most overly dispensed classes of medications this last decade. This is due, in part, to the broad condition for which it is approved, mainly, "the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women". This is more easily interpreted by the industry as "all menopausal women". Truth is, not all post-menopausal women have the same risk for developing osteoporosis and likewise, there are many more non-pharmaceutical therapies that may be considered before jumping right into a 10+ year relationship with a medication.
So, while the FDA and pharmaceutical manufacturers sort themselves out, here's an action plan to get you started on the road to a thoughtful, intelligently designed osteoporosis prevention plan:
1. Watch "Them Bones, Them Bones" on LivingWellnessUniversity.com for a comprehensive class on bone health and osteoporosis. Learn how to read your bone density report (DEXA), understand how much calcium you really should be taking & what vitamin D really does for your bones, incorporate natural strategies for bone health and determine if you should consider pharmaceutical medication as your best option.
2. Get your bone mineral density tested if you are at risk – DEXA scans are the gold-standard (but have limits as discussed on LWU)
3. Eat more green vegetables – they are a super source of healthy calcium, AND they're alkaline to help prevent more bone loss
4. Pump iron – Lifting weights or doing exercises that push your body to resist weight make your bones stronger
5. Talk to your doctor about your risks and options – (especially after watching "Them Bones, Them Bones",so you can really sit down and partner with your doctor to discuss the best plan for preserving YOUR bones and the rest of your body!)
If you're interested in learning more about this topic, join our Education Beyond Medication online medical community. Visit www.LivingWellnessUniversity.com and simply register to watch the following Dr. Saxena Speaks! educational videos which also relate to this topic:
* Them Bones, Them Bones Part I
* Them Bones, Them Bones Part II
* The Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid
* Therapeutic Lifestyle Change
Cell phones are here to stay and we knew it the moment we laid hands on our first mobile communication superstar back in the early 1990s. Technology has come a long way from the remote control sized cell phone and getting in touch with someone never seemed so easy. But with everything that society considers progress, there's always a part of me wondering…'What is the price our bodies are paying for this convenience?' There's always a catch, right? Well, lend me your ears for this recent research article.
According to the Center on Media and Child Health, 60 percent of children ages 10 to 14 use cell phones. Amongst high school students in the 15 to 18 age group, 85 percent pack cell phones and they aren't afraid to use them. And in case your second grader asks you for a cell phone, don't be surprised when she reports that 22 percent of grade schoolers 9 and younger own cell phones as well.
Cell phones use radio frequency which release a small amount of electromagnetic radiation with every use. According to calculations published in the July 2008 issue of "Physics in Medicine and Biology" by Joe Wiart's research group at France Telecom, "The brains of young children absorb twice as much radio frequency energy from a cell phone as those of adults." Hmmm. The obvious question focused on the impact of cell phone use on our beloved kids' brains.
So, it was a relief when a recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2011;103:1264-1276), reported that children and adolescents who use cell phones are NOT at an increased risk for brain tumors. But don't sigh yet. Here's where the story gets a little more soap opera-esque. Several experts in the field of environmental medicine are disputing these findings. L. Lloyd Morgan, BSc, senior research fellow at the Environmental Health Trust and coauthors Ronald Herberman, MD, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and the UPMC Cancer Center, in Pennsylvania, and Debra Davis, PhD, MPH, president of Environmental Health Trust, note that the study's results are flawed and mislead the public. They explain that these errors should have been picked up during the peer-review process and by the journal. Why? Because the results and conclusion sections of the paper actually contradict the reported results. In English, there were errors in the science experiment process; so, the results don't really count. They stated that the Journal of the National Cancer Institute should have picked these errors up before publishing this article and giving a false sense of security to all of us.
This next point may not be a surprise to you conspiracy theorists but, several cell phone companies provided funding for this study. Some of the study's authors are known to be linked to the industry and to other research that supports the interests of the industry. Another expert, Joel Moskowitz, PhD, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkeley, also stated that "the results actually verify higher tumor risks for children but the findings are downplayed. They dismiss any evidence or prior evidence of increased risk and harm, and then the media plays it out as either being not conclusive evidence or no evidence."
Dr. Davis also emphasized that aside from brain tumors, other studies have linked cell phones to serious health risks in children, including learning problems, autism, behavioral impacts, insomnia, attention disorders, and a broad array of disturbances to the developing nervous system. So, even though there are no studies that definitively prove that cell phones cause health problems, there is enough evidence building that we might proceed with caution the next time we put one to our ears. Knowing that it can take nearly 10 years of daily electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure to cause a brain tumor and that we get EMR from many other modern day 'appliances' in our lives, are we just sitting ducks? About a dozen countries have taken precautionary steps, so it would "not be radical for the United States government to do so as well," Dr. Davis said. No one is suggesting that we give up cell phones, "but there are ways to reduce the risk."
Call me 'old school' but by their increasing use of cell phones and texting, our children are slowly losing the concept of hanging out, chatting on the front stoop or veranda, taking it easy and taking it all in… slowly, naturally and healthfully. I bet the full body benefits of two people chatting face-to-face, eye-to eye, heart-to-heart and exchanging robust laughter over shared experiences does so much more for the mind, body and spirit than those 2 same people will ever be able to capture sending a LOL text… and with less electromagnetic radiation!
Quick tip: Consider using earbuds in order to get the cell phone's EMR further away from your brain and ears. It can reduce your risks, free up your hands, and help prevent neck strain. Of course, think about any ways you can reduce excessive cell phone use and get back to sharing your positive energy… up close and personal!


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Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a surprise visit to Rosa Parks Elementary School in West Berkeley this morning. Sotomayor is in Berkeley to judge a moot court competition at the University of California Berkeley Law School, Boalt Hall, this evening. The competition has been moved to Zellerbach Hall because of the demand for tickets.
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Sotomayor chose Rosa Parks because two children of law school dean Chris Edley and his wife, Maria Echaveste, attend the school, and she heard about its commitment to diversity and its Spanish language immersion program. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and the third female justice.
The children only found out this morning that Sotomayor would be visiting, but they had been studying her career since the two classroom teachers had been informed of the visit. In the first class the justice visited, the children performed a play about Rosa Parks. Sotomayor then shook every student's hand before answering questions.


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IPv4 depletion: Threat? Danger? Crisis? Turning IPv6 Up and IPv4 Down
I was interviewed recently for an article in Tweakers. It's a good article, but I think a shade of meaning was lost in translation between Dutch and English. Hence, I'd like to restate the article in my own words.
The nuance of meaning revolves around the words "danger", "threat", and "crisis". Joost opened the interview asking me whether I thought that IPv4 depletion presented a threat, and whether the Internet was in danger. I replied that there was a crisis, but not a threat.
A "threat" is, per http://dictionary.com, "a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action". "Danger" is "liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril." A "crisis" is "a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; a turning point."
In 1990, Frank Solensky pointed out that the classful approach then in use for allocation of IPv4 address space would have us running out of address space by 1994. The depletion of the IPv4 address space was a threat to every business that depended on the Internet, and a danger to the Internet itself. This was because there was a problem, and there was no solution for it. Businesses would die, applications like the World Wide Web, File Sharing, and YouTube-style video would never be developed, and the general improvement of our quality of life that we have experienced in the past 20 years would not have happened.
We, collectively, did three things; we changed the way that we allocated address space, we invented private address space and network address translation, which have helped us hobble along until the present, and we developed a new protocol with a new address space which we're in the process of changing over to – Ipv6.
Twenty-two years later, I think that IPv4 address depletion presents a crisis – we are at a point, due to IPv4 address depletion, where inaction is no longer an option. But it only presents a threat to those actors that fail to take heed; the fact that the IPv4 address space has been depleted in spite of the early-1990's changes means that those actions were not sufficient for the long term health of the Internet or the businesses it serves. For those that recognize the crisis and take the indicated action, which is to deploy IPv6 in their networks and their services, the business of the Internet and the businesses that depend on it should continue robustly. So for the wise, there is no threat, and there is no danger. But there is a crisis, an event that requires action.
With that background, permit me to restate the article.
The exhaustion of IPv4 addresses is indeed a problem, but not a threat to the development of the Internet. It is not a threat because we have a replacement protocol that will support the services currently running on the Internet, and which indeed gives opportunities to develop new services that require a common global address space and would therefore not run well in the Internet of the past forty years.
The current situation can be compared to the "Y2K problem", the problem we had leading up to the year 2000. Software supporting banks and other functions represented the year in a two digit form; the "19" in the year number was assumed. At the point that "19" could not be assumed, when the year was rolling over into 2000, we had a crisis; software had to be found, changed, and verified, and large databases revamped, to represent the number of the year in four digits. But because people recognized the problem and took the indicated action, very few actual issues were reported in January 2000. The Internet has reached a similar point. We have a crisis, in which people need to deploy the new protocol and ensure that their services operate using it. Once they have done so, there is little reason to expect that there would be an ongoing problem.
RIPE NCC recently announced that they are down to their last IPv4 /8, as APNIC did in April 2011, and have instituted a policy of handing out IPv4 address space in a very restricted way. This, if you depend on a flow of IPv4 address space from your Regional Internet Registry (RIR think APNIC, ARIN, RIPE, etc), is a problem. The solution on the table is a transition to IPv6. This transition is underway as we speak; as of 8 June 2012, over half of the world's 1000 largest ISPs have deployed the technology, more are in the process, and the roughly 7300 ISPs worldwide are taking steps in that direction.
And it isn't limited to transit networks. Residential access networks including NTT, Free, Orange, Comcast, and Time-Warner are very public about their progress. Large content providers such as Google and Facebook have deployed it and run over IPv4 or IPv6 seamlessly and interchangeably. Mobile telephone operators such as T-Mobile and China Mobile are experimenting with IPv6-only networks (networks in which they have turned IPv4 off). Large enterprises including Bechtel, Cisco, and others have deployments in progress. Check http://www.kame.net; If the turtle dances, you and your network are among those happy campers – and you may not even know it.
Why are so many networks transitioning to IPv6? There are a number of reasons. For the ISPs, the alternative is to operate Network Address Translators within their own networks, which makes their businesses more complex and difficult to operate, and prevents their enterprise customers from offering services except through hosting providers. Networks in India, Africa, South America, and Central Asia have done this for years, and are moving away from it. For the Content Providers, whose lifeblood depends on being able to identify their subscribers and their current locations, Network Address Translation obscures basic business-relevant information. For the Mobile Internet, which has suffered with internal translation for years, it gives them the opportunity to simplify their networks. It enables enterprises to manage their networks more effectively – debugging with better visibility and allocating address space to LANs with less headaches and overhead. And for residential broadband networks, which share aspects of each of those, a common address space grants them each of those benefits.
In addition, there is the threat – for each of us but especially for enterprise and residential users – of inaccessibility of content. If we deploy IPv6 networks, we can still reach IPv4-only content, if only through NAT64 translators. But if others turn IPv4 off or only have it behind NATs – carrier grade or otherwise – and we can only use IPv4 services, we will be unable to reach their content, for the same reason that we (mistakenly) think of IPv4 NATs as giving us security. We want to reach our customers and business partners, and we want them to be able to reach us, and address multiplexing prevents that. It is that threat that makes this a crisis. The Internet and the businesses that depend on it won't die. The necessary result of inaction, though, might be compared to one losing one's hearing without getting a hearing aid; the world in time becomes strangely silent and uninteresting as important voices are left unheard.
Permit a personal example. This past week, I installed a video surveillance system at my daughter's home. The system advertises the capability of being accessed from an iPhone, Android, Mac, or PC, using the Internet and a Dynamic DNS service; that service is what made my daughter willing to spend $500 on the system. There's a problem: my daughter's ISP has a carrier NAT between her and the Internet, with the effect that the DDNS service can't actually get to her DVR. Address multiplexing prevents her from using the service that sold her on the system. That, in a nutshell, is the crux of the issue. The Internet was intended and designed to offer such services, but with carrier NAT, it fails.
With the rollout of IPv6, stateful network address translation, invented to facilitate multiplexing of IPv4 address space, will no longer be needed. Some fear that the Internet will become less secure as a result. The correlation of address translation with security, however, is a myth. By coincidence, translation imposes one kind of perimeter security policy; it makes it harder for (but does not really prevent) sessions initiated from outside a domain from entering the domain. That particular policy is far from universal, and it is not effective; a very large percentage of attacks originate behind the firewall. So, yes, firewalls that impose security policy are a useful security tool, but translation is neither necessary nor sufficient for the purpose.
Although a transition to IPv6 is necessary for the Internet to continue to expand, it will be some time before the IPv4 part of the Internet completely disappears. On the Internet, we do not throw anything away that quickly. Right now, we are in the process of a very typical adoption curve. The RIPE NCC reports that about 15% of the world's networks are advertising IPv6 address reachability to themselves or their customers, a number that has grown dramatically over the past few years. When an adoption curve crosses about 28%, it generally becomes self-sustaining; states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system, and at that point the value of interconnectivity itself drives further deployment. When an adoption curve reaches about 70%, we approach saturation, and the technologies that went before start to fall aside. For the Internet, that will likely be the point at which we start seriously discussing turning down IPv4 on the public backbone.
I estimate that we will reach 70% saturation in about five years. Why? That is the approximate half-life of equipment like laptops and residential routers. Right now, consumer operating systems including MacOSX, Windows (Vista and later), FreeBSD, and Linux all support IPv6 natively; if one has bought their computer since January 2007, it is IPv6-capable unless they have intentionally turned that off. The consumer computers that do not include IPv6, at this point, include the X-box, older mobile telephones, and Windows XP machines; XP will no longer be supported after April 2014, and even now XP users are pressured to upgrade. Residential gateways, however, are further behind; IPv6 in that equipment is a year to two years old, and some of it has residual problems. So we are really waiting for consumers to update equipment such as Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link routers, which is likely to happen during the normal lifetime of that equipment. The "normal lifetime", with my squinted eye looking over my thumb, is about five years.
I get asked why IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4. The question misstates the real issue: IPv4 is not forward compatible with anything. We made the same mistake with IPv6, if it was a mistake; there is no easy way to replace it with a new protocol by tweaking the old. However, at the point that we use up the address space in IPv6, I suspect that requirements will have changed and we will need something dramatically different. If that is true, it's unlikely that we could predict now what that "something new" would be. So, yes, at the point that we run out of IPv6 addresses a few thousand years from now, we will need a new protocol. But by then, I expect we will have already replaced IPv6 for other reasons entirely.
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Dr. Jose A. Wong - Perez
…Mr. Fred Baker, I agree with you regarding translations, there is a famous Italian phrase: Traduttore, Traditore! (Translator, Traitor!), about "Translators", because when someone wants to do a good translation, we need to fully understand the insides of both languages to give the appropriate equivalents, to be correctly understood…Indeed, there is a "crisis" for the IPv4 depletion and those who need to do the appropriate change to IPv6 and of course, there is the threat, for each of us but especially for enterprise and residential users,of inaccessibility of content as you previously had established in your informative and interesting post. So, If we deploy IPv6 networks, we can still reach IPv4-only content, if only through NAT64 translators…Again, Thanks for sharing it, my regards from Puerto Rico…